I am almost positive that it does not. I cannot recreate the tune in my head, but I think I would have recognized it. Outside of the name there is no real connection to the old series.
What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?
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Getting away with it
I’m still averaging one series per week of Taskmaster, and each series finale is my regular Saturday night entertainment.
I’ve just watched the last part of series eleven.
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I’ve just watched the last part of series eleven.
What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?
KOJAK - A Very Deadly Game - A drug sting goes wrong and an officer is killed, but the fed agent assigned to the precinct is forced to withhold details of the killer by his superior and Theo don't like it baby. At one point he compares the two Feds to the Snoop Sisters--referencing one of the...
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The Unsold Television Pilots of Ed Wood Double Feature:
Crossroad Avenger (1953)
Insurance investigator of the Old West checks out the burning of a saloon where the owner wants cash instead of a check. Bad guys try to frame him for killing the sheriff as soon as he arrives, but our typical grizzled old sidekick saves him. Typical low budget TV Western stuff (although it's in color) with minimal Wood weirdness besides making the hero a two-fisted, gun-toting insurance investigator.
Final Curtain (1957)
Guy wanders around an empty theater while voiceover narration tells us what he's thinking. He eventually finds a mannequin (quite obviously a real woman) that he calls a vampire that comes to life and grins at him. Then he finds a coffin and gets in it. The end. All the Wood weirdness missing from the Western can be found here.
Crossroad Avenger (1953)
Insurance investigator of the Old West checks out the burning of a saloon where the owner wants cash instead of a check. Bad guys try to frame him for killing the sheriff as soon as he arrives, but our typical grizzled old sidekick saves him. Typical low budget TV Western stuff (although it's in color) with minimal Wood weirdness besides making the hero a two-fisted, gun-toting insurance investigator.
Final Curtain (1957)
Guy wanders around an empty theater while voiceover narration tells us what he's thinking. He eventually finds a mannequin (quite obviously a real woman) that he calls a vampire that comes to life and grins at him. Then he finds a coffin and gets in it. The end. All the Wood weirdness missing from the Western can be found here.
KOJAK -- You Can't Tell A Hurt Man How to Holler - Man on the run for a shooting he didn't commit ends up in more trouble when his friend bails him out only to frame him even more for the victim's murder in a hospital. He has to turn to Kojak to help clear his name. Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
COLUMBO - By Dawn's Early Light - Patrick McGoohan kills to keep a military academy open from becoming a co-ed college. Also premiered 50 years ago tonight.
COLUMBO - By Dawn's Early Light - Patrick McGoohan kills to keep a military academy open from becoming a co-ed college. Also premiered 50 years ago tonight.
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LIS Season 3, episodes 1-4. As bad as s3 is, it started out with a few fairly decent episodes. But, in general, those actors who had been all but ignored during s2, were at least in the 1st few episodes given more lines, action, etc., despite the fact that Jonathan Harris was the highest paid actor in the series.
s3, #1, (overall #60) Condemned of Space was given a higher budget than would otherwise have, and it shows. Irwin Allen wanted to make it with movie-quality sets, etc.
Needing to stop somewhere to make repairs, the Jupiter II docks with what turns out to be a space prison, whose convicts have all been frozen on pedestals, complete with their weapons in hands. the only Jailor is Robby or is it Robbie? the robot of Forbidden Planet. The plot still had some silly/dumb things in it; though compared to s2, it was much better.
s3, #2 (overall #61) Visit to a Hostile Planet takes the J2 through a time warp to Earth of 1947. Smith cares nothing about the 50 years off, he wants to stay, but not without his companions. Thus he wants to destroy the J2. Why are my memories of this episode still in grayscale? Our 1st color TV was added early in the 1970s, but how many times have I seen this since then?
s3, #3 (overall #62) Kidnapped in Space has Smith aboard the in flight J2, alone on the main deck, though with B9 robot, receive a radio call for help. They need a doctor, Smith cares not, until a reward is mentioned. being greedy, he decides to descend to the planet in the SPACE POD, which apparently had been there all along, though nobody ever even mentioned it
, and see if he can walk away a rich man.
