What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

[thaddeus6th]

Blackadder II's probably my favourite season. I think the Green episode (Money, I believe it's called) is perhaps the best of the bunch.

"Oh, Edmund, we have awaited your return!"

"And thank God you did. I was just thinking: 'I die in eight hours. What I really need now is a hug from a complete prat'."


[It's been a while so wording may be a little off.]

 

[Judderman]

Watched the three seasons of After Life. It is advertised as a dark comedy though most of it is a series about depression, with most of the characters having depression of some form. But it is very well done, particularly in showing how people can try to hide the effects while a few don't. It does have some funny parts and uplifting parts but I'm not sure if it makes someone depressed actually feel better. Also it highlights the benefit a dog can have if you are lonely, which is a pet project of Ricky Gervais.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

We're watching the last of the Hilary Mantel adaptions. Superb!

 

[Parson]

I watched the first episode of HULU's "Day of the Jackal." I'm quite impressed and will continue to watch this. It did start very slowly, or maybe it's best to describe it as confusing, but it does come clear what's going on. I especially like the interplay between the hunter's normal life and the Jackal's.

 

[Nephii]

I watched the first episode of HULU's "Day of the Jackal." I'm quite impressed and will continue to watch this. It did start very slowly, or maybe it's best to describe it as confusing, but it does come clear what's going on. I especially like the interplay between the hunter's normal life and the Jackal's.

Must admit I found episode one a little confusing, but by the end of episode two it all started to come together.

We're watching Hill Street Blues at the moment, it's quite interesting to see how things have changed.

 

[Parson]

We're watching Hill Street Blues at the moment, it's quite interesting to see how things have changed.

I watched this passionately when it was first aired, and I thought it wonderful. But even without a re-watch I'll bet it does seem dated. But the interpersonal relations should still ring true.

 

[Nephii]

I watched this passionately when it was first aired, and I thought it wonderful. But even without a re-watch I'll bet it does seem dated. But the interpersonal relations should still ring true.

Dated yes, but still brilliant. Less sanitised than police shows now.

 

[Parson]

Dated yes, but still brilliant. Less sanitised than police shows now.

I guess I wouldn't know. I don't watch that much "over-the-air" television, but it seems to me that the stuff I do watch the cops are almost always the bad guys, and the criminals are often seen as misunderstood if not actually the good guys. The only people who are worse are pastors/priests and then worst of all corporate executives.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Blackadder II's probably my favourite season. I think the Green episode (Money, I believe it's called) is perhaps the best of the bunch.

"Oh, Edmund, we have awaited your return!"

"And thank God you did. I was just thinking: 'I die in eight hours. What I really need now is a hug from a complete prat'."


[It's been a while so wording may be a little off.]

"He said I am the baby-eating Bishop of Bath-and-Wells!"

"Have you any children, Blackadder?"
"No, I'm not married."
"In that case I'll skip breakfast."

"You'll wish your bottom had never been born!!"

"Found it, pinched it, spent it."

"We have the preliminary sketches."

That single episode is full of memorable quotes.

Plus I pretty much know all the songs from the end of the episodes.

 

[KGeo777]

MANNIX - The Girl Who Came in With the Tide -- a body found on the beach leads to a lawyer (Lloyd Bochner) who had caused Mannix to lose his license and he senses he can get payback by linking the lawyer to the murder. But then he meets the widow (Nancy Kovack) of the lawyer's client and her affections make him forget to consider her a suspect. She has very prominent eye makeup as was the trend of the time--but when she gets poisoned, suddenly she has no eye makeup and boy does she look different. Then she gets better and has more eye makeup but not quite as much as earlier. Just something I noticed.

CANNON-- Arena of Fear - A boxer (Nick Nolte) seems to kill a drunk boxer in a bar fight and his manager (John Marley) covers it up. Cannon investigates (we actually see him in a gym getting some exercise).

ROCKFORD FILES - Profit and Loss --a 2-parter where Rocky helps him on the case quite a lot. It starts with a blocked garbage disposal in Rockford's trailer and the story weaves all over the place and ultimately ends with the solution for what was blocking it.

"You're turning into a big disappointment for me. Don't you ever think about anyone but yourself?"

Jim Rockford: "No. Well, yeah, sometimes at Christmas."

 

[Jeffbert]

A week ago, I finished Daryl Dixon s2. While I do miss Talking Dead, there was an hour-long making of after e #6 (the final ep), & that was rather fun!

 

[pogopossum]

Life on the Street Season 2 episode 1.
Husband, played excellently by Robin Williams, who has lost his wife. Acting, drama, character usage, is up to the standard of the best crime series ever broadcast,
Grit and some character treatment of the detectives could put a viewer off. However,
(if you don't live in Baltimore) it is perhaps part of the best police drama ever roadcast. As I repeat.)

 

[KGeo777]

KOJAK - The Best War in Town -- rookie cop stumbles upon and prevents an attempted mob assassination. Kojak and David Doyle (spelled Davvid in the opening credits--what a blunder) seek to track down the various mob personnel and arrest them as they grow desperate. Premiered 50 yars ago today.

