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Closing credit card from the aforementioned SCOOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INCORPORATED episode. Stylistically similar to the treatment of the titlecard, the following text is written over a splotchy blue-green background which features the stylised image of a golden key with a question mark decorating its head on a thin string or chain: STARRING THE VOICES OF Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Fred Mindy Cohn as Velma Grey Delisle as Daphne, Tourist Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Dee Bradley Baker as Officer Johnson, Tourist Tony Cervone as Gary, French Nerd Frances Conroy as Angie Dinkley Udo Kier as Professor Pericles Daryl Sabara as Jason, British Nerd Fred Tatasciore as Demon Dog, Guard #2 Jessica Walter as Jason's Mom Patrick Warburton as Sheriff Stone Mitch Watson as Ethan, Japanese Nerd, Guard #3 Colour image from the same episode. An animated anthropomorphic mutant parrot in a straightjacket. Its giant head and prominent angular purplish brow (split vertically by a jagged scar which trails down through and below a cataracted left eye) are bathed in a hot and glowing white light. Behind it, a bluish-grey background wall upon which are traced light-coloured geometric shapes suggesting circuit diagrams, which themselves bear occasional greenish highlights. This is Professor Pericles who, in the continuity of this program, served much the same role for the "original" Mystery, Incorporated of Crystal Cove as Scooby-Doo does for its contemporary and more better known configuration. The OG CC MI MK.I SD, if you will**. He could inarguably be described as The Villain or Big Bad of this particular strain of The Dooniverse***. This episode is his first proper onscreen appearance beyond one or two fleeting glimpses in photographs in previous instalments. All of which is immaterial; Pericles was voiced -- here for the first time and then in about fifteen or twenty subsequent episodes, with the same palpably enormous dedication and prickly skill he brought to hundreds of other performances -- by the late and singularly great Udo Kier, who passed away this weekend. May he rest in peace.) **(It's okay if you won't, I wouldn't dream of holding it against you.) ***(listen, you can't be as disappointed in me as I am in myself.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program SCOOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INCORPORATED. In colour, though almost entirely black but for a wispy bed of drifting greenish mist or fog stretching horizontally along its bottom third. Overlaid in a thick white glowing left-justified font (the majority of which is either Perry Black or Bold?) split over three lines, "Chapter 10 Howl of the Fright Hound." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program STAR MAIDENS. In colour, a dark black starfield with a bluish-grey gradient of clouds brightest and most noticeable at the frame's upper left corner and diminishing in colour and intensity as they stretch and dissolve from left to right across the frame. Circular dimly-focused orbs of varying size representing stars appear randomly scattered throughout. Centred in a pale yellow bold (fat!) all caps sans serif font* split across two lines, "What Have They Done To The Rain?" *(it's close enough to Zonk to be a variant. If it's not a variant, it's definitely "inspired" by Zonk.) (this mf said close enough to Zonk.) (It's me. Body by Zonk.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program A MAN CALLED SLOANE. In "colour," though degraded by age, digitisation and multigenerational videotape dubbing*. The image depicts a high hilltop somewhere in Los Angeles. An olive-tinted slope of the Santa Monica mountains (or Franklin Canyon or Griffith Park, or...?) with the area's distinct coastal oak, chaparral, and sage groundcover occupies the bottom two thirds of the frame as it stretches to crest under a washed out blue white sky on what appears to be a clear and sunny day. Atop the ridge, close to the frame's right edge, is an indistinguishable stone buliding that appears to approximate the style of a medieval fort or castle. Overlaid in thick white closely-kerned lowercase letters of an unidentifiable but distinctive font** spread over two lines at the frame's centre, "Sweethearts of Disaster." *(Additionally, the image seems to have been recorded from a signal with a considerable amount of ghosting due to multipath reception. Beginning with a spectral twin at the frame's left edge and rightward-shifted entirely across, it's prominent enough to allow the trailing edge of the credit overlay to be entirely seen and read***.) **(looks extremely close to Corporate, so perhaps it's a unique bespoke variant? Also slightly resembles Compacta or Tungsten, though it's definitely neither. Happy to discover the real answer, as always!) ***("arts aster," it says.) