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I finished off season one and am looking forward to season two. I finally noticed in the last few episodes that the horse behind Preston, as he "shoots" the title of the show onto the screen in the opening credits, is startled by each shot. They must have been using loud blanks. There's a saloon...

I just received my 24-disc set in the mail and immediately played season-three episodes to see the Mystery Movie opening, which always makes me wonder: who played the man with the flashlight? Nice to have only two episodes per disc instead of four or so as with the 12-disc set. One oddity I've...

Isn't the trombone solo in Gomer Pyle's closing credits sometimes edited out?

I have a music book with classic Universal TV show themes. For the Mystery Movie theme, most of the notes on the treble-clef staff are written with ledger lines to extend them way above the staff because the notes are so high. I think some of the notes have the ottava or 8va notation above them...

Thank you. I have seen the MM openings on YouTube. One question I have--did the season one MM openings ever turn up? Seems like at one point all of them were out there except the earliest one.

Thanks for the reply! Looks like I may be swapping out a 12-discer for a 24. I really do love the MM opening, as I remember seeing it as a child in the 1970s and not seeing it again for ages.

I watched the first two episodes of the final disc of season one tonight. Edd Byrnes, Paul Fix, and Dawn Richard guest-starred in the first one on the disc, "The Golden Gun." I found Ms. Richard easy on the eyes. Looks like this episode was one of her last credits in a relatively short career...

I have the 12-disc set of McMillan and Wife, as it turns out--two cases with six discs each, stacked on one spindle. Tonight I checked all of seasons 1-4, and none of the episodes have the Mystery Movie opening. I guess they removed it for the cheapie set. I hit play all and clicked on each...

Top three Columbo: 1. Now You See Him 2. Try and Catch Me T-3. The rest I'm partial to the first two because those are the ones I remember from their original airings (or maybe the first repeats later in the same season when I was out of school for the summer). Having seen all the rest, I...

I've made a little more progress on Colt .45 but haven't quite finished season one yet. I notice that the WB logo after the end credits has disappeared on the last few episodes I've seen.

When I was about 6 to 8 years old (1972-1974), I remember seeing a clip on TV of a man shoving another man out of a high window. It was a black-and-white clip from an old movie. I remember the man yelling as he fell. The "falling" was an old-fashioned special effect--I think the actor was not...

I've noticed in old movies (like the 1940s version of The Big Sleep) and in TV shows such as Mannix that California registration info was posted in cars somewhere around the driver's visor. If a car was unlocked, as in Bogie's and Mannix's cases, anyone could look in and see the driver's name...

Re Howie's last post: In checking IMDb's listing for The Alaskans, it states that the most-used "writer" on the show was the fictional "W. Hermanos" (read: Warner Brothers), a name the studio used on recycled scripts.

In the Columbo Blu release thread, it is mentioned that VEI's McMillan & Wife releases include the Mancini theme and Mystery Movie opening on some episodes. I watched the whole series courtesy of VEI, but I think I had separate releases for seasons one and two and then bought the complete-series...

Agreed. There's no difference to me in burned vs. pressed. I've watched the whole run of The FBI and several other WB series, and I don't even know in most cases which kind of discs I had--they all played fine. Uncut episodes that play fine--that's really all I want.

I checked another copy of Mirage that I had, and it had about the same running time as the Blu. But this other copy had a teaser at the beginning featuring the Frank Puglia character and Colt, while the Blu did not.

I watched episode 13, "Mirage," and the run time was only 23:47 or so. The last couple of episodes before that had dropped to a little over 24:00, although one had the mid-episode bumper. Assuming these are uncut, I wonder if they originally had more commercial time than other half-hour shows of...

That reminds me of seeing the first Jurassic Park, in which everybody in the theater I'm sure (or maybe just me) was hoping the dinosaurs would eat the kids.

I believe the DVD set has the same edited episodes that Neal Brock mentioned aired on Encore Westerns. I posted somewhere on the HTF several months ago about seeing a Cimarron Strip episode on a streaming service that stated the run time was about 76 minutes, and thus uncut. But the commercial...

I watched episode 11 of season one, "The Gypsies," last night. It's the first to feature the new closing theme song. I'd kind of gotten used to the earlier theme, which is still heard in part at the beginning of episodes, but I think the new one with the lyrics will grow on me. I enjoy Warner's...

I probably fired off my comment a little hastily (and I apologize to the reviewers), but this statement by Josh is something I hadn't taken into consideration.

I've noticed with different HTF reviewers over the years that there has to be a hell of a lot of special features just to get even a 4, much less a 5, on the 5-point scale.

I need to upgrade this movie. I still have the 2001 MGM DVD of it that was issued in their old "Contemporary Classics" line. I remember liking the book by Eliot Asinof that the movie is based on. The book has several quotes from a Nelson Algren poem, "The Swede Was a Hard Guy," referring to one...

In episode 10 of Colt .45, "Rebellion," a character checks a hotel register looking for Christopher Colt's name. Colt's signature appears around the third from the bottom. Among the signatures above his is that of Clyde Howdy, a stuntman and actor who appeared on four Colt .45s and in several...

Did I hear the Wilhelm Scream from a couple of Native Americans in the second Colt .45 episode, "A Time to Die"?

I finished the first disc of Colt .45, not as quickly as did Jeff Flugel, and am enjoying the episodes very much. In signs that I've watched too much Warner product over the years, I noticed the studio's howling-wind sound effect in one episode and the body-thudding-on-the-ground sound effect in...

The Great Flamarion is a public-domain film. The copies I've seen don't have the original Republic opening credits--I think the credits were altered when a package of Republic films was sold for TV showings (one of our HTF experts could weigh in on this). It's a great film, and it would be nice...

John Beradino, who later had a long run on General Hospital, appeared as a barroom tush hog early in episode 3 of Colt .45, "The $3,000 Bullet." He had everyone intimidated until he tried to shoot a boy who had just left the bar to fetch the sheriff. He ended up getting carried out of the bar...

I watched the first episode of Colt .45 and was amazed at the sharpness of the picture. You could see clearly such things as Preston's miniature Colt .45 tie pin that he wears in the knot of the tie, as well as the disclaimer in small print at the end of the closing credits, something that's...

I stand corrected. Famous mystery publisher and editor Otto Penzler, who has a current line of books, had a paperback imprint I think in the early '90s that replicated the hardback covers of the books he reissued. He put out editions of the last three Vance novels, The Kidnap, Gracie Allen, and...