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MANNIX 3x04 "the playground." a small thing, but i kinda like it better (just for realism's sake) in PI/detective shows when the client is a stranger, rather than one of a stream of "old friends" needing help. no matter. in this one, joe must figure out who's trying to kill egotistical movie...

this week: GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (1964) 1x01-10 MANNIX (1968) 2x17-24 keeps getting better. standout in this batch was possibly "the odds against donald jordan" -- great misdirection, movie-like photography, paul winfield! speaking of guest stars, i wish they'd listed them up-front. the more i...

looking for another show to watch. after jason marsden showed up on EERIE INDIANA, god help me, i tried a little of the MUNSTERS TODAY revival (unaired pilot & first two eps). hadn't seen this since probably 1990. comedically it's actually maybe on par with the corny original (grandpa wishes he...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x18: "REALITY TAKES A HOLIDAY" (april 12th, 1992) marshall checks the mail and finds the script for a TV show called EERIE, INDIANA... the last episode they shot, we get to see behind the scenes, the crew, the cast playing "themselves" etc. the adults mostly complain about the...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x15: "NO BRAIN, NO PAIN" (15th march, 1992) the intellect of the smartest man in the world is stored on an 8-track copy of GET THE KNACK. yes. this is like one of those body-swap comedies that were everywhere for a year or two in the late eighties. it's especially amusing...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x11: "MARSHALL'S THEORY OF BELIEVABILITY" (2nd february, 1992) i expected a christmas ep next, but... it's another balaban, in which famous paranormal researcher 'professor zircon' comes to town, staying with the tellers. the boys see it as an opportunity to hip a receptive...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x08: "THE DEAD LETTER" (10th november, 1991) marshall and simon meet a strangely attired old-fashioned boy who asks them to deliver a letter for him. winning story with a "seize the day" moral. script would've been a perfect fit for one of the many contemporary fantasy anthology...

^ double post, essentially. mistakenly published a separate post instead of adding to my previous one. new message went up right while i was editing, anyway, so i just deleted everything and put it back in sequence.

EERIE, INDIANA 1x07: "HEART ON A CHAIN" (3rd november, 1991) a good one! easily joe dante's best ep since 1x01, i'll avoid major spoilers and just say that marshall's buddy simon is mostly side-lined here for a couple of new friends -- "cool kid" devon (cory danziger, THE 'BURBS) &...

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EERIE, INDIANA 1x05: "SCARIEST HOME VIDEOS" (20th october, 1991) starts with a newly edited opening sequence featuring clips of the show. no more shots from public domain horror flicks like WHITE ZOMBIE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD etc. on halloween night, simon's younger brother switches...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x04: "THE LOSERS" (6th october, 1991) where do things go when they're lost? great premise. maybe not *entirely* satisfactory execution. good enough. joe dante's back in the director's chair and dick miller finally shows up. henry gibson -- who'd appeared in dante's previous...

EERIE, INDIANA 1x03: "THE ATM WITH THE HEART OF GOLD" (29th september, 1991) much better. the town's newly installed MAX HEADROOM-style ATM machine "buys" lonely simon's friendship using other people's money. i'm fully back on board after this one; eager to see more. director sam pillsbury was...

same here. i'm juggling ten different series right now, always starting new ones before i can close out others. insatiable! even just a paragraph of surface comments with a selection of stills will often take longer to prepare than it did to watch the thing in the first place!

EERIE, INDIANA 1x02: "THE RETAINER" (22nd september, 1991) marshall & simon's friend steve can hear what dogs are thinking through his new retainer. not bad, but kind of a step down from episode one somehow. focus is squarely on the kids here, marshall's parents only seen briefly in the...

"my name is marshall teller. not long ago, i was living in new jersey, just across the river from new york city ... but my parents wanted a better life for my sister and me, so we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky clean, you could only find it on TV. unfortunately, nothing could be...

THE JEFFERSONS, 5x20: "THE ONES YOU LOVE" (march 7th, 1979) george & weezy stumble into an argument just before a writer from BLACK LIFE MAGAZINE arrives to interview them. at the same time, tom's mad at alan, and helen's caught in the middle of all of it. stephen neigher's first of three...

NEWHART, 6x03: "INN THIS CORNER" (september 28th, 1987) dick & joanna's chipper new friends open a more successful inn down the block from the stratford. no subplots, just a sort-of runner with the darryls' newest cafe promo: used food -- "clean the plate of someone who didn't." pic below...

don't know if this is useful. blown-out/no detail, but without the watermark:

(last ep!) SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS, 3x08: "MISSION: SAVE THE GUARDSTAR" (november 5th, 1983) former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, "lightwave" (not in the comics, created for the show), has been brainwashed into controlling a defense satellite; iceman keeps tabs on her by pretending to be...

SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS, 3x02: "THE BRIDE OF DRACULA!" (september 24th, 1983) was looking forward to this: count dracula (who *did* appear in the comics AND crossover with spidey in the '70s) abducts firestar, written by jack mendelsohn! spotted a doozy of a mistake, where they...

SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS, 2x01: "ORIGIN OF THE ICEMAN" (september 18th, 1982) [in this abbreviated season, we look back at the early years of all three super-friends. since the stan lee narration track added for season two is absent in the currently available copies of these cartoons...

this thread is dangerous. everything sounds so good, i just want to watch it all right there and then -- i nearly pulled the trigger on GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. based entirely on the post above! western shows are an obvious blind spot for me. i'm really only familiar with THE LONE RANGER, ALIAS...

suspect i'll hit a wall with this stuff soon, but while the iron's hot i happily did the first nine of these. first look since i was a kid . . . !

JEM, 1x05: "THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS" (december 29th, 1985) no, synergy wasn't destroyed last time, that was just a self-preserving illusion (and here i thought this'd be the only other cliff-hanger with real consequences, how stupid of me!). their hideout discovered, the girls quickly pack up...

JEM, 1x03: "KIMBER'S REBELLION" (november 17th, 1985) yacht-wreck (ha!) quickly averted, road-manager rio continues to feel guilty about his growing feelings for jem, not realizing she and jerrica are one and the same. the group goes to paris to shoot a music video bankrolled by danielle du...

TAXI was such a special show. makes me want to get back to it. something i read in john javna's VERY BEST OF TV SITCOMS (1988) stuck with me -- TV columnist eirik knutzen wrote: "i visited the TAXI set several times and was always impressed... the actors tended to be very relaxed around each...

MAN WITH A CAMERA, 2x01: "THE KILLER" (october 19th, 1959) kovac stops over in a small town on the way to LA for work, and is shot at point-blank range by a coked-up assassin. there's a good, compact little mystery plot at the heart of this one; very enjoyable half-hour! season two feels...

JEM, 1x02: "DISASTER" (october 27th, 1985) after starlight house burns down, the girls move in to howard sands' mansion. that doesn't sit well with the misfits, who want to win it in the upcoming battle of the bands. raymond's lackey plants a bomb which goes off in an empty part of the house...

love chris sarandon! i never actually watched DS9 proper, but did see the pilot way back when it first aired. i never kept up with TNG, either. fell out of watching it real early, like season two or something. always planned to go back and give it a fresh look.