Abbott Elementary 2.06

Candy Zombies

Everytone dresses up for Halloween including the teachers and staff. One of the students steals the candy that is supposed to be held until the end of the day. That student is dressed up as Thanos. The teachers do their best to stop him but in the end it is a student dressed as Mr. Johnson who finds and stops Thanos.

Janine contemplates her plans for Halloween night. SHe changes her pans after talking to Barbara and Melissa.

Amber, the mother of a student, flirts with Gregory.

Thoughts

This was a very fun episode. I rate it as much better than average. I chuckled several times. There were some nice character moments involving Janine and Gregory.

The New Original Wonder Woman (1975)

The New Original Wonder Woman (1975)

starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner

directed by Leonard Horn

74 minutes

A German plan to bomb the Brooklyn Navy tards is foiled by Major Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner). He parachutes out of his plane as it was destroyed while stopping the German plane that was sent to bomb the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He lands on Paradise Island. He is unconscious when he is found by Diana (Lynda Carter), Princess of the Amazons.

Queen Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, decides that Major Trevor must be returned to the United States. She holds a contest to determine which Amazon will undertake this mission. All of the Amazons taking part in the contest are masked and wear numbers. In the end it comes down to a contest of bullets and bracelets between the two Amazons who score the highest, numbers 8 and 33. The winner (33) reveals herself to be Diana, after she has won the contest of bullets and bracelets.

Un Village Français 4.04

Une évasion

or An Escape

Jul 23, 1942

Judith brings back food and news about the children to the adult Jewish prisoners. She says she will need a couple more women to help look after the children. Marianna Cohn tries to volunteer but Judith refuses the offer. Mrs. Cohn objects but Judith says that Marianna is hysterical and will just make the situation worse for the children. Marianna commits suicide minutes later in the bathroom, using a pair of scissors.

Ezéchiel, Marianna's husband, starts to act strange. Judith can see that he is up to something. She tells Doctor Larcher while he is at the school checking on people who are sick. Daniel and Judith corner Mr. Cohn. They make him promise not to try to escape.

Ride the High Country (1962)

Ride the High Country (1962)

starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea

directed by Sam Peckinpah

94 minutes

Former lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) hires Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott), his former partner in crime fighting, and Heck Longtree to help him transport gold from a mining camp back to town. They pick up Elsa, a preacher's daughter who wants their help getting away from her father, on the way to the mining camp. There she she hopes to find Billy Hammond, who once proposed to her. Westrum and Longtree have plans to double cross Judd.

Not everything goes as planned. Heck falls for Elsa who rebuffs his advances until they get her to Hammond. She soon discovers that Billy (and his four unmarried brothers) is much scarier than she remembered. Judd and Heck insist on doing the right thing and rescue Elsa from Billy and his brothers. Elsa is already married at this point which complicates things further.

It isn't long before they discover, as they are trying to get the gold back to town, that the Hammond brothers are on their tail.

Inuyasha 1.01

The Girl Who Overcame Time... and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome

Inuyasha, a young half demon, living hundreds of years in the past, is stopped by a young woman named Kikyo who shoots him in the shoulder with a magic arrow. Kikyo was wounded herself and dies from her wounds. She begs Kaede, her younger sister, to make sure that the Shikon Jewel, that Inuyasha was after, is burned along with her body.

Kagome, a 15-year-old girl, living in the late 20th century, is sucked down a well in a shrine and finds herself hundreds of years in the past. It is 50 years since Kikyo stopped Inuyasha. He is asleep and still attached to the tree by the arrow with which Kikyo shot him. He wakes up when he senses the presence of the Shikon Jewel.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.06.04

The Invasion of Time - Part Four

Andred attempts to shoot the Doctor with his blaster but it doesn't work inside the TARDIS. The doctor has K-9 poke around in the Matrix. K-9 finds a way to create a hole in the force field protecting Gallifrey. He hopes that this will convince the Vardans to reveal themselves.

Kelner send some of his guards to deal with Andred's compatriots. The guards, sent by Kelner, kill Andred's allies who are standing outside the TARDIS. The Doctor exits the TARDIS and sends the guards that Kelner sent off on a wild goose chase.

The Doctor then goes to see the Vardans. He explains to them that he has found a way to create a hole in the force field surrounding Gallifrey. The Vardans are pleased. One of them goes with the Doctor as he deals with the force field. The Vardans materialize once the force field has dropped. 

