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on the other hand, svengoolie's print of invisible agent last nite looked real spiffy. don't think I've seen a bad print of anything on his show.

and maybe they won't... pennies count.

since it's economical, I wonder if when tcm shows The Prisoner of Second Avenue again, if they might consider getting a hold of an older edited print. just before ed peck dumps a bucket of water on lemmon, in the older dubbed print Lemmon says "respect my can!" which I think sounds funnier. since tcm just showed a lousy print of the batman serial. figure it will be no trouble.

maybe it's just more economical for tcm to show an inferior quality print. just remember, RayFiola, your sacrifice is enabling tcm to continue it's uncensored commercial-free policy. be glad.

yeah! why should we all be at the mercy of these rich flying celebs and their hedonistic recreating bents?

the 50 foot woman's bedsheets.

same ol' story. nuthin' to watch. lost my taste for old TV westerns like the virginian and the big valley and who can digest any more of bonanza, gunsmoke or the high chapparal? not me. can't quite cotton to wanted: dead or alive or rawhide. gonna try to sit through invisible agent tonite on svengoolie. figure it can't be any worse than that batman serial. saw the advertisement for tcm's next disney nite on the fifteenth. why the disney outings? tcm worried about the neverending repetitiousness of their unchanging film catalog and rotation? they oughta be. they can break out Hot Spell with an Osborne-Shirley MacLaine primetime or essentials sit-in anytime they dam well want to. I mean who's stoppin' 'em?

When Don Defore and Whitney Blake left Hazel they were replaced by Ray Fulmer and lovely blonde actress Lynn Borden. http://www.imdb.com/news/ni58367378?ref_=hm_nw_tp2

I agree. before this past show it was just an annual dog and pony show but this year it was very political. I guess they're still smarting out there from the midterm results.

Clint Eastwood as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street... HO, HO, HO, Punk!

STAR TREK leonard's katra would be pleased.

maybe that's what ruined airport last nite.

guess so.

watched the young stranger thursday afternoon which is immensely entertaining I think. rich hollywood studio exec james daly has his son hal driving around an old heap that he somehow managed to outbid wally cleaver for. quite frankly it looks like gregory peck's old staff car from twelve o'clock high. we get this shot of young hal tryin' to get his old heap goin' with his parent's palatial residence in the background with guests on a sundeck... no doubt amused at the sight of their hostess' son trying to get his rod started. a film that's always alotta fun. personally, I like it a lot more than blackboard jungle. then after that planet of the apes...again. these days I only watch the beginning of the film with the crash and their subsequent trek inland. after some forty odd years the novelty of heston dealing with intelligent civilized apes has worn off a bit for me. as the spaceship somewhat augers in with the fancy camerawork, we also get to hear some retread sound effects borrowed from lost in space, then the ship hits the water... they wake up, see that their lovely companion now looks like norman bates' mother, something gives and the ship starts sinkin'. taylor orders dodge to send out an sos to earth just for the helluva it. also tells dodge to blow the escape hatch before the power goes after which it does. then it's "forget it! abandon ship!" from heston. taylor then starts waxing negative which will last only up until he meets the monkeys. you know the rest. also tried to watch airport later on in the evening. was enjoying it too but the picture started getting' glitchy probably due to the weather. the picture kept getting glitchier until it became unwatchable... so I turned it off. Danno tell off Dr. Lochner.

a young Charlton Heston as Captain James T. Kirk!

was the force with him?

if you ask me, Ralph Bakshi's 1977 animated film is much better than all this peter jackson shakespearean wannabe crap.

I watched all three LOTR films on tcm the other nite. the whole thing came across as very repetitious. I mean how many battles are we talking about here in all three movies? dozens? the main warrior guy with the short scruffy beard looked like one of the carlin brothers from high plains drifter. and does all that cgi require continuous sweeping camera angles throughout? that's my main complaint. why the continuous sweeping camera shots? even that gets monotonous. I was hopin' sauron would finally show up and finish 'em all off.

How come we never get to see Sauron?

my current wallpaper... admiral nelson pulling out the control rods on the seaview's reactor pile. I can't help it if I love radiation.

you need a flatscreen TV. get a cheap 720p unit.

still in the process of watching it. just watched the big train wreck scene and it was hilarious. merryville passengers including, fred, ben and olivia on the train then the scene shifts to the cab with moe and curly or is it them two guys from petticoat junction who drive the cannonball? a bee shows up in the cab while curly is snacking on an apple. he notices the bee, alerts moe and spits out what's left of his apple. the bee lands on curly's hand and moe says "doan get him mad." the bee stings, curly yells and wacks the bee. the swarm quickly attacks and curly's butt hits the lever and the train races outta control and over it goes with all aboard. note to fred, ben and olivia. don't travel by train.

this man is not James Bond.

say what you want about irwin allen but the man always delivered enjoyable melodrama no matter how dumb the film or tv show lets her it for irwy!