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Titlecard from the television program THE MASTER. In dull greyish hazy midday colour, a high-angled shot of Manhattan, likely taken from a helicopter some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The East River travels horizontally across the frame's top third. On its west bank, several notable landmarks are apparent. In the image's top centre we see the flat rectangular Secretariat building of the United Nations rising about 40 storeys into the sky. To its near right, the three red white and grey coloured smokestacks of the Waterside Generating Station. The lower portion of the frame is packed with the buildings of midtown rising into the sky. The southern tip of Roosevelt Island is visible in the frame's upper left quadrant as it travels underneath the 59th St. Bridge, barely visible in the urban haze of what appears to be a warm afternoon. Overlaid in extra large white capital letters with a thick black shadow in a possibly bespoke "Asian-influenced" font that suggests its having been hand-lettered with brush and ink and centred over three separate lines, "The Good, The Bad, and The Priceless." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program RICHIE BROCKELMAN, PRIVATE EYE. In colour, in a dark bluish nighttime cast degraded by a pixelated haze of multigenerational consumer videotape and subsequent early-stage digitisation and compression, a low-rising suburban home seen from the street outside*. Roughly centre-frame, its closed front door with a single top-centred rectangular window is illuminated by a yellowish overhead porch light. To its right, what appears to be a three-paneled bay window with each component split into a 2x5 pattern of gridded squares displays pale yellow interior light. A white-trunked tree stands in the front yard, its nest of deciduous leaves obscuring the home's height and overall style. Overlaid in a now pale-yellow font** of squat, thick, closely-kerned and right-justified block letter capitals spread over three lines, "A Pigeon Ripe for the Plucking." *(there's a high likelihood this is one of the facades on the Universal backlot. Something on Columbia St., maybe? Either that or an actual tree-lined street in neighbouring Studio City or Toluca Lake.) **(it's likely Folio, a Universal favourite, and the same font used for Brockelman's sire THE ROCKFORD FILES) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program SIMON AND SIMON. In colour, on what is either at dawn, dusk, or on an exceedingly cloudy day, the skeleton of a large wooden rollercoaster* in the near distance fills the frame's top half, where a large steep initial drop then rises to a curvature of lesser elevation. Directly in front of us at the bottom of the frame, the extended track and wooden railings of the same coaster snakes to bend in a turn around what appear to be a collection of fledgling cedar trees. Overlaid in an unidentifiable yellow serif font with a black dropshadow at the frame's bottom third, "What's in a Gnome?" *(almost certain this is the Colossus (RIP) at (no flags!) Magic Mountain. In Valencia. You may recall the rock and roll combo 'Kiss' being viciously attacked by a swarm of Abner Devereaux's silver-jumpsuited robotic werewolves among these very same supports and crossbeams. You also may not. Neither possibility is likely to affect your enjoyment of this entirely unrelated episode of a completely different television program.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program THE ALASKANS. In black and white, a higher-angled, downward-facing location shot of what is presumably representative of the town of Skagway, AK*, during what is supposed to be the Gold Rush in the late 1800s. It is night. Or "night." A muddy road, patchy with small piles of snow, stretches from the image's bottom up and through the town itself, a collection of steep-pitched, low rising wooden clapboard buildings (a smithy, a claims office, things of this nature) lining both its shoulders, and through whose windows occasional punctuations of bright white interior light appear. The street is also populated by a couple of crate-laden wagons, several milling humans in large fur pelt overcoats, and the occasional horse. And wooden barrels. Gotta have them wooden barrels. Yee-hawww. Beyond this, significant snow-covered mountains rise into the frame's top third, above which a sliver of dark grey nighttime sky spans the width of the remaining image. Overlaid in large white capital letters in a Hawthorn-adjacent font with a thick black shadow, "Heart of Gold." (© Copyright MCMLX by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved) Oh, and best of birthdays to Neil Young, obviously. The most personally significant musician of my lifetime. Many happy returns! *(Listen, I know the show was predominantly shot in beautiful Downtown Burbank, but to the best of my knowledge and experience this is not that. Those mountains aren't a composite, they're in camera, and even if they weren't, none of these buildings look like anything concurrently standing on the lot. I'm left wondering if when and where this impressive exterior was built. Was it specifically constructed for a bunch of b-roll and establishing shots of this one-and-done northwestern? Seems unlikely! But I honestly don't know.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program COMBAT! In black and white, a black and grey checkerboard pattern suggesting an enlargement of halftone dots. Atop this, the barely translucent black silhouettes of the bayonet-ends of perhaps a half-dozen army rifles of varying suggested nearness rising on a slight rightward diagonal from the frame's bottom. Overlaid at the frame's centre over five lines in a white Helvetica or adjacent font of all caps, "Combat! 