"NIGHT GALLERY" - KEEPING AN EYE ON LESLIE NIELSEN

This may be the first time I actually took notice of Leslie Nielsen as an actor. I remember watching this at my grandmother's house when it first aired and being scared bleepless.

Even though there's a major gaffe - watch the eyepatch while Nielsen is lying in bed - I still find it creepy.
When I was a kid watching this, I thought that was Bradford Dillman as Fritz Weaver's father. What did I know back then? (Little more than I do now, I'm told.)

Anyway, allow me to play Count Floyd for a moment and say Aroooooooo! This is real scary, kids!

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ECCE PROMO: GYLNE TIDER - "LET IT BE"

I'm not going to say anything about this. Mainly because I don't know what it was for. A promo for a talk show?

Anyway, Leslie Nielsen shows up in it and I think he might have employed his Hand-Gas during his clip.....

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READY FOR FREDDIE: LESLIE NIELSEN & "THE GOLDEN GIRLS"

This is one clip I wish just kept on going......

Leslie Nielsen just fit so perfectly into their little corner of Miami. They couldn't have found a better actor to escort Bea Arthur out of the series......

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LESLIE NIELSEN'S ADVERTS EFFECTS

Here's a couple of Leslie Nielsen quickies - one from the "Ecce Promo" category, and the other one a Dutch blipvert......


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"POLICE SQUAD" - THE MONTAGE

On Sunday, Inner Toob's Video Weekend will be featuring an entire episode of 'Police Squad' starring the late, great, Leslie Nielsen.

But as a preview, here's a collection of a running gag on the show.....

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VIDEO WEEKEND: "THE SWAMP FOX"

As part of our ongoing "Hat Squad" tribute to the late Leslie Nielsen, and in connection with today's "As Seen On TV" showcase, here's the first episode of "The Swamp Fox", which was a regular "Frontierland" feature during 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color'.

As you watch the episode, keep an eye out for some great character actors - J. Pat O'Malley, Dabbs Greer, Richard Erdman, and perhaps even the ancestor of John Steed of 'The Avengers'! Tim Considine, who may be best known as the "forgotten" oldest sibling on 'My Three Sons', also shows up.


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AS SEEN ON TV: THE SWAMP FOX

FRANCIS MARION

AS SEEN IN:
'Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color'
("Walt Disney Presents: The Swamp Fox")

AS PLAYED BY:
Leslie Nielsen

From Wikipedia:
Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 26, 1795) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven out of the state in the Battle of Camden.Due to his irregular methods of warfare, he is considered one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, and is credited in the lineage of the United States Army Rangers.

Marion was not captured when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate.

After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state. At this point, Marion was still nearly crippled from the slowly-healing ankle.

Marion joined Major General Horatio Gates just before the Battle of Camden, but Gates had no confidence in him and sent him (mostly to get rid of him) to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area. Gates asked him to undertake scouting missions and to impede the expected flight of the British after the battle. Marion thus missed the battle, but was able to intercept and recapture 150 Maryland prisoners, plus about 20 of their British guards, who had been en route from the battle to Charleston. The freed prisoners, thinking the war was already lost, refused to join Marion and deserted.

Marion showed himself to be a singularly able leader of irregular militiamen. Unlike the Continental troops, Marion's Men, as they were known, served without pay, supplied their own horses, arms and often their food. All of Marion's supplies which were not obtained locally were captured from the British or Loyalist ("Tory") forces.

Marion rarely committed his men to frontal warfare, but repeatedly surprised larger bodies of Loyalists or British regulars with quick surprise attacks and equally quick withdrawal from the field. After the surrender of Charleston, the British garrisoned South Carolina with help from local Tories, except for Williamsburg (the present Pee Dee), which they were never able to hold. The British made one attempt to garrison Williamsburg at Willtown, but were driven out by Marion at the Mingo Creek.

The British especially hated Marion and made repeated efforts to neutralize his force, but Marion's intelligence gathering was excellent and that of the British was poor, due to the overwhelming Patriot loyalty of the populace in the Williamsburg area.

Some of these events have been fictionalized in the first episode, "Birth Of The Swamp Fox", which will be featured on the blog today........

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SKED ALERT! "BOARDWALK EMPIRE" SEASON FINALE

We're a day early with the preview clips from 'Boardwalk Empire' because I want to dedicate just about the entire weekend to video memories of Leslie Nielsen.

Here then, are the preview clips. I hope you enjoyed the season!

Tune in Sunday night to HBO at 9:00 PM EST to see the season finale for 'Boardwalk Empire'!

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A CHILES IS RE-BORN

THE RETURN OF JACKIE CHILES

By JAKE COYLE,
AP Entertainment Writer
Wed Dec 1, 2:39 pm ET

NEW YORK – Outrageous! Egregious! Preposterous!

More than a decade after "Seinfeld" ended, one of the TV series' most beloved characters has been reborn online. Jackie Chiles, the fast-talking attorney whose civil lawsuits were dependably foiled by Kramer, is starring in his own series on the comedy video website Funny or Die.

Chiles is played by Phil Morris, a [51]-year-old Los Angeles actor who never wanted to fully relinquish the role. After "Seinfeld" ended in 1998, Morris tried to develop a spin-off about Chiles, but it never got off the ground.

Morris also played Jackie Chiles in a couple of blipverts - one for the Honda Accord and another for Diet Dr. Pepper. (I did a quick search of YouTube, but apparently nobody loves Jackie enough to post those clips.)

But with 'Seinfeld', these 'Funny Or Die' videos, and those TV commercials, Jackie Chiles is eligible for membership in the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame.

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EXPANDING TOOBWORLD ON "WATERLOO ROAD"

The BBC has announced that their drama 'Waterloo Road' will be launching an online spin-off from the original series which will show what's been happening to characters who have already graduated from that inner - city school.

I'm not familiar with the show at all, and I'm sure most of my readership (if any) are in the same boat. So here's the description supplied by an Anglophile named Ryan:

BBC drama set at a grim inner-city school where a new headmaster (Jason Merrells, Cutting It) tries to modernize despite the efforts of most of the lazy staff to sabotage him. Subplots revolve around the relationships of the staff and students, some of whom were involved in a fatal car accident.

You can find Ryan's website listed in the blogroll to the left.

The new online show is to be called 'Waterloo Road Reunited', and it won't just be a series of scripted episodes. There will also be fictional social network sites and audio clips.

“Unlike most dramas, Waterloo Road is unique in that every year popular characters have to leave the show because they leave school. We wanted to give fans a chance to follow their lives online. The video will focus on events that bring the ex-pupils together, but the story extends beyond video allowing the audience to follow their lives as if they were friends with them on Facebook.”
- Sarah Clay of BBC Drama

I'm not sure anybody outside of Great Britain will have access to that online content, which will debut in the Spring of next year. Meanwhile, 'Waterloo Road' itself will be back with its sixth season in 2011 as well.

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