The summer of ’68, my last summer living in Connecticut, I was glued to a particular show on the family’s 1-year-old 23″ RCA color console TV. It was exactly like the set, apparently broken, seen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The show that captivated me was The Prisoner, a British 17-episode limited series that aired Saturday nights on CBS. I’m in the middle of reacquainting myself with the series, which is currently available for free on Amazon IMDB TV. The first episode is on YouTube.
For over two-and-a-half years, following a couple of hellish surgeries for a detached retina, I was essentially blind in my left eye. How essentially? I could read something only if it was literally touching my eyelashes.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to radio (heck, I used to work at a radio station) including old-time radio shows, and I did a lot of that during the worst few months of my recovery, while confined to my bedroom. That experience gave me a deeper sympathy for people who are permanently visually impaired.
Sci-Fi Old Time Radio is deserving of special recognition for their TV soundtracks with descriptive narration. The shows were originally available on the now-defunct BlindyTV service, and they include the original Star Trek series and Doctor Who.
Listening to these programs reminds me of when I was a kid, holding the mic of my little tape recorder near the TV speaker to capture bits of Trek. I’d listen to them after bedtime with an earphone (see two posts ago).
Enjoyed my visit today. Thanks for the “therapy session.” 😉 Here’s the art by Alex Raymond I told you about, from a few years before his untimely death. Such superb work!
P.S. Click here to browse Heritage Auctions’ comics and original art.
Here’s a question you didn’t ask, but you’ll like the answer. Is the classic transistor radio earphone, used by millions of kids under their bed covers at night, still being made? Yes, and you can get one for less than a buck-fifty.
A Canadian study of interpersonal and international relations.
Another Canadian take on the same thing.
Whenever Michael Lewis has a new book out, I buy it immediately. His last book turned out to be an unintended prequel to his latest book. The Fifth Risk explained, in unsettling detail, how Donald Trump undermined, and even dismantled, the federal government’s various science-related agencies. The Premonition covers the risk made real, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The CDC completely failed to do its job, and the blame is entirely on Trump.
It’s interesting that Lewis refers to the real people he features as being “characters.”
