July 12, 2024

Around the dial




The actress Shelley Duvall died yesterday, aged 75, with a legion of fans and a resume that ran the gamut from Robert Altman movies to the television shows Faerie Tale Theatre and Tall Tales and Legends. We have two appreciations of her this week, from Terence at A Shroud of Thoughts and Trav S.D. at Travalanche.  

At The View from the Junkyard, Roger and Mike take on the Twilight Zone episode "The Long Morrow," and it isn't a pretty picture. TZ is in its fifth and final season, and it's far from the glory days of yore, yet there's still Robert Lansing and Mariette Hartley to look forward to, and that isn't bad.

Those Were the Days flashes back to the TV Guide cover from July 11, 1964, highlighting the anchormen about to cover the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. It's a bittersweet reminder not only of when political conventions were important, but when giants ruled the news.

Speaking of giants, at Comfort TV, David's journey through 1970s TV continues with Tuesday nights in 1974, and that night's shows cast giant footprints indeed: Happy Days, Marcus Welby, Good Times, M*A*S*H, Hawaii Five-O, Barnaby Jones, Adam-12, and Police Story. Not bad.

At Cult TV Blog, John flashes back to the very first assignment of Sapphire and Steel, a Twilight Zone-type story that gets the chance to dig much deeper into a strange world of disappearing people and mysterious protagonists; it's good enough to get you hooked into the rest of the series.

And at bare•bones e-zine, it's the latest entry in Jack's Hitchcock Project, "Completely Foolproof," Anthony Terpiloff's tenth-season story about a couple of grim and unlikeable people who, I think, get what's coming to them. It's a completely foolproof to wrap up this week's classic television review. TV  

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