That's even worse than Hop Sing!
The wild thing about commercials is that they're worse now than back in the
day! If you watch any re-aired eps of Star Trek, for example (especially the OS
and TNG), you can catch snippets of the show missing here and there.
The shows have been edited to shorten their length, as there's more time
devoted to commercials in a TV hour nowadays than there used to be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:56:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
I am watching the "Hunt the Man" episode of "Have Gun, Will Travel" and right
in the opening scene I am reminded of the one thing I didn't like about the
series, Paladin's Chinese man-servant is named Hey Boy.
Interesting side note: the actor who played "Hey Boy" played a character named
"House Boy" in his first credit "The General Died At Dawn" in 1936 and ended
his career in 1969 playing "House Boy" on "The Big Valley." Is this a great
country, or what?
~(no)rave!
(by the by, the great thing about watching these old episodes on Encore is no
commercials! The bane of watching old television episodes is the quadrillion
commercials).
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , "Kelwyn" <ravena...@...> wrote:
>
> "Have Gun Will Travel?" Did someone say "Have Gun Will Travel?" I LOVE
> Richard Boone's Paladin! Where is my DVR remote control?
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Mark Ellis <jaxler2@> wrote:
> >
> > Just about every evening, my TV watching ritual starts with Cheyenne,
> > segues into The Rifleman then Have Gun-Will Travel and finally Gunsmoke.
> > Â
> >
> >
> > MarkEllisInk.com
> > Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis
> >
> > --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@>
> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 6:15 PM
> >
> >
> > Â
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > And back on those guest stars, what a group! So far I've seen the
> > following:
> >
> > Suzanne Pleshette... Michael Rennie ("The Day The Earth Stood Still", The
> > Keeper from Lost in Space)...Roddy McDowall...James Whitmore (the actor who
> > reminds me of Spencer Tracy)...the dude who played Spock's rival Stonn on
> > the Star Trek OS ep "Amok Time"...a character actor I don't know, but who
> > played a three-eyed alien at a diner in an ep of "The Twilight Zone"...
> > Susan Oliver (Captain Pike's love interest from the first Star Trek pilot,
> > "The Cage")...an older British actor whose name espaces me, but who I
> > remember as one of the original council of leaders on the original
> > Battlestar Galactica--
> >
> > great stuff. I miss the days when television was loaded with cop, cowboy,
> > western, suspense, and scifi shows, and you saw the same actors showing up
> > all over them in various roles. most of the folks I've seen appeared on at
> > least Twilight Zone or Outer Limits back in the day, not to mention
> > Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Bonanza, Police Story, or The Six Million Dollar
> > Man. I'm seeing a bit more of that guide of journeyman work for character
> > actors on some of the TNT, USA, SyFy, and A&E shows like "Burn Notice",
> > "Eureka", etc. Lots of actors from the cableverse are appearing on each
> > others' shows.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Keith Johnson" <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
> > To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:47:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> >
> > Â
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Actually, watching the show again, i find it to be fairly sophisticated and
> > well done, as I said earlier. This was scifi done the way it was in the old
> > days: where many of the showrunners/ writers/actors had decidedly non scifi
> > backgrounds, and simply brought the standards of action and drama they'd
> > learned from cop shows and Westerns to the scifi genre. It's why I love the
> > early eps of the original Star Trek: they're very dramatic, full of good
> > acting and deep themes.
> > And like I said, I'm enjoying this forty-year old "Invaders" more than
> > ninety percent of the SyFy Originals dreck we get each weekend!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Ellis" <jaxl...@yahoo. com>
> > To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:59:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> >
> > Â
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > It's interesting that "UFOlogy" was in its infancy at that point, but the
> > writers had obviously done their research, particularly with the Men In
> > Black.
> >
> > MarkEllisInk. com
> > Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis
> >
> > --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> > To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> > Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:51 PM
> >
> >
> > Â
> >
> >
> > Agreed, I watched it religiously when I was a kid. I dig the vibrant colors
> > of the sets, and man, i've lost count of all the familiar guest stars!
> > Still, it had a good core of plot and acting, so it's aged well.
> > This goes back to my earlier questions: why doesn't SyFy show more stuff
> > like this? I had no clue they even owned rights to this show. i'm always
> > looking for Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the
> > Sea, etc., and instead I get SyFy Originals crap and Ghost Hunters.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo. com>
> > To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:53:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> >
> > Â
> >
> >
> >
> > I love, love, LOVED this show when it was on (but then I was a sucker for
> > the whole Quinn Martin ouevre: "Twelve O'Clock High," "The Fugitive").
> > Watching it now is kind of like watching old "Wild, Wild West" episodes
> > (fake-looking sets, bad wigs, extremely fake-looking fight scenes and
> > strident, god-awful music!). The aliens did die "cool," though.
> >
> > ~rave!
> >
> > --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ ...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, this is odd. SyFy is running an all day marathon of the classic TV
> > > series "The Invaders". This was the original "aliens walk among us
> > > plotting to take over the world" show, the forerunner for aspects of
> > > everything from "The X-Files" (on which the lead had a part, I believe),
> > > to "Third Wave". This was a classic '60s scifi series, with the look and
> > > great guest stars that distinguished shows of that era. So far I've seen
> > > Roddie McDowall and Suzanne Pleshette. Check it out.
> > >
> >
>
