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Cult TV Lounge: Danger Man AKA Secret Agent, first season (1964)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Saturday, 11 July 2015. Danger Man AKA Secret Agent, first season (1964). The original Danger Man. Series comprised thirty-nine half-hour episodes broadcast in 1960 and 1961. The series was a success but for various reasons it ceased production until it was revived in 1964. The new series (which retained the Danger Man. Title in Britain but was known as Secret Agent. That’s not to suggest that Danger Man. The episode Yesterday’s Enemies.
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Cult TV Lounge: August 2015
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Towards the end of the run of The Saint. Producer Robert S. Baker came up with what he thought was a very cool idea - why not pair the smooth, urbane and very English Simon Templar with a brash, cocky American in a kind of buddy movie episode. The episode in question, The Ex-King of Diamonds. In The Ex-King of Diamonds. Two essential parts of the formula for The Persuaders! And the first episode of The Persuaders!
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Cult TV Lounge: Mission: Impossible - season 1 (1966)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Saturday, 15 February 2014. Mission: Impossible - season 1 (1966). Was one of the most successful spy series of its era, running on the American CBS network from 1966 to 1973. There are broadly speaking two approaches to the spy thriller. There’s the gritty realist approach, usually with a hint of cynicism, typified by British series like Callan. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And It Takes a Thief. James Chapman singles out Mission: Impossible.
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Cult TV Lounge: Department S (1969-70)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Tuesday, 1 April 2014. As James Chapman points out in his excellent book on the various ITC adventure series, Saints and Avengers. What they did was to invert the formula of their earlier series The Champions. Started off with a bizarre and fantastic premise, three secret agents who have acquired superhuman and paranormal powers, but balanced the fantastic premise with straightforward and realistic storylines. So Department S. Is fun and I...
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Cult TV Lounge: Batman, season one (1966)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Monday, 20 July 2015. Batman, season one (1966). I was never a great fan of the Batman. TV series. On the other hand I can see why people liked it so much. I can appreciate its virtues. And revisiting it now I have to say has turned out to be fairly enjoyable. There are some truly inspired visual moments - the use of umbrellas in the first Penguin story is very clever and very witty. And rubbing it in by inventing his own utility belt - at th...
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Cult TV Lounge: Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-75)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Wednesday, 12 March 2014. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-75). In 1972 Darren McGavin had appeared in a TV movie called The Night Stalker. He played Chicago newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak, who found himself investigating a series of bizarre crimes which he came to believe had supernatural causes. The Night Stalker. Was followed in 1973 by a second TV movie, The Night Strangler. Which ran during the 1974–1975 season. In syndication that prov...
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Cult TV Lounge: The Avengers - How To Succeed...At Murder
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Sunday, 5 July 2015. The Avengers - How To Succeed.At Murder. In the light of Patrick Macnee’s recent death I thought I should revisit The Avengers. So last night I watched How To Succeed.At Murder. This is one of the late Mrs Peel black-and-white stories with a Brian Clemens script and there’s plenty of fun to be had. The story is delightfully outrageous. One of the great joys of The Avengers. 5 July 2015 at 08:49. Space: 1999 was the most a...
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Cult TV Lounge: The Avengers - the Tara King era, part 1
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Sunday, 9 August 2015. The Avengers - the Tara King era, part 1. Having just bought Optimum’s wonderful series 6 boxed set of The Avengers. I am naturally going to be talking quite a bit about the Tara King era of The Avengers. One of the reasons The Avengers. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Bryce was a fine producer but he had no experience in doing a filmed series, which of course requires a very different approach compared...
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Cult TV Lounge: The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966-67)
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Friday, 4 April 2014. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966-67). The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Is a case in point. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Had been launched on NBC in 1964 and had been immensely popular. Surely adding a glamorous female spy (glamorous female spies and crime-fighters were rapidly becoming the flavour of the month at the time) to the formula would be a certain winner. Alas, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Folded after a single season. Is a classi...
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Cult TV Lounge: It Takes a Thief (1968-70), season 1
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British and American cult television from the 1960s and 1970s. Sunday, 16 March 2014. It Takes a Thief (1968-70), season 1. It Takes a Thief. Was a spy series that ran from 1968 to 1970 on the American ABC network. It follows what was by then a well-established formula for such series that had been lain down by series such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Being a spy doesn’t especially appeal to Mundy but it sure beats sitting in a prison cell. It Takes a Thief follows this formula to the letter. While it&...
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