Archive for May 29th, 2023

Texas, our Texas!

Monday, May 29th, 2023

For this year’s Memorial Day post, I’m going to lead off with a photo. Which is, frankly, not all that great because of the limitations of the situation, but it does serve to illustrate a story.

This is a photo I took when my brother, my nephew, and I went to see the Battleship Texas in dry dock.

If you click to embiggen, you’ll see a green dot. Here’s a cropped version, which might make it easier to see:

The green dot is from a laser pointer belonging to one of the tour guides. It shows where the Texas was patched.

Patched, you say?

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Obit watch: May 29, 2023.

Monday, May 29th, 2023

George Maharis. THR.

I think “Route 66” was patient zero for a certain type of show: the mysterious drifter (or drifters: I can think of some shows with a pair, but I can’t think of any with more than two) come to a town, meddle in the affairs of other people solve someone’s problems, and then move on to the next town. (See: “The Fugitive”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “The Master”, etc. I think TV Tropes refers to this as “Walking the Earth“.)

Amazon Prime has four seasons of the show available. I feel like I want to watch it, and I have tried to watch it. But I just can’t get through the first episode.

Other credits include, yes, “The Master”, “SST: Death Flight”, “Movin’ On” (I don’t think that counts as a “Walking the Earth” show, in spite of the TV Tropes entry, but I believe “BJ and the Bear” would), and “McMillan and Wife”.

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