Yeah, I was thinking that it did come off as fable-like.
Nope, Kan was making the decision, and Tamo was just advising. Po followed up by saying that Tamo did him honor, and Tamo replied that he did himself honor, because it would have taken six ordinary men to bring him down the way that Po had.
Now that you mention it....
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I really gotta bitch about H&I's Batman schedule some more. The next two weeks they're playing episodes 16 & 17, then skipping up to 21 & 22! WTF!?! They haven't even played 6 and 7 yet, to say nothing of episodes 10, 14, and 15! At this point, I fully expect that when I'm up to that point in mid/late October, I'll actually have to skip episodes that H&I hasn't shown yet.
I also just discovered that the Dark Shadows episodes that I recorded last year don't quite extend to the end of the six-month block that Decades runs...I appear to be six episodes short. Assuming they'll do another Weekend Binge for Halloween, I was planning to revisit the first few episodes of the block, which I didn't have on tape. Now I'm hoping they'll start where they left off last year, so I can belatedly finish the block as well.
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Last Week's 50th Anniversary Viewing
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Next:
The Fugitive
IN COLOR
Tonight's Episodes:
"The Judgment: Part I"
Originally aired August 22, 1967
Xfinity said:
The first part opens not just with a teaser of a later part of the episode, but with a teaser of the climax of the episode!
Massive Finale Contrivance #1: Kimble's a lucky guy for a fugitive, to just happen to have Jean Carlisle (Diane Baker) on the inside at LAPD HQ...a cute gal from Stafford, IN, who stumbles on the trap that Gerard is laying, wants to go out of her way to help him, and pretty much throws herself at him along the way....
So Gerard is specifically a cop from Indiana in the show? What's his jurisdiction for pursuing Kimble all over the country?
A cop is standing right by Jean's car when she takes off and can't get the license number?
One scene has Kimble watching the news in Jean's apartment on a portable color TV that she has on her coffee table. Did they make color TVs that small at that point? When I was a kid in the '70s, the only portable TVs that I saw were b&w.
I find Bill Raisch to be pretty underwhelming as the One-Armed Man. It's amazing that such a doofus has managed to evade Kimble for four years.
Guest-starring the just-departed Richard Anderson as the third and final actor to play Kimble's brother-in-law; and Lloyd Haynes as an LAPD detective.
"The Judgment: Part II"
Originally aired August 29, 1967
Xfinity said:
Birthplace shout-out: Kimble and Gerard get off the train at South Bend!
Massive Finale Contrivance #2: I know I covered this previously during a Binge...probably in the MeTV thread...but it's really lame that a man who has all the answers pops up in the eleventh hour...a despicable wretch who not only just stood there and watched Helen Kimble get murdered, but was willing to let Richard Kimble get the chair rather than come forward.
TV fu knockout chop: Check.
The climax of the finale takes place at "the old amusement park" in Stafford...which really looks absolutely nothing like Pacific Ocean Park on the Santa Monica Pier.
Gerard handing Kimble his gun is a good symbolic moment that's almost worth the massive contrivances. I wish we could have gotten a moment like that between Jack McGee and David Banner....
William Conrad famously said:
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Dark Shadows
This week: Sarah, Sarah, Sarah!
Episode 306
Originally aired August 28, 1967
IMDb said:
The week begins with a recap of David and Sarah entering the secret room at the mausoleum, followed by the boy opening the coffin. GASP! Its--it's--it's empty! But Sarah tells David that somebody had been in it until recently. The skeptical David doesn't seem to think that Sarah's secret place is such a great playroom as she does.
At the Old House, Barnabas reveals to Dr. Hoffman that he intends to backpedal on last week's development and go to Collinwood himself to put an end to Burke's investigation of him. He expresses a lack of faith in Hoffman's ability to get the job done, and reminds us that he's an old-fashioned guy...
