What did you watch this week in classic TV on DVD(or Blu)? (1 Viewer)

[The 1960's]

The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

S03E33 The Dummy (May.04.1962)

Stars
Cliff Robertson - Jerry Etherson
Frank Sutton - Frank
George Murdock - Willie
John Harmon - Georgie
Sandra Warner - Noreen
Ralph Manza - Doorkeeper
Rudy Dolan - Emcee
Bethelynn Grey - Chorus Girl
Rod Serling - Narrator / Self - Host
Edy Williams - Chorus Girl

Abner Biberman - Director
Rod Serling -Teleplay
Lee Polk - Story
Rod Serling - Creator
Buck Houghton - Producer
George T. Clemens Director of Photography
Jason H. Bernie - Film Editor
Robert Walker - Casting

Introduction

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Opening Narration:

“You’re watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego sitting atop his lap is a brash stick of kindling with the sobriquet ‘Willy.’ In a moment, Mr. Etherson and his knotty-pine partner will be booked in one of the out-of-the-way bistros, that small, dark, intimate place known as The Twilight Zone.”

I don’t believe there’s a single fan of classic tv that doesn’t remember the first time he or she saw this bizarre episode and how clearly they remember it’s haunting effect. As a kid, I could never again enjoy any other children’s programming that contained puppets or dummy’s, even Ventriloquists, without immediately thinking about this unsettling story. To this day Willy's blood-curdling laughter and "you're not going to leave me in that fillthy old trunk, are ya?" remains etched into my mind. Though dummies dolls and dopplegangers were staples throughout The Twilight Zone series, for me, this one will always stand out. Whether or not Cliff Robertson liked it, his role as Jerry Etherson just might have been his most recognizable. Certainly it is a powerful performance by the then 39 year-old actor.

The story is simple and engrossing about a man, Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson (Cliff Robertson), slowly losing his mind convinced his dummy, Willie, is alive and speaking to him. He works the nightclub circuit in New York City and is a recluse who drinks too much. His agent Frank, (Frank Sutton) is fed up with him and feels he needs psychiatric help. Jerry decides that if he changes his act he might change his luck so he begins using his other dummy Goofy Goggles. He locks Willie in the trunk in his dressing room but hears his voice calling out to him laughing. The story is based on the horror film, Dead of Night (1945). It consists of five short tales of terror which greatly influenced the work of Rod Serling. Note: Images originate from The Twilight Zone BluRay release.

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Hey Wise Guy

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Willy: What do you say, stranger? You slumming? A funny thing happened to me on the way to the club tonight. I was out in front of the ritz-savoy. I was out in front of the ritz-savoy... that's where I live...out in front of the ritz-savoy. In front of the Ritz-Savoy. Come out, come out, wherever you are. Hey, Wise Guy. Hey! Wise Guy!
Jerry Etherson: The wrong one. How could I get the wrong one?
Willy: Maybe you need glasses. Why don't you take the eye test? Now, what am I holding out in front of me? I'll give you a hint. It's between "D" and "F." Don't peek. What do you say, partner? What do you say? What do you say... We Get down to business?
Jerry Etherson: You're real. How can you be real When you're made of wood?
Willy: You made me real. You poured words into my head. You moved my mouth. You stuck out my tongue. You jerk, don't you get it? You made me what I am today. I hope you're... satisfied... From the song, of the same name. (laughter)

Closing Narration:
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“What’s known in the parlance of the times as ‘the old switcheroo,’ from boss to blockhead in a few uneasy lessons. And if you’re given to nightclubbing on occasion, check this act. It’s called ‘Willy and Jerry,’ and they generally are booked into some of the clubs along the ‘Gray Night Way’ known as The Twilight Zone.”

Spoiler Clip Jerry and Willy / Closing Credits

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Episode Notes:

1. The dummy "Willy" was created by American ventriloquist supplies maker Revillo Pettee, while the dummy seen at the end was created by English builder Len Insull. "Willy" is in the private collection of magician David Copperfield.

2. Rod Serling's reference to the "Gray Night Way" is a play on the common nickname for Broadway, which is the "Great White Way."

3. The ventriloquist's dummy was later reused in Caesar and Me (1964).

4. There is a similar plot of ventriloquist terrorized by evil dummy appearing in Magic (1978) and in some Batman comics and cartoons involving the characters Arnold Wesker and Scarface since 1987.

5. Other films of disturbed ventriloquists include The Great Gabbo (1929); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)'s The Glass Eye (1957); the low budget British production, Devil Doll (1964); the ambitious but overblown Magic (1978); while contemporary film-makers have recently gone to the well again with Dead Silence (2007). But for many people, the outstanding example is that found within the British anthology movie, Dead of Night (1945), which gives us an unforgettable performance by Michael Redgrave as the tormented ventriloquist Maxwell Frere, and a dummy, Hugo Fitch, who will haunt your nightmares.

Cliff Robertson on working on "The Twilight Zone”



Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963-1967)
Stars Bob Hope Jack Weston Jack Kelly​

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Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television. Dramatic and comedy shows were presented, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise. Every month or so, Hope would host a variety special in the show's timeslot. On those occasions, the show was titled "Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Special". As can be seen from the various hosts listed, many of these shows were shown in reruns, usually as a summer replacement series, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

S03E01 The Game (Sep.15.1965)
Stars Bob Hope Cliff Robertson Dina Merrill Nehemiah Persoff Maurice Evans Cyril Delevanti Aleta Rotell Georgia Simmons Ivan Triesault Renzo Cesana Celia Lovsky Anthony D. Nealis Joseph La Cava Ralph Smiley Dennis McCarthy David Tomack Rollin Moriyama Ron Nyman​

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An American tractor technician working seasonally in Africa, and about to return home to his family, becomes fascinated with a private gambling room of eccentrics playing Baccarat. John Williams scored the soundtrack. Sydney Pollack directs. This is a fabulous story with a powerful cast and quite a rare treat quality-wise.

Charly (1968)
Stars Cliff Robertson Claire Bloom Lilia Skala​

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An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.

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[JohnHopper]

In the last few days, I’ve binge-watched episodes of the Universal spoof cop series The Partners (1971-1972)
starring Don Adams (Get Smart), Rupert Crosse, John Doucette, Dick van Patten.
It’s good fun and the urban music scores by Lalo Schifrin and Richard Hazard are excellent.
It has a fine split-screen opening titles a la Mannix and a great sense of film editing.

1. Here Comes the Fuzz

1. Here Comes the Fuzz

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[Jeff Flugel]

Colt .45
Still working my way through S1 of this sturdy half-hour WB western. These Disc 4 episodes remain strong and varied, although star Wayde Preston is occasionally sidelined in service of the guest stars. And I tell you, straightlaced, no-nonsense Colt is undeniably a stand-up guy and a total badass, but he really needs to start paying better attention when he walks through a door, as a few too many baddies are getting the drop on him due to his seeming lack of spatial awareness.

1.20 “The Golden Gun”
Edd “Kookie” Byrnes (about 8 months before his debut on 77 Sunset Strip) portrays the estranged son of a notorious, terminally-ill gunfighter (Paul Fix) who inherits his the father's titular gun, which holds the secret to a stolen stash of $50,000...and a whole host of problems for the son.

1.21 “Circle of Fear”
Colt (Wayde Preston) is escorting a prisoner (Tol Avery) on a stagecoach along with several others passengers when it is ambushed by marauding Indians. Colt, the passengers and the wounded driver take cover in a box canyon, surrounded on all sides. There are only four horses and seven people. Which four will ride out to safety, and which ones will stay to face certain death? Also with Jean Willes (playing a sympathetic character for a change), Robert Clarke, Joan Weldon, Harvey Stephens and Sean Garrison.

1.22 “Split Second”
This one is arguably the best of these five episodes, and even includes a first for the series - a flashback. Colt gets involved when he rides into town prior to the hanging of ruthless outlaw Frank Fowler (Arthur Batanides). The chief witness in the case is an old friend of Chris’, former marshal Tack Bleeker (Richard Garland), who once eschewed guns, but has been transformed into a deadly gunslinger after Fowler killed his wife. Events take a turn when the younger sister of Tack’s dead wife (also played by Elaine Edwards), shows up in town for the trial, still carrying a torch for him.

1.23 “Point of Honor”
Chris tries to help Lea Taylor (Marcia Henderson), a rare female doctor in the west, who arrives in town one day to a clinic full of expensive equipment, bought a by mysterious, ill benefactor whom her brother (Laramie’s John Smith) works for. Turns out her supposed benefactor is in fact vicious outlaw Tom Shannon (Emile Meyer), who wants Doc Taylor to cure the gout plaguing both his legs – or else.

