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Post by gspdude on Feb 24, 2024 15:52:34 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.
Thanks for the heads up on this one. I'll have to check it out.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 24, 2024 22:03:16 GMT
Thanks for the heads up on this one. I'll have to check it out.
If you mean Hec Ramsey since Kojak is much better known and easier to find, the quality of the video I had is really poor-someone taped them off in the early 80s. I assume it is on Youtube but maybe they have a better streaming version of it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 25, 2024 6:26:35 GMT
MCCLOUD - The Colorado Cattle Caper-- McCloud (and then Broadhurst and then Clifford) have to go to the town of Two Forks to nab cattle rustlers (who have an impossible method of processing meat in the back of a regular semi truck trailer--there's no way they could take in cattle around 25 in number and be able to do everything that a meat packing place would do--in 30 minutes but it's tv physics). The sheriff (Claude Akins) is running for re-election and wants to nab them himself. His deputy is John Denver who ends up being McCloud's sidekick for the show--and Farrah Fawcett shows up too. Austin Stoker appears as briefly at the start as a colleague and gets shot. Premiered 50 years ago today.
Peter B. Clifford: Where's McCloud?
Sergeant Joe Broadhurst: According to the Sheriff, he's a fugitive.
Peter B. Clifford: I hope he gave orders to shoot to kill.
KOJAK - Before the Devil Knows---a cat burglar (Henry Darrow) loses his partner after the banker (David White) they are robbing cuts his cable line.
Kojak wants the burglar, but then decides he would rather have the banker and especially the notorious hitman Pacman so he makes a deal with the thief. They have a nifty method of tracking the hitman by putting 2 panes of plastic glass in front of a window and using the thief as a target. When the hitman shoots-they use a laser pointer to trace the trajectory of the shot to the building across the street. Interestingly, White says he is 55 and his wife calls him an old man. Austin Stoker appears as briefly at the start as a colleague and doesn't get shot. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by gspdude on Feb 25, 2024 15:18:31 GMT
Thanks for the heads up on this one. I'll have to check it out.
If you mean Hec Ramsey since Kojak is much better known and easier to find, the quality of the video I had is really poor-someone taped them off in the early 80s. I assume it is on Youtube but maybe they have a better streaming version of it.
I meant Kojak, and being a long time Ginger man and a regular watcher of Kojak back in the day, I checked it out on YT. Good show but Tina as a junky was no Ginger Grant. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 25, 2024 17:16:46 GMT
I meant Kojak, and being a long time Ginger man and a regular watcher of Kojak back in the day, I checked it out on YT. Good show but Tina as a junky was no Ginger Grant. You haven't seen The Nightmare in Badham County? There's a real non-Ginger part.
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Post by gspdude on Feb 26, 2024 13:48:48 GMT
I meant Kojak, and being a long time Ginger man and a regular watcher of Kojak back in the day, I checked it out on YT. Good show but Tina as a junky was no Ginger Grant. You haven't seen The Nightmare in Badham County? There's a real non-Ginger part.
I have seen it. Definitely non-Ginger! |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 2, 2024 7:46:55 GMT
MANNIX- What Happened to Sunday? - Joe loses his memory and has to retrace his steps--meeting various women who know him all too well (among them is Francine York with blonde hair). Once again his police contact is someone else--in this case Lt Maury Strauss (Milton Selzer). They are rotating them it would seem.
CANNON- Hounds of Hell- Someone is using attack dogs to kill Vietnam vets. Frank is hired to find out who and avoid being the next victim.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 3, 2024 8:24:45 GMT
COLUMBO - Swan Song - Johnny Cash commits two murders to get free of a blackmailing wife. This has one of the best quirky supporting character scenes --a airline inspector tries to offer him a job, a funeral parlor tries to sell him policy, and a seamstress tries to pick him up. Premiered 50 years ago.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 9, 2024 7:12:30 GMT
IRONSIDE - Price Tag Death - Ralph Meeker is an ex-cop living on skid row but he goes to the chief for help after a hobo friend is murdered. The culprit is Clu Gallagher, a weird guy who writes bad checks with a gizmo he stole. He buys lots of groceries with it-and then dumps then in the garbage---and it is never explained why. I guess he felt guilty about killing the hobo when he did the robbery. Just an odd tempo to this series--they have such a fancy office--a pool table--they get really fancy meals in there too.
In contrast is
KOJAK - Dead On His Feet-- Harry Gaurdino fails to help his best friend and partner during a bust because he has a stomach problem. His partner dies and he learns that he has inoperable stomach cancer. He also confesses to the widow (Joanne Linville, who can do a lot of emoting without saying a word) that he was in love with her (he does it by using a movie reference about how Clark Gable is married to Myrna Loy but Spencer Tracy is carrying a torch). The veteran nature of the actors contributes a lot to making these things work. He wants to get the mobster who shot his partner since he knows he is going to die anyway--he takes risks. Some have complained that the ending doesn't make sense in terms of how he gets the mobster to incriminate himself (could have something to do with tv regulations--not sure about that) the scene Guardino has with the criminal is so dramatically intense.
Kojak is pretty mad in this episode too and when the criminal says he made a threat against him,
Kojak replies: Greeks don't make threats, they utter prophecies.
Also, when someone says death is democratic, he gets in another zinger: don't talk to me about democracy-my ancestors invented it.
Premiered 50 years ago this week.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - Find Me If You Can -- Joan Van Ark hires Rockford to find her--because she is worried about something--has to do with a mobster and a stolen $50 000 and a murder she witnessed too.
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Post by gspdude on Mar 9, 2024 14:52:32 GMT
IRONSIDE - Price Tag Death - Ralph Meeker is an ex-cop living on skid row but he goes to the chief for help after a hobo friend is murdered. The culprit is Clu Gallagher, a weird guy who writes bad checks with a gizmo he stole. He buys lots of groceries with it-and then dumps then in the garbage---and it is never explained why. I guess he felt guilty about killing the hobo when he did the robbery. Just an odd tempo to this series--they have such a fancy office--a pool table--they get really fancy meals in there too.
In contrast is
KOJAK - Dead On His Feet-- Harry Gaurdino fails to help his best friend and partner during a bust because he has a stomach problem. His partner dies and he learns that he has inoperable stomach cancer. He also confesses to the widow (Joanne Linville, who can do a lot of emoting without saying a word) that he was in love with her (he does it by using a movie reference about how Clark Gable is married to Myrna Loy but Spencer Tracy is carrying a torch). The veteran nature of the actors contributes a lot to making these things work. He wants to get the mobster who shot his partner since he knows he is going to die anyway--he takes risks. Some have complained that the ending doesn't make sense in terms of how he gets the mobster to incriminate himself (could have something to do with tv regulations--not sure about that) the scene Guardino has with the criminal is so dramatically intense.
Kojak is pretty mad in this episode too and when the criminal says he made a threat against him,
Kojak replies: Greeks don't make threats, they utter prophecies.
Also, when someone says death is democratic, he gets in another zinger: don't talk to me about democracy-my ancestors invented it.
Premiered 50 years ago this week.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - Find Me If You Can -- Joan Van Ark hires Rockford to find her--because she is worried about something--has to do with a mobster and a stolen $50 000 and a murder she witnessed too.
"KOJAK - Dead On His Feet", I'll have to put this on my to see list. Loved Joanne Linville on her Star Trek and Twilight Zone appearances. |
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Post by gspdude on Mar 9, 2024 14:58:35 GMT
Lost. Finished the 1st 3 seasons. This is my 1st rewatch since it first aired. It's one of my favorite shows, especially the early seasons. As I recall, it begins to fall off a bit soon, but I'll probably finish it. I've been surprised by how much I'd forgotten.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 9, 2024 17:35:03 GMT
"KOJAK - Dead On His Feet", I'll have to put this on my to see list. Loved Joanne Linville on her Star Trek and Twilight Zone appearances. She was in a Hawaii-Five O as a faith healer who gets under McGarrett's skin. This episode would be good for study because they have to economize due to the time--and yet because of that they generate more emotional depth especially in the very last scene.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 10, 2024 7:59:25 GMT
HEC RAMSEY - Scar Tissue - A young man (Kurt Russell) comes to town seeking the father he never met (in order to kill him for ditching his mother) while an old man (Chill Wills) comes looking for a job from his protege` Hec. This episode has no IMDB reviews. Premiered 50 years ago.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 16, 2024 6:55:29 GMT
BATMAN - Pop Goes The Joker/Flop Goes the Joker - The Joker becomes an artist as a cover for his crimes. Alfred saves the day.
Aunt Harriet: Alfred, be careful! The Joker's an arch-criminal!
Alfred: I know, madam, but a very poor fencer.
The Joker: You anglo-fink! I'll smash you to smidgens!
Alfred: May I point out that smidgens is a childish effusion which should have no place even in so poor a vocabulary as yours, sir.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Gruesome Games - Someone steals a vial of a plague and hides it in the house of an elderly eccentric (William Schallert who must be rehearsing for his eventual stint in the show as a temporary stand in for Ross Martin). Robert Conrad does a roll on his head which looks rather painful.
MANNIX- The Playground - Joe has to protect a movie star under threat. Robert Conrad! And he rides a horse at the end which could well be the same horse from the WWW.
CANNON - Target in the Mirror -- Frank is asked to help a mobster turn state evidence without being killed but he turns it down and when a friend is murdered he ends up involved in the case anyway (and he doesn't know that a cop friend is the murderer).
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 17, 2024 6:44:31 GMT
BANACEK - Now You See Me, Now You Don't - Last episode of the series is ruined by the fact that it isn't too hard to guess the twist due to the particular actor's hard to disguise voice. This one lacked Polish proverbs too. On the other hand it did have Gretchen Corbett who could naturally play well off stars like Peppard or James Garner.
Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 23, 2024 5:52:08 GMT
THE INVADERS- The Watchers - Kevin McCarthy is a scientist and an alien who snatched his body (they make his nose look funny so he doesn't quite match). David Vincent uses a gun a few times in this to kill the aliens. I don't see why he doesn't do that more often--he can tell when someone is an alien by their finger--he could attack them with a hatchet and they will disappear-problem solved.
KOJAK- Down A Long and Lonely River -- Paul Michael Glaser is an ex-con who seeks to find out who sent him up the river--a couple of Police Woman cast members also appear, and Jennifer Aniston's father is the big crook. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
PETROCELLI - Terror By the Book - A writer is shot and Anne Francis is the suspect. Tony learns his brand of root beer is going out of business so he buys the little remaining inventory wholesale--but how much is "little?" For once--very rare--Pete is shown interviewing someone on his own (Kurt Russell's father).
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 24, 2024 7:22:00 GMT
BATMAN - An Egg Grows in Gotham/The Yegg Foes in Gotham - Egghead uses laughing gas on the dynamic duo which they counter with sad pills. You do wonder how this series would have been if they were more serious in approach but we take what we can get. It is amusing.
MCCLOUD - This Must Be The Alamo ---During a heatwave, Clifford has to manage a desk at police headquarters and leaves Broadhurst in charge. But various problems from a found baby to a mafia hit man posing as a lawyer plague the precinct.
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: You mean that, sir?
Chief Peter B. Clifford: You know any sane person who's making jokes in this heat?
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Only McCloud...
Chief Peter B. Clifford: I said 'sane person'.
Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 26, 2024 15:32:29 GMT
I've been watching what episodes I can find of "Burke's Law" and "Honey West" on Youtube. Most of the Honey eps are available but there are only few of the Burkes Law/Amos Burke Secret Agent episodes on there. It's a shame because all of "Burke's Law" used to be on Youtube. The sequel series of "Burke's Law" from the 80's has quite a few eps on Youtube but I haven't watched any of those yet.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Mar 27, 2024 14:54:39 GMT
Call The Midwife and Young Sheldon, I'm hoping for another season of Dark Winds
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 30, 2024 6:10:38 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Heir Apparent -- I liked how Rollin removes his disguise without anyone noticing that he does it.
KOJAK - Mojo -- The poor man's Clint Eastwood, Ed Lauter, steals some morphine to sell back to the company boss (who it turns out--is in on the heist). Kojak poses as a chemist to get close to the thieves so he can use his amazing hearing to know where the hideout is. He gives a suspect a lollipop. Stavros gets a plant "Sam" to keep his other plant "Shirley" company. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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