This is Engineer Fred

End of the line.

Navin (to Billy) Don’t touch the Johnson bar! It’ll explode the fuel casing! And if the Wilson-Smith indicator gets above one sixty, just turn that little nut down there one quarter turn. There’s a little screwdriver there, just put it in and turn it one quarter. Now listen Billy, we’re going into a tunnel don’t stand up because the clearance is only four foot, uhh! (Navin hits his head on the tunnel) I’m o.k., I was protected by the bill of my Engineer Fred cap! (the train slows to a stop) Thank’s for pulling my cap down.

South Bay Bowl - The Stoned Rollers - 1975

Bowling is crazy time.

Best of the West

ABC 1981-82. Carlene Watkins. 22 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_the_West

Intro.

Cover Your Short Side, Don't Get Beat, Stick on the Ice

Come back and fight you hosers.

Speed Racer

1980.

Cheez-It

Crackers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheez-It

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/cheddar-cheese-crackers-taste-test

https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/03/taste-test-we-eat-every-flavor-of-cheez-its.html

Can O' History - Locusta the Poisoner

Cook wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locusta

“Locusta testing in Nero’s presence the poison prepared for Britannicus”, painting by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, 1876

 https://gizmodo.com/badass-historical-chemists-locusta-1734516314

http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/locusta-the-poisoner-of-rome/

1972 Cereal Ads

1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_von_Redberry

Carter Takes a Train

Ships of the Line and Flying Saucers

Space ships.

http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2012/06/cult-tv-theme-watch-flying-saucers.html

Diablo Sandwich and a Dr. Pepper

I'm in a goddamn hurry.

Morton & Hayes

CBS 1991. 6 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_%26_Hayes

Johnny Astro

It really flies.

The Ropers

ABC 1979-80. Norman Fell. Jeffrey Tambor is on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast this week. Multiple promos with Ernie Anderson and the intro. Two seasons and 28 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ropers

Sandwich of the Day: Pastrami

Tribute to Eugene Levy and his gassy interview with Kevin Pollak. His was from Art's Deli in Studio City. I want one now and it's six a.m. Not the best choice for breakfast perhaps. I had red beans instead like a good Cajun boy. Joel had a pastrami from the Stage Deli in the Russian Flu ep. when his fiancee flies in. I watched that one the other day too.

https://www.jamesbeard.org/recipes/original-19-hot-pastrami-sandwich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastrami_on_rye

https://www.tastecooking.com/pastrami-everything/

https://setthetape.com/2019/02/13/northern-exposure-1x05-russian-flu-tv-rewind/

Charles Lang: Cinematographer

Watching a better print of One-Eyed Jacks now. Eventually all of my cinematography posts will be here on blogspot but that will take some time. When I did an image search for Charles Lang I saw my old post on The Big Heat (1953). The Uninvited is the header. I have the Criterion DVD. I know Lang for black and white so it is interesting to see Technicolor.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485702/

A Farewell to Arms. Academy Award.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Bakersfield P.D.

Fox 1993-94. Quirky cop sitcom. New upload ep. on Youtube. It's pretty funny. "We found that plane that crashed a couple of years ago here." "No survivors." "Aw, that's rough." A few more eps. from the Trio channel are also on Youtube. 17 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_P.D.

The Black Hole (1979)

Robuts. Robert Forster.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-black-hole-1979

Trailers From Hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Hole

https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/multiplex-mash-up-a-journey-that-begins-where-everything-ends-december-1979/

An SF Odyssey or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Robot

Robuts.

Krakatoa

East of Java. Erupted last night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-stunning-video-of-krakatoa-erupting-lava-and-ash/

I have no idea how to do Twitter links on blogspot. Should be below:

https://twitter.com/shannonmstirone/status/1248811612284153859

https://twitter.com/DanKesner/status/1248819519163904002

Get Smart

1977.

Allen Garfield, RIP

One of my favorite actors. Goorwitz was his real name. Header from Busting (1974). He played great slimeball characters. He had been in the motion picture home for years after having a series of strokes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allen-garfield-dead-actor-conversation-stunt-man-nashville-was-80-1289151

The Brinks Job (1978).

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307255/

The Conversation (1974).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Garfield

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Found on Youtube. Ray Harryhausen. Honor Blackman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film)

https://film.avclub.com/ray-harryhausen-1798209229

Trailers From Hell.

Marshall Pass, Colorado

1899. Library of Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2008679701/

No Jelly

Old candy bars and commercials is another ongoing series. Every Monday morning. This peanut butter bar I had never heard of and Vincent Price in a 1972 ad.

https://brewingdebate.kinja.com/tag/candy

Whole series here. This week was the Reggie bar from 1978. Reggie Jackson candy bar.

Flesh 'n' Blood

1991 NBC. David Keith, Peri Gilpin. One episode of this just showed up on Youtube. 12 episodes, four unaired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_%27n%27_Blood_(TV_series)

Frings

1979.

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

NBC 1981 TV movie promo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harlem_Globetrotters_on_Gilligan%27s_Island

The Movie Library

Books.

Chef Saluto Pizza

Frozen pizza of the week. This was a fun series to put together. A bunch I had never heard of.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/03/Fussy-eaters-make-frozen-pizza-market-boom/9150457675200/

https://www.stjoetoday.com/all-events/details/the-story-of-saluto-foods-corporation

https://brewingdebate.kinja.com/tag/pizza

Night Flight

Welcome to Night Flight. Your weekend open thread. Looking for a movie.

Shock Theater

Vegetable Thins

1979.

Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

NBC 1978. 5 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Brockelman,_Private_Eye

[Panoramic view of hayfields with large house in the distance]

1900.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018695517/

The One and Only (1978)

Carl Reiner. Henry Winkler. Wrestling. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_and_Only_%281978_film%29

beauty

butterfly

Air Devils

70s Hasbro.

Mr. & Mrs. Dracula

Failed pilot 1980 ABC. Plus more Dracula/vampire TV spots and TV appearances.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221763/

Mirror Mirror

Mirror scenes.

https://film.avclub.com/the-mirror-has-two-faces-15-great-movie-scenes-where-c-1798234110

Here Comes the Grump

1969-70 NBC. DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063910/

Intro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Grump

I've Got A Pocket Full of Quarters and I'm Headed To the Arcade

Video games.

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/video-game-appearances-in-film-a-community-compila-244713/

Charles Addams

You rang?

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/charles-addams

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6407492

Can O' History - U.S. Camel Corps

Whoa, there, big fella.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/whatever-happened-wild-camels-american-west-180956176/

Feral camels did survive in the desert, although there almost certainly weren’t enough living in the wild to support a thriving population. Sightings, while uncommon, were reported throughout the region up until the early 20th century. “It was rare, but because it was rare, it was notable,” Baum says. “It would make the news.” A young Douglas MacArthur, living in New Mexico in 1885, heard about a wild camel wandering near Fort Selden. A pair of camels were spotted south of the border in 1887. Baum estimates there were “six to ten” actual sightings in the postbellum period, up to 1890 or so. The legend of the Red Ghost — a crazed, wild monster roaming the Arizona desert — fit snugly within the shadow of the camel experiment.

 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61993/how-civil-war-broke-camel-corps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps