Watching Star Trek for the first time (again)

[Neopeius]

I Spy liked to promote that they were shooting in remote countries and locations, and it was true for some exteriors, but much of the rest was shot at Desilu.

That makes sense. They used the same Asian go-go club in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Still, all the shots of them walking around temples and city streets is so 懐かしい。。。

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

That makes sense. They used the same Asian go-go club in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Still, all the shots of them walking around temples and city streets is so 懐かしい。。。

Must be a franchise.

 

[Neopeius]

It's coming!!!!!

So, after I,Spy (12-29-65) rerun with a cameo by Mr. Carmel...

There were two interviews with the cast:

and then a promo for the show. I can't wait! Drop me a line if you'd like an invitation to the watch party for the first two pilots, the weekend of 9-3 and 9-4.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I'm curious, where do you get the rerun schedules from? I'm behind where I'd planned to be in my 55.5th-ish anniversary viewing, but intrigued that I seem to have fallen roughly in sync with the rerun season.

 

[Neopeius]

I'm curious, where do you get the rerun schedules from? I'm behind where I'd planned to be in my 55.5th-ish anniversary viewing, but intrigued that I seem to have fallen roughly in sync with the rerun season.

I just run them from the beginning the week after the last and pull them off the air when the new season starts. It means I miss the latter part of the season since summer is shorter than fall/spring.

 

[Neopeius]

Peter Brocco takes a break from the Organian Council of Elders to appear on the 1-07-66 episode (summer rerun) of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

 

[Neopeius]

Yvonne Craig made an appearance in the summer rerun of the 12-29-1965 episode of Big Valley

 

[Neopeius]

Oh, and here's Mariette Hartley ((not) James Garner's wife) in a commercial for Safeguard Deodorant Soap!

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yvonne Craig

Which reminds me...if you didn't include the first season of Batman in your viewing from this season, you're not doing it right.

 

[Neopeius]

Which reminds me...if you didn't include the first season of Batman in your viewing from this season, you're not doing it right.

We watched some of it. It's not very good. We did make a point to watch the Catwoman episode in the summer. Julie Newmar was kind of wasted. She got to do a lot more in My Living Doll.

(I may have forgotten to put Julie's appearance in this thread. Ah well.)

 

[The Old Mixer]

It's not very good.

It's a camp / pop art masterpiece! I just got up to it in my delayed 55th anniversary viewing, and my appreciation of everything that the show was doing grows with time and age. This is on top of the fact that catching the show in syndication as a tyke was the epiphany that launched me into a lifetime of geekery.

Frank Gorshin was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of the Riddler in the first episode.

 

[Maurice]

Batman quickly became formulaic, and the writing got lazy and silly and lost the snap the early episodes had, and a lot of stuff that happened that didn't make sense even within the show's own sensibility. It's unsurprising it burned out so fast.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Too much of anything can get stale and repetitive. But coming to this show in immersive retro context, as part of a group of shows being watched chronologically, really underscores how much the series was bringing to the table in terms of style and execution.

 

[johnnybear]

What it is to have a time machine...
JB

 

[Scott Kellogg]

I caught Skip Homier (sp?) (Melakon-Patterns of Force & Dr. Severin-"way to Eden" as a bank robber on "The Addams Family" last night!

And of course Ted Cassidy as Lurch.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Our smartly equipped KAOS hitman of the week:

Get Smart, "The Dead Spy Scrawls" (Jan. 22, 1966)

 

[Neopeius]

Our smartly equipped KAOS hitman of the week:
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Get Smart, "The Dead Spy Scrawls" (Jan. 22, 1966)

That's next week for me!

I went to the movies, and look who I saw in the new Cary Grant film? (Walk, Don't Run)

 

[Neopeius]

I caught Skip Homier (sp?) (Melakon-Patterns of Force & Dr. Severin-"way to Eden" as a bank robber on "The Addams Family" last night!

And of course Ted Cassidy as Lurch.

One of the best lines in the show:

"Money isn't everything..."

"It's enough!"

 

[Neopeius]

Too much of anything can get stale and repetitive. But coming to this show in immersive retro context, as part of a group of shows being watched chronologically, really underscores how much the series was bringing to the table in terms of style and execution.

I'm glad you like it. We found it dull and stilted. Like, it might have been good with someone else as Batman, maybe Gene Barry. Even Julie Newmar wasn't great, and it takes a lot to make Julie Newmar not great (q.v. My Living Doll).

But hey -- Batmania happened for a reason, so what do we know?

 

[Neopeius]

By the way, we will be having A Private Little Broadcast of the first pilots this coming weekend (9-4 and 9-5, 4pm PDT) to simulate the Roddenberry showings at Tricon '66. You are invited to join us (and we'll be watching the regular season as it comes out, with commercials, starting the Wednesday after).

Here's the invitation to Portal 55, Galactic Journey's real-time chat portal.