Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton, and Harry Dean Stanton are among the headliners in Bill S. Ballinger's suspenseful fifth-season "Escape to Sonoita," Jack's latest entry in the Hitchcock Project at bare•bones e-zine.
At The Twilight Zone Vortex, Brian talks about the contributions of an unsung TZ writer, Jerry Sohl, who ghostwrote three episodes of the series for his friend and fellow writer, Charles Beaumont, when the latter began suffering from the dementia that would eventually claim his life.
David always comes up with interesting angles at Comfort TV, and this one is definitely not comfort TV: the Lou Grant episode "Unthinkable," dealing with a topic that truly is unthinkable, though all-too-possible: nuclear war.
Television's New Frontier: the 1960s covers a police drama that I quite liked when I watched it as a blind buy a few years ago: Brenner, featuring Edward Binns and James Broderick. I was never a fan of Binns before this, but he is very, very good in this, and Broderick ain't bad either.
"A Year in TV Guide" continues at Television Obscurities, and this week the issue is from November 4, 1989, with a preview of the November sweeps programs, as well as coming video cassette releases (remember those?), and the week's highlights.
And at The Lucky Strike Papers, Andrew shares a quote from Attica Locke that says a lot about how the reader interacts with the book they're reading. I'd like to think it gives some food for thought to us writers as well. TV