Paranoia Agent 1.03

Double Lips

The two detectives continue to investigate the Shonen Bat case. They can't talk to Yuichi because he is unconscious.

Chono Harumi lives a double life. She is a university student by day. She sometimes tutors Yuichi Taira (see previous episode) but she also works as a prostitute named Maria. Maria and Harumi are two distinct personalities that inhabit the same body. Maria leaves messages on Harumi's answering machine and in her voice mail.

Harumi tries to distance herself from Maria. She accepts an offer of marriage from her faculty advisor. She packs up Maria's belongings but Maria refuses to put aside. Harumi visits Yuichi in the hospital. He tells her about how relieved he is that Lil' Slugger, Shonen Bat, attacked him. He is no longer a suspect because he was attacked.

Moonlighting 2.02

The Lady in the Iron Mask

Maddie and David are hired by Barbara Wiley, a woman who hides her face behind a mask and has a raspy voice. She wants the Blue Moon Detective Agency to find a man who named Harbert who just got out of prison. He was locked up for throwing acid in her face years ago, just before she got married. Harbert claimed that he was in love with her. 

David and Maddie argue about whether they should take the case. He thinks they should. She does not. He finally talks her into taking the case. They find Harbert working as a tour guide. He tells them to tell Barbara Wiley that they couldn't find him.

Harbert turns up dead the next day. Maddie and David suspect that Barbara Wiley might be the killer. They try to talk to her about the murder but she doesn't want to talk. They stakeout the hotel where she is staying. They follow her but then notice something different about her. They discover that the person they've been following, the one beneath the veil is not Barbara but her husband.

David and Maddie get into an argument. They return to the hotel separately. They are both disguised as Barbara. They both get the key to her room. Hilarity ensues.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.22

The Colonel's Reunion

Colonel Hall starts to make serious progress in shutting down Bilko's gambling operations. Bilko schemes to get Colonel Hall out of town for a weekend. Bilko's scheme works but then Colonel Hall orders Bilko to come come with him and his wife to a regimental reunion.

Bilko sees how poorly the other veterans at the regimental reunion are treating Colonel Hall and decides that he has to do something about it.

Thoughts

You can count this among the episodes where Bilko puts on a disguise to convince someone do something.

This was a fun episode. I like how things flip flop more than once in this episode.

Pusher (1996)

Pusher (1996)

starring Kim Bodnia

directed by Nicholas Winding Refn

110 minutes

Danish with English subtitles

Most things go horribly wrong for Frank, a drug dealer, over the course of a week. He owes money to Milo, his supplier. An old acquaintance approaches Frank looking to buy a large amount of drugs. Frank brokers a deal with Milo, who is skeptical but goes along with it. The sale to the old acquaintance goes badly. The police show up just as the sale is about to go down. Frank gets away (temporarily) and throws the drugs in the lake. The police hold Frank for 24 hours but don't have enough to keep holding him.

The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

The Six Million Dollar Man (1973)

starring Lee Majors, Martin Balsalm

directed by Richard Irving

74 minutes

Former NASA Astronaut Steve Austin (Lee Majors) is testing an airplane for the Air Force when it malfunctions. He is unable to land the plane safely. He loses his right arm, left eye, and parts of both his legs when he crash lands the plane. Oliver Spencer of the OSO (a covert government agency) offers Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin Balsam), Austin's friend, the means to repair Steve's body.

Rudy pulls Austin out of an induced coma and explains to him what is going to happen but doesn't tell him everything. One day Steve wakes up to find that his arm, his eye, and his legs have been replaced or augmented. It takes him time to learn and get used to his new limbs but now he is stronger and faster than he ever was before.

Un Village Français 4.03

Mille et une nuits

or A Thousand and One Nights

Bériot makes it back to his house the next morning. He tries to hide the truth from Lucienne but winds up telling her what happened. Crémieux makes it to Marie Germain's farm. He still doesn't know that his wife has been taken to the school. Marie agrees to go down the road try calling his house.

Bériot goes to the school. He talks to Anna Crémieux. She asks him to bring Hélène, her daughter, to the school. He sends Lucienne to pick up Hélène and bring her to the school. Lucienne gets there and finds Hélène but then Marchetti and a couple other policemen show up. They search the place. They know that Crémieux was one of the men who ran from the police the night before. They don't know that Bériot was the other one.