It seems to me, that the Seaview could easily have been in drydock to install the equipment for the FLYING SUB, but, not so, the J2 & the SPACE POD!
s3 #4 (overall #63) Hunter's Moon (based upon The Most Dangerous Game) has John descend to the planet IN THE SPACE POD, defend himself against an attacking creature, but in so doing, deprive the hunter of his prey. Now John must take its place.
Seems to me that Kidnapped in Space was the worst of these 4, while Hunter's Moon ties with Condemned of Space for the best.
s3, #1, (overall #60) Condemned of Space was given a higher budget than would otherwise have, and it shows. Irwin Allen wanted to make it with movie-quality sets, etc.
Needing to stop somewhere to make repairs, the Jupiter II docks with what turns out to be a space prison, whose convicts have all been frozen on pedestals, complete with their weapons in hands. the only Jailor is Robby or is it Robbie? the robot of Forbidden Planet. The plot still had some silly/dumb things in it; though compared to s2, it was much better.
s3, #2 (overall #61) Visit to a Hostile Planet takes the J2 through a time warp to Earth of 1947. Smith cares nothing about the 50 years off, he wants to stay, but not without his companions. Thus he wants to destroy the J2. Why are my memories of this episode still in grayscale? Our 1st color TV was added early in the 1970s, but how many times have I seen this since then?
s3, #3 (overall #62) Kidnapped in Space has Smith aboard the in flight J2, alone on the main deck, though with B9 robot, receive a radio call for help. They need a doctor, Smith cares not, until a reward is mentioned. being greedy, he decides to descend to the planet in the SPACE POD, which apparently had been there all along, though nobody ever even mentioned it
, and see if he can walk away a rich man.It seems to me, that the Seaview could easily have been in drydock to install the equipment for the FLYING SUB, but, not so, the J2 & the SPACE POD!
s3 #4 (overall #63) Hunter's Moon (based upon The Most Dangerous Game) has John descend to the planet IN THE SPACE POD, defend himself against an attacking creature, but in so doing, deprive the hunter of his prey. Now John must take its place.
Seems to me that Kidnapped in Space was the worst of these 4, while Hunter's Moon ties with Condemned of Space for the best.
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Enterprise Season 3 Ep.4 'Rajiin' - Season three of Enterprise is turning out to be FAR better than seasons one and two. For one thing there is a developing story arc - season one attempted one but it never really went anywhere, though elements of it were used to set up the race against time elements of this season. The tone here is darker too, Archer is less amenable, the music is less obtrusive, the camerawork more interesting, the alien makeup and effects have been dialled up a few notches too. Sometimes there is a Farscapey feel to some of the alien locations they visit. And, in this episode at least, the eroticism is less forced. In 'Rajiin' Archer thinks he's rescued a sex slave (when in fact she has manipulated her way on board to learn about human biology for her bad guy masters). For once the eroticism is driving the plot not just tacked on gratuitousl and, for once, not entirely heterosexual - a bit of implied male gaze lesbian flirting was worked in.
About to watch episode 6 of Ludwig. Reckon I know who did it. Excellent telly!
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Finished up Only Murders in the Building. Overall I enjoyed the season and will be watching Season 5. And as stated before, I did not figure out who the murderer was.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Contenders - Barney has to pose as a boxer stand in for Sugar Ray Robinson to stop a sports gambling crook. This is more violent than average since we get three murders. At the start, Phelps is in a boat and told to dispose of the instruction tape in the usual manner so he pollutes the river with it. I had planned to watch the Wild Wild West but decided to watch this instead--and who shows up as a boxing instructor but Robert Conrad.
KOLCHAK-THE NIGHT STALKER - "The Werewolf." Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
KOLCHAK-THE NIGHT STALKER - "The Werewolf." Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
KOJAK- The Best Judge Money Can Buy - a judge is murdered and it is made to look like a suicide. Turns out he was having an affair and taking money from a crooked lawyer. Stavros saves a witness from being another victim by using his gut to overpower one assassin and then when the other threatens to shoot the hostage in front of an oven with the gas on to establish the suicide, he points out that they would all blow up if the thug fires, thus achieving a surrender. Premiered 50 years ago.
