These are missing from my collection, so it was particularly interesting to read your notes on them.  Sounds like I'm not missing much, particularly with that first one.

Seems to me that there's a juicy Liz/Burke confrontation scene over the whole Logansport business, so I guess the subplot isn't a total waste of space.

Fine work, as always!

G.

Happy to oblige, m'dear *courtly bow*

Congratulations, MB!  This is a STUNNINGLY cool idea!  You'll have me really regretting that I am going to be offline for at least four days over the holiday weekend!

Best wishes,

Steve

MB, I'm just loving the anniversary slide show!

If anybody asks you why you created it, you can arch an eyebrow and intone:  "Because I CHOOSE to do so!"

birthday hugs, G.

I realize this is totally OT, but I have to comment that I just adored David Groh's furry chest on Rhoda.

mmmm... MANFUR! *growl*

G. showing the "other" side of the gnarled New England curmudgeon

I absolutely agree, and it's refreshing to find a thread lauding the very obvious merits of this grossly pilloried and under-estimated period of DS.  For the record, I also think the final month of the 1897 storyline, which has been equally dissed in the official histories of DS published by the Pomegranate Press, was fabulous written and acted--you know it's gotta be good for me to say that, because my beloved Grayson had that month off (filming Adam at Six A.M. with "Mikey" Douglas in Podunk, Kansas).

Even though the second half of Leviathans does not maintain the same degree of intensity, I still think those episodes contain some of the best scenes in the entire series.

Just because the ratings went down during late 1897 and Leviathan doesn't mean that we have to give those shows a low evaluation today, watching the series in a very different way from the original broadcast.  The extraordinary quality of DS is that it does often improve with repeated viewings--the acting and writing was that good.

G.

Barbara Cason, Dennis P's wife, who played the role in the movie, had a version of the Mrs Johnson "hairstyle" (if that's what it should be called) in House of DS (not NoDS), but I don't know whether they drove out the actual wig that Clarice wore in the role... so far as I know, it was her personal property.

In NoDS, confusingly, Clarice Blackburn did appear, but she played Mrs Castle, and there was a wonderful scene with her (unless I'm hallucinating again) in the missing footage Darren showed at the Festival last year.  You'll all be relieved to learn that she did NOT wear the Mrs J wig in that part--it really would not have looked right on a domestic of 1810.

Hey, Miss Winthrop, I'm a huge fan of Strange Paradise!  How far along on the show are you? They've been running it in Canada on the "Drive-in Classics" channel (unfortunately not available in the US), and they're set to start running it again on July 4, I believe.

G.

I always found Laura Collins' lip gloss in 1967 to be particularly EEE-rie... it was so shiny and... pastel!

G.