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Apr 20, 2015 - 3:42 PM
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From TVSHOWONDVD:
A week from today, on Tuesday, May 6th, CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment will release 3 very special TV-on-BD titles: The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, and The Andy Griffith Show. These legendary programs on high-def Blu-ray Disc shall include new bonus material, as well as a sharper-than-ever picture newly cleaned up with recently-acquired equipment. Chris Tribbey, Senior Reporter at trade journal Home Media Magazine, wrote about this effort from CBS in his "Labor of Love" article yesterday.
However, that online digital version of the story we've linked to above is missing a paragraph that can be found in this week's print version of Home Media Magazine. As seen in the scan below, the page 12 "Pipeline" report from the April 28, 2014 edition of HMM also mentions that "The CBS team is already working on Blu-ray ready versions of..."; the paragraph - which also points out that this is the same team which has been working on CBS/Paramount's BD efforts for Star Trek: The Next Generation - goes on to name 9 classic television shows:
Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, (…).
Taken from: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Confusion-over-CBS-plans-for-TV-BDs/19749#ixzz30LpSKngE
An old message that needs to be revived.
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Apr 24, 2015 - 11:23 AM
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¶ Episode #2 (S1)
"Incident at Alabaster Plain"
written by David Swift
directed by Richard Whorf
guests: Mark Richman, Martin Balsam, Troy Donahue, Joe de Santis, Suzanne Lloyd, Peter Mamakos
It's a good mean gunslinger episode in which we learn a little bit about the life of Rowdy Yates because he meets an old friend named Buzz Travis from the Civil War who just got married with a rich Mexican woman. The guest cast is very good: Mark Richman as the vicious angry gunslinger Mastic returning home to get his due during the wedding party and Martin Balsam as Father Fabian. It's done like a grand drama and a western feature film. Note that Pete Nolan is depicted as a rough guy who play nasty tricks, especially on Wishbone.
At last, the first sign-off scene appears and, furthermore, Gil Favor introduces his men at the start of Act 1 so let's hear it:
"…But the way to even things up is to hire the best men in the business,
and I got 'em—Pete Nolan, scout;
Rowdy Yates, new as they come, but he's got the makings;
Joe Scarlet, swing;
Jim Quince, flank;
and the man who can make-or-break the drive, the cook, Wishbone;
and the cook's louse—his name is mushy.
Now, somebody's got to kick this whole kit and caboodle along
and that's me, Gil Favor, trail boss. I ride point."
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Apr 26, 2015 - 1:12 PM
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Rollin Hand
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¶ Episode #3 (S1)
"Incident with an Executioner"
written by James Edmiston
directed by 'producer' Charles Marquis Warren
guests: Dan Duryea, Martin Milner, Marguerite Chapman, James Drury, Jan Shepard, Stafford Repp, William Schallert, Glen Gordon
It's a haunted man drama that plays like a supernatural entry. The atmosphere is heavily filled with suspicion, suspense, guilt, fear because of the hunter rider acting like a mute grim reaper who keeps a close eye on the guests of Gil Favor. Yates and Nolan are particularly aggressive. Guest actor Dan Duryea carries on his shoulder this mystery piece.
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May 4, 2015 - 12:53 PM
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Rollin Hand
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¶ Episode #4 (S1)
"Incident of the Widowed Dove"
written by David Lang
directed by Ted 'Magnum Force' Post
guests: Sally Forrest, Jay C. Flippen, Harry Shannon, Vic Perrin, Harry Lauter, Fred Graham, Harry Harvey Jr, Dick Ryan, Henry Wills
It starts as the outfit of Gil Favor on a wild leave to a small town and then it turns into a solo Rowdy Yates willing to help the wife of the local marshal to run away from the town and the grip of her husband. This is the first one that opposes Gil Favor to Rowdy Yates and ends up in a fist fight and the departure of Yates. During the outfit's saloon scenes that quickly degenerate, one of the cowhand is shot to death! This is director Ted Post's first episode and a fine drama! The sherry on top is Gil Favor shooting down a Marshal that slaps his old lady!
WARNING
The season 4 main titles depicting the outfit of Gil Favor riding and rushing to town and to the saloon are footages from that particular episode.
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THEME: DANGEROUS WOMEN
Two episodes are centered around treacherous women in love with ramrod Rowdy Yates:
"Incident of the Calico Gun" (with the girlfriend of a bandit who infiltrates the outfit to steal the pay)
"Incident of the Misplaced Indians" (with the poisoner wife of a missionary who kills Indians by sheer madness)
Both are directed by Jesse Hibbs!
¶ Episode #15 (S1)
"Incident of the Calico Gun"
written by Winston Miller
directed by Jesse Hibbs
guests: Jack Lord, Gloria Talbot, Myron Healey, Gene Collins, Steve Mitchell, Damian O'Flynn
¶ Episode #16 (S1)
"Incident of the Misplaced Indians"
written by David Victor and Herbert Little, Jr
directed by Jesse Hibbs
guests: Kim Hunter, Lyle Talbot, Virginia Gregg, Richard Hale, Robert Carson, Milan Smith, Rodd Redwing
WARNING
Rawhide meets A Streetcar Named Desire!
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Jun 3, 2015 - 11:49 PM
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Rollin Hand
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THEME: STUCK IN A TOWN
Two episodes show trail boss Gil Favor and ramrod Rowdy Yates compeled to stay as hostages in a remote small town by irregular forces:
"Incident of the Curious Street" (with two relatives-blackmailers holding a stagecoach to get a ransom)
"Incident of Fear in the Streets" (with a possessed father and his family on the way to pinpoint and hang the murderer of his late son)
¶ Episode #13 (S1)
"Incident of the Curious Street"
written by N.B. Stone, Jr
story by Earl Baldwin and N.B. Stone, Jr
directed by Ted 'Magnum Force' Post
guests: Mercedes McCambridge, James Westerfield, Whitney Blake, Dennis Cross, Ralph Moody
¶ Episode #17 (S1)
"Incident of Fear in the Streets"
written by Fred Freiberger
directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
guests: Gary Merrill, Robert Driscoll, Corey Allen, Morris Ankrum, Don Haggerty, Whit Bissell, Bob Steele, Eleanor Ayer, Ed Nelson, Ed Faulkner, Olan Soulé, Guy Stockwell, Amzie Strickland, Len Hendry
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¶ Episode #18 (S1)
"Incident Below the Brazos"
written by Herbert Purdum
directed by Jack Arnold
guests: Leslie Nielsen, Kathleen Crowley, Martin Landau, Irene Tedrow, William Joyce, John Craven, Alan Reynolds
It's a conflictual drama opposing the outfit of Gil Favor to an army of farmers led by a fanatic looking for revenge. Both Favor and Hey Soos fail to be hanged at the last minute! Featuring two great character-actors: Leslie Nielsen and Martin Landau.
WARNING
It's the first episode featuring wrangler Hey Soos.
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Jun 6, 2015 - 12:53 PM
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Rollin Hand
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"…But the way to even things up is to hire the best men in the business,
and I got 'em—Pete Nolan, scout;
Rowdy Yates, new as they come, but he's got the makings;
Joe Scarlet, swing;
Jim Quince, flank;
and the man who can make-or-break the drive, the cook, Wishbone;
and the cook's louse—his name is mushy.
Now, somebody's got to kick this whole kit and caboodle along
and that's me, Gil Favor, trail boss. I ride point."
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"…But the way to even things up is to hire the best men in the business,
and I got 'em—Pete Nolan, scout; Rowdy Yates, new as they come, but he's got the makings;
The Early Outfit, Part 1 • shot by cinematographer Philip Lathrop
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Joe Scarlet, swing; Jim Quince, flank;
The Early Outfit, Part 2 • shot by cinematographer Philip Lathrop
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and the man who can make-or-break the drive, the cook, Wishbone; and the cook's louse—his name is mushy.
Now, somebody's got to kick this whole kit and caboodle along and that's me, Gil Favor, trail boss. I ride point."
The Early Outfit, Part 3 • shot by cinematographer Philip Lathrop
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