The Thing from Another World (1951)

The Thing from Another World (1951)

starring Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite

directed by Christian Nyby

87 minutes

Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) leads a team of soldiers near the North Pole who investigate the crash of what turns out to be a UFO. Trapped in the ice they find a humanoid shape. They bring the humanoid shape, trapped in a block of ice, back to the research station which reported the crash. 

The attempts to keep the block of ice frozen are undone when a soldier covers it with a blanket. A creature emerges from the block of ice. The soldiers and scientists at the frozen research station soon learn that the creature is more vegetable than animal and that it feeds on blood. 

Sherman's Showcase 1.08

Ray J's Showcase

Sherman steps into the twilight zone and finds himself trapped in world where he is a bit player on someone else's show. It takes him a minute to figure out what is going on and who is behind it all.

This is the best episode since the first couple. What took them so long to come up with another good idea for an episode? I actually felt engaged in this episode. I enjoyed the reveal towards the end of the episode. It kind of made sense.

I'm not sold on coming back to watch the second season. There were considerably more misses than hits this season. I might but I'm not leaning in that direction at the moment even though I really liked this episode.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.06.03

The Invasion of Time - Part Three

The Doctor explains to the Time Lords that the Vardans, the creatures who just materialized, are in charge now. The Doctor and Borusa meet in the Doctor's newly redecorated office. It is lined in lead which provides the barrier he needs to finally tell Borusa what's going on.

Leela and Rodan make their way out of the Citadel and into the wilderness that surrounds the city. They run into Andred as they are leaving the Citadel. They meet other people, savages, in the wilderness led by a man named Nesbin.

The Doctor speaks to Castellan Kelner and has him make a list of any Time Lords who might cause trouble. The Doctor then asks Kelner to have them rounded up and expelled from the Citadel. The Vardans express some doubt when it comes to the Doctor's plans but he explains that the expelled Time Lords won't stand a chance in the wilderness.

Paranoia Agent 1.02

The Golden Shoes

The investigation into the mysterious assailant continues. An accusatory finger gets pointed at Yuichi Taira, the most popular 6th grader in his elementary school. He goes from being the person that everyone wants to know and hang out with to a pariah. He was running for president of the student council. His only competition was Shogo Ushiyama, a new kid in school who is overweight and lousy at sports.

Yuichi starts to have a mental breakdown. He starts hallucinating. The hallucinations get worse as the episode progresses. His mother throws a birthday party for him but none of his classmates show up. On the day of the student council election he stays in bed and refuses to go to school. The episode ends with Yuichi getting attacked by Shonen Bat.

The Bigamist (1953)

The Bigamist (1953)

starring Joan Fontaine, Edmond O’Brien, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn

directed by Ida Lupino

80 minutes

Harry (Edmond O’Brien) and Eve Graham (Joan Fontaine) are looking to adopt a child because they are unable to have one of their own. The adoption agency puts Mr. Jordan (Edmund Gwenn) in charge of vetting them. He discovers, in the process of looking into their background, that Harry has a second wife. Harry explains his situation to Jordan, once Jordan has cornered him. 

Harry and Eve had been married for a little over seven years when he met Phyllis (Ida Lupino), his second wife. He didn’t tell Phyllis when they met that he was already married. He kept that fact from her until she inadvertently discovered that he had been seen with another woman, Eve. He wanted to tell Eve and get a divorce but circumstances made it difficult for him to do that.

Moonlighting 2.01

Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?

Maddie needs to come up with $35,000 in a hurry or else the IRS is going to seize her house. Richard, David's brother, comes to town. He is loaded, with cash which he found in his car. He doesn't say anything to David and Maddie about how he got the money. He lets them think that he came by it honestly.

David borrows $37,000 from Richard. The next day he gives the money to Maddie. He tells her that he found it in an old bank account that the detective agency has that he forgot. Maddie is very grateful and doesn't question David's story. Ms. DiPesto is another story. The agency only has one bank account that she knows of.

Mr. Navarone, the man who left the money ($100,000) in Richard's car, travels from Philadelphia, PA to Los Angeles, CA looking for Richard and the money. He gets the two Addison brothers mixed up. He assaults David in the bathroom outside of the Blue Moon Detective Agency's offices.

