What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

The Turkish Detective BBC iplayer. New series set in Istanbul. Young British detective with Turkish roots relocates to join the local police force, for complex reasons. His new boss is a senior detective. Sort of a gentle mismatched partner vibe: impetuous newcomer and wise old pragmatist, but there is more to it than that and it is done with a lot of charm. Very watchable. After 2 episodes I am looking forward to seeing how the plot develops.
 
IRONSIDE - Programmed For Danger - Someone is attacking blonde women who signed up for a computer dating service. Officer Whitfield goes undercover to expose the culprit. Those 1960s computers with the punch cards seem so weird and quaint now. Plus the attacker has an audio cassette recorder which is treated like a super fancy hi tech piece of sound equipment.
 
paranoid marvin said:
I, Claudius

Watching for the fifth or sixth time. What a marvellous adaptation of Graves' novels. George Baker and Brian Blessed are on top form in this series.
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They're great, but I think Livia's my favourite character.
 
hitmouse said:
The Turkish Detective BBC iplayer. New series set in Istanbul. Young British detective with Turkish roots relocates to join the local police force, for complex reasons. His new boss is a senior detective. Sort of a gentle mismatched partner vibe: impetuous newcomer and wise old pragmatist, but there is more to it than that and it is done with a lot of charm. Very watchable. After 2 episodes I am looking forward to seeing how the plot develops.
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Similar to The Chinese detective?
 
We got one of those cheap DVD collections of random episodes of old TV series. So far we've seen two episodes each of Lassie, The Life of Riley, and You Bet Your Life.

Watched at home on VHS (!):

Schiller’s Reel (1994)

Collection of several short films made by Tom Schiller for Saturday Night Live. Often pastiches/parodies of various film genres (film noir, serial, documentary, Fellini-ish art film, etc.)
 
Edumicating my 15 year old son in the history of geek: I show him episode one of Danger Man (I just bought the whole first season for a couple of quid in a charity shop today) and went 'OH WOW!' when I realised the first person on screen (though his character only gets a few lines) in the show was Peter Swannick - who played the baldy controller in The Prisoner - so we ended up watching episode one of that too - and he loved it.
 
hitmouse said:
The Turkish Detective BBC iplayer. New series set in Istanbul. Young British detective with Turkish roots relocates to join the local police force, for complex reasons. His new boss is a senior detective. Sort of a gentle mismatched partner vibe: impetuous newcomer and wise old pragmatist, but there is more to it than that and it is done with a lot of charm. Very watchable. After 2 episodes I am looking forward to seeing how the plot develops.
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When we finish Vikings: Valhalla, I think I might suggest this to my other half, it sounds a bit like Vienna Blood, which was superb.
 
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Numbers Game -- general plans to overthrow a government but he has some illness and Leonard Nimoy sticks an inflatable Torin Thatcher in a bed and fools the real one with a makebelieve nuclear war. Lee Meriwether is the guest agent.

MANNIX- The Nowhere Victim - Someone is hit by a car but when he goes looking for more information learns it is a mafia boss who sneaked back in the country. Big shoot out with motorcycles at the end. Could have sworn I spotted Bruce Dern on a motorcycle.
 
The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974)

Never actually broadcast, but available to watch on YouTube. Takes actual stuff from issues of the magazine and animates them. Not so much either good or bad, but just odd to experience gags taken word-for-word and image-for-image from the magazine as animated cartoons.
 
IRONSIDE -Five Miles High---the chief and his team are escorting a potential mafia witness on a plane and run into attempts to murder him. A Don Knotts movie plays during the flight.
 
Your Honor

If Walter White had been a judge. Similar in so many ways to Breaking Bad, it tells the story of someone going from being a respected member of the community to an altogether darker place due to a single incident in their lives. But you get the suspicion that that darker characteristic waa there all along, just waiting to come to the surface.