1.24 “The Deserters”
This one’s notable for guest-starring a young and (no surprise) beauteous Angie Dickinson. She plays the fiancée of Ab Saunders (Michael Dante), an Army deserter who stole Colt’s horse and guns. Colt tracks the pair down to an outpost in the Montana Territory, but is less interested in nabbing Saunders than he is in squashing the criminal racket who’s been taking advantage of similar deserters before bumping them off. Also with Myron Healy, Robert Foulk and Robert Anderson.

Miami Vice – 2.20 “Free Verse”
The squad is assigned to protect an exiled, wheelchair-bound Latin American poet (Byrne Piven) before he heads off to make a deposition to Congress. Various factions want the man dead, at one point employing a glamorous, ice-cold assassin (played by Bianca Jagger). Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) sparks with the poet’s fiery daughter (Yamil Borges), while trying to keep her recalcitrant, horndog father alive. As usual with this series, the plot is fairly predictable cops-and-robbers stuff, but is served up with plenty of style, swagger and exciting action.

Magnum, P.I. – 2.15 “Italian Ice”
Magnum travels to Italy to rescue pretty socialite Katrina Tremaine (Ann Dusenberry) from a mobster’s villa, at the request of Robin Masters, who’s a friend of the girl’s father. Thomas brings Katrina back to the estate, but his troubles are just beginning. Not only do the mobster and his henchmen show up in Hawaii and start scoping out the Masters' estate (with the unwitting aid of helicopter pilot T.C.), but the girl proves to be kookoo-for-cocoa-puffs, going all Fatal Attraction on Magnum’s current girlfriend (a young and hot-to-trot Mimi Rogers). It's no surprise that Selleck and Rogers have great chemistry here; they apparently dated for a year before Rogers became the first Mrs. Tom Cruise.

Decoy – 1.28 “Ladies Man”
This one opens dramatically, as nasty piece-of-work Mike Bergen (Michael Tolan) arranges for his wife (Lois Nettleton) to be shot on a subway platform by an innocent woman who thinks she's simply taking a photograph with an odd box-shaped camera. The psychotic Bergen holds a unique sway on a certain kind of impressionable young woman, another of whom (Joan Harvey) helps him evade the police, with the pair eventually hiding out in a hunting lodge in the mountains. Police woman Casey Jones (lovely Beverly Garland) boldly enters the lodge posing as a tourist to try and smoke the creep out before anyone else gets hurt. Also with Frank Marth and Ludmila Toretzka as the tough old Russian lady who owns the lodge.

World of Giants – 1.4 “Death Trap”
Driving back to HQ from another successfully-completed espionage case, Bill (Arthur Franz) swerves to avoid an oncoming car and crashes, sending the special briefcase containing miniaturized Mel (Marshall Thompson) flying into some tall grass to the side of the road. Bill is carted off to the hospital unconscious, leaving the now 6-inch tall Mel to struggle on his own to stay alive until he can be rescued…no easy feat, as hazards lie everywhere for our shrunken hero, including a couple of gardeners and a voracious gopher. I continue to be impressed with the giant-sized props and special effects used on this show - they’re very convincing.

The F.B.I. – 1.5 “The Insolents”
A nice change-of-pace episode finds Inspector Erskine taking a backseat to let Special Agent Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) manage a case, in which an arrogant young playboy (Skip Ward) is suspect numero uno in the shooting death of his stepfather on board a cruise ship. Erskine worries like a mother hen over whether Rhodes’ judgment will be clouded by his inherent bias against a man like their wealthy and powerful prime suspect, used to buying his way out of trouble. This is still early enough in the show’s run to feature an appearance by pretty Lynn Loring as Erskine’s daughter (and Rhodes’ girlfriend). A good mystery and some deeper than usual character work for our leads make this one a winner. Good guest cast, too, including Joan Marshall, Eileen Heckhart, Ben Wright, Douglas Henderson, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Charles Robinson and Laurence Montaigne.

 

[JamesSmith]

I've been watching a few episodes of the late eighties early nineties series, "The Powers that Be." Really impressed by the performances of David Hyde Pierce, Valerie Maharie and young lady who played the family maid, Charlotte. The latter being extremely hilarious. You can see the beginnings of Pierce's Niles from Frasier in his performance and Ms. Malerie (sp?) is hilarious as his wife, who's both sweet and domineering. Shame it got cancelled after one season.

--jthree

 

[Desslar]

Miami Vice – 2.20 “Free Verse”
The squad is assigned to protect an exiled, wheelchair-bound Latin American poet (Byrne Piven) before he heads off to make a deposition to Congress.

