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And this week’s selection of MASTERPIECE 50 is: UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS Series Three (1973), spanning from April 1912 to August 1914. Gone are Nicola Pagett’s Elizabeth, Pauline Collins’ Sarah (the series’ original protagonist), and (at the end of this season’s introductory episode) Rachel Gurney’s Lady Marjorie. Enter Meg Wynn Owen’s Hazel, Lesley Anne-Down’s Georgina, and Jacqueline Tong’s Daisy. Episodes viewed were “Miss Forrest”, “A House Divided”, “Rose’s Pigeon”, “Distant Thunder” and “Sudden Storm.” Acorn Media DVD.
Also viewed was the fourth LORD PETER WIMSEY Arc “The Nine Tailors” (1974) which begins in a pre-series flashback of Peter before the war (The 50ish Ian Carmichael playing the character in his 20s), his WWII experiences, and his meeting & employment of Bunter (Glyn Houston). Also starring Desmond Llewelyn, Neil McCarthy, and Donald Eccles. Acorn Media DVD.
Sunday 21
TRAMP TRAMP TRAMP (1926) 95TH ANNIVERSARY Harry Langdon’s first feature film about a cross-country walking race (the title refers to walking feet). First saw parts of this around Thanksgiving 1996, seeing his attack on the Cyclone and the epilogue with Baby Harry. Kino Lorber DVD.
ELLEN (1996) “Too Hip to be Cool” 25TH ANNIVERSARY this month. A & E Video DVD.
THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (1961) “Give Us Barabbas!” 60TH ANNIVERSARY this week. 1961 had at least three focuses on the Acquitted: This one is a TV-Play with Jim Darly, Kim Hunter, Dennis King, and Leonardo Cimino (also a young Richard Thomas), with the biblical character a thief-rebel questioning his release, rejected by his friends, and finding himself changing. I first saw a glimpse of this play on Arts & Entertainment around Easter 1991, specifically the trip to Golgotha. This and PETER PAN were among my first glimpses of such Studiobound TV-plays (although I thought this was of a later date like maybe the 1970s).
TOPPER RETURNS (1941) 80TH ANNIVERSARY The last of the Roland-Young-Topper films takes up the “Old Dark House” story, as Joan Blondell plays a wisecracking ghost who gets Topper’s help in not only solving her own murder but protecting her heiress friend (Carole Landis) from the masked assailant. I saw this in the mid-1980s, on NICK AT NITE AT THE MOVIES (playing PD films like HIS GIRL FRIDAY, A STAR IS BORN ’37, and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE). At that time I would soon (or already, memory escapes me) experience similar fare like CLUE and HAUNTED HONEYMOON. I have this on Colorized VHS, but for the anniversary I felt it be true to watch its original Black-and-White condition, so I viewed it on YouTube.
Monday 22
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1236” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING “Takeoff into Confusion” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The penultimate episode has Trieze and Wufei settling their scores (with this series the one and only main character death), the Earth surrendering, a sympathetic side revealed in Dorothy, and Milliardo planning one final act similar to his model character Char from MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: CHAR’S COUNTERATTACK. The last ‘Next Episode’ trailer is narrated by Relena’s VA. Japanese with English Subtitles. Bandai DVD.
DARK SHADOWS (1991) “Episode 12” 30TH ANNIVERSARY The final episode of the Revival, concluding the 1790 storyline with similar but differences (Naomi goes mad instead of suicide, Abigail gets bitten and killed by Barnabas instead of dying by shock). The episode concludes with Victoria Winters returned to 1990, but with the possible recognition of Barnabas’s true identity. Watching part of this series on SciFi Channel back in the summer of 1996 was a good education. At that year, I was watching the original series during the ‘Human Barnabas’ part of, so the revival allowed me to learn the backstory of Barnabas, Josette, Angelique, and Victoria until I got a better idea from the Birthday-acquired-THE DARK SHADOWS COMPANION. MPI Video DVD.
Tuesday 23
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1237” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1990) “George Steinbrenner/Morris Day and the Time” VHS Recording of its original NBC Broadcast October 20 1990.
Wednesday 24
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1238” 50TH ANNIVERSARY I was mistaken; this episode was Kate Jackson’s final appearance on the series, as well as Josette. MPI Video DVD.
THE TRAPP FAMILY STORY (1991) “Mud is Fun” 30TH ANNIVERSARY Japanese with English Subtitles. Bootleg DVD.
THE FLINTSTONES (1961) “The Boy Scouts” 60TH ANNIVERSARY Fred impresses himself into Barney’s Boy Scouts (one of them voiced by Lucille Bliss, who voiced TV’s first cartoon Crusader Rabbit). Warner DVD.
ELIZABETH R (1971) “Sweet England’s Pride” 50TH ANNIVERSARY Written by Ian Thorne, the elderly Elizabeth deals with the antics of the arrogant Earl of Essex and her future destiny. The final episode of the TV-Serial breaks with conventions. Unlike Robson and Davis, Glenda Jackson looks intentionally ghastly as the white-made-up, haggard Queen, and Essex (Robin Ellis) is not the dashing figure like Errol Flynn but a headstrong manchild engineering his own destruction with little help from his enemies (unlike the Bette Davis-Flynn film). Also starring Peter Egan (who will soon appear in other MT productions like LILLIE and A PERFECT SPY) as Earl of Southampton, Hugh Dickson’s Robert Cecil, and Nicholas Selby's Walter Raleigh (the only ones still around are Ronald Hines’ Burghley and Angela Thorne’s Lettice from “The Marriage Game” and “The Shadow of the Sun”). I remember seeing this Serial on five Saturdays on BBC America (as I commented before, I missed most of “The Lion’s Cub”, my noting its broadcast purely by accident). Labelling the VHS, I scribed the title according to signature font advertised. Warner/BBC DVD.
THE 58TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS (1986) 35TH ANNIVERSARY Hosted by Robin Williams, Alan Alda, and Jane Fonda. Highlights include F. Murray Abraham announcing Geraldine Page’s winning of Best Actress (Angelina Jolie can be seen in front of her), Kermit and Scooter announcing best Animated short (with Jim Henson helping them open the envelope), Waldrof and Statler snarking at the ceremony, Irene Cara singing “This is for the Losers” (clips of Best Picture Nominees like TOOTSIE, RAGING BULL, STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, CITIZEN KANE, 42ND STREET. What, No THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD?!?), Huey Lewis singing “Power of Love”, Lionel Ritchie singing “Say You, Say Me” (the musical numbers are staged as a movie theater). Howard Keel singing a presentation for the MGM Musical ladies assisted by June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Kathryn Grayson, Marge Champion, Debbie Reynolds, and Esther Williams. VHS Recording of the original ABC Broadcast March 24, 1986.
Thursday 25
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1239” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
Friday 26
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1240” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (2014) “World of Dreams” English-Dubbed with Subtitles. Viz Media DVD.
Saturday 27
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (1971) 50TH ANNIVERSARY A few days after ELIZABETH R aired its final episode, filmdom got another taste of Glenda Jackson’s Elizabeth I in Hal Wallis/Charles Jarnott production (a sequel to their last Tudor success ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS). Thinking about it, considering the Serial didn’t air in the States until 1972, this film was probably America’s first glimpse of Jackson’s Liz. Written by John Hale (who wrote the Serial’s premiere episode “The Lion’s Cub”) and starring Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Stuart with Daniel Massey, Patrick McGoohan, Ian Holm, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, and Trevor Howard (here the main force in getting Mary executed). I first saw the film (the final half) on Arts & Entertainment in May 1992 when I was writing a Social Studies report on Elizabeth I. When I finally got to see the full film in May 1999, it was shortly after watching ELIZABETH R on BBCAmerica, so it was interesting to see Jackson doing a different treatment of material from “The Marriage Game” (the Amy Dudley incident) and “Horrible Conspiracies.” Back on my first viewings I was on Mary’s side. Nowadays the film has me on Liz’s. Universal DVD.
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (1995) “The Beast that screamed ‘I’ in the Heart of the World.” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The final episode has Shinji undergo the Instrumentality, learning to accept himself. All that stuff happening outside Shinji will be portrayed in END OF EVANGELION. I first saw the conclusion at my Graduate school’s Rec Center among some Anime Club members in 2004. The order I saw the series was 5-6 (2001), 1-4 (2002), 13-14, 18-19, 24-26, 9-11, 21-23, and the remainder in chronological order. Japanese with English Subtitles. ADV DVD.
WHEN TIME RAN OUT (1980) The last of Irwin Allen’s All-Star Disaster films, this time a volcano at a Hawaiian resort. Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Carerra, Veronica Hamel, Burgess Meredith, Red Buttons, James Franciscus, Pat Morita, and William Holden. I first saw the film’s climactic ending one night in the summer of 1989 (I was in Batmania, and my mother informed me that Meredith was the Penguin). I remember most of Mr. Miyagi falling to his death and the fireballs destroying the hotel and its residents (who I wondered didn’t go to safety with the rest of the gang). Betamax Recording of a 1983 HBO Broadcast.
Saw Parts Of:
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (1990) “Chris Elliott (as Marlon Brando), Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia” VHS Recording of NBC Broadcast 1990.
INU-YASHA (2001) “Return to the Place We Both Met” English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD.
THE 63RD ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS (1991) 30TH ANNIVERSARY Hosted by Billy Crystal (not his first, but the first where he gives a special intro- in this case riding a horse in view of his upcoming CITY SLICKERS). Highlights include the opening ceremony musical number celebrating the Centennial of the Motion Picture (danced by Jasmine Guy), Madonna’s “Sooner or Later” number, Sophia Loren getting a special Oscar, Woody Woodpecker (voiced by Mrs. Lantz) introduces the Best animated short Oscar. VHS Recording of its original ABC Broadcast, this is something of a cut up here. My uncle taped the intro near the end of the VHS then taped the remainder at any earlier stage of the VHS, editing out bits and pieces (the musical number to HOME ALONE’s “Somewhere in My Memory”).
THE COSBY SHOW (1986) “An Early Spring” VHS Recording of a syndicated Broadcast 1991.
THE BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL (1991) 30TH ANNIVERSARY Pre-Oscar show as Walters interviews Oscar nominees Whoopi Goldberg & Jeremy Irons (who both won), Sophia Loren, and the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which Walters admits she deserves an Oscar for doing in the first place). VHS Recording of ABC Broadcast, stopping near the end of the TMNT Interview.
THE CHANGELING (1980) Betamax Recording of HBO Broadcast 1981.
WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN? (1978) Betamax.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) CBS Fox Video Betamax. The opening teaser is edited to after the credits (although the barrel-hole opening of the space capsule and the Title song intro with Bond’s ‘corpse’ are kept).
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WAS AFRAID TO ASK) (1972) Betamax.
Also viewed was the fourth LORD PETER WIMSEY Arc “The Nine Tailors” (1974) which begins in a pre-series flashback of Peter before the war (The 50ish Ian Carmichael playing the character in his 20s), his WWII experiences, and his meeting & employment of Bunter (Glyn Houston). Also starring Desmond Llewelyn, Neil McCarthy, and Donald Eccles. Acorn Media DVD.
Sunday 21
TRAMP TRAMP TRAMP (1926) 95TH ANNIVERSARY Harry Langdon’s first feature film about a cross-country walking race (the title refers to walking feet). First saw parts of this around Thanksgiving 1996, seeing his attack on the Cyclone and the epilogue with Baby Harry. Kino Lorber DVD.
ELLEN (1996) “Too Hip to be Cool” 25TH ANNIVERSARY this month. A & E Video DVD.
THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (1961) “Give Us Barabbas!” 60TH ANNIVERSARY this week. 1961 had at least three focuses on the Acquitted: This one is a TV-Play with Jim Darly, Kim Hunter, Dennis King, and Leonardo Cimino (also a young Richard Thomas), with the biblical character a thief-rebel questioning his release, rejected by his friends, and finding himself changing. I first saw a glimpse of this play on Arts & Entertainment around Easter 1991, specifically the trip to Golgotha. This and PETER PAN were among my first glimpses of such Studiobound TV-plays (although I thought this was of a later date like maybe the 1970s).
TOPPER RETURNS (1941) 80TH ANNIVERSARY The last of the Roland-Young-Topper films takes up the “Old Dark House” story, as Joan Blondell plays a wisecracking ghost who gets Topper’s help in not only solving her own murder but protecting her heiress friend (Carole Landis) from the masked assailant. I saw this in the mid-1980s, on NICK AT NITE AT THE MOVIES (playing PD films like HIS GIRL FRIDAY, A STAR IS BORN ’37, and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE). At that time I would soon (or already, memory escapes me) experience similar fare like CLUE and HAUNTED HONEYMOON. I have this on Colorized VHS, but for the anniversary I felt it be true to watch its original Black-and-White condition, so I viewed it on YouTube.
