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Yes Via Vision did release the Tara King set last year. And its wonderfully region-free thankfully like many of their other releases. It also had all surviving Ian Hendry episodes in the bonuses.

That is literally the only remaining western series I had a shred of interest in seeing make it. So I will be getting that.

Don't forget the word-word-for word replay of the destruct sequence from "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."

She disdainfully spoke about the experience on a Later With Bob Costas appearance once. She couldn't even remember Robert Lansing's name, referring to him as "another guy" she would have had to do the show with. Frankly, I always thought "The Omega Glory" got too much of a bum rap by...

"All Our Yesterdays" which was the next to last episode was something of a budget-saver in that it's the only episode in the entire run of the show not to have any scenes aboard the Enterprise and Scotty is only heard in a voiceover. The earlier draft of the script had them beaming up and the...

"Assignment Earth" I felt was a weak-tea premise for a show. I've always found it amusing to see all the concerns of "don't violate the Prime Directive" applied to Kirk, but when you get right down to it, whoever Gary Seven works for is the ultimate violator of a "Prime Directive" there is...

Sterling hosted a talk show on WMCA Radio from 1972-1978 and also did Yankee pregame shows for a time when they were on WMCA. During the 1976 and 1977 postseasons he and Mel Allen co-hosted pre and postgame shows including these memorable shows after Game 5 of the 1976 ALCS and Game 6 of the...

There's also the fact that the audio in a number of Season 1 episodes on the Blu-Ray has some problems where the sound effects and music are drowning out the dialogue as if the music/FX track has somehow "doubled up" over the regular audio. The audio at times (Particularly the construction site...

The critics kept missing the point with Lange's performance. They thought she really was a dumb blonde, when she was giving a great performance as a Monroe type character.

Its always been easier for me to take seeing SImpson again in a dramatic role (Towering Inferno, Capricorn One) and I can certainly handle watching an old NFL game with him. But the Naked Gun stuff has been unseen by me since 1994 and I can never look at them again because when its a comedy...

The film failed to be a "Jaws" type blockbuster but it was a success, grossing $90 million overall so those who would call it a flop are rewriting history (yet that stigma seemed to follow it for quite a few years).

Storage wise I just made sure to get a standards 4 disc ultra HD case at the same time so the two discs from this and the two discs from the Shout! release go into the same case with the proper Shout! poster art inside an Ultra HD case. The steelbook was a waste and is getting tossed by me...

This was the first "big event" movie of my childhood. I had the trading cards, the Ideal game etc. And today I think the movie holds up much better than Jackson's. The authentic location cinematography of Hawaii and New York, a willingness to do a fresh take on the story while...

"Snoop Sisters" is a nice piece of rare 70s TV. The pilot film that has Art Carney instead of Lou Antonio is the strongest segment (and also has the last acting role of Paulette Goddard).

Niagara (1953). Filmed in beautiful color on location in Niagara Falls, it captures that location at that point in time perfectly. The Taking Of Pelham One-Two-Three (1974). The perfect time capsule of New York in its full seedy decline.

I remember the Omen IV paperback which brought back the Robert Foxworth character from "Omen II" (he is referred to in the "Final Conflict" without being seen; I have long suspected that Don Gordon's character was supposed to be Foxworth's character but because they couldn't get Foxworth for...

No, they wouldn't have been leads. Again, the primary cast would have been next generation type people in which the grown-up Boxey (renamed "Orin" according to the script; I think for clarity they would have been better advised to retain the "Troy" name from G80) is now the Commander. I...

I think there are a couple of inaccurate premises here. Original series fans were not calling for the show to be resumed "exactly as it was in 1978". The hope was always for continuing an interrupted storyline 20 plus years later which of necessity of course would have meant introducing...

I'm not going to continue a debate about the two shows, but I am going to say something about Richard Hatch. I have the highest respect for what he did in his performance as Apollo. What I don't respect though, is how he kept trying to act as if only he could head up any continuation...

He was also a regular on the short lived "Jean Arthur Show" sitcom in 1966-67.

Five-O continued to do quite well in the ratings throughout the 70s and also the consensus is that the show hits its peak during the middle of its runs from 72-75. One thing Five-O did that "The FBI" never could was showcase bad guys from *within* the Establishment. Five-O reacted to...

A couple other things I picked up from the book as I skimmed through to the finish. Reynolds was indeed fired from the show outright because of the decision that the show which had taken a hit in the ratings in S8 needed to trend "young" in S9. He said he was very upset that he found this...

It's in the Cushman book. :)

The amusing thing about Trek and "My Three Sons" airing opposite each other is that part of "City On The Edge Of Forever" (the Mission sets) was filmed on their soundstage since "Sons" had by then wrapped up production for the season.

Yeah, I think Season 6 is where the "no one gets killed no matter how badly shot or left for dead they are" element really starts to kick in (and no more are suspects killed in final shootouts by then. Marvin Miller will always tell us that they "recovered from their wounds" etc.) The problem...

Yeah, I have to admit that it would have been nice if the show had found a better blend. I think early on, Martin erred in thinking that Erskine's domestic situation could be an equal part of the storytelling which is why initially he had the element of his daughter being engaged to Rhodes...

There is 900 page book on the show (unfortunately not available in a Kindle format) and even that book can't find an explanation for why Brooks left the show. He never gave any interviews on the subject and no one reported it in depth at the time. The only thing the book scrounged up was a...

Someone once posted scans of this Viewmaster (with written captions of the descriptions from each picture included) on YT set to generic music. I downloaded that and made a new version with some regular Trek music to underscore it (Including the cue from "Omega Glory" itself).

My first Warner DVD to go bad on me. "Executive Suite." A regular Warner release from about a decade ago (not Warner Archive). When I got a replacement from Amazon I noticed it was a DVD-R of the Warner Archive variety.

They're not related. Because they were both active in the 60s they were being mixed up frequently.