It's hard to tell if Cranston is playing this role a little more for laughs, and the way that he fabricates excuses on the spur of the moment - then gets to see them inexorably unravel in front of his eyes - is what makes the show worth watching.

I'm actually now rewatching season one in anticipation of then watching the second season, although I didn't really think that there was a need for a follow up.

But for anyone who is a fan of Breaking Bad, this is worth a watch.
 
The Wild Wild West--the Night of the Camera -- Jim West has two agent replacements to deal with. He already has Jeremy Pyke(Charles Aidman) and now Pat Paulsen shows up as a clumsy agent who wants some field action.

Ironside -- L'Chayim --A couple of small time crooks steal a torah and can't fence it--leading to a ransom demand and a sequence where Mark and Ed are running along a beach to rescue it before the ocean washes it away. There's a subplot about some black kids who want to use a school at night so they aren't inclined to be out in the streets. Although Mark becomes an expert on torahs he can't beat the chief in scoring with a basketball.

Mannix - A Gathering of Ghosts-- Joe goes to a Nevada ghost town for a football team reunion which is as hokey as it gets--his former team members think an old team mate of theirs has gone homicidal because Joe scored the winning touch down instead of him decades ago. It helps that the cast is all familiar and expert at making the nonsense seem real-- Robert Webber, Marj Dusay, Diane Muldaur, and Charles Aidman too.
 
The Invaders - The Enemy --Richard Anderson is a wounded invader found by a nurse just returned from Vietnam and she doesn't care that he is an alien until our architect friend turns up. Pretty dramatic episode---a good example where they use a character's trauma (having been in war and having relatives who died in wars) to explore the same kind of idea that Star Trek would do with the Borg (the one where the Borg drone is taken--forgot his name Hugh?). Can an invader develop compassion for humans? The other invaders we see have the little finger thing but he doesn't.

Petrocelli - Too Many Alibis---This time we get two scenes of Maggie without Tony around and there's also a scene where Pete is talking to someone. Another novelty--a woman persecutor - Susan "does she ever remind one of Vera Miles" Sullivan. In fact as the title suggests, everyone has an alibi except the one charged with the crime although the interesting twist is--there's no actual murderer.

Hunter - season 4 - Not Just Another John Doe --- I haven't been watching much of this--quite a jump from the first season and so different from 60s and 70s tv which is longer running time and more character-focused dialogue. You get more on the street location shooting (in this case, skid row) but I don't find it memorable compared to early decades. We get to see McCall without her raccoon makeup but they do let us get a closeup on her as she is undercover on skid row.
 
Watched the last episode of Vikings: Valhalla season 3. Much better than the first two and the entire initial Vikings series, IMO. Right up there with the better seasons of The Last Kingdom.

Thoroughly enjoyable!
 
CANNON- Murder by The Numbers -- Frank is hired by a woman from Switzerland (Jane Merrow) to find her missing (actually dead) husband. He goes to a marina where he knows the woman owner--and when he shows her the picture of the guy--she says she knows him--in fact, they were to be married in a week. Priceless expression on his face as she asks who hired him and he says "his wife." She actually helps him on the case to some extent almost like a partner (his "bird dog" as he calls her). At the end when he hugs the Swiss widow and says goodbye at the airport, he gets startled when he sees his bird dog watching from behind a gate! She just had to see the other woman even though the dead man was a conman.
 
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Pelican - a mission to Alcatraz island involving rockets launched from inside it (made me think of The Rock).

MANNIX - The Sound of Darkness---a bullet grazes his face and he goes blind! Joe has to learn to self-defense as a blind man would since a hit man is still after him. Pretty emotive episode even though you knew he would get his eyesight back--you still get caught up in it. Oddly though-he had the bandage over his cheek for the whole episode even though it was a very slight cut.

THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN - Target in the Sky -- Steve Austin goes to a logging camp to find out about a missing agent. One particularly cool scene is when someone tries to kill him with a chainsaw and he grabs the blade and bends it.
 
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