Riding Shotgun

Waitaminnit! There's a movie series I have never heard of? During the 1930s and 1940s, before the advent of television becoming an integral part of American households, movie series were not multi-million...

"Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home" is I SPY's origin story of how Scotty and Kelly met in Spy School. It's an episode most fans of the series will enjoy. There is an intriguing setup that has Scotty...

For some people, their favorite episode of I Spy is "The Warlord." For many others, it is "Home to Judgment." This script is certainly Robert Culp's most personal writing, based as it was on the grandfather he...

Before October begins, the DVDs and Blu-rays for horror films (especially those who never had a chance to haunt the new medium) begin to appear like a horde of monsters calling for the people who love...

I'm not sure why Timeless Media Group's I Spy – The Complete Series exists on DVD. I'm glad it does, since it gives more people a chance to experience the show, and keeps an awareness factor of the...

How many times in the last three decades have I read that the Western is dead. as if the person writing the words has it as epitaph engraved onto a stone tombstone. The Western has not died in cinema (and I...

My article about the second season of I Spy, inspired by the release of Timeless's DVD complete set, the piece became a monster, way beyond anything I had thought it would be when I began writing on the...

My world, and the world of many others whose lives have been enhanced by her presence in their world, was changed on the day Marsha was born, August 3rd.It was my world that was changed the most dramatically,...

If I could only own one season of I Spy, it would be the second. But then, it would be missing "Home to Judgment" from Season Three. And all those episodes from Season One that I cherish. I had to include...

Let me state right off the top that I Spy is my favorite television series of all time -- to this very day. I believe that there are certain times in your life when you are exposed to a story, a writer, a...

Warner Archives have come fast and furious with the release of new Maverick DVDs! As I write this piece, the company has just let fans have access to the fifth season of the series, the one that probably...

Trying to find writer/producer Leslie Stevens in his 1972-73 TV series Search is like trying to navigate the twisting labyrinths of his better-known show The Outer Limits. Search is remotely as well from...

George Gently stands at the side of a rural English road, staring at the icy expanse of water below, cold and with dark, fathomless depths, in the midst of tangled wild grass. Gently is staring at his new...

Sometimes, no matter what choice you make, you just can’t win.You might do the right thing, for the right reason, but not without a measure of regret that will come back unbidden, and still haunt...

When you take the Shadow out of Walter Gibson's pulp paper playground and hurl him into comics or movies, the major question that creators have to face head on, like the Shadow's blazing .45...