Reviews

Dragnet 1967: Season 2, Episode 18 The Big Prophet (11 Jan. 1968) I thought this did a pretty darn good job depicting effects of mind altering drugs versus the mindset of those who push them. I've been cleaning up after them for decades in my world. The argument that it was boring is so shallow. It was only a half hour! Taking a break from the nonsense on most shows, especially now, to ground oneself in the realities that have spoiled so much for so long is no great sacrifice. How can you call it fictionalized planktonrules? Most everything else you had to say was inspired. I just wish you hadn't cheapened it with your boring fiction declaration. The message was excellent then as it still is now and it needs repeating any way possible until gullible souls allow it to penetrate.

What an unexpected Gem I saw this morning on Antenna TV. Orrin Dooley is the kind of guy I'd like for a friend and neighbor. I really miss those days when our TV shows were quiet, respectful, and had a moral. I hope I can find more of these segments on DVD. Orrin Dooley is a naive farm boy back from the big war. He's a man in a hurry with no time to look back. He won't speak of what happened in the war because it's over. He hurries to a village dance and takes an instant shine to the one room school teacher, but she doesn't yet reciprocate. She hurts his feelings considering him ignorant. His answer was to enter 5th grade on the GI Bill. He befriends the shunned daughter of the town drunk. The principal of the school is a social climber who has no qualms about humiliating the less fortunate. Orrin's insight and gentle ways win the respect of the town folk, but most especially, the teacher.

I grew up watching movie matinée at 4:00 after school. Immediately after, my brother and I went outside to recreate what we had seen. We were awesome. Most movies these days don't catch my attention, but when I saw the cast of this one, I was taken back to another time.

Bounty Hunter was more than I could have asked.....not quite as predictable as most, and with some lessons to be learned. Oh, my gosh, Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Steele! Never understood what a sawed off double barreled shot gun loaded with cannon sized shells could do. Yikes, 3 in one shot! Well enough. I liked it sufficiently to research it. When I found out who his final killer was in real life, it rocked me for a moment. The person who said the actor was too old.....awwww gimmee a break.