tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post3466856899063225031..comments2024-03-29T11:16:07.637-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: March 28, 1959Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-72784008364300001642016-03-29T21:19:15.304-04:002016-03-29T21:19:15.304-04:00You and the rest of the world, Jack ...
Over at M...You and the rest of the world, Jack ...<br /><br />Over at Mystery*File, a few years back, a bunch of us had a back-and-forth on this "lost pilot", about which there seems to be <i>no surviving information whatsoever</i>.<br /><br />No one knows who else was in it, aside from Kasznar and the Shat.<br /><br />We also don't know whether the pilot was filmed or taped - and if you think that doesn't make a difference, I'll tell you that a filmed show from that period is far more likely to have survived that a videotape, which might have been recorded over, to save money.<br /><br />Why has this pilot disappeared? <br />Possible reasons/excuses abound; Consensus seems to be that Rex Stout (who hated television and film) personally killed the project at the pilot stage and ordered suppression of the finished product. (It is a fact that no <i>Nero Wolfe</i> project got off the ground until well after Stout's death.)<br /><br />All that remains is that photo of Kasznar and Shatner reproduced above - and from all indications, that's all that ever will remain.<br /><br />So there too.Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-37507346032133915802016-03-29T14:40:58.699-04:002016-03-29T14:40:58.699-04:00I suspect that since videotape had come into usage...I suspect that since videotape had come into usage in 1959 that at least one, probably both, of Mary Martin's 1959 NBC Easter specials were taped.<br /><br />If only color tapes of both those shows could be found and restored. What a great DVD they would make!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-77957737665656618712016-03-29T14:39:24.837-04:002016-03-29T14:39:24.837-04:00To boldly finger suspects no detective has fingere...To boldly finger suspects no detective has fingered before!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-58323437378287925562016-03-29T12:45:50.351-04:002016-03-29T12:45:50.351-04:00Regarding the Dallas and Fort Worth market designa...Regarding the Dallas and Fort Worth market designation; from what I've run across so far, though Arbitron had for a time considered Dallas and Fort Worth as separate markets; by about the early 1950s the Metroplex was already being considered a single market.Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-50566950737686213662016-03-27T18:39:41.860-04:002016-03-27T18:39:41.860-04:00I happened to get a copy of this same issue, St. L...I happened to get a copy of this same issue, St. Louis Edition, just this past week off EBay. There was also an interview with Mary Martin at her home in Connecticut, just before she and her husband, producer Richard Halliday, were about to leave for New Haven, where she was going to give a performance of her show, "Music with Mary Martin". Her husband engaged in some name-dropping on a call to someone in NYC: "All right, Leland. I know we have Dick and Oscar. All we need to do now is work out our plans." These were references to his co-producer Leland Hayward and Rodgers & Hammerstein. They were probably discussing their production of "The Sound of Music", which was about to premiere on Broadway that November. The article was titled "If You're Peter Pan, Crow!", which is something a little girl in an airport told her when her mother told her this "lady" was Peter Pan.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-38879001892175296302016-03-27T12:06:49.544-04:002016-03-27T12:06:49.544-04:00Shatner as Archie Goodwin? Now THAT's a show I...Shatner as Archie Goodwin? Now THAT's a show I'd like to see!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.com