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ladybug_archiveI am now full-blown crushing on Joseph Campanella. No regrets.
One awesome thing about crushing on someone who popped up on so many different things: I've discovered several things around the house with him that I'd been unaware of owning! He even appeared in the Route 66 episode with Simon and interacted with him! Squeeeee. I remember I always liked his character in that, too; I thought he was a sweetheart. And a while back I bought a Marcus Welby season 1 "Best of" disc for $1 because I couldn't remember if the Simon episode I wanted was season 1 (it wasn't; season 7, and I picked it up on Cozi recently. It was glorious!). I ended up with the Steve Ihnat episode and the Julie Adams episode, both of which pleased me. And now I find I have Joseph's first episode too. Squeeee! I dug the disc out and am hoping to watch that today.
And I have disc 3 of Mannix season 1 out from Netflix. I am just loving season 1 so, so much. These characters, they just have this amazingly wonderful friendship! The second episode we watched on the disc, Turn Every Stone, started out kind of disjointed and weird and confusing, and I was disappointed that Joe Mannix was on a trip to Washington D.C. for the case. I was afraid Lew would only appear on the telephone. But instead, the client is a friend of his and asks him to help too, so he flies out and there is much interaction and he saves Joe from the Big Bad at the end and it's just so awesome!
Joe is a lone wolf, but he and Lew really work together so well. One of the things I most adore is that Lew really values Joe's feelings and opinions on things. He trusts Joe enough to know that his ideas are often on the right track, so instead of rehashing that annoying "you are crazy for coming up with that idea" thing every single episode, he usually instead is willing to listen and consider Joe's ideas and give him the benefit of a doubt. Even the times when Joe does something so outrageous that Lew is horrified and alarmed, such as hiding a boy and telling his parents he's been kidnapped (because the dad is in danger and so is the boy, and Joe wanted to get the kid out of circulation for a while and have as few people as possible know, for the kid's own safety), Lew will go along with Joe's plans after Joe talks to him about it for a while.
In seasons 2 on, the writers tried to replicate some of the elements of Joe's friendship with Lew by having Joe have policemen friends who similarly listen to his ideas and sometimes come to save him in the climax. But it's still not the same. Even Art Malcolm, the policeman I like the best (I really have a hard time fully warming up to Adam Tobias), does a lot of the "you're crazy for that idea" scoffing.
Joe and Lew just have such a beautiful, unique friendship and I just can't get enough of it. I continue to be heartbroken that Lew is absent after season 1. Joseph Campanella had wanted to come back for guest appearances as Lew, but somehow that never materialized because The Lawyers came along. But since it was part of a wheel show and there weren't really many episodes per season, I still wonder why there wasn't time to fit in a guest spot as Lew. I wonder if the writers really didn't want the character coming back, since when they finally did get Joseph for a guest spot, he played someone else.
It was interesting about that character too, really. He was an arrogant doctor who had a lot of faults, and Joe didn't like him at all at first. But as the episode goes on and they interact, Joe starts to develop a certain respect for the man. At the end, he sees the doctor discouraged and sad over losing a patient and the doctor says he plays tennis a lot to try to deal with his feelings when that happens. They decide to play a game together.
I was afraid they'd have the character be a bad guy or have him and Joe part on unfriendly terms. Having them come to respect and even like each other felt like a callback to old times, even though Joseph was playing someone other than Lew.
My Mannix fic involves their friendship a lot, although I'm not going to say exactly how. There are a lot of twists and turns and confusing things, hopefully appropriate for a Mannix fic. It's flying along and I just love when inspiration hits this hard. I hope it lasts until I can finish it; I really want to tell this story.
I just wish more people knew who Lew is. Since he's only in season 1, and season 1 has been left out of rerun packages, a lot of people don't know or remember him and that's such a shame.
One awesome thing about crushing on someone who popped up on so many different things: I've discovered several things around the house with him that I'd been unaware of owning! He even appeared in the Route 66 episode with Simon and interacted with him! Squeeeee. I remember I always liked his character in that, too; I thought he was a sweetheart. And a while back I bought a Marcus Welby season 1 "Best of" disc for $1 because I couldn't remember if the Simon episode I wanted was season 1 (it wasn't; season 7, and I picked it up on Cozi recently. It was glorious!). I ended up with the Steve Ihnat episode and the Julie Adams episode, both of which pleased me. And now I find I have Joseph's first episode too. Squeeee! I dug the disc out and am hoping to watch that today.
