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Indeed! I only came across the show recently which has been airing on cable on weekends. He was certainly my favorite Bolt brother!! What shocked me was that he was already in his 40s when the show began! RIP Mr. Brown.

This YT channel has been doing episode reviews of The Master - it's a hoot!

I remember her schtick back in the 80s. I didn't realize she was that old!! RIP, along with your accordion.

Loved Automan and Street Hawk!! If I didn't have so little faith in the current screenwriting climate, I'd love to see both of those IPs rebooted! Automan got the ax more due to rhe money it cost to produce and the special effects were tricky and expensive at the time (though easily done now with computers). Street Hawk I think was tough due to the number of bikes that would get trashed with the leaps! SH though is VERY popular overseas! Europe and Asia love the show to this day.

Already seeing the leaks in this boat: Wannabe boss who wants to make changes - check. Wants at some some of her people to live in a dump housing project so they can get to know the neighborhood - check. When one volunteers, it's marked "PIG" on the front door. Yeah, subtle. That also means you're marked and it's a matter of time before someone kills you - check. Said officer says she herself lived in public housing with a junkie single mother - check. Silly underling who is thrilled to get a vintage car with "fine Corinthian leather" - a joke which has been done to death - check. Detectives who throw their weight around a person they're interviewing and automatically accuse him of having something to hide - check. A police station which looks bright and impeccably painted and appealing - check.

Grew up watching both shows! Miss them dearly. I vaguely remember this. Trouble is Saturday nights are the death knell of most TV shows. I think it was network sabotage. Really thought these two had potential. Limitless in particular since it took place in the same universe as the movie.

It's not your imagination. Most rappers are in a culture that often leads to an early grave.

Heartland actor Robert Cormier died, age 33.

Yes, she had a career well before her best known role but she took a few years off to raise her kids. That was around 1965.

Just rewatched the [original] Quantum Leap episode “Rape”. Still one of the better episodes they did especially in the later seasons. The ending in which the rapist (who was pronounced not guilty at trial) tried to rape Katie (the leapee) again and gets a massive beat down from Sam is so satisfying!

Send the poop!!

Sounds to me like a cabal! Like they're gunning for him to get shoved out so one of them can take over the position. Why else be so petty? If you lose your job @Bookish Jen, please send the poop to that ingrate!

I'm pissed on your behalf! That's a rotten thing to do. No good deed goes unpunished. However if you want, I could send some poop to her..... I got a funny anecdote from the office this week. I noticed an email was in my box from people I didn't recognize. It seems that a girl named, "Alyssa" who works at our Amarillo affiliate accidentally sent the email to the intended recipients along with every newsroom in the Gray Broadcasting family!! That would be about 114 newsrooms from coast to coast! Alyssa was looking for an SD card (which holds video from modern digital cameras) which was missing from the news room. It had video of a "sod poodle" on it and was important. Overnight, I heard dings in my email box responding to her question. Many were quite amusing: What's a sod poodle?*** It's not here. Hi from Michigan! I have 15K doughnuts for anyone who brings it to the newsroom in KC! The News Director leaves the building for 5 minutes and all hell breaks loose! Hope it's not in Vegas! If it is, it's not likely coming back. Whatever happens in Vegas...stays in Vegas! We have an affiliate in Vegas? Not at the SC office! Good luck! Not here in Phoenix. Too much dust anyway! Naturally, there were a few killjoys in the bunch, mostly whining that we're taking up all the space by sending every response out to every newsroom. It was a one time thing though and I know I'm not the only one to laugh. I hope Alyssa doesn't get in trouble. She obviously didn't mean to do what she did, and it was a simple mistake to make (maybe she was new). She hit the "newsroom all" link for contacts, when she obviously only wanted to email everyone in the Amarillo newsroom. **** What is a sod poodle you ask?

I happened to catch an episode of Gunsmoke (a show I’d heard of and only occasionally watched) last night I watched “Millie” from season 7. Millie and her younger brother (she’s 17, he’s about 9) are essentially neglected by their drunken father. To the point they were starving to death! The father is always in Dodge City buying alcohol for himself while his kids grab what they can find (berries and such). After seeing another girl married and not worried about food or clothing, Ie thinks she should marry and take her brother with her to survive. The father at best is told he won’t be served at the Long Branch Saloon anymore (Matt and Kitty are aware of the kids) but for some reason don’t do much more until the father is arrested for murder and Matt arranged for a local widow to care for them. Did I mention the kids were also dressed in rags? The whole time the dad thinks his kids are fine and living free!

