Well, did the last America when I got home. As an indication of the regard I have for this ep, I did it at SLP (EP) and it looks it—smeary picture and pulls all the way through—as no other recording I have at that speed looks. It's appalling, but there.

I found something to fill the other hour: a nostalgia special I'd completely forgotten about, from PBS and hosted by Mickey Rooney, called Remember When, which talks about Burma Shave signs, milkmen, soda fountains, cars with fins, steam locomotives, and other wonderful things. Will copy it when I have time, maybe after House, maybe tomorrow.

To fill the half-hour left after "The Mystery of Edward Sims," I popped the one episode of Danger Bay that I kept. DB was a neat kids' series that was broadcast here in the States on the Disney Channel back in the days before "Zoog Disney," commercial interruptions, and big "bugs" at the bottom of the screen, so even at SLP it looks delightful. Danger Bay was produced in Canada, the story of Grant "Doc" Roberts, who worked at the local aquarium, and his two children, Jonah and Nicole. (Nicole was played by pretty Ocean Hellman and I would have paid millions to have gorgeous eyes like hers.) I don't mind confessing I watched the series for Donnelly Rhodes, who played Grant (another in a long line of "Canadian leading men I have loved," along with Colin Fox).

The episode I kept was "One Black Dog," about—natch!—a dog, a lovely mixed Newfoundland/collie whom Doc refused to believe was psychic, until some odd events convinced even him.

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I remember Danger Bay, and indeed it is currently running on one of the "TV Nostalgia" stations up here, called Deja View (we also have a TVLand Canada, but it isn't available on on my cable system). The series was produced by the CBC. Domelly Rhodes is still acting of course - he plays the Doctor on the new Battlestar Galactica but in Canada he's probably best known for his supporting role of Detective Shannon on Da Vinci's Inquest.

# posted by  Brent McKee : 4:44:00 PM

 

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