The IMF team takes on yet another corrupt member of some unnamed Soviet Bloc country in A Game of Chess. Written by Richard M. Sakal, this episode was first broadcast on 14 January, 1968. Phelps (Peter Graves) and his team take on Nicholas Groat (Don Francks), a chess grandmaster who is also organising a theft…
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Magnum, p.i. (1986) – All Thieves on Deck and This Island Isn’t Big Enough
It’s crime on a cruise ship in All Thieves On Deck! This episode aired 30 January, 1986 and was penned by Reuben Leder. When Higgins (John Hillerman) is busy with other things, including poor Apollo the dog who was shot when someone broke into the estate, he offers Magnum (Tom Selleck), T.C. (Roger E….
Bitter Moon (1992) – Roman Polanski
The final recommendation for Pandora’s Box from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, is this darkly comic study of sex, desire, greed and cruelty from Roman Polanski. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) have been married for seven years, and are on a Mediterranean cruise as an anniversary present, and…
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…
Monkey Business (1931) – Norman Z. Mcleod
The wackiness continues with this recommendation from Great Movies – 100 Years of Film, to go with A Night At The Opera. This time, the four Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo, are stowaways on a cruise ship heading to America, before getting mixed up with two feuding gangsters, a gangster’s daughter, and being…
