I forgot about Tom Atkins's recurring role, Henry -- another casualty of the location change who I hated to see go. As for guest stars, there's also Stefanie Powers as a phony psychic (she overdoes it a bit, to Janssen's apparent amusement), Bernie Kopell, Kathleen Lloyd (a couple of times), and...
Henry, you've got my hopes up all over again.
My suspicion that this might just be a pilot (or pilots) release is in line with WaveCrest's, but it's also based on what WA did with the Then Came Bronson pilot and the fact that Smile Jenny, You're Dead has something of a reputation apart...
Pure conjecture, Henry, mostly just to lower my expectations so that I'm not too disappointed if the whole series doesn't get released. Something in the way that Facebook comment is phrased, too, makes me suspicious. But I'll be really, really happy if I'm wrong.
I also preferred the San Diego-set episodes, and liked Quinlan somewhat more than Trench. Janssen and Zerbe seemed to get a big kick out of playing off each other, though, and Trench's assistant/sidekick, Detective Roberts (Paul Tulley), had great chemistry with both of them, so it was still...
I thought the ending was pitch-perfect, and I definitely want to watch the whole series from start to finish at least once more, so I'll be buying season 4.5 to go with the DVD other sets.
Watch it again, and again, especially in the context of the rest of the show. You may feel differently...
I picked up the season two set yesterday and watched a few episodes last night. I was surprised by how much I missed Intertect and Lew Wickersham -- they provided Joe and his instinctive, sometimes shabby detecting methods with a soulless, high-tech counterpoint. The tension this generated...
I couldn't agree more. I use studio-quality headphones when I watch TV shows on DVD, and this set is just painful to listen to -- there's a loud, fuzzy, very distracting hiss whenever someone speaks. it may be the worst-sounding set I own; how can Infinity just keep getting it wrong?
My top five: The Big Valley (finish, preferably in full-season sets) Mannix (continue) The Name of the Game Knots Landing (my guess is that Warner Bros. is waiting to finish the Dallas sets before releasing this show, but I'm hopeful) Cheyenne (continue)
That's right! I can't believe I forgot. I'll have to rewatch that episode having seen the Mannix pilot. Sure makes me wish Image had restored I Spy for their recent season-set releases...
Could well be. I can't remember whether the I Spy episodes shot in Palm Springs featured the tramway or not. If memory serves, Robinson and Scott just lurk around the restaurant at the foot of the mountain. Regardless, the aerial scenes in "The Name Is Mannix" are breathtaking.
I stumbled upon the Mannix season 1 DVD set this Saturday at a local video store that's notorious for selling discs before their official release dates. Needless to say, I snatched it up.
I've only watched a few episodes so far, but the prints are gorgeous and pristine, and appear to be uncut...
whisperintherain, I'm with you on Knots Landing. As much as I continued to enjoy Dallas, and as true as it remained to the more prickly aspects of its premise, it defaulted to formula about halfway through its run -- a victim of its own success, maybe. Knots just got better over time. Too bad...
This is the best post on the topic so far. The "smart"/"dumb" dichotomy is bogus -- most of us have a tendency to believe the shows we love are somehow superior, and if they don't sell well on DVD it's tempting to blame the shows we don't like that do sell. Big marketing budgets, strong...
I e-mailed Infinity to tell them how let down and hacked off I am by the faux-letterboxing of R66:S1v2, but I'm not holding my breath for a response, much less a remedy. Like some of the early posters on this issue, my sense is that the company is both clueless and fixated on the bottom line...
Why not I Spy: The Complete Series? That'd be an ideal fit with the Get Smart and Man from U.N.C.L.E. sets. Sure, Image has released this show already, but it'd be a whole different ballgame with remastered picture and audio; commentaries from Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Michael Preece, and...
The Big Valley Cheyenne Mary Tyler Moore Knots Landing And has there been any word on part two of The Fugitive season one yet? I'm a little worried about that one getting abandoned...
I had box set #2 on order for months at Amazon, but the ship date kept getting pushed out, so I cancelled it and ordered the individual discs where I could find them (from two different sources, it turned out). I was lucky enough to find set #3 at Barnes & Noble not long ago, but haven't seen it...
It is only in the first-season set. It's incredibly annoying (the top of Caine's head is routinely cut off), but the show is still great and well worth watching. Hopefully, someday and in some format, this mind-boggling misstep will be remedied. Until then, enjoy the season as best as you can.
I'm convinced that thigh-flash was deliberate. Although Five-0 was a manly-man's show, it contained plenty of implicit sex. Even McGarrett got a little now and then -- it was the '60s, after all. Anyway, whether the shot was intentional or not, "24 Karat Kill" gave me a new appreciation for...
Add my voice to the call for a season 2 release. Ironically, I never liked this show when I was a kid, and now I know why -- it's emotionally and visually sophisticated, and its characters and story lines cater to adult sensibilities. Now it's second only to The Big Valley as my favorite TV...
Nice to see a few Niners posting here. It seems to me that DS9's divergence from the formula gave the Trek powers that be the jitters, so they decided to go backward with Voyager; the all-nostalgia-all-the-time direction (if it can truly be called a direction) of Enterprise was the inevitable...
That's too bad, but I understand your beef with the pricing on the split-season set. I've read elsewhere that the $20 pricetag for the first season set was a mistake, or at least an aberration; I paid full price -- $35, if I remember right -- because I don't live anywher near a Wal-Mart (if you...
Don't forget I Spy, the best of the sixties espionage shows. All three seasons, or 80-odd episodes, are available from Image, albeit in weirdly packaged box sets. Great series, though.