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Turkey wrote:The Look was great second time around, especially enjoyed the preparation for Higgins' not quite 'birthday' which was a real highlight :D
Seconded. Watched it just yesterday. Interesting how after you know the "flubs" in an episode you watch for them.....the vanishing birthday sign on the chopper is classic! :lol:

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I was going to mention The Look being a personal favorite, but saw that it was at #36 of the top 40. It's a fine episode and I always found the "Universal House Band" renditions of all the 1960s pop songs to be a lot of fun, for reasons of camp, I suppose.

There's also the great Holly Hudson reactionat being being left at the altar: "Do you know how humiliating that was?!?"

Well done, Gretchen Corbett!
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308GUY wrote:
Turkey wrote:The Look was great second time around, especially enjoyed the preparation for Higgins' not quite 'birthday' which was a real highlight :D
Seconded. Watched it just yesterday. Interesting how after you know the "flubs" in an episode you watch for them.....the vanishing birthday sign on the chopper is classic! :lol:

"It's a......commemorative.." :wink:
Yes! The other flub I noticed this time around was the ski-mask :)
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Little Garwood wrote:I was going to mention The Look being a personal favorite, but saw that it was at #36 of the top 40. It's a fine episode and I always found the "Universal House Band" renditions of all the 1960s pop songs to be a lot of fun, for reasons of camp, I suppose.

There's also the great Holly Hudson reactionat being being left at the altar: "Do you know how humiliating that was?!?"

Well done, Gretchen Corbett!
Definitely - I liked her explanation of 'the look' too. Gretchen does a great job of sounding like Alison Steele too.

The house band did pretty good with Otis Redding I reckon :)
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Little Garwood wrote:I was going to mention The Look being a personal favorite, but saw that it was at #36 of the top 40. It's a fine episode and I always found the "Universal House Band" renditions of all the 1960s pop songs to be a lot of fun, for reasons of camp, I suppose.

There's also the great Holly Hudson reactionat being being left at the altar: "Do you know how humiliating that was?!?"

Well done, Gretchen Corbett!
Question - looking at the Magnum Mania list Little Games is #36, is there another list?
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Little Garwood wrote:I was going to mention The Look being a personal favorite, but saw that it was at #36 of the top 40. It's a fine episode and I always found the "Universal House Band" renditions of all the 1960s pop songs to be a lot of fun, for reasons of camp, I suppose.

There's also the great Holly Hudson reactionat being being left at the altar: "Do you know how humiliating that was?!?"

Well done, Gretchen Corbett!
Question - looking at the Magnum Mania list Little Games is #36, is there another list?
:oops: Was thinking one thing and posted another, I reckon! Anyway, wasn't that moment I quoted from The Look great? Answer: Yes, it was. :wink:
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:oops: Was thinking one thing and posted another, I reckon! Anyway, wasn't that moment I quoted from The Look great? Answer: Yes, it was. :wink:
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"One More Summer" is one I'd offer. I love the bits with TM actually playing football and/or interacting with the other football players, particularly his conversation with the "keecker". That part is priceless.

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Little Garwood wrote:
ConchRepublican wrote:
Little Garwood wrote:I was going to mention The Look being a personal favorite, but saw that it was at #36 of the top 40. It's a fine episode and I always found the "Universal House Band" renditions of all the 1960s pop songs to be a lot of fun, for reasons of camp, I suppose.

There's also the great Holly Hudson reactionat being being left at the altar: "Do you know how humiliating that was?!?"

Well done, Gretchen Corbett!
Question - looking at the Magnum Mania list Little Games is #36, is there another list?
:oops: Was thinking one thing and posted another, I reckon! Anyway, wasn't that moment I quoted from The Look great? Answer: Yes, it was. :wink:
Yes, yes it was! I'm just trying to make sure I'm not getting fast tracked for the oatmeal and apple sauce express!!! :-)
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Little Garwood wrote:
:oops: Was thinking one thing and posted another, I reckon! Anyway, wasn't that moment I quoted from The Look great? Answer: Yes, it was. :wink:
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Gretchen will forever hold a special place in my, uh, heart, for her appearance in a Columbo episode, where she graces the screen in a delightful bikini. Thankfully, she didn't yet have her Little Orphan Annie hairdo. Initially, I thought they wanted to de-glamourize Gretchen for her Holly Hudson role, since she had a reputation as a cutie. Howeever, imagine my crushing disappointment when she showed up a year later on a Simon & Simon episode with the same mop o'permed curls. So much for my de-glamourization theory. :wink: Stinkin' '80s fashions! The lavender pantsuit is as bad as her hair, but delightfully hilarious.

BTW, Columbo episode was partly filmed by Jim Rockford's beach. I love it when Universal reuses locations, sets, and props. :D Gretchen was to spend a lot of time there over the next four or so years.
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Little Garwood wrote:
BTW, Columbo episode was partly filmed by Jim Rockford's beach. I love it when Universal reuses locations, sets, and props. :D Gretchen was to spend a lot of time there over the next four or so years.
Also, Harry O filmed just east (Malibu beach faces south) of Paradise Cove at the same time as Rockford. The beach house used for his place at the end of the first and all of the second season ('75-'76) was maybe only 200 yards down the beach from Rockford's trailer. The first pilot in '73 was also filmed there. Sadly, the house is no longer there, but the spot where the trailer was is marked with a sign. Harry O was Warner Bros. not Universal, though. I've been there many times and it is quite beautiful. Most of the end of the pier Jim and Rocky fished off is also gone. It was damaged by storms in the 80's if I remember correctly.

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