Ugggh, I have spent about ninety minutes wrestling with LJ, trying to find, read, and tag entries about The Fugitive, Route 66, Kojak, Charlie's Angels, and Vega$, as I've talked about them enough that they need to graduate from the "TV Shows" tag and get their own. I probably need to do the same thing with Get Smart, but that will have to wait. If ( Read more... )

So I learned that the Charlie's Angels in Vegas episode I was complaining about was actually the first appearance of Dan Tanna anywhere. Apparently it was a mini-promotion for Vega$, which started the week after. I wonder if they would have made it a crossover episode if Vega$ had already been going, as I figured it was ( Read more... )

So I decided out of curiosity to get out my Route 66 boxset and watch the episode with Hedley Mattingly. I figured he probably wouldn't get much screentime since it sounded like the main plot was Tod and Linc (yeah, Linc; it was a season 4 episode) trying to help five girls. And it started out with Hedley's character being a helicopter pilot taking ( Read more... )

I finally traced down the rest of my extreme nostalgia bursts not to my childhood, but to about thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years ago, when I became seriously interested in classic television and began exploring bookstores and antique malls for memorabilia. Specifically, for some reason the nostalgia seems to be spy-show based, which puts The Man ( Read more... )

... Proof that I have a one-track mind at the moment: When I close my eyes, start to doze, and hear "Samsung" as "Sampson" on the radio. **headdesk ( Read more... )

I've been stalking several things I'm interested in buying on Amazon. Today they have the complete Route 66 show for a price I could actually afford at this moment. I don't know if the sale is only for today or not, but it wasn't on yesterday ( Read more... )