You're probably all familiar by now with the Hitchcock Project that Jack posts every other week at bare•bones e-zine; it's a don't-miss feature for me. Jack's not quite done covering every episode of the Hitchcock series, but he's getting close, and this week he provides his annual list of all the episodes he's reviewed so far. Click to your heart's content.
At Cult TV Blog, John returns to Barlow at Large, a British police procedural that ran from 1971 to 1975, starring Stratford Johns as Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Barlow, a role he'd previously played in three other series. This week's episode, "Sect," involves an investigation of a cult, and makes a strong case for being a series worth following.
David's always-interesting series at Comfort TV, in which he journeys through prime time TV of the 1970s, and he's now reached Thursday nights in 1974. What was on the dial? Some familiar faces, to be sure: The Waltons, Harry O, The Streets of San Francisco, The Odd Couple, Ironside, Movin' On, and more. Find out what David has to say about them.
Few things strike us as being more disturbing than the idea that someone else could be controlling your mind. It's a popular trope for television shows, and at The View from the Junkyard, Roger and Mike investigate the Avengers episode "My Wildest Dream," with Steed and Tara, to see how well the series handles it.
Do you remember Charles Rocket? Or, more specifically, do you remember the moment Charles Rocket launched the F-bomb on Saturday Night Live? I do; I can honestly say that I saw the event as it happened, live on national TV. It was truly one of those "did I just hear what I think I heard?" events, and not surprisingly it features big time in Travalanche's look at Rocket's not-so-gleaming career.
Does the new fall TV season do anything for you? If it does (and sadly, for me it does not), then you're in luck, because both CBS and Fox have produced half-hour specials touting their new shows. This was a staple of the schedule when I was growing up, and even though I'm not interested in them, I'm glad they still do it. Television Obscurities has the 411 on their availability.
Garry Berman looks back on the book that launched his career as a professional writer 25 years ago: Best of the Britcoms - From Fawlty Towers to Absolutely Fabulous. It would later receive an update to take it through The Office, but no matter which version you look at, it's an informative—and highly entertaining—look at one of the most endearingly quirky generes on TV. TV
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