Picking one show to look at its connection to the heritage of the Irish today, I chose 'Maverick' for two of its episodes.
First up, a look at Irish history through the eyes of a Maverick:
"The Bold Fenian Man"
(Beau Maverick)
The Fenians, an Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, are trained soldiers sworn to free Ireland from British rule. The Fenians have gathered in Dakota City to plan a march into Canada where they want to take hold of a small part of British property hostage in exchange for Ireland's freedom. After England pressures the United States to intervene, Beau Maverick is blackmailed into infiltrating the Fenians ranks by a shrewd Army colonel.
And going for the theme of Irish legends....
"Mr. Muldoon's Partner"
(Bart Maverick)
An Irish-themed leprechaun comedy with Mickey Rooney's lookalike son, Tim Rooney. Mickey Shaughnessey played Mr. Muldoon, and it's never settled one way or the other as to Muldoon being a real leprechaun. (However, he does bear enough of a resemblance to the leprechaun in the Visa Check Card commercial to suggest he may be that leprechaun's father.)
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Tele-Toby
Saturday, March 17, 2007
"RAINES" & "COLUMBO"
Everybody has a few skeletons in their past, things they may be embarrassed to admit later in life once they've reached a certain position and achieved a respectable reputation. I'm sure this has happened to people in positions of authority, like, let's say, police detectives who might be uncomfortable or unwilling to admit to the errors in judgment they made in their carefree youth.
Let's take LAPD Detective Michael Raines, for example.
He's got enough troubles to deal with now as it is, considering he "sees" the ghosts of murder victims. Unlike the main characters in 'Medium' and 'The Ghost Whisperer', Raines' spirits haunt him because in some ways he's mentally unbalanced since the shooting of his partner.
So I'm sure it will never come up that before he became a policeman, 'Raines' was a university student caught up in the political unrest of the mid-1970s as he joined in the protests against the Suarian government.
Proof of his involvement at rallies outside the Suarian consulate in Los Angeles can be found here.
But you really should check out the whole site. It's the best damn website for Columbo I've ever visited! (But for great 'Columbo' fanfic, visit "Just One More Paragraph". You'll find the link to the left......)
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Let's take LAPD Detective Michael Raines, for example.
He's got enough troubles to deal with now as it is, considering he "sees" the ghosts of murder victims. Unlike the main characters in 'Medium' and 'The Ghost Whisperer', Raines' spirits haunt him because in some ways he's mentally unbalanced since the shooting of his partner.
So I'm sure it will never come up that before he became a policeman, 'Raines' was a university student caught up in the political unrest of the mid-1970s as he joined in the protests against the Suarian government.
Proof of his involvement at rallies outside the Suarian consulate in Los Angeles can be found here.
But you really should check out the whole site. It's the best damn website for Columbo I've ever visited! (But for great 'Columbo' fanfic, visit "Just One More Paragraph". You'll find the link to the left......)
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
EXTERMINEZ! EXTERMINEZ!
My friends Mark and Michael have just returned from a trip to France. As a memento of their vacation as well as of their favorite TV show, here's a YouTube mashup entitled
"Doctor Who And The French Dalek"
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Tele-Toby
"Doctor Who And The French Dalek"
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Tele-Toby
Friday, March 16, 2007
"LOST" IN THOUGHT: DEAD POOLED
John Locke joined the majority of Oceanic 815's survivors this past Wednesday when he pushed Mikhail Bukanin to his death into that sonic fence that surrounds Othersville.
Well, a majority of those survivors we know well, that is.
What does he now have in common with them? He killed or caused/contributed to the death of another human being. (I'm leaning towards "killed". I think he was hoping on Bukanin to die so that his secret about once being paralyzed was kept safe.)
JACK - The doctor had to make a choice: Shannon Rutherford's Dad was left to die so that Jack might save the life of Sarah.
KATE - Where to begin? It's always best to begin at the beginning, so she blew up her abusive step-dad. Her boyfriend was shot dead while trying to help her escape. She was eager to see Marshall Mars put out of his misery. She shot one of the two Others who were tailing them at the end of Season Two.
