What did you watch this week in classic TV on DVD(or Blu)? (4 Viewers)

[The 1960's]

Fury (1955-1960)
Stars Peter Graves William Fawcett Bobby Diamond​

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Fury (retitled Brave Stallion in syndicated reruns) is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: "FURY!...The story of a horse...and a boy who loves him." Fury is the first American series to be produced originally by Television Programs of America and later by the British-based company ITC Entertainment. Outdoor footage for the series was filmed primarily on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., throughout the five-season run of the series, with some of the earliest footage for the series shot on the Garner Ranch in Idyllwild, Calif. One episode, "Packy, the Lion Tamer," which premiered on Jan. 2, 1960, included footage shot at Jungleland USA in Thousand Oaks, California, and occasional footage appearing during the series was shot at Corriganville Movie Ranch near Simi Valley, California. (Wikipedia)

Recently I was quite fortunate to acquire the entire Fury series from a private collector. It has never been given an official DVD release which is a damn shame. It’s a charming series about an orphaned boy named Joey (Bobby Diamond aka Robert Diamond) and his love for a horse named Fury given to him by Jim Norton (Peter Graves) who adopts him. They live on the Broken Wheel Ranch along with ranch hand Pete (William Fawcett) who cut his teeth on a branding iron.
The images below have been considerably modified and presented in thumb-size due to the less than ideal quality prints. The opening might just contain more dialogue than any series in television history. The sub-theme heard whenever Fury appears is quite memorable. They don't make 'em like this anymore folks!

S01E09 Joey Saves The Day (Dec.10.1955)
Stars Peter Graves Bobby Diamond Richard Travis William Fawcett Highland Dale Keith Richards Erik Nielsen Stanley Andrews Harry Tyler​

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A Social Worker comes to check up on Jim and his care of Joey. Joey and Fury save a man from a rattle snake bite by fetching Dr. Fulmer (Stanley Andrews), probably best known as The Old Ranger, the host on Death Valley Days.​

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Closing thoughts. For whatever reason Classic TV series featuring animals have been given a raw deal. Yes we have Flipper, Born Free, part of The Littlest Hobo, Champion The Wonder Horse, My Friend Flicka and Mister Ed. These shows appeal to both young and old and yet there is no Lassie, Rin Tin Tin or Fury, three of the very best!​

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[tsodcollector]

DInosaurs seasons 3-4,great show,very underrated television sitcom of the 90's,way ahead of it's time
Perfect Strangers season 3 is one of my all time favorites.

 

[Jeff Flugel]

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 5.19 "The Duenna"
David meets a pretty Spanish girl named Lucita in the malt shop and asks her to the dance, but she can only go out with him if she brings along her "duenna," or chaperone. Ozzie, expecting the duenna in question to be a nice little grandmotherly type, agrees to accompany David, but is surprised to find that Lucita's duenna, Carmelita (Lina Romay), is much younger (and foxier) than he expected.

Ozzie's embarassment grows when he realizes that Carmelita believes that he's her date, not helped by the fact that the women don't speak English and neither Ozzie nor David know much Spanish. The foursome head to a local Mexican restaurant and engage in a little dancing, just as Harriet arrives on the scene with three of her attractive Women's League pals. A wonderful episode all around, with many funny lines, lovely ladies galore and even a climactic musical number. Screencaps from MPI's S5 DVD set.

The X-Files
8.7 "Via Negativa"
8.11 "The Gift"
I must have missed a lot of S8 when it was first aired, because most of these episodes are new to me. I'm finding Robert Patrick's committed performance as the no-nonsense Agent John Dogget, pulled into the crazy, topsy-turvy world of the X-Files unit after being assigned there post Fox Mulder's disappearance, a breath of fresh air in contrast to the overly humorous run of stories in the previous season. These two episodes are Scully-lite, with Gillian Anderson only putting in a token appearance in "Via Negativa" and absent entirely from "The Gift" (Anderson's renegotiated contract this season allowing for more time off to spend with her daughter). To take up the slack, Mitch Pillegi lends a hand as Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and he and Dogget make a pretty good, if somewhat combatative, team.

