What Was the Last Television Episode You Watched?

[Stephen Palmer]

Excellent series on the iPlayer about the recent Pompeii excavations

 

[Vladd67]

Excellent series on the iPlayer about the recent Pompeii excavations

Coincidentally I watched a few episodes of Up Pompeii last night. One of them included Jameus Bondus, OOVII. His enemy was Pussus Galouria.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Coincidentally I watched a few episodes of Up Pompeii last night. One of them included Jameus Bondus, OOVII. His enemy was Pussus Galouria.

Ooooh, centurion!

 

[Vladd67]

You wouldn't get this from Harold Pinter
What do you mean you wouldn't want it?
Oh well suit yourselves.

 

[Parson]

I have not seen any other version of Das Boot than the one being shown on Hulu now. The scenes in the submarine just scream authenticity.

 

[KGeo777]

IRONSIDE - Barbara Who? - Since I watched the sequel episode--wanted to see the first part where a nurse's aid (Vera Miles) who helped Ironside after his shooting injury (don't remember her in the pilot movie though) seeks his help after someone tries to kill her. She reveals that she has no memory of who she was before she met him and that she loves him (this seems very contrived--I am sure while the Chief wishes it was true--he realizes with her memory damaged it's an any port in the storm situation and using him as an emotional crutch). I assumed Slim Pickens was in the episode since he appears in the sequel but they added him--replacing a lesser known actor in the same part. I thought I spotted "Cindy Brady" as one of her children--sure enough, it was her.

THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of the Egyptian Queen - a ruby is stolen from an exhibit and Jim and Artie must find it to prevent the canceling of a royal wedding. As often happens, someone tries to slip Artie a mickey and he spots it in advance. Cute ending for the episode with the femme fatale who they feel pity for--and a surprise she has for them.

PETROCELLI - Face of Evil -- Kay Lenz is a waitress accused of murder. Her twin sister asks Tony to help her. But why do they never appear together? And finally--his truck gets towed for parking illegally.

 

[hitmouse]

Spymaster BBC4. Episode 1. New cold war thriller. Romanians, Russians, Americans, West Germans, East Germans. Lots of double agents, all still partially explained at the end of ep1. Le Carreish. Will continue watching.

 

[hitmouse]

Also watching what I think are episodes from the first series of Great Railway Journeys of the World on BBC iPlayer.
So far:
Mark Tully Karachi to the Khyber Pass
Clive Anderson Hong Kong to Ulan Batur
Ian Hislop Calcutta to Rajasthan

These episodes are from the very early 1990s, and I remember watching them at the time. Beautifully filmed, with great commentary from the individual presenters, who I think each wrote their own episode. The interesting thing is that these describe worlds that are now gone. So much has changed in the last 35 years.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I have not seen any other version of Das Boot than the one being shown on Hulu now. The scenes in the submarine just scream authenticity.

The original seeies is so much better than the new ones. It's set almost exclusively onboard the sub, apart from the first bit when they are preparing to set out to sea.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Shardlake

I didn't realise that this had already bern fully made and is Season 1 is all available on Disney. As a great fan of the books, the first episode shows the series to be... okay. It isn't as good as the book, but it isn't terrible. A curious choice of Sean Bean for Thomas Cromwell, being older and looking nothing like the man he is trying to portray

 

[KGeo777]

MANNIX- Penny For the Peep Show - strange title for an episode where a reluctant client tells him her uncle disappeared after leaving her with some documents and $300 000. But as they are speaking-three escaped convicts show up in the office and hold them hostage. When they find out about the money--they force her to hand it to them--but Joe and Peggy disarm two of them with a pepper shaker--and then learn after the money is burned in a car fire and the police arrive that the three were not convicts at all. What were the really after? No one seems too upset about the burning of $300 000.

COLUMBO - A Friend in Deed -- One of Columbo's toughest cases since the main suspect is his boss--the deputy commissioner of police (Richard Kiley). Also there are two murders and the first happens before the show begins (and the victim has no IMDB listing). Premiered 50 years ago today.

 

[Parson]

The original seeies is so much better than the new ones. It's set almost exclusively onboard the sub, apart from the first bit when they are preparing to set out to sea.

It seems to me that this is more than just the story of Das Boot. In the opening blurbs there is a line saying it's based on the novel Das Boot and its' sequel Die Festung. At least half the running time of the first season occurs on land focusing on the Resistance that the radio operator of Das Boot and his sister become involved in mostly by accident. The tension and situation of the sub on patrol are definitely riveting. I've finished season one and I thought it was pretty good. At the end of the first season you have a believable climax to the stories that are being told, but there is clearly more to tell. (Hulu doesn't at this time have season 2 available.) There were a lot ethical dilemmas, tense situations, and surprising decisions. I would/will view season 2 if and when it's available for no extra cost.

