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'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...

After Hazel had ended its run and Blake was doing the guest-shot circuit, years before she and her third husband, Allan Manings, co-created One Day At A Time, Blake appeared on Batman in season 2. Too bad she was utterly wasted in a 1:18 (yeah, I timed it) walk-on as a robbery victim of...

Terrific thread! I concur with one of the ones Mysto first mentioned, and am glad I got it on DVD when it came out--Quark. I particularly recommend the Barbara Rhoades episode, although I don't recall if the script is any good, tbh. To that I would add (I'm not linking because I'm...

Interesting. Good call on your part. In that case, I'm surprised it was greenlit at all considering NBC already had the rights to both the Summer and Winter Olympics at that point and has them until 2032.

Your reviews are quite amusing and you treated this episode with the disdain it deserves. The turn from deadly seriousness (Rojan murders an innocent female redshirt for no reason other than because he can) to slapstick is whiplash-inducing, and that murder is forgotten by the end of the...

I'd add The Invaders, another show currently being talked about on the board, as also being based on The Fugitive template. David Vincent also was on the run, was trying to prove something that nobody believed, and it also was a Quinn Martin-produced show with many actors from his unofficial...

Starz Western recently brought back The Virginian, and it reminded me that around 10 years ago, they skipped the first season ep, The Exiles, guest starring Tammy Grimes. It had a couple of musical performances, not surprising with Grimes as the lead guest star (an aspiring and obviously...

They also brought back The Virginian, which is on the channel more often than not, but had been pulled on Jan. 1 for six months. It is now on at 6 p.m. EDT, give or take a minute, as opposed to around 6:40, 6:45 p.m. previously. They are currently in the midst of season 1. They started at the...

One particular circumstance I know of occurs with Batman season 3 in which the producers took a three-parter featuring Anne Baxter and Vincent Price as the villains and broke it up into a two-parter and a solo episode with several other stories in between, and completely jumbled the intended...

Weekend with Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_(1974_TV_program)

Just a thought, but I might try tweeting at a feed called ThatWeekinSNL. They review episodes from all eras, and have unearthed curious such as vintage promos and SNL-related one-offs from that era. I'm not saying they will for sure know about it, but they would have a better chance than most...

Hi, haven't posted in a long time. but I've been lurking and never nuked myself. (I never do on any board in case I want to come back.) I got some of the Man From UNCLE re-edited and expanded Euro movies years ago and they never skipped on me, fwiw. I'll admit I haven't dug them out in a while...

Agree with everything you said except for Jerry Orbach. Loved the Briscoe character, except for the 'my daughter's a drug addict' arc. Had no problem with Waterston at first, but he grated on me as the years went by. And the one-sided politics turned me off too.

Very frustrating, yes. Too bad nobody was thinking about DVD extras such as 'deleted scenes' in 1967. Sigh.

I agree with your opinion on Gorshin; he certainly was giving it his all. But the reason he wasn't in season 2 was that he wanted a raise from $3,500 to $5,000 per appearance, and showrunner William Dozier refused. I can see both sides. I'm sure Dozier felt he had to toe the line on salaries...

I also voted for Joan Collins as The Siren. As Jack P said, she was the only baddie who had a legit superpower and I thought Collins did a good job of making her believable. In fact, one can see the seeds of Alexis Carrington Colby being sown here, as Joan flashes that same kind of charismatic...