Frida (2002)

Frida (2002)

starring Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina

directed by Julie Taymor

122 minutes

This is the story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) from the time she was crippled in a bus crash until she died. Her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) plays a big part in the story. The movie is a feast visually. The threads that run through it are Frida's relationship with Diego and her artwork.

I've seen some of Frida Kahlo's artwork here and there but I am not very familiar with it. The movie in some ways feels like it was made primarily to bring Frida's artwork to the masses. I think it stretches and tries to cover a little too much ground in terms of Frida's life. It is not in my experience uncommon for biopics to do that. It does get a little exhausting, especially in the last 30-40 minutes.

I'm glad I've seen this movie. I don't love it. It didn't give me a lot to think about. It is visually stunning. I couldn't help but feel that the scenes in Mexico should have, for the most part, been in Spanish.

Wonder Woman (1974)

Wonder Woman (1974)

starring Cathy Lee Crosby

directed by Vincent McEveety

75 minutes

Princess Diana (Cathy Lee Crosby) must track down a missing set of books that contain the names of the United States' top secret agents. Abner Smith (Ricardo Montalban), the mastermind behind the theft of the books, send some of his agents to prevent Wonder Woman from accomplishing her mission. Steve Trevor, her boss, provides assistance and guidance but leaves most of the work up to Wonder Woman.

Mr. Smith's agents aren't quite up the task of dealing with Wonder Woman so he recruits Ahnjayla, one of her sisters, to help him stop her. George, Abner's right hand man, double crosses his own subordinates (Cass and Bob) and tries to do the same to Abner. George's boss proves to be a little more resourceful than George realized. 

Un Village Français 4.02

A Jour Sans Pain

or A Day Without Bread

Most of the Jewish people at the school are hungry but a few of them have food which they refuse to share with the others. Judith Morhange is made the spokesperson for the the people being held at the school. She gets a chance to talk to Jules Bériot. He can't offer much in the way of support. He has problems of his own.

The gendarmes decide that they need to store some mechanical supplies in the basement of the school. The printing press is still there. Bériot is given three hours to get the place cleared out. He talks to Crémieux about it. Crémieux has problems of his own. He needs to get his wife out of town because she is Jewish and originally from Austria.

Sherman's Showcase 1.07

White Music

This episode is mostly about White acts that appeared on Sherman's Showcase. One of them is Sofia Salvatore. She was the first White acts to appear on Sherman's Showcase. She also (kind of, sort of) guest hosts this episode. There are four or five musical performances, including one by Sofia Salvatore. There is one by a country music act who sings a song about a raccoon that NASA sent to the Moon. There are also a few classic commercials including one that involves Frederick Douglass.

Sofia Salvatore was played by Eliza Coupe. I know her best from Future Man and Casual.

This was an okay episode. It wasn't worse than most of the other episodes but aside from a few laughs it doesn't make me want to watch more of this show, once I am done with this season.

Doctor Who (1963) 15.06.02

The Invasion of Time - Part Two

Leela tries to interfere with whatever is harming the Doctor. Chancellor Borusa tries to claim that the Matrix has rejected the Doctor but his argument is rejected. The Doctor is taken to one of Borusa's offices. He wakes up and orders the guards to expel Leela from the Citadel.

Leela runs off. The guards run after her but are unable to catch her. The Doctor is left alone in the office but Andred leaves a couple guards outside the door. The Doctor finds a secret door that leads out in another direction and returns to the TARDIS. Leela sees him and follows him, from a distance.

Castellan Kellner, watching on CCTV, sees the Doctor and Leela in the corridors of the Citadel and orders Andred to capture Leela and bring the Doctor back. Leela continues to evade capture and meets Rodan, a woman who is in charge of an outer space traffic control system. Rodan tells Leela that they have nothing to fear as long as the transduction barrier remains intact.

Paranoia Agent 1.01

Enter Lil' Slugger

Animator Tsukiko Sagi is attacked while walking home at night. Two police officers interrogate Tsukiko about the incident but she doesn't tell them much. All she can remember about the attacker is that he looked like he was in 5th or 6th grade, wielded a bat, and was wearing gold colored rollerblades.

Akio Kawazu, a sleazy gossip magazine writer, finds Tsukiko and tries to get her to tell her story. She isn't anymore forthcoming with him than she was with the policemen. Kawazu thinks the attack didn't really happen. He shows up at her apartment after stopping her on the street, earlier in the day. She tries to run but her injury slows her down. The kid on the rollerblades shows up again but this time he hits Akio with the bat. He stops in front of Tsukiko, tells her he's home, and then skates off.

