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Yes, great stuff on VTTBOTS last episode, Scott! I was 8 years old in the fall of 1964, and had been watching the promos and ads all of that preceding summer, eager for it's premiere and hoping that (here in Canada) they wouldn't program it opposite Hockey Night in Canada, MLB or CFL/NFL...

Good guy Will Hutchens (Sugarfoot), WB studio chief (and tightwad) Jack Warner and good guy Clint Walker (Cheyenne) looking like they're enjoying each others' company...

Part deux of my Gigi Perreau on The Rifleman... Lovely Gigi returned in season three's Death Trap (May 9, 1961, the same week that America's first man-in-space Alan Sheppard flew the first Mercury-Redstone, after an earlier flight with baby chimp 'Ham', who returned safely to great...

Beautiful post Neal on Twilight Zone's The Long Morrow! I agree that this poignant episode with fine performances by Robert Lansing and Marriette Hartley gets lost in the mix of that series' many great episodes, and deserves to be remembered! Great rundown Doug of your varied and numerous...

Thanks Scott for the kind words and your own posts recounting the enjoyable and still very funny Gilligan's Island...the great Jim Backus and his dimwit wife Natalie Schaeffer are leading assets on that show, but the whole cast is great (Ginger, Mary-Ann and the Howells seem to have at least 6...

Great work Jeff, Neal, Doug, John, Steve, Ben, Dietcola and all you guys! As always, you have me diving back into my collection to revisit favorite shows! And I've also been revisiting this 1970s/1940s throwback war series... Baa Baa Black Sheep/Black Sheep Squadron S2E10 Hotshot (March 15...

Great work in this thread all you guys! Well done! As for me, among other things I've revisited lately... Cheyenne/Cheyenne Show S6E2 Trouble Street (Oct. 2, 1961) W: Buckley Angell, D: Robert Sparr. Starring Clint Walker. Guest starring James Coburn, Mala Powers, Tom Drake, Lee Van Cleef...

Good ol' Claude Akins, a human bulldog of a man, and fine actor who was among the foremost ranks of our legion of beloved character and supporting actors on TV and theatrical films. He gave many memorably great performances, both as a villain and good guy. Too bad we never got a quality DVD...

Mannix S7E7 Silent Target (Oct. 28, 1973) concluded... Horrified that an unwitting Joe Mannix (Mike Connors), having stumbled into a desert hideout of fugitive mob hitmen (John Hillerman, Frank Langella, Del Monroe, Ronnie Rondell Jr.), will now be disappeared into an unmarked grave, a hitman's...

Great post on Gunsmoke's premiere episode, Neal! I've always felt a little sorry for often-seen actor Paul Richards, a dependable and solid guy, who like so many character actors was often type cast as a villain, or a pathetic and venal exploiter...I'd have to check his filmography to see if he...

Ben, everyone has their own unique style in sharing show reviews in this thread. If you choose to add screen caps that's optional. Whatever is comfortable for you, free from anxiety. your posts are welcome here. Everybody here is just trying to share the joy about what we've been watching with...

Great screen caps Bryan, and episode synopsis! Thanks for posting these! When Timeless released their 6 disc Tales of Wells Fargo 'Best of the Color Season Six' in 2009, for whatever reason, Universal only gave them 22 of 34 episodes. Presumably at that time, and perhaps effected by the vault...

Thanks Jeff, Bryan and everyone! Where I am in Canada, it's over -50 with the wind chill. I decided to watch a few snowbound episodes of some of my favorite shows...Cheyenne, Bronco, Maverick, Combat!, Alfred Hitchcock Presents etc. I might post about a few of them, what a great way to shut-in...

Thanks Scott and everyone! Gilligan's Island S3E, The Kidnapper (Nov. 28, 1966) W: Ray Singer, D: Jerry Hopper. Guest starring Don Rickles. Another placid day on the soundstages of Gilligan's Island ends suddenly with the sudden disappearance of Lovey Howell (Natalie Schafer), and a ransom...