And I have disc 3 of Mannix season 1 out from Netflix. I am just loving season 1 so, so much. These characters, they just have this amazingly wonderful friendship! The second episode we watched on the disc, Turn Every Stone, started out kind of disjointed and weird and confusing, and I was disappointed that Joe Mannix was on a trip to Washington D.C. for the case. I was afraid Lew would only appear on the telephone. But instead, the client is a friend of his and asks him to help too, so he flies out and there is much interaction and he saves Joe from the Big Bad at the end and it's just so awesome!
Joe is a lone wolf, but he and Lew really work together so well. One of the things I most adore is that Lew really values Joe's feelings and opinions on things. He trusts Joe enough to know that his ideas are often on the right track, so instead of rehashing that annoying "you are crazy for coming up with that idea" thing every single episode, he usually instead is willing to listen and consider Joe's ideas and give him the benefit of a doubt. Even the times when Joe does something so outrageous that Lew is horrified and alarmed, such as hiding a boy and telling his parents he's been kidnapped (because the dad is in danger and so is the boy, and Joe wanted to get the kid out of circulation for a while and have as few people as possible know, for the kid's own safety), Lew will go along with Joe's plans after Joe talks to him about it for a while.
In seasons 2 on, the writers tried to replicate some of the elements of Joe's friendship with Lew by having Joe have policemen friends who similarly listen to his ideas and sometimes come to save him in the climax. But it's still not the same. Even Art Malcolm, the policeman I like the best (I really have a hard time fully warming up to Adam Tobias), does a lot of the "you're crazy for that idea" scoffing.
Joe and Lew just have such a beautiful, unique friendship and I just can't get enough of it. I continue to be heartbroken that Lew is absent after season 1. Joseph Campanella had wanted to come back for guest appearances as Lew, but somehow that never materialized because The Lawyers came along. But since it was part of a wheel show and there weren't really many episodes per season, I still wonder why there wasn't time to fit in a guest spot as Lew. I wonder if the writers really didn't want the character coming back, since when they finally did get Joseph for a guest spot, he played someone else.
It was interesting about that character too, really. He was an arrogant doctor who had a lot of faults, and Joe didn't like him at all at first. But as the episode goes on and they interact, Joe starts to develop a certain respect for the man. At the end, he sees the doctor discouraged and sad over losing a patient and the doctor says he plays tennis a lot to try to deal with his feelings when that happens. They decide to play a game together.
I was afraid they'd have the character be a bad guy or have him and Joe part on unfriendly terms. Having them come to respect and even like each other felt like a callback to old times, even though Joseph was playing someone other than Lew.
My Mannix fic involves their friendship a lot, although I'm not going to say exactly how. There are a lot of twists and turns and confusing things, hopefully appropriate for a Mannix fic. It's flying along and I just love when inspiration hits this hard. I hope it lasts until I can finish it; I really want to tell this story.
I just wish more people knew who Lew is. Since he's only in season 1, and season 1 has been left out of rerun packages, a lot of people don't know or remember him and that's such a shame.
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Date: 2014-06-05 01:03 am (UTC)Realizing you've seen your favorites in other places is always fun! I was thrilled when I found out I knew Patrick from before.
And yesss, that Route 66 ep was awesome.
And yay for friendship squee! Joe and Lew definitely seem like Carl and Tony! And indeed unfortunate that Lew isn't there post S1.
And Joseph's other character sounds intriguing, too--glad that Joe comes to respect him!
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Date: 2014-06-05 01:11 am (UTC)Definitely still one of my favorite Route 66 episodes! That show could be really good sometimes, although I also saw more duds as the show went on. **headdesk.**
So much wonderful squee! Whenever they do argue, I get the giggles thinking of Kolchak and Tony. Usually, though, they seem to get along even better.
Yesss, that was lovely! And there was shirtless Joseph in that episode, too. Must screencap.