The trippy "Via Negativa" seems to be more popular with fans, as Doggett investigates a cult leader (Keith Szarabajka) who, after ingesting some powerful hallucinogenic drugs to open his mystical "third eye", has apparently achieved the power to kill people in their dreams (somewhat akin to Freddy Kruger, minus the pizza face and snarky one-liners.) Some gruesome kills and freaky dream imagery here, but I prefered the equally gross but IMO more satisfying "The Gift," which finds Doggett traveling to a rural community to retrace Mulder's movements, in what appears to be the last case he investigated before his disappearance. The "monster" in this one is a pathetic creature, a "soul eater" who devours sick locals whole then regurgitates them in its underground lair, thereby curing them of their disease by taking it upon himself. Some nice, typically gloomy atmosphere in this one, along with a return of David Duchovny as Mulder in flashback form. We also get brief but very welcome cameo appearances by those irrepressible Lone Gunmen goofballs in both episodes.

 

[tsodcollector]

The donna reed show,season 4,timeless sitcom that will be around forever.

 

[BobO'Link]

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 5.19 "The Duenna"
David meets a pretty Spanish girl named Lucita in the malt shop and asks her to the dance, but she can only go out with him if she brings along her "duenna," or chaperone. Ozzie, expecting the duenna in question to be a nice little grandmotherly type, agrees to accompany David, but is surprised to find that Lucita's duenna, Carmelita (Lina Romay), is much younger (and foxier) than he expected.

Ozzie's embarassment grows when he realizes that Carmelita believes that he's her date, not helped by the fact that the women don't speak English and neither Ozzie nor David know much Spanish. The foursome head to a local Mexican restaurant and engage in a little dancing, just as Harriet arrives on the scene with three of her attractive Women's League pals. A wonderful episode all around, with many funny lines, lovely ladies galore and even a climactic musical number. Screencaps from MPI's S5 DVD set.

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The X-Files
8.7 "Via Negativa"
8.11 "The Gift"
I must have missed a lot of S8 when it was first aired, because most of these episodes are new to me. I'm finding Robert Patrick's committed performance as the no-nonsense Agent John Dogget, pulled into the crazy, topsy-turvy world of the X-Files unit after being assigned there post Fox Mulder's disappearance, a breath of fresh air in contrast to the overly humorous run of stories in the previous season. These two episodes are Scully-lite, with Gillian Anderson only putting in a token appearance in "Via Negativa" and absent entirely from "The Gift" (Anderson's renegotiated contract this season allowing for more time off to spend with her daughter). To take up the slack, Mitch Pillegi lends a hand as Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and he and Dogget make a pretty good, if somewhat combatative, team.

The trippy "Via Negativa" seems to be more popular with fans, as Doggett investigates a cult leader (Keith Szarabajka) who, after ingesting some powerful hallucinogenic drugs to open his mystical "third eye", has apparently achieved the power to kill people in their dreams (somewhat akin to Freddy Kruger, minus the pizza face and snarky one-liners.) Some gruesome kills and freaky dream imagery here, but I prefered the equally gross but IMO more satisfying "The Gift," which finds Doggett traveling to a rural community to retrace Mulder's movements, in what appears to be the last case he investigated before his disappearance. The "monster" in this one is a pathetic creature, a "soul eater" who devours sick locals whole then regurgitates them in its underground lair, thereby curing them of their disease by taking it upon himself. Some nice, typically gloomy atmosphere in this one, along with a return of David Duchovny as Mulder in flashback form. We also get brief but very welcome cameo appearances by those irrepressible Lone Gunmen goofballs in both episodes.

OK... you got me, Jeff... I'm looking at this going "Wha??? I thought I read this post already!! What's going on?!?" and then I realize you also posted the O&H stuff in *that* thread...

 

[ScottRE]

OK... you got me, Jeff... I'm looking at this going "Wha??? I thought I read this post already!! What's going on?!?" and then I realize you also posted the O&H stuff in *that* thread...

Brings back memories of different syndicated channels running the same shows.

 

[BobO'Link]

Brings back memories of different syndicated channels running the same shows.

That really wasn't too bad when syndicators used the "bicycle" method of distribution (one station got a film/tape copy of a specific episode and after it aired they sent it to the next station who then aired it and sent it to the next station - repeat/repeat/etc.) - it was almost always a different episode in those days. When they shifted to sending a library (typically all episodes of a series on tape) and/or satellite distribution (happened in roughly the mid 90s) you'd usually see the same episode on the same day on every channel airing the series.

 

[Purple Wig]

Don’t recall seeing this record back in the day. $1 well (?) spent.

