Starting on season five with episode 8. One of my favorite Magnums. Air date 11/15/84. Magnum teaches a class in private investigation techniques. The class ends up going out on a real case.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639696/
http://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season5/Murder_101.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-manhunter.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0641409/
1974 CBS. "The Baby-Faced Killers." A Quinn Martin Production. Ken Howard is a farmer and ex-Marine in the Depression who hunts down men as a bounty hunter as a way to make extra money. Guest stars are Paul Koslo, Lynne Marta, Denver Pyle, Whit Bissel, Ford Rainey, Michael Burns, Bob Hastings. I picked an episode at random on Youtube and unfortunately got the worst quality one. There are several available on different channels, so you might want to avoid this particular episode, which is in black and white. I had already done the prep work for this so I didn't want to find another ep. It's watchable.
Denver Pyle hires Dave to find his son, who is an outlaw, before the law does. Michael Burns plays the son. He is part of a criminal gang pulling off robberies. Paul Koslo is also part of the gang and I am a big Paul Koslo fan. Usually a slimy bad guy during his career. Right around this time he did Joe Kidd, The Laughing Policeman, and Mr. Majestyk. Most of these shows I watched a couple of years ago on Youtube, but this one only recently became available so it was a new one for me. I am a fan of period detective shows and also a fan of most of the Quinn Martin series I have watched. I like the act breaks and fun titles that have made them famous.
Wiki tells me The Manhunter was up against Get Christie Love! on ABC, and Petrocelli on NBC, and only got one full season. I don't think this series has been seen very often, so this is a nice bonus for the Youtube TV nerds like me. I am definitely not the only person who searches for old forgotten TV shows to watch.
Not a great episode of The Manhunter but the premise and period detail will get me to watch more. Dave has a tricked-out car where he stashes weapons in hidden compartments and I didn't get to see much of that in this one.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/half-nelson.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0595238/
1985 NBC. "Uppers and Downers." The batshit-crazy Joe Pesci half-pint detective show. With Fred Williamson, Victoria Jackson, Gary Grubbs, Bubba Smith, Dick Butkus, and Dean Martin. I am watching all of these Youtube shows on the TV, which I think helps the experience, versus watching on the laptop, which was how I watched all of the shows in the first place. A few years ago I bought a cheap laptop just to use for streaming and I loved it from the start. Still use it constantly. This particular show is certainly better on the TV because it is totally insane and there is a bunch of action and car chases.
The conceit here is Joe Pesci is a former New York cop who is actually a really good detective, he just happens to be really short so nobody takes him seriously. He is Dean Martin's fix-it man and lives in his guest house. Fred Williamson is the boss of the Beverly Hills security company where Pesci works. Victoria Jackson is the ditzy secretary. Bubba Smith and Dick Butkus are the big bumbling comic relief and muscle. Gary Grubbs is the dick Beverly Hills cop. I watched all of these on Youtube a couple of years ago once they became available, but the pilot TV movie was so insane, in an already insane show, that I didn't even want to attempt to review it. Too exhausting. Just typing out the guest star cast list would take ten minutes. Every aging actor in Hollywood did this show at least once and it wasn't on long.
A personal trainer in Beverly Hills involved in some afternoon extracurricular activities ends up dead and winds up in the pool by accident. The police rule accidental drowning but Rocky (Pesci) has seen something suspicious. Rocky, who is one of those people who has connections everywhere, is able to arrange for an autopsy which reveals a dangerously harmful recreational drug. That puts Rocky on the bad side of the bad guys who are marketing the drug and then Rocky is marked for death. One of Rocky's connections is access to a studio lot, and all the fun little goodies that might be found there, like one fun bit done earlier where Rocky is driving all the cars from other hit TV shows. The Fall Guy truck, KITT the Knight Rider car, and Magnum's Ferrari. Eventually Rocky is able to outwit the bad guys and involve Bubba Smith and Butkus in some stunt work and car chases. This show, like a lot of NBC action shows in the 80s, is about one third car chase.
Half Nelson is not a particularly good show but is very entertaining and totally crazy. I watched every one of them in awe of the insanity.
Gilbert and Frank talking about contact sheets made me remember this. Haven't seen it in years. Early black and white by me. Manual camera.
Listening to Marilu Henner on the Gilbert podcast and watching season one of Taxi in the neat little corner picture in picture screen. Ernie Anderson ABC promos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_(TV_series)
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/marliu-henner/
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/70s-abc.html
From the Kinja archive original text: Edgar Degas. 1875-76. Reminds me of a certain 1987 movie starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Absinthe
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69281/10-intoxicating-facts-about-edgar-degass-labsinthe
Some controversy that they may not be authentic. Ancient Egypt.
https://www.livescience.com/50309-egyptian-mona-lisa-may-be-fake.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefermaat
Nefermaat's tomb is famous for the scene referred to as the "Meidum Geese" (now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 34571/ CG 1742). Discovered in 1871 by Auguste Mariette and Luigi Vassalli, the scene was executed in painted plaster. The painting was removed from the wall in order to be reassembled inside the Bulaq Museum. The full scene depicts six geese (greylag, greater white-fronted and red-breasted geese, none of which call modern Egypt home); three pointing to the left and three pointing to the right. Each group of three geese consists of one goose shown with head bowed down, eating, and two geese with heads held up. Each group of three animals represents many geese, as three represents the plural in Egyptian imagery. There are differences in the plumage of the birds that breaks the overall symmetry of the scene. This example of Egyptian painting is considered a masterpiece. A 2015 research paper by Francesco Tiradritti at the Kore University of Enna, published on LiveScience, suggested that the painting could be a nineteenth-century forgery, possibly made by Vassalli. Tiradritti's claims were promptly dismissed by Zahi Hawass and other Egyptian authorities
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/extinct-goose-egypt-mona-lisa-1947028
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/
https://soundcloud.com/gilbertgottfried/karina-longworth
Karina Longworth -- author, film critic, and host of the award-winning Hollywood history podcast, "You Must Remember This" -- joins Gilbert and Frank for a deep dive into a variety of fascinating topics, including: the reclusiveness of Dean Martin, the kinkiness of "The Black Cat," the mysterious deaths of Thomas Ince and William Desmond Taylor, the curious friendship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi and the premiere of YMRT's new season, "Erotic 80s." Also, Orson Welles romances Eartha Kitt, Patton Oswalt portrays Boris Karloff, JFK turns his back on Sammy Davis Jr. and William Randolph Hearst "takes a shot" at Charlie Chaplin. PLUS: The genius of Polly Platt! The trials of Fatty Arbuckle! The "secret" life of Errol Flynn! The dark magic of Kenneth Anger! And Gilbert and Karina debate the talents of Lon Chaney Jr!
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-strange-death-of-thomas-ince.html
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/who-shot-william-desmond-taylor.html
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/2021/08/wfld-channel-32-creature-feature.html
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/2021/07/svengoolie-black-cat-1934.html
