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Hawaii Five-O: Voice of Terror (1979)
Just good enough season 12 entry ( and dealing with terrorists)
A terrorist group kidnaps a lady HPD officer demanding three of their members in custody get released. McGarrett has hands full.
An observation. This group is supposed to have worked Germany and the Mideast but the two members we mostly focus on look very US-bound. Was there another branch of the terrorist group working internationally?
Too many feel this is ep is bad for no Danno Williams as he was gone by this season. But hey he ( James MacArthur) had his share of bad eps. No guarantee he could have improved it if he'd been in it.
The violence in this one is extra heavy handed! Tolerable entry indeed!
Gunsmoke: Quint Asper Comes Home (1962)
Engaging episode
For sure. But this Quint character will be a regular in many eps. Is he introduced consistently to later eps of his character? I am not sure.
In this ep he is an extremely successful assailant and defender of himself. Look what he does to the evil men who ruthlessly kill his dad ( an excessively powerful scene). But in a later ep he and Festus combined are scripted both not to be able combined to take one guy whom they try to save a lady from. To be fair that later Festus ep was more played somewhat for laughs than action. But still.
An interesting intro to a recurring character solely representing the show's truly middle era!
Hawaii Five-O: Thanks for the Honeymoon (1973)
Beautiful guest star Patty Duke makes this ep fun and exciting
More so than almost any other actress. Her performance is appropriately heavy handed as she is supposedly a young lady thug from the wrong side of the tracks. You do not have to know that, that much about her acting background on film and TV to immensely enjoy her in this. She had both pregnancy in real life ( they wrote her pregnant condition into the ep)and eating disorder in reality as well and she looks all the more sexy and beautiful for it. Best scene is the murder flashback she tells to McGarrett. Is it real or is she just making it up? Watch the ep and find out. There is a fine supporting cast in Carol Lawrence who ( despite another reviewers's strange claim) has a lot to do in this ep. Did that reviewer only see a highly edited version of this ep? But it is Patty who makes this really great!
Baa Baa Black Sheep: The Iceman (1978)
Very good episode with much indeed heavy acting
Greg is to be sent back to the states. The Black Sheep become highly dysfunctional to the new squadron commander- Maj. Duncan. Beautiful Denise Dubarry as Nurse Samantha ( who will also miss Greg (but in her case romantically) has many fine moments in this. She was a magnificent addition to the show.
There is also a subplot about a tough Japanese flying ace called The Iceman. He shoots down a superior American Marine Corps pilot to even Boyington. Will Greg catch shoot him down or visa versa? Well? Tune in to this almost excellent ep and find out! The guest stars in this are quite good. So is the fine direction.
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Garrity and the Graves (1964)
Excellent episode and some explanations
Best ep of season 5. The acting is very good even though many actors are familiar. Director Ted Post as usual turns everyone into their characters like he does in all his TV shows and movies. Though John Dehner acts excellently all on his own as always. Here are the explanations. Everyone in town is loaded with cash as they confiscated it from the dead people in the cemetery. As to the supernatural trick. Easy!!!!! The assistant of Garrity's merely had a prematurely invented microphone, head phone and special projector that projects images unto open air. Dig the dark haired and thin beautiful girl walking back to town after having been resurrected back to life at the end. She is a real treat to behold.
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
Missing vital info from this supposedly informative film
This second sequel film has many facts printed on screen. They are facts that are supposed to support this film's rather left wing perspective. An important fact is missing and being it a right wing fact that would easily render the character of Billy Jack totally invalid one can understand why it is missing. The actual fact? That in the 1950s North Vietnam dictator , Ho Chi Minh, mass-murdered many thousands of landlords to get their land. Thus, the US and allies like Australia were very right to stop mass-killer Ho from taking South Vietnam and doing likewise down there.
As for the rest of the film itself. It is very deranged for showing so much of a totally fictional school. Has a few other twisted elements but hey it is better than anything we could make today. Just remember the fact from the above paragraph. Lots of great ladies in this.
PS Long after this movie was released famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns wrote of Ho's brutal slaughter of the landlords.
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
About the young Clouseau sequences
One of them concerns a suicide attempt by a young college student Clouseau. To play a scene like this just for laughs would not fly today. This is a sensitive subject. However! The scene is set in like 1939 but made in the 1980s. You decide if this is totally taboo or not. Being set in a much simpler time. Fine early Clouseau sequences outside that.
On other points. Critic Leonard Maltin pretty much claimed Lom had the best of the newly shot material when he was supposed to describe his former nemesis and could not stop laughing. Maltin said this was side splitting. Maltin was a trusted film critic.
Baa Baa Black Sheep: The Show Must Go On... Sometimes (1978)
Best of the last half of the second season
Boyington and the rest of the 214 have an air strip all muddy and with holes. They get some Seebees to fix the strip in exchange for letting the Seebees come to a USO show on Vella La Cava-here is the catch. There is no visiting USO show so the very comely Pappy's Lambs make out on stage as showgirls for the visiting Seebees led by Chief Timmons. The con gets found out before the runway is fixed but it turns out Timmons and Co.are actually swell guys as they are good at shooting down Japanese zeroes and they still fix the runaway and the Lambs successfully do the stage show for them. Beauty Denise DuBarry as Nurse Samantha is really great in this ep though the beauty playing Ellie is good too as is Robert Conrad's comely daughter playing Nurse Nancy. Everyone is happy at the end!
The Twilight Zone: No Time Like the Past (1963)
Very fine reserved ep
There was more logic to Driscoll's history changing attempts than anyone gives Serling credit for. His attempt to warn of Hiroshima's bombing could actually have been done by him arriving a day earlier but he did not to talk to anyone in authority till just before the bombing. The Lusitania is well handled as well and no real plot hole there. As for the assassination attempt delay you can come up with your own reason for that.
Another poster made a strange statement on here. That individual seemed to want Driscoll to save the Titanic from sinking. The Titanic was not actually a historical event just a well remembered incident. The Lusitania had nearly as many dead as Titanic and the Lusitania 90% brought America into WW1. It also caused the Germans to stop bombing passenger ships for two years. The 1915 sinking of the Lusitania was 100 times more important than the Titanic sinking 3 years earlier.