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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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SCTV: 'CCCP1'

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

According to Dave Thomas in his book SCTV: Behind the Scenes, when the cast and writers of SCTV set up shop at NBC, the network presented them with a...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'Phases'

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Let us take this opportunity to praise Seth Green who, when it comes to deadpan comedy, might well be this generation’s answer to Buster Keaton....
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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 Outer Limits: 'Don't Open Till Doomsday'

Friday, November 20th, 2009

With the collapse of the studio system, the death of the censorship code and the advent of color television, Hollywood went through a lot of odd...
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Get Smart: 'The Amazing Harry Hoo'

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 · 2 comments

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'

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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Spider-Man: 'The Party'

Sunday, November 15th, 2009 · 1 comment

It’s a pity MTV’s computer animated Spider-Man series isn’t better known because, all in all, it was by far the best rendition of...
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The Outer Limits: 'Controlled Experiment'

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 · 3 comments

Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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Hercules, The Legendary Journeys: 'Siege at Naxos'

Howard Hawks’ classic western Rio Bravo (1959), starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, has been remade many times. Hawks redid it himself seven...
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The Tick: 'Pilot'

After serving an apprenticeship with the Coen Brothers as their cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld went on to direct some very quirky and off-beat...
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