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Magnum, P.I. – 2.15 “Italian Ice”
Magnum travels to Italy to rescue pretty socialite Katrina Tremaine (Ann Dusenberry) from a mobster’s villa, at the request of Robin Masters, who’s a friend of the girl’s father.

Decoy – 1.28 “Ladies Man”
This one opens dramatically, as nasty piece-of-work Mike Bergen (Michael Tolan) arranges for his wife (Lois Nettleton) to be shot on a subway platform by an innocent woman who thinks she's simply taking a photograph with an odd box-shaped camera. The psychotic Bergen holds a unique sway on a certain kind of impressionable young woman, another of whom (Joan Harvey) helps him evade the police, with the pair eventually hiding out in a hunting lodge in the mountains.

The F.B.I. – 1.5 “The Insolents”
A nice change-of-pace episode finds Inspector Erskine taking a backseat to let Special Agent Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) manage a case, in which an arrogant young playboy (Skip Ward) is suspect numero uno in the shooting death of his stepfather on board a cruise ship. Erskine worries like a mother hen over whether Rhodes’ judgment will be clouded by his inherent bias against a man like their wealthy and powerful prime suspect, used to buying his way out of trouble. This is still early enough in the show’s run to feature an appearance by pretty Lynn Loring as Erskine’s daughter (and Rhodes’ girlfriend). A good mystery and some deeper than usual character work for our leads make this one a winner. Good guest cast, too, including Joan Marshall, Eileen Heckhart, Ben Wright, Douglas Henderson, Susan Seaforth Hayes, Oscar Beregi, Jr., Charles Robinson and Laurence Montaigne.

Miami Vice - Nice, looks like some good Miami Airport footage there. I flew into there a few times back then. What is the second location? An art gallery? That's one of the most sparsely decorated sets I've seen.

Decoy - Interested in the subway station scene. About the lodge, is there any filming in upstate New York, or do they just cut to a set?

FBI - That sounds like a strong episode. I definitely feel the first season is the best. The leads just cease to be real characters in the later seasons. Also, in that first picture of Erskine - that looks like the USC clock tower in the background. Maybe Erskine’s daughter is a student there?

 

[Jeff Flugel]

Miami Vice - Nice, looks like some good Miami Airport footage there. I flew into there a few times back then. What is the second location? An art gallery? That's one of the most sparsely decorated sets I've seen.

Yes, the vice squad guys are on protection duty as the poet attends a (very '80s in design) art gallery. Bianca Jagger's assassin character tries to take the poet out at this location, but is thwarted by a vigilant Tubbs.

Decoy - Interested in the subway station scene. About the lodge, is there any filming in upstate New York, or do they just cut to a set?

Lots of nice NYC and, in this case, upstate location filming in Decoy, Stephen. They definitely filmed in the countryside nearby for the lodge scenes (not able to confirm where, though). The lodge interiors are most likely, sets but the exteriors were definitely shot on location.

FBI - That sounds like a strong episode. I definitely feel the first season is the best. The leads just cease to be real characters in the later seasons. Also, in that first picture of Erskine - that looks like the USC clock tower in the background. Maybe Erskine’s daughter is a student there?

I believe that's correct. Rhodes meets up with Barbara (Erskine's daughter) near a college campus in Act I, and her dad later, so it probably is USC.

All three of the above series feature regular (and most welcome) location work - as does Magnum, P.I., too, of course...though I had to laugh at the opening to "Italian Ice," as the mobster's villa that Thomas infiltrates at the episode's opening is quite obviously located in Hawaii, NOT Italy.

 

[ScottRE]

The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Big Blackmail
Season 4 premiere

Excellent episode! Sometimes I'll pop one of these in and question why I like the show, and then I'll throw on one like this and remember. For an episode so late in the run, it's a sterling example of the appeal of this series. This one is a winner, a fun ride from opening to end credits.

Harvey Korman plays German Baron Hinterstoisser. Usually Korman mugs and bellows his way through lighter fare like this, but he plays the Baron with great restraint and sinister cunning. He hatched a plan to discredit President Grant by faking a kinetoscope of the President signing an agreement with the Chinese government. James West and Artemis Gordon have to replace the kinetoscope with a fake of their own in time for the Big Meeting.

