vrkalak
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Post by vrkalak on Mar 30, 2024 13:22:48 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. Heir apparent is a very good episode. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2024 0:58:11 GMT
Heir apparent is a very good episode. Must have been a tough series to write for--because they have to get certain roles for all the characters.
One of my favorites is the one where Jim Phelps stumbles onto the enemy MI team in a town and has to use code to get Rollin Hand to understand he is in trouble and then the latter says something on the phone in code like "tell little Willy not to worry."
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2024 7:35:08 GMT
HEC RAMSEY - Only Birds and Fools-- A pair of inventors come to New Prospect to try out their aerial craft which intrigues Hec--so much so that he delays closing in on the killer of a rival inventor so he can see if it can fly. Good melodrama moments for what is the final episode of the series. Premiered 50 years ago.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 6, 2024 6:06:56 GMT
MANNIX - Who Will Dig The Graves? - Joe is hired by a dying millionaire to find his hippie singer wife who faked her death. He says he wants to reconcile--but actually just wants her found so he can kill her and Mannix. And he is not really dying and not really who he appears to be either. Dean Stanton guest stars and sings (just add Harry to the front).
CANNON - Murder By Proxy - Anne Francis is framed for murder and Frank has to figure out who did it.
KOJAK - Therapy By Dynamite --a mad bomber is loose--blowing up people at random it seems. Turns out he (Stephen Keats) is actually trying to help the people he is in group therapy with. Theo joins the group (he sure does not fit a therapy group session). What's interesting is that a woman in a troubled marriage learns that the guy killed a secretary because he thought she was having an affair with the woman's husband. But he killed the wrong one. So he sets another bomb--and after he is killed and they have to find the last bomb--and even though the police are on the case-the jilted wife still wants "the other woman" to blow up and tries to keep them from learning about it. Premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 7, 2024 7:55:19 GMT
IRONSIDE - Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells --- An asian girl shows up at the door and the Chief reveals she is his daughter. From his days reporting from Tokyo? No--it turns out she was a child he adopted by mail and had never met. And she was now there to ask his permission to marry. Boy has that not aged well. Her betrothed had to get some money from a loan shark in order to bring her over from Korea and he can't afford the interest. He goes to his boss (Dana Elcar) to get an advance on his salary but the boss says he can't risk it---as he tossed an envelope of money on his cluttered desk and then goes to answer the phone. He comes back and can't see the envelope. He then calls the cops to find the bridegroom.
Then Ironside goes to visit the guy and notices his desk is so messy--how could he be sure the employee took it. Elcar then demonstrates that he knows where everything is on his desk--and to his surprise--discovers the money under the mess. Embarrased--he says "do you know of a hole I can crawl into?"
and Ironside says "no but I do suggest you get a new filing system."
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 13, 2024 6:58:54 GMT
KOJAK- The Only Way Out - A lawyer is being held hostage and soon to be murdered in order to silence a mobster who is working with the Feds. It was silly because the lawyer could have done a few things to thwart the plan to murder him. Last show of the first season, premiered 50 years ago this week.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 14, 2024 7:18:09 GMT
MANNIX - The Edge of the Knife -- a surgeon's son is kidnapped and the price for getting him back is to kill someone on the operating table. Veronica Cartwright appears but has no on screen credit.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 15, 2024 1:15:16 GMT
MANNIX - The Edge of the Knife -- a surgeon's son is kidnapped and the price for getting him back is to kill someone on the operating table. Sounds like the original Hawaii Five-O's season three opener, " And A Time To Die...": "Wo Fat kidnaps a neurosurgeon's daughter to coerce the doctor to let a wounded undercover operative die during an operation." I see that the Mannix episode predates the Five-O episode by about two years. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 15, 2024 1:28:45 GMT
Sounds like the original Hawaii Five-O's season three opener, " And A Time To Die...": "Wo Fat kidnaps a neurosurgeon's daughter to coerce the doctor to let a wounded undercover operative die during an operation." I see that the Mannix episode predates the Five-O episode by about two years. Was Stephen Kandel the writer of that? I notice his name turning up a lot and in a commentary track of CANNON FOR CORDOBA they talked about his tv work.
