Haunting, dreamy, crazy nightmare thrills. There’s a reason I and several million other people my age and older remember so well The Legend of Lizzie Borden, the 1975 ABC made-for-TV splatter shocker: it’s flat-out brilliant.
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‘Benson’ (Season 1): Robert Guillaume steals the show
With the death of Robert Guillaume, we thought it would be a nice tribute to go back to the first season of Guillaume’s best-remembered role, Benson.
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‘The Possessed’ (1977): Pre-superstar Harrison Ford does TV horror
Not being able to decide whether or not I was going to catch the new Harrison Ford Blade Runner 2049 sci-fi opus this month (the original was such a revelatory experience for me when I saw it in a deserted theater back in ’82, I can’t help but feel I’m going to sully that memory in some weird way if I see this new one), I descended into my DVD dungeon and prowled through the catacombs for something equally Harrison Fordy, and re-discovered The Possessed.
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‘This Is Us’ (Season 1): Grab your tissues – the whole box
Flashbacks, flash forwards, alternate realities…no, this isn’t a review of Lost.
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‘Dynasty’ (Season 1): A soap in search of a villain
As we await the CW’s way more Hispanic, way more gay Dynasty reboot this October, why don’t we go back to the all-white, just a tad gay original ABC primetime soap opera that debuted in 1981.
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‘Petrocelli’ (Season 2): The final courtroom battle
A continuance has been granted, pursuant to improved ratings, for Petrocelli’s second season. Too bad about Starsky and Hutch, though….
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‘Petrocelli’ (Season 1): From the big screen to weekly TV
Your Honor, now that the jury has seen the exhibits concerning Petrocelli’s inception—specifically the big-screen The Lawyer and the made-for-TV movie Night Games, let us proceed to Petrocelli’s first season.
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‘Night Games’ (1974): Petrocelli returns…on TV
In anticipation of reviewing the recent DVD release of the cult 70s TV courtroom mystery, Petrocelli, starring Vanishing Point’s Barry Newman, we thought we’d first look at the two movies that directly led to the creation of that fondly-remembered NBC series, this time with a look at the TV film, Night Games, from 1974.
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‘The Lawyer’ (1970): Petrocelli on the big screen
In anticipation of reviewing the recent DVD release of the cult 70s TV courtroom mystery, Petrocelli, starring Vanishing Point’s Barry Newman, we thought we’d first look at the two movies that directly led to the creation of that fondly-remembered NBC series, beginning with director Sidney J. Furie’s big-screen The Lawyer, from 1970.
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‘The Love Boat’ (Season 3): Everything that’s great & terrible about escapist TV
Anchors aweigh and get another bottle of bleach: they don’t call it “The Love Boat” for nothing!
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‘American Vandal’ on Netflix is all about the ‘D’
#WhoDrewTheDicks … that’s the question everyone is asking.
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‘Riviera’ makes US debut, & it’s all about the $$$
Money…that’s what I want. And that’s what this show’s (apparently) about.
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‘Big Driver’ (2014): Stephen King TV movie drives critics nuts
Keep ‘em locked and loaded, ladies. Ballsy, unapologetic rape revenge meller, with that sick, patented Stephen King black humor.
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‘The Bionic Woman’ (Season 1): 70s hit still enjoyable today
Bionic babe captures reviewer’s heart…all over again.
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‘Two-Minute Warning’ (1976): Disaster film fumbles its way to TV
Strange, cold, perverse thriller from the golden age of disaster movies.
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Is second time the charm for ‘The Tick’?
I just watched a batch of episodes from the first live action attempt of The Tick, which aired on FOX in 2001. Now, Amazon is looking to best that failed effort.
More superheroism coming in ‘Marvel’s The Defenders’
Having trouble keeping up with all the Marvel Cinematic Universe content? Good.
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Feel that sense tingling? It’s ‘Marvel’s Spider Man’
He’s friendly! And he’s coming to your neighborhood! (Once again.)
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‘Falcon Crest’ (Season 1): Intrigue, drunk on wine
We like our 80s prime time soaps here at Drunk TV. Oh yes we do.
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‘Marlon’: NBC pins sitcom hopes on Wayans bro
Fans of the Wayans brothers rejoice!
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