The great advantage of Night Gallery was that the format allowed the freedom to go longer than a half-hour but less than a full hour (except during its half-hour-only final season). They took advantage of it only once, though, with the 40-minute slot given to one of Serling's best scripts, "They're Tearing Down Tim…

Another two: "That's Really Super, Supergirl" from Skylarking; "Ball and Chain" from English Settlement.

Another two: "That's Really Super, Supergirl" from Skylarking; "Ball and Chain" from English Settlement.

I don't think this is going to go anywhere. Did Blade Runner ever earn back its cost, even after all the different homevideo releases? It certainly was a theatrical failure (I saw it during the first week of its run).

I don't think this is going to go anywhere. Did Blade Runner ever earn back its cost, even after all the different homevideo releases? It certainly was a theatrical failure (I saw it during the first week of its run).

This is reaching back a bit, but here's my ideal example:

This is reaching back a bit, but here's my ideal example:

Sloppy scripting, I guess. They were probably more concerned about the logistics of giving absolutely every previous series regular a bit of a role.

Those were both very late episodes in the production sequence, so I tend to agree with you. (The Western was "Living in Harmony," featuring an actor also seen in "Fall Out.")

In retrospect, the reason for the flash-sideways stories (and it was a good reason, I suppose) was to bring back Leslie Arzt.

What do you mean, "forgot that they promoted Gee"? In the movie, he wasn't even on the force any more, he was running for mayor of Baltimore. I was a big fan but was glad they made the movie - the final scene especially, with Gee, Crossetti, Felton, and of all people Adena.

I am so glad to be the first to mention the first great crazy what-the-heck? finale in English-language TV history, the "Fall Out" episode of The Prisoner (1967), written and directed by its star Patrick McGoohan. By sheer bad luck, this was the first episode my wife saw (I had known the whole series before we met),…

They've sunk into obscurity now, but CBS aired a series of 7 or 8 Rockford Files TV movies in the mid- to late 1990s; the ones I saw all or part of were amusing, but the two-hour format hurt. All the main actors and writers from the series (including David Chase) were involved in at least one of the TV movies,

I thought Magnum P.I.'s main reason for existence was that CBS wasn't using its production facility for Hawaii Five-O (1968-80) any longer, and it was already paid for.

The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. Most Americans who enjoy the six songs written for the project* have been spared seeing the film, first shown on BBC in late 1967; reaction among the British public was so poor that a deal to show it on U.S. TV fell through.

Do you mean the play, or the Oliver Stone movie (starring Bogosian and Ellen Greene) that combines Bogosian's play with the true story told in the book Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg? That movie has a lot going for it; as the Leonard Maltin book says, "well acted, extremely well shot and directed."

Not to mention the sheer sloppiness in period detail at times, not what you would expect from a Coppola film (especially so soon after Tucker: The Man and His Dream). For example, at one point there's a supposedly contemporaneous newspaper front page filling the screen - I saw this in a theater, unfortunately, and…

Every time I watch an episode, I recall that an important reason The Good Wife made it through its first (2009-10) season is that it was originally on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. - that is, against NBC's The Jay Leno Show (not sure what was on ABC at the same time). Not intending at all to diminish the excellence of TGW, but…

In 1977 I went to see New York, New York (the Scorsese movie, with songs by Kander and Ebb of Cabaret fame) in the theater. The movie didn't do well, and the theatrical cut was shortened during release (with no change in its fortunes). Years later I got to see the intended version (available on DVD since 2007), with…

Roc Kit: In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? there's the Penfield mood organ, seen only in the opening and closing scenes with Rick Deckard and his wife. No drugs as such, unless you count Deckard's snuff use. In at least one other novel (Our Friends from Frolix 8) a main character stops at a drug bar for a…