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Post by vrkalak on Mar 30, 2020 23:26:53 GMT
Great name for a painting episode, Surreal McCoy. 😎. Very good Loveless episode.
Not as crazy about Deadly Bubble.
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Post by alpha128 on Mar 31, 2020 0:27:14 GMT
Great name for a painting episode, Surreal McCoy. 😎. Very good Loveless episode. Great finale for the episode too, with the Doctor escaping into a painting of a sawmill, and then sawing his way out of the wooden crate surrounding the painting!
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 1, 2020 23:32:56 GMT
The Night of the Colonel's GhostThis episode, first broadcast on March 10 1967, is an early example of what the " Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" TV Series would turn into a trope just two years later. Just like a typical "Scooby" episode, "Colonel's Ghost" revolves around a villain who tries to scare everyone away, so he can search for a hidden treasure without interference. Some thoughts: - Jim ties his horse to a pillar at 3:11. But when he goes back to it at 5:26, the horse is no longer tied to the pillar.
- At 7:21 Kathie Browne first appears as Jennifer Caine. Browne was also in Season 1's "The Night of the Human Trigger", playing another character with two rambunctious and not terribly bright brothers.
- At 8:38, violence against parrots! But at 8:46, the parrot is shown perched on a curtain rod, even though we never see the bird leave its cage. Maybe, like Jim's horse, he's an escape artist!
- At 21:07, Artie is working on a wooden model that he calls a "land-crawler". Artie acts like this is new technology, despite the similarity to the "turtle" from "The Night of the Freebooters".
- At 21:31, Artie enters a room in the train I don't think we've seen before. On the left there is a vanity with a marble countertop, sink and water pump. On the right is a lab.
- There's a weird time discrepancy in this episode. At 20:55, Jim tells Jennifer to get her brother Burt to assemble everyone the hotel lobby "at 4 o'clock this afternoon." But at 25:21, once everyone is there, Jim greets them by saying "Good morning citizens." To which Jennifer replies, "Good morning, Mr. West."
- At 33:01, I found it amusing that the parrot says to the disguised Artie, "Fraud! Fraud!"
- There's yet another de-bearding of Artie (disguised as President Grant) at 47:51.
- The episode ends rather abruptly, once the gold is found. One might expect a tag where the real President Grant finally arrives in Gibsonville, but there's no time for one. Colonel Wayne Gibson doesn't even get a chance to say, "And I would have gotten away with it too - if it wasn't for those meddling Secret Service agents!"
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 2, 2020 0:02:44 GMT
Does the hotel lobby look familiar on Colonels Ghost?
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 2, 2020 0:03:59 GMT
Does the hotel lobby look familiar on Colonels Ghost? Maybe. Where have we seen it before?
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 2, 2020 0:06:52 GMT
Does the hotel lobby look familiar on Colonels Ghost? Maybe. Where have we seen it before? Several episodes of West and also in the house where the mad scientist took the castaways from Gilligan's Island.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 2, 2020 2:26:42 GMT
Several episodes of West and also in the house where the mad scientist took the castaways from Gilligan's Island. Is that the one where the castaways change their brains so the Skipper talks like Mary Ann?
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 2, 2020 11:06:37 GMT
Several episodes of West and also in the house where the mad scientist took the castaways from Gilligan's Island. Is that the one where the castaways change their brains so the Skipper talks like Mary Ann? You got it.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 7, 2020 12:22:41 GMT
"The Night of the Deadly Blossom" written by Daniel Mainwaring In many ways a very Bondian episode. In this one Jim teams up with an beautiful Imperial Japanese agent. Bond would later team up with a beautiful Russian agent in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and a beautiful Chinese agent in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). The Wild Wild West was always a formulaic series, repeating the same four elements in practically every episode. But this episode is notable for being remade later in the series, half of it anyway, more on that later. Some thoughts: - At 7:44, the State Department official exits the parlor out the back door. Did he park his horse in the stable car?
- At 19:54 Jim fights a group of thugs hand to hand. Later, at 20:12, Barclay shoots one of them (with a blank cartridge), and the rest scatter. But what happened to Jim's guns?
- At 26:31 Barclay mentions Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and The Pendulum". That story, first published in 1842, would be thirty years old in this episode's setting.
- At 39:54, Barclay and his men appear in uniforms/protective suits reminiscent of Dr. No and his men. And just like Bond in Dr. No (1962), Artie takes out a henchman and steals his suit.
- Finally, just like in Dr. No (1962), the villain's headquarters explodes at the end.
And this brings me to "The Night of the Pelican" written by Richard Landau. The first half of that fourth season episode bears little resemblance to "The Night of the Deadly Blossom". But the second half, starting at 26:10, is practically a remake of that earlier episode. Consider these similarities: - Artie/Jeremy goes to the docks disguised as a stevedore.
