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Post by berkley on Jun 27, 2021 19:27:27 GMT -5
Laundry time so while folding and ironing put on a disc of the final season of Matt Houston. Fun little bored rich man PI series starring the good looking Lee Horsley, the scrumptious Pamela Hensley and as Matt's Uncle Roy the eternal Buddy Ebsen for the assist. Wonderfully likable cast. Entertaining show without being overly complicated. And as with most great TV shows you have a splendid time putting names to instantly recognizable faces of elderly movie or television stars along with the mix of new fresh up and coming stars. I used to watch this occasionally at the time but don't recall many details about it now, except that I liked Pamela Hensley from Buck Rogers. I remember a tv critic describing Horsely as the guy who looks like Magnum and talks like Rockford. |
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Post by berkley on Jun 27, 2021 19:30:46 GMT -5
Laundry time so while folding and ironing put on a disc of the final season of Matt Houston. Fun little bored rich man PI series starring the good looking Lee Horsley, the scrumptious Pamela Hensley and as Matt's Uncle Roy the eternal Buddy Ebsen for the assist. Wonderfully likable cast. Entertaining show without being overly complicated. And as with most great TV shows you have a splendid time putting names to instantly recognizable faces of elderly movie or television stars along with the mix of new fresh up and coming stars. I used to watch this occasionally at the time but don't recall many details about it now, except that I liked Pamela Hensley from Buck Rogers. I remember a tv critic describing Horsely as the guy who looks like Magnum and talks like Rockford. So it's fitting that Codystarbuck mentioned those two shows in his response above! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 28, 2021 1:10:57 GMT -5
Which is why I never understood how Horsely, looking like a cowboy, was cast to play a fantasy hero, in a sword & sorcery movie. Watching the film, I never understood, except that he probably came cheap, as everything about that movie was cheap. At least Richard Moll got to hide under make-up.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 28, 2021 12:56:37 GMT -5
Watched a little bit of In The Heat Of The Night on Newsmax (formerly WGN). Have loved this series since my teens in the early to mid 00's. Can't even really say what I like about it so much, maybe it's the humor?
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 28, 2021 18:55:22 GMT -5
Watched several old Western series episodes on Mom's Dish network today. We had a couple of episodes of Gunsmoke, one of Laramie, one of The Virginian, and a couple of Death Valley Days. I don't remember noticing this before, but the host of Death Valley Days, The Old Ranger, wore an unusual necktie. It was a standard tie for the most part, but it only went halfway down his chest.  That must have gone so completely out of style that it looks startling now. Even bow ties look more normal to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2021 7:02:42 GMT -5
I got onto a bit of a sci-fi kick yesterday, probably because my wife started a subscription to "BritBox" and old Dr. Who has been playing in heavy rotation in my house this last week.
I started with some of my usual favorites, like the first two Star Trek movies and likewise the first two Star Wars movies (though the latter I consider more "action" in a sci-fi setting). This morning, I went back to another childhood favorite, Space: 1999 (Series 1).
I loved this show when I was a kid...it felt so intelligent, like there was a real gravity to what happened in the episodes. As a kid with Skylab still fresh in my mind, I felt like if I grew up and became an astronaut this is kind of what it would be like.
Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were also such great stars for this, along with the rest of the cast. I now understand it struggled to find success in the US (and led to the overhaul for Series 2) which makes sense to me. Series 1 was less about the action, more about the "thinking". I consider it more "pure sci-fi" in that regard. Kind of how I feel about the first Star Trek movie, I never understood the criticisms, I think it was a brilliant movie.
Great music as well, including the classic theme song!
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Post by brutalis on Jul 13, 2021 8:21:31 GMT -5
Loved Space:1999 1st season. Very smart British sci-fi that focused upon story not action which of course doomed it at the time. Even managed to enjoy how the 2nd season morphed itself into Star Trek lite.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 13, 2021 13:38:30 GMT -5
DecadesTv ran for their weekend Binge all episodes of the 2 seasons for the Monkees! I recorded to DVD for watching at my own leisure. This was a favorite on Saturday mornings when it went to reruns. The music along with the humor and antics was perfect for us kids turning to teens. Looking forward to rewatching the next few weeks.
Will have to record again this coming weekend as DecadesTv will binge Love, American Style. Remember watching this during summer break from school as it ran late morning in repeats between soap-opera's. Lots of memorable faces and again lots of humor to enjoy. And oh those wild designs and mod styles! Great memories.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2021 18:30:08 GMT -5
DecadesTv ran for their weekend Binge all episodes of the 2 seasons for the Monkees! I recorded to DVD for watching at my own leisure. This was a favorite on Saturday mornings when it went to reruns. The music along with the humor and antics was perfect for us kids turning to teens. Looking forward to rewatching the next few weeks. Will have to record again this coming weekend as DecadesTv will binge Love, American Style. Remember watching this during summer break from school as it ran late morning in repeats between soap-opera's. Lots of memorable faces and again lots of humor to enjoy. And oh those wild designs and mod styles! Great memories. I don't think there has ever been a catchier theme song than the opening to the Monkees. The show was/is a blast indeed! |
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Post by berkley on Aug 3, 2021 22:47:49 GMT -5
I haven't seen the Monkees since it originally aired but I was very into it back then - but I was so young, I don't remember much about it now (wiki says it ended in March 1968, when I would have been 6 years old). I also read a story-book based on the show, "Who's Got the Button?", or something like that.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 4, 2021 8:05:37 GMT -5
I just learned today that the only remaining actor that is still alive from the Adventures of Superman tv series is Phyllis Coates. She’s 94 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 8:24:34 GMT -5
I just learned today that the only remaining actor that is still alive from the Adventures of Superman tv series is Phyllis Coates. She’s 94 years old. Go Lois! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 4, 2021 9:58:50 GMT -5
I haven't seen the Monkees since it originally aired but I was very into it back then - but I was so young, I don't remember much about it now (wiki says it ended in March 1968, when I would have been 6 years old). I also read a story-book based on the show, "Who's Got the Button?", or something like that. I rewatched it when MTV ran it, around 1986/87. It was still pretty funny, at times, pretty stupid, at times. MTV also re-ran some of the music perfoamnces (usually at the end of the show) as videos, since they were, essentially, proto-music videos (aping the Beatles, in their films). I recall one, that I don't remember seeing as a kid, where, at the end, Mike Nesmith is talking with Frank Zappa and Mike is made up and imitating Zappa and vice-versa. |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 4, 2021 12:04:18 GMT -5
Having recorded the entire series a few weekends ago off the Decadestv binge I am tempted to spend a day just recording ALL of the musical segments to 1 DVD. Perhaps a project for this fall when it cools off🙃
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Post by berkley on Aug 4, 2021 16:15:22 GMT -5
definitely something I want to watch again. along with a lot of other stuff from the same era that I haven't seen for a long, long time.
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