McCLOUD - Shivaree on Delaney Street - Broadhurst is shot when investigating a numbers operation and the shooter puts some money on him to make him appear crooked--bringing in a IAD police corruption detective. For once, McCloud and Clifford are less combative as they seek to clear their colleague. Danny Thomas guest stars and does it ever slow down in those scenes. Premiered 50 years ago.
McCloud - Well I got news for you chief--I ain't one of your regular men.
Clifford: I am painfully aware of that--don't stab me with it.
McCLOUD - Shivaree on Delaney Street - Broadhurst is shot when investigating a numbers operation and the shooter puts some money on him to make him appear crooked--bringing in a IAD police corruption detective. For once, McCloud and Clifford are less combative as they seek to clear their colleague. Danny Thomas guest stars and does it ever slow down in those scenes. Premiered 50 years ago.
McCloud - Well I got news for you chief--I ain't one of your regular men.
Clifford: I am painfully aware of that--don't stab me with it.
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I've been slowly re-watching The Mandalorian with a friend who only has terrestrial channels. Last night we saw two episodes.
"The Tragedy" - solid stuff, although rewatching it reminds me of how unnecessary Boba Fett is to the entire thing, since Mando pretty much does everything he did except better. It's a perfectly decent episode, although it's really just there to set up the finale (and the Boba Fett show).
"The Believer" - an excellent episode. The action is good, and Bill Barr and Richard Brake are excellent. The canteen scene, where Mando removes his helmet and Barr's Mayfeld meets his former commander, is probably the best 10 minutes of the entire show. It makes the Empire look both more human and more evil than before. I'm not sure what accent Brake is doing - Texan, perhaps? - but he is extremely creepy and perhaps the believer of the title.
"The Tragedy" - solid stuff, although rewatching it reminds me of how unnecessary Boba Fett is to the entire thing, since Mando pretty much does everything he did except better. It's a perfectly decent episode, although it's really just there to set up the finale (and the Boba Fett show).
"The Believer" - an excellent episode. The action is good, and Bill Barr and Richard Brake are excellent. The canteen scene, where Mando removes his helmet and Barr's Mayfeld meets his former commander, is probably the best 10 minutes of the entire show. It makes the Empire look both more human and more evil than before. I'm not sure what accent Brake is doing - Texan, perhaps? - but he is extremely creepy and perhaps the believer of the title.
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LIS, s3, #5 (64) The Space Primevals (Doubt the word is a noun) After the 1st 4, 3 of which were unexpectedly good, comes this, LIS, returns to its silliness. Yet, the once ignored cast is still fairly prominent, males, anyway.
They are planning to lift-off soon, but a mean-ol' volcano's activity threatens not only the intended lift-off, but also a lava flow will endanger the campsite. So, West & Smith go to cap the volcano!? What? do they intend to merely plug it?Anyway, why take Smith anywhere to do anything? Have they learned nothing about the man, after all this time?
So these cavemen, whose evolution is regulated by a computer are nearby, and capture both.
LIS, s3, #6 (65) Space Destructors Not much better, android machine that Smith discovers seems to be just what he hoped for. Now, he can make androids or were they cyborgs? and conquer the universe, all while stuck on this one planet.
I laughed through most of it.
The LIS book series v3, likens s3, #5 (64) The Space Primevals to a certain Star Trek episode, I did not recognize the title, could have been the one with Vol, the dinosaur-shaped cave/computer; anyway, that was the one I was thinking about.
LIS, s3, #6 (65) Space Destructors seems to relate to the Star Trek episode with the very large android RUK(?) & the copy of Kirk.
