Tag: 1966
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The City on the Edge of Forever”
“I am my own beginning. My own ending.” I dreaded writing about “The City on the Edge of Forever” not only because it is considered the greatest single episode of Star Trek, past and present, ever made but also because so much has already been written. Harlan Ellison himself wrote a book on the subject.…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Return of the Archons”
“You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.”* Gene Roddenberry was a humanist. He didn’t embrace religion. In his works, he disliked religion, perhaps considering it the “opiate…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Tomorrow is Yesterday”
“The truth is, I’m a little green man from Alpha Centauri. A beautiful place. You ought to see it.“ Time travel. We hinted around with it in “The Naked Time,” flirted with it a little, but the top-notch science fiction writers of the time knew that theme could be a crutch if over-used. The majority…
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Monkees vs. Macheen: Michael Nesmith (1942-2021)
There’s wings to the thought behind fancy,There’s wings to the thought behind playAnd dancing to rhythms of laughterMakes laughter the rhythm of rain. Mike. Mike. Mike. My favorite Monkee. The smart one. The very-funny-and-sometimes-awkward one. The one from Texas. The tall one. One of the “musician-not-actors.” The only Monkee I trusted when I was in…
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Monkees vs. Macheen: Peter Tork (1942-2019)
There is only feeling In this world of life and death I sing the praise of never change With every single breath Just a few weeks ago, I was writing about James Frawley; now Monkees fans have the one-two punch of grieving for the loss of Peter Tork. There is plenty of biographical information available…
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SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “Fruity as a Nutcake”
SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast Show 204 “Fruity as a Nutcake” The Federation doesn’t know how to handle it’s crazier citizens. Most forms of mental illness were allegedly wiped out before we came to this brave new future. That’s the main point of these classic Trek episodes, “Dagger of the Mind” and “Whom…
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Monkees Vs. Macheen: “Monkees Get Out More Dirt”
The Monkees Love Catwoman! “Monkees Get Out More Dirt” is one of the episodes I’d put into a “most memorable” category. It’s the one with Julie Newmar, and the one where they all compete with each other instead of working together. The episode first aired April 3, 1967, and the writers were Gerald Gardner and…
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Monkees Vs. Macheen: “Son Of A Gypsy”
“Everybody Wants to be in Showbiz!” “Son of a Gypsy” was written by the team of Gerald Gardner & Dee Caruso and Treva Silverman. I really do enjoy the ones that Silverman wrote. The story is about a gig gone wrong, but it is also a wildly improbable, high adventure territory as their opponents in…
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Monkees vs. Macheen: “Monkees In A Ghost Town”
“Of Mice and Monkees” If I were introducing this show to someone, I would start with this episode. Not that it’s necessarily the best or the funniest, though it is very funny. Here, the show’s usual comedy beats are hit hard and hit well; the onscreen captions, breaking the fourth wall, the great guest cast, slapstick…
Misadventures in Blissville 