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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 16, 2021 6:24:34 GMT
Now this show is very different from McCloud. In that case, there's instant chemistry between Dennis Weaver and Diane Muldaur while Rock Hudson and Susan St. James, they do not seem to be compatible at all. The pilot is a mess, though the highlight is a bicycle chase through San Francisco which is rather cool-one could imagine Dirty Harry doing it. I'll check out another episode but there's such awkwardness here, I am curious if they make some changes to it. I noticed in one street scene the same pedestrians walked by a couple times.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 16, 2021 6:28:48 GMT
It's a fun show .. just park your inner critic at the door .. make some popcorn and a refreshing beverage of choice and go with it.
I never saw the "awkwardness" between Susan and Rock. They seemed to me to be having fun.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 30, 2021 5:04:13 GMT
Well the first actual episode MURDER BY THE BARREL is a big improvement. The chemistry way better between them and Susan St James isn't so crazy/quirky. I guess it helps to be directed by Gomez Addams! Funny dialogue too.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 30, 2021 6:24:55 GMT
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: What have you found out, Enright?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Well, we're off to see Mr. Buchanan who runs the moving company, sir, but we searched both kinds of barrels in storage there but there's no barrel with a body in it.
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: What do you mean both kinds of barrels?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Well, there are two kinds of barrels, there are storage barrels and there are shipping barrels.
Commissioner Stewart McMillan: And the barrels we received are shipping barrels?
Sgt. Charles Enright: Right. Now I found it's not possible to store a shipping barrel but a shipping barrel you can store.
Sally McMillan: I'm not sure I follow that.
Sgt. Charles Enright: Let me simplify things. There are two kind of barrels: there are shipping barrels and there are storage barrels. A shipping barrel you can store and ship but a storing barrel you can only ship - I mean store; so you can ship a shipping and store a shipping but for storing you can only ship - I mean store...
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 20, 2021 5:38:59 GMT
The second episode was good too-the dopnapping case. Rock Hudson has some good comic moments in this one. Also the car chase scene was pretty for tv.
I dont know how this show could have lasted without Susan St. James?
The last season is just called McMillan? How weird, but I have a long way to go before then.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 21, 2021 5:00:24 GMT
Another episode--Rock Hudson puts on a bunny suit. Ed Flanders--good God how many doctors did he play?
I spotted Ron Masak in this as a cop. This guy reminds one so much of Lou Costello--I remember he did play Costello in a Bran News commercial. Reading on IMDB:
"Ron played Lou Costello in commercials for Bran News, McDonald's, and Tropicana Orange Juice."
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 5, 2021 7:10:41 GMT
NIGHT OF THE WIZARD - the second season premiere episode. John Astin, who directed episodes of the first season, shows up as a morgue attendant. Bizarre episode in the complexity of it. I miss the first season title credits. This seems a little more serious--two murders in this one. Funny enough, right after this I watched the second pilot of the Six Million Dollar Man. At that point Martin Brooks was not Rudy Wells but he was in this episode as a DA. Were all those 70s tv shows made by Universal? Sure seems like it. The same frenchie street used in a McCloud episode shows in the 6 Million Dollar Man one--and a lodge in this episode was used in more than one Columbo I watched.
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Post by msdemos on Jun 7, 2021 0:31:48 GMT
One of my FAVORITE of all of the The NBC Mystery Movie(s)......probably second only to Columbo, and just ahead of Quincy, M.E. (which wasn't one of the 'originals', but did begin its run on the "NBC Mystery Movie" rotation in 1976), and McCloud (never watched Hec Ramsey). Personally, I never found anything at all "awkward" about the pairing of Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, or their show, and loved the two of them together right from the start! Like many other things though, I'm sure this show could be considered an "acquired taste" for some, and was just outright disliked by others...... SAVE FERRIS
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 7, 2021 1:08:08 GMT
Personally, I never found anything at all "awkward" about the pairing of Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, or their show, and loved the two of them together right from the start! Like many other things though, I'm sure this show could be considered an "acquired taste" for some, and disliked by others...... I just found the pilot to be disjointed. I did not find that with the first episode. They dropped the "criminal turned chauffeur" angle pretty fast. In the second season premiere--Sally did not act very eccentric compared to the previous one. One of these days I need to do a trivia challenge--what's the number on the sports jersey she wears in bed?
Hec Ramsey-- I watched the pilot. Not a bad idea--but maybe not enough meat for a series.
There was a tv-movie with Ernest Borgnine about a detective in the Old West--kind of Columbo-like.
I am curious about Hawkins--the James Stewart series.
I havent heard that music in a long time-I thought that whistling theme was McCloud's theme but having been watching the show again -it never appears in the intro.
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Post by msdemos on Jun 7, 2021 1:15:44 GMT
Personally, I never found anything at all "awkward" about the pairing of Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James, or their show, and loved the two of them together right from the start! Like many other things though, I'm sure this show could be considered an "acquired taste" for some, and disliked by others...... I just found the pilot to be disjointed. I did not find that with the first episode. They dropped the "criminal turned chauffeur" angle pretty fast. In the second season premiere--Sally did not act very eccentric compared to the previous one. One of these days I need to do a trivia challenge--what's the number on the sports jersey she wears in bed?
Hec Ramsey-- I watched the pilot. Not a bad idea--but maybe not enough meat for a series.
There was a tv-movie with Ernest Borgnine about a detective in the Old West--kind of Columbo-like.
I am curious about Hawkins--the James Stewart series.
I havent heard that music in a long time-I thought that whistling theme was McCloud's theme but having been watching the show again -it never appears in the intro.
18, wasn't it ?? I believe that was an 'homage' to Gene Washington of the 49'ers (and a subtle way, I'm guessing, of helping to give this show, that was shot (mostly) on soundstages, somewhat of a San Francisco "feel")...... www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WashGe00.htmNot familiar with the Borgnine show, but wondering if it might be this one: www.imdb.com/title/tt0067872/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_139Or possibly, this one: www.imdb.com/title/tt0067702/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_144Oh, and Hawkins is now available on dvd, and wouldn't be surprised if it's also available on some streaming service, somewhere.......I purchased it a while back, but haven't gotten around to watching it just yet..... SAVE FERRIS
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 7, 2021 1:34:38 GMT
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Post by amyghost on Jun 7, 2021 12:31:52 GMT
I'll admit, the show fell several leagues behind Columbo and McCloud around our house. We'd sit through it to get to Night Gallery afterwards. John Schuck was fun, though--and in retrospect the series wasn't all that bad. It just never seemed to achieve quite the same vibe as its Mystery Movie siblings.
I'd forgotten that St. James left the show in its final season (I don't recall if Mr. and Mrs. are divorced or just separated, but either way it was a bit jarring, since they were emphasized as being such a great couple before); and the series went to being just plain old McMillan. I think I'd stopped watching altogether by that point, certainly I don't have any memory of any of the solo Hudson episodes.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 7, 2021 15:45:56 GMT
I was curious to see it after the Simpsons spoofed it--Burns was Sally and Smithers was McMillan.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 4, 2021 7:44:24 GMT
Susan St. James Tonight Show interview. Other guests are Ann-Margret, Flip Wilson (he's not talked about much anymore is he?), and George Carlin.
It is so interesting to see how different television conversation was back then.
I had planned to watch the St.James interview and then McMillan & Wife, but I had to watch the whole show. It was so interesting. And Carson does a hilarious spoof of detective shows called Iron Feet.
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Post by snsurone on Jul 17, 2021 19:32:43 GMT
I'll admit, the show fell several leagues behind Columbo and McCloud around our house. We'd sit through it to get to Night Gallery afterwards. John Schuck was fun, though--and in retrospect the series wasn't all that bad. It just never seemed to achieve quite the same vibe as its Mystery Movie siblings. I'd forgotten that St. James left the show in its final season (I don't recall if Mr. and Mrs. are divorced or just separated, but either way it was a bit jarring, since they were emphasized as being such a great couple before); and the series went to being just plain old McMillan. I think I'd stopped watching altogether by that point, certainly I don't have any memory of any of the solo Hudson episodes. The absence of Susan St. James in the final season was that Sally was killed in a plane crash. The MacMillans also had a baby (to work in St. James' real-life pregnancy) that mysteriously disappeared. It was never mentioned if the baby, too, perished in that crash. In any case, Mac became a "merry widower", dating up many women, and generally having a ball! So much for his being passionately in love with his wife!
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Post by amyghost on Jul 18, 2021 1:24:40 GMT
I'll admit, the show fell several leagues behind Columbo and McCloud around our house. We'd sit through it to get to Night Gallery afterwards. John Schuck was fun, though--and in retrospect the series wasn't all that bad. It just never seemed to achieve quite the same vibe as its Mystery Movie siblings. I'd forgotten that St. James left the show in its final season (I don't recall if Mr. and Mrs. are divorced or just separated, but either way it was a bit jarring, since they were emphasized as being such a great couple before); and the series went to being just plain old McMillan. I think I'd stopped watching altogether by that point, certainly I don't have any memory of any of the solo Hudson episodes. The absence of Susan St. James in the final season was that Sally was killed in a plane crash. The MacMillans also had a baby (to work in St. James' real-life pregnancy) that mysteriously disappeared. It was never mentioned if the baby, too, perished in that crash. In any case, Mac became a "merry widower", dating up many women, and generally having a ball! So much for his being passionately in love with his wife! Thanks for filling in the blanks on that, snusurone...I had completely forgotten about the way St. James was written off, as well as the whole baby business; don't know why I recalled her disappearance as being due to divorce. Best guess is baby McMillan must have died with Mom since an infant would have surely gotten in the way of Rock's swinging singlehood. I do remember thinking that it was fairly strange the way he seemed to have no real feelings of sadness over her being gone. I suppose that's the virtue of being a fictional character--you're allowed a short memory; I guess most tv writers and producers figure the audience's memory is about equally short .
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 20, 2021 2:47:13 GMT
Did the first episode of the final season start with him finding out? I guess should wait until I watch through to final season.
I watched the pilot of Petrocelli and his wife has a miscarriage after their truck gets driven off the road by a hooligan suspect (Luke Askew). Petrocelli is somewhat upset--when he sees the guy who caused them to crash--he gets really mad and attacks the guy in a public place. But she does not seem all that upset about it. We never see her initial reaction, and later she is in bed laughing at a book about how wives can enjoy football (I really like Susan Howard performances but this part is beneath her).
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Post by snsurone on Jul 21, 2021 15:13:43 GMT
The death of Mrs. McMillan was just a passing remark from Sgt. Enright some 18 months after the event.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 21, 2021 18:02:33 GMT
The death of Mrs. McMillan was just a passing remark from Sgt. Enright some 18 months after the event. Oh that makes more sense then. Though I would think her picture would be on display somewhere.
It was funny she called him "Mac."
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 24, 2021 5:43:13 GMT
Blues for Sally M
I guessed the twist very early on. Funny Enright scenes.
Someone on IMDB wrote:
Universal spared no expense in its mystery movies and always secured stellar guest casts. Don Mitchell moonlighting from IRONSIDE was a welcome face. I strongly suspected this show was filmed about the same time Mitchell was making SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM. That 1973 film also boasted the beautiful and buxom Barbara Rhoades--who had a brief scene here playing the flirty waitress with eyes only for Mac.
**Good catch because she is wearing the same clothes she wore in Scream Blacula, Scream.
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