Recent content by High C

'I woulda ordered this if it hadn't been for those meddling kids...' Sorry, couldn't resist.

Those are excellent points. Not Blu or DVDs but a similar hobby--I last year paid $200 for bootleg downloads (from the original masters) of some soundtrack cues. Non-hobbyists would have found it baffling that I paid that much for them, but for me they were must-have items and I do not regret it...

BTW, this may have been mentioned on this board, and I won't put in a link, but any of you McGavin fans should go to YT and check out the 1950s PSA 'A Word To The Wives' featuring McGavin as a put-upon husband. He first appears around the 4-minute mark. A lot of you probably know about it, but...

Yeah, I've never read the Mark Dawidziak book(s), but apparently McGavin and Cy Chermak were at odds, per Dawidziak. It was a troubled production. I would not have wanted to lose the byplay between Carl and his co-workers, Carl and the experts, Carl and the cops. I could've done with less of...

Well-said (I think I've got this quote thing figured out now). I feel like they also were trying to make a statement about the folly of the modern quest for youth as opposed to aging gracefully but it likely got lost somewhere in the rewrites. And as you alluded to, they needed to spend more...

Two really good points here by ScottRE (I was attempting to quote and messed up). 'Some shows just burn out so quickly. The really short series, the one season wonders, can turn into a mere shadow of their original selves so fast that it feels like a decade passed creatively. The Time Tunnel...

Good analysis, Mr. Hopper, of what a pastiche of previous tropes this episode is. Consider it took Star Trek three seasons (or at least into season 2 to do that), and it took only 19 episodes for Kolchak to get to this point. Still, I won't deny that the presence of Cathy Lee Crosby in a Greek...

Bumping this back up. Great question from the OP. As a Joan Collins completist, I would like to have Run For Your Life, the three-season Ben Gazzara vehicle. Per Jack P, rights issues with the Perry Como estate likely made that a no-go. It's too bad, because Gazzara's enduring popularity as an...

This one was too gruesome for me. Just the concept itself. Overall, I always enjoyed McGavin's performance, his byplay with the regulars, the 'experts' and the cops. I felt the stories/gimmicks needed work. I actually liked the idea of Chopper. Perhaps with today's CGI, it could have worked.

This is one of the worst ones, IMO. A pale retread--and so quickly in airing sequence--of the Richard Kiel ep. The scene in which the unlucky immobile female patient is fried seemed particularly gratuitous. (Granted, I am inordinately squeamish.) The series, I think, was at its best when the...

As soon as you started describing the plot, I knew it was a scam and I never saw the ep. I suspect the viewers did too. Yikes. Your commentary is spot-on.

Great, funny description of the setup. This is one of the TZs, IMO (and even in contemporaneous reviews) that signaled Serling was running out of ideas. Good setup but he had no idea how to end it. My biggest problem is this. The teaser scene is a cheat. Scheckly isn't there. If it's his...

Great photo! As for the non-likeability of Thinnes as David Vincent, here's what classic TV expert Stephen Bowie wrote about what the producers and viewers thought at the time: *** Though they acknowledged the script problems, Martin and Alan Armer also suspected that there was an even more...

Your point is well-taken, and that Hollywood age-ism is well-known, but I would note that about two months earlier, Man From U.N.C.L.E. had the-then 40-year-old Blake on for a guest shot as the ex-wife of the THRUSH baddie. And trust me, she wasn't presented as some dowager. She was presented as...

I feel the same way about The Invaders as I do about the sport of soccer. I admire it from a technical perspective. But I don't find it particularly enjoyable to watch. It's well-produced, well-directed and well-acted, with a lot of night-for-night shooting and obvious high-quality production...