tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post8262552296125900199..comments2024-03-28T14:49:36.133-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-TV Blogging: The Immortal: "The Rainbow Butcher" (October 22, 1970)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-91146395423965229232018-02-02T01:39:00.594-05:002018-02-02T01:39:00.594-05:00John,
The "Lost In Space" connection th...John,<br /><br />The "Lost In Space" connection this week is writer Jack Turley, who gave voice to Doctor Smith in "Hunter's Moon," and to Ben Richards in "The Rainbow Butcher." I suspect that after sixteen weeks of this, you might be sick of me pointing it out, but I can't help myself. It must have been liberating going from writing for what was, for all intents and purposes, a kid's show (which the kid in me still loves), to a show for the grown-ups.<br /><br />Vic Morrow made a career out of playing surprisingly likeable bastards, didn't he? He is nothing less than stellar in that 70's classic film, "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry." He imbues his characters with real humanity. I felt for a moment in this episode that he was going to be revealed as a soft-hearted sheriff who isn't a bad guy after all, but then that formula reared its ugly head again and his second and third dimensions were rendered inert, leaving a one dimensional character for him to attempt to humanize.<br /><br />This week, Ben has two girls in his latest port; you forgot to mention the woman who picked him up prior to the proceedings and flirts with Ben like it's going out of style. And style was everything in those days.<br /><br />This show wears its sexism on its sleeve and dares you to knock it off, like Robert Conrad and his batteries. Christopher George might as well be the Marlboro Man with super-healing blood powers. He's immune to all diseases, so you'd think he'd be smoking every chance he got. I can't deny it's all very entertaining. If you look at this series as a time capsule and enjoy the ride, there's lots of fun to be had. I just wonder how much cribbing is going on from "The Fugitive," and if some of these plotlines were recycled beat for beat from earlier series.<br /><br />Still, it was a nice change of pace to not have Richards running from Maitland's goons this week. Poor Charley, we hardly knew ye.<br /><br />Steve Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13101722769411384962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-7971183294287815622018-02-01T21:28:05.784-05:002018-02-01T21:28:05.784-05:00There was one "woman on the run" series ...There was one "woman on the run" series back in 1984 called HOT PURSUIT. Kerrie Keane plays a woman falsely convicted of a murder whose husband breaks her out of jail and they go on the run looking for the real culprint.Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115560031429228529noreply@blogger.com