Bittersweet
Jun. 19th, 2014 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveI adore this publicity shot that I found on Disc 6 of season 1 of Mannix. I just wish it was in color. So cute and squeeable!
I finished Disc 6 this morning. I am heartbroken that there are no more Lew episodes. But I am looking forward to going back and watching Discs 1 and 2 over again; it's been a while. And I wanna see the Deadfall two-parter again. Sooo intense and heartbreaking and friendshippy.
I wish people would write fanfiction with Lew. There is an old Mannix fanzine that has Lew in it somewhere, so I might try to locate that.
And I ordered season 8 of Mannix from Amazon and it came today. Very bittersweet there, seeing it say "The Final Season" all over it. Once we finish season 8, there's no more Mannix episodes we haven't seen. Of course, with 194 episodes, we can probably easily put the show into rotation and continue enjoying it indefinitely, just like with Perry Mason. (Maybe we can also finally see some of the many Rockford episodes I have stocked up.) Once we see some episodes, it will be a long time since we've seen some others. I wanna see some seasons 2 and 3 episodes again.
I also ordered season 2 of Rockford, so now I have 5/6ths of a series I don't even like that much, which is hilarious. Might as well get season 1 and have the whole set, since they're only $10-ish each. Anyway, I learned that there's a season 2 episode with Joseph as the main guest star. And I already wanted season 2 at some point to have the H.M. episode on DVD. (I have it recorded.) There's also one with William Boyett (albeit he's the bad guy). But overall, quite satisfying. I'm anxious to watch the Joseph episode, which I don't recall ever seeing in full. I think I saw part of it on TV once. Joseph's brother Frank is in it too, and he plays a guy who kidnaps Rockford and Joseph's character. I believe I remember them in the car with him. If there is such a scene in the episode, then I will know I saw part of it before and didn't dream it up.
Another thing I know I saw before is the suspense film Skyway to Death, about people trapped on a tramway car. It was just wonderful! Nobody died, Joseph played a sweet character, people were trying to help each other, and I knew almost everyone else in the cast. Tige Andrews, Ross Martin, John Astin, Nancy Malone, the lady who played Miss Emily on Kolchak.... I specifically remember the climatic scene with Bobby Sherman and Joseph on the roof of the car, trying to bring it down. So either we have it on a cheap Dollar Tree DVD around here somewhere, or more likely, we saw it on TV sometime back. There used to be a channel that played a lot of old TV movies. I saw the Robert Conrad TV movie Coach of the Year on it once, too. I sure wish I could find a copy of Skyway to Death to own, if we don't have it. It was such a good, uplifting, exciting film.
And it means I know Joseph from something else from years before. I already knew I'd seen his Touched by an Angel episode a long time ago.
I have quite a few Mannix story ideas bouncing around in my mind. All would involve Lew and I really want to do all of them as season 1 era stories, except maybe one of them that would be more intense with everyone.
- A series of short stories showing how Joe and Lew became friends. (First I must confirm or deny whether they knew each other before Intertect. I can't imagine Joe going there on his own to get a job. I think Lew must have offered it to him, which would be more likely if they knew each other before. And their interaction is a lot like people who have known each other for many years.)
- An epilogue to the Deadfall two-parter. (This one is almost finished.)
- A story where Lew is the one in the town without pity and while he tries to figure out what's going on and how to get out, Joe is trying to get in to find him.
- A story where Lew gets a report that Joe is dead. Although shaken at first, he quickly becomes suspicious and doesn't believe it, and goes looking for answers and Joe.
- A story like Deadfall in reverse, where Joe is the one acting violent and strange. This is the one that might work best with everyone involved, including Peggy and at least one of Joe's police friends.
I finished Disc 6 this morning. I am heartbroken that there are no more Lew episodes. But I am looking forward to going back and watching Discs 1 and 2 over again; it's been a while. And I wanna see the Deadfall two-parter again. Sooo intense and heartbreaking and friendshippy.
I wish people would write fanfiction with Lew. There is an old Mannix fanzine that has Lew in it somewhere, so I might try to locate that.
And I ordered season 8 of Mannix from Amazon and it came today. Very bittersweet there, seeing it say "The Final Season" all over it. Once we finish season 8, there's no more Mannix episodes we haven't seen. Of course, with 194 episodes, we can probably easily put the show into rotation and continue enjoying it indefinitely, just like with Perry Mason. (Maybe we can also finally see some of the many Rockford episodes I have stocked up.) Once we see some episodes, it will be a long time since we've seen some others. I wanna see some seasons 2 and 3 episodes again.
I also ordered season 2 of Rockford, so now I have 5/6ths of a series I don't even like that much, which is hilarious. Might as well get season 1 and have the whole set, since they're only $10-ish each. Anyway, I learned that there's a season 2 episode with Joseph as the main guest star. And I already wanted season 2 at some point to have the H.M. episode on DVD. (I have it recorded.) There's also one with William Boyett (albeit he's the bad guy). But overall, quite satisfying. I'm anxious to watch the Joseph episode, which I don't recall ever seeing in full. I think I saw part of it on TV once. Joseph's brother Frank is in it too, and he plays a guy who kidnaps Rockford and Joseph's character. I believe I remember them in the car with him. If there is such a scene in the episode, then I will know I saw part of it before and didn't dream it up.
Another thing I know I saw before is the suspense film Skyway to Death, about people trapped on a tramway car. It was just wonderful! Nobody died, Joseph played a sweet character, people were trying to help each other, and I knew almost everyone else in the cast. Tige Andrews, Ross Martin, John Astin, Nancy Malone, the lady who played Miss Emily on Kolchak.... I specifically remember the climatic scene with Bobby Sherman and Joseph on the roof of the car, trying to bring it down. So either we have it on a cheap Dollar Tree DVD around here somewhere, or more likely, we saw it on TV sometime back. There used to be a channel that played a lot of old TV movies. I saw the Robert Conrad TV movie Coach of the Year on it once, too. I sure wish I could find a copy of Skyway to Death to own, if we don't have it. It was such a good, uplifting, exciting film.
And it means I know Joseph from something else from years before. I already knew I'd seen his Touched by an Angel episode a long time ago.
I have quite a few Mannix story ideas bouncing around in my mind. All would involve Lew and I really want to do all of them as season 1 era stories, except maybe one of them that would be more intense with everyone.
- A series of short stories showing how Joe and Lew became friends. (First I must confirm or deny whether they knew each other before Intertect. I can't imagine Joe going there on his own to get a job. I think Lew must have offered it to him, which would be more likely if they knew each other before. And their interaction is a lot like people who have known each other for many years.)
- An epilogue to the Deadfall two-parter. (This one is almost finished.)
- A story where Lew is the one in the town without pity and while he tries to figure out what's going on and how to get out, Joe is trying to get in to find him.
- A story where Lew gets a report that Joe is dead. Although shaken at first, he quickly becomes suspicious and doesn't believe it, and goes looking for answers and Joe.
- A story like Deadfall in reverse, where Joe is the one acting violent and strange. This is the one that might work best with everyone involved, including Peggy and at least one of Joe's police friends.
