As a student of television history, it is difficult not to notice how television series change over the course of their run. If the show makes it to season five, it has already begun to change, cast as well as creative team turnover, story lines that were much different and characters who were older that … More First and Last Seasons: TV Series
Seasons 1-3 were known as the Trapper John and Henry Blake seasons. At the end of season three, LTC Henry Blake left to go home and was killed off-screen. After season three finished filming, Wayne Rogers, who played Trapper John, left the series. He was replaced in the first episode of season four by Mike … More MASH: The Trapper & Henry Years
Another installment in the Film Directors series. Sam Peckinpah and Robert Altman cut their directing teeth in television after serving in World War II. Besides being directors, they were writers, who understood injecting subtext into their film projects. Both flirted with film directing before making the jump full-time to features, the industry was not quite … More Peckinpah & Altman: Mavericks
I believe the decade of the 1970s was a watershed time period of the cinema. I am not saying the best films were produced during this decade, although many were, but there was an artistic freedom and experimentation that began at the end of the 1960s and continued until the studios were captured by the … More Ten Influential Films of the 1970s
