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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 18, 2023 7:13:17 GMT
IRONSIDE- Dangerous Encounter - The Chief and Mark go to a small town with a corrupt sheriff (does a small town in late 60s-70s tv ever NOT have a corrupt sheriff?) and they get imprisoned. Kudos to Ironside for crawling out of a house and starting a car--and using a stick for the pedal and almost getting away.
MANNIX - Color Her Missing - A mentor of his is shoved out a window and a lawyer is the suspect. But he says he was far away and a girl he bumped into is his alibi. But she is missing. The lawyer hires Mannix to find her--and he does--but then some kidnappers show up. Mannix has to get out of a car in a garage with the ignition running. He can't open the door so he drives through it.
CANNON To Ride A Tiger -- Cannon is hired to find a missing lawyer who cleared an ex-con of a cop-killing charge. At one point he raids the fridge of the missing and votes down the counselor's choice of beer. John Larch and Ramon Bieri who usually play cops, appear in this episode as...cops.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 19, 2023 20:35:49 GMT
SARGE - Silent Target - Leslie Nielsen is a dock worker and check forger who is approached by police to become an informant on mob activities. I thought of the Naked Gun as I watched. Perhaps that is why I noticed an odd scene where George Kennedy enters Nielsen's house and is guided to the living room-but we never see the door close--we hear it closing but no one else was there to do. Perhaps it was Nordberg.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Nov 23, 2023 21:20:42 GMT
Since November, I’ve been watching Columbo. Started from Season 3 through to Season 7. And now I’m up to Season 9. Halfway through “Rest in Peace, Mrs Columbo”. I had already watched Season 1, 2 & 8 a couple months back. Also watched the short-lived tv series of the ‘Police Squad’ (1982) in between the Columbo seasons. Amusing to see where it began, since I enjoyed the films. While only very short episodes, the jokes were rapid fire and hit more than they missed. Silly, but whole lotta fun.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 25, 2023 6:32:20 GMT
THE ROCKFORD FILES - Just by Accident -- Jim (everyone is named Jim in old shows) investigates the death of a demolition derby driver and uncovers an insurance scam involving stolen birth certificates. Always good for some laughs.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 26, 2023 6:30:03 GMT
HEC RAMSEY - A Hard Road To Vengeance - A folk hero/vicious outlaw is being given a monument on the 13th anniversary of his shooting and the disgraced lawman Stuart Whitman who shot him rides into town to stir up trouble. Ruth Roman, Keenan Wynn, and Rita Moreno appear as possible suspects after a murder which was set up to blame Whitman. Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by jean74 on Dec 2, 2023 5:16:10 GMT
Mainly my parents and I as want to be with my parents have been watching "Blue Bloods, Bosch, Bosch Legacy, Justified, Justified Primeval, and Your Honor!"
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 2, 2023 7:22:15 GMT
MANNIX - The World Between - Peggy gets shot and meets an African president in the hospital (only in tv) and falls in love with him. But he has a health issue and has to put his country before personal happiness so she is back on the job by the end of the episode but gets the focus of the episode while Mannix is hardly in it.
CANNON - Prisoners. A wine merchant is approached by a young man who says his son has been imprisoned for 10 years in Turkey and he can get him out if he gets $50 000. The man calls Frank instead. Soon we learn that the son is not in Turkey--and he is in fact seeking to get $50 000 out of his dad who he doesn't like. But then it gets too complex and he wants out--but the kidnapper accomplice has other ideas. More trouble emerges when it turns out the father is in fact, penniless! Although Cannon saves the day he is almost shot and has to be saved by the kidnap victim. The kidnapper uses a citizen's band radio to lead the father where to drop off the money--and Cannon gets the frequency and has a tv repair guy input the signal into a unit so he can listen in. I wonder if you could still do that--take a citizen's band radio to a tv repair guy and have him dial in the right signal.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 3, 2023 6:19:01 GMT
MCCLOUD- The Solid Gold Swingers Escorts are being strangled by a serial killer (Ross Martin) who is in fact a hit man and working for a cop (Neville Brand). He also has a family (which sparked some deja vu because the show did an episode about a hit man with a family stashed away a couple of seasons ago). McCloud keeps breaking doors which drives the department finance officer (Teri Garr) insane. Strangely, she is not playing the same character she portrayed in previous seasons.
Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by gspdude on Dec 8, 2023 15:47:59 GMT
The Twilight Zone S2 E20 Static. A rare episode I hadn't seen. Dean Jagger is a grouchy old man living in a rooming house where he annoys the other residents with complaints about their obsession with TV. Old time radio, now that was entertainment! He then finds an old radio which plays old time radio...LIVE! Not one of the best eps, but still enjoyable. Not sure why i've never seen it, perhaps it's that one of the commercials on the TV the roomers were watching was for a product called Green Cigarettes, "with the aroma of fresh green grass!"?
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 9, 2023 6:24:27 GMT
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Simian Terror - Almost takes place completely at night. And there is a simian terror although I felt sorry for him in the end, and not just because it was a less than convincing gorilla costume.
COOL MILLION - Hunt For a Lonely Girl. Set in Canada, Ray Milland is accused of murder and his only hope is to be found in the photo of a tourist who may have taken his picture at Niagara Falls. Since the main character is an ex-CIA agent, he has access to fancy equipment like early cellular phones and video recording equipment. Kind of neat to see the pre-VHS recording system before they came up with the cassette.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 17, 2023 7:34:37 GMT
COLUMBO - Double Exposure -- Robert Culp is a "motivation research specialist" using subliminal cues to commit a murder. He is too cool for Columbo to easily nab him. Arlene Martel is listed in the credits but isn't in the episode. Aired 50 years ago today.
