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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.

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The X-Files: 'Ice'

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Fans of The X-Files fall into two categories: those who prefer the episodes connected to the alien conspiracy and those who prefer the self-contained...
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Police Squad! (In Color!): 'A Substantial Gift' (or 'The Broken Promise')

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

In the 50s and early 60s, who would have dreamed that Leslie Neilsen, the dashing young leading man best known to television audiences as Swamp Fox on...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 'The Greek Interpreter'

Monday, November 16th, 2009

When Jeremy Brett made his debut as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal detective Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television’s The Adventures of...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #4 - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: 'An Unlocked Window'

Alfred Hitchcock directed several episodes of his two anthology television shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but,...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #6 - The X-Files: 'Home'

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The X-Files produced some scary as hell episodes, but it’s safe to say the single most terrifying episode was Home (originally broadcast on Oct....
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes #13 - Sherlock Holmes: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most famous and oft-filmed of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, but, truth be told, most...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #19 - "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

There have been countless stage and film adaptations of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (usually...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #20 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Perfect Crime"

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The third season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled The Perfect Crime (originally broadcast on Oct. 20, 1957) is, amazingly, the one and...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #21 - La Femme Nikita: "Brainwash"

Brainwash (originally broadcast on Sept. 21, 1997) is basically the La Femme Nikita version of Richard Condon’s classic Cold War thriller The...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Revenge"

The films of the late, great Alfred Hitchcock were often very dark. (So dark, indeed, that the fact that three of his grandparents were Irish explains...
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