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Gary, I mentioned it before. We can get Kino to release "Here Come Nelsons" (1952). All we have to do is convince them it's a film noir. A new noir sub-category, the 'sitcom noir.' Recall the big action set-piece of the film, with crook Sheldon Leonard and his minion trying to heist the gate...

Looks like a still from "Here Come the Nelsons" (1952), with Sheldon Leonard, on the cover to that debut issue of 'Golden Years of Radio & TV.' Always liked that little fanzine, put out by Ron and Linda Downey, from North Carolina. They had several fanzines going, with 'World of Yesterday'...

As I recall, Don Defore is billed as "Don Deforest" in that Fox b-film "We Go Fast" (1941-Fox). I have a copy of it somewhere. Don Defore and Alan Curtis play motorcycle cops. It's a dippy little b-comedy, moving fast, but never really as good as I'd like it to be. Defore plays second-banana...

I've had a copy of "Here Come the Nelsons" (1952) for years, but I still tuned in last night on TCM. The film fits right alongside other Universal efforts of the day, with their family-friendly, matinee-geared comedies, like the "Francis" and "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, as well as other...

No question. Ozzie Nelson's poor management led to this debacle. Not that he was alone, as so many of those early filmed tv-series of that era were product of small-scale producers who were remiss about legally protecting their material, leaving it orphaned and ultimately public-domain. When...

There's an airy sublimeness to the writing and performances in "Ozzie and Harriet" that I find virtually unparalleled. Its humor probably has an antecedent in the radio era (of which the series actually started) alongside such dry-humored fare like "Vic and Sade," "Easy Aces," "Ethel and...