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The Rifleman: The Vaqueros (1961)
Intense desert scene looked real.
I have this DVD but I ignored this episode because it sounded boring looking at the short description. It seemed like someone was always left in the desert so I passed on it until I saw Dinky's review of it, so I watched. Must have been made for women like me. I liked it because the Rifleman was shirtless. It was so intense and mean having him hang by his wrists though and being roughed up and basically being used as a leaning post for the bad guy to talk in his ear for a few minutes. But it gave me a nice closeup view of his chest. Good enough for me. As a story though it was pretty basic for being so many years into the show. My impression was this was the point the show was in trouble, so they came up with the idea of near killing the hero. Lots of shows do that when viewership drops off...they put in hero in some horrible turmoil, and that had to be what they were thinking when they made this episode. But back then the sexiest thing you could do I suppose was have a shirtless scene. I see that in so many westerns. It makes me laugh though when the music gets dramatic and the only thing you see is his tied wrists. I guess that was really considered a horrible situation back then, vs. the blood and guts of today's TV
Alien (1979)
Didn't catch the Lambert killing
I saw this on TV the first time and taped it. I saw it and I could'nt believe the alien birth was shown on TV. I had heard about it but I figured because the way people described it that it wouldn't make it on TV. I have seen the actual video movie too but after TV. I did notice the sound of Lambert being killed didn't make it on TV because the sound of her screams shocked me when I saw the unedited video. I was surprised when I saw the video. I was like..where did that come from? I looked at my TV tape again and the sound is taken out but you hear all the other noises of the ship in place of her screams. Also on my TV tape you don't see the alien hand go up Lambert's leg. You see her standing there looking scared though. It is not on TV at all...at least the station I taped it off of. At the point the hand is supposed to go up her leg on TV you can tell it cuts away because the sound, voices and music makes a blip sound like something was cut I thought maybe they just cut a bloody scene or something. It makes me think the intent was to make you think she was raped by the alien. But the only reason I believe that is because it was cut out of TV. Why else would a sound be cut? No blood or anything in that scene. You don't even see it. You just hear it and I guess that was too much for TV. But if not for TV cutting it out, I would have thought she was killed the same way as everyone else. After reading a review here I watched the real version again and it is real evident she was killed differently than the rest of the crew with that sound you hear.