MeTV's SuperSci-Fi Saturday Night
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I've heard of that...another Me sister network...I wonder if I'm getting that somewhere on my lineup now.
ETA: Holy crap...according to H&I's Wiki, they've replaced Me on WZME, my Me affiliate...now I wonder if I still get Me!
From WZME's Wiki:
So...I've got Heroes & Icons and DECADES...but I don't seem to have Me-TV anymore....
ETA: Holy crap...according to H&I's Wiki, they've replaced Me on WZME, my Me affiliate...now I wonder if I still get Me!
From WZME's Wiki:
So...I've got Heroes & Icons and DECADES...but I don't seem to have Me-TV anymore....
I think we have the same provider. I live in a part of NY right outside of Danbury. Comcast closed the local office here a while ago. I now have to cross state lines if I need to go into their office for anything. Turning what was a 10 min drive into at least a half hour trip to get there.
Looking at that wiki, I would say we lost METV totally. I really don't like the H&I lineup. I would much prefer to have ME back.
Now it'll be another channel that I have no use for.
Brewstah?
I'd really like to have Me, but there is some lemonade: Kung Fu, The Saint, Wild, Wild West....
I'd really like to have Me, but there is some lemonade: Kung Fu, The Saint, Wild, Wild West....
I checked out their schedule before...seemed like their primetime was dominated by 80s-era cop/detective shows, but they have some interesting stuff around the edges.
Shows how little I cared about Me's current lineup that I didn't notice the switch for a week! Funny, I could've sworn that I just had Hogan's Heroes on the other night, but that must've been last week....Thing about Me, though, is that they always tweaked their line-up seasonally, so things more to my liking might have been in store for the winter.
I think Kung Fu is one episode a week (Saturday afternoon), but it'll be nice to be able to catch it at all. Looks like they play at least two Wild, Wild West's a week, on Sunday afternoon. That's a show that I'd barely started to take an interest in when Me pulled it from their line-up a few years back. Looks like The Saint is still relegated to the wee hours as it was on Me, but it's there if I want to record it.
Looks like Christopher will have to do his reviews without me mostly ignoring Wonder Woman in the background. I was curious to see if they'd switch in a Riley episode of Trek tonight in honor of Bruce Hyde, though.
ETA: Next weekend on DECADES: Dark Shadows. Wonder if they'll pick up where the last Binge left off?
ETA: Y'know, I think Kung Fu is better at being a superhero show than Wonder Woman is, FWIW....
Shows how little I cared about Me's current lineup that I didn't notice the switch for a week! Funny, I could've sworn that I just had Hogan's Heroes on the other night, but that must've been last week....Thing about Me, though, is that they always tweaked their line-up seasonally, so things more to my liking might have been in store for the winter.
I think Kung Fu is one episode a week (Saturday afternoon), but it'll be nice to be able to catch it at all. Looks like they play at least two Wild, Wild West's a week, on Sunday afternoon. That's a show that I'd barely started to take an interest in when Me pulled it from their line-up a few years back. Looks like The Saint is still relegated to the wee hours as it was on Me, but it's there if I want to record it.
Looks like Christopher will have to do his reviews without me mostly ignoring Wonder Woman in the background. I was curious to see if they'd switch in a Riley episode of Trek tonight in honor of Bruce Hyde, though.
ETA: Next weekend on DECADES: Dark Shadows. Wonder if they'll pick up where the last Binge left off?
ETA: Y'know, I think Kung Fu is better at being a superhero show than Wonder Woman is, FWIW....
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Sorry to hear it. And this week is the Batman/Green Hornet crossover, too!
Yes, it's "The Naked Time."
You're probably right, though that's a low bar to clear.
Oddly enough, it looks like "The Naked Time" was the scheduled episode for their airdate-order showings anyway. Maybe I'll take it as a cue and put in my DVD tonight.
Seems like I've seen the Green Hornet crossover fairly recently...I'd been half-watching Batman on Me for years.