SAWYER - He shot the other Other while on that trek with Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Michael. He also murdered a man whom he mistakenly believed to have been the real Sawyer, responsible for the deaths of his parents.
MICHAEL - In an attempt to get his son back, Michael shot Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby in cold blood.
HURLEY - He believes that 23 people died in a tragic sun deck collapse because he was on the deck as well. Then there's Tricia Tanaka and the camera man inside the Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, his grandfather's heart attack....
CHARLIE - As revenge against the kidnapping of Claire, the former drug addict felt he had to step up to the plate and so he shot Ethan once they cornered him.
SAYID - Who knows how many people he killed or caused to be executed with his interrogation skills? But we do know he shot and killed his superior officer in order to protect Nadia.
MR. EKO - As with Sayid, we don't know how many people Eko killed, but he must have been knee-deep in the blood. His career of carnage began when he was about twelve and he killed an old man so that his younger brother would not be forced to do so. He killed many of his enemies while in Africa and several of the Others on the island.
SUN - She shot the Other woman who had her trapped on board the sailboat. She later died in surgery back at the Hydra station.
JIN - He may have set up Sun's lover Jae Lee to be murdered or at the very least caused him to commit suicide once he beat the crap out of the guy for having an affair with his wife. Although he hesitated in actually killing a man on orders from Sun's father, we have yet to see whether or not he finally did so while in his employ.
DESMOND - Once he believed that Kelvin Inman had been lying to him for three years, Desmond lashed out and beat the man's head on the rocks by the water. He may also have served time in a military prison for a death-related offense.
ANA LUCIA - She gunned down the man who shot her and caused her to lose her baby. And she impaled Goodwin on a pike.
CLAIRE - In this past week's episode, we also learned that Claire claimed responsibility for the car crash that left her mother in a permanent vegetative coma. And if that's not a living "death", what is?
WALT - No deaths have been attributed to him.
BOONE & SHANNON - No deaths have been attributed to them.
BERNARD & ROSE - No deaths have been attributed to them.
CINDY - N deaths have been attributed to her.
VINCENT - No deaths have been attributed to him... yet. I'm hoping the dog will finally get a flashback episode of "his" own.
PAOLO & NIKKI - No deaths have been attributed to them. However, there are those who say that they've killed the audience's interest in the show.
Just sayin', is all. I'm willing to wait and see what their flashback episode brings.
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Well, a majority of those survivors we know well, that is.
What does he now have in common with them? He killed or caused/contributed to the death of another human being. (I'm leaning towards "killed". I think he was hoping on Bukanin to die so that his secret about once being paralyzed was kept safe.)
JACK - The doctor had to make a choice: Shannon Rutherford's Dad was left to die so that Jack might save the life of Sarah.
KATE - Where to begin? It's always best to begin at the beginning, so she blew up her abusive step-dad. Her boyfriend was shot dead while trying to help her escape. She was eager to see Marshall Mars put out of his misery. She shot one of the two Others who were tailing them at the end of Season Two.
SAWYER - He shot the other Other while on that trek with Kate, Jack, Hurley, and Michael. He also murdered a man whom he mistakenly believed to have been the real Sawyer, responsible for the deaths of his parents.
MICHAEL - In an attempt to get his son back, Michael shot Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby in cold blood.
HURLEY - He believes that 23 people died in a tragic sun deck collapse because he was on the deck as well. Then there's Tricia Tanaka and the camera man inside the Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, his grandfather's heart attack....
CHARLIE - As revenge against the kidnapping of Claire, the former drug addict felt he had to step up to the plate and so he shot Ethan once they cornered him.
SAYID - Who knows how many people he killed or caused to be executed with his interrogation skills? But we do know he shot and killed his superior officer in order to protect Nadia.
MR. EKO - As with Sayid, we don't know how many people Eko killed, but he must have been knee-deep in the blood. His career of carnage began when he was about twelve and he killed an old man so that his younger brother would not be forced to do so. He killed many of his enemies while in Africa and several of the Others on the island.
