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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...

Before He Was James Bond and Lord Sinclair, He Was a Maverick

Don McGregor
May 25, 2014
Columns, Riding Shotgun
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...

Searching Search for Leslie Stevens

Don McGregor
May 14, 2014
Columns, Riding Shotgun
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...

Gently at the Crossroads of Life and Violent Death

Don McGregor
April 26, 2014
Columns, Riding Shotgun
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...

I Coulda Had Dinner with the Shadow

Don McGregor
April 10, 2014
Columns, Riding Shotgun
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...

How the Shadow and Popeye Are the Same (and What Does This Have To Do with the Shadow on Blu-ray?)

Don McGregor
April 4, 2014
Columns, Riding Shotgun
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...
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