They are planning to lift-off soon, but a mean-ol' volcano's activity threatens not only the intended lift-off, but also a lava flow will endanger the campsite. So, West & Smith go to cap the volcano!? What? do they intend to merely plug it?Anyway, why take Smith anywhere to do anything? Have they learned nothing about the man, after all this time?
So these cavemen, whose evolution is regulated by a computer are nearby, and capture both.
LIS, s3, #6 (65) Space Destructors Not much better, android machine that Smith discovers seems to be just what he hoped for. Now, he can make androids or were they cyborgs? and conquer the universe, all while stuck on this one planet.
I laughed through most of it.
The LIS book series v3, likens s3, #5 (64) The Space Primevals to a certain Star Trek episode, I did not recognize the title, could have been the one with Vol, the dinosaur-shaped cave/computer; anyway, that was the one I was thinking about.
LIS, s3, #6 (65) Space Destructors seems to relate to the Star Trek episode with the very large android RUK(?) & the copy of Kirk.
E1-4 of The Diplomat on Netflix. Enjoying it for the most part.
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Finished Agatha All Along. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the show. I enjoyed how different it was from other shows, and it kept me entertained each week and looking forward to the next episode. I actually think the final episode was my least favorite, even though I enjoyed the reveal that happened, which I did not see coming.
Also caught up on a couple episodes of All Creatures Great and Small.
Also caught up on a couple episodes of All Creatures Great and Small.
I am on season 2 episode 11. It Will Be Over. I've enjoyed season two The Ark more than season one. This is not "the best SF television series ever." but I think it's far better than a lot of them. Season two ends with episode 12, and I find myself hoping for a season 3, even if (as what I think is likely) it is mostly located on a planet rather than on the ship. ---
Negatively: The first season had a frustrating amount of physics seriously wrong. The second season has done a much better job of that but in episode 11 the ship is in the outer reaches of a solar system and there is no light speed delay in communicating with the planet. I suppose there could be a kind "sub-space" communication going on, but I don't remember anything even hinting that FTL communication is possible.
Negatively: The first season had a frustrating amount of physics seriously wrong. The second season has done a much better job of that but in episode 11 the ship is in the outer reaches of a solar system and there is no light speed delay in communicating with the planet. I suppose there could be a kind "sub-space" communication going on, but I don't remember anything even hinting that FTL communication is possible.
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Folk-horror mini-series on Netflix. Just watched the fomirst episode, and it's pretty good. Obviously because it's a 2023 production it (sadly) relies more on visual scares than psychological, but despite this it still holds an air of unease.
Folk-horror mini-series on Netflix. Just watched the fomirst episode, and it's pretty good. Obviously because it's a 2023 production it (sadly) relies more on visual scares than psychological, but despite this it still holds an air of unease.
Partner and I have begun to re-watch the BBC dramatisation of Wolf Hall (2015), in preparation for the 3rd part of the trilogy, to be broadcast (we believe!) in December. So last night we watched episode 3, Anna Regina. I say "we" but I've discovered that if you feed partner, then place him on a sofa and put the telly on, he promptly falls asleep.
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Wow, I'd forgotten all about this series! It's been so long. Looks like it will be available in the US in March.
THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Plague - Jim is tracking bandits-kidnappers unaware that they have contracted an Asian disease that kills after 3 days. Artie has to find him to administer the antidote. Decent episode that concludes my viewing of the series.
MANNIX - Only Giants Can Play-- would-be blackmailer is killed and suspicion calls on is would-be victim-a politician (John Dehner). Fox Mulder's father is his lawyer. Trust no one Joe!
KOLCHAK - THE NIGHT STALKER -- Firefall - A doppelganger ghost is burning people to death so he can takeover a music conductor and Kolchak becomes a target. Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
MANNIX - Only Giants Can Play-- would-be blackmailer is killed and suspicion calls on is would-be victim-a politician (John Dehner). Fox Mulder's father is his lawyer. Trust no one Joe!
KOLCHAK - THE NIGHT STALKER -- Firefall - A doppelganger ghost is burning people to death so he can takeover a music conductor and Kolchak becomes a target. Premiered 50 years ago tonight.
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