HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s2048/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9Vw6UqLY_5jywg5_2MEnHmBq2OGlvb5dTayIybPWSGY4OpV0vmSB4BAILJd93p8pV-i7mUQMC8o3rs8nAfF95FG2anig8X4vcV60Mf81OvpkUDs7TvBrJr2N6AUgrtmt-E3Ov4f98aj4VQY6i6-upRRZDi1sqKN0E85bccTaBdYjc3uQ0A_PN9pEAxdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%203.22.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episodes to come, in that it involves the bad guys more than title character in Telly Savalas' bald tough guy cop as, fresh from MEAN STREETS has an intense Harvey Keitel holding up a store and taking hostages... with a quick reuniting of Keitel's bar-owner MEAN STREETS partner David Proval playing a wounded cop, literally under Harvey's gun...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Instead, Proval should have played Keitel's maniacally unpredictable, wild-card thug sidekick instead of James Sloyan, who, instantly familiar for TV, lacks the cinematic prowess of Keitel or Proval... the latter asking for his last rites most of the time... but it's a pretty decent episode that would have worked better for a half hour than hour, and overall gives Keitel fans a reason to see how the cop show began thanks to his big-screen-aura-on-the-small-screen catapult. </p><p><span></span></p>

cop, david proval, harvey keitel, hostage, rick hurst, seventies, telly savalas, tv series

HARVEY KEITEL & DAVID PROVAL ON 'KOJAK' PILOT 'SIEGE OF TERROR'

Title: KOJAK: SIEGE OF TERROR Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 The pilot of the classic series KOJAK is a little different than most of the episode...

FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s908/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQdEoAlRJZk8LPTFDbUEzeGuJQ5cdx_hf5aWZzyM8lK2vuyrHFIoTyE4tKWtuMUCAyq3CZITChy1UAft7KbuCJ8YtHmLvUa39jSYVccGx8suAsZpk5d0aikyOjPbeOrbjN3Tga4Gu3r89Dc5RIG6crpr3teD4yHT68p2RunP-iwJABbDfWxs9GWWAaO-j/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espionage where a man without any memory gathers info along the way, trying not to be killed while investigating who's trying to kill him, and why, there was Larry Cohen's CORONET BLUE from1967 filled with that decade's bright colors, groovy sounds, creative camera angles and a beatnik coffee shop...<br><br>Starring Frank Converse, who only remembers the strange title, <i>Coronet Blue</i>, upon waking up from a blackout caused by (what we see) being knocked-out and thrown into the ocean: yet the pilot's outright stolen by ingenue Susan Hamphire, a classy British actress playing a classy American rich girl who makes such a worthy love interest and helpful partner, she's missed for the rest of the series since, after all, CORONET BLUE was a one-man show and yet, never as solid as this pilot... Hampshire's absence being the sole reason why.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, espionage, frank converse, joe silver, jon cypher, one season, sixties, spy, susan hampshire, thriller, tv series

FRANK CONVERSE IN 'CORONET BLUE' WITH SUSAN HAMPSHIRE

Susan Hampshire and Frank Converse in CORONET BLUE: A Time To Be Born Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Before the BOURNE franchise of amnesiac espi...

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s1208/z.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmO5erNdc2sQSnKdhIiM09fMAE4xP6gvrizoUuvItMKvgikMkhLvGcbx1JoS-nLA1khyACFR1zJeoJrVDpB0pd-loRdoMDfdm0W4rnzdouOtjefE6B_Oymb6yIt3Q_pUijeBYbIPWByTWpjh96Dw0JwlK4DiMFQXR6QpbxiQG-H6gY5jPEd6t4COfEgOW9/s16000/z.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN AUGUST has a flowing handing-off plot, beginning with a bum who finds a free bottle of whiskey, is poisoned and dies, which leads Burt's titular character and partner Norman Fell into seeking three beautiful blondes connected to an unpopular surgeon played by Fritz Weaver...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most important in ENTER THE DRAGON dragonlady Ahna Capri, who might have the doctor's baby... and Ena Hartman, girlfriend of a lower surgeon who, along with hook-handed Ken Scott, has it in for the womanizing doc...</p><p><span></span></p>

ahna capri, burt reynolds, cop, fritz weaver, ken scott, mystery, neo noir, norman fell, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS WITH AHNA CAPRI & NORMAL FELL ON 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on DAN AUGUST Prognosis: Homicide Year: 1971 Rating: **** One of the better episodes of the Burt Reynolds detective series DAN...

BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s1628/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZK6NtEdlOwJJ7X9Qvz3tFrZRNcTVoToENXIXv-ALI-pZpWfvtbZR9-hsDHV1Cy48S4upRG6FAwCBCEG4GdlPcgWFL4TgvC8mGID2bp8vLQAniohltn0TOtmF-0oVn0ThxF13LMg53eqJqCOeCz-AVgSbd6ooCy5pr7ILRbp9v17Hft4-PnUW-xytyq3Kb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a>, young mustache-less/Marlon-Brando-looking Burt Reynolds played a monotone detective named HAWK... the difference being he's, like the initial breakthrough role on GUNSMOKE, part Indian... and instead of investigating old friends mostly during daylight, the twist here's  a seedy gumshoe style world after midnight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case, one of the few episodes available, THE HANDS OF CORBIN CLAYBROOKE, centering on an offbeat artist with gorgeous assistant Marianna Hill teamed with a handsome criminal that had murdered another artist, both involved in a scam a bit difficult to follow, for the audience more than Burt's titular detective, knowing the girl's involved as if he'd seen enough noir films...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS AS DETECTIVE NAMED 'HAWK' WITH MARIANNA HILL

Burt Reynolds as HAWK: The Hands of Corbin Claybrooke Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Before playing a monotone detective in the 1970 series DAN A...

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s2194/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="2194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5REJOOgjmfZG6kP7dOQ0igVVUZFIeblCQwvQRmrMN4e6D6fNXVOSaF4uy47IdxDdt8cxh3KBl1tPMJHex9SSxldjQdIV2X7TwefBsFlERBXorAkZuiR0pgr5Fl3Y_RVl1X_mMePgRxJVXaTeP-3mEXEYdAWJc8A_Q-Fxc1gfbnMjRZcBqDavC_arpmbQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%2011.38.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Quentin Tarantino's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>, he had his fictional late-60's-era actor Rick Dalton playing Burt Reynold's part from THE FBI first-season episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT, four-years away from his movie's 1969 timeline so it would have been more befitting in this 1967 third-season venture ACT OF VIOLENCE, in which Burt plays former hit-man/current bookie John Duquesne, forced to attempt silencing ex-wife Diana Muldaur, who knows about a murder from the previous decade that could implicate Burt and former crime-boss Michael Strong...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not a bad episode yet far from great, with lead investigators Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds casually going from one office to another gathering clues... while Reynolds converses with Strong about a deadly mission he may or may not be suited for: overall making Burt a hardened yet ambiguous would-be killer... who needed more scenes, with more action... at least until producer Quinn Martin hired Reynolds for his own series <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/burt-reynolds-headlines-neo-noir-cop.html">DAN AUGUST</a> where, though on the other side of the law, he's equally cool and calculating.</p><p><span></span></p>

burt reynolds, crime, diana muldaur, efrem zimbalist jr., sixties, tv series, william reynolds

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNS TO 'THE FBI' EPISODE 'ACT OF VIOLENCE'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ACT OF VIOLENCE Year: 1967 Rating: *** In Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD , he had his fictional...

BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s1060/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1060" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToHN_TxK60pp9w8W8L3LGpoLeRVjZKeUaX-oAC1j4EKafLVI7GAT0z23VjU48kU7YAU7j6AM7wxD6anKRCfSEd3sqYrkIfCOtRxeb0B8xOH-Cp9XewAxF_M1ajHrS3XQKiIAp2LoZ8N-ncyAKn38Kj99kUEwahbhztlL0kxzuwFNK6Z2c8ZD615mvsa4X/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-24%20at%209.14.23%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous Rick Dalton from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/in-hollywood.html">ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD</a>... played by Leonardo DiCaprio digitally altered to replace the villain role of Burt Reynolds from THE FBI episode ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT... would have even taken the part since it's not very big beyond a terrific opening, where Burt (along with offbeat weasel Rex Holman) follows an army jeep onto an open field marine base, killing two soldiers and taking their weapons... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the rest of the episode mostly entails Efrem Zimbalist Jr working on former boxer/current cabbie James Francsiscus who, with a melodramatic pregnant wife subplot, is reluctant to out the killers but eventually pulls through: leading to an intense tommygun fight to a courtroom hearing to a much too rushed finale and, ironically, three seasons later, for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/burtFBI.html">ACT OF MURDER</a>, Burt returned as another gunman involved with a military outpost murder. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

burt reynolds, crime, efrem zimbalist jr., FBI, james francsiscus, joe maross, norman fell, rex holman, sixties, tv series, wesley addy

BURT REYNOLDS ANTAGONIZES 'THE FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT'

Burt Reynolds on FBI: ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT Year: 1965 Rating: *** It's unlikely that Quentin Tarantino's fictional once-famous...

CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxGo73-17lgbRKJHUYmp3zbCDESYMD1wieaMxl4FCgKCzkjLJVbOgJ3Km4pJBqjNLlRVX_I2qy38rc94tfjAtURbSnWVaF7vuRTRfSw8AP0yds3fYsug7NHhc3ujh-vnKSoYGASHzHJVc9wqhKdtGdil9BG5UykcWfjDz5B1ZgL2XlUOkDnHkzoKvpuqS/s916/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-23%20at%202.20.49%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxGo73-17lgbRKJHUYmp3zbCDESYMD1wieaMxl4FCgKCzkjLJVbOgJ3Km4pJBqjNLlRVX_I2qy38rc94tfjAtURbSnWVaF7vuRTRfSw8AP0yds3fYsug7NHhc3ujh-vnKSoYGASHzHJVc9wqhKdtGdil9BG5UykcWfjDz5B1ZgL2XlUOkDnHkzoKvpuqS/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-23%20at%202.20.49%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sometimes the Quinn Martin production THE FBI would compete with all the 1960's spy movies, so the most complicated episodes involve espionage while the best go to simple heist plots with, in this case, beautiful Carol Lynley falsely accused of driving a getaway car after a bank robbery... so her loser boyfriend Pete Duel (who'd later commit suicide while starring in another Martin production) both uses and protects her for another score...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Episodes like FALSE WITNESS don't have the twists and turns of the more highly-rated commie-traitor turns, but they're far more involving (and less melodramatic), allowing leads Efrem Zimbalist Jr and William Reynolds more hands-on input instead of waiting around by the phone... making this another low-rated yet highly enjoyable episode of a series that's aged considerably well  — depending on the particular episode. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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CAROL LYNLEY WITH PETER DUEL DRIVING 'THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS'

Peter Duel & Carol Lynley on THE FBI: FALSE WITNESS Year: 1967 Season 3 Rating: **** Sometimes the Quinn Martin production THE FBI would...

GARY LOCKWOOD GUESTS 'HAWAII FIVE-O: SCHOOL FOR ASSASSINS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIIZ53Ek_F94EMtWDgouSnM_NRSV7GiIWK56bNYj-_DUamytQPbscOBTWiGX4ZtDy-UI36NNQPfdvw_miY2BOUdqYVP1qZqRZSkcPIUvpbhpmTtx-HKzAVdBQwdDER1mwUv4Y9Q20y_0GO5sCvsswEzG4m57EPzlZNOEpqt029b6_pzQ83VbhSNNyBABy/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-16%20at%207.08.12%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIIZ53Ek_F94EMtWDgouSnM_NRSV7GiIWK56bNYj-_DUamytQPbscOBTWiGX4ZtDy-UI36NNQPfdvw_miY2BOUdqYVP1qZqRZSkcPIUvpbhpmTtx-HKzAVdBQwdDER1mwUv4Y9Q20y_0GO5sCvsswEzG4m57EPzlZNOEpqt029b6_pzQ83VbhSNNyBABy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-04-16%20at%207.08.12%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Lockwood in Hawaii Five-0: School for Assassins Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After playing second-fiddle in Stanley Kubrick's highly-successful (and forever legendary) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Gary Lockwood never had much of a followup career on the big screen... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He starred in three b-movies: the Spanish-import heist-noir THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS; the Frenchman-directed French New Wave via Los Angeles counter-culture indie MODEL SHOP; and the more mainstream counter-culture melodrama R. P. M. (REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE)...</p><p><span></span></p>

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GARY LOCKWOOD GUESTS 'HAWAII FIVE-O: SCHOOL FOR ASSASSINS'

Gary Lockwood in Hawaii Five-0: School for Assassins Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2 After playing second-fiddle in Stanley Kubrick's highly-su...

INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOjM16rbSdsfZDAmfGsiGDRZ3tmrc_rXj24Wf854AGzj_U0hoNHvdTExTurcDBxj49Rx8rms3pOhp8yG3AncGfcqgl_znDfyGkOYAqY3GqL-rtJeTYEQCn1EHZmVikVNHvIbfJy10AzPAu0tzA7u5qWkSuJD9b91lEfI67X64e4A6930C3DBk8ouYLrqw/s1414/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-23%20at%203.25.40%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOjM16rbSdsfZDAmfGsiGDRZ3tmrc_rXj24Wf854AGzj_U0hoNHvdTExTurcDBxj49Rx8rms3pOhp8yG3AncGfcqgl_znDfyGkOYAqY3GqL-rtJeTYEQCn1EHZmVikVNHvIbfJy10AzPAu0tzA7u5qWkSuJD9b91lEfI67X64e4A6930C3DBk8ouYLrqw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-12-23%20at%203.25.40%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book movies is nothing new: from one of the silliest yet entertaining episodes of the 1950's-born DRAGNET rebooted into the late-1960's... titled DRAGNET 1968: BULGLARY: DR-31 where Jack Webb's Joe Friday and Harry Morgan as partner Bill Gannon traipse from one movie theater to another, investigating stolen/looted movie posters and lobby cards advertising a brand new comic book adaptation...<br><br>Turns out being the most bizarre and surreal of the show's villains in a pudgy, mustached, monotone twenty-something donning a cape and costume, deeming himself The Crimson Crusader played by a frumpy, drowsy, future EMERGENCY actor Tim Donnelly who, in one soft-interrogation sequence, provides a dirge-like, melancholy monologue about being fat and bullied in school, and how this drove him headlong into a fantastical world to find a safe place within it... thus making this eclectic fan-favorite episode practically all his own.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

comic book, cop, crime, dragnet, exploitation, harry morgan, jack webb, sixties, tv series

