John the Minstrel, yes.

Your cat dreams big. :)

I was glad to see Casey and Abby have scenes together.  They apparently got to be friends during the few months they were both on SNL, and they showed good chemistry commiserating about gay boyfriends.

"Wow, you've been watching way too much stock footage and gay porn."

Aw, sorry about that.

Nathan Rabin, do you have a "My World of Flops" planned for, oh, this time next year?  Just wondering.

Although "I Am the Night, Color Me Black" is so monumentally awful it will be fun to talk about in that respect.

That's a good interpretation.  And I do have to admit that the camp is used well.  It's a barely functional shelter now, but still resonates with the awful things that went on.

I had not idea Spector's grandmother was around for the trial.

My only problem with "Death's Head Revisited" is that Lutze is such a stupid villain.  He never got plastic surgery so that he could blend in better, he goes back to Dachau to relive the good old days, and when an innkeeper seems to recognize him, he doubles down with a dose of the ol' Nazi arrogance.  Really no…

He had played Otto Frank a couple of years earlier, so he had experience with Nazis.

I loved the radio broadcast as well.  The announcer is right on the line between comedy and outright terror.

"Jess Belle" is very good too.  Partly because Earl Hamner goes for more of a mythic feel.  And because of Anne Francis, of course.

It is kind of a shame that the ability to broadcast in color has all these years meant the necessity of only broadcasting in color.  Producers should have the freedom to go back and forth as they see fit.

Nettleton was absolutely gorgeous in this episode.  She also gives a great performance, much more naturalistic than was the norm in early 60s drama.

The 2002 series made a mistake in almost entirely ignoring the world of short fiction, both as a source of stories and as a drafting pool for writers.  The 80s TZ had Harlan Ellison on-staff, as well as Michael Straczynski when he was mainly a fiction writer - years before B5.  Then of course there were Beaumont and…

As well-worn as the basic plot in "The Grave" is, I find it works really well as a character piece.  Conny is a stone cold badass, yes.  But he's also a professional whose reputation has been tarnished, more so because his quarry spent his last minutes on Earth talking shit about him.  That and Lee Marvin's intense…

I always thought Joffrey was inspired by the Excalibur version of Mordred, but there's a point of comparison here too.

It's his father who begs Anthony to send Dan to the cornfield, and that's after Dan's been jack-in-the-boxed, so there's a chance they are put out of their misery out there.  Or maybe Anthony's parents just don't want to see his victims cluttering up the house.

Those would seem to be the top three, yeah.