SUN - She shot the Other woman who had her trapped on board the sailboat. She later died in surgery back at the Hydra station.
JIN - He may have set up Sun's lover Jae Lee to be murdered or at the very least caused him to commit suicide once he beat the crap out of the guy for having an affair with his wife. Although he hesitated in actually killing a man on orders from Sun's father, we have yet to see whether or not he finally did so while in his employ.
DESMOND - Once he believed that Kelvin Inman had been lying to him for three years, Desmond lashed out and beat the man's head on the rocks by the water. He may also have served time in a military prison for a death-related offense.
ANA LUCIA - She gunned down the man who shot her and caused her to lose her baby. And she impaled Goodwin on a pike.
CLAIRE - In this past week's episode, we also learned that Claire claimed responsibility for the car crash that left her mother in a permanent vegetative coma. And if that's not a living "death", what is?
WALT - No deaths have been attributed to him.
BOONE & SHANNON - No deaths have been attributed to them.
BERNARD & ROSE - No deaths have been attributed to them.
CINDY - N deaths have been attributed to her.
VINCENT - No deaths have been attributed to him... yet. I'm hoping the dog will finally get a flashback episode of "his" own.
PAOLO & NIKKI - No deaths have been attributed to them. However, there are those who say that they've killed the audience's interest in the show.
Just sayin', is all. I'm willing to wait and see what their flashback episode brings.
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
PRIMED TIME: MARS 2012?
'Veronica Mars' may end up having more in common with 'Star Trek' and '24' than with 'The O.C.' and 'Beverly Hills 90210' next fall if Rob Thomas' revamp is approved for the series' fourth season.
Thomas plans on jumping ahead a few years in Veronica's timeline so that she'll now be either at the FBI academy in Quantico, or an actual FBI agent (hopefully back in the Neptune, Ca., area so that we can keep at least the dynamic with her father if not the rest of her supporting cast of characters).
This shouldn't disqualify her from still living in the main Toobworld, but it will limit the number of topical pop culture references. Actually, it should limit most of those since you never know if the person you're referring to has died, or who's now in the White House, etc.
And limiting the pop culture references is a good thing for Toobworld, because that would cut down on the number of Zonks!
Now it's just a matter of getting the show picked up at all for that fourth season....
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Thomas plans on jumping ahead a few years in Veronica's timeline so that she'll now be either at the FBI academy in Quantico, or an actual FBI agent (hopefully back in the Neptune, Ca., area so that we can keep at least the dynamic with her father if not the rest of her supporting cast of characters).
This shouldn't disqualify her from still living in the main Toobworld, but it will limit the number of topical pop culture references. Actually, it should limit most of those since you never know if the person you're referring to has died, or who's now in the White House, etc.
And limiting the pop culture references is a good thing for Toobworld, because that would cut down on the number of Zonks!
Now it's just a matter of getting the show picked up at all for that fourth season....
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
DUNDER-MIFFLIN CARBON COPY
Last night, NBC offered up its inaugural "newpeat" of 'The Office'. "Newpeat" is their coined word for a repeat that contains new footage (via deleted scenes) and which excised previously seen moments.
A lot of the "new" material was already available on the web at nbc.com, but it was new for people like me - dial-up dinosaurs.
The concept of "newpeats" isn't exactly original with NBC. FOX created an entire series based on the idea. 'Ally' was a half-hour dramady which took edited episodes of 'Ally McBeal', mixed in unused footage, and created this flub-a-dub of a show.
On the whole, this is a very exciting concept for Toobworld, and one that can go on to encompass all syndicated repeats of TV shows since the Dawn of Time, BC (Before Cable) which have had their souls ripped out through editing to make room for more commercials.
We were not watching the same two episodes of 'The Office' last night as were originally broadcast, thanks to the give-and-take of editing. Therefore, the rejiggered one hour episode was not showing us the events from Earth Prime-Time.
We were watching 'The Office' from an alternate TV dimension!
