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Although Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee were the quintessential Avengers duo, Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale had a special appeal for me. It was early in the series and Steed still had a less than gentlemanly edge to his character, and a willingness to exploit people (Gale included) for expediency. They had a good professional relationship, but you get the impression that she didn't necessarily like him, and on many occasions, angered by how he used her, let him know it in no uncertain terms. All which Steed smoothly ignored.

Or the desire to record the movie for free.

That could be the topic of the next programming challenge.

Maybe they're gun-shy now, considering the flack they get from celebrating anything at all anytime.

I think I know enough about what I'm looking at to decide for myself was is a good movie.

🍎 Sorry, I see it's already been done! Also, The Producers (1967).

I used to think 'Til We Meet Again (1940) was one of the few remakes as good as the original. But the more I watched the two, the more I realized it wasn't nearly as good as One Way Passage (1932). Some parts of it work well, and I like George Brent and Merle Oberon, but Kay Francis and William Powell are one class act. Comparing the two, you can also see the effect of enforcing the production code on movies. There are many differences, subtle, but important, and they flatten out the emotional power of the later movie. One example is at the end, where you see the couple in the later movie, as opposed to the solitary Frank McHugh. An endorsement of marriage and the proper mode of sexual relations, rather than the hinted at between the main characters.

One of my favorite opening scenes, too. Satiric, witty, wonderfully executed.

Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) They Might be Giants (1971) Up the Sandbox (1972)

It will air again Monday, April 13 at 9:20 A. M., Pacific time.

Yikes!

How do you find out this stuff? DirecTV doesn't tell me about these promos.

I doubt there is a single human alive that would sit through an equl length of TCM standard programming.

That's quite a list. A lot of them, I'm sure have shown on TCM.

Now, that's class.

I'm certain they are available for purchase, if they're that important.

I don't find my life incomplete.

People are going to be hesitant to have direct communication with someone they are not familiar with. If you want to find out how to upload a picture, posters will be happy to show you how.

Look at Peebs earlier post up above.

I'm looking forward to Quintet (1979), with Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, and Brigitte Fossey, directed by Robert Altman.

I neglected to say my times are Pacific. So on the east coast it would be 3 a. m. that the retro portion of the schedule kicks in.

Well then, for Vautrin, FXM still shows studio-era movies from midnight to noon.

Hadn't thought of that!

Not too hard to like TDTESS (the original). What is FMC?

I'm afraid you did. It was on a few days ago. But don't lose hope. FMX movies resurface repeatedly.