Season 5 Episode 20: The Big Squeeze (5.20)

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Rich Heldenfels of the Tribune News Service in today's newspaper column said Magnum P.I. star Jay Hernandez is currently lobbying/negotiating for a TV movie to wrap things up.

As noted before such a movie would be a win win for all involved.
Even if just a one off it would push the total for the rerun package to 98, just short of the old standard "magic number" of 100 for syndication.
For the relatively cheap cost of a TV movie NBC would very likely draw far more viewers than it would normally on whatever night it ran.
Plus opening the door for a future run of such TV-movies which proved highly profitable for series such as The Rockford Files, Perry Mason.

Even Wild Wild West spawned two TV movies many years after the series ended, they were pretty good and are well worth seeking out.
Do yourself a favor and avoid the Will Smith "steam punk" theatrical version, beyond awful, the producers had no idea how and why the original worked.

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Rupert of Hentzau(Douglas Fairbanks): "I see you let the drawbridge down. I just killed a man for that."
Rudolph Rassendyll(Ronald Colman): "An unarmed man of course."
Rupert of Hentzau: "Of course!"

(The 1937 version of "Prisoner of Zenda", one of the great adventure movies of all time, with a wonderful end scene.)

Dobie,

Actually the word "steampunk" refers to the original 1960s TV series, not the 1999 movie version. It's a genre that mixes elements of the past (where steam power was dominant) with futuristic Jule Verne science fiction technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

Rich Heldenfels of the Tribune News Service in today's newspaper column said Magnum P.I. star Jay Hernandez is currently lobbying/negotiating for a TV movie to wrap things up.

As noted before such a movie would be a win win for all involved.
Even if just a one off it would push the total for the rerun package to 98, just short of the old standard "magic number" of 100 for syndication.
For the relatively cheap cost of a TV movie NBC would very likely draw far more viewers than it would normally on whatever night it ran.
Plus opening the door for a future run of such TV-movies which proved highly profitable for series such as The Rockford Files, Perry Mason.

Even Wild Wild West spawned two TV movies many years after the series ended, they were pretty good and are well worth seeking out.
Do yourself a favor and avoid the Will Smith "steam punk" theatrical version, beyond awful, the producers had no idea how and why the original worked.

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Rupert of Hentzau(Douglas Fairbanks): "I see you let the drawbridge down. I just killed a man for that."
Rudolph Rassendyll(Ronald Colman): "An unarmed man of course."
Rupert of Hentzau: "Of course!"

(The 1937 version of "Prisoner of Zenda", one of the great adventure movies of all time, with a wonderful end scene.)

Dobie,

Actually the word "steampunk" refers to the original 1960s TV series, not the 1999 movie version. It's a genre that mixes elements of the past (where steam power was dominant) with futuristic Jule Verne science fiction technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Ivan,
Good article, thank you. According to it the term was coined in the 1980's by science fiction author K. W. Jeter.

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Rich Heldenfels of the Tribune News Service in today's newspaper column said Magnum P.I. star Jay Hernandez is currently lobbying/negotiating for a TV movie to wrap things up.

As noted before such a movie would be a win win for all involved.
Even if just a one off it would push the total for the rerun package to 98, just short of the old standard "magic number" of 100 for syndication.
For the relatively cheap cost of a TV movie NBC would very likely draw far more viewers than it would normally on whatever night it ran.
Plus opening the door for a future run of such TV-movies which proved highly profitable for series such as The Rockford Files, Perry Mason.

Even Wild Wild West spawned two TV movies many years after the series ended, they were pretty good and are well worth seeking out.
Do yourself a favor and avoid the Will Smith "steam punk" theatrical version, beyond awful, the producers had no idea how and why the original worked.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rupert of Hentzau(Douglas Fairbanks): "I see you let the drawbridge down. I just killed a man for that."
Rudolph Rassendyll(Ronald Colman): "An unarmed man of course."
Rupert of Hentzau: "Of course!"

(The 1937 version of "Prisoner of Zenda", one of the great adventure movies of all time, with a wonderful end scene.)

Dobie,

Actually the word "steampunk" refers to the original 1960s TV series, not the 1999 movie version. It's a genre that mixes elements of the past (where steam power was dominant) with futuristic Jule Verne science fiction technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Ivan,
Good article, thank you. According to it the term was coined in the 1980's by science fiction author K. W. Jeter.

Ah ok, so it was coined in the 80s. I always thought the word "punk" was an odd thing to call something set in the 1800s. "Steam-fi" would make more sense (as in "sci-fi").

[VinMc22]

Peter Fascinelli played Ivan when Magnum went to South America.

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

Peter Fascinelli played Ivan when Magnum went to South America.

You are referring to the original Magnum, right?
Some of the episodes I haven't seen in some years as I avoided watching the show, so I wouldn't become overly familiar with the series to the point that the episodes just became a series
of quotes and scenes I already knew. But I am back watching. Anyway, offhand I don't recall the episode set in South America, what was it's name?

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"It's not what you do it's what you are."
Big Tim Champion (Circus Boy)

[ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan)]

Peter Fascinelli played Ivan when Magnum went to South America.

You are referring to the original Magnum, right?
Some of the episodes I haven't seen in some years as I avoided watching the show, so I wouldn't become overly familiar with the series to the point that the episodes just became a series
of quotes and scenes I already knew. But I am back watching. Anyway, offhand I don't recall the episode set in South America, what was it's name?

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"It's not what you do it's what you are."
Big Tim Champion (Circus Boy)

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the reboot. Everyone knows that Bo Svenson played the one and only true Ivan in the original classic - "Did You See the Sunrise?".

[Luther's nephew Dobie]

Peter Fascinelli played Ivan when Magnum went to South America.

You are referring to the original Magnum, right?
Some of the episodes I haven't seen in some years as I avoided watching the show, so I wouldn't become overly familiar with the series to the point that the episodes just became a series
of quotes and scenes I already knew. But I am back watching. Anyway, offhand I don't recall the episode set in South America, what was it's name?

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"It's not what you do it's what you are."
Big Tim Champion (Circus Boy)

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the reboot. Everyone knows that Bo Svenson played the one and only true Ivan in the original classic - "Did You See the Sunrise?".

On reflection, you are correct of course, I can't believe I was that dense. What an ultra maroon, to quote the noted philosopher B. Bunny.
On "Black Adder" Rowan Atkinson would tell me "Mister Thicky, we're not home to major disaster and his mate colonel cockup."
PBS never runs "Black Adder" anymore, too bad, "Black Adder IV" is one of the funniest and most telling looks at war(WW1) ever done.
It's 6th and last episode is brilliant, the last 2 minutes hailed as a shining moment in TV history, afterwards one will sit there "gob smacked",
and more than a little misty. You don't have to have seen the previous Adder seasons, they take place in previous centuries with members of the Adder
clan, season one the weakest, 2 and 3 outstanding. Atkinson, also known for "Mr. Bean" is best mates with King Chuck, though neither comments
on it in public.