Tuesday, November 09, 2010
The Cult-TV Faces of: The Dogged Pursuer
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
Fun!
ReplyDelete12.) one Bialar Crais from Farscape. Unless I'm much mistaken, in the first season episode "That Old Black Magic"
11.) Pearl - MST3K
"The dogged persuer" ha! I love that. Hysterical.
ReplyDeleteOkay, my contributions:
Frame 5: Francis from Logan's Run TV series.
Frame 6: Jack Colvin from The Incredible Hulk TV series
Frame 7: Baltar from battlestar Galactica TV series
Frame 13: The Blue-hand dudes or Hands Of Blue [not to be confused with the Blue Man Group] from Firefly.
and as Woodchuckgod mentioned- the excellent Bialar Crais from Farscape for Frame 12 and I think he got the episode right too!
Great one JKM! How about The Desperate Pursuee? : )
Hi Woodchuckgod and SFF, thank you both for commenting. And you both nailed several of the frames.
ReplyDeleteYep, Woodchuck, you identified correctly both Crais (Lani Tupu) in Frame 12, and Pearl Forrestor (Mary Jo Pehl). Nicely done.
And SFF, you took a number of these right off the table! All four you named correctly (from Logan's Run, The Incredible Hulk, BSG, and Firefly, respectively).
And you know, I should do "The Desperate Pursuee" as a book-end to this...great idea!
In terms of what's left on the board, these great ids leave frames 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10.
Any takers?
Best to you both, and thanks for playing this week's "cult tv faces..."
Regards,
John
1. Barry Morse as Lt. Gerard in The Fugitive
ReplyDelete4. Judy Geeson as Fulvia, in Star Maidens
Wow, Meredith, you nailed both identifications there. I'm especially impressed that you pickd up the name from the obscure Star Maidens! Holy cow! Nice.
ReplyDeletebest,
JKM
I'm game. Here's one...
ReplyDelete3. Mark Lenard as General Urko in Planet of the Apes (1974), the television series.
3. Mark Lenard as Urko in "Planet of the Apes.
ReplyDelete8. Richard Lynch as Preminger in "The Phoenix."
Hi John,
ReplyDeleteDon't know how you keep coming up with these cool themes, but I sure look forward to them. I am going to take a couple of shots here:
frame 8: Michael Cavanaugh from Night Hunter? Funny, recently I was watching "Anywhich way you can" with him in it and during a commercial break spotted him in one of those annoying "progressive insurance" commercials.
Frame 9: Lance Legault from the A-team.
Frame 10: Lance Legault from Werewolf? He definitely has a memorable voice.
Thanks John!
Wow, everyone is doing great here!
ReplyDeleteBrian and Howard -- nice job correctly remembering Urko (not Ursus)/Mark Lenard from Planet of the Apes.
Howard, 8 is not Richard Lynch as Preminger from the Phoenix. Alas. But gee whiz, fantastic guess!
That's actually Michael Cavanaugh from Starman. I could not find a screen grab of Lynch from the Phoenix, and I desperately wanted to include him in this tally of "pursuers" because I've never forgotten him, just like you haven't! So great job remembering another pursuer, who I wish I could have included today!!!
Hi there Doughboy810: Thank you for your kind words. I don't know why (maybe I'm obsessive?) but I love organizing characters/ideas like these into photo collections. It's too much fun, seriously...and I'm glad you enjoy them too.
You correctly identified Michael Cavanaugh, but got a different series (instead of Starman). Still, very nice there!
And you nailed the next two selections, Lance LeGault -- an actor of distinctive voice and presence indeed -- for his roles (respectively) on A-Team and Werewolf.
Terrific job everyone!
I think we still have number 2 outstanding, though it is a rotten picture (all I could find!)
best,
John
Wow, I'm humbled by Meredith with her calls on Morse and Gleeson who both shared time on Space:1999. Nice. I totally missed those.
ReplyDeleteI just ordered that Planet of The Apes TV series. I'm looking forward to seeing it again.
Hi Sci-Fi Fanatic
ReplyDeleteI know, Meredith is awesome, right? That call on Star Maidens was a toughie, and she nailed it!
And I think, SFF, you will love the Planet of the Apes series all over again. No larger story arc and "serialized" narrative, but some great standalone, individual adventures in there!
Thanks for the comment, my friend.
best,
John
Thanks for the kind works. Just call me a die-hard Space:1999 fan. :)
ReplyDeleteMeredith:
ReplyDeleteWe share a love of Space:1999!
And I always love when you come to comment. You're absolutely great at identifying these cult tv faces...and sometimes I try to make 'em really, really hard...so when you (or anyone) gets those right, it's pretty amazing
Speaking of which...number 2? Anyone? :)
best,
JKM
It is deeply encouraging to know that I'm not the only hard core geek in the world.
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