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Beautiful Screamer is a fantastic episode. Great, beautiful and young Anne Archer. Great Danno centric story. And agreed, The Magician was a fun show. I'm surprised it didn't catch on, we loved it as kids. The change in cast, producer and location midway shows a production looking to improve...

There were very few "good" SF shows on the networks. Planet of the Apes and Logan's Run just used The Fugitive format and had the characters doing the same "meeting primitive societies" stories. And since networks/production companies were throwing so much money in them, if a series was on the...

Blakes 7 was 4 years. That was a decent run for a UK SF series. Reportedly the BBC was embarrassed by this lowbrow sci-fi series being so popular. They kept cancelling it, but audience response always brought it back. As for the rest, yep they got canned fast. Either the shows were too...

Yeah "my kind of programming" usually means the anything goes, fantasy themed series. The pure escapism that I loved to forget the troubles of the day. I still enjoy some "ripped from the headlines" style dramas. I loved Hawaii Five-0, Mannix and so on, but you'll find very few 70's series on...

Wonderful! Thanks for the laugh. :)

This year, March 31st may be Easter Sunday (Happy Easter!) but it is also the 56th anniversary of the airing of the final first run episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. March 31, 1968 was the airdate of “No Way Back.” So to mark the occasion, I tweaked and updated a blog post I wrote...

You're deep into my favorite portion of the season. Terror on Dinosaur Island is better than it sounds, mostly thanks to the interpersonal dramatics provided by Paul Carr and the incredibly fun banter between Richard Basehart and Terry Becker. Legend has it the episode came up short so they...

The cast was game, but yeah, it didn't land right. Especially when they got all Miami Vice Colors in the wardrobe. Late 80's into the 90's TV was really ugly sometimes.

I'm rewatching this series thanks in part to your posts, Randall. I watched this one the other day and two things hit me: 1) Ginger showed more leg than I remembered. I always pictured her in the long gowns and bangs, effectively hiding behind wardrobe and makeup (which is why I never...

Strange Report is a fun show and so very obviously similar in visual style to Area Productions The Man from UNCLE. The whip pans, the not-quite-serious subtitles to the episodes and the way the guest actors are shown all come from the UNCLE series. It was a US/UK co-production but man, there's...

This is a great episode with a terrific guest cast. For the longest time, I thought this was the final episode and it would have played well as one. The series had come a long way from its roots, first as a reworking of The Rookies, then more of a spin on the Adam 12 style of "veteran cop with...

OMG Yogi's Gang! I haven't seen that series in years! I loved it as a kid. As for me, I've been busy with work but managed to unwind with a few classics. SPOILERS Space: 1999 "The Exiles" S02E02 Great early second year episodes where two aliens are revived from a floating fleet of capsules...

"X" Factor :laugh: I'll blame it on the pain meds. I'm glad you're back and on the mend, Doug! This one is notable for extensive footage of the Fox lot and the then new and under construction Century City. This episode is ridiculous and the real nail in the coffin for the spy episodes. It's...

Great pilot, Hooker is not the focus. The original premise was a reworking of The Rookies, but the decision was made to focus on Hooker partnered with a probationary recruit (Adrian Zmed). The finale of the episode, showing graduation, was shot later with only Zmed returning among the rookies...

Yes! This is a classic episode and I was actually singing "To Be Or Not to Be" the other day while making dinner. For most kids (and adults), Silvers was Sgt. Bilko. For me and my friends, he was Harold Hecuba. That's how strongly this show landed. More kids learned about Hamlet from this...

Did a little jumping around now that the holiday viewing season is over. Gilligan's Island: The Matchmaker Early series black and white episode where Mrs. Howell, despondent over missing the social season, decided to play matchmaker and pair Gilligan and Mary Ann. This results in Thurston and...

I can't agree to that, but he was excellent in the latter series. Shatner's 60's Star Trek work is wonderfully complex and tragic. I consider it his finest work. Hooker was less dimensional, especially after the ex-wife and kids were phased out and he was all "the job." Shatner was always...

I love my Hooker... the DVD set I mean. Shout ported over the original Sony prints for the first two seasons and the latter 3 were just straight from the existing unrestored film prints. Still more than watchable and it's always a thrill to have the Columbia Pictures logo of the day instead of...

Funny, I just watched these also. Incredibly good tale I thought it being a 3 parter, it would be something of a slog, but it was exciting all the way through. A bit of a cheat in the recaps, though, as they were like 10 minutes long in parts 2 and 3. But edited together, this would make for a...

Rewatching The Sopranos for the first time since it ended. So many things happened a lot more quickly than I remember, probably because I don't have to wait so long for a new season. I'm almost at the midpoint of the final year. I also forgot that it's simultaneously a very funny and very...

Jeff, this really resonates with me. I 100% agree and I think one of the reasons why I love 80's TV as much as 60's is because they are similar in their embracing of all-out escapism. There are so many goofy action shows, glitzy rich people dramas, flashy cops and weirdo sci-fi hours to take us...

Blue Thunder: Second Thunder (E01) The pilot to the spin off of the hit movie of the same name, with Richard Lynch as a long through dead Army buddy showing up in a plane killing police. A rather disappointing adaptation which I kinda liked back then, but I was a kid and it was the 80's. What...

Now that is a fun show!

Oh lordy the season of Automan and Manimal! What great fun I had watching those shows.

Oh the episode is strong anyway. The music is the cherry on top that helps push it to classic status. This episode was rightly chosen to kick off the season.

Honestly, I think Chapel was more than willing to take Spock's plomeek soup....

This was an interesting era for Saturday Morning cartoons. The Scooby-Doo knock off's everywhere and mostly all from H-B milking Scooby and the Flintstones for all their mileage and beyond. Also, hand in hand with that, as you remind me Jeff, are the cartoon versions of shows recently (or not so...

I'm much more enamoured with the second season. Voyage truly benefitted by switching to color, faster action and, of course, the flying sub. The first season, while being more mature in some plots, had a habit of being so grim and dry, it bordered on dull. When the first season was good, it was...

I tend to skip the end credits when re-watching them. My mom loved them because she liked the "science fact" aspect of it. I enjoyed how well some of the characterizations were handled. I was initially worred about Jonathan Brandis' character thanks to the grating presence of Wesley Crusher on...

Don Davis also won in the second year. I don't know which episode was submitted, but I imagine it was "Daggers" the season premiere. It boasted a lovely opening score as the GELF inmates did this morning routine. I'd love to kin to a video but alas... OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC...