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Colt .45 Three more solid entries in this fine WB western, beautifully presented on Warner Archive’s recently-released Blu-Ray set. 1.13 “Mirage” Colt (big Wayde Preston) finds himself coming to the aid of a small Mexican settlement in the middle of the desert, the only source of water for...

Colt .45 Devoured the first two discs' worth of episodes on Warner Archive's beautiful new Complete Series Blu-Ray set. For more detailed thoughts on the series as a whole so far (basically, I think it's damn good), please see my post in the dedicated Colt .45 thread here. I don't currently have...

Star Tek: Enterprise 2.23 “Regeneration” In a creepy opening reminiscent of John Carpenter’s The Thing, a group of Starfleet researchers find a pair of cybernetic bodies buried in the Arctic ice. Turns out the supposed corpses are not quite dead…in fact, they are members of the Borg (in a clever...

A great episode of a great show. Nicely done, Neal!

Re-posting the following western TV show reviews from the "HTF Western Movies/TV Shows Challenge 2024" thread: The Restless Gun – 2.14 “The Way Back” Wandering fast gun Vint Bonner (John Payne) tries to keep a watchful eye on his naïve friend Olaf Burland (Dan Blocker, in his fifth appearance...

Terrific reviews of those two Rifleman episodes, Randall! Thanks for the great screencaps, plus all of your usual fascinating historical background, including details about contemporary events when these two episodes originally aired. I've seen "Heller" before and enjoyed it very much...though...

Great to see you back, Russ...and on fine funny form, too!

World of Giants – 1.6 “Chemical Story” Shrunken spy Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) and his normal-sized partner, Bill Winters (Arthur Franz), investigate a spate of thefts of the isotope yttrium at a lab. Alice Lane (slinky Peggie Castle, later of Lawman), the secretary at the lab, along with...

A great, wonderfully-written paean to a fine show, Randall! I agree with your high regard for Bourbon Street Beat entirely...especially your singing the praises of leads Richard Long and Andrew Duggan. As I've stated before, this is my favorite of the four main WB detective shows (though I also...

The Invaders – 2.7 “Dark Outpost” Two-fisted architect and one-man alien hunter David Vincent (the always intense Roy Thinnes) sneaks aboard an invader saucer and finds himself in the middle of the desert, near a supposedly-abandoned army post. But the base is actually being used by a contingent...

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 11.8 “Rick Sends a Picture" Rick's in a jam after he accidentally sends a 8 x 10" glossy of himself to Lois (Pamela Austin), a girl he goes to college with but hardly knows. It was intended for his grandmother, and he signed it, "To my favorite girl, with...

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 9.27 “The Manly Arts” Both Dave and Rick have been practicing their respective self-defense moves, Dave with wrestling and Rick karate. The pair meet a private detective named Mr. Judson (Dave Willock), and his attractive secretary (Reita Green), as they are...

Thanks for both the kind words and for highlighting the above two ladies' Twilight Zone connection, Neal (with pics!) Yes, a sad end for Ms. Nichols. According to Wikipedia, she died from liver failure due to complications arising from injuries sustained in car accidents earlier in her life...

The Outcasts – 1.1. “Pilot” At loose ends, Earl Corey (Don Murray), a white ex-Confederate captain and plantation owner’s son from Virginia, reluctantly teams up with freed slave and ex-Union officer Jemal David (Otis Young) to become bounty hunters in the years following the Civil War. Both men...

Rawhide – 2.10 “Incident of the Valley in Shadow” While driving a herd through Cheyenne country, tough trail boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) discovers that a few of his new hands, including bounty hunter Daggett (Leo Gordon, once again excelling as a pig-mean creep) have hired on for the $8,000...

Glad to hear that you took a chance and picked up a copy of Strange Report, Les! I hope you enjoy it. Please let us know what you think once you've had a chance to watch a few episodes. My recent viewing of one of the lovely Pilar Seurat's appearances on The F.B.I. set me off on a mini-marathon...

Terrific post, Randall! As you know, I also am a big fan of slow-talking man mountain Clint Walker and his signature role of Cheyenne. I don't yet have the last two seasons (6 and 7) of the show on DVD from Warner Archive, but shall be picking them up soon. That's a powerhouse cast in the...

Man, reports of Barbara Bain being jealous of new addition Catherine Schell's beauty and therefore demanding she be buried under a bunch of weird alien make-up certainly seem to be born out in those pics above. Enjoyed your Space: 1999 and Gunsmoke reviews, Scott, good work! Nice post, Bryan...

Combat! – 3.1 “Mountain Man” Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow), Kirby (Jack Hogan) and Caje (Pierre Jalbert) are tasked with coaxing a brusque, burly hermit (Theodore Bikel) to lead them up and across a treacherous mountain pass so they can mark the route for Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) and his troop to...

Miami Vice - 2.12 "Definitely Miami" Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) meets yet another in a long line of damaged, dangerous-to-know women as he's approached by Callie (the sizzlingly sexy French actress Arielle Dombasle), who seems to be trapped in an abusive relationship with her psychotic...

Miami Vice - 1.16 "Rites of Passage" Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) gets involved with an old flame from the force back in NYC, Valerie Gordon (played by the one, the only Pam Grier, in her first of three appearances as the same character on the show). Valerie's down in Miami in search of her...

Sugarfoot – 3.6 “Outlaw Island” Tom Brewster (Will Hutchins) is escorting a white Arabian racehorse and its beautiful owner (Merry Anders) when their train is held up by a gang led by the notorious outlaw leader “The Baron” (Gerald Mohr). The Baron takes the horse and the lady, who he has become...

Terrific stuff above, Randall! Great to have you back posting again! And thanks for some pics of yummy Tina Louise and (especially) Dawn Wells. I really should pick up a season or two of Gilligan's Island sometime, for old time's sake. Been watching my usual eclectic variety of shows. Here's...

Van Der Valk – 2.1 “A Death by the Sea” Early ‘70s Thames Television/ITV adaptation of Nicholas Freeleng's series of novels, starring Barry Foster as cigar-chomping, booze-loving Dutch copper, Commisarris Piet Van der Valk. Lots of great exterior filming around Amsterdam, mixed with videotaped...

Wonderful to have you back posting again, Randall! And thanks for including your usual fascinating historical details (especially that wild Shecky-Sinatra story) in your memorials to those two Combat! veterans, Shecky Greene and Jack Hogan. Nice to see that both men made it well into their...

Thanks, Glenn...same to you and yours!

Rounding out 2023 with a brace of British telly reviews: Rumpole of the Bailey – 2.2 “Rumpole and the Case of Identity” Fans of UK TV certainly should be familiar with multiple PBS airings in the States of this delightful, sardonic legal drama, about aging, slightly disreputable, but sharp as a...

Got a bit of new-to-me classic Christmas TV viewed over the past week or so: Tales of Wells Fargo – 2.16 “Laredo” Wells Fargo troubleshooter Jim Hardie (Dale Robertson) foregoes his holiday to put a stop to a gang of slimeballs running guns across the Mexican border. After the requisite amount...

Merry Christmas, fellow classic TV junkies! Wishing everyone here a happy holiday season.

Been too busy (and tired) to get much watched, but here's a few things that have been in front of my eyeballs, classic TV-wise, over the past couple of weeks: Nero Wolfe – 1.8 “Murder by the Book” An unidentified man is found dead in the street near Nero Wolfe's residence, a note with Wolfe's...