Richard Matheson scripted the entire miniseries adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, and the second part of the series aired on 28 January, 1980. The series aired on three consecutive nights. This episode, as hinted by the title follows the Earth settlers on Mars, and their encounters there with the remnants of the Martian…
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Raw Deal (1986) – John Irvin
I knew not all of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early work were going to be winners. And there was a reason I never wanted to take a chance on Raw Deal. From everything I’d seen, trailer and image wide it looked pretty horrible. Surprise, surprise I was right. It has a horrible soundtrack and score, and the…
Dead Heat (1988) – Mark Goldblatt
I never saw the trailer for Dead Heat when it came out, if I had, I may have seen it a lot sooner. Everytime I saw the poster art at the video store I thought it just looked too silly and without sounding too harsh, I was never a Joe Piscopo fan. So I finally…
The Natural (1984) – Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson and Robert Redford deliver one of the all time great baseball fairytales with their adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s stirring novel of the same name. Set in a gloriously rendered version of yesteryear, the film follows Roy Hobbs (Redford) the best ball player that ever was. The film gives us this hazy beautiful look…
The X-Files (1999) – The Unnatural, and Three of a Kind
David Duchovny wrote and director the first episode up this week, The Unnatural, which first aired on 25 April, 1999. This serves as his directorial review, and it’s a lot of fun, and may be poking fun at the mythology arc, or it may just be a story Mulder (Duchovny) is told by Arthur Dales…
The X-Files (1999) – Agua Mala, and Monday
There’s something in the water! Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) head to Florida in the middle of a hurricane at the behest of the man who discovered the x-files, Arthur Dales (Darren McGavin) because he’s had reports of a monster in the water that is attacking people. Written by David Amann, the episode…
Mission: Impossible (1967) – The Seal, and Sweet Charity
Phelps (Peter Graves) and his IMF team take part in some high tech theft in The Seal, the first episode up this week, as I continue to explore The Complete Series on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures. Written by the team of William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, this episode was first broadcast on 5 November,…
The X-Files (1998) – The Red and the Black, and Travelers
“Resist or Serve” Series creator, Chris Carter, serves as a director of this mythology episode which he co-wrote with Frank Spotnitz. It debuted on 8 March, 1998. While Mulder (David Duchovny) struggles with his belief, and is convinced his life has been wasted pursuing a lie covering a government agenda, Scully (Gillian Anderson) undergoes hypnosis…
Magnum, P.I. (1981) – Mad Buck Gibson & The Taking of Dick McWilliams
Darren McGavin guest stars in the first episode of Magnum, p.i. this week. Mad Buck Gibson (McGavin) was written by Robert Hamilton and aired 26 November, 1981. Thomas is hired by Joan Gibson (Vera Miles) to help her keep an eye on her ex-husband, Buck, until she can finally serve him with his alimony…
The Mind Reels 