Monday 22
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1236” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM WING “Takeoff into Confusion” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The penultimate episode has Trieze and Wufei settling their scores (with this series the one and only main character death), the Earth surrendering, a sympathetic side revealed in Dorothy, and Milliardo planning one final act similar to his model character Char from MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: CHAR’S COUNTERATTACK. The last ‘Next Episode’ trailer is narrated by Relena’s VA. Japanese with English Subtitles. Bandai DVD.
DARK SHADOWS (1991) “Episode 12” 30TH ANNIVERSARY The final episode of the Revival, concluding the 1790 storyline with similar but differences (Naomi goes mad instead of suicide, Abigail gets bitten and killed by Barnabas instead of dying by shock). The episode concludes with Victoria Winters returned to 1990, but with the possible recognition of Barnabas’s true identity. Watching part of this series on SciFi Channel back in the summer of 1996 was a good education. At that year, I was watching the original series during the ‘Human Barnabas’ part of, so the revival allowed me to learn the backstory of Barnabas, Josette, Angelique, and Victoria until I got a better idea from the Birthday-acquired-THE DARK SHADOWS COMPANION. MPI Video DVD.
Tuesday 23
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1237” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (1990) “George Steinbrenner/Morris Day and the Time” VHS Recording of its original NBC Broadcast October 20 1990.
Wednesday 24
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1238” 50TH ANNIVERSARY I was mistaken; this episode was Kate Jackson’s final appearance on the series, as well as Josette. MPI Video DVD.
THE TRAPP FAMILY STORY (1991) “Mud is Fun” 30TH ANNIVERSARY Japanese with English Subtitles. Bootleg DVD.
THE FLINTSTONES (1961) “The Boy Scouts” 60TH ANNIVERSARY Fred impresses himself into Barney’s Boy Scouts (one of them voiced by Lucille Bliss, who voiced TV’s first cartoon Crusader Rabbit). Warner DVD.
ELIZABETH R (1971) “Sweet England’s Pride” 50TH ANNIVERSARY Written by Ian Thorne, the elderly Elizabeth deals with the antics of the arrogant Earl of Essex and her future destiny. The final episode of the TV-Serial breaks with conventions. Unlike Robson and Davis, Glenda Jackson looks intentionally ghastly as the white-made-up, haggard Queen, and Essex (Robin Ellis) is not the dashing figure like Errol Flynn but a headstrong manchild engineering his own destruction with little help from his enemies (unlike the Bette Davis-Flynn film). Also starring Peter Egan (who will soon appear in other MT productions like LILLIE and A PERFECT SPY) as Earl of Southampton, Hugh Dickson’s Robert Cecil, and Nicholas Selby's Walter Raleigh (the only ones still around are Ronald Hines’ Burghley and Angela Thorne’s Lettice from “The Marriage Game” and “The Shadow of the Sun”). I remember seeing this Serial on five Saturdays on BBC America (as I commented before, I missed most of “The Lion’s Cub”, my noting its broadcast purely by accident). Labelling the VHS, I scribed the title according to signature font advertised. Warner/BBC DVD.
THE 58TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS (1986) 35TH ANNIVERSARY Hosted by Robin Williams, Alan Alda, and Jane Fonda. Highlights include F. Murray Abraham announcing Geraldine Page’s winning of Best Actress (Angelina Jolie can be seen in front of her), Kermit and Scooter announcing best Animated short (with Jim Henson helping them open the envelope), Waldrof and Statler snarking at the ceremony, Irene Cara singing “This is for the Losers” (clips of Best Picture Nominees like TOOTSIE, RAGING BULL, STAR WARS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, CITIZEN KANE, 42ND STREET. What, No THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD?!?), Huey Lewis singing “Power of Love”, Lionel Ritchie singing “Say You, Say Me” (the musical numbers are staged as a movie theater). Howard Keel singing a presentation for the MGM Musical ladies assisted by June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Kathryn Grayson, Marge Champion, Debbie Reynolds, and Esther Williams. VHS Recording of the original ABC Broadcast March 24, 1986.
