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Doug Krentzlin
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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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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 · 1 comment
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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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
“There is nothing funny about a clown at midnight” -- Lon Chaney, Sr. Good ol’ Lon knew exactly what he was talking...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Although it occasionally delved into social and political commentary à la Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, Joseph Stefano’s seminal...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Don’t let the title of The Twilight Zone episode It’s a Good Life (originally broadcast on Nov. 3, 1961) fool you. This has no resemblance...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Alfred Hitchcock directed several episodes of his two anthology television shows Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but,...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Producer/director Dan Curtis and writer Richard Matheson hit pay dirt in 1972 when their made-for-TV production of The Night Stalker became a ratings...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 · 1 comment
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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Epitaph One (never broadcast in this country, but aired on June 17, 2009 in Singapore) was officially the thirteenth episode of Joss Whedon’s...
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Favorite TV Shows

  1. Anything by Joss Whedon
  2. SCTV
  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  4. Sgt. Bilko
  5. The Avengers
  6. Get Smart
  7. Sherlock Holmes w/Jeremy Brett
  8. The Office (both UK & US)
  9. The Outer Limits (original)
  10. La Femme Nikita
  11. Secret Agent (a.k.a. Danger Man)
  12. Nero Wolfe w/Timothy Hutton & Maury Chaykin
  13. The Twilight Zone (original)
  14. The X Files
  15. Police Squad!
  16. Tales from the Crypt
  17. Peter Gunn
  18. Xena, Warrior Princess
  19. The Tick w/Patrick Warburton
  20. The Adventures of Superman
  21. Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  22. Have Gun Will Travel