TV SITCOMS – PT5.

TV SITCOMS – PT5.

March 30, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  OUR MISS BROOKS (1952-6) 130 EPISODES                  Connie Brooks (played by Eve Arden) teaches English at Madison High School. She gets a ride to school each day from student Walter Denton, portrayed by a very young Richard Crenna, long before he became […]

TV WESTERNS – PT26.

TV WESTERNS – PT26.

April 15, 2022 Alan Royle 5

  THE MAN FROM BLACKHAWK (1959-60) 37 EPISODES                   It is generally believed that this short-lived series was created to take advantage of the popularity of ‘private eye’ television series such as 77 Sunset Strip at the time. It starred Robert Rockwell as Sam Logan, an insurance investigator from the Blackhawk […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT56.

September 15, 2018 Alan Royle 4

In my movie collection is the 1992 Sean Connery-Lorraine Bracco film Medicine Man, one of those pictures that critics in their unchallenged wisdom chose to lambast from the moment it was released. As director John McTiernan said, ‘If the press hadn’t defined it as an action movie, it probably wouldn’t […]

Great character actors Pt 3.

March 9, 2016 admin 2

    Eve Arden was born Eunice Quedens in California in 1908. Her folks divorced when she was young and she quit school at 16 to join a stock theatre company. She made her film debut in Song of Love in 1929 and her Broadway debut (as Eve Arden) in […]