Danger UXB
And why oh why oh why did this acclaimed John Hawkesworth
gem which offers some of the best continuity known to television kind,
a one season wonder? Lieutenant Brian Ash played with a ferocity
by Anthony Andrews leads the way and precariously so as
a deactivator of the UXB or the UneXploded Bomb unit. Donald
Sinden's son Jeremy stars as does the joyous Judy Geeson.
Hancock's Half Hour : The Knighthood
Hancock's Half Hour began as an OTR series in the 1950's and matriculated
to television in 1956-60. This is one of the episodes that survived from the
third season, there are quite a few that are probably somewhere in
the Bermuda Triangle, most likely next to some of those missing
Ellery Queen episodes. The comic legend Tony Hancock stars along
with the swunderbar Sid James. This episode was from the sixth season
and made its presence known on April 22, 1960
In the twenty-five plus years in which What's My Line graced the waves, it proved to be the true doyen of television game shows and remains historically one of the longest running. This Mark Goodson and Bill Todman series was originally titled Occupation Unknown, its host John Charles Daly was an award-winning journalist who cut his teeth as a radio reporter for NBC before his famous stint as a White House correspondent. The show consisted of a four person panel - its mainstays were columnist Dorothy Kilgallen who remained so until her untimely death in 1965, a death that has been shrouded in mystery. And then there was the ebullient Arlene Francis, who Newsweek magazine dubbed the 'First Lady of Television 'and from the literary world came one of the founders of Random House Publishers and worldly wordsmith (who once moved mountains to help author James Joyce) Bennett Cerf. The fourth panelist was ever changing the most the most consistent in the beginning of the series was Steve Allen and Fred Allen who would take over Steve's vacated chair. Others would rotate in that coveted fourth chair in a weekly variation with some strange bedfellow names ranging from Louis Untermeyer and Peter Ustinov to Groucho Marx (who had an affinity of taking over the helm of any such show he made an appearance on).The scrutinizing panelists each had eyes that were not so easy to the pull the wool over and given the contestants who were in their own ways testament to the admonition of never telling a book by its cover, it would still make for an arduous task - albeit the collective panel was never shirking in the prescience department. The show's wide array of guests, each boasted vocations that indeed defied their appearances. A woman who thoroughly convinces as a cheesecake pinup model - in all actuality jobbed as a butcher An everyman, average Joe wasn't a local plumber in Scranton after all, why he was the real mayor of San Diego and a septuagenarian spinster with poor posture, would ya believe it - draped glamorpuss chorus gals.
This would be from the last season of the three season series Rod Serling's Night Gallery , this episode The Return of the Sorcerer graced the waves on September 24, 1972. Serling was quite disenchanted with this series and all but disowned it, but in my humble opinionation I think it's got the proverbial pepper and this episode boasts the talents of both Bill Bixby and Vincent Price.and aired on September 24, 1972
We begin with : Arrest and Trial.
This was a very short lived one season, ABC series from 1963 that
starred method acting maestro extra-extraordinaire Ben Gazzara as detective Nick Anderson
in this long forgotten police procedural. And that rifleman Mr Chuck Connors in the
cauldron as well . This episode titled Onward and Upward originally
graced the airwaves on January 19,1964 and also starred Sharon Farrell and Richard Carlson
and the notorious character actor John Larch. This series was shamelessly and blatantly ripped off by the well too long in the tooth series Law And Order and their 178 offspring series for the past twenty-odd years.