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program 12 O'CLOCK HIGH. In black and white, an upward-looking image of the sky during the day. At its base, a billowy white cumuls cloud formation stretches across the frame's bottom fourth. Chalky white aircraft contrails -- about twenty in number -- cross the frame's top half diagonally from left to right, increasing in intensity as they approach what one imagines is an unseen high-flying squadron at the image's right edge. Overtop this, a thick black diagonal stripe stretches from bottom to top, upon which is written in white letters in a military-style font of narrow sans serif stencilled letters, "Tonight's Episode Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE. Black and white shot of the edifice of a Romanesque Revival stone building, likely on a university campus and seen from underneath a canopy of what are probably eucalyptus branches, their leaves creating an arch that frames the image's top half. The building's face consists of a brickwork veneer in alternating segments of dark and light stone, this portion of which shows about three floors, each indicated by rows of inset double-sash windows whose panes are divided into two seperate 3x2 grids. Carved into the stone lintel between floors at the image's centre are the words "Science Hall*." Overlaid in large white capital letters in a bold, narrow serif font with a black dropshadow, "Jupitron." *(This "Science Hall," completed in 1928 and still in use, is today known as the Zumberge Hall of Science, renamed in the early 2000s to honour a former geology professor at and eventual president of the University of Southern California. It's on the University Park campus just off the 110 and a coupla blocks north of the Coliseum. FYI. You can see a more recent contemporary picture of the ZHS building here: https://imgur.com/a/14r0f0N ) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program MURDER, SHE WROTE. In colour, though cast entirely in a slurry of tan and grayish mud, earth, or rocky soil. What might be a sandy cliff, hillside, or the site of some form of excavation fills the frame; several vaguely distinguishable solid clumps of rock or soil are evident in the frame's upper right quadrant. Overlaid at the image's centre in the program's distinctive, almost cursive pale yellow Art Gothic font with an almost equally-weighted slim black dropshadow, "Joshua Peabody Died Here ...Possibly." #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program POLICE WOMAN. Colour image, a medium close-up looking slightly down at a wooden table in what is likely a workshop or laboratory. A man in a white canvas lab coat overtop a pale blue cuffed button up shirt and wearing dark coloured pants is anonymously framed from knees to elbows. In his bare right hand is a wood-handled geopick with a tapered metal head which he is preparing to strike against a small cold chisel about eight inches long and with the girth of a pinky finger or, heck, let's say a magic marker. The tip of the chisel is set in along the top edge of a grapefruit-sized lump of smooth rock or metal, which seems to have been partially embedded in a stabilising mass of what appears to be brown coloured clay*. Overlaid at the image's centre and split over three lines in a fairly standard serif font of pale yellow with a slim black dropshadow, "The Melting Point of Ice." (I suspect everyone knows the melting point of ice, but in the tradition of keeping things overwhelmingly informative, here are the melting points of several other notable substances: Beeswax melts at 64°C Neon melts at -284.6°C (that's sooo cold! how on EARTH does something *melt* when it's cold?!) and for those of you more specifically curious about the Seventh Art(s): Tungsten: 3407°C Carbon: 3500°C Celluloid doesn't melt, of course, it burns -- with an ignition point of about 165°C. And magnetic tape *sort of* "melts" at about 160°C, softening, warping, and deforming to become unusable, eventually igniting and burning at much higher temperatures (+600°C) Okay everyone, thanks for reading!) *(He may be a Lapidarist? Is this how one might begin to facet a gemstone? Please help, I am but a medium-smart man!) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program DAN AUGUST. In the soft focus colour of an aged multigenerational VHS recording, the words "DAN AUGUST" are written over two diagonal lines in a large red IMPACTful font (which may be Compacta) atop a pure black background. Overlaid in white Eurostyle text centred over three lines, "Tonight's Episode Prognosis: Homicide." (© Copyright MCMLXXI QM Productions All Rights Reserved) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Titlecard from the television program STATE TROOPER. Black and white image of a mottled grey background upon which is centred in a large capitalised white-coloured serif font with a thin black dropshadow, "The Paperhanger of Pioche." (© MCMLVI by Revue Productions, Inc., All Rights Reserved) #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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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Black and white image of Ralph Senensky's credit from the aforementioned FUGITIVE episode, "Detour on a Road Going Nowhere." The titular Fugitive (Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen, "Francis in the Haunted House")), a black-haired man wearing tan slacks and a dark blazer overtop a crisp white button-up shirt and slim black tie, walks in dark-coloured loafers toward us along a gently curving paved or gravel path through a dry, scrabbly parklike area, the sun casting a late-afternoon or early morning shadow behind him to his right. A smooth-trunked tree (birch? poplar?) rises vertically along the frame's left edge. A tubular metal handrail, constructed of two segments welded at a 45 degree angle to create a square edge, barely peeks in at the bottom right centre of the image. Overlaid in the same indeterminable plain serif midcentury font (in black with a white outline), "Directed By Ralph Senensky." (Senensky passed away this weekend. 102 years old and, according to his niece,“100 percent sharp until the end.” You may not know his name but you will have seen at least some of his work. He directed (most of!) "The Tholian Web," for heaven's sake. Also, many, many, many, MANY other hours of primetime. Very few of his ilk remain with us. Started as a typist on radio scripts, ended up directing about 200 episodes of primetime. Amazing. The Hollywood Reporter's obituary is here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ralph-senensky-dead-star-trek-waltons-dynasty-1236415780/ The first part of his Archive of American Television interview is accessible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfhYPb02F8 With the whole four hours archived here: https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/ralph-senensky ) So long, Mr. Senensky. #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 5, 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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Four screengrabs of the late Diane Ladd from this same DEADLINE episode. In an early role, Ladd is here playing the wife of a whistleblower who's working with the episode's eponymous reporter to curtail some shady Union practices. As I remember it, at least. She has a genuinely striking long-take monologue toward the end. Remarkable, from the start. In this first shot, Ladd, here a mousy, slender blonde woman in her mid 20s, has her midlength hair pulled back, bangs fringed to her brow. Centred in frame in a closeup, wearing a dark checked plaid housecoat, she stares directly at us, a key light reflected in her shimmering dark eyes, projecting profound pity. Or sadness. Or both! Behind her and out of focus, what might be floral patterned white or beige wallpaper in the room of a house or apartment. Just over her shoulder, what is likely a shaded table lamp. In this second shot she appears in 3/4 profile from the midriff up, wearing what might be a beige wool overcoat, standing in front of a closed two panel door in a white or grey room in a home or apartment. She looks at something or someone out of frame to the right, eyelids half-closed. Jaw clenched. Lips pursed. Uh oh! This third shot sees her centred from the waist up. She stands in what might be a white-walled kitchen, an open single panel door behind her. Mounted on the wall over her right shoulder a small wooden chest of 6 drawers in 2 vertical columns with a curved top edge and a scroll cut hole at its centre. Dressed in what might be a wide-collared cowl neck pullover atop a white scoop necked t-shirt with a at least 5 pale coloured horizontal stripes, she is again looking DIRECTLY AT US. Displeased? Maybe! With some questions, at the very least. Fourth and final shot. Again in the kitchen (from a slightly different angle; we now see behind her a stovetop with several cast-iron pans and a chrome coffee percolator with a flat glass top knob. A roll of paper towel hangs from a wall mounted holder at about head-level). Dressed again in the plaid checked housecoat. Again in 3/4 profile from the waist up. She stares blankly distracted into the middle distance. Mouth slightly open. Pensive. And sad. So very sad. RIP, Diane Ladd. Thanks for the memories.
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Credit card from the closing of the aforementioned DEADLINE episode "The Victor Riesel Story." Consistent with the titlecard; white Courier text over a plain black background. It reads: CAST Narrator...Paul Stewart Victor Riesel...Larry Haines Fred Lowry...Logan Field Gordon...Russell Hardie Henry Steele...Leon Stevens Judy Lowry...Diane Ladd Hoodlum...Clem Fowler Secretary...Lou Prentis #tvsky #TVSky #classictv #ClassicTV #filmsky #tvhistory
November 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM