flashback42
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"It's a guy named Who! 'Who's on first, What's on second...' I just this minute got that!"
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In broad outlines, that seems to fit *Magnificent Obsession*, filmed in 1936, then remade in 1954, same title.
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In the one-hour original version, a forensics development. Late in the plot line it is revealed that there was recent lawn care in the vicinity of the shooting. By the state-of-the-art science available at the time, the nitrates in the area involved had given a false impression that the officer had fired his sidearm.
This was not the case breaker, but it helped.
Edited by: flashback42 on May 12, 2012 12:07 PM
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The presence of the four children in the house is not known to the outside world. Late 1980s. Color.
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I'll try one, Sixes.
A child dies. Later revelation: arsenic sprinkled on the cookies. He has three older siblings. Arrangements are made to bury the child on the family estate. Scene with a servant digging the grave. Three graves are already prepared, standing open. And the handyman is working on the fourth.
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Actually, it's being treated as if you have a very good poser. I'm intrigued, and I'm hoping someone will show up who recognizes it. If not intrusive, BTW, USA story? Timeframe of story?
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Stab and a hit. Okay, up next, a twofer.
A law-enforcement anthology in the 1970s and 80s. Some 6 - 8 regulars, lots of use of guest stars. Attention to 'police procedural' aspects, but generous time also given the personal lives of the officers.
A police officer is charged and found guilty of killing a prostitute. It is a well-done frame job, and his friends on the force are still working on his behalf even after he goes to prison. A one-hour episode in the late '70s covers the story. Nearly 10 years later, the same series put out some two-hour TVMs that re-used some of the earlier stories. The cop-in-prison was one of these. In both versions, a solid-citizen actor in the lead, and some respected names also in support roles. Each telling of the story involves he framed man's struggles on the Inside with other cons, and the friends still on the job who were pulling for him.
Series? Actors and titles in the two different versions?
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*145*
"I swear never again! Never mix the grain and the grape...Never mix the grain and the grape... Never mix..."
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Impulse WAG here.
9 Feb 74, *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*, episode titled Ted Baxter Meets Walter Kronkite. Baxter thinks Kronkite is there in connection with Ted winning some award. Actually, the network anchorman is just there to visit Lou Grant, who is an old friend.
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Mortimer, (Col.) Douglas -- Lee Van Cleef in *For a Few Dollars More* (1965)
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Jonathan -- Jack Klaff in *King David* (1985)
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Dead on, Rick. Good film. Buck Henry was the fisherman.
CineramaRick's thread.
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"...and this bloomin' cap is too durn hot! That settles it. I'm jonin' the Hair Club for Men."
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The two men with the wrong packages stop and look around, spot each other, then walk over and swap packages. As each man gets to his car, he looks back and, vocally, memorizes the other man's license-plate number.
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The other customer in the package mixup. -- He was on a fishing trip with friends, and they found and photographed a dead woman's body in a trout stream. (They reported it to the police -- after catching their limit and walking back out of the wilderness.) But when he opens the envelope he finds pictures of some quite realistic-looking but unearthly creatures.
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First line, typed out:
"I have become unstuck in time."
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Sounds like Marilyn Monroe.
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Right on all counts.
lavender's thread.
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"I think my invitation to this party was a mistake. I'm not part of the social crowd around here, and I can't even tell one Kardashian from another."
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The unseen, uh, entity who asks the question is a zoo curator, or a lab scientist or something like that. The persons addressed are the only two humans on this planet, and the beings there are very curious about Earth culture.
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Southern California setting. One of the customers has taken pictures of his work in creating exotic monster makeup features for the film industry. But when he opens the package, he finds photos of a dead nude woman, floating in a trout stream.
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This TV series did not last long, but it later morphed into a profitable series of bigscreen films. The anchoring feature was a deadpan performance by a star who behaved as if he were working in a serious crime drama.
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Okie dokie, a variation: Find the star from another galaxy in classic TV:
Early 1980s. A comic police-procedural show that leaned a lot on satire. Frequent guest stars. The guest under reference here: Not an actor but a Media Personality who made a lot a "self" appearances, sometimes in fictional settings like this, sometimes as a talk-show or variety guest.
One running feature of the series was an all-knowing snitch who worked as a shoeshine guy. Nearly every episode had the cops get some useful tip from him, while they pretended to be just getting a shine. Others sought him out too. -- Chefs in their kitchen whites got recipe tips, as did architects, judges, etc, with questions in their own fields. They all paid up for the info.
The guest star described above, a woman psychiatrist made appearances all over the place, with commentary in her field. In the episode under discussion here, the shoeshine guy gave her a quick briefing on the "Cinderella Complex." A well-known actor also appeared as a crime victim.
Series? Guest or guests?
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Thanks, Sixes. Next up:
The parking-lot kiosk of a photo-developing business. Several customers crowding around. A couple of packets fall off the counter. When picked up, they get switched and are handed to the wrong customers. Both men walk away before they open the envelopes and examine the photos.
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(Maj.) Robert Rogers -- Spencer Tracy in *Northwest Passage* (1940)