As TVLand celebrates Nick at Night's 20th anniversary with a 48 hour marathon, you can catch the hilarious Mary Tyler Moore episode "Chuckles Bites the Dust" with John Harkins at 8 a.m. Sunday morning (East and West coast times; check your local listings).  West Coasters can also look for it at 10 p.m. tonight followed by a Rhoda two-parter with DS alum David Groh.  The Rhoda eps ("Rhoda's Wedding" Pt 1 & 2) will be repeated Sunday at 5 and 5:30 p.m.

The second of Thayer David's two Kojak appearances, called "Silent Snow, Deadly Snow" (1975), aka "Secret Snow, Deadly Snow," will air on KDOC in Southern California on July 6 at 11 a.m.  Check your local listings for the station number in your area. 

Have a great birthday, MagnusTrask!

I'm assuming (uh oh) this is intended as an addition the discussion on Current Talk XI titled "Re: More Storyline Speculation" that proceeds from here--  (click the top link)

Quote from: Amy Jennings Fan on February 28, 2005, 01:16:42 AM

Count Petofi once told Quentin that the curse of the werewolf could only be cured by swallowing the blood of an unicorn.

Whoa, I don't remember that from the series at all.  Does anyone else recall this?  It did, however, come up in Charles Delaware Troll's DS continuation, and I know you've mentioned reading them, Amy Jennings Fan.

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Thanks, LdyAnne! 

I hope you like my report.

Oh yes, I enjoyed it immensely!  I can also relate to the swooning and feeling 12 again, sigh.

His Alec Guinness/Jamison and "Your Dad's hot" anecdotes are TOO FUNNY!  Was he asked about the upcoming Fest stage play, or Jamison's script for it?

Thank you for posting your report.  Loved your montage and CynD's photo (ain't technology grand?), and am very much looking forward to your other pictures.

Thanks!  I haven't seen it, but I understand that ep is popular among AS&J fans because of Roger's performance.


A biography of the show is coming out next month (July, 2005).  It's supposed to have rare photos, interviews with the actors, etc.  It can be ordered here--
Alias Smith and Jones:  The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men

(RD also narrated the opening credits until 1972 when he assumed the role of Hannibal Heyes, alias Joshua Smith, after Pete Duel's death.)

I meant to try and listen over the internet but i got distracted. . how did that happen?

Heresy! 

Did anyone happen to listen?

Yes.  It was conducted via phone from earlier in the week, but he came through loud and clear.  He of course is coming to that state soon for the two readings and signings at Barnes & Noble bookstores.  And he said he's been very busy ("when it rains, it pours").  Then he talked about how "My Mother's Autumn" came about; that he wrote it (39 poems that come together as a story) as a way of dealing with his mother's passing and is very glad he did because it helped him reconnect with her.  Friends suggested he perform and get them out there, but he stayed away from that for a couple of years because it was too close to him emotionally.  He hopes the poems will hopefully speak to some who understand that situation.  He also called them very accessible.

His official site was plugged by the interviewer, who had only high praise for it, at least 3 times.

Of his 4 TV series, Falcon Crest was the longest, and (since the radio show caters to a SciFi crowd) he added, laughing, that some would call it SciFi, since it was a fantasy world.  ("It was a great character.")  He has 3 movies coming out-- the one he just finished ("Unknown") that will be out in 2006 with Jim Caviezel and Greg Kinnear ("wonderful actors") in which he plays a police captain; the 2nd independent film is "End Game" with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in which he has a small character role that he loved playing; also "Black Hole" that isn't yet on the schedule for the SciFi channel.

He hasn't done any radio work in about a year and a half, but he's getting ready for a couple of tours of college campuses with a radio show.  One would be "The Caine Mutiny," which he did for MPR.  He mentioned LA Theater Works, and that he did some radio for the BBC.  He said he loves radio, and it's a terrific medium because you get to play other roles that you may not be able to play on camera.

The time after the break was devoted to DS.  (Selby:  "We're talking a few years ago.  We don't necessarily have to say how many.")  The interviewer mentioned that the local fan club was listening and will be present at his appearances.  He said DS was his first TV work, but he had done theater and continued on stage the whole time he was shooting DS.  "It was a busy time then."  And the show is still holding in there.  He mentioned this year's convention and said he's been told it's expected to be well attended.  He said many of the people working on the show managed to stay in touch, and the Fests allow them to say hello and to thank the fans who have held in there over the years.  He feels grateful and blessed that his fans have followed him from show to show.

DS was successful in creating its own time; it wasn't dependent on computers or high tech.  They used blue screen.  A lot of the things they came up with back then are still utilized today.

So June 8 he'll be in the Miami area and Friday night in the Orlando area.  And in closing, he said thank you to the DS fans down there.