Keeping with the telemovie theme, Gill takes on The Curse of King Tut's Tomb at RealWeegieMidget, in honor of one of its stars, Eva Marie Saint. And in passing, Gill mentions some of the great credits of this remarkable actress.
Cult TV Blog has moved to another "theme" series of posts, this one on the British sci-fi alien creatures the Autons, who made their television debut in the 1966 Doctor Who episode "Invasion." Think Invasion of the Body Snatchers, British style.
Let's stay with British TV at Cult TV Lounge, where dfordoom looks at the first season of The Power Game, the mid 2960s series about intrigue and cynacism in the world of British industry, considered one of the very best series of the decade.
Tom Skerritt, who was on just about everything in television and in the movies, died Wednesday at the age of 93, and at A Shroud of Thoughts, Terence has a retrospective of his many, many credits. Terence also honors Michael Forest, best remembered as Apollo in Star Trek, but with a host of other appearances on his CV, who died earlier this month. He was 97.
B.A. gets shot in this week's A-Team episode, "Waiting for Insane Wayne," the subject Roger's review at The View from the Junkyard. Not unlike Hogan's Heroes, it suggests that when the bad guys are the authorities, you have to play them as idiots.
The 1966-67 TV Guide season continues at Television Obscurities with the issue of October 22, 1966, and among its features is the week's editorial, in which the editors note that politics has become so expensive that "It takes a very rich man, or one with very rich friends, these days, to attain high political office." The more things change, eh? TV
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