Broadchurch 1.08

Episode Eight

Tom Miller and his father are brought in for questioning. Alec interviews Tom. He asks him about his computer. Tom lies at first but once he knows that Alec has his computer and some of the messages between Tom and Danny, he opens up. 

The killer gets tired of hiding. He still has Danny's phone. He turns it on. Alec tracks it back to the Miller's residence. Joe Miller, Ellie's husband, is arrested and confesses to killing Danny. He claims that he was in love with Danny but that he did nothing except hold him. He got angry and killed Danny by accident when Danny threatened to to tell about them.

Ellie finds out about it from Alec. She loses it both before and after she talks to Joe. Alec also breaks the news to the Latimer family. Ellie makes an attempt to talk to Beth but Beth doesn't believe that Ellie didn't know anything.

Abbott Elementary 2.05

Juice

Janine gets the school to change the juice that the students are given each day. Barbara warned Janine not to do it. The new juice comes in larger containers with more juice which leads the students to have to use the bathroom more frequently.

Melissa has trouble with Ashley, her new teacher's aide.

Thoughts

They never really explain how it is that Janine got the school to switch juice. She urged the school to change the juice served at the school but how exactly did that translate to the school making the change?

This was a good one. It wasn't the best but it was solidly good.

Bottoms (2023)

Bottoms (2023)

starring Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri

directed by Emma Seligman

92 minutes

PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) lie about having spent time fighting for their lives in juvie, over the summer, and start a fight club for female students at their high school. They are hoping to get a chance to score with a couple of the cheerleaders. They find a teacher who is willing to be the group's faculty advisor and the club takes off.

The club is a success until one of the football players does a little digging and discovers the truth (about juvie and the reasons for starting the club). He shares it with the whole school. This creates a major setback for PJ and Josie.

Un Village Français 4.01

Le Train

or The Train

20 July 1942

A train carrying foreign Jews stops in Villeneuve. Daniel Larcher suggests that they could be housed in the school until another train arrives to take them away. Bériot isn't happy with this plan but Larcher doesn't give him any choice in the matter. Larcher doesn't know about the printing press in the basement of the school that Crémieux is using to print anti-German propaganda.

Raymond Schwartz finds out that Jeanine has helped her father to get a piece of his business. He also starts an affair with the new housekeeper after finding out that Jeanine is having an affair with Chassagne, her lawyer. His leg is damaged and he is an invalid for the present.

Five Came Back 1.03

The Price of Victory

This episode follows the the five directors through the end of their service and into their civilian lives after the war.

Topics discussed include

• the D-Day landing (Stevens, Ford)
• Ford's service in the war comes to an end in disgrace
• the liberation of Paris (Stevens)
• the liberation of Rome (Wyler)
• Wyler's visit to the town where he was born in France
• Wyler's service in the war comes to an end with disability (deafness)
• the liberation of Dachau (Stevens)
• end of the war in Europe
• end of the war in the Pacific
• Liberty Films (Capra, Wyler, Stevens)
• the post war films of George Stevens

Doctor Who (1963) 15.06.01

The Invasion of Time - Part One

The Doctor lands the TARDIS on a Vardan spaceship. He leaves Leela and K-9 in the TARDIS and meets with the Vardans. He makes a deal with them and then returns to the TARDIS. Leela tries to figure out what the Doctor is up to while he is gone but he locked the controls to the TARDIS.

The Doctor takes the TARDIS and his companions to Gallifrey. A troop of guards are waiting for him when he arrives. The Doctor insists on talking to Chancellor Borusa. The Doctor insists that he is the rightful leader of the High Council of Gallifrey. He asks that he be formally recognized as such.

Chancellor Borusa objects but the Doctor points out that while he may only be the President-elect, Borusa is similarly only the Chancellor-elect. Castellan Kelner is considerably more amenable to the Doctor's requests. The ceremony is arranged. The Doctor is invested as President of the High Council. The episode ends with the Doctor falling down in pain at the end of the ceremony as the crown is placed on his head.

