The TV Tripler

My three favorite classic TV series, dating me very clearly as a prime Baby Boomer, are The Adventures of Superman, Leave it to Beaver, and Star Trek (TOS). Only Beverly Washburn appeared in all three of those shows, as I told her a few years ago at Trekconderoga. (This year’s event is in progress right now, with special guest George Takei.)

Those three shows were on TV before streaming, before the DVR, before DVD, before VHS and LD, and before cable. A couple of weeks ago, Beverly was on the Creature Features channel on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/n_OSHWkoGb4

Svengoolie will be showing Blood of Dracula on MeTV tonight, on standard definition station 5.2 here in Boston. As I await the arrival of ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV, YouTube channels like Creature Features have me wondering if broadcast television has much of a future.

Here, This Will Make You Sad!

If there is a better film about adult relationships than this one, I don’t want to know it. Brief Encounter is perfect for me as it is.

If Leslie Howard had been alive I suppose he would have been given the lead opposite Celia Johnson, and been ever so wrong for the part. Trevor Howard played the role deftly, allowing the sublime and subtle Celia to carry every scene. She is utterly convincing as a conflicted, middle-aged married mother who has fallen deeply in love, possibly for the first time in her life.

Now that I’m embedding this complete copy of the film that somebody has made available, and my site is once again being indexed by Google, I suppose this video will soon disappear. So if you’ve never seen it, watch now before it disappears.

Goody For Google

If you look up my name on Bing or DuckDuckGo, this site appears at the top of the list. But Google is where search matters, and as I explained, Prattling Before the Pratfall was dead to it. Which was funny, because Google had first indexed the site a long time ago.

As best as I can determine, the problem was caused when Bluehost migrated my site to not only another server, but overlaid it onto another domain. This triggered Google to think there was a security risk, due to a redirection, and the lockout didn’t clear up after the site was restored to its rightful domain. Anyway, after cleaning up some DNS cnames the domain is once again being indexed by Google, and so far I’m up to page 4.