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  1. Jack P

    Warner DVD's not working thread - watch to make sure they still play

    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.
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    Please Don't Eat The Daisies Sitcom (1965-1967)

    They're not related. Because they were both active in the 60s they were being mixed up frequently.
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    General Discussion BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003-2008)

    Okay, I wasn't going to say anything in this thread, but when the original is brought into this with the term "cheesy" that is when I'm not going to withhold what I and many other fans of the original think about this version that forever will be known by the acronym GINO (Galactica In Name...
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    The Greatest Story Ever Told renovation

    I understand Newman's distress, and I also think the Handel is out of place for the Act 1 closing following the raising of Lazarus (as is the strange decision to interpolate a cue from "The Robe" before that) but I've never been bothered by the Handel for the end of the film. Overall though...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I have always had zero patience with Ellison's angry-man crusade over what happened with "City" especially the way he tried to basically have his cake and eat it too by taking the plaudits over writing what most fans called the best episode ever of Trek but at the same time acting like what he...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Re: "A Piece Of The Action." Anyone ever notice that James Doohan does the voice of that radio DJ ("Brought to you by Bang-Bang!")?
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    Obscure Classic TV Shows - Post Your Favorites!

    I have always maintained that when Jonathan Harris started to take the character of Smith into its more comical version, he was slipping back into the mode he'd been in on the Bill Dana Show because the style of delivery, the insulting put-downs and even the occasional weepy moment, all can be...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I do agree that it didn't register at the time. In fact I don't think it ever registered for a long time that Kirk and Khan never come face-to-face in the story and only talk on monitors and com-lines (the reason of course being Montalban's limited schedule). Trek II was indeed such an...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I think the difference though comes down to the fact that Rojan gets "Federation integration" meaning there's going to be a ton of supervised exchange and regular contact, whereas Khan as we know was left on his own and the key thing is there was *zero follow up*. And for me that's the one...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Exactly! Khan did far *less* than Rojan and the Kelvans did (Khan never actually killed anyone) but look how he got treated compared to the Kelvans who are going to get the welcome wagon from the Federation as opposed to "exile" (Frankly Kirk should have turned the tables on Rojan by making...
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    Universal Shows - List of other shows they own, pre 1990

    Law and Harry McGraw was also released in Australia in R4.
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    The reason I like "A Piece Of The Action" is that it just gives us a straight-ahead comedy from start to finish (and anchors it in a not too off-the-wall premise for sci-fi that a book left behind on 1920s Chicago could be turned into a "Bible" by an alien race). You know what you're in for...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I'd love to put audio of him getting a "Sit on it, Kirk!" set to a clip of Shatner sitting in his chair in Tribbles and abruptly bolting up. :)
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    Vertigo (Remake) (2025)

    It's just another comment on the creative bankruptcy of the modern industry that it feels it needs to remake a movie from the past according to edgier standards and think somehow they're going to surpass the original when they won't. And if they say that's not their intent then that means...
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    NBC Mystery Movie Wheel - Individual Theme Songs

    The Melle "Columbo" theme is in "Death Lends A Hand", "Dead Weight", "Short Fuse" and "Blueprint For Murder" These are the three variant versions of the main theme Melle composed as ripped from the music/FX tracks.
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    002 Columbo Theme #2.mp3

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    NBC Mystery Movie Wheel - Individual Theme Songs

    "McMillan and Wife" had a distinctive theme by Jerry Fielding in its pilot that was always used on the end credits for every McMillan Mystery Movie. Columbo's first season had a distinct them in the episodes by Gil Melle that he scored (sadly Melle didn't do any after Season 1). Melle's...
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    shows that have been destroyed

    There's no question the NFL left the other leagues in the dust when it came to their own in-house production stuff. The MLB World Series highlight films produced by Lew Fonseca look frankly amateurish with their poor narration tracks, bad scores and worst of all, their obsessive use of phony...
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    shows that have been destroyed

    Regardless of who coined the million dollar phrase, it is a fact that the NFL has always had a low regard for the telecast history of the game. I can remember how stubborn they were about not wanting to do ANY kind of replays that when Buffalo had that miracle playoff comeback against Houston...
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    Universal Shows - List of other shows they own, pre 1990

    The last episode with the concluding segments of "Secret Empire" and "Stop Susan Williams" only aired overseas.
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    shows that have been destroyed

    My impression seeing the telecast unfold was how it showed that the first half was pretty evenly matched and that the Packers only took command in the second half (the key part of the early third quarter was when they pulled away). The Chiefs certainly acquitted themselves better than say...
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    shows that have been destroyed

    The Super Bowl I telecast though is far more significant and far more historically valuable and given how the NFL used to say before the tape was discovered that a copy would be worth a million dollars, they should have been big enough to put their money where their mouths were on that with the...
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    shows that have been destroyed

    Yesterday, I was among the lucky couple hundred to see the first ever public screening of the lost CBS telecast of Super Bowl I (Packers-Chiefs). A technician at the CBS station in Scranton/Wilkes Barre, PA had recorded it on a single two inch quad tape and while it is not complete (between...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    That also included Takei doing a guest shot on "Mission" and Walter Koenig doing one "Mannix" when they weren't needed on Trek.
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Cleopatra (1963) - U.S. Release -- in Blu-ray

    That's interesting. Reading the script I can tell why his plotline was excised because it did complicate the narrative in terms of why the Senators hate Cleopatra (because many of them are in debt to Titus, and it was earlier established that Sosigenes was going to buy up those debts meaning...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Cleopatra (1963) - U.S. Release -- in Blu-ray

    Sounds interesting! Would love to see the final results since the story of what was cut has fascinated me. After reading the shooting script and getting a handle on what else was filmed but cut I came away convinced that the "Antony" half had suffered the most in contrast to the "Caesar"...
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    Tonight Show "Vault" Series-Some Thoughts

    But if the story regarding what happened to Carson's NY decade is true, then that was not a case of conventional wisdom of higher-ups wanting to recycle tapes. In this case, the NY decade was on tapes that were now obsolete in the early 70s and *couldn't* be recycled and it all came down to a...
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    Tonight Show "Vault" Series-Some Thoughts

    Some of the lost Carson shows from NY that have turned up have come from these sources: 1-The LBJ and Nixon Presidential libraries. Both administrations recorded shows sometimes whole, sometimes partial if they felt a political guest was going to be on who might say something controversial...
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