Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

acceptance (a sort of dependency despite his independent streak). Life can be full ofdichotomies or ambivalences!*************Television often “sucks” these days, not worth watching. I wish I could turn onthe tv and will certain Golden Age of Television shows to magically appear for realentertainment (and terrific music). For example, I could put on my retrospective tv setand watch the old CLIMAX series. One very star-studded episode was #66 titled “BailOut at 43,000” dated 12-9-55. It stars Charlton Heston, Lee Marvin, and RichardBoone—a powerhouse combination! Or episode # 87 “The Shadow of Evil” dated 5-25-56 starring Richard Boone (a favorite star of mine in the Fifties to early Sixties),Raymond Burr (just before his Perry Mason stint), and Jan Sterling. Or how about TheGreat Adventure series in 63-64 (only a few episodes are available by collectors).Certainly I would love to see episode # 5, “The Story of Nathan Hale” (12-25-63)>Herrmann composed an original score for that one. It starred Jeremy Slate, JohnAnderson, Nancy Malone, And the always-interesting Torin Thatcher. Episode # 19 “ThePlague” (2-28-64) looks interesting with Robert Cummings, John Dehner, JacquelineScott, and Ronny Howard. Of course I would also love to see all of the Studio Oneepisodes, specially the 1957 episodes (some Herrmann might be there). I would just loveto see all 13 episodes of Convoy. Only #7 (“Katya” survives). It is possible Herrmanncomposed an episode or two (besides the already known titles music). Don’t forget TheAmericans, all 17 episodes of them in 1961! Herrmann did the titles music. Only “TheGun” episode # 11 is available by collectors—although I believe, if my memory servesme, the Library of Congress has the 16 mm copies of all of them. Robert Redford was in#16 titled “The Coward.” Pursuit (only 12 episodes in 1958 and a bit into 1959) would befun to watch. The pilot episode, “The Lady Died at Midnight” was later replayed as aStudio One episode in September. It is possible Herrmann’s music would be heard. RodSerling wrote # 9 titled “Last Night in August” starring Dennis Hopper, CameronMitchell & Franchot Tone. Line Up hour format was in 1959 and into January 1960 (only14 episodes), Goldsmith scored the first episode, “Wake Up to Terror” (9-30-59) starringDennis Hopper and Jackie Coogan (about juvenile delinquency). Of course I would loveto see each and every Playhouse 90 from CBS. The very first episode of Season One wastitled “Forbidden Area” (10-4-56) and starred Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, CharlesBickford, Tab Hunter, and Victor Jory! The next episode was the famous Rod Serlingone, “Requiem for a Heavyweight” starring Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Ed Wynn, andKim Hunter.[Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 10:37 am] Day off. I am also writing addedmaterial that I will merely insert within paragraphs above that I wrote a day or two ago…Now: When I tried to access Filmus-L Archives on Friday, January 29, 2010 , Iencountered – “Error: The archive files could not be accessed, either because the listdoes not have Web-accessible archives or because they are being updated. If you knowthat the list has Web archives, please try again in about 30 seconds, and report theproblem if it persists for more than a few minutes. The file that could not be opened is'filmus-l.html' and the error code was 2.”20