Here's a key difference between the two versions of last night's show. In the original, Jim clued Michael into the treachery of Andy. But he doesn't do so in the newpeat. So Michael comes off looking uncommonly insightful.
A perceptive Michael Scott is one that has the potential to be far more dangerous in the long run than the clueless doofus we're accustomed to week after week.
I wish I was the Master of the TV Universe, rather than just a Caretaker. I would have digitally inserted a goatee on Michael, just like Spock had in the 'Star Trek' episode "Mirror, Mirror". Then we'd know we were in the evil, dark version of Scranton.
Well, the evil part would be different.
Just sayin', is all.......
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
A lot of the "new" material was already available on the web at nbc.com, but it was new for people like me - dial-up dinosaurs.
The concept of "newpeats" isn't exactly original with NBC. FOX created an entire series based on the idea. 'Ally' was a half-hour dramady which took edited episodes of 'Ally McBeal', mixed in unused footage, and created this flub-a-dub of a show.
On the whole, this is a very exciting concept for Toobworld, and one that can go on to encompass all syndicated repeats of TV shows since the Dawn of Time, BC (Before Cable) which have had their souls ripped out through editing to make room for more commercials.
We were not watching the same two episodes of 'The Office' last night as were originally broadcast, thanks to the give-and-take of editing. Therefore, the rejiggered one hour episode was not showing us the events from Earth Prime-Time.
We were watching 'The Office' from an alternate TV dimension!
Here's a key difference between the two versions of last night's show. In the original, Jim clued Michael into the treachery of Andy. But he doesn't do so in the newpeat. So Michael comes off looking uncommonly insightful.
A perceptive Michael Scott is one that has the potential to be far more dangerous in the long run than the clueless doofus we're accustomed to week after week.
I wish I was the Master of the TV Universe, rather than just a Caretaker. I would have digitally inserted a goatee on Michael, just like Spock had in the 'Star Trek' episode "Mirror, Mirror". Then we'd know we were in the evil, dark version of Scranton.
Well, the evil part would be different.
Just sayin', is all.......
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
"B&B" DOWN UNDER
It looks like Andy and Lou of 'Little Britain' are not the only TV characters from another country who'll be seen in Australia this year. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'The Bold & The Beautiful' on CBS, many in the cast will be seen heading off to Sydney. The scenes in "Oz" will begin on March 23rd, which was the date the show first began broadcasting back in 1987.
Among those who'll be seen in Australia are Brooke Logan, Phoebe Forrester, Ridge Forrester, and Rick Forrester.
I wonder if they'll be flying Oceanic Airlines?
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Among those who'll be seen in Australia are Brooke Logan, Phoebe Forrester, Ridge Forrester, and Rick Forrester.
I wonder if they'll be flying Oceanic Airlines?
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
THE GAME OF THE NAME: WHO'S ENTITLED
The Eye of Horus website has posted the titles for the first twelve episodes of this upcoming new season for 'Doctor Who'. (Outpost Gallifrey last updated their information back on Feb. 27th, so I'm not sure this is verified yet.)
The only title missing now is the season finale which may give something away as to the storyline.
Here are the titles, according to the folks at The Eye of Horus:
01 - SMITH AND JONES
02 - THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
03 - FLESH AND BONE
04 - DALEKS IN MANHATTAN
05 - THE ONCOMING STORM
06 - THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT
07 - 42
08 - HUMAN NATURE
09 - THE FAMILY OF BLOOD
10 - BLINK
11 - UTOPIA
12 - THE SOUND OF DRUMS
13 -
We shall see what we shall see.....
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
The only title missing now is the season finale which may give something away as to the storyline.
Here are the titles, according to the folks at The Eye of Horus:
01 - SMITH AND JONES
02 - THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
03 - FLESH AND BONE
04 - DALEKS IN MANHATTAN
05 - THE ONCOMING STORM
06 - THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT
07 - 42
08 - HUMAN NATURE
09 - THE FAMILY OF BLOOD
10 - BLINK
11 - UTOPIA
12 - THE SOUND OF DRUMS
13 -
We shall see what we shall see.....