 

[ScottRE]

Oh man even Emergency! had the story records?! That's awesome. I wonder how close they got the voices??

 

[The 1960's]

Don’t recall seeing this record back in the day. $1 well (?) spent.
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Ben Masters will need Emergency care after he sees this.

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[tsodcollector]

La Femme Nikita season one great show one of usa network's most signature series.

 

[ScottRE]

Ben Masters will need Emergency care after he sees this.

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Maybe that record counts as the 7th go.

That "all dialog" opening is why I don't have the whole series. They put that over the seasons which had a very uptempo arrangement of the Nelson Riddle theme.

The first 53 seconds of this video is the music:

 

[Flashgear]

Simon & Simon S3E9 Too Much Of A Good Thing (Dec. 1, 1983) D: Gary Grillo. W: Philip DeGuere, George Geiger...Guest starring Dick York, Stephen Keep Mills, Randi Brooks, Tori Lysdale, Morgan Most, Phillip Clark, Jimmy Lydon.

Walter Carmichael (Stephen Keep Mills) is missing, and brother P.I.s Rick and A.J. Simon have been hired by his newlywed wife Hilda (statuesque Randi Brooks) to track him down. Walter, as photos reveal, is a bland milquetoast nerd if there ever was one, confounding the Simons by actually being married to such a stunning goddess as Hilda. Nevertheless, the Simons are off to Oxnard to look for Walter, who they're told is a "agrarian nutritional consulting chemist". He was last seen inspecting for polluted water violations in the orange groves of big-time corporate farmer Martin Donlevy (Dick York, the best Darrin from Bewitched). Donlevy is rightfully proud of his oranges, but may be using an illegal pesticide (Malathion, much in the news in the '80s), which he smuggles in from Mexico for his dirty work...which also includes having drugged Walter, holding him prisoner in the company's own infirmary while Donlevy decides what to do with Walter's threat to alert the Department of Agriculture to his use of the banned Malathion pesticide.

The Simons, tracking all the way from Oxnard to Fresno and making discreet enquiries as to the missing Walter while claiming to be "agrarian nutritional consulting chemists" themselves (a claim greeted with convulsive laughter wherever they go), Rick and A.J. haven't quite located Walter yet...but they have turned up another two stunning beauties who both claim to be Walter's very devoted wives! (Tori Lysdale, Morgan Most) It seems that humble and mousey Walter lives more than one parallel life with beautiful women in each of them! This drives Rick and A.J. crazy...as wherever they go while looking for Walter, beautiful women treat them with disinterest or outright contempt! Their world seems turned on it's head...driving the Simons even harder in their search for Walter...if even just to find out what the secret is of his inexplicable attraction to women who should be way out of his league! Another funny episode with great stunts. My screen caps from the Shout DVDs...

As Donlevy, this was Dick York's third-to-last screen credit...beset by health problems, he passed away in 1992 at age 63...

With the missing Walter (Stephen Keep Mills)...Donlevy can't let him go, but can't kill him either...for the time being, he'll keep Walter drugged up in his company's infirmary...

Wife #1...the statuesque Randi Brooks...the Simons put the moves on her before discovering that she's looking for her missing husband...the prodigious nerd Walter...

The Simons are soon surprised in discovering Walter's stunning wife #2...Tori Lysdale...this does not compute!!!

With Walter still unaccounted for, the Simons soon find themselves caught in the middle, as wife #1 confronts wife #2...the severely uncomfortable situation has the frightened Rick and A. J. put on their nervous smiles while wanting to escape the room, ha, ha...but the wives soon make peace and cry on each others shoulders...

Much to Rick and A.J.'s astonishment, they still want their Walter back!

Continued next post...

 

[Flashgear]

Simon & Simon S3E9 Too Much Of A Good Thing (Dec. 1, 1983) continued...

Rick and A. J. Simon, shocked that missing nerd Walter's now two wives (count 'em, two! And they're gorgeous!) still want the Simons to find and return Walter to them, decide to go back out to Martin Donlevy's (Dick York) orange grove, who they know had something to do with Walter's disappearance...but not before they locate yet another of Walter's gorgeous wives!

Rick and A.J. wonder what they're doing wrong...everywhere they go while searching for the mystical Walter, they themselves are treated like trash by every beautiful woman they encounter...sure, it's a recurring comedic device in this episode, but a very funny one!