- He finds large crates with fraudulent captions (Art Objects/Uniforms), that actually contain rockets, and stows away in one.
- The Chinese villain makes mention that his people have been using rockets for centuries.
- Artie/Jeremy knocks out a guard and steals his uniform.
- The villain plans to sink ship(s) with the rockets.
- One rocket is fired and comes near/hits a ship
- The bunker the rockets are fired from blows up.
There is one difference though, in "Pelican" the villain escapes instead of dying in the bunker explosion. Even so, if I were Mainwaring, I would have a word or two with Bruce Lansbury about Landau's script.
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 7, 2020 19:44:55 GMT
Clint Cartwheel, actor/athlete Timmy Brown passes away.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 7, 2020 23:23:57 GMT
Clint Cartwheel, actor/athlete Timmy Brown passes away. R.I.P.
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 8, 2020 14:35:54 GMT
Maybe next time, fella.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 8, 2020 22:51:19 GMT
"The Night of the Cadre"A solid but not spectacular episode. Some thoughts: - Around the 15:00 mark we get a rare behind the scenes look at Artie starting to don one of his many disguises.
- The crystals are franconium, apparently the same material featured in last season's "The Night of the Glowing Corpse".
- A gastastic climax at 45:10, as Artie uses his biggest gas bomb yet to knock-out the Cadre.
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 8, 2020 23:21:52 GMT
Second appearance in the series by Richard Jaeckel. Great jumping balls of St Elmo’s fire.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 11, 2020 0:12:44 GMT
"The Night of the Wolf"Yet another solid but not spectacular episode. Some thoughts: - I believe that at least one of the "wolves" in this episode is a German Shepherd, while another is a stuffed animal.
- When Artie and Jim join Leandra in the woods, the production crew suddenly make it appear that Artie's lantern is putting out A LOT of light.
- At 15:29 Artie hands Jim a piece of paper with VRKALAK written on it. We later learn that this word is used by Talamantes in his conditioning, compelling the subject to do Talamantes' will. I've noticed that whenever I see a post by vrkalak , I feel compelled to "like" it.
- Starting at 26:38 an outrageously fake giant spider crawls from right to left across the screen.
- At 35:37 Jim throws a bomb at a wolf and it completely goes up in smoke.
- At 37:47 Jim gallops past a pair of jet engine contrails.
- The stunt double for Talamantes is pretty bad. Not as bad as that spider, but that's not saying much.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 11, 2020 1:18:10 GMT
I need to get back to viewing them!
I need to finish Flash Gordon 1936 serial tonight. If I have time I will watch one after.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 11, 2020 7:57:37 GMT
I watched the third episode of the second season (NIGHT OF THE RAVEN). So, one thing I noticed is how Robert Conrad sometimes gets a really bright light shining on his eyes. An eye light I assume-but not used consistently. Also, Ross Martin makes a couple of what seems like anachronistic comments "fan club? Did they have such a term in those days?). The funny thing is that since I have not watched all of season one, and assuming that the show is more spy fy than sci-fy, when Loveless brings out the white powder and says West will go bad for the cure, I thought he was talking about cocaine! I figured his scheme was to get him addicted to drugs! And even after he was shrunk, I assumed it was a drug-induced illusion until Arty shows up at dinner! lol It seemed to me that Jim West was not particularly concerned about being tiny either. He must have seen the end of the script in advance.
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 11, 2020 15:31:13 GMT
I watched the third episode of the second season (NIGHT OF THE RAVEN). The funny thing is that since I have not watched all of season one, and assuming that the show is more spy fy than sci-fy, when Loveless brings out the white powder and says West will go bad for the cure, I thought he was talking about cocaine! I figured his scheme was to get him addicted to drugs! And even after he was shrunk, I assumed it was a drug-induced illusion until Arty shows up at dinner! lol It seemed to me that Jim West was not particularly concerned about being tiny either. He must have seen the end of the script in advance. You should know by now that Dr. Loveless always thinks big, even when he's thinking about making Jim small! As for Jim not being particularly concerned about being tiny, perhaps knowing if he stayed small he'd end up with the lovely Princess Wanakee (Phyllis Newman) softened the blow?
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Post by vrkalak on Apr 11, 2020 20:46:57 GMT
“Wolf” also has a young Jonathan Goldsmith, aka, the "Most Interesting Man in the World", Seems like in many of the “outdoor” scenes, they did some post-dubbing of the actors voices. The spider looked real to me. 😎
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Post by alpha128 on Apr 11, 2020 21:17:29 GMT
The spider looked real to me. 😎 It got the attention of Movie Mistakes:
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