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Big Texas Fix (2019)
Ashley makes this show!!!
Wife and I recently discovered this show and have fallen in love with it. The projects are great and we love seeing the old, unique houses brought back to life. Wishing someone would do this with my home town of Galena Park!!!!
Michael seems very knowledgeable and skilled in his work, and Ashley is very creative with the decor. She has a great eye for detail, and to me, is very engaging on camera.
Hope there is a third season in the future.
Father Brown: The Arrow of Heaven (1974)
Faux accent
The only thing worse than an American affecting a British accent (myself included) is a Brit trying to affect an American accent...especially a southern accent.
Big Texas Fix (2019)
Ashley makes this show!!!
Wife and I recently discovered this show and have fallen in love with it. The projects are great and we love seeing the old, unique houses brought back to life. Wishing someone would do this with my home town of Galena Park!!!!
Michael seems very knowledgeable and skilled in his work, and Ashley is very creative with the decor. She has a great eye for detail, and to me, is very engaging on camera.
Hope there is a third season in the future.
Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
I can't stop watching it over and over!!
One of my all time favorite British comedy shows. The pace is easy, and the humor is always with good intent.
Odd though, the pilot episode, which originally aired on Comedy Playhouse, was once included in the episode guide here. It's now missing.
The Andy Griffith Show: The Case of the Punch in the Nose (1965)
Insuffererable Barner!!!!
By the time the fifth season rolled around, the character of Barney Fife had evolved into a self-absorbed, condescending jerk, and this is on full display in this episode. Andy tries his best to talk some sense into Barney, but he'll have none of it. Barney insists on pursuing this issue at Andy's objections (never mind that Andy has proven countless times that he has Barney's back and is a most compassionate friend), gins up a whole lotta trouble between Floyd and Mr. Foley.
Let's face it. By this point, Barney has become absolutely insufferable, and, frankly, not very funny. In fact, he's more infuriating than funny. Perhaps this was intended, as by the end of this season, I was happy to see Barney leave. He just wasn't the same guy as in the first four seasons. In fact, throughout the 5th season, I just wanted to punch him.
Anyways, Andy's reasonability rules out in the end, and Barney gets his karma.
So long Barney. Don't let the door hit your backside on the way out.
The Andy Griffith Show: The Return of Barney Fife (1966)
Bernie's Just Desserts
OK, I usually don't much care for the color episodes of AG, as not only is Barney missing, but the show had settled into a sort of dull routine, wherein Andy plays straight man to the lunacy that surrounds him. It just wasn't very funny.
That said, unlike most who have reviewed this episode, I LOVE it. Why? Is it funny? Not especially. Even the return of Barney isn't all that funny.
Well...it's this. By Season 4, the character of Barney had evolved into a selfish, opinionated, jerk with few redeeming qualities at all. In fact, unlike the first three seasons, I came to genuinely dislike the character. He was nosy...always butting into Andy's business, trying to tell him how to raise his kid, trying to get him hitched up and married, and whatever else he could interfere with.
He was constantly self-serving, with little regard for other people, including those for whom he professed love. Thelma Lou was supposedly the love of his life, but he strung her along like a plaything, while he stepped out with other women all the time. Juanita. The Fun Girls. You name it.
He was nothing short of a total ass.
Then he moved to Raleigh to seek his fortune, leaving her behind without so much as a so long. Didn't bring her along. Didn't marry her.
She was always much too good for him.
(For reference, I just finished watching "Barney and Thelma Lou, PFFFT!" Where he thinks he's lost her to Gomer.)
This episode sees him finally getting his comeuppance. He returns for a class reunion in hopes of hooking up with Thelma Lou. But guess what? She apparently finally had her fill of him, and didn't wait with baited breath for his return. She went off and got married, and never told him about it...surprising him at the reunion showing up with her husband.
Naturally, Barney was crestfallen, and darn it....HE DESERVED IT!!!!
Justice!!!! Finally.
Not funny, but a very satisfying episode.
The only sad thing about this is that Barney's character really didn't change. He continued to be the selfish jerk he always was.
Maybe he finally grew up in the intervening years, as in Return to Mayberry, he was sheriff and TL returns, recently widowed...and they finally wed.
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
A bit late for its time.
An endearingly charming little show starring Juliet Mills (daughter of John Mills and sister to Hayley) as a (somewhat) magical British nanny who suddenly (and unexpectedly) shows up on the doorstep of a college professor to apply for the job of nanny. Through her optimism, charm, and intuition, she immediately sets about setting everything right and solving all of the families problems in 25 minutes every week.
Obviously based on the popularity of Mary Poppins, it was another addition to the "magical" sit-coms of the 60s (Bewitched and Jeannie are the gold standards there). However, unlike those to shows, this one got a bit of a late start. Had it launched five years earlier (and had ABC left it in a better time slot), I believe it would have lasted much longer.
Alas, by the time 1970 rolled around, times and sensibilities had changed. We had experienced a lot of national tragedies (assassinations, Kent State, Manson murders) and were in full knowledge of the Vietnam War, and the idea of having one's problems magically solved in just 30 minutes weekly was becoming more and more unbelievable. Alas, Nanny never really found her footing quite as well as Samantha and Jeannie.
I've been getting reacquainted through GetTV and have enjoyed the little walk through my childhood.
The opening theme song is catchy, but again, not "classic" in any way...a kitschy work hopelessly mired in the 60s pop/rock style.
Possibly the best thing about this show is that it gave us Kim Richards, a precious and precocious little actor who went on to other shows. Alas, she has retired from acting. Best wishes to her and her endeavors.
To by all means try to catch this show. It's light entertainment and pure escapism. You won't be disappointed.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Backward, Turn Backward (1960)
Why was he so vehemently against it?
A compelling episode in every way and I agree with all other reviewers on the acting, directing, and storyline.
However, no one seems to address the ugly elephant in the room. Why was her father so vehemently against the relationship and why was she so psychologically disturbed? Could it be that a 'May/December' relationship wasn't the only taboo addressed here?
Nanny and the Professor (1970)
A bit late for its time.
An endearingly charming little show starring Juliet Mills (daughter of John Mills and sister to Hayley) as a (somewhat) magical British nanny who suddenly (and unexpectedly) shows up on the doorstep of a college professor to apply for the job of nanny. Through her optimism, charm, and intuition, she immediately sets about setting everything right and solving all of the families problems in 25 minutes every week.
Obviously based on the popularity of Mary Poppins, it was another addition to the "magical" sit-coms of the 60s (Bewitched and Jeannie are the gold standards there). However, unlike those to shows, this one got a bit of a late start. Had it launched five years earlier (and had ABC left it in a better time slot), I believe it would have lasted much longer.
Alas, by the time 1970 rolled around, times and sensibilities had changed. We had experienced a lot of national tragedies (assassinations, Kent State, Manson murders) and were in full knowledge of the Vietnam War, and the idea of having one's problems magically solved in just 30 minutes weekly was becoming more and more unbelievable. Alas, Nanny never really found her footing quite as well as Samantha and Jeannie.
I've been getting reacquainted through GetTV and have enjoyed the little walk through my childhood.
The opening theme song is catchy, but again, not "classic" in any way...a kitschy work hopelessly mired in the 60s pop/rock style.
Possibly the best thing about this show is that it gave us Kim Richards, a precious and precocious little actor who went on to other shows. Alas, she has retired from acting. Best wishes to her and her endeavors.
To by all means try to catch this show. It's light entertainment and pure escapism. You won't be disappointed.