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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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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