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I recognize that logo on Lemont Brown's shirt in today's edition of Candorville.
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He was on the other side of the cameras of M*A*S*H from day one.

Yes, he had a long run. But, still...attention must be paid.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/gene-reynolds-mash-co-creator-dead-obituary-947905/
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Sad news, and a day old already...but CBC brought interviews with her and David Gerrold about The Original Series' 50th anniversary out of storage for the occasion of her passing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/star-trek-fontana-writer-1.5384702
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Yes, I saw some of his 007 work.

But for me? His Saintly adventures on the silver screens of our living rooms are worthy of our better attentions.

Vaya con dios, Sir Roger.
dewline: Text: Education Equals Entertainment (edutainment)
For this morning's entertainment, something I stumbled across with the help of the Evening Standard. I've seen episodes of only a near-literal handful of the shows referenced in this map, but it's a fascinating document in any case. I think I've seen similar maps for The Fugitive (original series), for SF&F-specific shows filmed across North America, and for TV shows and movies filmed in the Vancouver and Toronto regions as well.

http://timritz.com/tvmap-explore
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I am reminded of another anniversary of another fictional disaster today. One depicted 40 years ago on TV, about 24 years before it was depicted as doomed to happen.

I won't break out any celebratory beverages...but if you remember Space: 1999, you might keep what's left of the Alphans in your thoughts tonight.
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
As Mark Dawidziak quotes Arthur Miller: Attention must be paid. Due credit should be given.

Chris Carter paid attention and gave due credit. So did Joss Whedon. And others as well in more recent times.

And so we all shall. For Jeff Rice, creator of Carl Kolchak, author of The Kolchak Papers that begat The Night Stalker, is no more.
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
John Steed has indeed left the Ministry.

Reported by Macnee's own website. Confirmed by BBC and CBC news staff.

Granted, at 93, he had a good run. I would have liked to personally thank him for the fun he brought to my childhood via the television. But one cannot have everything...
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
So many of my favourites...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glen-a-larson-dead-battlestar-748879
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I know that some of you here are old enough to remember Maverick. For me, it was The Rockford Files that introduced me to the man.

Thanks be for DVDs, and the tech to follow, huh?

Rest well, Mr. Garner. And thanks for everything.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/james-garner-dead-at-86-1.2712469
dewline: Quotation: "Don't Yield, Back SHIELD" (SHIELD)
Is it wrong that, when I learned that Fitz' full first name is "Leopold", I immediately leaped to thinking of the orchestra conductor that Bugs Bunny impersonated in order to effect Giovanni Jones' doom in "Long-Haired Hare"?

(For some reason, I mixed up the doomed Mr. Jones with the conductor at first.)
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CBC Music's Tom Allen gives us a bit of musical history...presented in a somewhat unorthodox yet still logical fashion. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] robertjsawyer via his Facebook postings for this one.

dewline: Exclamation: "Hear, Hear!" (celebration)
Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thebitterguy for pointing this out via Facebook earlier tonight!

To explain:

Back in the early 1990's, I learned of this little treasure on TVOntario put together by Rick Green, Mark Askwith and a bunch of other people called Prisoners of Gravity.

It was a show about science fiction, each instalment covering a different theme or sub-genre. Interviews with most of the names of the day, whether from novels, comics, TV...it was Space Channel before we actually had Space Channel on the cable dials of Canada.

When it went off the air for the last time, word got out that legal issues of one sort or another would likely do a "WKRP"-style number on hopes of ever seeing it again within the law.

Looks like TVO won the good fight, people:

http://archive.tvo.org/program/119701

Go. Enjoy.
dewline: Quotation: "I grieve with thee" (Grief)
By way of short-hand explanation:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/10/01/obit-cannell-stephen-tv.html

This guy built a large chunk of my TV fun in younger days. [livejournal.com profile] black13 wrote what I consider a very good obituary for him. I recommend that you go read it here.

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