Sometimes when I watch two or three shows randomly--I will see the same writer and notice the plots being similar.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 15, 2024 1:54:38 GMT
Sounds like the original Hawaii Five-O's season three opener, " And A Time To Die...": "Wo Fat kidnaps a neurosurgeon's daughter to coerce the doctor to let a wounded undercover operative die during an operation." I see that the Mannix episode predates the Five-O episode by about two years. Was Stephen Kandel the writer of that? I notice his name turning up a lot and in a commentary track of CANNON FOR CORDOBA they talked about his tv work. Sometimes when I watch two or three shows randomly--I will see the same writer and notice the plots being similar.
“And A Time To Die...” (S03E01) was written by Ken Pettus. But Stephen Kandel did write four Five-O episodes including “Beautiful Screamer” (S03E12), “The Defector” (S08E07), “Man On Fire” (S09E04) and “To Kill A Mind” (S09E20). The latter three all feature the cantankerous character of Dr. Grant Ormsbee (Pat Hingle). |
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Post by transfuged on Apr 15, 2024 2:35:36 GMT
I watched the end of Dr Who’season starring Matt Smith and the beginning of the season’s starring Mr Capaldi... Untill 2024 I never saw one single episode. Now, I get most of the hints in contemporary SC fi. AAnd I never liked fantasy, but this goes beyond. Charming.
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Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!
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Post by jean74 on Apr 20, 2024 3:10:53 GMT
Watched "Shark Tank" and "Dateline NBC!!"
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 20, 2024 7:02:54 GMT
The Wild Wild West -The Night of the Fugitives---Robert Conrad falls on his head--hard.
IRONSIDE - Love My Enemy - Joe Takagi kills Grasshopper's teacher in order to thwart a hostage exchange.
Tv-Movie - Paper Man-- College students get a credit card by computer error so they get nerd Dean Stockwell to help them keep the fraud going. But then they start to die off. Some creepy moments-- I assumed it was a college campus Forbin Project but opted for a different angle towards the end.
It was funny when Stockwell is fiddling with the computer and Stephanie Powers asks him what he is doing and he says "I am introducing myself to the computer. It is called logging in."
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Post by gspdude on Apr 25, 2024 15:32:47 GMT
Lost. Just finished rewatching season 5. The first 3 seasons are excellent, season 4 is good, but season 5, while still interesting, gets a bit confusing(even by lost standards) with all the time shifts. It does leave us with quite a cliff hanger though.
The Lost World. TV version of Professor Challenger's expedition to find a lost world that time forgot. I like it well enough after 3 episodes. The plots are fairly simple and predictable, but the dinosaurs are pretty good, and I like these type of shows. Surprised I missed it when it aired.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 27, 2024 6:41:44 GMT
MANNIX - A Question of Midnight---Not sure what the title refers to--I guess because it starts with a disgraced doctor having to help a patient at a late hour. He then gets put on trial for malpractice and Mannix is called in to find out what happened 2 years before that got him disgraced.
A cop fires a gun in the ceiling of a hospital to stop a fleeing doctor who is unarmed. That seemed a little excessive.
I got startled when Mannix walks across a wooden platform--as I watched--seen from a low angle--I thought--I wonder if it will collapse on him. It did.
CANNON - Night Flight to Murder - a pilot is killed and Cannon is hired to find some recovered money. John Vernon is suspicious from the start.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne - He is hired to trail an ex-con but she sees through his attempts to con her, and he gets conned a few times. It's actually like a comic version of the Maltese Falcon. A fake cop says "Are you going let us in? I don't like standing in the hallway."
And Rockford replies "then you shouldn't have joined the force."
This shows is always good for laughs.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 27, 2024 6:46:24 GMT
MANNIX - A Question of Midnight---Not sure what the title refers to--I guess because it starts with a disgraced doctor having to help a patient at a late hour. He then gets put on trial for malpractice and Mannix is called in to find out what happened 2 years before that got him disgraced.
A cop fires a gun in the ceiling of a hospital to stop a fleeing doctor who is unarmed. That seemed a little excessive.
I got startled when Mannix walks across a wooden platform--as I watched--seen from a low angle--I thought--I wonder if it will collapse on him. It did.
