tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post1364483504540294397..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: What's on TV? Saturday, June 13, 1970Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-58143086555221377322019-04-24T07:19:01.845-04:002019-04-24T07:19:01.845-04:00Hi,how are you can i please buy a copy of the show...Hi,how are you can i please buy a copy of the show Get It Together. where these artist performing The Ides of March / Vic Dana / Little Anthony and the Imperials much appreciated Thank you.<br /><br />Regards<br />BruneBruné Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13348720983893086789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-62173960372596595312018-07-05T16:44:15.999-04:002018-07-05T16:44:15.999-04:00Happy Ending Dept.:
Today's mail arrived with...Happy Ending Dept.:<br /><br />Today's mail arrived with my long-delayed Region 2 DVD of <i>The Cracksman</i>.<br />Deep thanx to Amazon and MovieMars in Great Britain.<br /> <br /> … and if the opportunity presents itself for any of you, by all means see Charlie Drake in <i>The Cracksman</i> (TCM might just show it again someday).Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-85293513187574179432018-06-19T16:29:00.121-04:002018-06-19T16:29:00.121-04:00Jonathan NC:
eBay is no good for me.
I'm a ret...Jonathan NC:<br />eBay is no good for me.<br />I'm a retiree on a fixed income, and auctions are infeasible for me.<br />Thanx for the thought, though ...<br />Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-16133100296592642312018-06-19T14:52:12.166-04:002018-06-19T14:52:12.166-04:00Mike: Get it on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/123...Mike: Get it on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/123193817409<br />JSowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04861951820274833865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-79649253926639715042018-06-18T18:35:47.237-04:002018-06-18T18:35:47.237-04:00It is now Later:
- Since at least one affiliate ...It is now Later:<br /><br /> - Since at least one affiliate here is still carrying <i>Durante/Lennons</i>, that would mean that ABC hasn't <i>completely</i> lost the network here, has it?<br />I don't have this particular issue, but I do have one from a month later (July 18-24. the Golddiggers on the cover, Chicago edition of course).<br />By this time, ABC had placed Engelbert Humperdinck's hour in the Saturday slot as a placeholder; since the last half-hour of the night was affiliate time anyway, many locals chose to bypass the soon-departing Humperdinck hour and show movies instead (a not-unusual occurrence in your neck of the woods, as I recall).<br />There may have been another factor - and this just might be coincidence:<br />Come fall, this particular hour was earmarked for <i>The Most Deadly Game</i>, which was supposed to start in September - except that back in April, Inger Stevens died unexpectedly, forcing a production delay that knocked the series back to a late-October start.<br />As a consequence of that, many ABC affiliates simply kept the Saturday slot for their own movies, which didn't help <i>Most Deadly Game</i> at all; when ABC dropped it mid-season, the network simply gave the hour back to the locals.<br /><br /> - I did look at the movies that the locals put on instaed of ABC's offering, and one caught my notice - for personal reasons:<br /> Channel 6 in Austin ran <i>The Cracksman</i>, a British comedy from 1963, which starred a popular Brit TV comedian named Charlie Drake.<br />Charlie Drake could be described as a king of British version of middle-period Mickey Rooney: he was short, kind of roly-poly, and given to elaborate slapstick routines that often resulted in real-life hospitalization.<br />Years before, I saw <i>The Cracksman</i> on Sunday afternoon on our local ABC station. The whole family was watching; my dad loved low British comedy, and he would call us kids out to watch Drake's routines.<br />In <i>The Cracksman</i>, Charlie Drake is a master locksmith in London, who through no real fault of his own, falls in with a criminal gang and gets a reputation as a safecracker ('cracksman' is the local term). He goes to jail (undeservedly), and when he 'escapes' (more through luck than anything else), he's recruited by Master Criminal George Sanders for a Big Caper.<br /> As kids, we liked this a lot.<br /> Time passed: I didn't see <i>The Cracksman</i> again until years later, when TCM ran it in an off-hour; I DVRed it, but ultimately lost that to circumstance (don't ask).<br /> Present day: this morning, Amazon sent word that my order of a Region 2 DVD of <i>The Cracksman</i> had run into an unspecified problem at the supply level, and I might not get it - ever.<br /> And, Believe It Or Don't!, that's when I saw the easy-to-miss listing of <i>The Cracksman</i>'s 1970 airing in Austin MN in the Summer Of '70.<br /> Life's funny, isn't it?Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-77545573961823589292018-06-18T12:12:53.704-04:002018-06-18T12:12:53.704-04:00Brief detour:
Late last night, I happened upon Eve...Brief detour:<br />Late last night, I happened upon <i>Eventually Supertrain</i>, and upon your exchange with Mr. Budnic about <i>Bourbon Street Beat</i> (episode 4).<br /> This in its turn led me to stay up later, dig up my DVD of BSB, and rewatch "Woman In The River".<br /> What threw me in the early going was that both of you seemed to think that Mary Tyler Moore was a 'guest star' in this episode.<br /> But this was <b>1959</b>; Mary Tyler Moore wasn't <i>Mary Tyler Moore</i> yet.<br /> I mean that in the literal sense: at this point in her career (entry level), she still billed herself as <i>Mary Moore</i>. Since there was at least one other 'Mary Moore' in SAG at that time, she added <i>Tyler</i> sometime in '59 (approx.) while she was at Warners.<br /> Funny add-on: if you'd stayed through the closing credits, you'd have noticed that Mary (Tyler) Moore <i>doesn't get screen credit for her role - <b>at all</b></i> - in 1959, she wasn't that important yet.<br /> In fairness, half the actors in this episode also don't get screen credit (Warners could be stingy with billing, especially among actors who weren't as high up in the pecking order). In that context, I'd like to mention Henry Brandon, who was Denver Pyle's co-swamp rat, whose own career in villainy dated back to Laurel & Hardy's original <i>Babes In Toyland</i> (he was mean old Barnaby).<br /> By the way, have either of you ever stuck around for <i>BSB</i>'s closing credits - and for the full lyrics of the theme song?<br /> One of these blogs, I hope that you two will give full play to this classic:<br /><br /> <b>Yesterday's sorrow<br /> And hope for tomorrow<br /> All meet -<br /> To the Beat -<br /> Of <i>BOURBON STREET!</i></b><br /> <br /> Hoping to hear the theme in full, soon.<br /><br />I also watched the <i>Ellery Queen</i> episode that formed the third segment of the podcast; I'll be getting back to Mr. Budnic shortly on that.<br /> <br />As for this entry (the schedule thingy) - maybe later ...<br /><br />A<br />Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.com