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A few episodes did start out with a "twisted" or unusual premise. The audience was told right away. Like in 'The Midnight Sun', we learn right away that Earth's orbit has shifted and it is moving towards the sun.
In 'The Lonely' it is revealed that Mr. Corry is imprisoned on an asteroid millions of miles from Earth.
Not sure if they are actual "twists". But they do reveal that something out of the ordinary is already happening for the characters.
Well the weather is nicer, so I watched last Friday's episode!
Interesting flashback, Danny wearing a tie and the other cops making fun of him!
On the original show Steve and the rest of his team always wore suits and ties. I kind of miss those days. Those cops looked like real professionals. Now when Five-O enters the crime scene, how do the uniforms know that they are cops too? Just a different day and age I guess.
Famous? Because her daddy is famous! lol I don't know if she would have made it on her own without the Cyrus name.
"Inclusive"? In what way? I have read about many women who went to work in New York City in the sixties, like at Cosmo magazine, and getting pregnant was a big no-no! Barbara Walters herself told female reporters not to get pregnant.
The women's movement is "inclusive" if you shun marriage and motherhood, abort the babies that you are so unfortunate to conceive and in general ascribe to left wing ideology.
It isn't "inclusive" towards women like Sarah Palin who are married and have kids. It isn't inclusive towards women who are Republican, conservative and/or pro life (or anti- choice if you want to call it that).
The older I get the more that I realize Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown, etc, were just pushing their leftwing, man hating ideology. Ironically all the while THEY were married or in relationships. Some of the feminists had children too. They just paid someone ELSE to raise their kids while telling young women what a horror and a nightmare motherhood was!
A whole generation bought a pack of lies and garbage and ended up alone and childless with their "fabulous careers" to comfort them.
Well that's awfully strong language to use on another human being! But I must say, after seeing her interviews about Hillary Clinton, I think she is a clueless moron! LoL
On the Ellen Show, she called Hillary a "goddess". Uh, I can see Hillary Clinton as a character from ancient Greek mythology, but I am thinking more like Medusa!
Miley wept and cried after the election saying that Hillary "deserves" to be President some day 'cause she has "worked so hard". Huh? No one "deserves" it. Grow the freak up ya dope. Just another example why dopey, ill-informed performers should NOT be allowed to vote unless they can pass an I.Q. test. What a nitwit
Yeah, gbennett, I guess "remake" is the wrong word for those episodes. But it's the same theme. The stories are re-used, i.e., inappropriate laughing and crying because of witchcraft. But when you mentioned "The Corsican Cousins" that reminded me of another remake with Serena.
In the first season there was "Which Witch is Which". Sam has two appointments so Endora fills in for her at a dress fitting. A man flirts with Endora (as Sam) and they start dating. Turns out the man is an old friend of Darrin's and when he meets Samantha, confusion! They convince him that they are identical twins.
They use the same plot in the season six episode, "A Chance on Love", only this time Serena fills in for Sam. She starts dating a man (played by Jack Cassidy) who is a client of McMann and Tate. Talk about your coincidences! In a big city like New York, Sam's double always runs into someone who knows Darrin? ha!
Season six also reuses the classic "A is for Aardvark" story. Maurice gives Darrin a magic talisman so now he has powers. The original episode, in my opinion, packed more of an emotional punch. Samantha loved Darrin for who he was, not for what he could give her if he had magic powers too.
I suppose there were only so many themes to explore. I enjoyed a lot of the last few season episodes and I would've been heartbroken if the series had been cancelled after season five. But the writers were clearly running out of fresh ideas. A lot of the later episodes just don't hold up as well. They don't have the charm of the early seasons shows.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!! lol Jan had such an ego problem. I thought she was every bit as pretty as her sister and Jan had much nicer hair too. It was thick and wavy and Marcia's was thin and stringy.
But Marcia had what was important, self confidence. Jan always felt that she came up short next to her big sister. She felt like she never measured up. Jan, you were adorable!
This episode is so sad and disturbing! The Ingalls family was no stranger to tragedy but this one really upset me and the sad feelings lingered on long after the episode ended. Maybe it's because I am really afraid of fire. A lot of people around here run to see fires and rubberneck to watch the firefighters. I go out of my way to avoid that!
The story, as others have pointed out, had the characters behaving in such foolish ways. Mary was with her baby when Adam said that there was a fire. So take him with you when you leave the room, ya moron!
By all means Mary, go and save the other children while abandonig your OWN child! Is there any mother in the world who wouldn't pick up her own baby and take him to safety first? Duh!
That little detail could have been tweaked with having Mary and Adam in town when the fire started. They come home to a building engulfed in flames and then Mary cries out for her baby. But she LEAVES him in his cradle when she knows the building is on fire? No way!
The sequel makes me angry and disgusted. Little dopey, annoying as he##, guilt ridden Albert runs away. So let him go! ha! I guess I am less forgiving than Charles, but if I found out that someone was responsible for the death of my grandchild and my best friend's wife, not to mention burning down a building and endangering many lives, I'd be infuriated!! But not the ever forgiving saintly Charles Ingalls.
Charles finds crybaby Albert and acts as though HE (Albert) is just another one of the innocent victims of the fire! Are you kidding me? I would have been hard pressed not to beat the crap out of Albert.
Why does Charles act as though Albert should NOT feel guilty? He d#mn well SHOULD feel guilty for causing death and destruction!! Sometimes guilt is necessary. Not always, say you are on a diet and you eat pizza and feel guilty! Some guilt is silly. But if you are responsible for death and feel guilty, well, go with it! You SHOULD feel guilty!
I wish the conversation had been Charles telling Albert that he must return to Walnut Grove to apologize for what he did. He should feel bad and he needs to ask for forgiveness.
But true to form, Charles weeps and cries and begs dopey Albert to come home. I never liked the character of Albert, but at that point I could not STAND him!
Don't want to blame the actor. He only did what was in the script. But the character was a selfish brat. And I always seemed to zoom in on that little thing hanging off his upper lip. Not his fault but it annoyed me!
Just one of the all around best episodes! Once you know what the book title means, some of the earlier dialogue really foreshadows what is about to come.
I am referring to some of the tourists boarding the ship and talking about those "silver" clothes they give you to wear. Reynolds wrap folks! Silver baking foil, ha!
And all the "help" that they provided for earthlings so people would be well nourished and stop killing each other with war and aggression. Fattening up the herd folks!
But Mr. Chambers assistant went about trying to rescue her boss in a really dumb way. It WAS shocking for her to blurt out the real meaning of the book title. But if she REALLY wanted to rescue him, she should have walked up calmly and showed her credentials to one of the Kanamits. She should have asked if she could see Mr. Chambers before he left because she wanted to give him a message from a family member, she had a "going away" gift for him, just something! Then after she took him aside, she could've given him the real story and they could've hauled a@@.
The government was obviously in real disarray at that point or not really paying attention anymore since most problems seemed to be "solved". I mean, if Washington discovered the real intent of the Kanamits, why send one low level employee to rescue ONE human? The government should have ordered an immediate shut down of all transports to the Kanamit homeworld!
But then we would not have had the chilling ending!
Yes I think people were too busy farming in those days to get very involved in everyone else's problems anyway!
I would not expect the real Charles Ingalls to be perfect. No one is. Perhaps Laura did whitewash some of her family history. Gee, if someone in my family wrote MY biography I would hope they would "smooth over" the rough parts! ha ha
When you mentioned the "real Nellie" that reminded me that I read a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder a few years ago. I borrowed it from the library and I can't remember the title. The real Nellie was Nellie Owens. She was a classmate of Laura when they lived in Plum Creek.
According to the book she was a nice girl who really liked Laura and tried to befriend her. And as you wrote, Nellie (on the TV show) was a composite of three girls.
Of course the TV show wasn't a documentary of the Ingalls family. Michael Landon spent over a decade on Bonanza and he wrote some of the episodes. So he definitely knew the structure of good drama. A heroine/protagonist needs a good antagonist. If Laura and Nellie had been good pals in all those episodes then they wouldn't have been so entertaining!
Anyone familiar with the Little House books also knows that Charles Ingalls moved his family about a dozen times during Laura's childhood. They didn't stay in Walnut Grove all those years. But again, Michael Landon was doing a TV show which needed continuity and a regular cast of characters.
Something in the way Michael Landon played Charles reminded me of an older Joe Cartwright who finally settled down and had a family. I tend to think of Charles as Little Joe leaving the Ponderosa and striking out on his own without his share of the family fortune.
Michael Landon's formula for the show was obviously successful. He wasn't doing a documentary of pioneer life. He was writing entertainment for a 20th century audience. Doubtful if people would watch a TV series about other people toiling and farming all day long!
Gee, can't believe I forgot that one! Good episode. In addition to being funny, Don Rickles was a fine actor.
Oh I forgot that part of Charles Ingalls personality. Mr Know-it-All. Instead of farming he could have had a help column in the local newspaper! He missed his calling. He should have held self help seminars in the schoolhouse on Saturday like an early Dr. Phil.
I wonder if the real Charles Ingalls involved himself in the lives of all his neighbors? Farming is such a labor intensive job, sun up to sundown. I wonder how TV Charles had the time to meddle so much.
I started watching AMC by accident too. There was a short-lived soap that came on (in 1970) right before it called A World Apart. I used to see Susan Sarandon do commercials in character for the show. She played a confused young woman.
"I'm Patrice Kahlman. No that's not true. I don't know who I am."
It intrgued me so I started watching when I had a day off from school. AMC followed it and I just left the channel on. In the summer of 1971, A World Apart was cancelled abruptly. So I just kept watching AMC. That was the height of the Phil/Tara/Chuck triangle. I got my girlfriends to watch it too and we were all hooked.
Erica, the young vixen/troublemaker was always so envious of her sister-in-law Tara. Erica was married to Tara's brother Jeff, the intern.
Erica couldn't stand her mother Mona's best friend Nick Davis who was married to Ann Tyler. Phoebe Tyler couldn't stand her son-in-law either!
All my grandparents came from the generation that had big families. They all had at six or seven kids. And none of them ever behaved like the kids on this show! They'd always tell us how they didn't misbehave in school because if they did and their parents found out about it, they got in WORSE trouble at home!
The numbers don't matter. It's up to the parents to let the children know that they are NOT in charge. That's something these sissy parents can't seem to do. Now the inmates are running the asylum!
Of course I don't understand why these moms who are clearly overwhelmed have baby #3, 4, 5...when they clearly couldn't handle the first one or two. And the dads seem to abdicate their roles as head of the house. They either pretend nothing is wrong or they scream at their kids.
"Doctor/funeral director" ?? lol Well to be fair to the Doc, he didn't exactly have access to the latest medical technology. Even in the cities medical science was crude.
And Doc Baker also had to deal Charles Ingalls who was like the proverbial "kiss of death". Bad luck, injuries, diseases, tragedies, etc., seem to follow him everywhere he went!
I liked Bill Bixby as the spoiled young man who learned a lesson from Andy about standing on his own two feet.
Always enjoyed Denver Pyle's appearances as Brisco Darling. Loved Howard Morris as Ernest T. Bass. Enjoyed James Best as the guitar player Jim.
I liked all of Allen Melvin's appearances.He played a variety of characters including Myrt's accomplice, the lady who sold Barney her "late husband Bernard's" car. That brings me to Ellen Corby as Myrt. She was so believable as a con artist, hard to believe she became Grandma Walton!
Cousin Virgil was not a favorite of mine but he was okay.
Actually The Andy Griffith Show had a great bunch of guest actors including William Schallert who was on TV everywhere in those days!
I can't think of any guests that annoyed me as much as Aunt Bea! Francis Bavier. She had a number of good episodes. But when her voice would go all high pitched and shrieky, like a dog whistle, it hurt my ears. lol . And some of the episodes that featured her were my least favorites. Aunt Bee always seemed to be upset or crying over something. The one with her old beau Roger set my teeth on edge. Well it was really Roger and his lame , cornball jokes. I don't blame Andy for disliking the guy and worrying that he'd be his new uncle!
As a general rule, I hate colorized episodes! (yuck, it's messing with the original vision of the show) But I would be curious to see Laura's gown in "I'm No Henry Walden". She looked so great in that dress. I's like to see the color version of it.
Geez! How did I forget that one? One of my favorites! The final scene was one of the scariest endings ever!
Considering how Satan operates, it was the most realistic too. The 'howling man' had the traveller totally fooled into believing that he was some innocent, benign person who was falsely imprisoned.
As Brother Jerome explained, the inability to recognze Satan has always been Man's greatest weakness.
In Alien it was downright shocking to me! The creature that jumped out of the egg, the chestburster and the full grown alein all scared me. In Aliens I thought I knew what to expect but I was still shocked and scared. In Alien 3 , I knew what was coming but I was STILL scared.
How can you NOT be scared by a creature like that? Sure if I was on a planet with those creatures I might say "Oh well I know what they look like and how they operate and attack" ...but I'd still be bleep-ing my pants!
I think if you explore the Amazon jungles for years, you would still jump out of your skin if a jaguar jumped out at you! Ther's no limit to fear of dangerous creatures. But maybe that's just me. I'm a chicken.