Around the dial

It's a short recap this week, but that doesn't mean it's without quality, as we find out from the very beginning, with John's continuing series at Cult TV Blog on The Prisoner and comparisons to Soviet Russia. This week, he's looking at "Many Happy Returns" and "Dance of the Dead." How does the allegory hold up? Read on and find out.

Martin Grams has more book reviews on hand, including Aubrey Malone's examination of The Misfits, Robert Stroim, biography of actress-singer Virginia O'Brien, Steven Vagg's biography of the great Aussie actor Rod Taylor, James Sheldon's story on his vast career as a radio and television director, and Scott Gallinghouse's biography of horror actor Rondo Hatton. 

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, at Mavis Movie Madness Paul looks back at a pair of episodes from The Waltons: "The Thanksgiving Story" (appropriate to the season!), and the episode for which it was something of a sequel, "The Love Story."

At A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence bids farewell to actress Sally Kirkland, who died earlier this week at age 84; she was a frequent guest star on television, had a recurring role in Days of Our Lives and The Agency, and, most notably, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Anna. 

I mentioned last week that Ralph Senensky died on November 1 at the prodigious age of 102, and at Television Obscurities, Robert has a very appropriate appreciation of everything that Senensky accomplished in a glorious career, about which he wrote with great wit and verve.

At A View from the Junkyard, Roger continues his review of The A-Team with "Say it with Bullets" (always an effective way of communicating, it seems), and offers a sage piece of advice for us all: "the key to success and happiness in life might be knowing when to be silly and knowing when to get serious." TV

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