On its 50th anniversary, “Star Trek: The Animated Series” is finally getting some well-deserved love.
For many years, the Saturday morning series that premiered Sept. 8, 1973, has often been disparaged, if not outright ignored.
And it almost was a mess that very well could have torpedoed “Star Trek” forever, were it not for star Leonard Nimoy.
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Never meet your heroes.
You’re bound to be disappointed.
Isn’t that what we are told?
But years ago, while working for the Fishrag That Shall Not Be Named, I got the chance to interview Kevin Conroy.
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American TV shows are rubbish when it comes to depicting gay relationships.
Take, for example, ABC’s “General Hospital.”
The long-running serial features a gay character who appears about once every two months to provide comic relief to his bestie.
The love of his life, his now ex-husband, a legacy character no less, has been working on another floor of the hospital and hasn’t been seen onscreen in two years.
Tokens and time-fillers. That pretty much sums up the wasteland of American TV.
Not so across the pond.
Continue reading “‘EastEnders’ Ballum Beats Everything on American TV”
Any casual visitor to this site might guess that I have a deep affection for DC’s Justice Society of America, the first and greatest superteam.
Maybe it is because I talked about how the 1970 Justice League/Justice Society team-up pretty much got me addicted to comic books.
Or how I finally tracked down the elusive issue long missing from my collection.
Or how the Justice Society just lent themselves to the best holiday stories.
But I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d live to see the Justice Society star in a TV show.
Continue reading “We Have a Justice Society TV Show. This Is Not a Drill.”
We were not prepared for part three of “Crisis on Infinite Earths.”
This latest chapter, on CW’s “The Flash,” touched on elements of the now classic tale and then swerved off in directions unexpected, the shocks multiplied by appearances from several veterans of other DC shows.
Sure, we knew John Wesley Shipp would be reprising his role as the original Flash, but who expected the original Birds of Prey? And Lucifer! Freaking Lucifer, just as smarmy and seductive as can be.
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