I'm watching Hill Street Blues too. I'm on the second season. It still holds up pretty well. Some of the Howard Hunter slapstick is a little off putting for the show. Likewise I think most of the audience accepted Sgt. Belker as a wirey undersized supercop, but the actual growling never made any sense.
Card Sharks. Free with Amazon Prime. Bunch of funny old ads for Polaroid cameras, Sears, etc. About a week ago I completed Deal Or No Deal. None left. Strange how the very last show was just a regular show with no mention of it being the last one or anything. Either that or they lost the last show.
I wouldn't think of a game show as having a finale- I could see them having an episode if it's the final episode of a host (let's say Bob Barker on 'The Price is Right' before it switched hands), but a farewell final game show episode? I suppose it's possible, but I don't think it's ever happened?
Jim Perry, Bob Eubanks or the other one? I thought Perry was the best host but you could win a lot more money when Eubanks took over.
Yeah I watched a bunch of episodes of "I've Got A Secret" downloaded to my phone over the weekend on a long flight. I love to see those old commercials in addition to the show itself. Will look for old Card Sharks and some others when time allows.
We started HBO’s Rome last night. I haven’t seen it since it aired. The story and set design is good, but the soft porn aspect is pretty silly. Perhaps this was one of HBO’s early attempts at crossing that Rubicon? (Pun intended).
I've been watching Night Gallery on blu-ray, through my local library. Oof. The pilot is decent, with one great segment directed by a young Stephen Spielberg (it was one of his first directing jobs, if not his first). Past that... the show is rough. There are some good segments throughout, but the majority range from mediocre to truly dire (the one with the moon exploration is so abysmal I can't believe it was ever accepted for filming - and Rod Serling scripted it).
Was looking at some tv shows Kathleen Crowley was on and the list was fun Bat Masterson Bronco Hawaiian Eye Hour of Stars Laramie Star Stage Surfside 6 The Adventures of Champion The Bravo Duke The Deputy The Restless Gun Waterfront
Are you talking about the one with the mouse or rat? I haven't seen that one since the '70s but I remember that part.
That one. I think it's a mouse. The segment only exists to work with the old joke that the moon is made out of cheese. Just awful.
Star Trek The Original Series - Season 1 Never watched them properly like this before, they used to be on TV in the 80s when I'd occasionally see them. Going right back to the start - pre-Scotty! - is fascinating. EG.
The original pilot 'The Cage' for Star Trek (pre-Shatner and most others) is something I can get quite obsessed with... and every time something 'new' surfaces connected to it I get weird for it again! Besides initially seeing the trial of Spock two-parter where they folded in a lot of the pilot, I remember they showed it in B&W in the '80s once with Gene Roddenberry commenting on it, then it came out on DVD with a full color print on top of the B&W with intros version, plus there was a making of book from the '60s I found that had quite a lot on it, and then there was a Marvel comic series with the original crew in mostly new stories, plus later a short IDW comic series on the original Majel Barrett 'Number One' (the same people also did a series of Assignment Earth with Gary Seven). Every time I think I'm over it something else will show up like a magazine article... it's like the original King Kong or that Stu Sutcliffe era Beatles. The landing party led by Captain Pike, note lack of red shirts.
"The Cage" aired on TV in the 1980s for the first time. This is the one with an intro and outro by Gene Roddenberry explaining how the film came about. At that time, the only full version known was Gene's black & white print. The creators of THIS televised version intercut Gene's black & white footage with the color footage that survived from "The Menagerie" two-parter. It was then issued on videotape and numbered Episode #99. Shortly thereafter, the stuff that was in black & white was found in color and the episode was once again re-edited to show it in full color. The problem here was that the found color footage had no sound, so the scratchy sound from the black & white footage had to be melded with the cleaner color footage. This film was released to home video as Episode #00.
In a Sanford and Son episode called "The Over the Hill Gag", Keene Curtis guest starred as a doctor who accidentally convinced Lamont that his father is dying. In a Three's Company episode called "Chrissy's Hospitality", Keene Curtis guest starred as a doctor who accidentally convinced Jack and Janet that Chrissy is dying. They not only recycled scripts in the 70s but they even recycled guest stars!
