David brings Comfort TV to 1976, with his review of Sunday night programming. Some solid shows: 60 Minutes, Kojak, The Six Million Dollar Man, Disney, and the Sunday Mystery Movie. Some not so: The Big Event, Cos, Delvecchio. Another great look back.
Cult TV Blog continues the "Sylvia Coleridge Season," and this week John arrives at the 1986 BBC TV movie The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams, a drama about one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, with as many as 300 victims to his credit. If this is news to you, as it was to me, it's worth checking out.
You'll remember my traumatic years living in the World's Worst Town™, where I was held hostage in a town with one commercial TV channel; well, this week at Mavis Movie Madness, Paul looks at another of those movies I heard of but never got to see, the 1978 teleflick Deadman's Curve, the story of Jan and Dean.
At Classic Film & TV Cafe, Rick shares seven things to know about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The first season and a half, with its Cold War overtones, was consistently good; the last two and a half, which featured lots of monsters and weird things, not so much. But it's still one of my favorites for a fun evening.
Two highlights from A Shroud of Thoughts: first, Terence remembers Denise Alexander, the soap opera legend who was also a frequent guest star on television in the 1960s and 70s; then, it's a celebration of the Muppets and their television debut, 70 years ago. Man, do I feel old.
At The View from the Junkyard, Roger's latest turn on The A-Team is "Pros and Cons," which features a perfect example of the "Chekhov's gun" trope. Oh, by the way, it's also a pretty good episode, with some particularly violent scenes.
Finally, the latest episode of American TV with Mitchell Hadley is up, a fun episode in which Dan Schneider and I compare lists of the ten most significant moments in TV history. There was very little overlap, although many of them were complimentary, which makes it even more fun. TV
Thanks, Mitchell!
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