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Post by gspdude on Dec 17, 2023 14:26:37 GMT
The Twilight Zone S4 E3 Valley of the Shadow. Another Twilight Zone I hadn't seen, one of the hour shows and a pretty good one. Ed Nelson plays a traveling reporter who gets lost while taking a recommended short cut. He stops at a quiet small town to gas up where he accidentally discovers the town is in possession of a futuristic technology, which they have no intention of sharing.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 23, 2023 7:02:35 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Phoenix - A stolen experimental metal is smuggled into the Iron Curtain by hiding it in a modern art installation. While Rollin and Cinnamon pretend to be would-be assassins and Jim pretends to be a Soviet cop (seems he always has that part), Barney and Willy prepare a trap for their mark. When he is looking at the agent dossier, he gives a funny look to one guy who he rejects as if he is thinking "yuck-not this guy." The casual way he leaves the MIF dossier in his living room makes me assume he has really good security--never has to worry about someone coming in.
KOJAK - Cop in a Cage - Theo's niece is getting married but a vengeful ex-con--is there any other kind in cop shows--- (John P Ryan) plans to blow up the wedding party.
BARETTA - The Cappelli Oath - Tony kills a young criminal and his brother is sworn to kill him. Fred ends up in a shoebox as a warning. Funny thing with this is that a mobster arrives for the showdown in a station wagon. I was surprised by that--not a sedan, not a limo, a standard 70s station wagon with the fake wood side paneling.
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Post by gspdude on Dec 23, 2023 13:42:41 GMT
The Twilight Zone
S4 E5 Mute. A Young girl being raised in isolation by her telepathic parents and has never spoken or been spoke to suddenly looses her parents in a fire. She is taken in by a local couple and has to adjust to society, which is not easy for her, especially when they send her to school. Not sure why the couple didn't try to communicate with her by teaching her to read & write. Or to see if she already knew? Anyway, I kind of felt sorry for her, even though she was adjusting, albeit sometimes painfully, towards the end.
S4 E6 Death Ship. An Earth spaceship with a 3 man crew looking for planets to colonize land on a planet where they find a crashed ship identical to their own. Is it their own? Will they crash if they try to take off? Or is it an illusion created to confuse them. The crew tries to hold on to their sanity as they try to solve this Twilight Zone puzzle.
Both stories by Richard Matheson.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 24, 2023 8:00:55 GMT
MANNIX- To Cage a Seagull --- Joe's golf game is ruined when his "pigeon" dies in a helicopter crash. Turns out, the pilot saw a Hitler wannabe entering the country illegally by plane and had to die. Later Mannix is captured and learns that the rightwing group plans to activate sleeper cells to kill some cops to blame on the leftwing, thus ushering in a Fourth Reich led by a blonde guy who has a very bored way of speaking. What is it with these secret militia groups leaving their arsenal exposed with c-4 and detonators conveniently left on a table so Mannix can set a charge in a few seconds and blow up the compound?
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Post by lostinlimbo on Dec 27, 2023 20:38:23 GMT
Halfway through Season 10 of Columbo. Although it’s really a series of specials scattered over a decade (1990-2003). Always enjoyable watching Peter Falk as Columbo, but something about this season feels underwhelming in its writing/narratives. The formula has definitely changed, and taken a different route. The best one so far would be ‘It’s All in the Game’ starring Faye Dunaway. The story was written by Peter Falk. Great chemistry between Dunaway and Falk.  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 30, 2023 7:01:39 GMT
Mannix -Bang Bang, You're Dead - A child overhears a murder plot and Joe has to protect her while he seeks to expose it. Larry Linville seems to be the new police liaison for Mannix but will be replaced by Robert Reed by next season.
Cannon - Catch Me If You Can -- Anthony Zerbe hires Frank to catch a serial killer--who happens to be Zerbe. A police colleague thinks Cannon is being set up to be the next victim. For once, they did the ol' "keep him talking so we can trace the call" gag--and this time--it works--they do keep him on long enough to trace the call--but when they get there--Zerbe has already left and calls them from another phone.
He tells Cannon "you have the sensitivity of a grape fruit." At one point someone asks why Zerbe didn't seek a priest instead for his confession. They can't know this but he already did that in an episode of Ironside which was a crossover with Sarge.
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Post by Prime etc. on Dec 31, 2023 6:05:00 GMT
IRONSIDE - I, the People ---Milton Berle is a shock jock tv host who rants about students being brainwashed on campus and also police brutality. When he gets death threats Ironside is sent to investigate. Berle co-wrote the script. The chief describes the professional tv agitator as : "a vampire who lives in an electronic coffin."
HEC RAMSEY - The Detroit Connection - Someone is blowing up oil wells and homesteaders--and the clues lead to a couple of newcomers from Detroit, which includes Angie Dickinson. I had trouble keeping focus because the soundtrack was ahead of the picture and had to rig it by computer so the thing was synced--but I had to periodically speed up the picture to keep it in sync. Not the kind of interactive television I prefer. Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by gspdude on Dec 31, 2023 15:17:40 GMT
Danger Man S4 E 1&2 (on IMDB as Secret Agent S3 E1&2)
Koroshi - British agent Drake travels to Tokyo to deal with a murder cult with mostly European members.
Shinda Shima - This time Drake is dealing with the same murder cult which has now set up headquarters on an off shore Japanese island.
These are the last 2 episodes of the series as Patrick McGoohan left to start work on The Prisoner and are the only 2 in color. They were shown in the UK in the Danger Man time slot, and put together and shown as a TV movie in The US.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 2, 2024 21:24:53 GMT
Started the 4th and final season in my rewatch of "McHale's Navy".
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