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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 29, 2024 6:30:18 GMT
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Avaricious Actuary- Tongue twister title for a story that fits strongly into the classic "James Bond in the Old West" theme of the series--involving a super weapon that is basically a giant tuning fork. Due to an injury Ross Martin was subbed by someone else during a disguise scene which is kind of jarring.
MANNIX - The Crime that Wasn't - Two couples witness a murder and are under threat by a mobster. Joe gets involved and has to break through the wall of silence--which he does with some help from ... Jacqueline Susann!
CANNON- Trial By Terror -- Frank is hired to find the daughter of a judge being blackmailed into throwing a case. At one point he goes to a woman comic book artist who has some characters named "Captain Great" and Abar (looks like Conan with a cape). Frank says he has hope one day he will wake up and look like Captain America.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 30, 2024 6:12:44 GMT
IRONSIDE -The Machismo Bag -- rather dramatic story about a Mexican revolutionary (A Martinez)who wants to be martyred for his political cause and despises his soldier father (Vito Scotti who I usually associate with comedy parts). Mark Sanger as usual is the one who starts the ball rolling being called an Uncle Tom and taunted by the activists. Can the Chief prevent a race war from breaking out?
He only has 48 minutes to do it!
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 6, 2024 6:17:49 GMT
MAN IN A SUITCASE - Man From the Dead -- Never heard of this show before. This is the pilot. I'll check out a couple more episodes.
SARGE - Quicksilver -- Japanese Catholic kills himself the samurai way which is strange and looks like a murder disguised as a suicide. There's a scene that could also be from a Naked Gun film where Sarge has to fight someone in the church while a sermon for deaf parishioners is being carried out.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - The Dexter Crisis - Jim goes to Las Vegas to find someone who ran off with $300 000 while hounded by a rival investigator who broke his nose once and he didn't get pay back ("I had the flu--was off my game."). He is reluctant to hit the guy but then finally does.
"There's a reason I didn't do that before: I think I broke my hand!"
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 7, 2024 6:51:53 GMT
SHAFT - The Killing -After an ex-girlfriend is beaten up by a pimp (Michael Pataki), Shaft gets framed for his murder. Albert Popwell appears briefly as a rival pimp (and would be seen more prominently a few months later in Magnum Force). Someone who falls out of a building to the street lands on a very visible air bag. There's an odd scene where Shaft finds a bag of white powder in an apartment belonging to the deceased pimp. Plaster of Paris. It is never explained why the pimp would have a small bag of plaster of Paris. We assume that Standards and Practices wouldn't let them identify it as cocaine.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jul 9, 2024 20:30:45 GMT
Finished season 2 of "The Wild Wild West"
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 13, 2024 6:57:41 GMT
The Wild Wild West -"The Night of Miguelito's Revenge"
Harry O - Forty Reasons To Kill- two parter in which he has to find out why a hippie was killed before he gets shot for a murder frame and being a fugitive (again).
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 14, 2024 6:37:18 GMT
IRONSIDE - Programmed For Danger - Someone is attacking blonde women who signed up for a computer dating service. Officer Whitfield goes undercover to expose the culprit. Those 1960s computers with the punch cards seem so weird and quaint now. Plus the attacker has an audio cassette recorder which is treated like a super fancy hi tech piece of sound equipment.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 20, 2024 6:33:17 GMT
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Numbers Game -- general plans to overthrow a government but he has some illness and Leonard Nimoy sticks an inflatable Torin Thatcher in a bed and fools the real one with a makebelieve nuclear war. Lee Meriwether is the guest agent.
