There was basically an unwritten rule on these shows that if the villains actually killed anybody, they would themselves die at the end (usually as a side-effect of their own scheme). Of course, no one EVER died on BATMAN. All these escapable death-traps and "no-kill" might seem like a cop-out, but it's much more…

Steed and Peel were actually BOTH great role models; they were a perfect couple, adults who treated each other as adults and equals ( the only '60s tv couple who were anywhere NEAR as interesting were Morticia and Gomez!)

It influenced a lot of kids at an impressionable age, sure! (And it was also probably easier to get post the censors than "real"sex)
But what's most interesting is that , for all of the times they got tied up and dressed up in fetishy costumes, Batgirl and Emma Peel somehow seemed LESS sexually exploited than the…

Close enough!: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Yvonne insisted that she would have only come up to Julie Newmar's navel. (PLAY WITH THAT MENTAL IMAGE, gentleman and ladies)

And 2015 continues to chip away at my childhood.
I'm told Yvonne Craig did write an autobiography, and I assume it's pretty interesting, because she certainly had an interesting career. One of the first America dancers in the Ballet Russe- in ballet terms, THE BIG LEAGUES- she jumped ship for the far less rigorous…

Or check out McCallum opposite former Avenger and future AbFab star Joanna Lumley in SAPHIRE AND STEEL, where they play extra-dimensional secret agents. One of the most briliant uses of a non-existent budget, S+S would throw weird sci-fi concepts at the audience, but visually depict them with little more than a fog…

Super- VILLAINS are intrinsically more dramatic then super-heroes.

Yes, they feel the need to pump everything up on steroids, when really, all they need to do is basically make a Hammer movie with a decent budget, a more modern-sounding script, and a bit more action.

But they keep trying, because I think they know that if they ever actually get it right, it'll go through the roof.
Seriously, there's tons of cinematic potential in these things, but they're all failures on basic "plot and characters" levels. Compare it to Indiana Jones- most of his imitators are awful (and even…

Also, launching your franchise about a guy who kills monsters by having him kill ALL THE MONSTERS meant that even the 5 people who actually liked it didn't feel any great need for a sequel.

And Lionel Atwell's Inspector Krogh is so awesome they should have brought him back. (instead they just kept bringing back Atwell as normal, non- awesome inspectors.)

I think the secret to Fonzie's popularity is that he was actually miscast. The script for his first appearances called for a genuine Brando style dangerous biker-type, and they cast a guy who, frankly, looks a bit nebbishy. But that worked like gangbusters, because Winkler (who's really quite underrated) was able to…

I've always interpreted it as meaning the moment when a show reaches the limits of it's original premise. This USUALLY coincides with it's decline in quality… but not always.
In the case of HAPPY DAYS actual shark-jumping, it represented the moment when the show OFFICIALLY stopped caring about being a nostalgic…

There's some episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/res…

You can't keep Astronaut Jones down!

In a better world, she'd be obsessed with Peter Dinklage now.

Someone involved with the movie once suggested that original WWW star Robert Conrad (NOT a fan of the film version ) only objected to Will Smith's casting because of his race… and Conrad's reaction was GLORIOUS: he casually noted that he wouldn't have said anything if they'd cast Denzel or Wesley… and then said that…

Willard even shows up in the Canadian mockumentary " I, MARTIN SHORT, GO HOME"; in fact, his first appearance is actually the reveal that it IS a "mockumentary", as up to that point, it had seemed- even in the advertising- to be an actual documentary- but once the recognizable Willard shows up as a fictional…

(and seriously, can we get some love for FERNWOOD 2NIGHT in here?
Not strictly a Mockumentary, but helped write the rulebook)