Around Season 12 the Cartwrights adopted a teen boy who had lost his parents (a grandfather would come by later to take him but he agreed to leave him on the Ponderosa). I never saw those episodes either in syndication either. They seemed to stop at 1968 with Candy then roll back to the beginning. From Wiki: The show would end I think in 1973. Should have ended way sooner. Believe it or not that WAS the plan! Remember Adam was courting the widow with a daughter? He was supposed to marry her and they were supposed to ride out of town as a new family. Don't know why that was changed, as it would have been the best way for Adam to go out. When Roberts wanted to leave earlier, they brought in Guy Williams as Cartwright cousin Will Cartwright. From what I had heard, the cast talked Roberts into staying a bit longer while treating Williams horribly! Eventually he left for Lost In Space.

Sounds like they were just piling on the drama. The dead child scenario reminds me of "Ordinary People", although that came out around 1980-81.

Well, good news on the work front! You may remember I mentioned that one of our anchors was pregnant and was due to give birth in September. We had an office pool (I lost!) but the little one (a boy!) was born 3:30am Sunday morning. Kid has interesting timing since his mother used to get up at that hour to anchor the morning newscast! The anchor was on maternity leave of sorts (she co-anchored for about 3 weeks from home like during the pandemic) and then announced she'd be off on full leave last week.

It would be an interesting change if they went with a country artist (Dolly Parton DID sing the original version of "I'll Always Love You" before Whitney Houston), When the original film was released, I learned the film was originally written in the early 70s with Steve McQueen in mind for the role Kevin Costner played. My dad saw the film on cable years later and thought it was a decent film. When I told him about McQueen almost being in the film, he agreed that he could see him in that role had he lived long enough. Perhaps they could make the film as it might have been in the early 70s! It could have lots of potential for the era and the music.

Not to mention a gag in which Howard and Marion are watching The Music Man on TV and Marion mentions how the little boy looks so much like Richie (Ron Howard of course was the boy).

I had heard of this incarnation of FBI (what Dragnet and Adam-12 did for the police, this show did for the Feds) although I was too young to watch it (I don't think it was in syndication either. I don't even remember it appearing on classic TV channels, although I could be wrong). I think it's great that Reynolds found purpose beyond Hollywood. RIP sir.

My job was often this pre-pandemic. They'd beg us to come in on our off hours (depending on the shift you're working) to come to a meeting held in the studio to discuss something company related (We're going public! One of our co-workers from corporate office is promoted, etc.) when it could have just been sent in an email. Meanwhile, people really avoided these meetings to the point we were being bribed to come by the management offering attendees a raffle ticket and if your number was drawn you'd win a prize (which was a worthless tchotchke that the promotions department wanted to get rid of).

Ask and ye shall receive.

She's come pretty far! I knew her right away when she turned up on Southland. I had a giggle when her character and her partner knock on a door and who should open it but Marla Gibbs (her 227 co-star)! In fact, Gibbs's character was a bit dotty and thought King's character was named (wait for it)... Brenda!!!

Just caught an oldie but a goodie from Little House on the Prairie: In, "The Bully Boys" (1976), the town receives three brothers who initially ingratiate themselves to the townspeople of Walnut Grove, but soon their bullying ways create havoc. The youngest one, Bubba is in school with the other kids and generally, bullying all of them. Nellie Oleson befriends him and uses him to her advantage. Eventually, he strikes Mary Ingalls (leaving bruises) and makes school unpleasant. Eventually, he takes Mary's notebook and says finders keepers and now it was his. Mary, fed up, takes her metal lunch pail and hits him on the head!! Then she and eventually the other kids all pile on Bubba and beat the snot out of him!!! It was so refreshing to see the victims become the victors!!

Fellow NY-er here! I used to watch The Selfish Giant too! Always a good lesson to learn. I always rememebred not only the knight dancing on the roof, but the woman whose coat/cape would blanket the area in snow.