Author Don McGregor

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...

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...

Violence, sex, brutality and gore became common images on American movie screens in the 1960s. One of the first films to sell explicit blood and sociopathic threat in a film released by a major Hollywood...

When I was twelve years old, my backyard was narrow and thin, with grass spouting between clumps of dirt, a long strip like a rural prop propeller plane landing, one strip between similar narrow yards on...

Cowboys and dinosaurs.Nowadays it's cowboys and aliens.In the 1950s, though, for creature movie stop motion animation specialists like Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien, it was cowboys lassoing...

Jack Benny meets Raoul Walsh at the top of the world: Heaven. This pairing of two such disparate talents, the collaboration of the inimitable stand-up comic master of the verbal pause and perfectly...

Can you hear someone calling your name?Twice?Like a haunting echo?The double-calling of Mary Hartman's name at the beginning of every episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is used in different ways...

You know how many damned years and how much of a quest it was for me to finally manage to get a full set of the Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman film series on DVD? I'm sure it was over a decade. Just...