'What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?' Part II." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program COMBAT! In black and white, a black and grey checkerboard pattern suggesting an enlargement of halftone dots. Atop this, the barely translucent black silhouettes of the bayonet-ends of perhaps a half-dozen army rifles of varying suggested nearness rising on a slight rightward diagonal from the frame's bottom. Overlaid at the frame's centre over five lines in a white Helvetica or adjacent font of all caps, "Combat! 'What Are the Bugles Blowin' For?' Part I." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program MARCUS WELBY, M.D. In faded colour, with the fuzzy multigenerational loss of detail and clarity from re-recording and digitisation, looking at the back patio of a brick-finished ranch house. White-painted french doors are slightly open to the home's interior; a bank of divided white windows to their right. The patio itself appears to be grey flagstone, and upon it sit several pieces of white-painted wrought iron or tubular metal patio furniture. Upon one of those -- a chaise longue with back raised to sitting position and topped with a pale yellow foam cushion -- is a white-haired older man wearing a white jacket, grey slacks, and black socks with black loafers. He appears to be reading a book or magazine. Overlaid in a yellow Helvetica or adjacent font, paled by time, tide, degrading videotape master, and about fifty fuckin years of heartbreak and shattered dreams, "The Faith of Childish Things." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. In black and white, image likely softened from decades of life on underused Quadriplex tape, a simple plain background that could be mistaken for fibrous muslin cloth, folded or draped in segments, with four sharp, distinct lines of division radiating diagonally up and across the image from the frame's lower right corner. A plain-text overlay in unadorned white block capitals of Franklin Gothic or adjacent font with a slim black dropshadow reads "Hate at Forty Fathoms." (Copyright MCMLV By Revue Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program AIRWOLF. In colour, at either sunrise or sunset, a long shot of what appears to be a deserted and arid wilderness landscape. At the frame's base, and occupying its bottom fourth, the distant dark black silhouettes of neighbouring rolling foothills or faraway mountains. These are underneath a striated canopy of stratocumulus clouds in a handsome array of oranges, reds, magentas, and a shock of white or blue or clear sky letting through either the rising or setting sun. It's quite beautiful. If entirely desolate. And it fills the remainder of the frame. (Feels like it might be the Serengeti? If we're assuming a literal interpretation of the title, then... there aren't wolves on the Serengeti. Are there? Painted wolves, maybe? But aren't painted wolves just wild dogs? Then again, why would it be snaring a literal animal wolf, especially when the show is itself concerned with an "AIR 'wolf'," or sophisticated helicopter? I also suspect if they wanted to ensure we *knew* it was the Serengeti, there would be detectable the distinct outline of at least one Acacia tree. Eh, maybe it's just Arizona. Who knows.) Overlaid in a white "futuristic" font (it may be a customisation of Earth?) split over two left-justified lines in the frame's lower left quadrant, "To Snare a Wolf." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program QUINCY, M.E. In colour, from a distance and elevated by either a hill, berm, or a vantage point on a neighbouring building, an eastward-facing slightly downward-looking shot of five or six buildings on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles*, circa 1977. The older campus buildings are a mixture of Gothic and Romanesque style brickwork, ruddy and tan; behind them in the near distance several buildings of a blockier, more modernist concrete and steel design rising eight or ten storeys. No other buildings from the city's skyline or neighbouring areas are visible underneath the hazy grey blue sky, which fills the frame's top third. Occupying the frame's lower third, a pale green grassy expanse that appears to be an athletic field, upon which between twenty and thirty tiny and distant human figures congregate in several groups. Listen, maybe they're playing soccer. Does UCLA have a soccer team? Or did they? Probably. You've got the internet, you can probably check. Beyond this between it and the buildings, a parking lot filled with automobiles of varying colour and vintage. Overlaid in white text, right justified and spread over three lines in Universal's (and Larson's!) favoured Lydian font with a heavy black dropshadow, "The Hot Dog Murder." *(reasonably confident this is true. As always, happy to be corrected.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program MANIMAL. Colour shot. We are airborne. Looking at a small aircraft in profile as it travels from left to right through hazy light blue altitude. The plane is white, with a decorative band of orange stretching from the front of the cabin's roof along the fuselage before trailing down to the tail, where it blends with another decorative band of blue and gold stripes, which lines the length of the plane under its wings, and repeats along the housing of the engine itself. Notably, this is a pusher configuration monoplane*, which means that single engine is mounted on a dedicated pylon that rises vertically from the aircraft's fuselage, behind and above its small glass-windowed cabin. A prominent mountain ridgeline stretches horizontally across the frame's bottom third, below which steeply trails the sharp drop of earthy terrain. The plane's nosegear -- a single black rubber wheel -- is deployed. For some reason. Overlaid at the frame's centre in large capital letters in a Helvetica or adjacent font with a slim black dropshadow, "Scrimshaw." *(My money's on this being... a Lake Buccaneer LA-4-200? Could be a 270 Turbo Renegade, but I'm not really a plane guy. Also I don't have any money so the joke's on you!) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program THE FUGITIVE*. Black and white static background image featuring, most prominently and occupying about 1/3 of the entire frame vertically on its left hand side, a wooden crossbuck in saltire formation; "Rail Road" is printed diagonally on its rear component, descending, and "Crossing," on its diagonally ascending forward piece. Below and beyond this in the foggy or misty night, railway tracks stretch diagonally up and to the right, disappearing in the wispy grey distance underneath four diminishing glowing circular orbs of light. Walking away on these tracks, the figure of what is most probably a human man, cast in shadow and otherwise indistinguishable (though he may be holding a valise in his dangling right arm). Overlaid in an indeterminable plain serif midcentury font, black with a bright white outline, "Tonight's Episode: Detour on a Road Going Nowhere." (© Copyright 1964 by QM Productions) *(Original QM Productions/UATV variant, c.1960s) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program DEADLINE*. Simple black and white image featuring white text in a Courier font centred over a plain black background. The text reads "The Victor Riesel Story." *(original Official Films variant, c.1959) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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BATMAN. Colour. Adam West's stunt double fights a tiger. I guess. I don't know, man. Everything's ruined and terrible. Who cares. #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory #BlueJays :(
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program ROUTE 66*. Black and white image of two young 30s-adjacent men seen from the waist up in 3/4 profile standing outside. Farthest right and facing left, a brown-haired man (the actor Martin Milner (here in the role of Tod Stiles)) with his hands in the pockets of a dark shell windbreaker with its collar upturned. To his right, a black-haired man in a tan overcoat with black woollen collar, beneath which he's dressed in a grey ribbed sweater overtop a white collared shirt. This is the actor George Maharis (as Buz Murdock). His arms are folded. Both men look to the same point beyond the frame's edge to the left, their eyes narrowed resolutely or in vigilance. Behind them, the sky is a dark and cloudy mottled grey, with the gnarled skeletons of leafless trees scratching up into its foreboding belly. A gap in those same trees suggests they line the side of a road or highway, which the men stand on or beside. Jesus, it looks *cold*. Overlaid in a bespoke lowercase font that resembles chipped white letters painted individually on tarmac** and centred in the frame's lower half, "Black November." (Copyright © MCMLX by Lancer Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) *(1960s Lancer-Edling/Screen Gems variant, c.1960) **(I dunno. I'm likely projecting. What *else* does it look like?) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE. In colour, with a predominantly bluish cast, a trick-or-treater stands before an open door. In profile on the right side of the frame, facing left, a child stands in a white or pale rainbow pastel coloured fabric costume or clown suit with frilled cuffs and whole-head covering. On their face, secured by a single thin strand of string or elastic, a vintage-styled papier mâché or vacu-formed plastic half-head rabbit mask with ears lengthy and upstanding. In their right hand, outstretched, they hold a woven wicker or straw basket with a single loop handle; their left hand supports the basket's bottom. Trailing out of the basket's rim, what might be strands of paper excelsior or raffia or straw. They appear to be standing at the entranceway of a home with its four-panelled white wooden door opened wide at the frame's left, stretching almost to the image's halfway point. Dim white light, either from inside or from an unseen overhead fixture, is cast over this tableau, with the immediate distance and everything that may therein lurk rendered impenetrable by a wall of deep blue-black darkness. Overlaid in unadorned white coloured Courier font with a black dropshadow, "Halloween Candy*." Spooooky? Whoooo can sssaaaaayyyyyy... ?!?!?! Okay. That's it. Thanks, October. Seeya 'round. *(don't mind if I do! Sleep tight, creeps.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program WEREWOLF. Colour shot of a white painted Victorian home in disrepair. Rising with at least three storeys and a wraparound ground floor porch, it's nestled among large green and brown deciduous bushes, trees and hedges. It sits at the end of a well-worn gravel path or roadway dusted with crisp fallen golden leaves, all behind a black wrought iron fence or gateway, a panel of which lays detached and diagonal across the frame's lower left quadrant. Despite the dim shadows among the trees, a slivered shock of bright blue cloudless sky appears in the frame's upper right. Looks like a bright sunny day. I wonder what it's HIDING. Overlaid at the centre in a capitalised deep crimson font*, "All Hallow's Eve**." *(It's probably not Dynamo. Or Busorama. It's... related? to both? maybe? No idea! Well... *some* idea.) **(We did it, everyone. It is Halloween. Huzzah.