Good morning! Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Month: August 2017
Are These the 10 Best Structured Films of All Time?
Whether they are or they aren’t, this video remains our favorite kind of critique:
More by the same creators – Cinefix – at…oh, you guessed it?! The CineFix Channel.
LB’s NOTE: I do have one complaint about this post. The narration of the video says “Good film-making isn’t all clever dialog and….” But the blurb under the video on YouTube puts it a bit differently:
Every Episode of ‘Rick and Morty,’ Ranked
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Rick and Morty is the best-written television show currently running, and this time around we’ll add that it’s probably the best-written since, oh, the first couple of seasons of The Sopranos. (Hi, David! We love you, dood.)
This article steps up to the plate with a ton of reasons why:
Diana Vacc sees “Back to the Future” Throwback Thursday Review
by Diana Vaccarelli
—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—
Although This Film is Over 30 Years Old So is There Really Anything to Spoil?
Released back in 1985, Back to the Future follows the story of Marty Mcfly, a 17 year old teenager who takes part in a hilarious time travel experiment and finds himself stuck in the 1950’s and hanging out with his own parents as teenagers.
THE GOOD:
Anybody Remember ‘Ironside?’
Over the course of 196 episodes from 1967 to 1975 on NBC, Raymond Burr and his crew fought crime on the back lot of Universal City troubled streets of San Francisco thanks to Ironside’s (Burr) wheelchair and specially equipped van. (Hey, it had room for the wheelchair.)
Among the many big name writers of that time who joined Ironside’s pool of freelancers were such luminaries as:
- Collier Young
- Sy Salkowitz
- True Boardman
- Robert Van Scoyk
- Sandy Stern
- Stephen J. Cannell
- Mark Rodgers
- Adrian Spies
- Evan Hunter
- Robert Ward
- Liam O’Brien
- Joel Oliansky
- Hindi Brooks
- And many others, including – wait for it – a newbie named Larry Brody
That’s right, our Beloved Leader himself. And now, TVWriter™ is proud to present the following newly discovered and highly beloved mementos of one of the 3 occasions LB ventured onto Ironside’s turf, discovered by the King of Golden Age TV himself, the illustrious Herbie J Pilato: