Why Is Sam Peckinpah Feeding Burgers to Homicide Detective Wild Bill Elliott? Don McGregor November 19, 2014 Columns, 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...
I Spy 3 – As the Series Ends, Culp and Cosby Cosplay in Flower Power 1967 San Francisco Haight-Ashbury Don McGregor November 12, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun "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...
I Spy Season 3: You Can Go Home Again. But You Won’t Be the Same Once You Get There Don McGregor November 5, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
Five 2014 Halloween Scream Factory Blu-ray Bloody Trick Or Treats Don McGregor October 29, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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 Spy Season 3: The TV Series That Would Never Be Accepted In White People’s Homes…Except That It Defied the Racists’ Declarations Don McGregor October 22, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
A&E Murdered Longmire, But Walt Rides Tall on Blu-ray Don McGregor October 16, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
When the Frankenstein Monster and the Planet of the Apes Collided with I Spy Don McGregor August 11, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
Marsha – The Present of Life and a Smile: Marsha’s Birthday Don McGregor August 3, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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,...
I Spy Love at First Sight: The First Television Heroes to Read Comics, The Second Season Don McGregor July 22, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
I Spy Love at First Sight – The First Television Heroes Who Read Comic Books on Screen Don McGregor July 14, 2014 Columns, Riding Shotgun 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...