So Barnabas decides to show her how to handle a crisis with finesse. This from a guy who likes to make dramatic proclamations about destroying people....Barnabas Collins said:
At the Great House, Victoria's taking David to task for coming home so late. He manages to avoid her wrath by talking about Sarah. When he describes how his playmate dresses, Vicki makes the connection with the little girl that she saw at the Old House during the costume party. (I could have sworn they'd already covered that ground.) David asserts that Sarah doesn't like to meet new people...even though she's voluntarily appeared for about half the cast already.
Barnabas drops by, and [see first part of episode description]. Vicki is shocked, and Barnabas acts like he is, too. When Barnabas says that he'd be eternally grateful for her to rectify the situation, she couldn't know how literally he intends that....Then the undercover doctor comes in for the night and the subject of Sarah comes up again.
On the graveyard set, Barnabas calls for Sarah, while she plays "London Bridge" from inside the mausoleum on her own spectral flute. She declines to show herself and stops playing, causing her brother to declare that he loves her and needs her.
Episode 307
Originally aired August 29, 1967
IMDb said:
At the Evans home, Maggie's still being all stir crazy, but Sam does what he can to dissuade her from getting out. Joe comes by because he and Sam always seem to be budgeted for the same episodes. Sam decides that it should be OK to let Maggie go out if they escort her, so he reserves a table at the Blue Whale (because it's such a formal establishment).
Joe scouts out the Whale in advance to find subdued music and Vicki at a table waiting for Burke. Another piece of the Sarah puzzle falls into place for Vicki when Joe describes Maggie's recent encounter with Sarah. When Sam and Maggie come in, Vicki shares her speculation about Sarah's importance to the mystery of Maggie's abduction. The mention of the girl's name seems to briefly spark a memory for the abductee.
Burke drops in to get a cold shoulder from his fiance. The other three know how to take a hint and let the couple have their own scene. In his defense, Burke infodumps details of his investigation of Barnabas on Vicki. (I seriously doubt that one couldn't find a Nile Bradford in London for 130 years before 1967.) Vicki refuses to see any merit in the evidence that Burke has gathered, and threatens to call the wedding off if he continues his investigation, because melodrama.
Episode 308
Originally aired August 30, 1967
IMDb said:
At the Evans home, Joe reports to Sam and Maggie that the oft-mentioned sheriff is as clueless as usual when it comes to finding Sarah...and that Joe's own more-innocent-times investigation into local school girls hasn't turned up any matches.
At Collinwood, Carolyn and David are preparing to leave for Bangor when Sam and Joe drop by to question David about his playmate. He tips them off that she's often hanging around the Old House. Venturing into the outdoor set, Sam and Joe find Sarah's recently occupied tree swing. The pair proceed to the Old House, where Hoffman answers the door. When she discusses her own supposed undercover investigation, Sam expresses his belief that she knows more than she's been letting on.
After returning from her day trip, Carolyn has a fairly pointless conversation with Hoffman about Sarah. (Now that Burke has something to do, Carolyn seems to be our new storyline-challenged character. She's just in scenes to be in scenes.) When Sam and Joe return to the Evans home, they find Maggie acting excited at the appearance of Sarah's doll, which means that the girl must have visited her while she slept.
Episode 309
Originally aired August 31, 1967
IMDb said:
Decades seems to have been having a technical difficulty when I was recording this...or maybe it's an issue with the syndication copy of the episode. The screen was black for about 25 seconds and I didn't get the opening narration. It wasn't a DVR glitch, Decades had their animated logo on the screen during the blackout.
Picking up the opening scene already in progress...at the Old House, Barnabas has just gotten his latest injection from Hoffman and, sensing that she's nervous about something, demands to know what she's hiding from him with his hand around her throat. She tells him how Sam and Joe came around asking about Sarah. Barnabas then shifts from waxing nostalgic about his beloved sister to ranting about her being one of "them" who wants to destroy him. There must be a Dark Shadows drinking game out there in which you have to imbibe whenever Barnabas uses the word "destroy".
