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Episode Commentary The Gene Autry Show "Guns Below The Border" (S5E6) When I was a kid growing up in Indiana in the 50's (yep, I'm that old), there were few horses around and even less cowboys. So my idea of a real cowboy was shaped by Gene Autry--who sang while playing a guitar on his horse...

Episode Commentary The Andy Griffith Show "Andy And Barney In The Big City" (S2E25) The "big city" referenced in the episode title is Raleigh, N.C. which, with today's population of nearly 500,000, I guess qualifies as a "big" city--at least in North Carolina. However, in 1962 when this episode...

Episode Commentary The Invaders "The Pursued" (S2E25) There are aliens among us. Unfortunately before David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) can capture any of the buggers as proof, they burst like road flares into nothingness. These interlopers are not here to foster plutonic relationships, but rather...

Episode Commentary Star Trek "Amok Time" (S2E1) There came a time in my early teen years of a pressing need for female companionship. I'm not talking about finding a girlfriend willing to share things with me like riding our bikes to the mall, playing pinochle or working together on the high...

I can attest to the fact, Doug, that kidney stones suck. Hope your scope goes well. In my experience, the one thing more irritating than stones: Urologists. They use tools no human should ever contemplate much less endure.

Episode Commentary Quincy, M.E. "The Pride of Elkwood" (S6E5) There are two types of individuals of which this country needs more: An apoplectic medical examiner who screams so consistently as to cause reversal in male pattern baldness; and a college athletic coach who overworks his athletes...

Glad to see you are a real stickler for maintaining continuity, Howie. The U.S. Congress must be a quite a teeth gnasher for you.

Thanks, Jeff. I feel kinda funny coming back with such a vanilla pudding commentary. Much more comfortable embracing my acerbic side.

Episode Commentary Father Knows Best "Proud Father" (S1E23) Jim Anderson (Robert Young) runs into his friend Roger and incurs a blithering dialog from him regarding the sparkling achievements of his three kids. Poor Jim is hardly able to wedge in one complimentary statement of his own children...

One of my favorite episodes, Jeff! You really can't go wrong with an episode written by Roger Smith himself, directed by Montgomery Pittman and starring Sue Ane Langdon.

Episode Commentary Fantasy Island The Over-The-Hill Caper / Poof, You're A Movie Star (S1E10) Were we so jaded in the 70's that a show like this could find a reasonable foothold in TV viewership? I guess so, since we already bought whole-heartedly into preposterous premises like Bewitched and I...

Fear not--if you ever read any of my commentaries, you'll find no "technical" nitpicking on my part that seems to be a big part of many discussions on this forum. My knowledge of that sh*t wouldn't even halfway fill a gnat's toenail. This is apparent since I couldn't even correctly utilize the...

Heartily agree!

Jeff--I probably have between 50 to 100 commentaries I've written but never committed to posting. When I go back to proof them, I find my similes and metaphors lack the sharp edge of wit for which I always strive, or that my benevolent snideness has turned more fractious than intended. Worse...

I don't think I could have written any sentence better in your entire post, pal. Thanks for the needed injection of inspiration, Randall.

Cogent thoughts, Doug. Thanks.

I Just Don't Know Any More.... I've been privately asked by some of you in this forum as to why I've curtailed the number of my posts lately. I'm astonished anyone has noticed. Or care. So let me answer that by posing a question that's been festering on my mind lately: How do YOU maintain...

Series Commentary The Doris Day Show 1968-1973 I say this with a certain shamefacedness, but I honestly find Doris Day in her late 40's to have assumed a mantle of foxy cougarness far beyond her earlier "girl-next-door" identity from films in the '50's and '60's. Why, just saying this makes me...

Budgets and on-location filming weren't as extensive as the later shows you mention.

I applaud your usual selection of fine shows (some of which I am unfamiliar) and your excellent commentaries and screen caps on each, Jeff. But I must take exception on your opinion on the above mentioned series. I've always considered BSB to be the weakest of the WB detective series for several...

Episode Commentary Leave It To Beaver "The Parking Attendants" (S6E17) During my freshman year in college, my Dad's boss hired me to serve as a parking valet at his daughter's wedding reception. At the age of 18, I would've eaten the bark off a sycamore for $2.00 an hour, which is what I was...

Episode Commentary Star Trek "A Piece of the Action" (S2E16) The Enterprise visits a planet that's seemingly stuck in 1920's Al Capone mode. Once again, this requires the three least expendable crew members to risk their lives to "study the situation"--Kirk, Spock and McCoy. The three...

Episode Commentary I Dream Of Jeannie "My Master, The Great Rembrandt" (S1 E26) In college I majored in Art, so it was only logical that my chosen minor was Art History. To this day 50 years later, I can still spot a Pissaro without having to read the museum nameplate, know the difference...

'Nuff said.

Attaboy, Randall! I thought you might be the one to nail me on this bit of folly. In the entire pantheon of the 77 SS series, there is no episode titled Double Identity as I made it up and posted the commentary 5 years ago on the 77 SS thread as an April Fool's joke. I figured enough time had...

Episode Commentary 77 Sunset Strip "Double Identity" Funny how I missed this 77 SS episode from all the past seasons, so I was glad to finally catch it last night. Double Identity is one of the more unique stories scripted by Sam Weisner that fits the character of Jeff Spencer like a glove...

Now THOSE are screen caps I can roll with! Thanks, Randall.

Episode Commentary Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea "The Human Computer" (S1E23) Captain Crane (David Hedison) is saddled with the the task of operating the Seaview all by his lonesome, thus proving the folly that at least 250 highly trained technicians are necessary to man a humongous nuclear...

I spent Memorial Day weekend re-watching a couple of my favorite series: The Avengers and Jonathan Creek. I concentrated mostly on the 4th Season of The Avengers, since that was the debut of the delectable Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) along with her leather jumpsuits and flip hairdos. Even though the...