Arcadia of My Youth (1982)

Arcadia of My Youth (1982)

starring Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama

directed by Tomoharu Katsumata

130 minutes

in Japanese with English subtitles

Harlock returns to Earth which is now occupied by an army of aliens. Some humans continue to resist the aliens, others are working with them. Halock goes looking for an old friend, Maya. Harlock finds a new friend, Tochiro, before he finds Maya. Harlock and Tochiro are captured Zoll, a man from the planet Tokarga. He uses a piece to technology to reveal to them that their ancestors were once friends.

Harlock goes looking for Maya once again. This time he finds her but they get separated after they are attacked by the aliens. Tochiro meets Emereldas, the captain of a pirate ship that just crashed on Earth. Tochiro helps to repair her ship.

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin

directed by Delmer Daves

92 minutes

Down-on-his-luck rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) agrees to get Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), a notorious gang leader, on to the train to Yuma. The two men crossed paths earlier that same day when Ben and his gang were robbing a stagecoach. Dan didn’t interfere with the robbery because he was outnumbered and because he had his sons, both fairly young, with him. Ben is later caught by the authorities.

Dan is desperate for money to feed his family. It isn’t until the man who owns the stagecoach offers $200 to anyone who is willing to get Ben on the train to Yuma that Ben steps up. Ben repeatedly offers Dan considerably more money if Dan will just let him go but Dan refuses Ben’s offers. Ben points out that his gang will be back to free him and that they won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in their way. Dan insists on completing the job he was hired to do despite the impossible odds.

Broadchurch 1.07

Episode Seven

Alec wakes up in the hospital. Ellie is there. She's angry at him for not tellling her about his heart condition. She leaves him in the hospital but before long he checks himself out and heads back to work.

Ellie continues the questioning of Susan Wright, without Alec. She finally gets Susan to start opening up. Susan tells Ellie about her life before she moved to town. She also tells Ellie about how she saw something from the cliffs on the night of the murder and headed down to the beach.

Ellie pokes holes in Susan's story. Susan finally admits that she was on the beach and saw a boat come in to the beach. The man in the boat came ashore and dropped Danny's body off and then left. It takes some more prodding but she finally admits that it was Nige. She also explains that she thinks Nige is her son.

Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

directed, produced, and co-written by Roger Corman

72 minutes

Seymour Krelborn (Johnathan Haze) is about to get fired from his job at Mushnick's flower shop when he convinces Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles), his boss, to give him one more chance. He brings in the unusual plant that he has been growing at home. He calls it the Audrey Junior. He named it after Audrey (Jackie Joseph), his coworker, on whom he has a crush.

The plant is carnivorous. He gets it to grow larger by feeding it some of his own blood. The plant grows and gets hungrier. Seymour accidentally kills a man and then feeds the body to the plant. It grows bigger. Mr. Mushnik finds out about it but isn't sure what to do. The plant is an attraction that brings in lots of new business.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.21

Cyrano de Bilko

Bilko helps one of his men who is too shy to talk to the woman on whom he has a crush. Bilko gets concerned when he learns that Harold (the soldier) and Natalie are going to get married. He investigates and thinks he finds out that Natatlie is an older woman who is after Harold's money. It turns out that Bilko jumped to conclusions a little too quickly. Bilko almost ends up having to marry Natalie's aunt whose name is also Natalie.

Thoughts

Lee Meriweather played the part of the younger Natalie. This episode is her only appearance on this show. I know her best from Batman (1966) in which she played Catwoman.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn

directed by Howard Hawks

91 minutes

Showgirl Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) is eager to get married to Gus Esmond. She travels by ship with Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell), her best friend, to Paris expecting that Esmond will be eager and willing to marry her when they arrive. Lorelei tries to get Dorothy hooked up and hitched to a rich man like Gus but Dorothy has other ideas and instead falls for Ernie Malone. He's a private detective who has been hired by Esmond's father to dig up some dirt on his son's fiancée. Shaw discover Ernie's real reason being on the ship until later in the movie.

Five Came Back 1.02

Combat Zones

The story of the exploits of the five film directors continues in this episode. The story picks up where it left off and goes up to just before D-Day in 1944. The same talking heads that appeared in the first episode are also in this one. Once again there are archival interviews the five directors at the center of this story.

Topics discussed include 

• difference between war in the movies and the reality of war
• use of animaiton in the Why We Fight series and in the Private Snafu shorts
• Wyler's abortive role in making a movie about Black soldiers in the US Army
• the spill over from Ford's civilian working relationship with Daryl Zanuck