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Oh I forgot about two mail deliveries back then! But it still brings me back to my original point about Sally getting letters the next morning.
Perhaps a lot of people wrote letters right away and mailed them the next mornig on their way to work. They could've been delivered with the afternoon mail. But in the episode , the Stevie Parsons Show sent over the mail that they received for Sally. It was in the morning. Just TOO fast.
I live in a small town. Sometimes I send a birthday card to someone in town and they don't get it for two days. Our mail system is really strange here. They send the mail out to the mail center which is 90 miles away , postmark it, and then send it BACK here! I guess I am just used to late mail.
At first Spock was written as totally devoid of emotions. If he had said something hurtful to Yeoman Rand, he was not making a "joke". Supposedly Vulcans had no emotions, so how could they display humor?
Spock was just being logical. It was only later on that he was written as struggling with his emotional human half and trying to suppress it all the time.
Regarding 'The Impractical Joke', the final scene with "Mr. Handlebuck" is hilarious. Buddy is fooled into thinking that the guy is a real IRS agent and he grovels and apologizes, only to find out that HE was being played! So funny.
LOL Buck Brown was such a funny character! Do you have the DVD with that episode? Gary Marshall who wrote it with his writing partner Jerry Belson, does a commentary for 'Babyfat'. It's one of the best commentaries that I have ever heard. I could've listened to Gary Marshall for hours.
Yeah they're true. I agree with me. lol I was trying to look at it from Leonard's POV. He can't seem to get over his insecurities.
But, yes, from the audience POV, it IS getting tiresome!! He got the girl of his dreams and he still can't seem to relax and enjoy life. Sometimes I think it goes back to Leonard having such an ice cold mother. He could never please her. The one woman in his life who should love him unconditionally never showed him any affection. I think deep down Leonard feels unlovable.
Telegrams would've arrived in time. Too bad the show didn't go that route. But they clearly said that a lot of mail came for Sally.
Later when Herman came to the office, he asked Sally if that was the mail. Sally replied, "No, it's confetti with a thyroid condition!" lol
They only had thirty minutes to tell a story, so I guess they speeded things up because of time constraints.
I just watched 'Coast-to-Coast' bigmouth the other day. When Laura blabs about Alan being bald, it's on a noon time game show. Later on Rob tells Laura how they were late for a lunch meeting because they stayed to watch her interview on the show.
Laura tells Rob the bad news. The phone rings and it's either Buddy or Sally (I forget who) calling to say that they read it in the evening newspaper. Hard to believe a little item like that would make the afternoon edition! I think the evening paper would have already gone to press by midday. It wasn't a "stop the presses" type of event. Laura's gaffe might've made it in one of the TV columns the next day. Of course today the news makes it onto the internet in minutes. Back then news didn't travel as fast. But obviously the audience was willing to overlook little details like that.
Well it took him a lifetime to build up those insecurites! Not likely that he'll get over them any time soon.
Remember when Penny was surprised that he played the cello and asked him why.
"Because being named Leonard and being in advanced classes wasn't getting me beaten up enough."
Leonard's got some heavy baggage but he better put it down or he'll lose Penny. Nothing is more of a turn-off than constant insecurity and neediness. And jealous over Zach? He was engaged. Doubtful he'd be hitting on Penny.
Penny is going to start resenting him for not trusting her. And if people want to be unfaithful, there is no way to stop them. Either you trust your spouse or you don't.
'Try and Catch Me'. Ruth Gordon portrayed an elderly mystery writer, Abigail Mitchell who was just trying to avenge her niece's death. She knew that her ner-do-well nephew-in-law was responsible for his wife's death. He was never caught and spent all his time spending his late wife's money(inherited from Abigail).
The character had none of the usual motives Columbo sees in suspects. It wasn't about sex, adultery, money,etc. She just wanted to get justice for her niece.
Columbo liked her and he seemed sorry to have to arrest her.
That Person to Person episode was so funny! The Ricardos and Mertzes, best friends, and fighting on a live show! What a foursome.
But it always bugged me that Ricky never mentioned the name of the film that he FINALLY made after Don Juan got shelved. Seriously? The writers couldn't make up a movie title?
And have you ever heard of an actor who goes on a show to promote his latest film and DOESN'T mention the title at least ten times? lol
Maybe that's why Ricky's film career tanked. The MGM bosses watched the interview and said, "That Ricardo has NO idea how to promote a film! He never mentioned the name once. No contract for him!"
Of course after he finished his film, Ricky seemed anxious to get back to New York and his band. It might've been possible that the studio offered him another picture but Ricky was a band leader and singer, not an actor. He might have decided that he didn't really enjoy making movies.
Just because someone is a performer, it doesn't mean that they don't prefer certain types of performing. Back in the sixties the whole cast of Bonanza thought Pernell Roberts was nuts to walk away from a hit show and all that money. But he was very unhappy with episodic television and longed to get back to stage performing (even with the big pay cut!).
Yeah, "Sorry I killed your kid, but here's a music box to make up for it. Hope we're even."
I forgot about that scene. I'd also forgotten that Pa took Albert to buy him a rifle as some sort of "reward" for good behavior. Heck, just get the kid another pipe. Albert wanted the music box for Mary instead.
I could never understand how Albert could carry around that big of a load of guilt and not break down on the spot. Of course Charles would have cried too and forgiven him right then and there!
I just watched this episode for the first time last night. I binged on a number of time travel episodes that I found on youtube.
Since I didn't see it when it aired originally, I can't say if it was edited. But because of the running time it didn't appear that anything was cut out.
What a great story, very moving performances. And what a serious moral dilemma, to apply punishment before the crime is committed!
Yes, a very funny episode! I recently bought seasons three and four and I hadn't gotten around to watching this one again. So I watched it yesterday.
Ned Glass as the milkman! One of the funniest character actors from back then. I'll always remember him from The Dick van Dyke Show as Buddy Sorrell's barber. Rob thought he was going bald and Buddy sent him to his barber who had a "sure fire cure" for baldness.
Was Endora trying to prove that mortal men are lazy? I always thought she was trying to prove to Samantha how annoying it would be to have Darrin home a lot more.
Sam was the one who said she'd like him to work less so she could see more of him. Endora seemed to think it would be a bad idea and he'd just get on her nerves.
Of course if Endora DID think mortal men were lazy, she was just contradicting her own criticism of mortals. There were a number of times when she was critical of humans for being greedy and chasing after money. She liked to point out to Sam how Darrin was neglecting her when he spent long hours at the office, especially when he had meeting with female clients and beautiful models for ad campaigns!
Endora was in no position to criticize anyway considering the men in their family didn't exactly toil away at jobs. Maurice always seemed to be on his way to a play, a concert or the opera. And Uncle Arthur lived to play practical jokes.
But I am just criticizing Endora's behavior here, not the episode. It was a rather unique offering. And the guys managed to disprove her point anyway, even with the bowl of hexed popcorn. They were having a fun, relaxing day and they still managed to raise money for the playground equipment.
Well I guess one could say that the twist was actually a misleading twist!
Other episodes lead the audience into accepting a false premise at first. Like in 'Eye of the Beholder', the woman has a "horribly disfigured" face. The first time I saw the episode (many years ago) I couldn't wait to see what was there under the bandages! The real twist comes at the end of course, but TZ was great with misdirection.
I remember the two-parter with baby Freddie who was just called Charles,Jr., on the show.
Remember how Laura was very jealous of the new baby? From what I have read, the real Laura was not jealous of her baby brother and she was extremely grief stricken over his death. I remember reading somewhere that she always mourned her brother and couldn't bring herself to write about his death in any of her books.
The way the episode plays out though, it's all about Laura. She runs away because she is feeling guilty for refusing to pray for her sick brother. She then asks God to take her and leave her brother for her Pa. Just far-fetched behavior for a child, I think! It's a very popular two-parter, but like so many LHOTP episodes, it's the "Laura Show".
It just didn't make sense that Laura would've been so jealous. I mean, big families were the norm back then and the Ingalls were a farming family. A lot of children, especially boys, would be welcome to help with the chores. Of course sibling rivalry goes way back to Cain and Abel. lol But youngsters expected to have a lot of siblings then. I wonder how the real Laura would've reacted to see that part of her life told in that way. Not too happy, I bet.
I always wondered why Michael Landon changed Mary's story so radically. The show aired while I was still in school and one time I was talking to a classmate who read the Little House books/ She told me some of the differences between the real people and the TV characters. I had no idea the real Mary never married, there was no blind school, no Adam Kendall,etc.
The school and Mary's marriage did open up a lot of story possibilities but I wondered why ML chose to go that route instead of dramatizing some of the real events that happened to them. Well, creative decisions I guess!