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Nothing wrong with using smilies as they available here. :) Yes, I am Jeff#. The old account was deactivated since I posted something I wasn't supposed to (a link to a certain site for old TV shows) but I learned my lesson. So now months later I created a new account and I'm starting...

I've seen many of them, but that was a continuation of the same B & W package -- all CBS episodes. ABC didn't pick it up until a few years later.

As someone who is intelligent and months away from turning 40, I take offense to that typically rude comment of yours. As I've said many times before I respect the well-made shows that I've enjoyed watching for many years, whether they were produced in black & white or color. Yet watching the...

Well, at least you behaved yourself in the other topics you posted in today (so far). Here you are attacking me again. Let's try to keep it civil FULL-TIME, OK? :) Now to get to the heart of the matter, if 16 mm prints exist of "Bored She Hung Herself" then surely DVD format bootleg copies...

All of those were great shows due to strong writing and first-rate performances, yet they would have been even greater if they had the budget to film in color to begin with. :cool: I just don't agree with the " B & W is grittier " mantra. Yet a dramatic story well told and directed works well on...

I don't approve of color tinting either, but the producers had no choice as so little WWII footage was shot in color to begin with. Again it comes down to working within the limited budget that ABC gave them. That's the same reason the first 2 seasons were shot in B & W. It was not for artistic...

I want to know why ABC didn't save the 1970s version of Password? Game Show Network has the tapes of the 1960s original NBC Password (which they don't even air anymore) and the 1979-1982 Password Plus (from NBC), but the in-between series is impossible to find.

I have my doubts that this missing episode even exists, or else it would have been available everywhere by now.

I didn't say that, Rick, although I think you just gave that spoiler away. All I said was that Kam Fong, who played Chin Ho left the show. Maybe we better not tell those who are new to this show anything else! :laugh: I wasn't aware that Fong did a pilot for another series though.

It's buried deep in a box of DVDs in my closet, so I'm not going to check but that's a 3 DVD set as I recall. John Wayne was in one of the episodes, so he and Skelton did a Deadeye western sketch. By that time the series name was shortened to Red and it was late in the run -- probably the 1968...

MacArthur didn't miss any 11th season episodes as I recall. That he didn't have a contract after the 8th year is news to me.

The major flaw in that argument is that real life wasn't in black and white....unless you happen to be color blind. :) Combat and 12 O'Clock High were enjoyable in black and white, but they were made that way for budgetary reasons. Both series were further enhanced with the move to color film...

Not quite, Bob. MacArthur was there for the entire 11th season. He was smart to leave the show, because after that the writing went down the tubes (new writers killed it) and CBS was foolish to bring it back (with a mostly new Five-O team) for 19 more episodes in the 12th season. At least Jack...

You didn't have to make that a spoiler, Rick! :laugh: In the classic CBS tradition of Chester (played by Dennis Weaver) in GUNSMOKE in late 1963, no explanation was ever given on the show why Danno left Five-O in 1979. And he was with the series for 11 of its 12 seasons. Actor James...

12 O'Clock High reruns were played on The History Channel for a long time last year! :) The mid 1960s TV series was based on the 1949 film starring Gregory Peck. The program takes place at an Army air base in WWII England. Most of the combat pilots are American personnel. The show's first...

Yep...Hawaii Five-O started in 1968, and Freeman died after heart surgery in January 1974, which was halfway into the 6th season. The last time I remember seeing his Executive Producer credit was early into that year. I'm pretty sure it was either "Hookman" (the season premiere) and / or the...

There's just one problem with your analysis....Zulu (who played Kono) was fired after the end of the 4th season. Leonard Freeman died a few months into production of the 6th season.

Some first season Dobie Gillis episodes were circulating on the torrent websites recently, but whoever was uploading them stopped after the tenth episode.

I never got into "Lost" at all. The show focusing on way too many characters is bad enough, but telling their stories in flashback take away from their current situation of being on that desert island in the first place. Why this became a hit in the first place is the real mystery! ABC tried...

The best versions of the Hawaii Five-O theme are from Seasons 4, 8, 10, and 11 (but not quite in that order). :cool: The decent theme from the 5th / 6th seasons is the most standard, yet a refined version.

Hawaii Five-O - Season 3

I have the 50th anniversary set of The Phil Silvers Show (even though it was 51 years when it came out in 2006), and the 18 episodes on that "Best Of" collection were very well-done. Audio commentaries by series regulars Mickey Freeman and Allan Melvin, Army technical advisor / actor George...

Here's how the opening looked and sounded. Some of these are taken from rare TV Land reruns. YouTube - it takes a thief pilot intro - Robert Wagner The first season's montage is cheesy, but after that the split-screen effects as well as Dave Grusin's improvements in the theme music helped...

Magnificent Thief certainly did have a stellar cast, which you'll notice was composed largely of other Universal TV actors at the time. Senta Berger was the first "Babe of the Week" in that movie, and I think she guested in a different role in an episode months later. The pilot was filmed and...

SWITCH was a great series too, and I wouldn't mind getting that on DVD also. Hart to Hart I never cared for though, as much as I love Stefanie Powers. The only show of hers I want is The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Bill Bixby also appeared as another thief (George) in at least 2 or 3 first and second season episodes. The difference is that his character was often trying to upstage Al. Susan St. James and he didn't have any rivalry that I can recall. Her character was named Charlene "Charlie" Brown. I think...

Well, I'm no Will Smith fan but to his credit he can't possibly ruin It Takes a Thief the way he did with The Wild Wild West. I can believe Will as a thief. :)

As a true fan of this show, I will buy the entire series....even the disasterous 12th season with its uncharacteristically poor writing. If CBS / Paramount can get this far into an hour-long series without splitting the seasons, I believe they will go the whole route the same way. Even The...

For years Robert Wagner's best TV series (also his first one after years as a film leading man), "It Takes a Thief" has been passed over for video release. Why is that? The show has all the elements that make a great action show: Suspenseful plots, beautiful women, quality production values...

I purchased the 3rd season of Five-O last week from DeepDiscount.com a few days ago, and I'm looking forward to getting it in the mail next week! :cool::emoji_thumbsup: