"Dr. Kildare" has made it to DVD at last from Warner Archive. I had never seen the show before other than two or three episodes on You Tube uploads and I was anxious to finally see it for the first time, especially given the availability of the music on the FSM CD (though alas, to my disap...

The Honeymoon Machine (1961) 6.7 of 10 -A recent Warner Archive purchase of mine turns out to be a surprisingly good lightweight MGM comedy of the early 60s, and the real surprise is seeing how good Steve McQueen is in a comedy role. When your only exposure to him over the years has been as an acti...

My understanding is they only show one year or so of the respective runs rather than the whole run and then just go back to the beginning of that cycle. For some time, Match Game reruns were only one year of the run. I stopped watching GSN altogether once my tape collection had all the vintage progr...

Yes, the revamped theme music is also why that final era of the show's run isn't remembered as fondly as the earlier eras. We alas don't know if all the tapes of the NBC episodes survive. Word is, is that the first year or so of the run was wiped out (which included the first model, the vapid blonde...

Jim Perry is long retired now. He was actually much older than he appeared when he was hosting "Sale Of The Century" and before that "Card Sharks" thanks to a hair-dye job. He was a legend in Canada where he hosted a game show there called "Definition" for close to twen...

The 90s TV version IMO is totally unwatchable, and highlights the reasons why I think the film had to make the changes from the Broadway narrative because on-stage the slugging of Birdie is the Act One finale and the entire second act is really extended tedium. I also think the film version was wise...

I always thought it would have been better if Dick Gautier had reprised the role of Birdie from Broadway. People say he really nailed the Elvis impression perfect.

I still hate that TT cover with the solid pink.

Discovered the short-lived 1973 series "Hawkins" starring Jimmy Stewart as a forerunner to the character Andy Griffith would later play in the 80s as Matlock. Because the Goldsmith theme and pilot movie score was released as an FSM title, this is why I always wanted to finally see it. The ...

The Naked Jungle (1954) 7.5 of 10 -This film works because the performances by Heston and Parker are so good that you don't feel impatient waiting for the grabber of the film, the swarming ants, to get started. I could also tell that Fred Steiner, when he wrote the Star Trek score for "By Any ...

Bird Of Paradise (1952) 4 of 10 -This film has no DVD release so I watched an 11 part upload to Youtube in very poor quality that doesn't let you get the proper sense of location footage that was utilized for the production. Too bad, beause the film itself is a tedious bore from start to finish wit...

Some more Hawaii Five-O episodes mixed and matched, including William Shatner's hilarious guest appearance in S5 as a Dallas-based private eye with the worst fake Texas accent you ever heard in your life. Also a couple episodes of "Kojak" which gives us the New York equivalent of Five-O fo...

The pity is that I had to watch a worthless cut of the film while doing this and get a reminder that it was a waste of time to give us the theatrical cut. Narrative wise, the film needs those extra scenes at the beginning (capturing the escaped prisoners) and towards the end (finding the scout's bod...

I ended up with 81 minutes of isolated score so I had to trim two minutes of music (repetitive stuff from the Fiesta sequence) in order to get everything to fit on a single CD. Unfortunately the isolated track includes random bits of singing which is okay when its Brock Peters doing "Shall We G...

Well my copy arrived today and I have begun the process of ripping Amfitheatrof's score. I've done about ten minutes worth of music so far and it is IMO like discovering once and for all that the negative stigma attached to this score was caused by (1) the title song and (2) the LP album. The unders...

And here's a double irony. In "Seven Days In May" Lancaster plays an Air Force general who plans to take over the US government beacuse he thinks the president is soft on communism. In this movie Lancaster plays an Air Force general who in effect resorts to a more reprehensible action than...