Discuss - Ep #0174

[Lydia]

Robservations #174

[Lydia]

How I wish we had seen more of John Harkins on Dark Shadows!  I just hope that the reason we didn't is that he was too busy with other roles.  I like the way Lieutenant Costa of Arizona and Inspector (was it Inspector?) Riley of Maine seem to display such constabulary camaraderie on very short acquaintance.

I think Phoenix is as far as we ever get from Collinsport on Dark Shadows.  Loved the cactus in the establishing shot.

Frank Garner calls Dr. Guthrie Pete!  Not Peter, Pete.  Suddenly I have visions of them as frat brothers in college, up all night pulling silly undergraduate pranks and going skinnydipping in the local reservoir in the moonlight, and - well, I don't know.  I never did get around to watching Animal House.  All I know is, any prank would be more fun if Lieutenant Costa were there too.

[DarkLady]

How remarkably like the Collinsport police station the Phoenix police station looks! But it is a nice cactus in the establisher shot. 

Poor Carolyn finally gets to have a good cry.

I've always wondered if Lieutenant Costa's name is a reference to the Portuguese immigrants in New England. A lot of them worked in the fisheries.

[Janet the Wicked]

I've always wondered if Lieutenant Costa's name is a reference to the Portuguese immigrants in New England. A lot of them worked in the fisheries.

A lot of them still do!

[Watching Project]

The Robservations captures for this ep have been posted. 

[MagnusTrask]

I've always wondered if Lieutenant Costa's name is a reference to the Portuguese immigrants in New England. A lot of them worked in the fisheries.

Okay, that's the new thing I learned today.   I used to live in Contra Costa County, California... Portuguese for the opposite coast, possibly?

[Lydia]

I've always wondered if Lieutenant Costa's name is a reference to the Portuguese immigrants in New England. A lot of them worked in the fisheries.

Okay, that's the new thing I learned today.

They tend to come from the Azores, so I guess they're used to that sort of thing.  If you can get hold of it, try watching Captains Courageous, with Spencer Tracy playing a Portuguese fisherman out of - I don't know, Gloucester?

I find it hard to believe that the name Costa was a deliberate reference to the New England Portuguese, however.  I can't see why the writers would make that connection.  I figure they just thought the name went with the cactus.

[DarkLady]

"Costa" and "cactus"--oh, yeah, like ham and eggs.

[alwaysdavid]

The morgue seems so antique even for 1967.  I remember those kind on handles on the ice box in the cellar of my grandmothers house, but I guess that the morgue is one big icebox. I like how Carolyn realizes she took Joe for granted. 

[MagnusTrask]

It occured to me that this would now be the centennial of Arizona's admission to the union, and that Arizona had been a state about half as long in 1967, as it has been now.

They (wisely) didn't let us have a very long glance at that 1930s or 1940s street footage of "Phoenix", did they?   Before that: a single car horn beep, two seconds of a faint wind sound, and a cactus... that's Pheonix, Arizona alright!  I'd know it anywhere!   "I can't say it hasn't been weird!" -- LOL.