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Ok, I have now watched all 5 seasons of this show, from the 70's. LOL, much of it was like watching it anew, due to the length of time between seeing this show. Some episodes excellent, some not so good. In a few cases, too many re-visits, eg. cross-over episodes with "The Bionic Woman", number of bigfoot episodes. I had forgotten that Andre the Giant only portrayed Bigfoot, the first time, afterwards it was Tim ("Lurch") Cassidy. Many guest stars/appearances by stars at that time, eg. Monte Markham, Robert Loggia, John Saxon, Farrah Fawcett, Eric Estrada, Pamela Hensley, Suzanne Sommers ... I did notice Kim Basinger had a bit part in one episode S4.

The packaging on the S4 set is poorly done, 8 DVDs stacked on one spindle. I had a good laugh while watching one episode in S5, Steve comes around a corner, while driving an RV and needs to cross "the collapsing bridge". It triggered memories of my visit to Universal Studios in the summer of '74 and having to cross that same bridge aboard the "glam-tram". I pulled out photos from that trip, I have a pic of the bridge, Frankenstein's monster with it's hands around my throat, ditto with the Phantom of the Opera, other parts of the tour: runaway train, rockslide, burning house, Psycho House, stunt show. I remember when we went through the sound stage area, we saw the sets from "Ironside's" office, bank interior from "Here's Lucy". At the end of the tour in the visitor's pavilion there were appearances by Telly Savalas and Bob Newhart.

A couple of space related episodes had Steve still going up in capsules, a launch of a Saturn 1B got scrubbed, later the launch is done with a Saturn V. When leaving an asteroid mining project the "lift-off" is from one of the lunar missions, as much of the launch footage is NASA footage spliced in. IIRC, Steve mentions that he went to the Moon aboard Apollo 17.

All in all, I enjoyed watching the shows again, I know some episodes I will be re-visiting again.

That sounds really fun. I think I might have to do that, as well as "The Bionic Woman". Those were my favorite shows when I was a child. I had the dolls, the laboratory, a t-shirt - it was my obsession when I was six. LOL.

And there's something to be said for sitting down a watching a single television show from start to finish. I just did that with Buffy and Angel recently, and I came away liking the shows even more.

Binge watching allows a continuity that you can't get waiting for each episode to come out. Not to mention the long breaks between seasons.

I guess if you've got that kind of time....
I loved 6MDM, I had the dolls too. And I also remember that bridge at universal. There's also the "tunnel" that got you to the alien's secret cave.

Thumper wrote:I guess if you've got that kind of time....

I will when we get on our boat again...

Thumper wrote:I guess if you've got that kind of time....
I loved 6MDM, I had the dolls too. And I also remember that bridge at universal. There's also the "tunnel" that got you to the alien's secret cave.

Yeah, I didn't get to see the tunnel, as it came a couple of years after my visit to Universal. No Jaws either, on my visit. I did some web browsing, the tunnel is now an entrance to "The Mummy's Tomb", the rockslide area became some Battlestar Gallactica display late 70's and is now something else again.

To go off on a bit of a different tangent, there is a "Man From U.N.C.L.E." movie coming out in August. It would be neat, if Robert Vaughn and David McCallum did some sort of cameo appearances. After seeing a repeat episode from an earlier season of NCIS, I had that chuckle again, Kate asking Gibbs what Duckie looked like when he was younger, Gibbs after thinking about it, replies "Ilya Kuryakin".