And here's wife #3 (Morgan Most)...she too is hopelessly in love with Walter, and cares not at all that he's a bigamist!

The Simons close-in on the evildoers...but in keeping with this show's fine traditions, there will be an eye-popping chase involving a crop duster aircraft...

Case closed, and with Walter returned to the loving embrace of all three of his wives, the Simon brothers will just shake their heads and cash the cheque...with the secret of Walter's success left undefined...hopefully, the boys will discover the girls to be more receptive next week...for the time being, nerds rule!

The episode (albeit with the image flipped and credits reversed, and stretched to faux WS) is on DailyMotion (with commercial)...enjoy!

 

[tsodcollector]

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 5.19 "The Duenna"
David meets a pretty Spanish girl named Lucita in the malt shop and asks her to the dance, but she can only go out with him if she brings along her "duenna," or chaperone. Ozzie, expecting the duenna in question to be a nice little grandmotherly type, agrees to accompany David, but is surprised to find that Lucita's duenna, Carmelita (Lina Romay), is much younger (and foxier) than he expected.

Ozzie's embarassment grows when he realizes that Carmelita believes that he's her date, not helped by the fact that the women don't speak English and neither Ozzie nor David know much Spanish. The foursome head to a local Mexican restaurant and engage in a little dancing, just as Harriet arrives on the scene with three of her attractive Women's League pals. A wonderful episode all around, with many funny lines, lovely ladies galore and even a climactic musical number. Screencaps from MPI's S5 DVD set.

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The X-Files
8.7 "Via Negativa"
8.11 "The Gift"
I must have missed a lot of S8 when it was first aired, because most of these episodes are new to me. I'm finding Robert Patrick's committed performance as the no-nonsense Agent John Dogget, pulled into the crazy, topsy-turvy world of the X-Files unit after being assigned there post Fox Mulder's disappearance, a breath of fresh air in contrast to the overly humorous run of stories in the previous season. These two episodes are Scully-lite, with Gillian Anderson only putting in a token appearance in "Via Negativa" and absent entirely from "The Gift" (Anderson's renegotiated contract this season allowing for more time off to spend with her daughter). To take up the slack, Mitch Pillegi lends a hand as Assistant Director Walter Skinner, and he and Dogget make a pretty good, if somewhat combatative, team.

The trippy "Via Negativa" seems to be more popular with fans, as Doggett investigates a cult leader (Keith Szarabajka) who, after ingesting some powerful hallucinogenic drugs to open his mystical "third eye", has apparently achieved the power to kill people in their dreams (somewhat akin to Freddy Kruger, minus the pizza face and snarky one-liners.) Some gruesome kills and freaky dream imagery here, but I prefered the equally gross but IMO more satisfying "The Gift," which finds Doggett traveling to a rural community to retrace Mulder's movements, in what appears to be the last case he investigated before his disappearance. The "monster" in this one is a pathetic creature, a "soul eater" who devours sick locals whole then regurgitates them in its underground lair, thereby curing them of their disease by taking it upon himself. Some nice, typically gloomy atmosphere in this one, along with a return of David Duchovny as Mulder in flashback form. We also get brief but very welcome cameo appearances by those irrepressible Lone Gunmen goofballs in both episodes.

Ozzie And Harriet come on now,but The X-Files was not a happy time,let's face it the show was never the same when david ducovny left.face it it wasn't.

 

[tsodcollector]

I'm watching Mr.Belvedere season three sunday it's a 80's tv classic.

 

[Rustifer]

Simon & Simon S3E9 Too Much Of A Good Thing (Dec. 1, 1983) D: Gary Grillo. W: Philip DeGuere, George Geiger...Guest starring Dick York, Stephen Keep Mills, Randi Brooks, Tori Lysdale, Morgan Most, Phillip Clark, Jimmy Lydon.

Nice reminder and write-up of this series, Randall. I must admit, it was not one of my favorite shows of the era other than my being a big Gerald McRaney fan back then and continuing to this day (especially his stint in the Longmire series)--not to mention his good fortune in being married to the delectable Delta Burke.

Still married after 33 years...