INFAMOUS CRIMSON CRUSADER EPISODE FROM 'DRAGNET 1969'

Tittle: GOLIATH AWAITS 1981 Emma Samms, Mark Harmon, Robert Forster Rating: ***1/2 Here's proof that young people worshiping comic book ...

CHARLES BRONSON'S 'MAN WITH A CAMERA' WITH YVONNE CRAIG

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5WoXTFB1jWAKKvw6DmRU50GTniBnUxu3SeoO-m2Rm2nGl3UkOinxkAjGfGHSQ2FyNPhyphenhyphenYKqsPAc4p7PsSmHNXHBQdTsZ_hyBXMe1xDheFOMlH3l45fy6S3qhxZ-eXdts0tKFBQRzDV1qqPR3nZm5lrnLPucPS5qTEvD5zz6IkgLmaNwuTBcJX1Le2QU9/s2040/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="2040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ5WoXTFB1jWAKKvw6DmRU50GTniBnUxu3SeoO-m2Rm2nGl3UkOinxkAjGfGHSQ2FyNPhyphenhyphenYKqsPAc4p7PsSmHNXHBQdTsZ_hyBXMe1xDheFOMlH3l45fy6S3qhxZ-eXdts0tKFBQRzDV1qqPR3nZm5lrnLPucPS5qTEvD5zz6IkgLmaNwuTBcJX1Le2QU9/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yvonne Craig & Charles Bronson in Man With A Camera: Hot Ice Cream 1960 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of Lawrence Tierney's career's first stretch, of playing menacing heavies on the big screen, which includes central bad guys from DILLINGER and THE HOODLUM to tough heroes in BODYGUARD, STEP BY STEP and KILL OR BE KILLED, Tierney — resembling an older version of his original self instead of a young Joe Cabot from RESERVOIR DOGS — appeared on the TV-series MAN WITH A CAMERA starring Charles Bronson... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In what's the best (and highest rated) episode of a nifty noirish two-season show where Bronson plays Mike Kovac, THE MAN WITH A CAMERA who’s either hired by friends or the law to solve crimes... and he even has a semi-famous crime-photographer reputation, thus providing a young fan for HOT ICE CREAM...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, charles bronson, crime, film noir or melodrama, howard mcnear, lawrence tierney, sixties, thriller, tv series, yvonne craig

CHARLES BRONSON'S 'MAN WITH A CAMERA' WITH YVONNE CRAIG

Yvonne Craig & Charles Bronson in Man With A Camera: Hot Ice Cream 1960 Rates: ****1/2 At the end of Lawrence Tierney's career's...

MATTHEW PERRY NEO NOIR EPISODE OF 'BEVERLY HILLS 90210'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdNZUNyEl6fspRBx71fJZiySeD2n0NXKOLij-nJuK3-j6QsAJx56l227F_nfayZWSEffmm3TzQRAq6g_XswsbdxPWoiESiCzhDY-1ycucFate4PhvfSOaibH9nN3tLqE2dRHTMpvnpIFODauasQWJZgvGt3GKWDLGSeMQ2QqzuX_ZifMokAV52jXTtx8M/s1222/11.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdNZUNyEl6fspRBx71fJZiySeD2n0NXKOLij-nJuK3-j6QsAJx56l227F_nfayZWSEffmm3TzQRAq6g_XswsbdxPWoiESiCzhDY-1ycucFate4PhvfSOaibH9nN3tLqE2dRHTMpvnpIFODauasQWJZgvGt3GKWDLGSeMQ2QqzuX_ZifMokAV52jXTtx8M/s16000/11.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Matthew Perry and Jason Priestly Beverly Hills 90210 Year: 1991 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Having caught an extremely horrific strain of COVID and suffering profusely for a week, and then sustaining for another week even after finally testing negative, the biggest blessing in disguise is that Amazon Prime has the original BEVERLY HILLS 90210 for binging, and, while it's a corny teenage melodrama meant for teenage viewers back in the glorious 1990's, there are few guilty pleasures that fill the time so perfectly... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One particular first season episode, intensely titled APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, now has sad irony, featuring the late Matthew Perry as a rich kid tennis star whose father (Nicolas Coster) wants him to win at everything... </p><p><span></span></p>

ian ziering, jason priestley, matthew perry, memorial, neo noir, nicolas coster, nineties, tv series

MATTHEW PERRY NEO NOIR EPISODE OF 'BEVERLY HILLS 90210'

Matthew Perry and Jason Priestly Beverly Hills 90210 Year: 1991 Rates: *** Having caught an extremely horrific strain of COVID and suffering...

JOHN THAW & DENNIS WATERMAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQG5PCieHf1XQ1f5z3q6ExU7611Hah2R8g_SbiHd3Nes3SvphIt9nMBDKOmJB8PNx0VrcLnDuiVmjXLcLHT_ezukgKrhzHMKl1SK7mYfi9W_NjhXeOHSaRregGfj23-cJACe2teqOYGrMIBGDO6bbc46tlm8gS9WV2XLTO9pPliCmFFzZFDTeP0PyXTya0/s993/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="993" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQG5PCieHf1XQ1f5z3q6ExU7611Hah2R8g_SbiHd3Nes3SvphIt9nMBDKOmJB8PNx0VrcLnDuiVmjXLcLHT_ezukgKrhzHMKl1SK7mYfi9W_NjhXeOHSaRregGfj23-cJACe2teqOYGrMIBGDO6bbc46tlm8gS9WV2XLTO9pPliCmFFzZFDTeP0PyXTya0/s16000/1.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT Year: 1975 Rates: ***<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Whenever THE SWEENEY writers want to get under John Thaw's independent-minded Chief Inspector Regan's skin, they either add a new partner... making a third alongside Dennis Waterman as Carter...  or in this case (and the second theatrical film SWEENEY 2) they'll add a new superintendent, who in this case is so quirky his name's actually Quirk...</p><p></p><p>Played by bald character-actor Bill Maynard, he even shakes hands funny, and, as a mediocre, unfit leader he wants to prove himself by busting a mail-thief operation that's already weeks old, inevitably pushing his neurotic personality to the sideline as SUPERSNOUT refers to an even more neurotic John Tordoff as Stickler, an inside information man for Regan, and their dialogue-driven expository scenes are more interesting than the confusing big con that, as usual, takes until the very last minute to comprehend. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill maynard, british, cop, dennis waterman, john thaw, seventies, sweeney, tv series

JOHN THAW & DENNIS WATERMAN IN 'THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT'

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in THE SWEENEY: SUPERSNOUT Year: 1975 Rates: *** Whenever THE SWEENEY writers want to get under John Thaw'...

ESCAPE FROM HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR: THE SILENT SCREAM

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTm7t2sKk0HnduYcumra6j02Rwwb0XWSLqoUdTscjw_XPdnpCKUtQ9DO5NAKdVC8wjjCpbA8PN0hzlZ-hc8NkPNbOqSPexoK2kyQRuG5UuhidT5KHFqgNg5IA6nxpXc53rwfgm49c00yWD0zdDcrsy5Ju3bk3QWGrKu4ozvTxvXyiSDaCQ-R_NsuUBA/s1994/12.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTm7t2sKk0HnduYcumra6j02Rwwb0XWSLqoUdTscjw_XPdnpCKUtQ9DO5NAKdVC8wjjCpbA8PN0hzlZ-hc8NkPNbOqSPexoK2kyQRuG5UuhidT5KHFqgNg5IA6nxpXc53rwfgm49c00yWD0zdDcrsy5Ju3bk3QWGrKu4ozvTxvXyiSDaCQ-R_NsuUBA/s16000/12.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ç</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironically the final vehicle for the original HAMMER FILMS wasn't a film but a television series in the anthology vein of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, or in this case THRILLER being of course produced in England, and one episode features Hammer's greatest asset, Peter Cushing as... not to spoil the twist so we'll say he's a scientist working in a surreptitious caged-animal zoo behind a pet store...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And the past legendary Cushing is cast with future horror icon Brian Cox... the latter an ex-con who met the doctor while in prison and now, newly released, answers a letter to make big money for some kind of research which, like any mad scientist venture, winds up an experiment...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian cox, eighties, elaine donnelly, hammer films, horror anthology, peter cushing, prison, science-fiction, thriller, tv series

ESCAPE FROM HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR: THE SILENT SCREAM

ç Ironically the final vehicle for the original HAMMER FILMS wasn't a film but a television series in the anthology vein of THE TWILIGHT...

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1buRYc5mPcxbTZXaMEqeIcCkyDwhuxbX3QVv0vk2Zf76ueYUBVSWVadTXeFfX4bJtTfwSwvo1LIM29c81iTS1KrEbqvQ0hwqOUvkCpey3iBSy7uK6ot81DFN9gLD6E4AmdWHnAdzt5rczrKA_5lmPIYlMAPEjRp7PQbUcewTfBdSLCF0QZd9bNnom5LPC/s1336/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="1336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1buRYc5mPcxbTZXaMEqeIcCkyDwhuxbX3QVv0vk2Zf76ueYUBVSWVadTXeFfX4bJtTfwSwvo1LIM29c81iTS1KrEbqvQ0hwqOUvkCpey3iBSy7uK6ot81DFN9gLD6E4AmdWHnAdzt5rczrKA_5lmPIYlMAPEjRp7PQbUcewTfBdSLCF0QZd9bNnom5LPC/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In two decades, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/burt%20reynolds">Burt Reynolds</a> went from being a TV actor to a movie star, and following both GUNSMOKE and HAWK, a Western and a cop series playing part Indian, he's in the latter's genre as pure white guy DAN AUGUST, a Southern California cop who seems to know everyone he's investigating...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Except a ragged, wrongly-accused hippie in Harrison Ford, featured here from THE MANUFACTURED MAN where his future STAR WARS co-scoundrel, Billy Dee Williams, is an idealistic reporter trying to convince Reynolds' Lt. August into blaming a governor and his flaky, boozing son (David Soul), blocked by token stern chief Richard Anderson while Burt's partnered with a mellow Norman Fell, later co-starring in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/thend.html">THE END</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/paternity.html">PATERNITY</a>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billy dee williams, burt reynolds, cop, crime, gary busey, harrison ford, john ritter, mike henry, neo noir, norman fell, richard anderson, seventies, tv series

BURT REYNOLDS IN THE SLOWBURN COP SERIES 'DAN AUGUST'

Burt Reynolds on the series DAN AUGUST Years: 1970-1971 Rating: ***1/2 In two decades, Burt Reynolds went from being a TV actor to a movie ...

DANA ANDREWS BREAKS INTO 'FAMILY AFFAIR' WITH BRIAN KEITH

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_k1ylqTYa8ByuND2Mat6CyrvVA-VoFyqqRDRrH6TXHPe6KT1fjPkBLk18pNJ5DlG3bgarlOrQXUFQBFxNPCBoTad0_zI5kCIXx7Ftl6m8dEEB_naMZKO092YcCsq1czZM53r-BmzCXiMtd7zDzDyMaT0t-ZTA-WZiqu0nl1PiQXA9N3UeX52_KVPAjw/s1390/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_k1ylqTYa8ByuND2Mat6CyrvVA-VoFyqqRDRrH6TXHPe6KT1fjPkBLk18pNJ5DlG3bgarlOrQXUFQBFxNPCBoTad0_zI5kCIXx7Ftl6m8dEEB_naMZKO092YcCsq1czZM53r-BmzCXiMtd7zDzDyMaT0t-ZTA-WZiqu0nl1PiQXA9N3UeX52_KVPAjw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL Year: 1969 Grade: A </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1969, former Hollywood star <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/dana%20andrews">Dana Andrews</a> was bridging villain parts in big-budget movies, hero parts in low-budget movies, and random television guest spots, like on FAMILY AFFAIR Season 4's THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL opposite Brian Keith (right before Dana landed his own soap opera BRIGHT FUTURE), whose father Robert Keith played his would-be father-in-law in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/wigg.html">MY FOOLISH HEART</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here, as a white collar ex-con fresh out of prison, Dana's Harv Mullen stays at the Davis apartment, but soon Buffy and Jodie get paranoid: he hides his piggy-bank, she hides her doll's mock-jewelry while progressive Sissy gives Harv a scholastic interview about prison life, eventually making the poor guy so overwhelmed he almost leaves... until, like all classic sitcoms, everything's resolved by a soft fatherly lecture about how prisoners are people too. <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

anissa jones, brian keith, dana andrews, johnny whitaker, kathy garver, prison, sebastian cabot, sixties, tv series

DANA ANDREWS BREAKS INTO 'FAMILY AFFAIR' WITH BRIAN KEITH

Dana Andrews on FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL Year: 1969 Grade: A By 1969, former Hollywood star Dana Andrews was bridging villain p...

EDGAR WRIGHT DIRECTS THE BRITISH CULT TV-SERIES 'SPACED'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGSl_E2o23e93FHsOB9suBm7Cl-LAh8mhnMPA5SFPwAvmKh0kbIyQ5ybHk45xggaSimcVv8V_5m1Z8-gRwWOw23mgA_gwEi0HsWU-WaUCRKRXfZE4KxSyLwXaEPLg41qhADtHUD2-bMO0lA_y2ZWwh430wmgM1gBma0f5U6icMwU4y22tZEKyXbN6uw/s2268/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%207.18.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGSl_E2o23e93FHsOB9suBm7Cl-LAh8mhnMPA5SFPwAvmKh0kbIyQ5ybHk45xggaSimcVv8V_5m1Z8-gRwWOw23mgA_gwEi0HsWU-WaUCRKRXfZE4KxSyLwXaEPLg41qhADtHUD2-bMO0lA_y2ZWwh430wmgM1gBma0f5U6icMwU4y22tZEKyXbN6uw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-09%20at%207.18.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nick Frost & Simon Pegg in SPACED Years: 1999-2001 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From 1999 to 2001, England's best kept secret was a two-season sitcom titled SPACED that many Americans would discover <i>only after </i>learning director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg didn't create SHAUN OF THE DEAD out of thin air, having had tons of practice with a vehicle also about nostalgia-loving slackers... and Jessica Stevenson, who plays "the other group" leader Yvonne in SHAUN, is not only Pegg's SPACED co-star but his co-writer/creator...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The plot's deliberately familiar, liken to THREE'S COMPANY which was, ironically, one of many great American 1970's situation-comedies that, including ALL IN THE FAMILY, originated in England...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, comedy, cult, edgar wright, jessica stevenson, julia deakin, mark heap, nick frost, peter serafinowicz, simon pegg, tv series

EDGAR WRIGHT DIRECTS THE BRITISH CULT TV-SERIES 'SPACED'

Nick Frost & Simon Pegg in SPACED Years: 1999-2001 Rating: ****1/2 From 1999 to 2001, England's best kept secret was a two-season si...

JOHN THAW AND MYRA FRANCIS ON 'THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCzeHztwGIU8x1Zmpfm-bnNryyNSJTWEiHiu-DEf7oBzEXWy5-OZo35-xpyAO-J8GSHIB3PBFmi6A8jj16WjcCbxzhO5ZA7K-h2Ya2YvIPFCMyyctgPLtJofjUPTUF4Hkuuhpyu8aWYri8SJwMra2o2pHiOa9qeYynPy3V-6RT-jiXfIeq9RJQPgJow/s2025/count1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="2025" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCzeHztwGIU8x1Zmpfm-bnNryyNSJTWEiHiu-DEf7oBzEXWy5-OZo35-xpyAO-J8GSHIB3PBFmi6A8jj16WjcCbxzhO5ZA7K-h2Ya2YvIPFCMyyctgPLtJofjUPTUF4Hkuuhpyu8aWYri8SJwMra2o2pHiOa9qeYynPy3V-6RT-jiXfIeq9RJQPgJow/s16000/count1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Myra Francis on The Sweeney Year: 1975 Rating: ***** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY has our London boys joined by a well-dressed/educated tech guy, naïvely grabbing the front car seat where <i>only</i> John Thaw's Det. Insp. Jack Regan: And as the central crime involves banks robbed by an inside man using underground wiring, the plot thickens when Myra Frances is introduced as... well... at first the flirtatious Regan thinks she's merely the annoying new guy's old college friend... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But Thaw thaws out to Det. Sgt. David Keel (Robert Swann) before he's shot in a warehouse and laid out, bleeding badly, exposed in the open: And with every attempt Regan and Dennis Waterman's Det. Sgt. George Carter make to locate the hidden shooter, another bullet's intentionally fired into another non-vital yet painful spot... </p><p><span></span></p>

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JOHN THAW AND MYRA FRANCIS ON 'THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY'

Myra Francis on The Sweeney Year: 1975 Rating: ***** THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY has our London boys joined by a well-dressed/educated tech guy...

MAUREEN LIPTON COLORS 'THE SWEENEY' EPISODE 'SELECTED TARGET'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7GIB8HSj1uIggzGM1ZaIs83aa61s0OM_D1ua6HJll4Gu7w__ACqVlGfaHvKOcDRBw8zOcG8e-J5wEKtwdslvNEcEnjAiIl8rVTeYoYmaECzi4-WQ3R6_ZOkcZ-tRzM1pGLvJlWr1ndeouZTdGejDVrY_AacbCbog76LP1gYlk4yNB7PlD5Hl1qIIFA/s1802/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1095" data-original-width="1802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7GIB8HSj1uIggzGM1ZaIs83aa61s0OM_D1ua6HJll4Gu7w__ACqVlGfaHvKOcDRBw8zOcG8e-J5wEKtwdslvNEcEnjAiIl8rVTeYoYmaECzi4-WQ3R6_ZOkcZ-tRzM1pGLvJlWr1ndeouZTdGejDVrY_AacbCbog76LP1gYlk4yNB7PlD5Hl1qIIFA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Maureen Lipman and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney: Selected Target 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With so much going on in THE SWEENEY season three's kickoff SELECTED TARGET... including two veteran criminal cellmates feigning a last-minute spat when they're really teaming for a big score outside... happens in the 11th hour as Dennis Waterman's affable young Sgt. Carter winds up in a seemingly mild suburban house to get secondhand information from Maureen Lipman's Mrs. Smedley, a possible swinger dressed in bright counter-culture colors and stealing the show outright...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Crime-wise TARGET is a bit of a let-down but does feature the more outright-gorgeous starlet Judy Matheson as a sexy yet pouting moll of the leader, Lee Montague, with more screen-time than moon-faced partner Ronald Coleman in an episode with some memorable action including a gang in motorcycle helmets literally crashing a hotel that, except for that inevitable suburban home, is where much of the sparse, pulpy plot-line takes place. </p><p><span></span></p>

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MAUREEN LIPTON COLORS 'THE SWEENEY' EPISODE 'SELECTED TARGET'

Maureen Lipman and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney: Selected Target 1976 Rating: **** With so much going on in THE SWEENEY season three's...