This is a fast paced hour with a lot of genuine partnership between West and Arte. A lot of the time, West gets the action, romance and spotlight while Arte jumps in with a disguise and solution. Here both men get equal time and Ross Martin shines. His disguise is genuinely amusing and there isn't a romance in sight - except one really funny flirtation between Arte and the matronly German kitchen supervisor. The actors have fantastic chemistry and the script plays to their strengths. This is an very strong episode and I can see why CBS lead the season with it. The epilogue was filmed much later, however, after Martin returned from his medical leave following his massive heart attack. Bob Conrad's hair is in the style of the latter episode and Martin is notably thinner.

While Korman doesn't get to do anything funny on screen, he was apparently a cut up on the set and may of the behind the scenes still I've seen show them having a hell of a good time.

Why oh why isn't this series on Blu Ray? Wasn't it being "prepped" like 10 years ago???

 

[JohnHopper]

The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Big Blackmail
Season 4 premiere

Excellent episode! Sometimes I'll pop one of these in and question why I like the show, and then I'll throw on one like this and remember. For an episode so late in the run, it's a sterling example of the appeal of this series. This one is a winner, a fun ride from opening to end credits.

Harvey Korman plays German Baron Hinterstoisser. Usually Korman mugs and bellows his way through lighter fare like this, but he plays the Baron with great restraint and sinister cunning. He hatched a plan to discredit President Grant by faking a kinetoscope of the President signing an agreement with the Chinese government. James West and Artemis Gordon have to replace the kinetoscope with a fake of their own in time for the Big Meeting.

This is a fast paced hour with a lot of genuine partnership between West and Arte. A lot of the time, West gets the action, romance and spotlight while Arte jumps in with a disguise and solution. Here both men get equal time and Ross Martin shines. His disguise is genuinely amusing and there isn't a romance in sight - except one really funny flirtation between Arte and the matronly German kitchen supervisor. The actors have fantastic chemistry and the script plays to their strengths. This is an very strong episode and I can see why CBS lead the season with it. The epilogue was filmed much later, however, after Martin returned from his medical leave following his massive heart attack. Bob Conrad's hair is in the style of the latter episode and Martin is notably thinner.

While Korman doesn't get to do anything funny on screen, he was apparently a cut up on the set and may of the behind the scenes still I've seen show them having a hell of a good time.

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Why oh why isn't this series on Blu Ray? Wasn't it being "prepped" like 10 years ago???

Belong to my top season 4 episodes (in broadcast order)
TNot Big Blackmail
TNot Doomsday Formula
TNot Sedgewick Curse
TNot Kraken
TNot Fugitives
TNot Fire and Brimstone
TNot Camera
TNot Avaricious Actuary
TNo Miguelitoʼs Revenge
TNot Winged Terror, Part I
TNot Winged Terror, Part II
TNot Janus
TNot Pistoleros
TNot Diva
TNot Bleak Island

 

[Jack P]

A small actress marathon. More than a decade before she won an Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Louise Fletcher made the TV guest rounds in the late 50s and early 60s when she was quite an attractive young woman (she subsequently took a decade off from 1963 to 1973)

Maverick, S2-"The Saga Of Waco Williams"
One Step Beyond, S2-"The Open Window"
The Untouchables, S1-"Ma Barker And Her Boys" (Playing Doc Barker's girlfriend)

And two Perry Mason appearances where both times she plays the accused and both times she's a secretary for a ruthless woman who ends up being led astray and getting falsely accused in the process!

Perry Mason, S3-"The Case Of The Mythical Monkeys" (Beverly Garland also guests)
Perry Mason, S4-"The Case Of The Larcenous Lady"

 

[Desslar]

Yes, the vice squad guys are on protection duty as the poet attends a (very '80s in design) art gallery. Bianca Jagger's assassin character tries to take the poet out at this location, but is thwarted by a vigilant Tubbs.


Lots of nice NYC and, in this case, upstate location filming in Decoy, Stephen. They definitely filmed in the countryside nearby for the lodge scenes (not able to confirm where, though). The lodge interiors are most likely, sets but the exteriors were definitely shot on location.


I believe that's correct. Rhodes meets up with Barbara (Erskine's daughter) near a college campus in Act I, and her dad later, so it probably is USC.

All three of the above series feature regular (and most welcome) location work - as does Magnum, P.I., too, of course...though I had to laugh at the opening to "Italian Ice," as the mobster's villa that Thomas infiltrates at the episode's opening is quite obviously located in Hawaii, NOT Italy.

