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will		#101	[-]
Aug 9 12 6:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, you would have thought ABC, which had part ownership of both shows, would have brought him in when they cut the budget the second season and had OSB's Harry Lubin do the score.
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Grant		#102	[-]
Aug 9 12 7:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	telegonus wrote: Thanks for that, Grant. I've read some Manley Wellman and liked it, but not a whole lot. Doesn't Denver Pyle have a prominent role in Hillbilly John? It seems like an unusual project for the prolific Newland, as I believe it was made as a low budget feature, while he tended to work almost exclusively in television. I'm glad to be helpful, because I'm very attached to it (I even made a point of getting a particular folk magic book because it's mentioned in the movie). Denver Pyle plays the main character's grandfather, who I guess is a lot like his Dukes of Hazard character later on, and like so many of his other rural characters. Severn Darden is the one actor (apart from the lead actor and actress) who keeps popping up all through the movie, and he's very entertaining as usual.
telegonus		#103	[-]
Aug 10 12 2:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Will: maybe the Lubin TOL score, nearly identical to the OSB one, is what kept Newland away. It was a direct ripoff, and much as I like it on OSB it feels all wrong the TOL, anmd for me has a cheapening effect on all those second season TOL episodes.
LCranston		#104	[-]
Aug 10 12 5:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Grant wrote: telegonus wrote: Thanks for that, Grant. I've read some Manley Wellman and liked it, but not a whole lot. Doesn't Denver Pyle have a prominent role in Hillbilly John? It seems like an unusual project for the prolific Newland, as I believe it was made as a low budget feature, while he tended to work almost exclusively in television. I'm glad to be helpful, because I'm very attached to it (I even made a point of getting a particular folk magic book because it's mentioned in the movie). Denver Pyle plays the main character's grandfather, who I guess is a lot like his Dukes of Hazard character later on, and like so many of his other rural characters. Severn Darden is the one actor (apart from the lead actor and actress) who keeps popping up all through the movie, and he's very entertaining as usual. It's probably safe to say that for a lot of people Denver Pyle's role on Dukes of Hazzard is what he's known for. Lately I've been watching a lot of 1950s & 60s shows, and I'm surprised to see Denver Pyle popping up in show after show, and usually in "straight," suit & tie-type roles. He played a concert pianist in a MEDIC and an astronaut in MEN INTO SPACE, and I keep getting surprised that it's him. Deep water is dark and restful and full of peace.
Wich2		#105	[-]
Aug 10 12 10:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And a mad bomber in SUPERMAN!
V42		#106	[-]
Aug 12 12 2:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I vaguely remember this show being on when I was a kid, but I don't remember anything specific about it. After reading this thread I bought the Very Best of DVD collection and was pleased. By today's standards it may be nothing impressive, but I got it because it has a charm and texture of older B&W TV that doesn't translate to modern productions and is still enjoyable. It's very atmospheric in a nostalgic way. One thing I like about old B&W series is that they remind me of what was on television when I was a child--when the world was a much simpler place with no real responsibilities. One Step Beyond tends to be very understated when compared to shows like The Twilight Zone and some episodes of Boris Karloff's Thriller. With One Step Beyond you sometimes have an entire 23 minute episode that appears to be a normal short story setting up a 20 second 'step beyond' toward the end. The big decision I had when buying the DVD is deciding which of the different DVD sets on the market represented the best buy in terms of content and available price. I settled on the Very Best of One Step Beyond as it had 50 episodes and was available on Ebay for about $12.00 shipped. I believe there were something like 98 episodes in total. You can find some episodes on Hulu, including some that did not make it to the Very Best of DVD: http://www.hulu.com/one-step-beyond . The episodes on Hulu are viewable, but unfortuneately seem to have a lot of commercials crammed into them. Last Edited By: V42 Aug 12 12 4:21 AM. Edited 3 times.
telegonus	Denver Pyle	#107	[-]
Aug 16 12 5:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Denver Pyle was a very good actor. I'm glad that he's remembered at all. He turned up on just about every old TV series I grew up on, from The Lone Ranger to Fury. I saw him in a Route 66 episode last week. He's in John Wayne's The Alamo. I don't think he ever appeared in an Outer Limits. He did appear in one subpar Twilight Zone (Black Leather jackets). In the Thriller episopde The Hollow Watcher he plays Warren Oates' abusive father. Pyle was quite versatile and yet something about his face and manner made him a better fit for western and rustic characters than city types. There's was something "non-metrpolitan" about him.
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Grant		#108	[-]
Aug 16 12 6:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's always kind of odd that his Twilight Zone wasn't a rural one, but it was written by Earl Hamner! Denver Pyle and Earl Hamner came together, but the story was set in the suburbs!
telegonus		#109	[-]
Aug 16 12 6:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That is odd, Grant. They did a lot of rural Zones, and they're surprisingly good.
clore103051		#110	[-]
Aug 16 12 7:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	telegonus wrote: In the Thriller episopde The Hollow Watcher he plays Warren Oates' abusive father. I just saw him on THE RIFLEMAN playing the father of Warren Oates - and of Buddy Hackett.
telegonus		#111	[-]
Aug 17 12 3:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Warren Oates and Buddy Hackett as brothers! The Rifleman could get strange now and then. Chuck Connors as Lucas McCain, even though the hero, had a sinister quality to him, as if he could turn into a bad guy at the drop of a hat, and on one occasion he did when his doppelganger turn up in North Fork.
Nicholas Blair		#112	[-]
Jan 18 13 11:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Grant wrote: The Dead Part Of The House also has Philip Ahn as a wise Oriental character, but one who isn't really a stereotype. He seemed to play that part many times before he finally became Master Kan on Kung Fu. I was about to mention this. The only stereotypical feature he displayed was the replacing of ''R'' and ''L'' and vice versa... this is obviously due to the fact Ahn is Korean not Chinese (as his character is in the episode), as that quirk is not a feature of either Mandarin or Cantonese, which share most of the same sounds as English; it is a feature in both Japanese and Korean. For that matter, they should have just made the character Korean, though China (which is diverse and thus you have ''Koreans'' native to regions of China), like India and Tibet, has more of a mystique than Korean does, for some reason.
IMSWM		#113	[-]
Jan 20 13 5:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tim Lucas VW wrote: One of the problems with OSB is that there is a kind of inconsistency about it over the seasons. Excellent choice of word, "inconsistency." I went through a full box set and found that, for the most part, episodes are generally pretty entertaining, but there are some flat points along the way. Overall, I would recommend buying a set due to there being plenty of enjoyable episodes, the price is very reasonable and, WTF, you only need to press one remote button to move on, should an episode fail to catch your interest early on. /\ /\/\ \ \ / \ / \/\/ \ visit www.ManorOnMovies.com A new concept in new concepts
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