Is anyone digitally recording PETER GUNN from its current broadcasts on Retro Television Network? I don't get RTN, but surely someone out there is archiving these broadcasts. Since it looks unlikely that A&E will ever release and further DVD sets in the GUNN series, it would be great to see some nice digital recordings of the later episodes snagged from RTN's airings. If anybody has a line on copies, please give me a shout at lunatictyme@ yahoo dot com. Thanks!
shareGood luck L.T., and with those blaring "ANNOUNCEMENT"s in high volume about some investors "out there" and "scooping" up houses for only a thousand ($1,000) dollars each! (;-) -- me a "former" landlord turned developer of Workforce Housing.
Today's episode (Wed., Dec. 9th '09) was "Terror on the Campus" (1959) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0673653/ as #51 of 114 with the complete list over at http://www.tv.com/peter-gunn/show/4264/episode.html?printable=1
Yesterday's was #50 of "The Briefcase", and so I presume they're being aired in chronological order.
And back to today's episode, anybody know to where the surviving co-stars are today? Charles Bateman, Patricia Marlowe, Nancy Millard*, Anne Neyland*, and Maggie Pierce?
I see that some other fans have requested addresses for where to send a SASE for a hoped for autograph picture for Charles and Maggie, and I've just added * Nancy and Anne to the list over at http://www.startiger.com plus Patrica maybe later as only in 4 TV shows from 1959-71 including Nanny and the Professor plus Perry Mason.
Yours truly, Joe Haas, author, The "Northeast Retreat of 1759" = comic book sequel (c)1982 to Kenneth Roberts' NORTHWEST PASSAGE, that incorporates Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Great Carbuncle" of the White Mountains of New Hampshire into this historical fiction. [ IN SEARCH OF...an agent.]
Re: Today's "Sentenced" episode from 8 Feb. 1960 (Season 2, Episode 20);
1.) I see from the list of actors over at: http://movies.lincon.com/imdbphp/imdb.php?mid=0051301 that there is only one "Private Dick" over there by the name of: Dick Crockett, and so WHERE is "Dick Geary" as the "hoodlum" on the screen credits, but with the slang of just a "hood" over at:
2.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051301/epcast
- - Joe
P.S. WHY does RTV keep us in the dark as to the title of each episode? WHY isn't it up front?, like they do for "Robin Hood" just before this at from 12-:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
I'm not sure how the syndication works, but for those in the Boston area (Comcast cable), you can apparently catch the RTN programming on station WMPF, which is found on basic cable channel 20. I just discovered this recently, and there are several classic series there which I will TiVo.
It looks like the Robin Hood series is an animated/cartoon series (I was hoping it would be the live action version starring Richard Greene). Among the many others, I think my favorites, for which I'll get a TiVo Season Pass, include: Peter Gunn, I Spy, It Takes a Thief, Run for Your Life, Chiller Drive in Theatre, and Suspense Theatre.
They also have a thing called Off Beat Cinema, which I'm not familiar with, but which I'll take a look at the next time it airs. And they seem to have an unnamed movie every Saturday at 5 p.m., which I'll probably investigate also.
As someone else mentioned, they apparently haven't given Tribune Entertainment their listings details, so Tribune (which furnishes all the listings to TiVo, etc.) doesn't furnish details for each TV episode or movie.
Over the years (I'm 59), I've seen so many movies and TV series that Netflix is becoming useless to me. (I've rated over 3,000 movies and TV series there, but haven't received any recommendations from them for other stuff in over a year!). Now that some of their content is showing up increasingly on cable, I think I'll suspend the Netflix account soon.
I may set up my Toshiba DVD recorder (w/internal hard drive) to start recording all this stuff so I can burn it to DVD (which is legal via the Fair Use Law). I currently have burned several thousand Movies and TV series to DVD, and have lots of classic stuff like Perry Mason, Twilight Zone, etc. I can get 1,000 blank DVDs with paper sleeves for about $250 on the Net, so it's really cheap to build a library at a cost of only 25 cents per disk. :-)
PT: The Robin Hood ones on RTV were the Real McCoy as they used to say of with Richard Greene. I saw them, and then they switched to The Rifleman with Chuck Connors and on the weekends they also had (past tense) of like last Fall/ this past Winter also: Wagon Train before the current repeats of Fess Parker's Daniel Boone. - - Joe
author, The "Northeast Retreat of 1759" = sequel (c)1982 to Kenneth Roberts' NORTHWEST PASSAGE.
Yeah, just after my 12/2009 post, I realized it was the live-action version of Robin Hood. So I grabbed all the rest of the aired episodes and burned them to DVD. Then I also burned a lot of the Peter Gunn episodes; but I finally got tired of trying to figure out the titles for proper archiving, and also got annoyed by RTN's nasty habit of replaying the same episodes over and over again frequently. I had been matching them up to the proper titles by going to imdb.com and searching for two or more non-regular cast members/actors that appeared in the credits. But this took forever. Same thing w/I Spy, which has tons of repeats sprinkled in all the time. But at least w/I Spy (and It Takes a Thief, etc.) the episode titles are shown in the actual program itself, so I didn't have to search. I grabbed a lot of I Spy episodes before I finally gave up on that because of all the repeats. Now I'm just collecting the two episodes of It Takes a Thief each week (Sat/Sun).
The problem is that RTN is so low-budget that they don't bother to pay Tribune Media Services to furnish program details the way that every respectable network does. And they probably have a very limited library, which explains the endless repeats. But I guess we should be grateful that at least someone is airing these classics. It will be nice for my library.
How much does T.M.S. charge for this service? Maybe we could make some calls to the RTV advertisers who could do a study to find out that by listing the titles, there might be more people to watch AND, of course, with x% thereof to buy their products.
shareI have no idea how much TMS charges. But I already complained to RTV a while ago, and they have done nothing. I don't think they can afford it.
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