1): Spider-Man: One of our favorite fictional characters gets his spotlight on the podcast this week as we examine the 1970s CBS live-action series that, for whatever reason, has remained on the virtual sidelines even as the character has had spectacular success in the movies.
2) Clones: The series was way ahead of its time with its depiction of the ethical dilemmas of cloning, not to mention practical realities like the possibility that the process is bound to create an "evil" version of the person. Wait, no, that probably happened in many other shows. Well, anyway, we got to see a frog cloned!
3) Michael Pataki: I want to give a shout-out to the former Captain Barbara on The Amazing Spider-Man. He may have been an inessential character--the producers certainly showed they thought so by jettisoning him before the second season--but I enjoy Pataki's performance and the dynamic he shares with Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
4) Spider-sense: The series is inconsistent with how it handles this power, and I feel that while it's cool that it does attempt it, it's a missed opportunity to create a distinctive presentation for a super power that you can depict on screen without blowing the budget.
5) Grant Tinker: The former producer and head honcho of NBC would have turned 100 today, and if he were, I'd ask him if he gave up too soon on Jennifer Slept Here.
6) American Guild of Variety Artists Entertainer of the Year Awards: 50 years ago, The Great One hosted this special on CBS, and it sounds amazing. In addition to Gleason hosting, Edye Gorme was honored as Singer of the Year. John Denver, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Liberace, and Tony the Wonder Horse also made appearances!
According to Cathy Rudolph's biography of Lynde, as cited on Wikipedia, he was honored as the funniest man of the year and then gave his award to Gleason, calling him the funniest man ever/
7) National Milk Day: It does a body good, or so we were told.
8) The Protectors: Roku Channel just added the 1972 ITC British series with Robert Vaughn to its lineup.
9) The Love Boat: John Siuntres of Word Balloon just launched a Love Boat rewatch podcast, E-Motion Sickness, which makes it at least 3 regular pods devoted to the series now, two launching in recent months. This comes after we reran our own Love Boat episode this season. Coincidence?
Yeah, probably, but I am kind of amazed that there are now two episode-by-episode Love Boat podcasts! Well, what did we expect, an Omnibus rewatch?
10) R.I.P. T.K. Carter: There is a lot of interesting material about the 1984 sitcom Just Our Luck in The Sweeps: A Year in the Life of a Television Network by Cameron Stauth and Mark Christensen.
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