Welcome to the post that will take you to Episode 151 of Eventually Supertrain! And, yes, Amanda Reyes is back. Finally!
In this episode...
FIRST! Christopher Bligh and Dan hang out with the Super Scouts from Galactica 1980.
SECOND! Dan talks about Gemini Man. With the return of Buffalo Bill.
THIRD!! Amanda and Dan begin their discussion of Season 2 of Lucan.
Please, listen and enjoy.
Belatedly, in regard to Gemini Man:
ReplyDeleteDid I ever tell you about Tatelman's Bargain Basement Bonanzas/b>?
Briefly: Harry Tatelman was an executive at MCA-Universal in the '70s, whose principal job was to figure out ways to 'repurpose' the vast amounts of film that Universal was churning out during that period - much of that being episodes of short-running TV series.
What Tatelman did was to edit together episodes of U-TV series into "features", which would then be included in MCA's packages of real features that they were selling to individual stations for use in all dayparts - bulk sales at its finest.
Any series that Universal produced during this time frame was eligible for this treatment; Gemini Man, which was dropped by NBC before its string ran out, was a prime candidate.
The way that my brother and I spotted these "features" was that Harry Tatelman would get a producer credit for shows that he'd had nothing to do with when they were made; his MCA crew was charged with spot-welding two separate hour-long episodes into a "story" with voice-overs bridging the gaps (the advantage of maintaining a contract actors list well into the '70s); MCA even did this with half-hour sitcoms, mashing as many as four episodes into "one story" (examples on request).
Sean (the aforementioned brother, now long passed on) and I started calling these "Tatelman's Bargain Basement Bonanzas" when they turned up on late-night local tv in the early '80s and beyond; later on, when the blogs came along, I started writing some of them up here and there - and now here we are ...
Actually, the first time we noticed this was when U-TV started mashing together episodes of Kolchak:The Night Stalker in this fashion for syndicated "movie" use; this was when we noticed Harry Tatelman's name for the first time, but that's another story ...
Anyway, I just thought you'd like to know, however late in the game ...