There are a couple of fun episodes for this week’s installment! First up we have Operation: Silent Night, written by Reuben Leder and Chris Abbott. T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) is less than thrilled to be running the boys to various locations via his Island Hoppers helicopter, seeing he has his own flight back to…
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The Greatest American Hero (1981) – The Best Desk Scenario and The Two-Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Fastball
Season 1 of The Greatest American Hero comes to an end this week; only eight episodes long. The close of the season, The Best Desk Scenario, aired 13 May, 1981, and was written by Juanita Bartlett and Cannell. With Bartlett’s involvement you know there are going to be big character moments for the cast, and the…
Moneyball (2011) – Bennett Miller
I finally got around to seeing this one. Based on the true story, and book by Michael Lewis with a script by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane the General Manager of the Oakland A’s, who with the help of statistical whiz kid, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), uses statistics and…
Trailer Tracks: Field Of Dreams – Phil Alden Robinson
Still another entry on my Top 10 of All Time list is Field Of Dreams. I saw this in the theatre almost by accident. Wasn’t sure what to see that night, and someone came out of an earlier screening and told me to go see that one, so in we went. From the opening…
Trailer Tracks: A League Of Their Own – Penny Marshall
Yet another entry on my Top 10 of All Time list is this classic, based on real life events tale about a group of women who agree to play baseball in a new national league in World War II America. I’m pretty sure the film only scratches the surface of what the women went…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1983) – Ape Boy & God Save The Queen
Cutter’s Goose flies into a storm of adventure this week with two more episodes in the much beloved, and cut too short series, Tales of the Gold Monkey. The first episode, which aired 12 January 1983, and was written by William Driskill, Andrew Schneider, and Eric Lerner, is a bit of a spin on the classic Tarzan…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982/1983) – The Late of Sarah White & The Sultan of Swat
Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) flies into more danger with this week’s installment. The first episode, The Late Sarah White, aired 22 December, 1982, and was written by Bellisario, George Geiger, Mary Ann Kasica and Michael Scheff. When a telegram from the Phillipines arrives in the Monkey Bar, Jake, Corky (Jeff MacKay), Louie (Roddy McDowall) and company…
Toronto After Dark: The Battery (2013) – Jeremy Gardner
Zombie Appreciation Night continues following the UK zom-com Stalled with the character driven undead piece The Battery. Made for a budget of barely $6000, the film focuses on Mickey (Adam Cronheim) and Ben (Jeremy Gardner), a pair of former ball players, paired together as survivors, constantly on the move as they eke out an…
We Can Do It… But…
I know I promised last week not to do a lot of Op/Ed pieces, however this one sprang quite organically from the constant emailing Sue and I do back and forth and so Sue and I happily share writing credit on this one. It started with Bomb Girls. The television show has brought a lot of…
