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A blog about James Bond 007, UNCLE and other spies. Est. 2008

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Bond film franchise March 2025 | Cusp of big changes hmssweblog.wordpress.com/202…
Bond franchise March 2025: Cusp of big changes

Bond franchise March 2025: Cusp of big changes

Iconic publicity still for Goldfinger with Sean Connery leaning against the Aston Martin DB5. At this point, nobody really knows the state of the James Bond film franchise. We just know things are …

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The Monkees, season 2, episode 13: The lads travel to the west and experience double crosses. Parodies of the Lone Ranger, Bonanza and Gunsmoke follow. Directed by James Frawley.
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In college, I took a political science class that cited this scene.
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As Mayor Frank Skeffington in "The Last Hurrah" (1958), Spencer Tracy watches the destruction of his political career on election night, along with hacks and yes-men:
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As an aside, I don’t know how much longer I’ll be doing these summaries of Monkees episodes. The lads did evolve into a real band. Director James Frawley won an Emmy. One producer directed feature films. The other won an Oscar for a documentary. The latter was controversial.
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The Monkees, season 2, episode 12: The lads (minus Mike) find themselves on a pirate ship.
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Two things I'm tired of following: --Who is the next film James Bond? --Where will the Chicago Bears play next? For a time, I was interested in both. Now? Decide, boyos.
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His son played Duke in the 2010-2020 reboot.
MeTV (@MeTV) profile pictureMeTV@MeTV4h
Before Hawaii Five-O, he was a real-life cop! 👮🌴He served on the Honolulu police force for 16 years! #MeTV
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The Odyssey closed out its 15-week run on Thursday with total domestic earnings of $625.6M the-numbers.com/movie/Odysse… #BoxOffice #TheOdyssey @MovieNumbers
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It's well known that The Man From UNCLE got off to a slow start in the ratings in 1964. Here's what CBS was showing on 9/22/64: youtube.com/watch?v=MAhZn76r…
Red Skelton Hour 1964-09-22 GS: Audrey Meadows and Johnny Rivers

Red Skelton Hour 1964-09-22 GS: Audrey Meadows and Johnny Rivers

"Be It Ever So Grumble, There's No Place Like Home" Season 14 Episo...

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COMING SATURDAY: The 007 Files podcast returns with a discussion about For Your Eyes Only's 45th anniversary.
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Classic Film TV Cafe@classic_filmOct 29
I'm very sad to hear about the passing of Elke Sommer. I interviewed her in 2014: classicfilmtvcafe.com/2014/0… She was enchanting...just as I imagined she would be!
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Back in stock and available to order NOW lalalandrecords.com/thunderb…
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Mike Barnes@MikeBarnes4Oct 29
#RIP Earl Barret. He developed the Ted Knight-starring ‘Too Close for Comfort’ with Arne Sultan and worked on more than 30 other series, including ‘Get Smart,’ ‘I Spy,’ ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and ‘Batman,’ where he came up with the villain King Tut! hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-…
Earl Barret, ‘Too Close for Comfort’ Writer and Producer, Dies at 94

Earl Barret, ‘Too Close for Comfort’ Writer and Producer, Dies at 94

He also worked on ‘Bewitched,’ ‘Get Smart,’ ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ ‘The Governor & J.J.’ and ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’ and came up with the villain King Tut for ‘Batman.’

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Elke Sommer dies hmssweblog.wordpress.com/202…
Elke Sommer dies at 85

Elke Sommer dies at 85

Elke Sommer, circa 1965 Elke Sommer, who starred in multiple spy movies in the 1960s, died this week. The death was reported in the German-language outlet Bild, citing her stepson Sebastian Walther…

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Related to the death of Susan Saint James, a post about The Name of the Game. If you go down the comments, somebody challenges to me to a fight. hmssweblog.wordpress.com/202…
The Name of the Game redux

The Name of the Game redux

UPDATED POST: Several years ago, the blog took a look at The Name of the Game, a 1968-71 series made by Universal and airing on NBC. Since then, more information has emerged. The Hollywood Reporter…

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Any Bob McGinnis poster rises to the top…
Scott McCrea Adventures (@ScottMcCreaWest) profile pictureScott McCrea Adventures@ScottMcCreaWestOct 28
Is Live and Let Die the best James Bond poster? Quite possibly....
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Honorable mentions: Solo & Illya: Telly Savalas, Curt Jurgens Elliott Ness: Joseph Wiseman, Telly Savalas Stuart Bailey: Peter Lorre, Telly Savalas I think I detect a pattern…
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It's only fitting that when the door opens Roger Moore is facing off against 3 Bond villains.
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Audio version of an Oct. 26 post about The New Yorker's snarky comments on Bond open.spotify.com/episode/0vu…
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Fleming would meet with television producer Norman Felton about a possible TV series on Oct. 29-31.
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OTD, 1962, Ian Fleming checked into the Westbury Hotel, NYC, where he planned to stay until November 15.
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Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of 'Kate & Allie' and 'McMillan & Wife,' Dies at 80 variety.com/2026/tv/news/sus…
Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of ‘Kate & Allie’ and ‘McMillan & Wife,’ Dies at 80

Susan Saint James, Emmy-Winning Star of ‘Kate & Allie’ and ‘McMillan & Wife,’ Dies at 80

Susan Saint James, the Emmy-winning actress who starred in "Kate & Allie," died Monday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 80.

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Amusingly, The New Yorker uses a Roger Moore publicity still for this illustration.
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The question of who will be the next James Bond has yielded all too many names drifting in and out of the frame: Idris Elba, Henry Cavill, Jacob Elordi, Tom Hardy, and Paul Mescal, to name just a few. Now the search for the next 007 seems to have reached its climax. Who are the purported finalists for the role? Who in his right mind would even want to be Bond? And why do we still care who Bond is or isn’t? “James Bond, in truth, was never much of a character. He was a name with a dream attached—an expensively tailored suit, into which a succession of actors could slip,” Anthony Lane writes. Read his reflection on the search: newyorker.com/culture/annals…
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