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Ironside: Mind for Murder (1973)
Mind for Murder-- nice plot, great guest stars
Multiple viewings have made me realize there's at least one plot hole in this one-- there's enough information available that the detectives originally assigned to the case should have been able to come up with a profile of the killer on their own without our beloved Ironside, but of course it is enormous fun to watch and listen to him work it out. Anway, the performances are so good I have to give this one a thumb's up. Ross Martin's angst-ridden character is particularly well done, and Louise Sorel's character is similar to the one she did on an episode of Star Trek: highly intelligent and emotionally vulnerable. She was very good at that.
Mr. Lucky (1959)
Online Discussion Group of Mr. Lucky
Some of us who enjoy this show in general and Ross Martin's work on it in particular, have been discussing it episode-by-episode at www.andamoinmrlucky.proboards.com.
Here's an example, from one of my own posts, which provoked argument from another member:
"Anyway, back to 'The Money Game': Notice the difference between how natural Rovacs sounds when he says, "The bird from Wilbur College?" and how unnatural Lucky sounds when he says, "The bird who said this country has no respect for mathematicians . . . ." I think the writer missed it with that line. Lucky just can't use slang terms like "bird." And the writer did it again, though not so blatantly, with Lucky's dialogue with Eddie about the "fish." Lucky has too much respect for his customers to refer to them with derogatory words like that. Poor John Vivyan-- what he must have thought when he saw this week's script. In addition to having to speak out of character, he sure got stuck with some lame lines this time."
In retrospect, I'm not sure I agree with myself there about the fish. We'd sure welcome other voices, other opinions, from people who'd like to watch and seriously discuss the show with us.