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There are enough in the guest stars thread, I figured they might as well have their own. The rocks are the title location of "Mountain Fortress", the first episode of the first hour-long regular TV Western, Cheyenne, premiering Sept. 20 1955. Before the fort was built, I believe. The reverse...

James Montgomery Doohan was born March 3, 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia. I grew up really admiring the Scotty character, and his low-key leadership style, confidence, assurance and good humor were no doubt due in large part to Mr. Doohan. If you're inclined, maybe raise a glass of Scotch...

I know this news is a couple of months old but I didn't hear about it for almost a month, and then I thought I should make a thread about it but got busy and never got around to it. But to me he deserves a thread. To me, Bill Daily was a legend, one of the funniest guys on TV ever. But he...

Had (what we now call) "The Cage" been cut for broadcast when NBC rejected it or had it not gotten that far yet? The extended version on disc is about 71 minutes, is that a little short for a 90 minute slot? Most 90-minute TV I've seen from that era runs around 75 minutes without commercials...

If you can remember the difference between TV before Hill Street Blues and after, you know what a tremendous difference this man made. I used to wait all week for this moment: A great interview:

John Mollo, costume designer for Star Wars, Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and Outland, two-time Oscar winner and noted military uniform historian and author, has died at 86. I don't think anyone has made a greater contribution to science fiction film costume. Futuristic but familiar, practical...

Batman '66 has pretty much been part of my life since I can remember, it's just kind of background. But now my wife has started watching it and I'm sort of seeing it anew, through her. And I've been comparing the SGV performers. Let's face it, this is really a "big four" contest, with maybe a...

Half of the duo who formed Steely Dan, Walter Becker, has died at 67. I always liked them on the radio when I was a kid in the '70s, but I really "got" what they were about in my 20s, the '90s, which just happened to be around the time they started working together again and, unlike in their...

May 25, 1977. A release date a long time ago in a world that seems far, far away... Please post your recollections of Star Wars and 1977. I was six or seven years old, first grade. My uncle, who was a great guy and who really connected with me when I was little, had moved to LA and was...

Long-time character actor Clifton James has died at 95. "You know his face," as they say. He may be best known as J. W. Pepper, the Louisiana Sheriff who crosses paths with James Bond in Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun. He was also part of the John Sayles "company" in later...

Mike Connors has died of leukemia at 91. He played serious, fist-swinging detective Joe Mannix for eight seasons on the CBS TV series Mannix. Born Krekor Ohanian in Fresno California, he was proud of his Armenian heritage and incorporated into Mannix's background, despite the Irish surname. I...

This was brought up in the Misc. memorial thread for Sen. John Glenn. The 1983 movie is one of my favorites of the '80s, and probably the film from that decade I have seen the most. My friends and I went to see it several times, which was unusual for a three-hour movie. It has a really winning...

That and all other individual enlisted rating titles are being scrapped: https://www.navytimes.com/articles/navy-scuttles-sailors-enlisted-rating-titles-in-huge-career-shake-up From now on, apparently, all petty officers of the same grade will be the same, "petty officer third class," "second...

I hope I am not stepping on @Botany Bay's toes, but it has been a few weeks since he posted the last weekly poll, and so I thought I would summarize the results. Here are the results for S3: The Tholian Web 8.23 Day of the Dove 7.88 The Enterprise Incident 7.83 All Our Yesterdays 7.64 The...

Uh, this is your original poster here... I'm going to go ahead and start the voting for your avatar contest today. If I could direct your attention to the top of the page, you can go ahead and cast your votes for your three favorite avatars. We expect smooth voting to go on about four days, and...

This contest will be about people who are aircraft pilots. They can be fictional characters or media portrayals of real people. The aircraft should be real-world types, commercial, private or military. Fixed-wing, rotary, lighter-than-air, all acceptable. Spacecraft also count if they are real...

Legendary movie production designer Ken Adam has died at the age of 95. Perhaps most well-known for the futuristic super-villain sets in the James Bond series, he could go from slightly shabby London in the Ipcress File to Georgian drawing room splendor in Barry Lyndon with equal excellence...

Very sorry to hear that a brilliant singer, songwriter, bandleader, producer, arranger and true musical genius has died. If you're not familiar with Earth, Wind and Fire, take it from me, it's good for what ails you. You will find peace of mind If you look way down in your heart and soul Don't...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTM_Enterprises The retro TV thread got me thinking... In the '70s and '80s, a lot of my "must see" shows had the MTM kitten at the end. It was not always the mark of a successful show, but often something a little different, innovative, or higher quality. I loved...

New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussaint has died, on tour, at 77. He was one of those guys you didn't often hear about, but once you knew about him, you noticed him all over the place. "Working in the Coal Mine," "Fortune Teller," Al Hirt's "Java," the Yardbirds' "A Certain Girl," Herb Alpert &...