Seems like I've seen the Green Hornet crossover fairly recently...I'd been half-watching Batman on Me for years.
where did the last one leave off?
Heh...in the grand scheme of things, I have no idea, I'm not that familiar with the show...I gathered from RJD that they hadn't gotten very far into the series, though. IIRC, he said that the episode they'd last shown was from years before he started watching it first-run.
I think there was an ongoing plotline of a boy seeing a girl ghost in the crypt...and Barnabas showed up as a bat to confront somebody in an office who'd figured out that he was a vampire.
I think there was an ongoing plotline of a boy seeing a girl ghost in the crypt...and Barnabas showed up as a bat to confront somebody in an office who'd figured out that he was a vampire.
Some markets always start DS with the introduction of Barnabas, but there's so much more in character development / relationships long before the vampire arrived in 1967.
That's what they did with the last Binge, though. If they have a lot of the series that they've yet to air, I'd think they'd pick up where that left off.
"A Piece of the Action" / "Batman's Satisfaction"--I guess this is the first costumed hero crossover on film.
One minor error: Batman refers to Kato by name, but in the TV universe, Kato is the character's civilian name unknown to the public, and never associated with the Green Hornet's associate.
Lost opportunity: Burt Ward may not have been a martial artist on Bruce Lee's level, but he had displayed his skills on a few occasions on the series. Of all times for Ward's stuntman (Victor Paul) to take a backseat during a fight scene, it should have been in "Batman's Satisfaction." There were enough experienced stuntmen who could have carefully choreographed Lee and Ward for more close-ups--even if it was more posturing.
One minor error: Batman refers to Kato by name, but in the TV universe, Kato is the character's civilian name unknown to the public, and never associated with the Green Hornet's associate.
Lost opportunity: Burt Ward may not have been a martial artist on Bruce Lee's level, but he had displayed his skills on a few occasions on the series. Of all times for Ward's stuntman (Victor Paul) to take a backseat during a fight scene, it should have been in "Batman's Satisfaction." There were enough experienced stuntmen who could have carefully choreographed Lee and Ward for more close-ups--even if it was more posturing.
ETA: ^In the larger scheme of things, I guess you're right. Glancing over episode synopses, I think they may have gotten to about episode 340. That number roughly works with how long the last Binge was. So they got through about six months of episodes. Ye gods, I'm not used to dealing with syndicated daily soaps.
Huh...now that you mention it.
8:00...May Hera grant Christopher the strength to get through four more months of Wonder Woman....
Huh...now that you mention it.
8:00...May Hera grant Christopher the strength to get through four more months of Wonder Woman....
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Batman: "A Piece of the Action"/"Batman's Satisfaction": I think this is the first time I've seen this one since I finally saw The Green Hornet. It's weird to see the more serious Hornet and Kato inserted into Batman's campy world. And it's a weird story overall. Colonel Gumm is a pretty lame villain -- a stamp counterfeiter? -- and Pinky Pinkston is just bizarre. The first half is quite cluttered what with setting up all the guest characters. But the Bruce-Britt friendship/rivalry allows for an unusual amount of screen time for Bruce out of costume, which is nice.
It's a weak story overall, but part 2 is better than part 1. It has a couple of classic bits. The Empty Alphabet Soup Bat-Container is a classic gag, and I love the bit where Robin and Batman sort of swap personas for a few lines and Burt Ward does his Batman impression.
Still, it really fizzles out at the end there. The whole "Britt Reid is Batman and Bruce Wayne is the Green Hornet" bit is random and pointless -- on top of being ridiculous in the first place since they operate in different cities. And I knew the final confrontation between the duos was inconclusive, but it was so inconclusive that it barely even got started. Plus, Gumm was defeated in too easy and halfhearted a manner.
Trek cameos: Not only Roger C. Carmel as Col. Gumm, but Angelique Pettyjohn appears as a model in part 1. Also, Alex Rocco (henchman Block) would return to Batman's world 44 years later to voice Carmine Falcone in the Batman: Year One animated movie.
