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Someone else is interested in and knows something about Jimmy Murphy. For once, there's a birthdate floating around for him. (1935.) This is new; Wikipedia never had anything on him before. They still don't have an actual article, but it is an improvement. I'm taking it a bit with a grain of salt, since it's not mentioned somewhere like IMDB.com, but it sounds fairly accurate.
And hold that thought, I found someone who has actually had some association with him! Now to hope my email goes through....
I decided I'll need to make more breaks for The Return of Baby Face Morales then I had originally. I just put up the first of the new parts in the Dreamworld group. I'm proofreading the whole thing a second time, so when I finish that I'll probably put up all the parts in rapid succession at the fic journal.
Monday or Tuesday I receive the Knight Rider disc from Netflix that has Jimmy's second episode on it. I'm thrilled; I've wanted to see that for five years. I loved his first guest spot on the series.
... And I'll probably recall the original reason for this entry after I give up and decide to post it.
Oh! I just remembered. Among Jimmy's guest spots was an appearance on the show Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Of course, out of all the creepy things on that show, Jimmy *had* to be in the episode that featured a headless biker killing people in like manner as he was killed ("Chopper"). It took some time before I got the courage to try it, but I don't regret it. In spite of the storyline, the execution was actually quite innocuous. And I just covered my eyes during the death scenes, so I don't know how graphic they were and I don't want to know. (Although I don't think they would have been very graphic.) Jimmy's character survived, as I remembered being told five years ago in a group for the series.
I really like the actor who plays Kolchak, Darren McGavin. I've seen him for years in the Disney film No Deposit, No Return (a classic comedy), and more recently, in that film with Jerry Lewis (The Delicate Delinquent?). I really like the Kolchak character, too. He's hilarious. And I love how he's a reluctant hero. I watched another episode of the show last night (Mr. R.I.N.G.) and plan to see more.
I think it's so neat that the series had a revival with that comic series! And it's updated the time to the present day without aging the characters, the same as Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books do. I may look into the comic series sometime.
I've been vaguely interested in the series for some time (ever since I first learned of it through Columbia House, which would have been fourteen or so years ago), and five years ago my interest only rose because of finding out about Jimmy's guest spot. It looks like he may have led me into another fandom the same as he did with The Bowery Boys.
And hold that thought, I found someone who has actually had some association with him! Now to hope my email goes through....
I decided I'll need to make more breaks for The Return of Baby Face Morales then I had originally. I just put up the first of the new parts in the Dreamworld group. I'm proofreading the whole thing a second time, so when I finish that I'll probably put up all the parts in rapid succession at the fic journal.
Monday or Tuesday I receive the Knight Rider disc from Netflix that has Jimmy's second episode on it. I'm thrilled; I've wanted to see that for five years. I loved his first guest spot on the series.
... And I'll probably recall the original reason for this entry after I give up and decide to post it.
Oh! I just remembered. Among Jimmy's guest spots was an appearance on the show Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Of course, out of all the creepy things on that show, Jimmy *had* to be in the episode that featured a headless biker killing people in like manner as he was killed ("Chopper"). It took some time before I got the courage to try it, but I don't regret it. In spite of the storyline, the execution was actually quite innocuous. And I just covered my eyes during the death scenes, so I don't know how graphic they were and I don't want to know. (Although I don't think they would have been very graphic.) Jimmy's character survived, as I remembered being told five years ago in a group for the series.
I really like the actor who plays Kolchak, Darren McGavin. I've seen him for years in the Disney film No Deposit, No Return (a classic comedy), and more recently, in that film with Jerry Lewis (The Delicate Delinquent?). I really like the Kolchak character, too. He's hilarious. And I love how he's a reluctant hero. I watched another episode of the show last night (Mr. R.I.N.G.) and plan to see more.
I think it's so neat that the series had a revival with that comic series! And it's updated the time to the present day without aging the characters, the same as Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books do. I may look into the comic series sometime.
I've been vaguely interested in the series for some time (ever since I first learned of it through Columbia House, which would have been fourteen or so years ago), and five years ago my interest only rose because of finding out about Jimmy's guest spot. It looks like he may have led me into another fandom the same as he did with The Bowery Boys.
