Half-Price Books had another coupon sale this week, and I picked up a few things that I feel like documenting here.
I picked up a lot of “popular culture”…stuff, I’d say, though other people might call it “crap”. Specifically, I got:
- Volumes four, five and eight of Mannix, which puts me halfway towards having a complete run. We watched “A Ticket to the Eclipse” Saturday night, and Darren McGavin is quite creepy in it, even if he can’t decide what his accent should be. And speaking of Darren…
- Finally found a copy of Kolchak: The Night Stalker the series for 50% off with coupon. We’re still watching the midnight showings on MeTV (Hi, Pat!) but this will let me catch up: for example, I’ve managed to miss “They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be…” in the last two cycles. Now all I need is the two TV movies, though I plan to wait for the rumored 4K Blu-Ray remasters that are supposedly coming from Kino Lorber.
- Mister Roberts. I have actually never seen this, but I have been known to use the “I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard” line on managers.
- Hellfighters. John Wayne! Jim Hutton! On Blu-Ray, for $5 with the 50$ off coupon.
- Tony Rome. Found cheap plus coupon, and I actually added this to the list a few weeks ago. Frank Sinatra PI film: the late Deanna Lund supposedly plays a “redheaded lesbian stripper”, though she’s not credited anywhere on the jacket copy.
Of course, I wouldn’t be me if I hadn’t picked up some gun books, too…
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