Thursday 25
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1239” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
Friday 26
DARK SHADOWS (1971) “Episode 1240” 50TH ANNIVERSARY MPI Video DVD.
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN (2014) “World of Dreams” English-Dubbed with Subtitles. Viz Media DVD.
Saturday 27
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (1971) 50TH ANNIVERSARY A few days after ELIZABETH R aired its final episode, filmdom got another taste of Glenda Jackson’s Elizabeth I in Hal Wallis/Charles Jarnott production (a sequel to their last Tudor success ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS). Thinking about it, considering the Serial didn’t air in the States until 1972, this film was probably America’s first glimpse of Jackson’s Liz. Written by John Hale (who wrote the Serial’s premiere episode “The Lion’s Cub”) and starring Vanessa Redgrave as Mary Stuart with Daniel Massey, Patrick McGoohan, Ian Holm, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, and Trevor Howard (here the main force in getting Mary executed). I first saw the film (the final half) on Arts & Entertainment in May 1992 when I was writing a Social Studies report on Elizabeth I. When I finally got to see the full film in May 1999, it was shortly after watching ELIZABETH R on BBCAmerica, so it was interesting to see Jackson doing a different treatment of material from “The Marriage Game” (the Amy Dudley incident) and “Horrible Conspiracies.” Back on my first viewings I was on Mary’s side. Nowadays the film has me on Liz’s. Universal DVD.
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (1995) “The Beast that screamed ‘I’ in the Heart of the World.” 25TH ANNIVERSARY The final episode has Shinji undergo the Instrumentality, learning to accept himself. All that stuff happening outside Shinji will be portrayed in END OF EVANGELION. I first saw the conclusion at my Graduate school’s Rec Center among some Anime Club members in 2004. The order I saw the series was 5-6 (2001), 1-4 (2002), 13-14, 18-19, 24-26, 9-11, 21-23, and the remainder in chronological order. Japanese with English Subtitles. ADV DVD.
WHEN TIME RAN OUT (1980) The last of Irwin Allen’s All-Star Disaster films, this time a volcano at a Hawaiian resort. Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Carerra, Veronica Hamel, Burgess Meredith, Red Buttons, James Franciscus, Pat Morita, and William Holden. I first saw the film’s climactic ending one night in the summer of 1989 (I was in Batmania, and my mother informed me that Meredith was the Penguin). I remember most of Mr. Miyagi falling to his death and the fireballs destroying the hotel and its residents (who I wondered didn’t go to safety with the rest of the gang). Betamax Recording of a 1983 HBO Broadcast.
Saw Parts Of:
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (1990) “Chris Elliott (as Marlon Brando), Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia” VHS Recording of NBC Broadcast 1990.
INU-YASHA (2001) “Return to the Place We Both Met” English Dubbed. Viz Media DVD.
THE 63RD ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS (1991) 30TH ANNIVERSARY Hosted by Billy Crystal (not his first, but the first where he gives a special intro- in this case riding a horse in view of his upcoming CITY SLICKERS). Highlights include the opening ceremony musical number celebrating the Centennial of the Motion Picture (danced by Jasmine Guy), Madonna’s “Sooner or Later” number, Sophia Loren getting a special Oscar, Woody Woodpecker (voiced by Mrs. Lantz) introduces the Best animated short Oscar. VHS Recording of its original ABC Broadcast, this is something of a cut up here. My uncle taped the intro near the end of the VHS then taped the remainder at any earlier stage of the VHS, editing out bits and pieces (the musical number to HOME ALONE’s “Somewhere in My Memory”).
THE COSBY SHOW (1986) “An Early Spring” VHS Recording of a syndicated Broadcast 1991.
THE BARBARA WALTERS SPECIAL (1991) 30TH ANNIVERSARY Pre-Oscar show as Walters interviews Oscar nominees Whoopi Goldberg & Jeremy Irons (who both won), Sophia Loren, and the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which Walters admits she deserves an Oscar for doing in the first place). VHS Recording of ABC Broadcast, stopping near the end of the TMNT Interview.
THE CHANGELING (1980) Betamax Recording of HBO Broadcast 1981.
WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN? (1978) Betamax.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) CBS Fox Video Betamax. The opening teaser is edited to after the credits (although the barrel-hole opening of the space capsule and the Title song intro with Bond’s ‘corpse’ are kept).
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WAS AFRAID TO ASK) (1972) Betamax.