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Six episodes were put out by Dana himself a long time ago at the same time the full series of "Get Smart!" was released. I'm glad its finally come to fruition all these years later (even though Dana has passed away since) and because it struck me as a sitcom within the milieu of Danny Thomas...

When Jonathan Harris started turning Dr. Smith into a comic-type character he was basically falling back into the character he was playing on the Bill Dana Show as Jose's boss the flustered hotel manager. The pompous delivery, the putdowns, even the simpering behavior when he feared for...

Timeless got hold of "The Big Valley" and IMO *could* have done the rest of "Burke's Law" but because that label was western-obsessed they decided S2 of "Zane Grey Theater" was a bigger priority from the Four Star Catalog than "Burke's Law" (and then to add insult to injury they decided a...

Didn't your crystal ball foreshadow the "Bill Dana Show" a few years back which never came out? That would still fit the profile of recurring character (Jose Jiminez) from a long running show (Danny Thomas Show).

To be more accurate, a 1959 Broadway Musical with a pre-existing Rodgers-Hammerstein score audiences were familiar with.

Charles Schulz once ran this little comment on "The Exorcist" in a Peanuts strip.

My reasons for not thinking highly of "The Robe" are not the ones Newman describes. In fact, Newman gave the absolute rock-bottom worst "commentary" I have ever had to listen to with his annoying and offensive one on "Barabbas". He is the last person IMO who should ever be allowed to comment...

"Cleopatra" I think deserves an asterisk because after reading the original shooting script, I feel both he and Taylor were done wrong by the cuts that took out a great deal of material that would have allowed us to see their performances in a different light. The way the film was finally cut...

The most priceless moment in the nine year history of the show.

This is a no-sale for me. I was reluctant to get the Blu-Ray release of the classic episodes after the debacle surrounding the commentaries that were planned that got pulled with zero explanation and even then they did a slipshod job on the Season 1 episodes where the audio is out of whack on...

"Fantastic Journey" in its original pilot movie had a pseudo-"Lost" aura. You had a group of people on a pleasure jaunt through the Caribbean who end up wrecked on this bizarre island where you could find yourself traveling into distant past and distant future realms. When the series sold...

Both the 35 and 62 versions are historically inaccurate on a lot of levels because most scholars dispute the notion of Bligh as an uber-sadist. "The Bounty" is the one that's much closer to reality.

A power outage at my home this morning made me seek a B&N to escape the heat and I cleaned up on a dozen titles. The Awful Truth All That Money Can Buy (Devil and Daniel Webster) The Magnificent Ambersons Ace In The Hole On The Waterfront 12 Angry Men (Don't care for this film but I figured I'd...

"Sirota's Court" may have been a casualty of the Universal fire. Only the first seven minutes of the first episode is out from a home recording.

I felt the show was a bit erratic overall throughout its run. O'Brien started out WAY too gruff and even when he managed to tone it down a bit as the series progressed he still came off as too arrogant and bellowing. And the show also suffered from agenda-pushing problems that hampered...

More lines as a rabbit than he ever had as the sub-navigator "Lieutenant Hadley" (namechecked only in "A Piece Of The Action")

The easiest way to appreciate it is to not think of it as connected to the universe of the first two films (notwithstanding the attempts to shoehorn the plot element of the Brody boys grown up) and treat it more like an elaborate stand-alone 80s TV-movie type of story. Compared to "Jaws The...

I'll only just say that my declaration of this show as "nihilistic" is based on my comparing its conception of God to what the original series did. The original series gave us a very traditional Judeo-Christian conception of Good/Evil with the Ship Of Lights beings (effectively Angels...

I used to post there too! Also at MouseBits. Sadly I came to realize that the remaining Grails for me in WDW/EPCOT music from its golden age (1971-1993) just weren't going to surface so that's why I finally gave up. Nothing worse the when 95% of what you'd like to have becomes...

I have to admit, I'm still annoyed Randy Thornton didn't do a 50th Anniversary Disney World park music set like he did for Disneyland in 2005. There are still rare items of early WDW park music that needs to finally be freed from the vaults (the Buddy Baker isolated underscore for the...

MLB Yankee Stadium-Old Yankee Stadium-New Shea Stadium Citi Field Nationals Park Wrigley Field Comiskey Park (Old) Three Rivers Stadium SkyDome NFL Giants Stadium NHL/NBA Madison Square Garden Byrne Arena (NJ) Prudential Center (NJ) Wells Fargo Center (Phi) I also saw the New Jersey Nets play...

I still have my original broadcast recording from 1993 so I don't need to get this release. But I do hope that Via Vision might end up doing the whole series because if they do that means the butchered episodes in the US releases could be presented restored! (The episode "I Gotta Be Me"...

The new CD of the "Torn Curtain" score lets us hear what Herrmann actually recorded for the film before his score was rejected. It's well worth picking up even if you have the re-recordings. I noticed something for the first time when listening to Herrmann's cue for the scene where Gromek...

A small actress marathon. More than a decade before she won an Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Louise Fletcher made the TV guest rounds in the late 50s and early 60s when she was quite an attractive young woman (she subsequently took a decade off from 1963 to 1973) Maverick...

The thing about "Battle" is that with the added scene establishing the ancestor of the Mendez ruler from Beneath and where the Alpha-Omega bomb came from, you get the sense that history is about to go in a never-ending loop of Earth blows up, Cornelius-Zira go back in time to restart process...

UCLA has put up a restored color videotape of the October 8, 1958 broadcast of Kraft Music Hall, which is now the oldest extant color video tape recording of an entertainment program (topping "An Evening With Fred Astaire" by nine days). The recording also captures the final minute of the Bill...

I've always been bothered by the whole element of Roy abandoning his family especially because it was an outside event that basically made him act this way that drove his family away. That doesn't exactly make the aliens look good either, and I have to agree with the points made by Scott...

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.