Wonder Woman: "Formicida": This is a weird one. It's a vehicle for featuring the then-popular husband-and-wife mime duo of Shields and Yarnell (yes, I said popular mimes -- deal with it), but in acting roles rather than mime roles. It's awkwardly directed, and the idea of a woman mind-controlling carpenter ants to destroy buildings is bizarre, but it's one of the most comic-booky stories this show has done. I guess if Ant-Man could pull off the gimmick...
Wonder Woman doesn't make a very good showing here. Beaten by a mattress? Seriously? Though I kinda love it that even Diana can't recognize a dual identity consisting merely of a change of hairstyle and costume.
It's a weak story overall, but part 2 is better than part 1. It has a couple of classic bits. The Empty Alphabet Soup Bat-Container is a classic gag, and I love the bit where Robin and Batman sort of swap personas for a few lines and Burt Ward does his Batman impression.
Still, it really fizzles out at the end there. The whole "Britt Reid is Batman and Bruce Wayne is the Green Hornet" bit is random and pointless -- on top of being ridiculous in the first place since they operate in different cities. And I knew the final confrontation between the duos was inconclusive, but it was so inconclusive that it barely even got started. Plus, Gumm was defeated in too easy and halfhearted a manner.
Trek cameos: Not only Roger C. Carmel as Col. Gumm, but Angelique Pettyjohn appears as a model in part 1. Also, Alex Rocco (henchman Block) would return to Batman's world 44 years later to voice Carmine Falcone in the Batman: Year One animated movie.
Wonder Woman: "Formicida": This is a weird one. It's a vehicle for featuring the then-popular husband-and-wife mime duo of Shields and Yarnell (yes, I said popular mimes -- deal with it), but in acting roles rather than mime roles. It's awkwardly directed, and the idea of a woman mind-controlling carpenter ants to destroy buildings is bizarre, but it's one of the most comic-booky stories this show has done. I guess if Ant-Man could pull off the gimmick...
Wonder Woman doesn't make a very good showing here. Beaten by a mattress? Seriously? Though I kinda love it that even Diana can't recognize a dual identity consisting merely of a change of hairstyle and costume.
You gotta love a computer that you can pour alphabet soup into and it decodes a message...there's an app for that!
IIRC, Shields & Yarnell had their own variety show for a bit there. In the 70s, all you needed was an ampersand.
IIRC, Shields & Yarnell had their own variety show for a bit there. In the 70s, all you needed was an ampersand.
Shields and Yarnell would also appear in the first Wild Wild West TV movie as the 600 dollar people. They even had a short lived TV show of their own, sadly though they are no longer a couple. Formicida was also bit a take on the Jekyll/Hyde story so it's not that odd that Diana didn't recognize her, that was part of the story. But yet again Wonder Woman helps somebody break the law and get away with it.
Silly me...I hadn't thought to look up next week's schedule on DECADES's site. While they're using a different numbering system for the episodes, it looks like TREK_GOD_1 wins the kewpie doll...they're "starting over" with the introduction of Barnabas.
After four decades, I'm still no closer to understanding what alphabet soup and stamps have to do with each other. It's the same sort of random association of gimmicks that the Puzzler had with puzzles, Shakespeare, and aviation.
I think this is only the second time that the main villain in a Batman episode has not gotten up-front billing -- the first being "Zelda the Great," where the real villain was Eivol Ekdal. Colonel Gumm is certainly one of the weakest villains the show ever had. One wishes they would've used someone more impressive for the Bat/GH teamup, but I guess they didn't want the GH and Kato to be overshadowed.
Oh, yes, I watched it regularly. I recall their trademark schtick was playing robots or clockwork dolls that performed everyday tasks in slapstick-clumsy ways. (Which probably led to Yarnell getting cast as the physical performer for Dot Matrix in Spaceballs.) Although it's been so long that I never would've recognized them if I hadn't seen their names in the credits.