MANNIX- The Nowhere Victim - Someone is hit by a car but when he goes looking for more information learns it is a mafia boss who sneaked back in the country. Big shoot out with motorcycles at the end. Could have sworn I spotted Bruce Dern on a motorcycle.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 21, 2024 6:33:28 GMT
IRONSIDE -Five Miles High---the chief and his team are escorting a potential mafia witness on a plane and run into attempts to murder him. A Don Knotts movie plays during the flight.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 27, 2024 7:02:56 GMT
The Wild Wild West--the Night of the Camera -- Jim West has two agent replacements to deal with. He already has Jeremy Pyke(Charles Aidman) and now Pat Paulsen shows up as a clumsy agent who wants some field action.
Ironside -- L'Chayim --A couple of small time crooks steal a torah and can't fence it--leading to a ransom demand and a sequence where Mark and Ed are running along a beach to rescue it before the ocean washes it away. There's a subplot about some black kids who want to use a school at night so they aren't inclined to be out in the streets. Although Mark because an expert on torahs he can't beat the chief in scoring with a basketball.
Mannix - A Gathering of Ghosts-- Joe goes to a Nevada ghost town for a football team reunion which is as hokey as it gets--his former team members think an old team mate of theirs has gone homicidal because Joe scored the winning touch down instead of him decades ago. It helps that the cast is all familiar and expert at making the nonsense seem real-- Robert Webber, Marj Dusay, Diane Muldaur, and Charles Aidman too.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 3, 2024 6:40:37 GMT
The Invaders - The Enemy --Richard Anderson is a wounded invader found by a nurse just returned from Vietnam and she doesn't care that he is an alien until our architect friend turns up. Pretty dramatic episode---a good example where they use a character's trauma (having been in war and having relatives who died in wars) to explore the same kind of idea that Star Trek would do with the Borg (the one where the Borg drone is taken--forgot his name Hugh?). Can an invader develop compassion for humans? The other invaders we see have the little finger thing but he doesn't.
Petrocelli - Too Many Alibis---This time we get two scenes of Maggie without Tony around and there's also a scene where Pete is talking to someone. Another novelty--a woman persecutor - Susan "does she ever remind one of Vera Miles" Sullivan. In fact as the title suggests, everyone has an alibi except the one charged with the crime although the interesting twist is--there's no actual murderer.
Hunter - season 4 - Not Just Another John Doe --- I haven't been watching much of this--quite a jump from the first season and so different from 60s and 70s tv which is longer running time and more character-focused dialogue. You get more on the street location shooting (in this case, skid row) but I don't find it memorable compared to early decades. We get to see McCall without her raccoon makeup but they do let us get a closeup on her as she is undercover on skid row.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 4, 2024 6:53:42 GMT
CANNON- Murder by The Numbers -- Frank is hired by a woman from Switzerland (Jane Merrow) to find her missing (actually dead) husband. He goes to a marina where he knows the woman owner--and when he shows her the picture of the guy--she says she knows him--in fact, they were to be married in a week. Priceless expression on his face as she asks who hired him and he says "his wife." She actually helps him on the case to some extent almost like a partner (his "bird dog" as he calls her). At the end when he hugs the Swiss widow and says goodbye at the airport, he gets startled when he sees his bird dog watching from behind a gate! She just had to see the other woman even though the dead man was a conman.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Aug 7, 2024 21:55:35 GMT
Kung Fu Season 2 Episode 3 ‘The Chalice’.
A priest who is left for dead in the desert, after being robbed of a sacred golden chalice begs Caine to retrieve it from the bandits and return it to the missionary, so his soul will be saved since he had stolen it himself. Guest star William Smith is very memorable here, especially in the show’s climatic standoff with Carradine.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 10, 2024 6:21:45 GMT
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Pelican - a mission to Alcatraz island involving rockets launched from inside it (made me think of The Rock).
MANNIX - The Sound of Darkness---a bullet grazes his face and he goes blind! Joe has to learn to self-defense as a blind man would since a hit man is still after him. Pretty emotive episode even though you knew he would get his eyesight back--you still get caught up in it. Oddly though-he had the bandage over his cheek for the whole episode even though it was a very slight cut.
THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN - Target in the Sky -- Steve Austin goes to a logging camp to find out about a missing agent. One particularly cool scene is when someone tries to kill him with a chainsaw and he grabs the blade and bends it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 11, 2024 6:51:57 GMT
THE ROCKFORD FILES - Caldonia--It's Worth A Fortune! - Rockford is hired by a convict's wife to help her find a treasure in a small town guarded by a hostile local sheriff (is there any other kind, especially when Jim Rockford is involved?) while being pursued by ex-cons who want to find it too.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 17, 2024 6:18:39 GMT
STAR TREK : The Savage Curtain - Been a while since I watched this and the first time with the CGI. It wasn't distracting in this case. The cheapness of the last season shows through in parts--I didn't realize how economical the introduction of the 4 evil combatants was. They just walk in from the side. The guy playing Genghis Khan seemed rather anonymous. Think they could have found someone with more of an acting history but that would cost money. Also, it was silly that Spock had trouble fighting him--aren't vulcans supposed to be strong--even half-human ones? This episode was rated one of the worst but I still have fondness for it. "Help meee Kirk." MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Mercenaries - This had a neat sequence where they steal a room full of gold bars by melting them. BARNABY JONES - Requiem For A Son - A Quinn Martin Production. Don't recall watching this series much at all but the theme song is familiar. And the special guest star for this premiere episode is Frank Cannon! A crossover--it was weird to hear Cannon driving around to the Barnaby Jones theme.
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 17, 2024 15:48:04 GMT
STAR TREK : The Savage Curtain - Been a while since I watched this and the first time with the CGI. It wasn't distracting in this case. The cheapness of the last season shows through in parts--I didn't realize how economical the introduction of the 4 evil combatants was. They just walk in from the side. The guy playing Genghis Khan seemed rather anonymous. Think they could have found someone with more of an acting history but that would cost money. Also, it was silly that Spock had trouble fighting him--aren't vulcans supposed to be strong--even half-human ones? This episode was rated one of the worst but I still have fondness for it. "Help meee Kirk." Personally, when it comes to the worst Season 3 episodes, I think of "And the Children Shall Lead", "Plato's Stepchildren" (culturally significant but creatively bankrupt), "The Empath", and maybe "The Way to Eden". I find the first three in particular to be chores to sit through. Although I could also mention the infamous "Spock's Brain", I find that episode entertaining despite the silliness. As for "The Savage Curtain", I have fondness for it too. If nothing else TSC is significant to Star Trek lore. The episode marks the first appearances of both Surak, the father of Vulcan civilization and " Kahless the Unforgettable, the Klingon who set the pattern for his planet's tyrannies." Both "founding fathers" would appear in later Star Trek series. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 17, 2024 16:36:57 GMT
and maybe "The Way to Eden". 'Herbert! Herbert!" |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 18, 2024 19:38:14 GMT
Watched a pilot for a tv series MANHUNTER--a Quinn Martin production about a 1930s army veteran (Ken Howard) who goes around making money for his parents' farm by catching wanted bank robbers. In the pilot he tracks down a Bonnie and Clyde gang (Gary Lockwood, Stephanie Powers, James Olson, LQ Jones).
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 24, 2024 6:12:16 GMT
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Janus--A visit to a Secret Service academy (which has its own version of Q). We see how they train agents using chalk bullets. Kind of neat.
MANNIX - Need of a Friend - went back to season 2. Peggy the secretary is less friendly to her boss in these early ones--she calls him Mr. Mannix or Mannix. Interestingly she says to him at one point "as they say in Tv Land, have a nice weekend Mr. Mannix." I hope TV Land used that in their advertising.
CANNON - Valley of the Damned --Leslie Nielsen working for a charity tied to the bureau of Indian Affairs, hires Cannon to help a worker suspected of a murder. Rare to see him in a good guy part. Jay Silverheels is an apple "red on the outside, white on the inside," a shady employment agency owner getting workers for a heroin growing operation run by...Leslie Nielsen!
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