Avoid --- Not Recommended --- Flawed --- Okay --- Good --- Recommended --- Shouldn’t be Missed

I've also finished We Were the Luck Ones a story about a Jewish family in Poland from just before WW II until it's end. The story is riveting and seem to reflect the situation a lot of Jews found themselves in during the Nazi heyday. There were a lot sticky situations, a lot of hope where there likely shouldn't have been, a lot of luck, and a pile of determined resistance to the status quo. I would say that this story was a bit too positive for the situation, but then I run straight up against the fact that there really is a family whose story is basically what the series is portraying. I also felt that the ending was a bit a disappointment in that it probably spent too much time on the difficulty the parts of the family had in reconnecting, but I suspect I would have felt cheated if they hadn't done quite a bit of that too. So.....

Avoid --- Not Recommended --- Flawed --- Okay --- Good --- Recommended --- Shouldn’t be Missed

 

[KGeo777]

THE INVADERS - Shadow of the Valley - An invader is shot in front of a group of people so David Vincent has finally convinced people about the aliens. Trouble is, the alien posing as a military guy is forced to call his boss (Ted Knight) who has to kill everyone in the town. David Vincent and the invaders actually are working together for once since they don't want to have so much attention brought to them so he has to find a way to convince the town the aliens are a hoax.

MANNIX- The Judas Touch --A rogue cop is wanted by Joe's friend (Robert Lansing) and he has to prove that he isn't crooked. The good girl believes he is good and the bad girl is shacking up with a crook. Suspicion falls on Lansing for half a second until you realize they wouldn't set up the guest star like that so some anonymous cop is shown to be the crook.

CANNON - Come Watch Me Die -- A rogue cop is wanted by Frank's friend (John Larch) and he has to prove that he isn't crooked. The good girl believes he is good and the bad girl is shacking up with a crook. I really wish Robert Lansing was in this so it would be a perfect match.

 

[Harpo]

Parts 1&2 of Terror Of The Autons, among the greatest of Dr Who serials.

 

[KGeo777]

IRONSIDE - Murder Impromptu - Like the title, the show feels improvised. It doesn't play like your standard mystery drama. There's something so irregular about this series in later seasons. This has Perry Mason's Barbara Hale as a guest star and Roddy McDowall playing a former Hollywood child star seeking to be rediscovered. He gets a big dramatic monologue at the end.

 

[hitmouse]

Bodkin (2024) Netflix. Mystery series set in a small west Ireland fishing village in which an American podcaster goes to do a story on 3 people who disappeared on Samhain 20 years earlier. He is paired up with a very cynical Irish journalist on gardening leave from her newspaper following a story that went horribly wrong, and a sort of cub reporter who goes from embarassing to interesting over the course of the story. It all starts out a bit twee and cliched, which is probably deliberate. I have 2 episodes left and it has become much more interesting. Produced by Mr and Mrs Obama no less.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

We're watching Bodkin on Netflix too. Highly recommended! Witty, scarey, funny, mysterious. Basically a murder mystery set in a weird west Ireland town. Very engaging, we're liking it a lot.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Bodkin was brilliant! What an ending...

 

[paranoid marvin]

Inside No.9 series 9 episode

A quite brilliant episode, and I defy anyone not wanting to ho back and rewatch the episode when you know how it finishes; the clues are there.

Best episode of the whole series, and as good as anything Black Mirror did.

 

[KGeo777]

THE WILD WILD WEST - The Night of Fire and Brimstone-- Jim and Artie have to go through a mine in search of a captive. I liked it.

POLICE WOMAN - "Fish" In this episode they seem to have broken with the tradition a bit since usually the female co-stars are made to look as non glamorous as possible but somehow they didn't do that with Connie Van Dyke as a mobster's girlfriend who goes to jail. Pepper has to follow her into lock up in what is a truly fake looking set--the walls look like they are made of cardboard and decorated by a kindergarten class. I heard a theory that some shows like the WWW were cancelled because of restrictions on violence and yet Bill shoots two people dead. Anyway, the gangster's girlfriend exits the show by a drug overdose administered by a lesbian inmate (she provides the non glamour quota). In the scene, it looks like they used a stand in for Connie because she isn't wearing makeup at all it looked like they were trying to a point. BTW the star really has some fine makeup--they really seem to go the extra mile in this one to give her perfect skin.

We jumped into the 80s...

MATLOCK - Pilot - It's been a long time since I have watched this show. Griffith owns the whole thing because everyone else is such a blank and Linda Purl wasn't cast yet. Matlock's suit looks identical to Kolchak's.