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Bring 'Em Back Alive (1930 book by legendary animal trapper and big-game hunter Frank Buck, who was born in Gainesville, TX [not far from the TX-OK border]. More on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buck_(animal_collector) The book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_'Em_Back_Alive_(book) This edition is a reproduction of that book, which means that the first few pages have been omitted; nonetheless, I'm quickly getting into reading how this apparently proto-Steve Irwin managed to trap and display many of the animals he's known for collecting.

And Mark Miller was Jerome Greenwood in the fourth-season episode of The Streets of San Francisco called "The Cat's Paw" (OAD Thursday, December 4, 1975 on ABC); incidentally, The Streets of San Francisco itself now celebrates its 50th anniversary today, Sept. 16, 2022.

And I saw him many a time on DVD in that fourth-season premiere of The Streets of San Francisco, "Poisoned Snow" (OAD Thurs. Sept. 11, 1975 on ABC), where he was narcotics inspector gone rogue George Turner (one of the finest season premieres in television history, IMO). Here is that episode (opening cut off from it, though): And his billing card thereto:

Opening of the 1984 NBC MLB Game of the Week opening broadcast with Scully and Garagiola, between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox (this game would be known for Jack Morris of the Tigers having a no-hitter here):

And when it's that for Takei and Koenig, for me.

Billing credits on Trapper John, M.D...

And this newer one has subtitles (they call them captions, but the meaning is the same).

It's intriguing to me-- my one cat, Harry, seems to have supersonic hearing; whenever he's in the distance, and I call him (whether by Harry, or by my personal shortening "Har"), he speeds right up and comes running to wherever he needs to be; I think he might have the best hearing of all of them.

I've read two now in that book series, and I think the books by that name are far better than the 1984-96 CBS mystery series by the same name w/Angela Lansbury ever was.

Another in the Murder, She Wrote mystery book series by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain, Murder on the QE2

I've been seeing it on DVD-- well worth the money!

There was also Blacke's Magic, a short-lived '86 NBC mystery series that had Hal Linden of Barney Miller and Harry Morgan of M*A*S*H; Linden was Alexander Blacke, and Morgan was his father Leonard. Linden is still here, but Morgan isn't. More on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacke's_Magic

Harry and Wilma seem to have a sort of detente w/Kathy, my newest cat (they'll eat with her, and she can eat with them), but Kathy and Sally have strained relations; if Kathy even gets around Sally, Sally will hiss and growl; I don't know what to do about those frozen relations.

Just finished that Dave Ward book (I'm a speed-reader), and, IMO, of all the memoirs/autobiographies I've read in my time on this Earth, I think his is by far the best one, even if it has some spelling and punctuation and printing errors, because I think Dave Ward is a dang good storyteller (and I think on those same grounds that his is far better than that of the late Regis Philbin; that Philbin one was pretty lackluster, and I don't think I ever finished it).

Good Evening, Friends, a memoir by famed news anchor Dave Ward of KTRK ABC13 of Houston, TX (the ABC O&O of that Texas area), where he was an anchor and reporter for over 50 years; he takes us through his life and career, from his childhood starting in 1939 (he was born May 6 in that year), to his last newscast on KTRK Eyewitness News in 2017, and everything in between.

Bumping this up: six more in this line, from that 70s NBC medical/action series Emergency!... Firefighter/Paramedic John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) Firefighter/Paramedic Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) Dr. Kelly Brackett (Robert Fuller) Dr. Joe Early (Bobby Troup) Dr. Mike Morton (Ron Pinkard) Nurse Dixie McCall (Julie London)

And one more thing: in the Super Bowl era, L.A. now has a Super Bowl title in each conference-- first, the Raiders of the AFC taking it over Washington in XVIII, and now the Rams of the NFC taking it over Cincinnati in LVI.

Don't know if you knew, but not only did this win give the Rams a title in every place they've been (first Cleveland, then St. Louis, and now L.A. [L.A. had another one in 1951]), but also erased an almost four-decade drought since the Raiders got the first one for the City of Angels in the Super Bowl era by doing it over Washington in XVIII in '84 (for the 1983 season).

And worse, I read on one review of Chicago Fire on IMDB that in one episode, the trucks and other equipment pulled into the station front-first, instead of backing in with the front facing out. That is not good practice (it's for entertainment, of course, but still...), because if you're called in for something, and you don't have time to waste (you've gotta head that way quickly and get over there fast), having to back out can cost valuable seconds and minutes, because you've got to look behind you and watch where you're going. Backing in and driving out, on the other hand, like was done in Emergency!, is far more practical (of course, you've still gotta watch traffic no matter what, but if you back in, you can see how bad the traffic is and gauge when to pull out into the road), and this is another reason why I might see and enjoy all of Emergency! on DVD before I even touched a minute of Chicago Fire.

Or if you say to someone, "If you like Emergency!, you'll love Chicago Fire," or "If you enjoy The Streets of San Francisco, you'll love Law and Order SVU or Blue Bloods." Again, me personally, I know that a lot of them have those more modern shows in their DVD/Blu collections (and that is their freedom, for which they will not be judged), but also, I strongly believe the former shows in those analogies did it far better then, with none of the bedhopping or excessive violence, among other things (I'm in the middle of the third go on Emergency!, and slow-moving as it was back then, at least it was a show with a purpose [to show what firefighters and paramedics actually did then, and IIRC, still do today]).

Or put another way, if you enjoy a particular type of show, and someone tries to badger you into watching a show from a diametrically opposite genre (like, say, you like shows that are set in cities, like I do [I'm autistic, and I love seeing skyscrapers; a great source of such being L.A. Law, for one], but someone tries to make you watch shows that are set in "God's country", where all there is is trees and grass, like Little House on The Prairie); personally, I realize that some people enjoy "God's country," and love shows about small-town, country life, so this is why I will not try to make them give that up for shows set in cities.

Which is why I want to see this one-- someone's gonna get the monkey off their backs (I'd love for it to be the Rams, but if the Bengals do it, that'll be great too)!

And one I'll definitely be seeing!

I hope the Niners don't make it where they play in L.A. twice (beating the Rams, and then being in Super Bowl LVI)!

Bumping this up: now seeing the 1972-77 NBC medical/action series Emergency! on DVD; this combination of medical drama and paramedic action is pretty dang good through the second season's worth (which I started with from my copy of the all-in-one DVD) because it's never dull (the paramedics/firemen are always called on to do some of the hardest, hairiest rescues [some are just minor incidents, though], and the doctors and nurses at Rampart Hospital always put it all on the line and do their utmost to save all those who the paramedics bring in). The only thing that's spoiling my enjoyment of it is that one disc in my copy is cracked beyond repair (the fourth disc on the sixth and final go); the only thing I know to do is to get that sixth and final go individually and replace it (what would you do?).