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#597030 - 08/22/13 01:24 PM
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That is up for me in the next couple of weeks.
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#597031 - 08/22/13 01:27 PM
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The IT crowd. Good, harmless, british nonsense. I enjoyed that a couple of years ago. If you want to watch great British nonsense: Peep Show which you can catch on Hulu. It takes of couple of episodes to find its way, but once it does there is some incredibly funny stuff in it.
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#597359 - 08/27/13 01:11 AM
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Enjoying the genius of Walt's "confession" on the latest episode of Breaking Bad. People will analyze this series like the Zapruder film in film schools for years to come. Talk about the perfect storm of brilliant talent in front of and behind the camera on that show.
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#597391 - 08/27/13 12:31 PM
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I watched maybe 10 minutes of it the other night. In the middle of the desert scene.
I honestly think it's the best show ever.
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#597398 - 08/27/13 01:31 PM
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Pinkman is spinning right off the planet.
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#597409 - 08/27/13 04:01 PM
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No idea where it'll all end up.
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#597411 - 08/27/13 04:23 PM
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It is a fun ride. They are going to have the final episode at the Hollywood Forever cemetery with Aaron Paul and other cast members in person. I am thinking of going if it isn't sold out. I can't get any actual information on their website about the event.
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#597413 - 08/27/13 05:05 PM
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Go if you can. That'd be cool as shit.
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#597822 - 09/01/13 11:48 PM
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#598279 - 09/08/13 11:17 AM
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Three seasons of Archer until the Giants game.
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#598295 - 09/08/13 03:50 PM
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A lot of shows seem that way. I just figured it was me. They're probably mixed HD or some shit.
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#598351 - 09/09/13 06:50 AM
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You watching BB on Netflix Fartz? Last night: Boardwalk Empire, Ray Donovan and the White Queen. Football most of the day earlier.
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#598353 - 09/09/13 06:55 AM
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It looks as if this thread has sort of turned into the movie watched thread also so...... Watched Prometheus the other night on one of the movie channels. The good thing about never reading the reviews and previews about a movie is it leaves you open for surprise. I figured it was a decent film but it turned out for me to be great. I didn't even know it was Alien episode 0. Much more hardcore sci fi than the other Alien movies as I thought they were more creature feature horror movies than anything else. Really enjoyed it.
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#598365 - 09/09/13 11:34 AM
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You watching BB on Netflix Fartz? Last night: Boardwalk Empire, Ray Donovan and the White Queen. Football most of the day earlier.
Not the current season obviously. I just wish they'd quit having goddamn whisper conversations. My closed captioning lags behind, so I have to use the volume to hear that shit. And don't even get me started on how the commercials are always six hundred fucking times louder than the show.
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#598371 - 09/09/13 02:19 PM
Re: Whatcha watchin?
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Porn Jesus
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Check your television menu for a sound leveling option. Even cheaper models have them these days. Keeps the audio between programs and commercials at an even level.
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#598380 - 09/09/13 06:19 PM
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^^Mine is numbered. It was set at 0. I moved it to -7. It makes no sense.
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#598384 - 09/09/13 06:49 PM
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That sound a bit more like lip sync level.
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#598412 - 09/10/13 09:00 AM
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No longer interested in subliminal messages I assume. Watched Jack Reacher last night. Enjoyable but cliched. I like Cruise better now that hes not such a pretty boy. More gritty and wrinkly in the hero role and more believable. 3 out of 5. That big tittied gal in it was awesome.
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#598463 - 09/10/13 08:37 PM
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latest breaking bad for the second time...
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#598473 - 09/10/13 09:27 PM
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We have a new channel that's all 60s and 70s stuff. Dragnet, Twilight Zone, Bonanza. Watched Gilligan's Island and now Hogan's Heroes. Really brilliant stuff.
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#598483 - 09/10/13 11:01 PM
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ME tv? I watch that shit too. Sat nights it's Lost in Space followed by original Star Trek. Late night weekends is Honey West, Green Hornet, and Route 66. Oh, and Car 54 Where Are You.
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#598528 - 09/11/13 11:32 AM
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Yeah. ME tv. I love the casual racism. On Gilligan they ran out of water and the Howells did heap big rain dance in full Injun headdress. I thought I'd plotz. And F Troop. All their redskins were Italian just like Chief Jay Strongbow. Except a couple of background players who seemed like real hatchet packers.
They run two Leave it to Beavers in the morning. That June Cleaver is a damn tasty whore.
I really groove on the Dragnet. Jack Webb's stick in the ass walk, how criminal types are so hostile to each other and how the even the dirtiest of hobos wears a coat and tie. And the revolving cast of maybe 15 guest civilians and criminals.
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#598530 - 09/11/13 11:59 AM
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The Indians on F troop are Jewish. They speak Yiddish all the time. June is ok, but Hazel's boss is hot as fuck. Whitney Blake. I'd like to rub my blunt Bobby Buntrock on her wet Whitney Blake. You gotta check out Honey West. She's like a James Bond spy but she's hot and blonde and crooked.
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#598540 - 09/11/13 01:12 PM
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yes...netflix it and try to do at least 3-4 eps at a time. there's some decent shit in that show.
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#598542 - 09/11/13 02:13 PM
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My girl was horrified at the end of the ep. It really bothered her. It hit me what was happening as he was unzipping his backpack. I was totally confused by him until that. Other than I kept thinking only homo boys cut and he didn't seem homo. Look for Cocksucking Dave Navarro to be a major player this season. Or dead.
Yes. Watch like a motherfucker.
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#598544 - 09/11/13 02:34 PM
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I really groove on the Dragnet. Jack Webb's stick in the ass walk, how criminal types are so hostile to each other and how the even the dirtiest of hobos wears a coat and tie. And the revolving cast of maybe 15 guest civilians and criminals.
I absolutely love Dragnet, especially when Jack Webb's character starts in on someone with one of his speeches. There is a ton of humor in that show. He does seem to have a rep company on the show, some of the regulars are always perps, some are not. I love how all the sets are so minimal, if they walk into a bar there are three bottles on the shelf and two tables. It's as though the production designer for The Flintstones dressed the sets. I keep about 20 of my favorites on the DVR to enjoy when there is nothing on.
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#598612 - 09/12/13 12:19 PM
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I love the Jack Webb speech. He tangents around like a pinball ball then suddenly wraps it up tidy like. As the speech reciever looks at the floor shamefully.
An arrested hippie high school kid's dress: Khaki high water dungarees, boots, purple button up shirt with undershirt and long bead necklace. No sideburns except the hang down hair kind.
Webb's walk. Short, trying to keep from soiling himself steps. No arm movement whatsoever.
Smoking in the house, a restraunt, a bar, a school principal's office, exam room at the hospital.
Undercover attire: Khaki slacks and windbreaker.
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#598614 - 09/12/13 12:56 PM
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A buddy of mine is/was a TV writer. He had an hour long TV crime script for a show that Webb's company produced. Webb brought him in for a meeting and told him how he liked the script and had some notes. Webb said: "you're missing all the reactions. This could easily be a 90 min TV movie instead of an hour episode" The writer listened and asked Webb to go on. "Well, look here. Your character tells the perp so and so, then we go back to the perp who says, Why's that? Then he tells it too him again. You're missing all the back and forth"
Webb's answer to everything. Just put in some back and forth and you can stretch another half hour out of this thing.
He also had a great story about meeting with Burt Reynolds for a feature script. Reynolds is going through the script and comes to a section he has circled and X'd out. He asks: "What is this section here, pages 16-21"? The writer explains: Well, that's your character's back story. It explains why she is attracted to him and falls for him. Reynolds replies: "Hey, I'm Burt Reynolds, you don't have to explain to the audience why she falls in love with me" End of conversation.
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#598616 - 09/12/13 01:38 PM
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Jack Webb made Dragnet into an annuity for himself. It started on radio in the late 1940s and was a very different kind of cop drama for its time. It was on TV/radio in the 1950s and was very successful. He brought it back in the late 1960s to address the scourge of marijuana and LSD with the youth. The irony was that Jack Webb didn't make to 65 as he was a heavy smoker and drinker. Maybe he should have backed off of the booze and took a toke once in a while.
In the early 1980s, he was going to bring it back again, with Adam 12's Kent McCord (Jim Reed) as his partner this time as Harry Morgan was still doing his Colonel Potter thing on M*A*S*H, but he died before that could get going.
He recycled some scripts. I remember one Christmas Eve catching the "child Jesus" episode on TV. Later that night on the radio, there was "old time radio hour" show that ran the "child Jesus" radio episode. It was the exact same script with some different actors, but some of the same -- no Harry Morgan obviously.
There were two feature films both of which show up on cable occasionally. One from 1954 with Stacy Harris as the bad guy. He played several bad guys on the 1960s series version. I think it had much of the regular 1950s cast.
I would like to see the 1950s version, apparently it was harder-edged than the 1960s version. It was very successful, I am surprised none of these retro stations have ever ran it.
There was the pilot movie Dragnet 1966 for the 1960s series shown during the middle of the 1960s series with Vic Perrin (another 1960s series regular bad-guy) as a woman abducting rapist-murderer.
It makes me sad to see that horrible Dan Aykroyd movie listed on the cable box. I know he was trying to make a homage to a favorite show but Christoper Plummer is no Stacy Harris or Vic Perrin. Tom Hanks is worthless in that movie.
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#598651 - 09/13/13 08:29 AM
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Alright, with Breaking Bad ending here so soon, I needed something else to chew on.
So I've started watching The Wire. Yeah I know, I'm 10 years late, but whatever.
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#598676 - 09/13/13 01:30 PM
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I'm slippin' Watched Oblivion for my second straight Cruise movie. Not bad either. Dude is good in sci fi. That Kurylenko gal should have got nekkid though. Damn she's Magically City delish.
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#598709 - 09/13/13 10:07 PM
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Jack Webb made Dragnet into an annuity for himself. It started on radio in the late 1940s and was a very different kind of cop drama for its time. It was on TV/radio in the 1950s and was very successful. He brought it back in the late 1960s to address the scourge of marijuana and LSD with the youth. The irony was that Jack Webb didn't make to 65 as he was a heavy smoker and drinker. Maybe he should have backed off of the booze and took a toke once in a while.
In the early 1980s, he was going to bring it back again, with Adam 12's Kent McCord (Jim Reed) as his partner this time as Harry Morgan was still doing his Colonel Potter thing on M*A*S*H, but he died before that could get going.
He recycled some scripts. I remember one Christmas Eve catching the "child Jesus" episode on TV. Later that night on the radio, there was "old time radio hour" show that ran the "child Jesus" radio episode. It was the exact same script with some different actors, but some of the same -- no Harry Morgan obviously.
There were two feature films both of which show up on cable occasionally. One from 1954 with Stacy Harris as the bad guy. He played several bad guys on the 1960s series version. I think it had much of the regular 1950s cast.
I would like to see the 1950s version, apparently it was harder-edged than the 1960s version. It was very successful, I am surprised none of these retro stations have ever ran it.
There was the pilot movie Dragnet 1966 for the 1960s series shown during the middle of the 1960s series with Vic Perrin (another 1960s series regular bad-guy) as a woman abducting rapist-murderer.
It makes me sad to see that horrible Dan Aykroyd movie listed on the cable box. I know he was trying to make a homage to a favorite show but Christoper Plummer is no Stacy Harris or Vic Perrin. Tom Hanks is worthless in that movie.
I'm pretty sure there was a Christmas "child Jesus" on Adam 12, too. Trini Lopez as the priest. He also pulled duty as the priest trying to keep a cholo war from breaking out. For some reason I remember him being a parole officer on Dragnet. Never saw the ones from the 50s. I've been aware of them, but for some reason I've never seen them. Actually I think I might have a DVD of some early ones floating around. I liked the Akroyd movie, but it was pretty disrespectful. The show was corny from the perspective of now. I was 4 in 1969, but I can't imagine how scared how your average working their ass off middle class person had to be watching their society fall to shit. You can almost taste the desperation and panic in a lot of the counterculture scripts. I'm pretty sure I've seen the movies. Gonna have to track them down.
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#598710 - 09/13/13 10:10 PM
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Alright, with Breaking Bad ending here so soon, I needed something else to chew on.
So I've started watching The Wire. Yeah I know, I'm 10 years late, but whatever. Under the Dome. It's really good for network. Sons of Anarchy is getting interesting.
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#598714 - 09/13/13 10:50 PM
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I'm pretty sure there was a Christmas "child Jesus" on Adam 12, too. Trini Lopez as the priest. He also pulled duty as the priest trying to keep a cholo war from breaking out. For some reason I remember him being a parole officer on Dragnet.
70s television was rife with pop and country singers doing the acting thing. For example, Johnny Cash as the murderer on Columbo, another awesome show and also on MeTV. I had my Adam 12 phase, a good show but not the cultural touchstone of Dragnet. I was 4 in 1969, but I can't imagine how scared how your average working their ass off middle class person had to be watching their society fall to shit. You can almost taste the desperation and panic in a lot of the counterculture scripts.
Yeah, everyone remembers the 60s and 70s from kitschy pop culture perspective but many times fail to remember how scared the population at large was with all the heavy shit going on: Viet Nam, student unrest, the subsuming drug culture, etc. The Greatest Generation were nonplussed at what many of their children did and what society was mutating into.
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#598715 - 09/14/13 04:41 AM
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#598726 - 09/14/13 11:59 AM
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Adam 12 was more free flowing. Mostly little vignettes with a wrap up at the end. Or not. Most weren't working one case, like the Dragnet formula. But they were street guys having to deal with bikers like the Monkee's Mickey Dolenz and people that open fire during traffic stops. The amount of gunplay was outrageous. Popping some hippie in the back that's running away from a pot deal was perfectly acceptable.
Let's not forget the other Webb vehicle Emergency. In depth look at the real lives of paramedics. It's on after the Dragnet/ Adam 12 block. I loved it as a kid, but I have no interest now. Too much hanging in the kitchen at the station.
Honestly I love the back and forth of Dragnet. It's such a full package of overacting and poorly written but incredibly sincere dialog.
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#598736 - 09/14/13 03:33 PM
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Adam 12 was more free flowing. Mostly little vignettes with a wrap up at the end. Or not. Most weren't working one case, like the Dragnet formula. But they were street guys having to deal with bikers like the Monkee's Mickey Dolenz and people that open fire during traffic stops. The amount of gunplay was outrageous. Popping some hippie in the back that's running away from a pot deal was perfectly acceptable. Can you get more straight arrow than Jim Reed? That was a new approach, you saw what a typical day of the street cop was, not following a single investigation to the end like many other shows. I am sure it influenced shows like NYPD Blue greatly. In some episodes, Jim Reed would complain about turning over the case to detectives. Let's not forget the other Webb vehicle Emergency. In depth look at the real lives of paramedics. It's on after the Dragnet/ Adam 12 block. I loved it as a kid, but I have no interest now. Too much hanging in the kitchen at the station.
Paramedics was a pilot program being developed in LA County when that show came on, it was a radical idea that the Fire Department would be a first responder for medical situations. I am sure that this show helped greatly to spread the adoption of paramedics through the country. Honestly I love the back and forth of Dragnet. It's such a full package of overacting and poorly written but incredibly sincere dialog.