Great work you guys! Very interesting and informative reviews, caps and pictures, that as usual, have me diving back into my own collection. Interesting that Scott posted about Gilligan's Island, as I have been watching that show for the first time in many years. My family and I loved that show...

We recently lost two Combat! cast members...professional comedian and occasional actor Shecky Greene, seen in 8 episodes of Combat! season one, such movies as Tony Rome (where he was cast with the facial injuries he received in a late-night beatdown by Frank Sinatra's goons in the lobby of Miami...

Ha, ha! Well done again Russ! My dimly held impression of Quincy M.E.'s later seasons was that Quincy would only modulate from his standard 110 decibel harangues in order to deliver a more vocally restrained sermon, pleading tiresomely for compassion and tolerance etc. Which was well received...

Russ, you're welcome my friend! We're all friends here, co-conspirators, co-dependents, magnificent bastards all, ha, ha! Look at all the great stuff that Morasp (Steve) has just favored us with...including how some shows really got to him emotionally...something I crave to feel in my own black...

Russ, I'm glad you're here! And I very much enjoy reading and laughing as I go! You have the writing acumen of a man who made his living from such a skill set. (as I understand it, your career was in corporate commercial advertising with some art design and copy writing?) I always think of you...

The per-episode budget for most of the studio-bound WB hour long shows was around $60-$70K in 1960. But the massive and extensive studio facilities made all of those dollars go a long way, and it's often admirable what the WB TV production unit could create in the way of scope, IMO. Even by that...

Doug, another fine and remarkably diverse selection of vintage TV reviews! Very enjoyable in reading, and as I have all of those shows, as usual you have me diving back into my own collection for a re-visitation! There's a lot to love about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, what with it's great...

Jeff, another epic post of your incredibly varied viewings! I've never seen either of these British TV series, and you've definitely drawn an intriguing insight for This show! BTW, I believe I consume some of the devil's sweets on a near daily basis, ha, ha! With this and your previous episode...

Thanks Jeff for another welcome gallery of episode reviews from TV series both well known and relatively obscure to us (especially vintage Brit shows that you continue to be an enthusiastic advocate for). Nice screen caps too from the 1960-61 first iteration of Danger Man, much appreciated! Your...

Thanks Jeff, for some more delightful Ozzie and Harriet episode synopses and sharp (and funny) screen caps! It'll be awhile till I get these two new seasons on DVD, as yet to be listed on Amazon Canada (my preferred dealer for these MPI sets), though based on previous experience, they should be...

So, here's some fascinating stuff I found out about the pretty girl seen in Peter Gunn S3's The Candidate...Vikki Dougan was one of the top cheesecake models of the 1950s...very fast company among a legion of beauties...she occasionally acted, but not extensively. But she was quite notorious...

Great stuff from you guys, well done! Scott-great stuff about Incredible Hulk's season 2 two-parter. The HD transfers look terrific! What an action-packed show! Jeff-your usual epic and wonderful post on an amazing diversity of great and interesting shows! Catweazle, Bless this House, Goodies...

Yes, another fine collection of reviews and screen caps for yet another epic post, Jeff! Well done on all counts, and as usual you have me going back to re-watch some of the great shows you just featured! McCloud's Colorado Cattle Caper has got to be one of my favorites from that series, as you...

Thanks Jeff for another great line-up of engaging reviews for a remarkably diverse selection of very fun shows! Fascinating details about those Peter Gunn lovelies! I had no idea that Jimmy Stewart actually had a chance to paw 'Miss Torso', and not just ogle her workouts from across the...

Tremendous post with rich detail and wonderful screen caps, Jeff! And, as usual, a wide variety of shows! Scott, great analysis, history and appreciation for Rat Patrol as the entertainment it is! Jeff, your praise here and in the past for Network's Sergeant Cork tells me that I'll eventually...

Beautifully constructed review, critical insight and great screen caps from Steve Canyon's greatest episode, Scott! It surely is an extraordinary and shocking episode, especially so in considering the context of the rest of this series, the era of the show itself (although other TV shows of...