 

[Rustifer]

Episode Commentary
Father Knows Best
"The Meanest Professor" (S5E33)

I had a favorite teacher in high school. Mr. Degler, my geography teacher, was a cool 30-ish dude who wore clothes similar to what us kids were wearing and was able to pull it off without looking like a doofus--and all the while making Geography seem like the most fascinating subject in our curriculum. All the girls were gaga over the guy, and I suspect at least a couple of the female teaching staff got a tiny bit moist when Mr. Degler was around them. He was also our sponsor for the school's Audio Visual Club, of which I was a proud member. Back in the 60's, this was by no means a nerd-infested club of acne-ridden misfits who could only muster up their cousin as a date to the prom. Mr. Degler made us feel there was nothing more magnificent than rolling the school's Bell & Howell projector into a classroom, being the center of awe by all the students over the enormous technical knowledge we audio visual guys possessed in feeding 16 mm film through the myriad of complicated sprockets on the projector in order to successfully run the film. It may have been the high point of my high school experience, second only to a steamy back seat encounter with Patty Stone while attending the Dr. No movie at the local drive-in.

Bud Anderson is furious. He's just learned that his high school yearbook is to be dedicated to his most hated teacher, old Mr. Stark (Jack Raine)--known for indiscriminately flunking many of his students and--horrors--disallowing any meth transactions in the restroom. Worse yet, Bud has been saddled with writing "a big, glowing tribute" to Mr. Stark. So--just for laughs--Bud proceeds to write a gag dedication (a concept of which I would have heartily approved) filled with more half truths and exaggerations than a Congressional debate. Bud's friends think his resulting tribute is a scream and plead for him to go ahead and publish it. Not so Bud's dad Jim (Robert Young), who demands in a fit of parental insight and restraint that Bud actually take time to interview people concerning Mr. Stark's 40 year tenure in order to achieve an accurate reading of the man. Bud reluctantly agrees, and is amazed to learn many highly favorable details about Mr. Stark from past students, colleagues, community leaders and even a few ex wives.

Jim discourages Bud's Mad Magazine tribute to Mr. Stark; Mr. Stark astonishes Bud--"Print it!"

Bud's entire disposition towards Stark makes a 180 degree turn, and as a result writes the "glowing tribute" to which he was originally assigned. Unfortunately, Mr. Stark accidently gets hold of Bud's initial gag piece and much to Bud's astonishment, he prefers the funnier dedication version as more authentic and authorizes Bud to run it in the yearbook.

Turns out some of our most misperceived teachers are actually Mr. Degler in disguise.

 

[tsodcollector]

I'm watching Mr.Belvedere season three tonight.it would be great.
Paradise (aka Guns Of Paradise) season one is very underrated television series of the 80's.

 

[ScottRE]

Space: 1999
“Voyager’s Return”
Season 1
Episode #: Depends on who aired it when

Written by Johnny Byrne
Directed by Bob Kellett

Guest starring Jeremy Kemp & Barry Stokes​

The Earth exploratory probe Voyager One is returning to Earth. It has the Queller Drive which spews out fast neutrons in order for it to cover vast distances at great speeds. Anyone in their past is obliterated. Some years ago, on Earth, Voyager Two’s drive cut in too soon and destroyed an entire community. Some of the families lost were those of Alphans. Ernst Queller, creator of the drive, is a scientist on Alpha going by the name Linden. His assistant Jim Haines lost his parents. As Queller tries to deactivate the drive so it can land on Alpha and they can access all the probe as learned, Haines discovers the truth and attacks his mentor. However, Queller (badly injured) is still able to get Voyager safely down Meanwhile, an attack force from the planet Sidon approaches, seeking revenges for the loss of life caused by the passing Voyager. Queller takes Voyager to meet the force, hoping to turn back the Sidons while redeeming himself.

A fantastic, straightforward episode. A lot of parallels to our own scientific progress. Jeremy Kemp is wonderful as Queller, haunted by his own guilt. Barry Stokes, without much to work with, still presents an understandable and sympathetic character.

Most of the leads take the back seat to the guests but Paul Morrow (Prentiss Hancock) gets some nice backstory as we find out his father was killed in the Voyager Two disaster.

I’m watching this on my Plex server, transferred from the Blu Rays. Plex has them in some weird order that someone put on the IMDB or something. Probably one of the American broadcast orders. Since the show was syndicated here, stations were free to run them in any order they wished. This isn’t the NY order, but it is interesting to watch it this way. Even though the series was episodic and it generally doesn’t matter, there was some evolution to the characters which is muddled when you jumble the episodes. But this is still kinda fun.