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<blockquote>Lily didn't appear nearly as much in the tv series as she did in the books</blockquote>
If you're talking about "screen time" in both media, you may well be correct, though I haven't done a statistical analysis. But according to IMDb, she is in 4 of the 29 or 30 episodes (depending on whether you count the pilot as one episode or two) of the A&E series (13.8% or 13.3%), and according to Goodreads (<url>https://www.goodreads.com/characters/978604-lily-rowan</url>), she appears "on screen" in 9 of the 74 written stories (12%). Admittedly, the A&E series did not get around to adapting some of her more extensive roles before being cancelled, but they did include her in a brief introductory scene in "Door to Death" even though there's nothing of that sort at the beginning of the novella.
What drprod said -- but alternatively it could easily have been a syndicated rerun of The Bob Cummings Show (1955-59, <url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047752/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_29_act</url>). Cummings was also in a number of other TV and movie productions, some of which may have turned up on TV circa 1964.
In "Fish Story" the spelling is quite easy to see (though you still might not notice if you're not paying attention to the jacket). Did an internet <u>image</u> search on
<blockquote>Cincinnato WKRP</blockquote>
(then assured the search software that I really did mean that spelling) and there are bunches of red tshirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, stickers, mugs, etc. for sale with the "Cincinnato" logo -- surely a testament to the lasting popularity of the series!
We've watched the first 17 episodes on our DVDs so far, and won't get to "Fish Story" (#21) for a few more days -- however I recall noticing Venus wearing a red sports-type jacket a few episodes back. I was having trouble reading what it said, and assumed that was because the fabric fell into folds, so that I couldn't see the whole front at once. Didn't think too much about it, but now I'm beginning to wonder....
The answer popped into my head overnight. Martin Crieff was a character (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) in the BBC radio sitcom <i>Cabin Pressure</i> (available on YouTube and well worth a listen).
Sorry about that!
Am I the only person who doesn't find this episode funny? (Silly, yes.) So if turkeys *could* fly, it would have made perfect sense to toss them out of a helicopter? Or even just let them loose in a metro area?
The Mississippi was the original divider, yes, but I believe I heard a while back that they were running short on new station names, so they apparently assign W and K rather indiscriminately nowadays. Older stations would generally still have their original letters, though.
Note, however, that the word "station" seems to mean the combination of frequency, owner, and location -- so if any of those factors change, there could also be a name change.
<blockquote>... after season 4 the creators and writing staff left to start Frasier. Because that was a more high-profile project spinning off a major character, they sent over their best people.</blockquote>
Hmm, kinda like the <i>Mary Tyler Moore Show</i> spinning off two of its best characters, Rhoda and Phyllis, into shows of their own, leaving the original show kinda gutted? But, like you, I'm not sure I noticed that result with <i>Wings</i>.
At this point, months after finishing our rewatch, I'm left with an overall positive feeling for the show, much as I felt after its network run. I liked the characters, thought they were a well-orchestrated ensemble, and liked the setting, so I enjoyed "visiting" there even when an episode left something to be desired.
I can neither confirm nor refute any of your specifics, but I have heard one story about an immigration clerk being pretty cavalier with someone's name. I worked with a fellow who had a typical German-Jewish surname which he seemed to be mispronouncing, so I asked him about that. He said it wasn't actually his name anyhow. His family was from Russia, apparently with a long, complicated Russian surname. When his uncle came to the US, the immigration clerk told him that no one would be able to pronounce his name, and suggested that he use this other name instead, because "it's a nice Jewish name" (never mind that it was German instead of Russian). Then when the coworker's father came over, the uncle told him "over here, our name's such-and-such."
The two brothers came from a totalitarian country, so it may never have occurred to them that there was anything unusual about this. And in all fairness, the clerk was presumably just trying to be helpful. Many people are now saying that "Ellis Island name changes" were largely a myth, which may or may not be true. I would personally tend to discount the "Yid" story, but such name changes did apparently happen at least once (though not necessarily at Ellis Island).
You forgot to mention heavier-than-air flying machines.
... and they say my husband is Joey -- so we're a good match!
Says I'm most like Phoebe, which is probably true, though I don't quite see how they got it from those questions!
Good heavens! If they were seriously considering such a series finale, thank goodness they changed their minds.
Even very small comets are thought to have nuclei with a diameter of about a city block (500 feet / 150 meters). Something that size (even with a relatively low density) hitting Manhattan would presumably obliterate the entire island, at the very least.
If I've seen those episodes, it's been years, but we're currently watching straight through on the DVDs. When we get there, I'll let you know what I think, over on the "Rachel & Joey" thread: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0108778/Friends/58c76e4593cef4080d771eab/Rachel-and-Joey</url>
I've never seen the episode, but apparently it wasn't abandoned -- it's called "The Butter Shave," and you should be able to find a bunch of threads relating to it (or create your own) on the Seinfeld discussion page: <url>https://moviechat.org/tt0098904/Seinfeld<url>
<blockquote>As great as the show is, they were definitely just making stuff up without a great deal of design or planning. This ain't no Tolkien work of grand fiction.</blockquote>
Quite true. They had a show to get out once a week, and you don't always have brilliant ideas on a regular schedule.
Glad to hear that Matthew Perry nixed that scene!
<blockquote>They learned that their mysteries on Ellery Queen were too hard for most audiences to SOLVE. The clues were too obscure....</blockquote>
At least in the early episodes, the EQ clues are generally presented as the victim's dying attempt to name the killer, but I find it hard to believe that a dying person would come up with those convoluted clues -- or that any investigator would understand them. They're just a bit too clever for their own good. I wouldn't say that the MSW clues are easy or obvious, but most of them are inadvertently left by the killer, and thus seem more plausible to me.
That's a darn good question! A number of actors played characters credited as "announcer" on individual episodes -- I wonder if the "In just a few minutes" guy might have been one of them?
The IMDb "FAQ" page has two answers:
<blockquote>If it wasn't William Conrad, it was someone with the same voice.</blockquote>
and
<blockquote>Harry von Zell (1906-1981)</blockquote>
It was clearly NOT von Zell, who played "announcer" in the pilot "Too Many Suspects." His voice (which I know well from his years on the Burn & Allen show) was entirely different, more of a mellow old-school radio announcer.
As for Conrad, Mike / VBartilucci disputes that in a comment on a MeTV page about Conrad, saying "The narrator of The Invaders was William Woodson, who performed the same function on Ellery Queen in 1975...." IMDb does list Woodson (uncredited) for The Invaders, but not for Ellery Queen. I believe that IMDb can be edited by members, though, like Wikipedia, so I have no idea how authoritative it is.