Recent content by Dan McW

In the Columbo Blu release thread, it is mentioned that VEI's McMillan & Wife releases include the Mancini theme and Mystery Movie opening on some episodes. I watched the whole series courtesy of VEI, but I think I had separate releases for seasons one and two and then bought the complete-series...

Agreed. There's no difference to me in burned vs. pressed. I've watched the whole run of The FBI and several other WB series, and I don't even know in most cases which kind of discs I had--they all played fine. Uncut episodes that play fine--that's really all I want.

I checked another copy of Mirage that I had, and it had about the same running time as the Blu. But this other copy had a teaser at the beginning featuring the Frank Puglia character and Colt, while the Blu did not.

I watched episode 13, "Mirage," and the run time was only 23:47 or so. The last couple of episodes before that had dropped to a little over 24:00, although one had the mid-episode bumper. Assuming these are uncut, I wonder if they originally had more commercial time than other half-hour shows of...

That reminds me of seeing the first Jurassic Park, in which everybody in the theater I'm sure (or maybe just me) was hoping the dinosaurs would eat the kids.

I believe the DVD set has the same edited episodes that Neal Brock mentioned aired on Encore Westerns. I posted somewhere on the HTF several months ago about seeing a Cimarron Strip episode on a streaming service that stated the run time was about 76 minutes, and thus uncut. But the commercial...

I watched episode 11 of season one, "The Gypsies," last night. It's the first to feature the new closing theme song. I'd kind of gotten used to the earlier theme, which is still heard in part at the beginning of episodes, but I think the new one with the lyrics will grow on me. I enjoy Warner's...

I probably fired off my comment a little hastily (and I apologize to the reviewers), but this statement by Josh is something I hadn't taken into consideration.

I've noticed with different HTF reviewers over the years that there has to be a hell of a lot of special features just to get even a 4, much less a 5, on the 5-point scale.

I need to upgrade this movie. I still have the 2001 MGM DVD of it that was issued in their old "Contemporary Classics" line. I remember liking the book by Eliot Asinof that the movie is based on. The book has several quotes from a Nelson Algren poem, "The Swede Was a Hard Guy," referring to one...

In episode 10 of Colt .45, "Rebellion," a character checks a hotel register looking for Christopher Colt's name. Colt's signature appears around the third from the bottom. Among the signatures above his is that of Clyde Howdy, a stuntman and actor who appeared on four Colt .45s and in several...

Did I hear the Wilhelm Scream from a couple of Native Americans in the second Colt .45 episode, "A Time to Die"?

I finished the first disc of Colt .45, not as quickly as did Jeff Flugel, and am enjoying the episodes very much. In signs that I've watched too much Warner product over the years, I noticed the studio's howling-wind sound effect in one episode and the body-thudding-on-the-ground sound effect in...

The Great Flamarion is a public-domain film. The copies I've seen don't have the original Republic opening credits--I think the credits were altered when a package of Republic films was sold for TV showings (one of our HTF experts could weigh in on this). It's a great film, and it would be nice...

John Beradino, who later had a long run on General Hospital, appeared as a barroom tush hog early in episode 3 of Colt .45, "The $3,000 Bullet." He had everyone intimidated until he tried to shoot a boy who had just left the bar to fetch the sheriff. He ended up getting carried out of the bar...