Angelo Colombus
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Noticed I Dream of Jeannie coming out on Blu-ray and i want to buy the Hawaii Five-O series. Should i buy the dvd set now or wait for a Blu-ray one to come out?
Personally, I wouldn't expect it unless you see CBS/Paramount (or whatever they're called now) doing other Blu-ray series sets for better-selling sitcoms before they move to their dramas especially one as large as Hawaii Five-O.Noticed I Dream of Jeannie coming out on Blu-ray and i want to buy the Hawaii Five-O series. Should i buy the dvd set now or wait for a Blu-ray one to come out?
I just watched "To Hell with Babe Ruth"Here is my rewatchable episodes list through season eleven. An asterisk denotes a true gem, IMHO the best of the best.
Season Two
To Hell with Babe Ruth
Forty Feet High and It Kills
King Kamehameha Blues
All The King’s Horses
The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild
Which Way Did They Go?
Blind Tiger*
Cry, Lie
The Mothers-in-Law starring Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden (1967-68) (same year as "I, Mudd")?"FOB Honolulu Pt 1"
This is the first time I can remember ever seeing Roger C. Carmel in anything other than the Harry Mudd episodes on Star Trek TOS.
"Over Fifty? Steal"
This is not only the best episode of season three so far, it's easily the best episode I've seen from the first three seasons combined.
Hume Cronyn single-handedly steals this episode. I was intrigued by him the entire time. I especially loved the scene where after he robs, he walks up to the security camera, points his gun at it, and squirts water on the lens. What I loved so much about it was the way all the Five-O guys laughed. I could tell they had a sneaking admiration for him.
Just so much fun for an hour to end my day.
It was during the regular rerun season of 1972-73. A few years later (May 1977) CBS showed it on The CBS Late Movie as a prelude to the episode reruns that began that fall. (As I recall, all the Hawaii Five-0 bumpers were removed from that broadcast, perhaps to make it look more like a movie on The CBS Late Movie.) Years later one of the cable stations that was showing the reruns broadcast it as a movie with a new closing credit sequence which showed scenes from episodes.Funny you mention it playing as a movie. If I recall, CBS reran all 3 parts back-to-back at one point as a prime time tv-movie, though I’m not clear as to when it was.
The hypnosis gimmick was silly, it was a complete waste of Wo Fat in what amounts to a mere cameo just a few episodes after McGarrett booted him off the island, and it had that grating music cue that was the trigger for the hypnotized people. However, the rest of the Richard Shores score was jazzy and enjoyable as usual, and Eric Braeden went on to a much better performance in season 3’s “The Second Shot” as an assassin posing as a journalist."A Bullet for McGarret" from season 2 is one of those episodes that escaped my memory completely...until I watched it again, then I realized why. I hated every minute of this stupid concept episode. I even had an audience, and the room was dead quiet when it finished. I thought Oh, any season 2 episode will be good enough, let me pick an ep. that I'm less familiar with. Stupid mistake as this is one of the laziest, and poorly written episodes of the entire series! Good job at scaring those in attendance unfamiliar with this great series the hell away from it probably forever.
Words of wisdom:
If you want to turn someone onto a series, show them an episode you love, and are familiar with.
I think when The Family Channel began running the remastered episodes in May 1997, they kicked the show off with a 3-hour Vashon broadcast that had that unusual closing credit sequence you noted.It was during the regular rerun season of 1972-73. A few years later (May 1977) CBS showed it on The CBS Late Movie as a prelude to the episode reruns that began that fall. (As I recall, all the Hawaii Five-0 bumpers were removed from that broadcast, perhaps to make it look more like a movie on The CBS Late Movie.) Years later one of the cable stations that was showing the reruns broadcast it as a movie with a new closing credit sequence which showed scenes from episodes.
These "dots" can often be seen on The Wild Wild West when the picture freezes before the animated bumper. Apparently they are put there to show the editor, animator or whoever what frame of film to use for the freeze.602 “Draw Me A Killer”
Has anyone else ever noticed that often a black dot appears in the freeze frame right before they go to the bumper and commercial? Does anyone know why? My guess is it’s made with a grease pencil, an editorial mark to denote the exact frame to be frozen.
William Windom was in two Twilight Zones as well. He was in the seldom-seen hour-long episode "Miniature" along with Robert Duvall, Barney Miller's wife Barbara Barrie, the original Alice Kramden Pert Kelton, comic Lennie Weinrib and early partner to Jack Webb's Sgt. Friday, Barney Phillips (also the diner counterman in TZ's "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?").You owe it to yourself to at least seek out his performance in The Night Gallery segment, "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar". His 2nd season effort, "Little Girl Lost" is quite good and often over looked because of the first. I am very fond of his Twilight Zone effort.
Thanks for posting that link Darin. I didn’t see it when I placed my order. I see it’s a used copy.
This is the set I ordered. I’m afraid it’s not as attractive as that one.
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1203 “Though the Heavens Fall”
This reminded me of THE STAR CHAMBER with Michael Douglas, or perhaps I should say THE STAR CHAMBER reminded me of this, since this episode came first.
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Either way, the talent around Jack Lord has gotten very thin, and for me the writing is on the wall.
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I am serious when I watch classic TV; I make the time just to watch, to sit there in front of the screen and give it my full attention. But truth be told, I am not going to make it through this season if I do that. It doesn’t deserve my undivided attention. It’s too much of a slog. So I am going to start watching a disc at a time while I multitask and do other things like pay bills, etc. Normally this would be unheard of for me, but I am committed to finishing this series, and this is the only way I can stomach it. Apologies if it seems like I am skipping episodes in my posts. I’m watching them all but doubt I will post on all of them. My mother taught me if I don't have something nice to say, better to say nothing at all.
1203 “Though the Heavens Fall”
This reminded me of THE STAR CHAMBER with Michael Douglas, or perhaps I should say THE STAR CHAMBER reminded me of this, since this episode came first.
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Either way, the talent around Jack Lord has gotten very thin, and for me the writing is on the wall.
View attachment 45742
I am serious when I watch classic TV; I make the time just to watch, to sit there in front of the screen and give it my full attention. But truth be told, I am not going to make it through this season if I do that. It doesn’t deserve my undivided attention. It’s too much of a slog. So I am going to start watching a disc at a time while I multitask and do other things like pay bills, etc. Normally this would be unheard of for me, but I am committed to finishing this series, and this is the only way I can stomach it. Apologies if it seems like I am skipping episodes in my posts. I’m watching them all but doubt I will post on all of them. My mother taught me if I don't have something nice to say, better to say nothing at all.