Can Chad sue?

After finishing Frozen Planet, I felt like a Halloween themed viewing, so I started browsing the Dish Guide. I found an episode of Vampirina, on Disney Junior, so I thought 'Why not?" I first started watching the show back in October.

I finally got around to watching the two seasons of One Mississippi, Tig Notaro's semi-autobiographical series. It's an absolutely brilliant tragic comedy about a gay cancer survivor going home to Mississippi when her mother dies. I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes such shows. It's characters aren't as off-putting as those on Transparent, and the show has a magnificent amount of heart.

I finished S1 of Father Dowling and moved on to a SF series I'd left hanging over a year ago, Falling Skies. I'd watched S1 and stopped (not sure why - it's been too long) and recall it being interesting. So far, S2 is a lot of sameness with each episode pretty much feeling like the one that came before. There's a bit of overall storyline progress, but it's rather small. There are many times where the story is somewhat laughable, implausible, and/or illogical with dialog that just comes off cheesy.

I know I'll eventually finish the series as I purchased all the seasons for a pittance when Hastings closed, but it might take time. Right now it's giving me much the same feeling I had when I stopped watching The Walking Dead. Lots of what seems to be rather aimless wandering with little progress. At least they've not yet killed a principal player in what seems to be nothing but a way to get past a troublesome plot point or get the group from point "A" to point "B."

I've been watching the 3rd season of Flash. Just finished the episode, "Duet". I had no idea it would have a "musical" element to it. Trying to determine how much I liked it. It was definitely different.

I wish that the My Outdoor TV app for Android and iPhone was available on Roku. I've been using it quite a lot this month. Finally I'm getting some use out of my subscription. I just finished an episode of Zona's Awesome Fishing Show, about smallmouth fishing in Detroit. There are also hunting, and shooting shows as well.

I went on with S3 of Falling Skies. I'm four episodes in and they've already dropped the ball AFAIK. They ended S2 with a introduction of a new, sympathetic, alien race. They open S3 *seven* months later!

This is in spoiler in case some of you are wanting or want to watch this series.



I'll finish the series, but unless something drastic is done it's not looking good... I should have avoided it simply because Steven Speilberg's name is attached. I have a firm opinion that he generally does not do SF well and needs to keep his hands off SF properties. So far, this one's done nothing to change that opinion.

I felt like watching some cartoons today, so that is mainly what I want to focus on for now. I started with GI Joe , finishing the first mini series, ‘The MASS Device’, followed by starting the second mini series, The Revenge Of Cobra.

The last couple days I've been watching season 3 of The Librarian. Really enjoyed it but had to scramble for 3 of the episodes online as my DVR taped the show after in 2 cases, and in one case was just a random hour of football. It's my one pet peeve about the guide part of satellite (or even cable)...that they don't update it when there is a change in the schedule. I've had them taped since this spring waiting for a good time to watch and had no idea that they were wrong. I'm just glad I could find them online!

Now my debate is to watch the first half of season 4 or wait until they are all taped to binge watch that season too...

I wanted to break open my Comedy Challenge prize tonight, so opened up my Johnny Carson: Late Night Legend set. I was expecting it to be old episodes of The Tonight Show , which I would have been happy with. It was even better than that. The first disc in the set is filled with episodes of The Johnny Carson Show . I didn’t know what to expect at first, since I never heard of it. It turned out to be a hilarious sketch comedy show. I swear I must have laughed almost all the way through the show.

That's a very fun show. I purchased a set with sometime last year when I was on a Carson kick. I really enjoyed it and lamented that's all that's apparently available. I'd like to see the entire season (it only ran for a single season).

I finally watched part of a I picked up during that Carson kick. The first disc is a documentary/retrospective of the show: "The Best of The Jack Paar Show." It was excellent! Even though his show was still on when I was a kid, ending when I was around 7 or so, I don't think I ever saw an episode. OK... it was on far too late but you'd think I'd have seen something over the years. If I did, I don't remember. I also "discovered" he walked off the show after one of his monologues was censored! Totally caught Huge Downs, his announcer/side-kick, completely off guard as he told no one that's what he was going to do. He came out, did his monologue, told why he was leaving the show, and left the studio, leaving Downs to finish the show that night. IIRC he never returned and others filled in until Johnny Carson took over later that year.

I also watched most of the 2nd disc, which is selected interviews and monologues. The monologues were very good and the interviews I watched, Richard Nixon and Dr. Billy Graham, were good. I liked Nixon better than Graham. Nixon was far more entertaining and "human" than I recall him being. Of course this was also coming off his loss, a few years back, to Kennedy as President. I've seen some of the tapes of the debate that essentially won the race for Kennedy and the Nixon in this interview is a completely different person. It's hard, watching that interview, to see the person he'd become just a few years later. I was really interested in the one with Billy Graham as he's been such a force in the US over the decades. Dr. Graham's interview came off more like proselytizing than an interview with real answers to the questions. Of course that's what the man does - but he, more than Nixon, changed the course of the answers to something other than what was asked. It was also much shorter which makes me think his manner of answering the questions was the cause. I didn't watch all the one with Fidel Castro as Castro came off as more of a BS artist. I need to go back and watch the others, Robert Kennedy just months after John was assassinated, Cassius Clay (aka Mohamed Ali - his bits with with Liberace, shown in the documentary and bonus features, are hilarious!), Liberace, and another one or two (I think...).

There's a 3rd disc with 3 complete shows I may try to get in tonight.

I did a blog post recounting great TV moments from last year's viewing, including stuff I watched for the January 2017 challenge.

https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/...ion-from-2017/

I mean, come on, Scatman Crothers in "Dragnet"? How can you not be intrigued?



Not to mention Charles Bronson and James Coburn together in "Tales of Wells Fargo" and Christopher Walken in "Hawaii Five-O."

I'd love to see that episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo!"

I looked it up to see which episode and see that Barbara Pepper (aka Doris Ziffel) is also in that episode.

So... that episode's in S3. Is that on the " "?

I don't know. I watched it when it was cablecast on Encore Western last year.

I’ve been up all night with insomnia, so I decided to work on the Challenge tonight. I started when I woke up with a good episode of 205 Live , on one of my favorite streaming channels, the WWE Network. After that I finished a National Geographic DVD I started when I got home this afternoon, about saving stranded whales. Then I started browsing the Dish Guide, and decided on a hunting show on Sportsman Channel, where they were hunting pronghorns. Finally I browsed Roku and decided to check out Curiosity Stream, and thought an episode of Nature’s Weirdest Events looked good. It was an interesting show that talked about strange things happening on earth.

Well, shucks!

I found a list of episodes on that set I linked in the Amazon reviews - nope... not on that set. Timeless has another but it's only S1 & S2 so it's not there either...

Tonight, January 11, is the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the notorious Dragnet 1968 episode, "The Prophet," in which Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Gannon (Harry Morgan) spend a half-hour debating the merits and pitfalls of LSD and other drugs with self-proclaimed "prophet" of LSD, William Bentley, aka Brother William, a thinly-veiled stand-in for Timothy Leary. (He's played by Liam Sullivan.) It's quite an unusual episode, stylistically, not least because of the nonstop sitar soundtrack.

"Marijuana is the flame, heroin is the fuse, LSD is the bomb."

I'm a bit over half-way through S4 of Falling Skies. It's picked up some from a rather poorly done S3 but still has several head shaking moments. At least we've had no huge jumps in time/logic just to make something work/fit within the story... yet... I still don't care about any of the principal figures in the story.

I finished Falling Skies yesterday. S4 was "just OK" but S5 picked things up a bit offering new locations and a storyline that didn't jump weeks/months between episodes with little to no fill in. Things were looking up, and then the last 2 episodes blew all that good feeling and momentum. Especially the last one. It truly felt like they produced it after being told there'd be no 6th season. It epitomized everything bad about the series. Things that happened for no reason other than to add false drama/tension, illogical movements (by all involved), half-baked plot lines, laughable dialog, and final scenes that just couldn't happen in the time frame depicted. I should be happy as it did have a conclusion. It just should, and could, have been better.

I know it's the whole point of the challenge, but I keep watching more episodes than I intend to when I sit down! Hulu has been sucking up my spare time! I finished Season Four of Steven Universe and eagerly await the next season. It's one of my favorite shows on television at the moment. I also got caught in a Living Single marathon. I hadn't watched the show before, and it is very funny.

Last fall, I started watching two new comedies: The Mayor and Ghosted. Unfortunately, the former has been canceled (unless it gets picked up by a streaming service). The latter doesn't have the best writing, but the main cast has great chemistry. The last episode (The Snatcher) broke the group into two groups, sending three characters off to find out what is killing hikers and leaving two too deal with the relationship silliness. It worked pretty well, and I'm glad the show is going to continue. It has a lot of potential.

I got in a few more episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show yesterday. One was the Walnut episode ("It May Look Like a Walnut") - It's always good for a laugh!

That was followed by a new Carol Burnett Show set I just purchased. The Carol Burnett Show has always been an exception to my general aversion to the variety show genre. Most I just never cared for. Hers was different and good enough that I'd often go home from cruising on Saturday night just to watch her show and then go back out. I still enjoy watching episodes every so often. Years ago I sampled the edited down, half-hour version, of the show. I didn't like it. Without everything, even the song & dance numbers I often didn't care for, it's just not the same.

I felt like a session of action this afternoon, so I've watched a few episodes of Teknoman, on YouTube. I've made it to the episode where Blade reveals that he has a time limit to the amount of time he can be in Teknoman form.

Planning to finish Scrubs later on tonight. My son and I will be starting the 4th season of Seinfeld tomorrow night after I get home from work. I've really been enjoying this challenge so far. It was just what I needed.

I was in the mood for a bit of cheesy action/adventure so started Xena S3. While I generally like the Hercules series better this one is great! One of the best syndicated series ever. It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since this season first aired.

While I know I won't get to it before the challenge ends, I'm curious as to how I'll feel about S6. I distinctly remember thinking it was sub-par and just not as good as the rest of the series. I also recall everyone else thinking it was the best season of the series, especially the conclusion which I found severely lacking.

Lately I've been watching some Planet Earth, off and on. I wanted to see how my upgraded set was. They are still on DVD, but last year, I bought the Special Edition version. I have to say, it has good special features. So far, I've found audio commentaries on three of the six episodes that I've watched.