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Very well done, Randall!

The WB actors from the detective shows are pretty well thinned out now. Many years ago I tried--foolishly--to visit Roger Smith's home. Couldn't get near the place. Don't know what I would've said if I had.

Did I hear that right? I watched the 2017 film of Agatha Christie's Crooked House on Netflix--one of her typical murder mysteries that takes place in a stately English mansion among an eccentric aristocratic and thoroughly dysfunctional family--starring Glenn Close, Terrence Stamp, Gillian...

Use them as coasters for my martinis.

I don't think Kookie actually "had" them, more correctly had by some really disturbed people...

Episode Commentary 77 Sunset Strip Six Superior Skirts" (S2E3) This was always one of my favorite episodes, so I thought I'd revisit it--without re-reading my commentary of this very episode posted a couple years ago. Fresh eyes, y'know. So apologies for any overlapping or redundant ramblings I...

I got nuthin' yet. I might try some re-writes on a few of my past 77SS commentaries. Everything can be improved.

Thanks for the info, Rob. Fortunately, you live in a big media market whereas Carmel, Indiana is still waiting for the premier season of McHale's Navy. By the time MeTV+ gets here, I'll likely be in my 70's. Wait a minute, I'm already in my 70's, dammit....

×@#×!!! I want my MeTV+!

WB Series Guest Stars* Merry Anders Merry became a staple guest star for WB's detective series, having appeared in 5 episodes of 77 Sunset Strip, 4 of Hawaiian Eye and 1 Surfside 6. In 1950 at age 16, her career started auspiciously by joining Rita LeRoy's modeling agency in LA, rising quickly...

Episode Commentary Bourbon Street Beat "Inside Man" (S1E15) Rex (Richard Long) is in LA visiting his sister Ruth and brother-in-law Lee, a police detective. Lee and his partner have been hot on the trail of gang leader Luke Ballard (Richard Carlyle), a thief with a doting mother (Virginia...

You must walk among the chosen, Martin. On all my trips to LA, I always hoped I'd run across Roger, Efrem, or Edd. But by then they were all securely tucked away in their old age and certainly never anyplace I would be. But just knowing I was somewhere in their vicinity was enough.

I want to grow up to be like Kimball Cho. Compared to him, the term "stoic" is a carnival.

Huge fan. This is my second go-around watching the series. Clever writing and strong chacterizations, although the Red John thread can get a bit overdone.

Hey Rob-- I meant to mention earlier I was watching an episode of The Mentalist and caught sight in the background a building labeled Iron Works Museum. I have a bit of an OCD habit of looking up retail names I see on shows just to see if the places (still) exist. This place is located in South...

My Plex server was set up by my techno-proficient son. Left up to me, I'd still be watching shows on a 23" b&w Sylvania tube. I await anxiously for Carmel, IN to become a MeTV+ market..

What the heck is an antenna??

Thanks, Rob. The station hasn't yet made it to Spectrum in my neck of the woods, which irks me to no end. There's some fine pickings in that schedule that I'd like to get my hands on!

A Personal Perspective Surfside 6 Kenny Madison (Van Williams) made the leap from a go-fer of Bourbon Street Beat's Rex Randolph (Richard Long) and 'Cal' Calhoun (Andrew Duggan) to full-fledged private eye by the time this series rolled around. You could tell he was a Miami detective--nut brown...

Yep, still here--but in dribs and drabs. I'd jump on the fact that Hawaiian Eye is back on the airwaves, but how do I get MeTV Plus? Is that a streaming service or a tv network? Most of my posting has been done in the Classic TV thread lately, but I'd like to get back to my beloved Warner...

Great recap of this episode, Randall! Makes me want to re-read my own commentary of this to see if it's anywhere near as good as yours. Thanks for filling up some dead space in this thread that too many of us have sorrowfully neglected.

Eh, who knows? I rely on the often unreliable Google images for their selection of celebrity pics. So you're entirely within rights to disagree with me--respectfully or not.

Episode Re-post* 77 Sunset Strip "Lady in the Sun" (S5Ep32) This odd episode doesn't get much play in discussions of the series. It represents, I think, the waning creativity of scripts as the season was coming to an end and the format being changed in the following last season. However, what...

I guess it would be nice to imagine that after this "reunion", Dean and Jerry would regularly get together for Sunday brunches, share mimosas and relive the good old days. But the two were never going to act together again. The silly, frantic performances of their earlier stage shows and movies...

In re-watching that sequence, I could now see that the reunion between the two--as somewhat forced by Frank Sinatra--was more discomfiting than heartily embraced. Frank kept stupidly repeating "I think it's time, I think it's time..." It didn't stick.

I think he hung around in the beginning, but less as it became a tourist destination. Eventually he sold his rights/share.

I did! I was disappointed there was nothing about Dino's Lodge, though.

Wow! I knew 77 SS had a board game, but was unaware HE and SS 6 followed suit. I wonder if Bourbon Street Beat had one, too? I would think the French Quarter would graphically lend itself nicely to a board layout.

Rob... Glad to hear your gray cells are knitting back to order. As I age, mine are headed in another direction. Long long ago on this thread, I mentioned being in Pasadena as an Indiana University freshman in 1967, attending the Rose Bowl as we got whipped by USC and O.J Simpson. I remember very...

Episode Commentary Hawaiian Eye "Cricket's Millionaire" (S3E20) Cricket has an admirer--in addition to every male over 12 on the island. Arnold Glen Weston III is a millionaire big game hunter who apparently, after seeing Cricket perform in the Shell Bar, has been hoisting his own tent pole...