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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 6, 2024 6:45:40 GMT
HAWAII-FIVE--0 The Big Kahuna --- John Marley sees the goddess Pele but McGarrett thinks it must be a scam (good guess) and has the team investigate. Danno scares off a group of rapid hippies.
MANNIX - Deja-Vu - A young woman has a vision that Joe is killed and goes to see him. Her premonitions on another near-miss convinces him she does have clairvoyance. His usual police liaison Art is back.
CANNON- Press Pass to the Slammer - A mafia guy is killed--a reporter's witness says it was murder but she is protecting the source. As Frank is a friend, he tries to help her stay alive and gets beaten up--but later he kicks their asses.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 7, 2024 5:36:51 GMT
McMILLAN & WIFE - "The Man Without A Face" - We learn (through stock footage from Tobruk) that Mac was a member of a spy team in his younger days and someone killed a former member. Mac has to talk to his former team mates to find the killer. One of them is living in retirement in Taos, New Mexico, the home of McCloud. The twist isn't bad. I would never have guessed the killer. I was frequently distracted by the weight loss battle between Rock Hudson and John Schuck. Who can lose the most weight before the next episode?
Sykes is played by Vito Scotti instead of John Astin. Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 10, 2024 21:00:59 GMT
Finished rewatching all 7 seasons of "Petticoat Junction".
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Post by vrkalak on Jan 10, 2024 22:10:58 GMT
Finished rewatching all 7 seasons of "Petticoat Junction". How was that? |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 13, 2024 7:32:13 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Trial By Fury - Barney and Phelps have to pose as prisoners to save a political dissident mistaken for a snitch so he doesn't get killed by the other inmates (led by Sid Haig, Paul Winfield, and Victor French). I liked it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 14, 2024 6:46:41 GMT
KOJAK - Marker To A Dead Bookie --- Kojak wants to nail a crime boss by posing as a crooked cop so he can get him to entrap himself with a drug charge. But the mobster has his own ideas. Really though-can anyone with more hair than Kojak ever win?
Premiered 50 years ago this week.
BANACEK - The Vanishing Chalice--- I thought I saw all the Banaceks a few years back but this one slipped through like a stolen Greek chalice. Carly, his regular rival, seeks to get Banacek on the job with the insurance company so she can be his apprentice or associate but Banacek calls her his assistant and spends the episode finding every way he can to annoy her. Guest star Caesar Romero punches Banacek off his feet while John Saxon plays a weird game of Russia Roulette with him while Eric Braedan is a nerd. One of the better episodes. Premiered 50 years ago this week. Polish proverb: "Though the hippopotamus has no sting in his tail, the wise man would rather be sat on by the bee."
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 16, 2024 21:55:27 GMT
Finished rewatching all 7 seasons of "Petticoat Junction". How was that? I love it. It's a fun simple little show. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 20, 2024 7:06:49 GMT
THE INVADERS - The Condemned - Ralph Bellamy escapes the aliens who are using his plant for their schemes (Murray Hamilton is the leader--seems like he played an alien before but maybe I am wrong). David Vincent shows up to talk to him but he gets framed for his murder even though Bellamy is alive. Bellamy's estranged daughter (Marlyn Mason--who was in a recent Cannon I watched)also comes to town and the aliens use her to bring him out of hiding. The last episode I have of season 1.
MANNIX - Return to Summer Grove -- Joe gets a visit late at night from a mysterious woman in the shadows--the way she enters, you know automatically this must be someone of consequence. Sure enough, it's Vera Miles, and we don't need any dialogue to know she is his hometown crush who married the football quarterback instead of him. Now the quarterback (Troy) is charged with a murder. Worse, he is paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung. Kudos to Miles for not making the scene a laugh riot when we see her husband in a glass case with his head sticking out. The laughs come later when Joe, with a neck brace after someone tried to kill him (and Marion Ross--as the other woman who was jilted so Troy could marry Miles who is "out of his league"), has a fight with someone by the iron lung as he desperately tries to reconnect it (turns out Troy doesn't need it to breath and he's gonna be back on his feet. We never find out what happened to Marion Ross' character who for some reason Mannix calls by her last name half the time). Also, Victor Jory plays Mannix Sr. so there is a little father atonement subplot as well.
CANNON - Deadly Heritage - Beverly Garland who I always enjoy seeing is disturbed by a burglar who turns out to be a young man that she knows. Interestingly, when she first thinks he is going to kill her, she says she is 50 and therefore lived a full life. She, being a rich art patron (wish I had one of those), gets her friend Frank to search for him --because--she says, he was the son of her deceased husband who she told him to forget about and now she feels guilty since he was raised in an orphanage. Cannon goes to a police contact (think we have seen her before) who he bribes with some pastry dish he bought for her--fully expecting she would share it with him. She does not--saying "I don't have to watch my figure, you do." To which Cannon says in disappointment, "Yeah I am the one watching your figure."
Frank soon learns that the young thief she is seeking is shacked up with a few southern caricatures led by John (reminds you of Carradine) Anderson who is dressed like Mark Twain and sounds like Foghorn Leghorn as "Major Bliss." Always have to watch out for anyone with a southern accent in 60s-70s tv...at least until Uncle Jessie, Daisy, and the Duke brothers come along). The plot gets even thicker when we learn that Garland is actually the mother of the burglar--and that is why she is so eager to find him.
How coincidental that I watched three random shows that had themes of parent-child estrangement.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 21, 2024 6:32:10 GMT
KOJAK - Last Rites For a Dead Priest - Jackie Cooper plans a robbery of a jewelry convention while disguised as a priest. When Kojak gets on his case, he messes up the lieutenant's suit which makes Kojak very mad. The thing about this show is--the less hair you have, the more likely you will make it through the show unscathed. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
McCLOUD - A Cowboy in Paradise - Chief Clifford goes to Hawaii to attend a cop convention but learns when he is on the plane that a certain colleaguel from Taos New Mexico was also invited--with a first class ticket. Clifford's problems multiply when he is framed for a murder. Lousie (Mary Hartman) Lasser shows up as a New York cop who just happens to be on vacation too. My assumption is that this was originally intended for Teri Garr since they seem to know her. At the end she asks to stay an extra three days and Clifford lets her have four.
McCloud asks, "what about me chief?" and he says, "You've done enough goofing off--back to work."
This was one show where you expected to see McGarrett or Danno walking by in the background.
Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 27, 2024 7:52:31 GMT
MOD SQUAD - Deal with the Devil -- Only watched this out of curiosity as it was the tv show that led in to The Night Stalker tv-movie when it premiered. Funny enough, guest star Leslie Nielsen plays a journalist and wears a funny hat. I am not impressed with this series at all. The title sequence is dull and the cast didn't leave much of an impression--and this is a high-rated episode.
KOJAK -Death is Not A Passing Grade - Kojak teaches a class and one of his students (James Woods) plays a game with him involving theft and murder. Good episode--I am only amazed how much depth they can get into 48 minutes without it feeling too short. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 28, 2024 7:49:50 GMT
BANACEK - A Horse of a Slightly Different Color - Literally--a horse disappears on a racetrack and it was due to a slight change of color. Banacek gets a beating in the episode and never gets the chance to pay the people back for it. Not so suave but since he gets 10% of $5 million he doesn't mind. Pamela Hensley appears briefly and she was in the Kojak I watched last night. And this also premiered 50 years ago this month.
COLUMBO- Publish or Perish -- Jack Cassidy kills Mickey Spillane and frames himself for it. Rather clever in order to throw off Columbo. A lawyer named David Chase criticizes the lieutenant for his methods--I am assuming that was an injoke since Chase was at Universal at the time. There's also a reference to Rock Hudson. Premiered 50 years ago (although it apparently aired on a Friday instead of Sunday since a McCloud episode had the slot).
MCMILLAN & WIFE - Reunion In Terror - Members of Mac's football team from college are being killed and he suspects it is one of the team members. There's a weird dramatic scene where the nerdish jeweler husband of the team's promiscuous cheerleader gets fed up with knowing everyone on the team had a trist with his wife so he grabs the wife of one of the other players (not Sally) and plans to rape her in the McMIllan's bedroom as revenge! Even Mildred doesn't have a quip for that. Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 29, 2024 21:59:13 GMT
Finished rewatching all 4 seasons of "McHale's Navy".
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Post by mcclance on Feb 3, 2024 2:49:44 GMT
I've been watching The Lone Ranger and Enterprise, just starting Season 2 of both.
Both are in parallel of my main viewing track, which is currently on the final season of Agents of SHIELD.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 3, 2024 8:43:29 GMT
The New Adventures of Huck Finn - The Gorgon's Head - Revisting. I am sure I have seen it before.
MANNIX - Duet For Three -- This one had a good twist I didn't see coming. They set up a red herring for the murderer and then throw a curve ball.
Interestingly, the other two shows I watched also used red herrings effectively.
IRONSIDE - In The Line of Duty - A cop friend of the chief is killed and Ironside seeks to find the killer. Vera Miles is the widow--she is everywhere in the shows I watch. This is a completely straight episode with no goofiness.
CANNON -season three two hour episode - He Who Digs A Grave --this was a very twisty show with big stars. David Janssen is accused of murdering his wife (Cathie Lee Crosby) and has his friend Frank (who owes him a favor) help him out. Anne Baxter is the mayor of the town of Mercer (I am sure that has turned up as the location in something else I watched recently). She and Cannon have some good scenes together. Barry Sullivan is the religious fanatic sheriff. Murray Hamilton has a funny part as a guy who likes to shoot clay pigeons and then confesses to Frank that he is impotent. There's also Virginia Gregg as a crazy bird expert who wants to shoot Cannon until a raven lands on him and she takes it a sign to trust him. Considered by some the best episode of the series.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 4, 2024 6:46:31 GMT
KOJAK- Die Before They Wake - The deaths of a junkie and a television commentator put Kojak onto the trail of a drug/prostitution ring. Tina Louise is a heroin junkie! Premiered 50 years ago this week.
HEC RAMSEY - Dead Heat - Hec suspects foul play when a young man dies of heart failure. A suffragist wants to get arrested to promote her cause and a former bank robber associate comes to town. The new frozen treat called ice cream plays a role in the case. Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 10, 2024 7:41:28 GMT
THE INVADERS S 2 -1 Condition Red- David Vincent goes to NORAD and has a colleague in an intelligence officer (Simon Scott) who believes in UFOs. The episode ends with a mass of invaders aliens being confronted by bomber planes while it shows up on a big screen like a space invaders video game. At one point Vincent asks if a computer can be reprogrammed to ignore certain information.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Juggernaut- someone wants land because it has oil on it. Simon Scott! Artemus Gordon plays a Yosemite Sam-type character called Archibald B Caldwell "The R stands for rich!". Ross Martin broke his leg during filming of an episode so is desk-ridden for part of it.
HAWAII FIVE-O S 2 ep 1 A Thousand Pardons, You're Dead - Harry Guardino goes around killing prostitutes who are married to GIs killed in combat. He has some good exchanges with McGarrett who is on his trail.
KOJAK - Deliver Us Some Evil -John Ritter kills someone during a botched burglary and then becomes involved in a big heist of coins and antiques. First time I noticed them using projection for some scenes of Kojak in New York. Cost-cutting? Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 11, 2024 6:38:25 GMT
COLUMBO - Mind Over Mayhem - A murder at a think tank brings Columbo (and his dog) to investigate. Robby the Robot appears (as well as Ed Fury as a cop and Deidre Hall as a receptionist). Premiered 50 years ago today.
BANACEK - Rocket to Oblivion - an experimental engine disappears at a trade show in front of witnesses (including Carly). Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 17, 2024 6:50:04 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Recovery --A US plane goes down behind the Iron Curtain and the MIF must go in and recover a piece of hardware before a US scientist and defector (Bradford Dillman) can figure it out. Phelps dyes his hair brown and it isn't a good look.
KOJAK - Eighteen Hours of Fear - a young girl who smuggled Canadian mint money plates is stalked by a killer and has to spend the night in Chuck McCann's hotel room (her life really was at stake). But when a few deaths happen, Chuck is a suspect and gets the third degree from Kojak and co. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
HARRY O - Mr. Five and Dime - Having listened to a CBC Mystery Radio show which featured Glynnis O'Connor (couldn't place the face) I got curious and decided to skip from season 1 to check her out. She plays a girl in trouble for passing counterfeit money. Funny how that connects with the last show I watched. The show really changed in the second year judging from this. The intro is more standard action cop stuff with none of the Mannix parody. But with Anthony Zerbe as Harry's new cop liaison--I see that he has a more comically antagonist relationship than he had with Henry Darrow. Good humor based on this sampling.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 18, 2024 7:24:00 GMT
MANNIX - Round Trip To Nowhere---He is hired by a guy to protect his wife but the client ends up killed in a crash as he is chased by someone. Joe then goes to the wife (Susan Howard, who has a Jackie O hairstyle which makes her rather anonymous. She is very muted in the episode--someone said in an IMDB review that she looked like she wanted to be elsewhere. In Petrocelli she is more energetic but so dumb. In the feature films roles she had (Moonshine County Express and Sidewinder 1 she was riveting and smart. How much the writing can impact performance quality). She has only known him for a month (after being on a charity mission in Peru) and doesn't seem too shook up about it. Turns out that there's a hijacked gold shipment and the Treasure department is after it. They fly in a plane to the desert to get it--and then end up in a cave with bats. Susan saves them by throwing a rock to make the bats fly around (turns out fruit bats aren't native to desert caves in California). His police liaison this time is Jerry Douglass who I haven't seen before.
MCMILLAN & WIFE - Cross and Double Cross---not rated highly as an episode but I am surprised because I thought it was very amusing. Mac springs his doppelganger (from a previous episode) so he can impersonate the crook to find out about a stolen gold shipment with the Treasury department involving a former girlfriend (Rhonda Fleming). What a small plot world--gold again--and deserts, and plane flights. Meanwhile--the crook will have to impersonate the Commissioner (with Mildred making sure he stays away from Sally). It reaches a point where the imposter and housekeeper are dancing the tango, later Mildred and Sally go to an underworld nightclub dressed as working girls to search for Mac (who they believed had been killed) and the former attracts the eye of a club bouncer. It is a ridiculous episode but I had some good laughs from it. Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 24, 2024 7:05:51 GMT
BANACEK - Fly Me, If You Can Find Me - A jumbo jet goes missing from an air field in Nevada. Sterling Hayden is a tycoon with damaged legs from a cargo mission in Vietnam and owns much of the area. This is considered one of the best episodes--the relationship between Hayden and his former flight partner is really interesting thanks to a revelation and someone's scene for revenge. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
And a wise man doesn't play leap frog with a unicorn.
CANNON- Memo From a Dead Man --we meet Frank coming out of a packed elevator--and everyone inside is relieved that he gets out.
He has to go to the reading of a will by lawyer Martin Sheen (playing a different character from his previous role--which is strange in a way because I think he appeared twice as the same character--so a bit unusual he would show up as someone else). A man who died named Cannon in his will--he wants him to find out which of his relatives killed him. Good dialogue in this one--and a funny scene where Sheen is at Cannon's place as the later is making a hero sandwich. Cannon asks Sheen if he wants one--he says no. So, after finishing the sandwich--Frank says "that looks good doesn't it. Sure you don't want one?"
And Sheen looks at it and says: "sure--ok."
Cannon is mortified as he has to turn it over and watch him eat it.
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