Um...because you spend most of your time on the show lying to basically everybody?Dr. Julia Hoffman said:
At the Great House, Burke comes knocking and gets another tense reception from Vicki. After a bit of tedious melodrama, they get smoochy again and she asks him to apologize to Barnabas...an idea that he doesn't like, betraying that he's still suspicious about the Collins cousin despite what he tells his fiance to keep her happy. Barnabas drops by and Burke takes him into the parlor to formally apologize, though along the way he makes a point of bringing up that he's unearthed a lot of unanswered questions. The two shake, but clearly they've got a ways to go before they become pals. Barnabas offers to answer any questions that Burke or Vicki may have about him. Pretty bold for a guy who makes up such lame cover stories on the fly.
Alone at the Old House, Hoffman starts to get spooked and thinks that somebody else is there, even though Willie has the episode off. She calls for Sarah, but doesn't get an answer. (Unless the flute music is supposed to be Sarah playing it, and not just soundtrack...it's hard to tell now that we've seen her playing the flute.) Hoffman goes out to wander the woods set looking for the girl. When Barnabas returns home, Hoffman tells him of her certainty that she's been visited by his long-dead little sister, pointing to a book that the girl must have opened to a picture of herself. Nobody questions how they have what looks like a photograph of somebody who died in 1795.
Episode 310
Originally aired September 1, 1967
IMDb said:
At the Old House, Willie's dusting the chandelier when he (but not we) sees Sarah out the window and runs outside to find that she's disappeared. When Barnabas's reaction is denial and accusations, Willie observes that his master is afraid of Sarah for what she can reveal to others.
At the Great House, Carolyn learns that David's using his crystal ball to look for Sarah. (I understand there's a story behind that, but lord it seems hokey.) Just as he's about to come to dinner, he sees something that tells him where he can find his playmate. Joe then drops by to ask David where he can find Sarah. David says that she's at the secret place (Did he really need a crystal ball to figure that out?), but he won't divulge where it is. The boy takes the first opportunity to sneak out to meet her.
Back at the Old House, Barnabas decides that he and Willie will go out to look for Sarah, and that the logical place to find her would be her tomb. See? No crystal ball.
At the cemetery, David finds Sarah and asks her to come to Collinwood to talk to Joe. Sarah changes the subject by initiating a game of catch, and throws the ball astray so that she can disappear while David retrieves it. Meanwhile, at Stately Collinwood Manor, Carolyn and Joe notice that David's gone--Really, what else would anyone expect of him by now? His only purpose on the show is to repeatedly sneak out of the house and nose around where he doesn't belong.
And speaking of, back at the cemetery David looks for Sarah in the secret room. Hearing Barnabas and Willie approaching, he closes the hidden panel from the inside. Barnabas senses something from outside when David enters the room. Barnabas decides to open the panel to be sure that Sarah isn't in there, so David hides in Barnabas's coffin....
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50 years ago this week:
New on the charts--Lock up your daughters and your acid, here come the psychedelic Stones:
"Dandelion," The Rolling Stones
(#14 US; #8 UK as a double A-side with "We Love You," which charts separately in the States the following week; both sides feature John Lennon and Paul McCartney on backing vocals)
"Your Precious Love," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
(#5 US; #37 AC; #2 R&B)
"How Can I Be Sure," The Young Rascals
(#4 US)
"Soul Man," Sam & Dave
(#2 US; #1 R&B; #24 UK; #458 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)
"To Sir with Love," Lulu
(#1 US the weeks of Oct. 21 through Nov. 18; #9 R&B; title song from the classic Sidney Poitier film that premiered in the US back on June 14)
And new on the boob tube:
- Dark Shadows, episodes 311-315
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), I'm thinking that the best way to handle the leftover shows from the 1966-67 TV season (the others being The Rat Patrol Season 1, The Monkees Season 1, and some odd episodes from that season of The Fugitive) is to keep them anniversary-bound going forward as well...More to come on that.
