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Post by dem bones on Jun 20, 2013 15:08:52 GMT
There was an episode of Cannon where the obese private detective Frank Cannon (played by the obese William Conrad) investigated what turned out to be a fake UFO sighting. However, at the very end of the story, an unexplained therefore real UFO was detected. That's all I can remember about it and an quick internet search has come up zero. Ha! The Roly poly PI stars in another favourite spin-off of mine, Richard Gallagher's The Stewardess Strangler. Cranston McMillan provides an excellent essay on 70's TV Tec tie-ins in the current issue of Paperback Fanatic (# 26), but no mention of Fat Frank's UFO encounter so maybe that episode didn't receive the treatment? Spectres, premature burial, and frankenstein are all very well, but you have to draw the line somewhere and, after squirming through yesterday's homily on the evils of small town racism, am not sure I can take any more of Jane Seymour, let alone bloody Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ...
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Post by andydecker on Jun 21, 2013 11:56:23 GMT
Spectres, premature burial, and frankenstein are all very well, but you have to draw the line somewhere and, after squirming through yesterday's homily on the evils of small town racism, am not sure I can take any more of Jane Seymour, let alone bloody Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ... This one is awful beyond belief
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Post by dem bones on Jun 24, 2013 7:09:02 GMT
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman watch. This one is awful beyond belief There were five Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman paperback tie-ins (research). Blurbs strongly suggest they are in keeping with heart-warming tradition of the show. Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna - New Friends (Scholastic, 1995) Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna - Queen of the May (Scholastic, 1996) Teresa Warfield - Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman ((Berkley, 1996) Teresa Warfield - The Bounty (Berkley, 1997) Teresa Warfield - Growing Pains (Berkley, 1998) Mr & Mrs Johnny Cash guest-starred in Friday's episode, this one promisingly titled The Most Fatal Disease. The Man In Black played Kid Cole, delivering a stage-coach of mail-order Brides to San Francisco, and June was Sister Ruth, his "nagging spouse," which I'm sure she was dead thrilled about. Johnny was dying of a terminal illness and didn't want Sister Ruth to know, so he told Dr. Quinn all about it and swore her to secrecy, and ... and .... i don't even know why i'm telling you any of this.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 25, 2013 8:25:04 GMT
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman watch. This one is awful beyond belief There were five Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman paperback tie-ins (research). Blurbs strongly suggest they are in keeping with heart-warming tradition of the show. Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna - New Friends (Scholastic, 1995) Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna - Queen of the May (Scholastic, 1996) Teresa Warfield - Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman ((Berkley, 1996) Teresa Warfield - The Bounty (Berkley, 1997) Teresa Warfield - Growing Pains (Berkley, 1998) Mr & Mrs Johnny Cash guest-starred in Friday's episode, this one promisingly titled The Most Fatal Disease. The Man In Black played Kid Cole, delivering a stage-coach of mail-order Brides to San Francisco, and June was Sister Ruth, his "nagging spouse," which I'm sure she was dead thrilled about. Johnny was dying of a terminal illness and didn't want Sister Ruth to know, so he told Dr. Quinn all about it and swore her to secrecy, and ... and .... i don't even know why i'm telling you any of this. These things are like leeches from Yugoth, they latch unto your brain ... I also have some of those I am too ashamed to name
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Post by ripper on Jun 25, 2013 15:13:39 GMT
I associate Dr. Quinn with sunday tea-times...in that curious slot before Harry Secombe's Highway. Highway to Heaven, another rather syrupy slice of drama was also shown in the same slot. There was always someone dying (as in the Dr. Quinn Johnny Cash episode previously mentioned), orphens needing homes, drunks beating their children etc. I had no idea that Dr. Quinn spawned tie-in novels, and it wouldn't surprise me if Highway to Heaven also had tie-ins.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2013 17:56:31 GMT
New Tricks. The Truth Is Out There. The UCOS crusties' investigation of a journalist's 'suicide' near a US air-base upsets military hierarchy and local UFO conspiracy theorists in equal measure. Could the saucer-heads have it right, or, as grumpy Jack Halford would have it, are they talking complete and utter bollocks? The Rockford Files. Never Give A Boy King A Man's Job. Not seen it, but reputedly centres around a cursed Egyptian mummy on exhibition at local museum. Carry on Christmas; Contains piss poor 'Bride of Frankenstein' sequence. Dr Quinn, Maudlin Woman Watch: Caught another episode. Sully (her ladyship's love interest) is non-fatally shot and 'Mike' and adopted spawn taken hostage by ruthless bank robbers (David Carradine and James Keach, the real life Mr. Jane Seymour). Robert Plant, Cloud Dancing the friendly Injun, Wolf & Co. gallop to the rescue, etc. God help me, but I checked the Dr. Quinn episode guide, and would you credit it? BBC3 are currently running season five which means we've long missed Halloween's 1, 2 & 3!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 28, 2013 10:04:45 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jun 28, 2013 17:52:14 GMT
The Rockford Files. Never Give A Boy King A Man's Job. Not seen it, but reputedly centres around a cursed Egyptian mummy on exhibition at local museum. Carry on Christmas; Contains piss poor 'Bride of Frankenstein' sequence. Dr Quinn, Maudlin Woman Watch: Caught another episode. Sully (her ladyship's love interest) is non-fatally shot and 'Mike' and adopted spawn taken hostage by ruthless bank robbers (David Carradine and James Keach, the real life Mr. Jane Seymour). Robert Plant, Cloud Dancing the friendly Injun, Wolf & Co. gallop to the rescue, etc. God help me, but I checked the Dr. Quinn episode guide, and would you credit it? BBC3 are currently running season five which means we've long missed Halloween's 1, 2 & 3! Rockford Files is just another in a long line of con jobs. Nothing supernatural there. I guess to write for drivel like Dr.Quinn you take a good Martini breakfast and think of your mortgage
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Post by dem bones on Jun 29, 2013 7:42:28 GMT
Has anyone seen the episode of Dr Quinn, Medicinal Compound where she invents penicillin? A televisual feast. Would that she'd get a move on and discover Ketamine. Record buttons at the ready for coming Tuesday's ep, Starting Over. "Dr. Mike is shocked by her sister Marjorie's open relationship with Loren Bray and her liberal behavior after she joins the women's suffrage movement." Our Jane inadvertently contributes a stellar guest appearance to Ed & Lorraine Warren's essential Ghost Hunters: True Stories From The World's Most Famous Demonologists.
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Post by ripper on Jul 7, 2013 9:12:24 GMT
Wilde Alliance was a light-hearted mystery drama made in 1978 and starring John Stride and Julia Foster as a husband and wife pair of amateur sleuths. In one episode they investigated a haunted house. Haven't seen it since transmission, so not sure if it turned out to have a rational explanation. Wilde Alliance was similar in concept to the longer-lasting and better-remembered Hart-to-Hart, with lots of banter between Stride and Foster.
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Post by pulphack on Jul 8, 2013 6:20:27 GMT
Coo, I used to really like Wilde Alliance, but had completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it! It only ran one or two series, didn't it? I'm also unsure as to whether or not he was a writer or a barrister in it - I also remember John Stride in The Maine Chance, where he WAS a barrister, and think I may be getting them confused. Julia Foster was a pre-teen crush, but now all I can envisage when I think of her is Ben Fogle...
That series Rog mentions may be Virtual Murder? It had Enn Reitel (which turns out to be an anagram of his real name - I just assumed he had mittel european antecedents back then) and was a BBC series from the early nineties - no later than '93, as I remember watching it when living in Leytonstone, and moved our of there in '93. It looked very cheaply filmed and was kind of camp comic book in the way it was filmed; it was also a bit tongue in cheek. It was crucified by critics and a flop, but I kind of liked it. The BBC ddn;t do themselves any favours by comparing it to the Avengers, which didn't go down well (they did the same with Bugs, presumably becasue Brian Clemens was involved, and snookered a reasonable show before it had a chance to find its feet) and condenmed it before the first episode. The set up was Reitel (sp?) was some kind of eccentric academic and he had a redhead glam journalist as his assistant... OR... she was the academic and he was just an eccentric amateur. I really should have googled this first... The problem was that, despite liking it, I have to admit that it wasn't in top gear for the first series, and never got a chance to inprove. Promising, but like The Wilde Alliance a nice idea that didn't quite click, and has never (as far as I know) been repeated.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 8, 2013 8:19:03 GMT
Mike Richardson has written a very informative page on Wilde Alliance at Action TV, and the episode Ripper mentions is almost certainly the third in the series, Things That Go Bump (1978). Rather intriguingly Mr. Richardson lets on that "a novel based on the series was published by Sphere in 1978." Anyone know who wrote it?
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Post by madeleymade on Jul 8, 2013 9:18:46 GMT
Dem, I think you're right about a similar thread being on Vault Mk 1. There was a US children's series that the BBC used to show as late as the early 70s, but made in the late 50s or early 60s I would imagine and possibly with Alan Hale Jr. Can't remember the title but it was set in a house and various games/stories would be told. In one episode the house in which the programme was set was haunted by a ghost which would open doors and windows and run past Hale--if it was Hale. That particular episode scared me to death when I was a nipper. Casey Jones?
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Post by madeleymade on Jul 8, 2013 9:27:32 GMT
Couldn't help wondering if McMillan and wife ever faced a supernatural threat so I had a look. i came up with these two episodes : Night of the Wizard ( phoney psychic) The Devil You Say ( involves Satanism and Halloween!) KC And a phony backlot Loch Ness with Roddy McDowall.
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Post by ripper on Jul 8, 2013 9:59:00 GMT
Stride played a crime novelist in Wilde Alliance. I can just about remember The Main Chance, but can't recall if he was a barrister in that series. Wilde Alliance only lasted a single series in 1978 and the novel was written by Ian Mackintosh, writer of the television episodes. He also wrote many of the Sandbaggers episodes, a top-draw spy series from around the same time. Mackintosh mysteriously disappeared over Alaska in 1979 while flying a private plane with his girlfriend. Dem, I am sure you've nailed the Wilde Alliance episode I was thinking about. That's the one I remember most clearly, though not enough to recall if it had a Scooby-Do ending or if it was more open-ended.
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