Logan’s Run – Season 1, Episode 4: “The Innocent”
Another force field, more Sandmen than ever before and mixed messages for an omnipotent psychically-powered girl? Sounds like it’s time to crank up the pew-pew music and head out on the next leg of Logan’s Run! This retread of the original series Star Trek’s Charlie X is … probably part of the reason this show […]
DALLAS – Season 1, Episode 4: “The Winds of Vengeance”
WARNING: This is one of my least favorite episodes. I read the novelized version of Season One, and the creepy humiliation of Sue Ellen still terrifies me. Even by 1970s standards this is exploitive and gross and I considered not recapping it, but Ray’s coat alone warranted some TV archaeology. J.R. and Ray are in […]
Logan’s Run – Season 1, Episode 3: “Captured”
PEW PEW PEW! It’s time for more Logan’s Run! This week, we dive right into the action. After we have a false biology lesson from REM. Logan asks what type of insect (that the audience NEVER sees) is and REM calls it a grasshopper. Now, I get that on prime time 70s TV, they didn’t […]
DALLAS Season 1, Episode 3: “Spy In The House”
After the disco glory and school learnin’ that was last week’s episode, this week we get back to some grown-up wheelin’ and dealin’ … and we find out what’s in at least ONE of the Red Files!
Logan’s Run — Season 1, Episode 2: “The Collectors”
From the preview, it looks like Logan and Jess’s search is a quick one … they run down a hill and exclaim happily they have found Sanctuary. Huzzah! Or have they? Dance happily along with Logan’s Run’s happy pewpewpew theme music as we head back to the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Southern California where they filmed […]
DALLAS – Season 1, Episode 2 – “Lessons”
There’s a lot of lessons to be unpacked here. It’s a snowy day at Southfork and Lucy rides a horse out to the mailbox to steal and then burn a letter from school about her truancy. If this was really how schools addressed truancy in Texas in the 70s, I see what they’ve had so […]
Logan’s Run – Season 1. Episode 1 – “Pilot”
If there’s anything I love more than a post-apocalyptic quest show based on a film, I’m not sure what it is. In fact, I have a whole treatment written up for a Xanadu-based TV series where two humans and a muse search through the wilds of Sun Valley, CA trying to find a way back […]
DALLAS Season 1 – Episode 1 – “Digger’s Daughter”
It can’t be overstated how much Dallas impacted my life. I was 13 years old when it came on, and I don’t think my parents let my brother and me watch the pilot. But soon, every Friday night after the Dukes of Hazzard, we were all glued to the television set. I fell in love […]
2018 Resolutions (That I Will Break By The Time You Read This)
As the year winds down, and I look forward to a 2018 with a lot of optimism (and some nagging elbow pain), I thought I would list my goals for the year. As I re-read the list, I realized it’s better with music and since there’s almost no song that works better for EVERYTHING than […]