Wow, I loved Briscoe with the longer hair! Adorable!

But sad to think of how close to devastating personal collapse he was at this point in his life...

G.

Board traffic on IMDB continues to claim that season 4 of Dante's cove will be in production as soon as they line up all the "actors" involved.

G.

Thanks for sharing that, Robot Quentin.  That's a really cute story.  You know I love it that Grayson gets the most calls...

Best,

G.

Fans, the discs for season 3 of "The Lair," here!TV's velveetaesque gay vampire soap opera, are now available on Netflix and I have been catching up with the latest antics.  Creator/director/writer Fred Olen Ray (a friend of Barbara Steele's, btw) continues to show his appreciation for DS and Hammer vampire movies.  In the new season, not only is there a character who talks to a ghost on a disconnected candlestick telephone (and there's even a tracking shot showing that the phone wires aren't connected to anything that mimics a similar shot from a 1969 DS episode), there's also a character who represents a palpable nod to a storyline from the 1991 series comic books (published by the shortlived "Innovation comics").  Not bad, eh?

Sybil Danning is a guest star on the new season, but does not appear until episode 8 so I have yet to see her.  Can't wait!

G.

Damn, but today's portrait of Hoffman laying down the law fiercely, epically RULES.

Way to go, MB! 

G.

MB, honey, you really and truly blow my mind!  I loved the Governor and JJ, one of those forgotten series, but to actually be able to remember what Joan wore... I must have missed her appearance on the show because I am sure I would have remembered at least the fact of her being on it.

If she wore it on that show, presumably it was from her personal wardrobe. 

G.

The ensemble you mention for Julia was new, and never worn by her on the series.  I think the other clothes she wore were recycled from the show.  I still don't understand why they made Joan wear the infamous lurid chartreuse shroud dress--it dated to 1966!  I would have thought she would have put pressure to get it changed but perhaps at that point in the proceedings she no longer cared.

hoDS set flunky to Joan:  "Hey, aren't you Joan Bennett?"

Joan:  "I used to be."

G.

Wow, that's cool.  Also in the 1950s and 1960s there were isolated cases of cemeteries being vandalized, reputedly by Satanist cultists digging up skulls for use in the Black Mass--this in England rather than Scotland.

G.