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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2018 15:34:12 GMT
re: decades. They seem to play a few of one show and a few of another rather on a whim... the current theme being "lost programs". Unfortunately I didn't read the schedule and so seem to have missed the Karloff programs. Forgive the Totally Off-Topic suggestion but ... For a GREAT Karloff viewing experience : THIS IS YOUR LIFE: Boris Karloff. It's on ewe-tube and one of the best of the series (some of the episodes seem to be torture for the guest of honor but Karloff seemed to be having a ball ! 'scuse me for pushing into this convo Doghouse6 Nalkarj Going back to my corner and being quiet now
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 16, 2018 20:26:03 GMT
There is an episode of 'The Glades'. Season 3 Epsode 8 titled 'Fountain of Youth' with that type of plot.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 16, 2018 20:27:26 GMT
There is an episode of 'The Glades'. Season 3 Epsode 8 titled 'Fountain of Youth' with that type of plot. Thanks, but I’ve never seen that show.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 21, 2018 19:31:40 GMT
Flying blind here...
A Deadly State of Mind 1975, with George Hamilton, who was somewhere else, when a hypnoticed suicide occured, or something like that.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 2, 2018 2:18:39 GMT
Well, I just got word back from the owner of the Columbo fan site, and she doesn’t recognize it, so… What? I don’t think I made it up out of whole cloth, so is it from some other show? Or did I conflate two different Columbos? Hmm..
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 2, 2018 3:23:57 GMT
Looks like we're all just going to have to sit down and watch all 68 episodes and take copious notes .... and just one more thing ... Nalkarj
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 5, 2018 2:04:51 GMT
The Office of Strange Science, perhaps? We've lately been seeing episodes of the British-produced Karloff series of the '50s, Colonel March Of Scotland Yard (which I'd never seen), based on your old avatar's The Department of Queer Complaints stories. Cursory but brisk and good-natured, and although Karloff seems to be phoning it in some of the time, it benefits greatly from his charm. I was recently able to take a look at “The New Invisible Man,” which was the first story in The Department of Queer Complaints but the penultimate episode of the TV series. It’s probably the best one I’ve seen—the acting’s better than usual, and Karloff’s dialogue is more cynical than usual—which also seems to extract a slightly better performance. The plot in the show is easier to solve than the one in the book, but it’s a really good little episode. Patricia Owens is in it as a villainess (though she was the heroine in the original story), and she’s a peach here. Looking over the episode list, it’s curious how few Colonel March episodes are actually based on Carr’s book—I only count 6 (“The New Invisible Man,” “The Invisible Knife,” “The Silver Curtain,” “Error at Daybreak,” “Hot Money,” “Death in the Dressing Room”) of 26 episodes that are actually derived from Carr stories.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 5, 2018 14:37:30 GMT
I was recently able to take a look at “The New Invisible Man,” which was the first story in The Department of Queer Complaints but the penultimate episode of the TV series. It’s probably the best one I’ve seen—the acting’s better than usual, and Karloff’s dialogue is more cynical than usual—which also seems to extract a slightly better performance. The plot in the show is easier to solve than the one in the book, but it’s a really good little episode. It looks as though Decades is working their way through all the episodes; that one's due to get snagged on the DVR in a day or two. We've been watching one or two a week. In addition to its X-Files antecedence, it also has precursory elements of another British show, Jonathan Creek, which began in the late-'90s and featured "unsolvable" crimes cracked by a designer of elaborate stage magicians' tricks. Lots of fun.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 5, 2018 16:13:17 GMT
I was recently able to take a look at “The New Invisible Man,” which was the first story in The Department of Queer Complaints but the penultimate episode of the TV series. It’s probably the best one I’ve seen—the acting’s better than usual, and Karloff’s dialogue is more cynical than usual—which also seems to extract a slightly better performance. The plot in the show is easier to solve than the one in the book, but it’s a really good little episode. It looks as though Decades is working their way through all the episodes; that one's due to get snagged on the DVR in a day or two. We've been watching one or two a week. In addition to its X-Files antecedence, it also has precursory elements of another British show, Jonathan Creek, which began in the late-'90s and featured "unsolvable" crimes cracked by a designer of elaborate stage magicians' tricks. Lots of fun. Sorry for the unspoiled spoiler, then, but it doesn’t actually reveal all that much! I’m a great fan of Jonathan Creek, though sometimes the characters get on my nerves—and the dialogue is really “off” in the later seasons. But the early episodes are excellent.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 5, 2018 16:22:56 GMT
It looks as though Decades is working their way through all the episodes; that one's due to get snagged on the DVR in a day or two. We've been watching one or two a week. In addition to its X-Files antecedence, it also has precursory elements of another British show, Jonathan Creek, which began in the late-'90s and featured "unsolvable" crimes cracked by a designer of elaborate stage magicians' tricks. Lots of fun. Sorry for the unspoiled spoiler, then, but it doesn’t actually reveal all that much! Oh, no worries. My memory's rubbish these days, so by the time we see it...well, you know. When I checked it on, ahem, that other site, I was surprised to see it ran from '97 to '16, yet only five seasons. Must've been sporadic. I'm pretty sure all the episodes we saw were early ones.
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Post by lollipop on Apr 9, 2018 20:01:12 GMT
Sounds similar to an episode of Murder, She Wrote called "Terminal Connection."
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 9, 2018 20:15:01 GMT
Thanks, lollipop. That is a show I’ve seen, though I haven’t seen many of the ‘90s episodes… Nevertheless, I’ll check it out!
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 9, 2018 20:23:12 GMT
I found “Terminal Connection” on a site called Dailymotion, and it doesn’t look like the one. Many thanks, though, lollipop.
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Post by Lynx on Apr 26, 2018 22:52:25 GMT
I found “Terminal Connection” on a site called Dailymotion, and it doesn’t look like the one. Many thanks, though, lollipop . ....and no, you're not going crazy because I remember that plot / story as well.....and it's driving me nuts. If I come across it, I'll let you know.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 26, 2018 23:09:43 GMT
I found “Terminal Connection” on a site called Dailymotion, and it doesn’t look like the one. Many thanks, though, lollipop . ....and no, you're not going crazy because I remember that plot / story as well.....and it's driving me nuts. If I come across it, I'll let you know. Thank God. I’m not going crazy! It’s from something, somewhere…unless we’re all in a Mandela Effect-esque scenario!
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 27, 2018 0:42:30 GMT
I totally remember that plot,too, Salzmank. I read all of the episode descriptions of McMillan and Wife thinking it may have been on that show. The truth is out there.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 27, 2018 0:50:50 GMT
Lynx, jervistetchOK, now this is getting to sound like that creepy “ Candle Cove” Reddit story, but is there anything else you guys specifically remember about it? I have a few more recollections, but I don’t want to bias your memories.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 27, 2018 0:59:40 GMT
I feel like I remember a detective/police investigator at an airport actually looking through a book where flight schedules had been recorded and visibly noticing that it had been altered.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 27, 2018 1:02:23 GMT
I feel like I remember a detective/police investigator at an airport actually looking through a book where flight schedules had been recorded and visibly noticing that it had been altered. That’s it—that’s exactly what I remember, which is why I thought I’d ask. OK, whew. I think the investigator also talked to an airport employee, noticed something—like the time had been erased and another time written in. Wow. OK, this is something.
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Post by jervistetch on Apr 27, 2018 1:07:17 GMT
Yes! The times had been handwritten which I guess was the way you had to do it back then.
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