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Welcome Back, Kotter: Class Encounters of the Carvelli Kind (1978)
Top notch episode of season... highly entertaining
Directed by 'Epstein' -- a series of fascinating and eerie but stil hilarious daydreams Mr. Kotter imagines he and the Sweathoggs are meeting an alien from outer space. It turns out to be his wife Julie under a mask. If it were not a daydream of Kotter's it would have possible for it to be an alien who just looked like beautiful Julie. Every time Kotter begins and ends a daydream sequence he is thoughtfully staring out a classroom window. The actors in each daydream sequence start off talking with slightly echoing voices. One of this show's very best eps. Catch it again and again. You will enjoy it over and over again. Guaranteed!
The Final Countdown (1980)
Ridiculous premise but Katherine Ross saves it
Admit it. Time travel destined to never ever ever be a reality of any kind whatsoever. The whole film is foolish. But Ross is so beautiful and sexy as the Senator's private secretary who goes yachting with him to do her secretary duties and then relax that she is just amazing. She actually seems believable as being from the 1940s. A feast for the eyes she is and better than this otherwise rather tepid film overly dependent on footage of a ship and warplanes.
The Twilight Zone: Passage on the Lady Anne (1963)
Joyce Van Patten Is brilliant as is rest of the cast
This episode is really excellent. Great sets and fine morals make this ep really good and it's slow pacing matches the ship in the story.
Already been reviewed but I want to add. We are not sure if the Lady Anne was suicide to the elderly passengers. After all. The ship could have been heading right towards the Bermuda Triangle and into another dimension. They may have headed north to just fool the Ramsones ( again Joyce Van Patten brilliant as Eileen)!
One Step Beyond: Emergency Only (1959)
Jocelyn Brando is excellent
She plays a genuine psychic at a party.
I am a fan of this talented and beautiful lady and yes she is Marlon's very own sister.
Sadly, Miss. Brando is only to be found in the first seven minutes of the ep. After that it is somewhat less good. Thus, the 9 rather than 10 stars.
Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon (1969)
Strange pilot for a proposed soap has in common with Dark Shadows
Same creator ( Dan Curtis). One of the same directors. One of the same writers. Same stock music ( at least some of the same music). Thayer David ( who very slightly yells and overacts here a little much). A similar seance scene as some such events on DS. Similar plot. Another cast member from DS. Differences are the extremely beutiful Marj Dusay. Two
other actors. Better house sets here than on DS. None of the same characters.
A little too much is crammed into this hardly hour show.
Little House on the Prairie: Crossed Connections (1979)
Good ep on its own but not in context with the rest of the series
The ep established that Alice Garvey was a previously married woman. Believable. At the episode end her husband returned to her. This would have been way better character development for the Garvey family if Alice had just not died a couple of eps later in a fire.
On another point. Some other poster went to too much trouble to point how realistic or unrealistic this ep was about telephones. It is TV.
Gunsmoke: The Dreamers (1962)
Excellent scenes and Kitty is an 8
This episode has a good storyline and powerful scenes especially the one that takes place in Kitty's mind. The one where where the Longbranch has pure ruckus and Matt is wreckless. This is obviously just in her imagination. Also, Liam Redmond ( also in 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken' film) is a good guest star.
As for Miss. Blake's beauty she was an 8 or 9 in her heyday on Gunsmoke and she was more beautiful than Suzanne Pleshette though the other women mention in the 2star review were all 10's.