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
CINE-MAN'S TRICKS
Back in 1996, a movie written by Scott Rosenberg, called "Beautiful Girls", was set in the town of Knight's Ridge (Knights Ridge?), Massachusetts. Ten years later, that same fictional town pops up in the TV Universe and - guess what? The show, 'October Road', was written by Scott Rosenberg as well. So the Cineverse and Toobworld share another fictional location.
PLEASE let there be a need some day (and soon - this show may not have legs) for a character to mention St. Eligius Hospital in Boston!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
PLEASE let there be a need some day (and soon - this show may not have legs) for a character to mention St. Eligius Hospital in Boston!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
Thursday, March 15, 2007
TELE-GENEALOGY: MAITLANDS 3
Thanks to SleuthTV, I caught up with a sequel reunion movie from 1989, a year before I began dabbling in the Toobworld concept. "The Return Of Sam McCloud" had many of the old faces from the show - Joe Broadhurst was now Chief of Detectives, Peter B. Clifford was the NYC Police Commissioner, Chris Coughlin was living in London and working for the London Times, and Sam McCloud was now the junior senator from New Mexico.
Mention was also made of Sgt. Grover, who was living in Florida and fishing with his grandchildren. (Grover is the link between 'McCloud' and 'Galactica 1980'. The actor who played him, Ken Lynch, sadly passed away a few months after the TV movie aired, in February of 1990.)
The TV movie also gave me an interesting theory to link 'McCloud' to 'The Immortal' and to 'The Wild, Wild West' with the main villain of the piece, William Maitland.
Maitland was the elderly head of Chemtel, a grasping, vulture-like multi-millionaire who was not above murder in order to keep hold of his company's fortunes. And it didn't bother him at all that he was suppressing research that could save thousands of lives.
I think William Maitland was related to Arthur Maitland, the dying multi-millionaire from 'The Immortal'. Arthur Maitland wanted to make Ben Richards his prisoner so that he might have access to the unique properties in Richards' blood which basically made him immortal.
It could be that Arthur and William were brothers, and that they both made their fortunes with Chemtel. And their interests in scientific research that might extend the average life of a human could perhaps be traced back to an ancestor who was obsessed with finding a cure for the "Sedgewick Curse". "The Night Of The Sedgewick Curse" referred to a rapid-aging disease that afflicted the members of the Sedgewick family ('The Wild, Wild West').
There yuh go!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
PS:
There were many other Maitlands in Toobworld who could have been added to the family tree, but you should never push the connections too far, even in a world of identical twin cousins!
Mention was also made of Sgt. Grover, who was living in Florida and fishing with his grandchildren. (Grover is the link between 'McCloud' and 'Galactica 1980'. The actor who played him, Ken Lynch, sadly passed away a few months after the TV movie aired, in February of 1990.)
The TV movie also gave me an interesting theory to link 'McCloud' to 'The Immortal' and to 'The Wild, Wild West' with the main villain of the piece, William Maitland.
Maitland was the elderly head of Chemtel, a grasping, vulture-like multi-millionaire who was not above murder in order to keep hold of his company's fortunes. And it didn't bother him at all that he was suppressing research that could save thousands of lives.
I think William Maitland was related to Arthur Maitland, the dying multi-millionaire from 'The Immortal'. Arthur Maitland wanted to make Ben Richards his prisoner so that he might have access to the unique properties in Richards' blood which basically made him immortal.
It could be that Arthur and William were brothers, and that they both made their fortunes with Chemtel. And their interests in scientific research that might extend the average life of a human could perhaps be traced back to an ancestor who was obsessed with finding a cure for the "Sedgewick Curse". "The Night Of The Sedgewick Curse" referred to a rapid-aging disease that afflicted the members of the Sedgewick family ('The Wild, Wild West').
There yuh go!
BCnU!
Tele-Toby
PS:
There were many other Maitlands in Toobworld who could have been added to the family tree, but you should never push the connections too far, even in a world of identical twin cousins!
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