EISENHOWER ON ACID: BLUE BOY VS JOE FRIDAY ON 'DRAGNET 1967'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinJJzOalxyoGMx7xsB0yQsfnVQufX-V2pza4NoPM6gPhLdcXi33E0Slh6qYwb9BzLcCruRa1AheGerEoRUjkE0oHQdhXkDQ7SgCc--M7O45h3_zbQH0Y7l4Z67i4Snf6_6ry8JCDpQTNssaBZ_nWXde1cYwpyHzldpPxVpg6PVcn2CeG_QSciwi-FCjw=s2014" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1386" data-original-width="2014" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinJJzOalxyoGMx7xsB0yQsfnVQufX-V2pza4NoPM6gPhLdcXi33E0Slh6qYwb9BzLcCruRa1AheGerEoRUjkE0oHQdhXkDQ7SgCc--M7O45h3_zbQH0Y7l4Z67i4Snf6_6ry8JCDpQTNssaBZ_nWXde1cYwpyHzldpPxVpg6PVcn2CeG_QSciwi-FCjw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on DRAGNET 1967: The LSD Story Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1950's crime-series DRAGNET epitomized the 1950's more in the 1960's revival than it did originally. The title alone represents the Eisenhower-era B&W  noir aesthetic with deadpan narration when bad guys were bad and good guys were usually cops: Thus making <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/daFACTS.html">DRAGNET</a> 1967-1970 (each season titled after the year) that much more of a bizarre and entertaining time-capsule treat... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's basically two 1950's cops suddenly thrust into the psychedelic 1960's, no longer dealing with the simple days of edgy armed robbers but pampered young drug dealers, drug takers... or in the case of THE LSD STORY, both in one person, the first villain in the first episode, and his nickname is Blue Boy...</p><p><span></span></p>

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EISENHOWER ON ACID: BLUE BOY VS JOE FRIDAY ON 'DRAGNET 1967'

Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on DRAGNET 1967: The LSD Story Rating: **** The 1950's crime-series DRAGNET epitomized the 1950's more ...

PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFzVLmYmbQ8i83fCTNkNCM302JZaXi4Clzez2twrDskmZDaJmSw0l3JM3zZZ9gG_0L1qFAr6dme_Lro3cAYxFhiTn-zqpm6Q_Fhyphenhyphen2yLxkzcmXcaG8HgHzaJo4Z5FklEhYMVamnQ9cxqNA/s793/202780506_1266257087136798_8297373154980892146_n.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="793" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghFzVLmYmbQ8i83fCTNkNCM302JZaXi4Clzez2twrDskmZDaJmSw0l3JM3zZZ9gG_0L1qFAr6dme_Lro3cAYxFhiTn-zqpm6Q_Fhyphenhyphen2yLxkzcmXcaG8HgHzaJo4Z5FklEhYMVamnQ9cxqNA/w400-h323/202780506_1266257087136798_8297373154980892146_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nancy Harewood in Beyond Westworld 1980 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unfairly maligned, BEYOND WESTWORLD was a pretty great short-lived series, lasting only five episodes but starting off strong with a pilot that's a kind of hour-long TV-movie following the WESTWORLD robots (including bar girl Cassandra Peterson) killing the customers...</p><p>Followed by an expository explanation not in the ambiguous Michael Crichton cult classic: The man behind the massacre was the assistant to that world's creator, and is played by puma-faced James Wainwright who, with gorgeous assistant Nancy Harewood at the controls, attempts to kill agents Jim McMullan and Judith Chapman (soon replaced by Connie Seleca), and the action's pretty great... </p><p>Especially a battle against a bionic, spring-loaded, venomous rattlesnake with infrared vision followed by a few intentional accidents and a nostalgic bout with a gunslinger. All this between the main plot of a nuclear submarine wherein one of the crew members is a robotic spy, and that's basically the plot of each episode: to find the sole android that will cause havoc unless stopped on time, making this series go well BEYOND science-fiction and into the realm of mystery... WHO'S THE BOT? would have been a more befitting... and in later episodes range from professional football teams to cheesy rock bands. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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PILOT EPISODE OF THE TELEVISION SERIES 'BEYOND WESTWORLD'

Nancy Harewood in Beyond Westworld 1980 Rates: ***1/2 Unfairly maligned, BEYOND WESTWORLD was a pretty great short-lived series, lasting onl...