I believe Harry Morgan commented once that there was no rehearsal on Dragnet. The actors read their lines from cue cards or a teleprompter. Jack wanted flat readings to emulate how people would actually act in real life and not be melodramatic (although some of the actors did ham it up a bit). It think it comes from the radio genesis of the show. Many of the regular cast members did time in radio. It is not a visual show at all, you can simply listen it if you want and get everything. That is why I think the sets are very minimal and there aren't many facial reactions. Some episodes are great, others are dismal. The "child Jesus" episode is very boring to me, so is the guy threatening to kill himself with pills. I love the episodes with G.D. Spradlin, Anthony Eisley, Stacy Harris, John Sebastian, Jack Sheldon and Buddy Lester. If any one of those actors is in the episode, it is usually entertaining. Some episodes have more than one of those actors.
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#598745 - 09/14/13 06:51 PM
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#598747 - 09/14/13 06:56 PM
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It's funny that that the two main characters followed a formula. Friday and Malloy were bachelors of the first order. If Joe Friday had married every cocktail waitress that was covering for her bookie bartender, he'd have been a Mormon. And Malloy was just a general gash hound.
Contrasted with Reed and Gannon, happily married middle class Republicans bewildered why their partners won't become a Stepford Husband.
My favorite eps are the Tim Leary guy they interview for the whole ep at his "church".
The Blue Boy ep only because of the guy at the acid party who's doing a painting and sticks the brush in his mouth.
The young couple who get narked off by her dad for smoking weed. The wife starts quoting Xanadu. Dragnet Rule 1: Intellectuals are fools. Their kid ends up drowning in the bathroom while the parents are having a pot party. 30 years on the job and it's the first time Gannon got sick. The husband ended up in rthe joint and the wife ended up under a shrink's care.
The girl that came to Hollywood to be an actress but could only do a porn. She killed herself of course. It shows the seedy porn underworld of middle aged renegade photo lab guys wearing sweaters.
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#598753 - 09/14/13 07:53 PM
Re: Whatcha watchin?
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The girl that came to Hollywood to be an actress but could only do a porn. She killed herself of course. It shows the seedy porn underworld of middle aged renegade photo lab guys wearing sweaters.
One of my favorites. That had to be controversial in its day. I read a biography on Jack a few years ago. He had quite the life. Growing up was rough, I don't think he knew his dad. He married Julie London when she was smoking hot, then put her in Emergency! twenty years later with her husband, Bobby Troup, a big time jazz performer who wrote the song Route 66. Jack Sheldon, I mentioned before, was a pretty big jazz trumpeter. Jack was a huge jazz fan and I think he knew a lot of big time jazz people of the day. He was a costar in Sunset Blvd with William Holden and Gloria Swanson. According to the biography, Jack set up an apartment on the Universal lot at his offices as he was a workaholic and would work late into the night and weekends. He apparently developed the concept of pulling a car through the streets instead of using the cheesy looking rear-projection which was the common technique at the time. His Adam 12 cop cars are going down real LA streets being towed by the camera truck. To shoot a show with that much location work and stay on budget required some innovative thinking.
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#598759 - 09/14/13 09:29 PM
Re: Whatcha watchin?
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I like the running gag with Harry Morgan and his food. He was always eating something odd and talking about it. There's an episode where he invites Friday over for dinner with the wife and they try to fix Joe up with a babe.
Malloy has a regular GF in many of the Adam 12's and Reed is married to a hottie he probably dated in high school.
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#598782 - 09/15/13 08:37 AM
Re: Whatcha watchin?
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Randolph Mantooth (Gauge) spent several years on the original "Battlestar Galactica." Not a bad springboard. I remember this well, but I remember it being, at most, a two-episode arc in a show that was cancelled after one season for being too smart for its time. They tried again with Galactica 1980, but even Kent McCord couldn't carry this eunuchized facsimile of the original.
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#598846 - 09/15/13 05:18 PM
Re: Whatcha watchin?
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Gannon's fixing to whip up his bar b q sauce with the vanilla ice cream right on his desk. While Friday smokes a cig.
The soundtrack was always jazzy...or jazz musaked.
I've always thought the street scenes on 12 looked very gonzo shot. A couple of hard cams and everything else done close up right in the middle of the work day.
Wasn't Mantooth on a soap fort quite a while?
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