1973-75 CBS. DePatie-Freleng. 32 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%27s_Comets
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Matt Houston
1982-85 ABC. Ernie Anderson. Found this pilot movie on Youtube the other day. Coming up next. I remember watching this show when it aired but I don't remember anything about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Houston
No Escape (1994)
Directed by Martin Campbell. Ray Liotta. I rented this way back when on VHS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Escape_%281994_film%29
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-escape-1994
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
Early Fox from 1987. Savage Steve Holland. This is a good show. I've been watching it on Youtube the last couple of days. 17 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Beans_Baxter
https://www.fastcompany.com/3055116/the-long-strange-journey-of-better-off-dead-director-savage-steve-holland
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Charlie Hoover
1991 Fox. Tim Matheson, Sam Kinison. About to watch the first one now. 7 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hoover
Cornbread with Hot Peppers
Small pickled tabasco peppers that I use in my chili. Buttermilk, bacon grease, and a very hot cast iron skillet. My grandmother's cornbread recipe. Goes good with the spicy bean soup I made again today.
Granny’s CornbreadFor this recipe you’ll need an 8-inch cast iron skillet and some bacon grease. I keep a little jar of it in the fridge just for making cornbread. Oil will do in a pinch but it won’t have as much flavor.Preheat oven to 450 degrees. The trick is to stick the cast iron pan in the oven for a few minutes to let it get hot and then add about a tablespoon of bacon grease and get that hot so when you pour the batter in you get a sizzle. That is what makes a nice crust.Dry ingredients:1 cup yellow corn meal1/2 cup flour1 teaspoon baking powder (heaping)1 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon baking sodaWet ingredients:2 cups buttermilk (approx.)1 eggMix the dry ingredients together and mix the egg and buttermilk together and then combine. You don’t want to stir it too much, just make sure everything is mixed together well; the batter should be fairly thin, almost like a pancake batter.Pour into blazing hot cast iron skillet and bake at 450 for 23-25 minutes until cooked through and browned on top.
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Curse of the Demon (1957)
AKA Night of the Demon. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Playing now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demon
Karl Freund: Lighting Horror
Bohemian cinematographer Karl Freund. Metropolis, The Last Laugh, Dracula, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Key Largo. Directed The Mummy and Mad Love. Later hired by Desilu to solve the technical problems of shooting television and he perfected the shadow-free lighting system.
http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/freund.htm
Friday, June 12, 2020
Rosetti and Ryan
1977 NBC. Tony Roberts. Watching the pilot movie directed by John Astin in poor quality on Youtube. Also has William Marshall, Dick O'Neill, Al Molinaro, Patty Duke, Richard Stahl, Bill Dana. 7 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetti_and_Ryan
Street Hawk
1985 ABC. Ernie Anderson narration. Tangerine Dream music. Robert Beltran is in the first episode. Watching the pilot now. 13 episodes.
This is Jesse Mach, an ex-motorcycle cop, injured in the line of duty. Now a police troubleshooter, he’s been recruited for a top secret government mission to ride Street Hawk — an all-terrain attack motorcycle designed to fight urban crime, capable of incredible speeds up to three hundred miles an hour, and immense firepower. Only one man, federal agent Norman Tuttle, knows Jesse Mach’s true identity. The man...the machine...Street Hawk.
It was exactly a year ago that I used $100 in gift cards to buy a cheap laptop with nice HD screen to use just for streaming. Last June I spent a couple of weeks trying to find as many old TV shows as I could and I found a lot. Now, a year later, I am searching again for some shows I couldn't find to see what might be available. Street Hawk was one of them. Found some at Dailymotion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Hawk
Intro with Ernie Anderson.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Hawaiian Heat
1984 ABC. The latest show I found at Internet Archive. Watching the second half of the pilot movie now. They don't have the whole run but they do have several episodes. This is another one of those short-lived shows that has never been available anywhere. I read at one of the Wiki links that star Robert Ginty may have been the source for a couple of these. He sent some tapes to a fan right before he died from cancer at age 60. 10 episodes.
(A note on episode counts: IMDb and Wiki often disagree so these numbers are plus/minus one depending on how they were counted.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Heat
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
The Fanelli Boys
1990-91 NBC. Joe Pantoliano, Christopher Meloni. Nice coincidence. I did a search for this show and one episode was just uploaded yesterday. 19 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanelli_Boys
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Mann & Machine
1992 NBC. Yancy Butler. I put one of these on at random this morning that had Curtis Armstrong guest starring in it and it has this line, "You don't have to know about chemistry or analogies to be a great cook. You just have to be from Louisiana." Which is true. Turns out the guy playing the partner cop is from Baton Rouge and went to LSU. David Andrews is his name. That pretty much made my day already. Even better that it was directed at Curtis Armstrong, who is playing a food writer in this ep., "Water, Water, Everywhere." In my original post on this show I wondered how many robot cop shows were made because this was compared with Holmes & Yoyo. 9 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_%26_Machine
Good Sports
CBS 1991 . Farrah Fawcett. Ryan O’Neal. Created by Alan Zweibel. I found one of these last night at one of my Youtube channel bookmarks. 15 episodes. Six unaired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Sports
Monday, June 8, 2020
Angie
1979-80 ABC. I just watched a couple of these on Youtube and Robert Hays is on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast this week with Julie Hagerty doing an Airplane! 40th anniversary show. I was watching an early 2000s sitcom recently on Internet Archive and they made a Donna Pescow reference. Doris Roberts plays the mother who runs a newsstand. A young Tammy Lauren is also in it, one of the actors who shows up over and over in my old TV watching.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angie_%28TV_series%29
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