Just for the record, the Groovy Ghoulies - Looney Tunes mashup was a one-shot for "Saturday Superstar Movies", an anthology of one-hour (with commercials) cartoons from various producers (Filmation, Hanna-Barbara, Rankin-Bass and a few others). "Mad Mad Mad Monsters was also an episode for this series.

The whole series was put out on DVD, individually and in sets.

At the end she's paired with Carl Reiner's Ghepetto, as he hustles her off to check out his wood carvings while Pinocchio is distracted by a mirror.

Born in '55, my first conscious exposure to the Mickey Mouse Club was in the early 60s, when Disney did a syndicated version that mixed vintage material from the original run with new stuff (a Mr. Wizard knockoff called Professor Wonderful; various acts filmed at Disneyland). I got that the Annette on the MMC was the…

Helllloooo … In 2016, Warner Archive put out a set of 60 Traveltalks, labeled "Volume One". Currently available. Good stuff, with some (but not all) of the shorts mentioned here. Includes the war years, when the series focused on the Americas. Favorite title: "Red Men on Parade", covering a Native American festival

Lion cub raised by sheep? That's "Lambert the Sheepish Lion", a 50s vintage Walt Disney cartoon … unless Robbins happened upon a true-life version.

Found myself thinking of old Republic serials, where even the most exciting ones tended to end anti-climatically (and then went to a unfunny wrapup gag in somebody's office, where the hero and heroine laugh before leaving the room). I had a sneaking suspicion it was intentional, giving the next serial an easier act to…

Abrupt flashback to an episode of "Gilligan's Island", where they find a crate of silent movie equipment and decide to make a movie of their plight to send floating back to civilization ("Gilligan's Island", remember). Their epic begins with a closeup of a book labeled "Diary." Somebody opens it and writes "This is…

Trivial note: In the second Captain America movie, they show an "archival interview" of an older Peggy Carter, mentioning that the man she eventually married had been rescued by Cap during the war. Wilkes talked about being in the Navy. Significant, intentional red herring, or just a logical way to explain Wilkes's…

A favorite thin-ice gag: Stevie is sent rolling down a street in his wheelchair and crashes into garbage, taking a nasty spill. He gasps "I can't move my legs!" Malcolm panics, then remembers Stevie couldn't move his legs in the first place. He snaps "That is so not funny" as Stevie wheezes a laugh.

Not a word about Robert Benchley, cowriter and funny character bit?

Just recalling one of those clip-packed retrospectives, saluting either the show or Newhart himself. Pleshette recalled Newhart playing drunk was so cute "You just wanted to lick his face." Now there's an argument for drinking.

She was also a stubbornly grouchy maid in Disney's "Pollyanna." In the end, she sobs when injured Polly is taken away to face surgery in the big city.

For what it's worth, the original Doyle story finessed some of the same details. Milverton is shot by a veiled woman — not the client — who turns up while Holmes and Watson are burgling the place; she escapes by unexplained means while the boys have to outrun pursuing police .

And presumably he's the only one who knows she's not dead.

I'm perfectly happy with both episodes so far, although tonight kept threatening to tip into a flat-out comedy (Was disappointed that the bank robbery thing was all a setup for a joke). My notes:
— Sherlock dealing with a guy who carried a torch for Mary; something he never told the happy couple about. In his way, he's…

One of Doyle's own mysteries was built around the idea that "monkey gland" surgery — once all the rage for restoring virility — could cause a man to think and act like a B-movie gorilla. Another depended on a milk-fed poisonous snake trained to respond to a whistle.

A side note on the "free shave" for Nixon. The first Nixon cartoon Herblock did after than one had Nixon as Santa Claus, delivering a slate of Republican cabinet nominees to the party faithful. A fake Santa beard neatly finessed the shave question, for a day at least.