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Titlecard from the television program THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. In colour, albeit cast predominantly in deep blue and almost indistinguishably dark green, an image of the seaside coast at night. From high on a neighbouring grass-topped cliff we look down at a significant rocky outcrop with an inequal distribution of craggy peaks and valleys alternating between sea and sky stretching horizontally from right to left across the frame's top third*. Stretching beyond the rock and presumably to the unseen horizon the water appears reasonably calm, with thin white bands of spume breaking along the base of the rock formations where they meet the sea. It looks very dark. And very cold. Overlaid just below the frame's centre in a pale yellow straight-edged Victorian font with serifs, "The Devil's Foot." *(this is the distinct bastite and tremotite ophilolite serpentine rock formation of the Lizard Peninsula at Kynance Cove in Cornwall.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. Colour image, though taken at night and so shadowy, dark, and almost entirely devoid of discernible tone. A fixed set grey wooden picture window (a 4x4 grid composed of six intersecting perpendicular muntin holding 16 small panes of clear glass) within a grey frame on the mottled grey and reddish brown barnboard facade of a farmhouse or cabin. Seen through the window just inside the building, in what might be an attic room bound by the exposed angular wooden beams of its roof's construction, a grinning Jack-o'-lantern carved from an orange harvest pumpkin sits on a dark wood table. Inside its hollowed shell, the bright hot flame of a candle illuminates its blocky square teeth and almost indistinguishable oval eyes. Watching. Watching you. Watching all of you. Centred and overlaid in bright white capital letters of a Clarendon or variant font, "The Monster of Walnut Grove." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Titlecard from the television program THE BOLD ONES: THE PROTECTORS. Image of a multicoloured semicircular tympanum mosaic recessed atop a pale tan or white plaster facade. On a background of variegated blue tiles, the mosaic depicts a woman* in a traditional black and white religious habit embracing a small child swaddled in white robes. The woman's veil bears a crown of roses; the child holds what may be long, green-stemmed white lilies, which rest on the woman's right shoulder. The mosaic's arcing edge appears fringed by a line of blush coloured roses intertwined with their greenery. Circular golden nimbi appear behind their heads. Overlaid in pale yellow block letters with a slim black dropshadow, "A Thing Not of God." (Copyright © MCMLXIX by Universal City Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved ) (A little poking around on the ol' internet suggests that this adornment is likely part of the Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church in San Fernando, CA. About 15min. north of Universal, it remains currently open and active. They have a parish food sale every other week -- tacos, menudo, breakfast burritos, mini pancakes, what have you. Please enjoy these additional and more recent pictures of the mosaic as it appears presently in this, our twenty-first century: https://imgur.com/a/TOs7s1e ) *(I assume this is a depiction of Santa Rosa -- the first canonised person born in the Americas, the patron saint of embroiderers and also The Americas and, more specifically, their indigenous peoples -- embracing a divine apparition of the Holy Child**) **(Full disclosure: I am not a religious scholar. Heck, I'm not even a *regular* scholar.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Titlecard from the television program BAYWATCH NIGHTS. In colour, though almost entirely devoid of tint or saturation, a closeup of swirling thin white... hair?! Upon closer examination, it's clear we're looking at a rounded pot or pan or wok containing a large number of vermicelli-like rice noodles as they're being prepared. In the image's upper right corner, the bronze-coloured round head of a woven metal cooking spider, or zhàolí. In the lower left corner, what appears to be the tip of a wooden spatula. Overlaid at the image's centre in ultra thin and narrow white letters with an almost equally-weighted black drop shadow, "Voodoo Zauber*." *(taken from a German DVD release, the literal English translation of this is 'Voodoo Magic'. The episode's original English title is "Curse of the Mirrored Box". Which would translate into German as -- and here, please forgive my rudimentary language skills -- "Buchtaufpass Nächte ist erstaunlich**.") **(Of course the *actual* translation would be "Fluch der verspiegelten Kiste". I'm just goofin around***. Ha ha ha. FOLKS!) ***(But it's true!) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Titlecard from the television program THE INVADERS*. In colour, a featureless bright bold screen-filling blast of either fuchsia, magenta, or shocking pink. Centred in the frame's top third, broken over two lines in a black coloured bespoke hand-drawn font of closely nestled capital letters with predominantly straight edges, "Tonight's Episode." Beneath that, in larger letters of the same font centred on a single line that stretches across the frame's bottom third, "The Mutation." *(original QM Productions variant, c. 1967) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Time to flip over to ABC:
Titlecard from the television program VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. In black and white, looking slightly up from the surface of the calm water that surrounds a nautical dock or quay constructed from straight-hewn stone or concrete, with nine courses of steps leading diagonally up from the water's edge at the frame's far right, and at the base of a much larger structure which stretches vertically up and out of frame. Along a lower level directly adjacent to the water, a seaman in traditional working navy garb -- dark dungarees, light coloured chambray shirt and a white dixie cup hat -- is hauling on some form of rigging, which stretches vertically up and out of frame, where it may be tethered to a metal crane arm that extends from the bed of a midcentury construction-grade pickup truck on the raised quay concourse crossing the frame horizontally above at the top of the steps. At least two other sailors mill about this truck, assisting. On the frame's far left edge, a larger signboard that partially identifies the area as "Dock C-24." This is the permanent berth of the atomic submarine Seaview, upon which many curious tales have unfolded. Overlaid in white text (it may be... Lydian? font?) with a considerable black dropshadow, "The Ghost of Moby Dick." Farewell, June Lockhart. #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program LOST IN SPACE*. A monochromatic shot of two smiling women centred in frame on the surface of an apparently sandy, occasionally rocky planet other than Earth**. On the left, an older blonde*** in a dark jumpsuit over a light coloured polo- or mock turtle- neck sweater. Facing her on the right, a brunette teen with a long dark ponytail wearing a medium-coloured two piece synthetic fibre uniform with a deep v-neck over a similar white polo or mock. She stands elevated on a small raised platform as the older blonde, a measuring tape dangling in hand, seems prepared to take her measurements. (A waist-high table stretching toward us at the frame's bottom left, headed by a modular electronic component inlaid with dials and lights and pushbuttons, is otherwise strewn with samples of fabric and sheets of letter-sized paper upon which have been illustrated croquis or callouts and seems to support this suggestion.) Behind them and toward the frame's left edge, several thin-framed portable metal tables whose surfaces are strewn with unidentifiable material. Rocks and soil? Electronic components? Who can say. Creeping into view at the frame's left edge, the base and sloping edge of a saucer-shaped spaceship****. Directly behind them, a lumpy stone or dirt mass rises to a height slightly beyond their heads. In the far distance, the desert stretching to a blackened horizon is populated with intermittent mesas of apparently sedimentary rock and occasional rising hoodoos. Overlaid in plain white italicised Helvetica capital letters, "Ghost in Space." *(1960s Irwin Allen Productions Variant. Come on.) **(Likely Priplanus, a smaller celestial body with two moons located approximately 10 million light years from Earth, and seemingly in possession of similar atmospheric and gravitational conditions.) ***(This is, of course, the singular, luminous June Lockhart, who only just passed away at the age of 100.) ****(Probably the Jupiter 2)
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program MAGNUM P.I. In colour, a thirtysomething tousle-headed brownhaired man* sits centred in frame with his hands folded, eyes downcast in deep thought or despondency. He's dressed in a tan-, or light peach- (or... it might be rose-?) coloured blazer over a white button-up collared shirt with blue grid windowpane pattern, its top two (Or three. Or four!) buttons undone. His brown trousers are visible covering the knee and shin of one crossed leg poking into view from beneath a polished wooden desk or table. On that surface in front of him and out of focus, a tall clear drinking glass and a standard issue institutional chromed coffee pot with black plastic handle and lid. To the frame's left edge and behind him, the shadow of a tall tree or plant is cast upon what appears to be a fully drawn woven bamboo windowshade. Overlaid in Helvetica-styled capitals with a slim black dropshadow, "The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club." *(This is the actor Larry Manetti, here in the role of Thomas Magnum's perpetually beleaguered longtime friend and colleague Orville Wilbur Richard 'Rick' Wright who, among myriad other duties above and below board, manages the eponymous King Kahmehameha Club**.) **(True story: for several years just before this he ran a club called "Rick's Café Americain***" where he cruised around hosting and gladhanding Hawaiian disco parties while pretending to be Humphrey Bogart**** (The character, Wright, not the actor, Manetti).) ***(This is a CASABLANCA (1942) reference. CASABLANCA was itself turned into a television program. Twice; in 1955 and 1983, where Humphrey Bogart was impersonated***** by Charles McGraw and David Soul, respectively. ****(star of the motion picture CASABLANCA (1942).) *****(this is uncharitable. Both television portrayals of Rick Blaine are all but entirely divorced from Bogart, and indeed have their own rewarding nuances.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM