While looking for an episode of 'Laredo' to feature, I found out that this
one had Eve Arden as the guest star......
So how could I resist showcasing it?
Especially with that episode title!
BCnU!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
AS SEEN ON TV: THE PASQUINEL BROTHERS
CREATED BY:
James Michener
PORTRAYED BY:
Jacques Pasquinel - Stephen McHattie
Marcel "Mike" Pasquinel - Kario Salem
AS SEEN IN:
'Centennial'
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
Two For Tuesday!
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Monday, August 6, 2012
WESTVIEW: "THE RIFLEMAN" - "THE DAY OF THE HUNTER"
For more on this episode, check out this Inner Toob post last year about the character of Cass Caldicott......
BCnU!
AS SEEN ON TV: SIDNEY ENDERMAN
SIDNEY ENDERMAN
CREATED BY:
James Michener
PORTRAYED BY:
Sharon Gless
AS SEEN IN:
'Centennial'
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
Professor Lew Vernor (Andy Griffith) and writer Sidney Enderman (Sharon
Gless) arrive in town to do research on the history of Centennial. Professor
Vernor and Sidney Enderman write the history of Centennial.
As great as I thought it was, 'Centennial'
was not free of continuity errors. Two of them in the last episode ("The Scream
Of Eagles") featured Sidney Enderman....
As Louis Verner and Sidney Enderman are driving along in the final episode, the driver's-side rear-view mirror disappears from their Ford pickup whenever a close-up is called for (the holes where it has been unscrewed are quite evident) and reappears in the long shots.
Towards the beginning of the final episode of the miniseries, Louis Verner and Sidney Enderman are walking through the streets of the town of Centennial. When they first start their journey, it is a nice sunny day. A few seconds later as they walk past Zendt's old store and behind the hotel to meet Cisco Calendar, it is suddenly a drab, overcast day and there is a bit of a dusting of snow and ice on the ground.
As Louis Verner and Sidney Enderman are driving along in the final episode, the driver's-side rear-view mirror disappears from their Ford pickup whenever a close-up is called for (the holes where it has been unscrewed are quite evident) and reappears in the long shots.
Towards the beginning of the final episode of the miniseries, Louis Verner and Sidney Enderman are walking through the streets of the town of Centennial. When they first start their journey, it is a nice sunny day. A few seconds later as they walk past Zendt's old store and behind the hotel to meet Cisco Calendar, it is suddenly a drab, overcast day and there is a bit of a dusting of snow and ice on the ground.
BCnU!
Sunday, August 5, 2012
THE HAT SQUAD THEME SONG
While I was on this last vacation, I decided I better keep a list of those
celebrities with connections to TV who passed away. I'm at that stage where I
can't trust the ol' noggin anymore.
As it was, I nearly filled a page in my notebook with entries......
Meanwhile, my brother Iddiot Jim Peyton sent me this video, which featured
a song that embodies the Hat Squad sentiment. And it was beautifully
edited....
BCnU......
THE HAT SQUAD: REMEMBERING GEOFFREY HUGHES
From The Guardian:
The actor Geoffrey Hughes, who has died of prostate
cancer aged 68, played gormless Eddie Yeats in the ITV soap opera 'Coronation Street' from 1974 to 1983, and thereafter was typecast on television as a
lovable rogue.
Hughes was a more objectionable version of Eddie and Vernon in the sitcom 'Keeping up Appearances' (1990-95), written by Roy Clarke. He played Onslow, the work-shy, beer-guzzling slob married to the social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket's sister Daisy and living in a council house.
The vest-wearing Onslow irked Hyacinth by occasionally leading her husband, Richard, astray and rebuffed his wife's advances with the excuse: "I've got a headache."
Most of the British obituaries for Mr. Hughes seemed to play up his role on 'Coronation Street' the most. But I think for his American fans, it will always be Onslow who will truly have cathode immortality.....
BCnU!
THE HAT SQUAD: REMEMBERING GORE VIDAL
From The New York Times:
Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided
with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American
civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los
Angeles, where he moved in 2003 after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was
86.
An author, screenwriter and essayist with definite opinions and no
inhibitions about sharing them, he took great pleasure in being one of the
larger-than-life figures of his time.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said.
By CHARLES McGRATH
Published: August 1, 2012
Published: August 1, 2012
I'm planning on the "ASOTV" showcase will feature the League of Themselves
next year. And I already planned on using this clip to illustrate an entry on
Gore Vidal.
From what I remember at the time, Vidal took this role on 'Mary Hartman,
Mary Hartman' to show Truman Capote that he was the better actor.
Good night and may God bless.....
BCnU!
AS SEEN ON TV: OLIVER SECCOMBE
OLIVER SECCOMBE
CREATED BY:
James Michener
PORTRAYED BY:
Timothy Dalton
AS SEEN IN:
'Centennial'
TV DIMENSION:
Earth Prime-Time
From Wikipedia:
In St. Louis Levi and Elly Zendt meet English writer Oliver Seccombe
(Timothy Dalton) and Army Captain Maxwell Mercy (Chad Everett). Seccombe is a
romantic looking for adventure and writing a book trying to prove the theory
that the Native American tribes descend from Welshmen.
Oliver Seccombe returns to the area as an agent of several wealthy British investors led by Earl Venneford of Wye who want to start a cattle ranch. By claiming watering holes under the Homestead Act and utilizing the open range, they can monopolize thousands of square miles with a very small investment. The ranch would eventually control nearly 6,000,000 acres (20,000 km2), an area nearly the size of Vermont. the new ranch, named Venneford, becomes one of the largest ranches in the west. Seccombe stays on to manage the ranch and with John Skimmerhorn as foreman and Jim Lloyd as a regular ranch hand.
A range war develops between the cattle ranchers led by Seccombe, farmers led by Hans Brumbaugh, and sheep herders led by new settler Messmore Garrett (Clint Ritchie). New town sheriff Axel Dumire (Brian Keith) tries to settle the conflict peacefully but it soon escalates into violence. Oliver Seccombe, angered by threats to his interests, engages the services of a gang of outlaws to kill Brumbaugh, Garrett and other leaders of the farmers and shepherds. Jim Lloyd and John Skimmerhorn find themselves caught between sides in the war. They are cowboys but are also sympathetic to the plight of the farmers and shepherds and refuse to believe that Seccombe is behind the cold blooded killings.
Seccombe proves to be a poor businessman with questionable morals and the finances of the ranch are eventually called into question by the Venneford's British investors. They dispatch Finlay Perkin (Clive Revill), a dour Scottish accountant, to audit Venneford's books. Seccombe has been secretly selling off ranch cattle to fund his activities. Perkin soon realizes that Seccombe is skimming money after seeing the combination of thousands of missing cattle and Seccombe's palatial new ranch house, evidence of his profligate spending. Seccombe's crimes are covered over however when a terrible blizzard hits the region, killing many of the ranch's cattle and thereby hiding the losses incurred by Seccombe's embezzlement.
The blizzard saves him from formal legal charges; however he is
still compelled to resign in disgrace and turn over ranch operations to John
Skimmerhorn. The fraud accusations and the large loss of cattle combine to take
a toll on Seccombe's health and he commits suicide leaving Charlotte a
widow.
BCnU.......
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