Somewhere, a bunch of people are getting really excited….

There is that irony of folk who think themselves so worldly with a vision of the world that often takes up maybe four square miles at the most…

Mind you, it was Hecht at the end of his career, when he was clearly doing what he did solely for the money….

Quite- if it were a collection of those with any quality, there might be seven films at most, and I'm not sure Roger Moore would be in any of them….

I never understood why Herb Alpert never used any of the energy he spent on trying to keep his own stardom on his wife….

The one where he time travelled back to the 1920s and got himself killed was really strange, though not as much as the one where he ran around in a red diaper….

Urban legend, I'm afraid- it doesn't happen in the surviving broadcast, and the best evidence is that it is a bit of confusion with another episode of the series where it did.

And his complete run on Maverick!

The theme song is sure better than many of the real ones!

Basically, the same nonsense that explains why so much genre shit makes a fortune at the box office- people who can't stay away, no matter what common sense tells them….

It doesn't help at all that this became the template they went to again and again and again, with dire consequences…..

Would that I could be so frivolous…..

And not very impressive shits, either…..

And other substances- why did you think so many of them wore tinted glasses?

Try to take out those Alberta shits once and for all?

It's a shame that Jay Wolpert seems out of the production business for good- he had a sense of style that was truly distinctive…..

Hard to say- there's been at least one game show that didn't make it to air when rigging was discovered…..

It does seem that they've been doing a bad job with brining back the surviving semi-regulars- they never brought back Patti Deutsch when they had the chance….

Luckiest man in the world, but damned if he will admit it…..

So, the issue that doomed the 1998 version?