Thanks for the insights! My uncle has a place in upstate New York so that would be interesting to see. I got the Decoy set recently but haven't gotten into it yet. I was sold by a couple episodes watched on Prime - at one point our hero walks around the then relatively new UN building, and I think later walks into a huge record store... but alas we don't get to follow her inside. Fun stuff to see.

The FBI is on my list, but not easy or cheap to collect the way they broke it up across so many sets.

I was going to ask if Magnum used stock footage for Italy, as there's no way they would film there unless it was a special episode located there. I think there is a London episode.

Although I was fooled by an early Rockford Files episode once. The episode begins with a sweeping aerial view of a clearly European city, and then cuts to Rockford at what looks like a very authentic street café/street scene. After a brief conversation the scene ends, and then the story resumes in California. I couldn't believe they would go overseas for such a short scene, but it did look very convincing. Turned out it was the Universal lot though. I guess I haven't seen the European section used that often. The New York City style lot I know like the back of my hand now from overexposure in countless TV series.

 

[bmasters9]

All three of the above series feature regular (and most welcome) location work - as does Magnum, P.I., too, of course...though I had to laugh at the opening to "Italian Ice," as the mobster's villa that Thomas infiltrates at the episode's opening is quite obviously located in Hawaii, NOT Italy.

And the fourth-season finale of O-R Five-O ("R&R&R") had a scene where an Army messenger goes to Lynville, FL to deliver the tragic news of the death of Amy Carter's husband Dennis to Amy's mother (however, the community that we thought was Lynville, FL was actually apparently a set within the larger Hawaii setting of the show, which meant that Lynville, FL didn't really exist).

 

[JohnHopper]

The Partners
“Two or False” (1972)
directed by Earl Bellamy
written by Bruce Howard
guest: Yvonne Craig

It’s a fun doppelgänger narrative with three Yvonne Craig and a jewel thief plot.

18. Two or False

18. Two or False

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[Keith Cobby]

Campion (1989, DVD) - 20 May was the 120th anniversary of Margery Allingham's birth so watched the BBC adaptation of her gentleman detective books featuring Albert Campion (well played by Peter Davison) and his wonderfully named manservant Magersfontein Lugg (Brian Glover, also well cast).

 

[bmasters9]

More on that fictional Lynville, FL from that fourth-season O-R Five-O episode "R&R&R": here is what the sign looked like when the Army messenger approached that fictional Florida town on Highway 41A (had a Southern-style cursive font on the bottom of the sign)...

 

[Desslar]

More on that fictional Lynville, FL from that fourth-season O-R Five-O episode "R&R&R": here is what the sign looked like when the Army messenger approached that fictional Florida town on Highway 41A (had a Southern-style cursive font on the bottom of the sign)...

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At least the fauna in Hawaii looks vaguely similar to that of Florida. Beats Kojak trying to pass off LA as NYC.

 

[JohnHopper]

I’m currently re-watching and reviewing two episodic series that highlight actor Martin Landau.
The Wild Wild West: “The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen” (season 1)
Mission: Impossible: “The Council, Part 1 & 2” (season 2)
Two worthwhile episodes that I highly recommend!

 

[bmasters9]

At least the fauna in Hawaii looks vaguely similar to that of Florida. Beats Kojak trying to pass off LA as NYC.

Didn't Cagney & Lacey do that somewhat in the 80s?

 

[Jasper70]

A while back I picked up Quincy season 1 and 2 box set. Watched the first 3 episodes tonight. Enjoyable. I think I’ll get the rest of the seasons. Too bad there’s no Blu-ray available. The DVDs look good and I’m satisfied with that but these older shows that were filmed on film can look spectacular if given the chance.

 

[Desslar]

Didn't Cagney & Lacey do that somewhat in the 80s?

Yes, there were multiple series around that time filmed primarily in/around LA (but supposedly set in):
Dallas (Dallas)
Dukes of Hazzard (Georgia)
Dynasty (Denver)
Simon & Simon (San Diego)
Hill Street Blues (Chicago, although setting is somewhat ambiguous)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (Washington DC)

 

[bmasters9]

Yes, there were multiple series around that time filmed primarily in/around LA (but supposedly set in):
Dallas (Dallas)
Dukes of Hazzard (Georgia)
Dynasty (Denver)
Simon & Simon (San Diego)
Hill Street Blues (Chicago, although setting is somewhat ambiguous)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (Washington DC)

Barney Miller (NYC, Greenwich Village; shot at ABC Television Center in Hollywood)