All right, follow along with me on this one. In 1986, CBS aired a TV movie that featured a very high concept. In the 1890’s, way back in the Wild West, a criminal gang just robbed a bank. The town’s sheriff – who once ran with those criminals and later turned to a life of…
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They Shall Not Grow Old: An incredible film restoration project
I am a huge fan of restored motion pictures and vintage films. Back when AMC was “American Movie Classics,” they would host an annual weekend “Film Preservation Festival” on TV, with commercial-free broadcasts of restored and preserved films – such as the Todd-AO version of Oklahoma, the roadshow version of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad,…
Read MoreDid Time After Time throw a new time-travel wrinkle into their show?
I was really looking forward to the new ABC fantasy drama Time After Time, based on the 1979 motion picture about H.G. Wells chasing using a time machine to chase Jack the Ripper to modern times. And although I was kinda feeling the blahs about the show – I mean, the fact that Jack the…
Read MoreSo there are FOUR different time travel TV shows next season…
There is an old adage from comedian and raconteur Fred Allen, in that “imitation is the sincerest form of television.” In other words, if one TV network plans to air a certain type of high-concept program, you can be assured that another network will create a similar program. It happened a few years ago, when,…
Read More“Time After Time” – The TV Series gets a greenlight!
This year’s massacre of popular television shows has had me a bit on edge. Nashville got the axe. No surprise there, the show had been operating on soap opera hysteria for the past two seasons or so. Galavant got the axe. I’m saddened by this, but I’m glad we did get two seasons of this…
Read More“Time After Time” – 1979 movie, 2016 TV series?
I was a HUGE fan of the 1979 science fiction time travel movie Time After Time, in which H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) chased Jack the Ripper (David Warner) through the streets of modern-day San Francisco. It was suspenseful, it was funny, it was one of those films that I saw in the theater – and…
Read MoreNew York City classic commercials from the 70’s
Back in ancient times, in the days when we didn’t have 4,000 channels from Time Warner Cable, we made do with our local channels and a few extra – mostly WPIX-11 in New York City and WSBK-38 in Boston. I want to take today’s blog post and focus on the New York City advertisements, for…
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“I have that Answers Please episode on videotape…”
Nearly 35 years to the day of its first – and only – broadcast, a rare and treasured piece of my history has resurfaced. The tape’s recovery and its contents… make for one of my most reflective blog posts of all time.
Read MoreA blogging flashback: March 2010
I was doing some maintenance to some of the old blog posts of mine – repairing old YouTube links and URL’s, for example – and I came across this old video clip of an event from three years ago. In March 2010, the Times Union hosted a blogging get-together at the College of Saint Rose.…
Read MoreFive places I would go.
I’ve taken you loyal, dedicated readers on a journey through my life. Every time I post something on this nearly three-year-long association with the Times Union, I’ve brought you closer to parts of my history – both good and bad, both uplifting and depressing. It’s part of what I do. But I thought for a…
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Chuck The Writer 