CANNON - Night Flight to Murder - a pilot is killed and Cannon is hired to find some recovered money. John Vernon is suspicious from the start.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne - He is hired to trail an ex-con but she sees through his attempts to con her, and he gets conned a few times. It's actually like a comic version of the Maltese Falcon. A fake cop says "Are you going let us in? I don't like standing in the hallway."
And Rockford replies "then you shouldn't have joined the force."
This shows is always good for laughs.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 28, 2024 7:06:03 GMT
IRONSIDE - Goodbye to Yesterday - In this 2 hour episode the Chief is called to help his former nurse (a woman who lost her memory and had a thing for him until her husband showed up). I haven't seen the episode in question--they show flashbacks of it. Now her daughter (Melody Thomas) is kidnapped and he is called in to handle the kidnapping. Ironside learns that she still has has the thing for him and her husband is willing to give her a divorce. That is, until she falls off a cliff while trying to make the money exchange.
You have to feel sorry for the Chief--she gets her memory back but loses all memory of him! On the other hand, seeing as she is played by Vera Miles, who was also the ex of Mannix and was the first case of Cannon, and got the last word on Columbo, maybe he is better off without her.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 4, 2024 5:54:49 GMT
IRONSIDE - Barbara Who? - Since I watched the sequel episode--wanted to see the first part where a nurse's aid (Vera Miles) who helped Ironside after his shooting injury (don't remember her in the pilot movie though) seeks his help after someone tries to kill her. She reveals that she has no memory of who she was before she met him and that she loves him (this seems very contrived--I am sure while the Chief wishes it was true--he realizes with her memory damaged it's an any port in the storm situation and using him as an emotional crutch). I assumed Slim Pickens was in the episode since he appears in the sequel but they added him--replacing a lesser known actor in the same part. I thought I spotted "Cindy Brady" as one of her children--sure enough, it was her.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Egyptian Queen - a ruby is stolen from an exhibit and Jim and Artie must find it to prevent the canceling of a royal wedding. As often happens, someone tries to slip Artie a mickey and he spots it in advance. Cute ending for the episode with the femme fatale who they feel pity for--and a surprise she has for them.
PETROCELLI - Face of Evil -- Kay Lenz is a waitress accused of murder. Her twin sister asks Tony to help her. But why do they never appear together? And finally--his truck gets towed for parking illegally.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 5, 2024 7:47:16 GMT
MANNIX- Penny For the Peep Show - strange title for an episode where a reluctant client tells him her uncle disappeared after leaving her with some documents and $300 000. But as they are speaking-three escaped convicts show up in the office and hold them hostage. When they find out about the money--they force her to hand it to them--but Joe and Peggy disarm two of them with a pepper shaker--and then learn after the money is burned in a car fire and the police arrive that the three were not convicts at all. What were the really after? No one seems too upset about the burning of $300 000.
COLUMBO - A Friend in Deed -- One of Columbo's toughest cases since the main suspect is his boss--the deputy commissioner of police (Richard Kiley). Also there are two murders and the first happens before the show begins (and the victim has no IMDB listing). Premiered 50 years ago today.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 11, 2024 6:03:50 GMT
THE INVADERS - Shadow of the Valley - An invader is shot in front of a group of people so David Vincent has finally convinced people about the aliens. Trouble is, the alien posing as a military guy is forced to call his boss (Ted Knight) who has to kill everyone in the town. David Vincent and the invaders actually are working together for once since they don't want to have so much attention brought to them so he has to find a way to convince the town the aliens are a hoax.
MANNIX- The Judas Touch --A rogue cop is wanted by Joe's friend (Robert Lansing) and he has to prove that he isn't crooked. The good girl believes he is good and the bad girl is shacking up with a crook. Suspicion falls on Lansing for half a second until you realize they wouldn't set up the guest star like that so some anonymous cop is shown to be the crook.
CANNON - Come Watch Me Die -- A rogue cop is wanted by Frank's friend (John Larch) and he has to prove that he isn't crooked. The good girl believes he is good and the bad girl is shacking up with a crook. I really wish Robert Lansing was in this so it would be a perfect match.
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