McCLOUD - The Concrete Jungle Caper -- McCloud does a fair bit of globetrotting (from France to Beirut to somewhere else I forgot--all through the wonders of stock footage and back lot set decoration--you can easily tell when they are in France since a few extras are carrying french bread). He has to track down a drug dealer who dresses like him but has an eye patch. The criminal's partner is Angel Tompkins who survives a helicopter crash and makes off with one million that the New York police department is responsible for, just as Chief Clifford is trying to cut back on department expenses. Not only does McCloud pose as a drug dealer, but he goes to prison (and gets acid thrown in his eye!) in order to trick John Marley and Joseph Campanella into making a deal that will lure out their father (Victor Jory) while another drug dealer (Brock Peters) is trying to cut in on their deal. And Teri Garr (requiescat in pace) is an undercover cop posing as a go-go dancer. The funniest scene is when Clifford comes in wearing a hard hat and she flirts to keep her cover and embarrass him. I am surprised this was only 70 minutes long because it sure was packed with a lot of content. Premiered 50 years ago today.

 

[BAYLOR]

Blake 7 Blue ray series 1 1. The Way Back. and 2. Space Fall.

 

[Pyan]

Return to Paradise - a spin-off, set in Australia, of Death in Paradise.
Stars the really scary Anna Samson, owner of the most piercing eyes on TV, bar none.

 

[KGeo777]

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Cardinal -- A general (Theodore Bikel) has a religious figure held prisoner and intends to use an imposter in his place. The MIF has to infiltrate a monastery run by the general. One particularly amusing bit occurs when Rollin shows up as a visiting priest. When he comes into a room, he pauses to look at Barbara Babcock, posing as a sour-faced nun but actually part of the general's staff, and she awkwardly smiles before realizing she has to kiss his hand in homage, causing Cinnamon and Jim, posing as doctor and nurse, to smirk in secret. There is also a tense moment where they have to slip a body out of a room without the general knowing and some quick thinking by Cinnamon prevents disaster. One thing though--it is set in some Eastern country, but when seeing it from an elevated spot, it sure looks like Los Angeles in the distance.

POLICE WOMAN - Flowers of Evil -- a trio of lesbians are killing residents of a retirement home. Pepper has to infiltrate their circle to get the evidence. The makeup artist does an admirable job making Lisa Loring and Laraine Stephens look as plain as possible. Quite a dramatic episode but after it aired, a Lesbian group occupied the studio offices and the episode was not shown in syndication for 25 years.

KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER - Bad Medicine - Richard Kiel is an evil sorcerer killing wealthy folk for jewels. Victor Jory offers Carl some sagely advice. Premiered 50 years ago tonight.

 

[Jeffbert]

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - The Cardinal -- A general (Theodore Bikel) has a religious figure held prisoner and intends to use an imposter in his place. The MIF has to infiltrate a monastery run by the general. One particularly amusing bit occurs when Rollin shows up as a visiting priest. When he comes into a room, he pauses to look at Barbara Babcock, posing as a sour-faced nun but actually part of the general's staff, and she awkwardly smiles before realizing she has to kiss his hand in homage, causing Cinnamon and Jim, posing as doctor and nurse, to smirk in secret. There is also a tense moment where they have to slip a body out of a room without the general knowing and some quick thinking by Cinnamon prevents disaster. One thing though--it is set in some Eastern country, but when seeing it from an elevated spot, it sure looks like Los Angeles in the distance.

Mission Impossible: I still prefer the series over the films! Oh, I believe the IMF is the correct abbreviation or whatever.

 

[KGeo777]

Mission Impossible: I still prefer the series over the films! Oh, I believe the IMF is the correct abbreviation or whatever.

lol
late night spelling

 

[Jeffbert]

So, I have been watching two, count 'em, 2 LIS episodes every week.

#68 (s3, 9), Collision of Planets One of the silliest of the series. Contains the line:
"Zachery Smith, the strongest man in the universe"

So, the J2 crew are preparing for lift-off, when suddenly [dramatic music] nothing happened. No, actually space hippies come to town to destroy the planet, which is on a collision course with another planet, etc., whose residents much prefer to avoid such collision. Finding the space hippies nonproductive citizens, they insist that the hippies destroy it fast.

Having parachuted the explosives to the surface, Will, Smith, & the robot find one of the containers. Smith, as usual, seeks a way to profit from the find, and in attempting to open it, is blasted in the face with a gas. He is knocked out, and even seem dead. Then, he rises, having chest and arms, greatly expanded, he now is a Samson-like man, knowing his great strength, & acting like it.


#69 (s3 #10) Space Creature. A malevolent cloud of gas enters the J2, while in outer space, & influences certain crew members. If you thought the previous episode was stupid, this one makes the flying saucer into a 3 story building. It was not enough that the series took the single deck of the pilot film's Jupiter II, and added a lower deck below it, without changing the external appearance of the vessel; now they added a storage area, and engine room below it. All those cartons of food in there, while just a few weeks ago, they were on the verge of starvation. Seems to me that TTZ's Death Ship did a similar thing to the C57.

Oh, I already forgot much of the episode, but compared to this, I cannot be very interesting!

 

[paranoid marvin]

The Mirror and the Light

Almost switched off after the first episode. Cromwell was even nicer than the first season, and quite off-putting; this meek version of Henry VIII's chief minister defoes belief. And befriending and supporting Mary whilst risking the wrath of his master just didn't ferl right.

But in the second episode, we do see more of the steel and ruthlessness; a gauntlet inside a velvet glove. Still doesn't feel like TC but the series is just so gripping that I'm prepared to overlook it.

I've said it before, but it's a real pity that we didn't get the same set of actors reprising their roles (but Rylance as Matthew Shardlake) in the Shardlake stories.