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TheOtherUprising — 10 years ago(January 18, 2016 11:34 AM)
Sense8 Season 1 Episode 3 "Smart Money's on the Skinny Bitch" 8/10
Love the title. Show is just starting to pick up at this point after starting kinda slow which was to be expected given that it started with 8 different stories and main characters to introduce.
Very interesting premise and Netflix rarely disappoints so looking forward to seeing how it goes from here. -
Thor-Delta — 10 years ago(January 24, 2016 10:47 PM)
What's My Line? (1950)
Episode dated 26 May 1957 (1957)
8/10. No idea why this has a low rating, it is amusing.
This game show from the 1950s involved a celebrity panel trying to guess the occupation of the contestant by asking a series of "yes or no" questions. I viewed it via YouTube (the copyright has expired). Sammy Davis Jr. is very amusing as the mystery guest. Errol Flynn is fairly clueless as a panelist. The regular contestants include a big game hunter (yuck), and a woman who makes handcuffs (resulting in some laughs when it is asked whether Flynn could use the product). It was produced by the benevolent production company Goodson-Todman (whose series were not involved in the game show scandals of the period), and aired on CBS (whose schedules in the 1950s were kinda heavy on this type of program).
On the page for the episode, I added a credit for the director,
Franklin Heller
, whose IMDb credits are still incomplete.
The episode was sponsored by Remington Rand.
Poof! There Goes Perspiration! -
Patricia91 — 10 years ago(February 06, 2016 11:37 AM)
Law & Order: SVU - s. 17/ e. 13 - 41 Witnesses.
Recreates the Kitty Genovese case where a young woman is attacked in the courtyard of an apartment building and dozens of residents witness the assault but no one calls the police. -
tobyrclark — 10 years ago(February 15, 2016 12:34 AM)
Home and Away, episode #6361. A two-hander between Ricky and Brax which was surprisingly effective considering how little I cared about them as a couple last time they were both regulars. 10/10, once I'm able to vote.
The Angels Have the Phone Box -
Thor-Delta — 10 years ago(February 15, 2016 02:09 AM)
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Rick's Raise (1965)
7/10. Pleasant, but a little dull. It did have some funny moments, and the ending is cute. Strange to think the episode is turning 51 years old in a few days.
It's also strange to think that the Wally character was considered "fat". They didn't know what people would look like 51 years later!
Poof! There Goes Perspiration! -
Thor-Delta — 10 years ago(February 15, 2016 04:20 AM)
It's not a TV episode, but I just listed to a radio game show from 29 April 1947. It is an episode of "Winner Take All". I give it 7/10, Entertaining but repetitive.
It was so popular that they turned it into a TV series several times:
Winner Take All (1948)
,
Winner Take All (1951)
and
Winner Take All (1952)
. The same producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, later produced TV series including "I've Got a Secret", "What's My Line?", "To Tell the Truth", "The Price is Right" and "The Match Game".
This was also the first game show to feature the "first contestant to buzz in" concept, and the first to use the "returning champion" concept. So while it is a radio series, it also had a great influence on television game shows.
This page discusses one of the TV adaptations, and has a copy of the radio episode:
http://www.game-show-utopia.net/winnertakeall.htm
Poof! There Goes Perspiration!