Search results

There is plenty of location shooting in season 3 of I Spy...just not as much of the foreign variety as the producers wanted. For the first block of episodes produced for S3, they filmed in Marrakesh, Morocco for the first three episodes, then eight more were shot in Greece. Series producer...

Yes, all fair points, Stephen. I certainly concur with your first reason. I too would have liked the show to get the lead actors out on location around San Francisco more, rather than depending on second unit footage so much. There are some location shots with Ironside and crew upon occasion...

And I'm the opposite, in that I find Raymond Burr, while fine as Perry Mason, much more engaging in Ironside...although I have no doubt that after 8 seasons of Ironside, he might have started just going through the motions. But what I've seen of the first 3 seasons on Ironside has been a lot of...

Definitely agree with this. Some shows immediately click for me, and others take quite a while to grow on me. The aforementioned Gunsmoke was one. And like you, Richard, The F.B.I. is another. I bought the two volumes of S1, and at first, the show just seemed too staid and stripped down, "just...

Just a few thoughts re: the formulaic, repetitive nature of classic TV shows. I think this is endemic to the "episodic" structure used back in the day, compared to the "serialized" format popular today. While I think the serialized approach can work extremely well with certain shows, I have...

Hi Joe! Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. I'll just pipe up here and say that I find Ozzie and Harriet quite funny, personally. I had never seen the show until a few years or so back, and my perception of it was similar to what you outline above, that it was just another "square"...

Fun thread, Alan, with some interesting responses! There are a great number of series that I used to not like when I was younger that I have come to enjoy as an adult. Chief among these is Gunsmoke. I used to find the main cast dry and uninteresting (especially Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty)...