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Mannix: The Gang's All Here (1973)
Purely awful ep from start to finish
Bad acting. Dreadful writing both plague this terrible ep with no story. It concerns Mannix being hunted on ghetto streets by a teenage gang of thugs wanting to both exact revenge on him and make a tough show of murder to a rival gang. The major guest stars are vapid --- all of them! Abomination of an ep indeed!
Gunsmoke: Yankton (1972)
Extremely well done drama
The regular late-season Gunsmoke characters are mostly absent though Sam the Bartender has a semi-fair deal to do in this. Excellent drama!
This story gets greater as it goes along. A very prosperous local rancher has his wife and daughter preparing to split on him and Dodge to go to cultured Europe. How will a cheaply employed drifter-type change the scenario? This is definitely the best Gunsmoke ep to be a drama chiefly about other (and guest-starring) characters. It may be equaled by a couple of superb Gunsmoke eps more about Matt or Festus but this ep never was surpassed!
Bonanza: Amigo (1967)
Excellent action/ character study ep
The story of a Mexican crook and his woman he loves. There are just a few elements that are hard for viewers to understand thus nine rather than 10 stars!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Cast member Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python
Hill's part in this classic late 1960s Dick Van Dyke film ( Hill as a toymaker in the daydream fantasy sequence) shows why he was funnier than Monty Python. Even though the part was not that well-written Hill is still so amusing in it. Mr. Hill is positively one of the high points of this movie.
PS The TV stations WOR and WLVI considered Hill and his TV show funnier than Monty Python!
The Benny Hill Show (1969)
Comic great Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python
Is true. Makes perfect sense! Talented Hill came from a show biz family and he was a natural at comic acting ( unlike any of the attempted comics of the other show). The TV stations that considered Hill funnier than Python were WLVI and WOR!
Hill's series eps are side-splitting.
Contain talented supporting players but it is Hill's impeccable timing in skits after skit that make the show worth your time. The two best supporting players indeed are ( early 70s) Diana Darvey and (80's) Sue Upton. Highly talented and extremely comely women who add much greatness to this already great series. Some musical numbers by fabulous musicians (like Judith Dunham) in the 70s eps and Hill adds fine comic touch to even these as he introduces them!
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Final Vow (1962)
Carol Lynley is simply sexy and beautiful in the lead in this
The plot is outwardly uneven. Many holes. But Lynley is fabulous all the same in it!
PS I should add. The Bible has incredible scientific accuracy in it like round Earth and jet streams and man from soil!
Gunsmoke: Sweet Billy, Singer of Songs (1966)
Brooke Bundy is so beautiful and sexy she makes the ep
This story concerns three of Festus Haggen's cousins trying to find a wife for the youngest of the three. They first try for Diane Ladd's comely saloon girl but she is very turned off and upset by talk of marriage to a stranger. For a short time the ep is bad because Ladd exits the scene so fast.They soon discover Brooke Bundy and she is a dream come true and she wishes to marry the young man.
I do not know as much about Gunsmoke as about three posters here. None the less this is a highly entertaining if uneven ep ( I cannot figure out whether one character is guilty or not at the end). Watch and enjoy.
Columbo: Forgotten Lady (1975)
Very well done mid-series
Story of a 60s movie actress who murders her retired doctor-husband. It takes place more than half in just one house setting. Having the character have a summer home may have helped visually. Only a couple of guest characters to get into but this is common in the show. Just one murder with no chance of a second. Two veteran actor guests and Janet Leigh is quite comely. Much more of a character study than some Columbo eps. A real winner but untypical of the show.
Some reviews on here are bizarre. Maurice Evan's coming from England is neither here nor there. People of all different backgrounds hail from the UK. Comely Francine York rarely ever played a crook and what is the peculiar big deal about her playing a cop in this?
Bonanza: The Pursued: Part 2 (1966)
Great episode with two very attractive ladies
This ep nicely fits the show's middle series pattern. It concerns a Monrmon man and his two wives being pursued by a non-Mormon preacher and a gunslinger. Note: the Bible has great scientific accuracy like about jet streams and round Earth and much more.
The ep has the very pretty Lois Nettleton as one of the wives ( pregnant one). Nettleton could look even better than she does here. But she still more than passes. Aristocratic actress Dina Merill is also in the ep ( as the other wife) and she is about untoppable in great looks. She does surpass Nettleton at the latter's finest. Merrill has great scenes.
Gunsmoke: The Miracle Man (1968)
Plays almost more like The Wonderful World of Disney than Gunsmoke
This ep does not even do the violent action scenes that well! The plot is commendable for one point. It is hard to follow a little. Thus complex! The Gunsmoke regulars have little to do. Ken Curtis is so great an actor he still scores big as Festus! Small part he has!
Bonanza: The Last Mission (1966)
Pretty good ep with action and even some mystery
Ben and Hoss accompany a small company of US Army personnel on what the former believe to be a benevolent peace mission. But it is not! The servicemen are secretly toting a Gaitling gun and are trying annihilate a tribe.
Well done except there are no pretty girls in the ep. Also, the ep seemed better suited to the first few years of the series rather than the middle phase of the show.
Bonanza: The Lady from Baltimore (1962)
Two thirds of this ep is excellent
The first two thirds. Audrey Dalton is a true beauty and fabulous in her role as the Baltimore belle. She, not the other lady guest star, makes this show work. The ep is filmed with some sort of different camera or film or both than most other Bonanza eps and it makes the drama incredibly soft viewing.
Bonanza: The Genius (1966)
Not that good--- sorry to the wrongly favorable posters
A man who many viewers will wrongly think is famed actor Edmond O'Brien is drunk, drunk, drunk in this ep. It is obnoxious after a short time to watch him constantly be such a sloppy type. The woman who plays his wife does not have a big part and she surprisingly does not make that pleasant viewing for a woman ( only four times as good looking as a man could ever be is she) and yet she is in the opening credits.
Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)
Excellently done second pilot
The story of a woman attorney who murders her husband but ends saddled up with Columbo and a step-daughter ( from her late husband's previous marriage) conniving against her is just phenomenal in an excellent way. Lee Grant is brilliant in the lead guest starring role and definitely one of the most beautiful and sexy women ever. The early scenes with a search for the supposedly kidnapped husband make this highly an unusual a Columbo ep too. A scene where the step-daughter shoots blanks at her step-mom will stay memorable extremely so.
Bonanza: The Emperor Norton (1966)
Mostly hilarious ep
The plot has an eccentric who calls himself Emperor Norton staying at the Ponderosa. He suggests building the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. Only one pretty lady is in this and has a very small part. In the middle of the show. If her part had been bigger would have been much superior!
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling (1965)
Good indeed--but not great-- late series entry
Story is of a race car driver who dies and whose mother tries to use a monkey's paw good luck charm to bring him back to life.
First what is good about it.
Colin Wilcox playing the race car driver's girlfriend. Wilcox is highly strapping and outstanding in the role.
Some eerie moments.
What is not good.
The actress playing the mother is rather bratty faced.
Mixing the episode's conservative characters with mod characters does not go great. Both groups look like they would have made a better show without the other's company.
The plot is confusing. Is it really a supernatural story much or mostly only a coincidence story with nearly all straight forward trappings? It is really hard to tell. Watch once fully and then men just enjoy getting shots of strapping Colin Wilcox.