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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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Get Smart: 'The Amazing Harry Hoo'

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Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 'The Greek Interpreter'

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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Get Smart: 'I'm Only Human'

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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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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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La Femme Nikita: "Obsessed"

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For decades, television producers have been trying to come up with a small-screen equivalent of the James Bond movies, such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E....
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Classic TV: "La Femme Nikita" The Complete First Season

It was eerily appropriate that the television version of La Femme Nikita broadcast its last episode in March 2001, six months before the Sept. 11...
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Classic Cinema: "A Night in Casablanca"

As has been well-documented elsewhere, the insane free-wheeling anarchy of the Marx Brothers’ early Paramount movies was neutered when they...
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Classic Cinema: "Artists and Models"

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As recently mentioned in this blog, DVD movie box sets tend to be mixed bags combining both winners and losers. Paramount Pictures’ Dean Martin...
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Netflix tip: Taken

The 2008 action thriller Taken, which has just been released on DVD, boasts some very talented people, especially star Liam Neeson and...
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Turner Classic Movies tip for May 8 & 9, 2009: Thunderball

Thunderball, the fourth movie in the James Bond series, originally began life as an original screenplay that author Ian Fleming wrote in collaboration...
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