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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 25, 2024 6:56:16 GMT
IRONSIDE - An Obvious Case of Guilt -- Anne Baxter is an old friend of the Chief who is accused of murdering her husband and he doesn't believe it despite his staff being convinced. of it. After he proves her innocence, then he starts to have doubts. Good dialogue in this.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Execution --in order to bust a food monopoly gangster, Jim Phelps poses as a target who gets killed by a hit man (Luke Askew). They place him in a fake death house with Martin Landau as a fellow condemned inmate--he does a really good job looking horrified as he is taken to the gas chamber--in order to get him to confess.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 28, 2024 16:39:15 GMT
Finished season 3 of "The Wild Wild West" and watched all the episodes of "It Takes a Thief" that I could find on youtube.
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 31, 2024 6:51:55 GMT
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - Pilot - 11 Days To Zero -- Been a long time since I watched this show. One bit of future tech prediction: the use of weaponized drones! They refer to unmanned aircraft as drones.
BARNABY JONES - To Catch a Dead Man --William Shatner fakes his death so he can go flyfishing but he can't out-wrestle Buddy Ebsen for a hand gun. If only it was a phaser.
Speaking of phasers,
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE- Past Tense 1-2 - Been a long time since I watched an episode of this show but had to check it out since Sisko, Bashir, and Dax end up in the past--August 30, 2024 to be precise. Some of the things they get very wrong--and the irony is so thick you can cut it with a Klingon ceremonial sword. There is so much irony and naivete looking at it now--especially at the end when Bashir asks Sisko how they could let things get so bad. If only they knew. Still, there are some things that are so right--for example, Dax's neck markings were easily explained as tattoos and no one is shocked.
I was reminded how good the casting was on this series--I think it was the best of the post TOS casting. But it isn't a show I want to revisit because despite a strong start to the episode--it gets into the technobabble---oh how I did not miss the technobabble. The tachyions and the time bubbles and the polarity of the transporter...and the particles...and the particles. blah blah blah. I give credit to Colm Meaney and Nana Visitor that they could keep a straight face when spouting that nonsense. But it was an amusing return to the past or present!
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 31, 2024 17:33:16 GMT
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA - Pilot - 11 Days To Zero -- Been a long time since I watched this show. One bit of future tech prediction: the use of weaponized drones! They refer to unmanned aircraft as drones. I never saw the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea until it was released on DVD (in two parts) in 2006. The first part includes two versions of "Eleven Days to Zero". The pilot was shot in color, but aired in black and white. Which version did you see? For the DVD release, they didn't have color opening credits for the pilot, so they edited in the second season credits. This produced a blooper of sorts, as the Flying Sub bay doors (added to the model for season two) were visible in the pilot credits.   I thought the black and white first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was very good. Almost all the Classic Episodes listed on vttbots.com come from the first season. One of those, "Submarine Sunk Here", is my favorite episode of the series. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 31, 2024 18:12:18 GMT
I never saw the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea until it was released on DVD (in two parts) in 2006. The first part includes two versions of "Eleven Days to Zero". The pilot was shot in color, but aired in black and white. Which version did you see? In color. That's weird isn't it? Why was it shot in color if the show was in black and white?
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 31, 2024 18:54:40 GMT
I never saw the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea until it was released on DVD (in two parts) in 2006. The first part includes two versions of "Eleven Days to Zero". The pilot was shot in color, but aired in black and white. Which version did you see? In color. That's weird isn't it? Why was it shot in color if the show was in black and white? It was only in black and white for the first season. It switched to color for the second season. Irwin Allen must have hoped the transition to color would happen sooner than it actually did. Also, shooting the pilot in color made it possible for him to reuse pilot scenes as stock footage in the later color episodes - which he did do. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 31, 2024 19:48:30 GMT
It was only in black and white for the first season. It switched to color for the second season. Irwin Allen must have hoped the transition to color would happen sooner than it actually did. Also, shooting the pilot in color made it possible for him to reuse pilot scenes as stock footage in the later color episodes - which he did do. I had assumed they used footage from the feature film for it. Maybe the submarine was a bit different in that.
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Post by alpha128 on Aug 31, 2024 20:45:12 GMT
It was only in black and white for the first season. It switched to color for the second season. Irwin Allen must have hoped the transition to color would happen sooner than it actually did. Also, shooting the pilot in color made it possible for him to reuse pilot scenes as stock footage in the later color episodes - which he did do. I had assumed they used footage from the feature film for it. Maybe the submarine was a bit different in that. The submarine was the same in the feature film and the first season. But other scenes from the pilot were reused in color episodes. Perhaps the most egregious example was in Season Two's "The X Factor": |
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 31, 2024 23:37:26 GMT
I was surprised there was no Barbara Eden type dancing on the ship.
Also, the shadowy guy running the enemy group seemed like someone I remember from a WWW episode.
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Post by alpha128 on Sept 1, 2024 0:02:26 GMT
I was surprised there was no Barbara Eden type dancing on the ship. Not surprising once you know the following: Also, the shadowy guy running the enemy group seemed like someone I remember from a WWW episode.
Perhaps Zachariah Skull (Lloyd Bochner) from The Night of the Puppeteer?  By the way, Dr. Gamma was played by two actors. They actually kinda got away with it, since both of them were bald and were kept in the shadows. |
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Post by vrkalak on Sept 1, 2024 1:17:59 GMT
Puppeteer is a great West episode.
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Post by alpha128 on Sept 1, 2024 2:38:58 GMT
Puppeteer is a great West episode. Indeed. It's on your top episode list and mine. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 1, 2024 3:01:20 GMT
Perhaps Zachariah Skull (Lloyd Bochner) from The Night of the Puppeteer? By the way, Dr. Gamma was played by two actors. They actually kinda got away with it, since both of them were bald and were kept in the shadows. I thought it was Gavin MacLeod at first
the bad guy is Big Chicken! But he reminds me of someone else in the WWW show
I wondered it they switched the guy mid way
it looked like it
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 1, 2024 7:04:58 GMT
IRONSIDE - Beyond A Shadow -- The Chief seeks to help a woman who beat a murder conviction but was still under suspicion. Mort Sahl is a nosy tv reporter who hounds Ironside to distraction. One funny scene: The Chief calls up his staff to get them to do something for him at 2 am--Eve is in bed and has to get up. Ed is in a car driving and he says "I'll get on it first thing in the morning." There's a pause and then he says with a frown before hanging up: "ok I will be there in 20 minutes." The camera pans to the passenger side where there's a woman giving him a withering look.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 7, 2024 6:35:17 GMT
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Winged Terror Part 1-2 - Was only going to watch the first part but decided to do both at once. Finally got to see who the big head villain was after seeing his picture decades ago in Famous Monsters.
MANNIX - Night Out of Time -- dimwit son of grouchy aviator tycoon has no memory of the night before but begins to think he killed his girlfriend (listed as Janaire in the end credits--no last name. I am assuming she some kind of singer or model known at the time or she was trying to stand out to be remembered---if so it didn't work, then again I remembered her name after watching it so...).
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 8, 2024 7:04:22 GMT
TOMA- The Big Dealers - -Detective Tony Musante investigating drug pushers while dealing with a nephew junkie. only see one other episode of this and it is rather gritty compared to Baretta, which it eventually turned into. Hard to imagine that Jim Rockford was meant to be introduced in this show given how dark it is compared to that one.
THE ROCKFORD FILES - Roundabout - He has to find a woman who was left $10 000 as an inheritance but when they go to open a bank account for her, discover she has $300 000 in one already. I sometimes wish the shows were longer---they wrap up so fast and your hooked into it for more scenes.
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 14, 2024 6:18:46 GMT
BARNABY JONES - Sunday: Doomsday - An ex-con (Gary Lockwood) plots to kill Barnaby and sets a trap to get him at his horse ranch. This killer sure is mean--he kills Barnaby's dog!
PETROCELLI - A Deadly Vow---woman comes to Tony to ask what happens legally when someone commits a murder. Before she leaves, he asks her why she wants to know--and she tells him --she is going to kill her husband. Soon she is charged with it and asks Tony to help her. He and Pete also take up stockcar racing.
KOLCHAK - THE NIGHT STALKER - The Ripper - Not particularly fond of this one--Jack isn't too spooky when we finally see him--but better episodes are soon to follow. Series premiered on Friday the 13th 50 years ago.
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Post by alpha128 on Sept 14, 2024 15:19:26 GMT
KOLCHAK - THE NIGHT STALKER - The Ripper - Not particularly fond of this one--Jack isn't too spooky when we finally see him--but better episodes are soon to follow. Series premiered on Friday the 13th 50 years ago. I got this series on DVD last Christmas. I think I've watched the first four episodes. Thanks for the reminder I need to return to it. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 14, 2024 16:27:56 GMT
I got this series on DVD last Christmas. I think I've watched the first four episodes. Thanks for the reminder I need to return to it. It's not as good as the first two movies but it has some good episodes in terms of scares and humor. It feels more like a sitcom. It's too bad they didn't do them like Columbo or one of the other shows where they had 80 minutes running time. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 15, 2024 7:03:31 GMT
KOJAK - The Chinatown Murders - Season 2 starts with him getting a partner of sorts (Roger Robinson from NEWMAN'S LAW and he seems like a fifth wheel--Crocker and Stavros likely would have had his lines normally but it is a 2 part story). They are investigating a series of robberies and kidnappings traced to three Chinese hoodlums who want to shake down the mafia. Premiered 50 years ago today. Columbo also started its 4th season the same night.
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