Word: serially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, in the 195 episodes of the serial so far, he has yet to solve a crime. Just when emergency strikes, the "fantastic feathered fighter" finds that his chicken suit has been lost by the cleaners or the zipper is stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good...
...from U.N.C.L.E. is at once incidental and central to Vaughn's ambition. The show is fun. The two-year contract is oppressingly binding. "I don't consider TV serial drama to be anything other than a way to get out of television. Still, I can't think of a better television show to do than U.N.C.L.E. It requires absolutely no commitment emotionally or intellectually." The implication is that U.N.C.L.E. is simply a glamorous, money-making lark which keeps his name before the public until better things come along...
...plot unreels like something left over from an ancient Fu Manchu serial. Together with a friend, Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), Millie wanders dizzily around town, avoiding the clutches of a wicked witch of a whiteslaver (Beatrice Lillie) and her gang of scrutable Orientals. In the last reel, both girls foil the villains and tie up their happiness with big pink beaux (James Fox and John Gavin...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* The 1961 science-fiction thriller that became a prototype for the current TV serial, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Joan Fontaine, Walter Pidgeon and Peter Lorre...
...known by most of his countrymen. During the early 18th century, William Hogarth became Britain's first great painter, winning that distinction with an art charged more with dramatic subject matter than seductive style. He called himself an "author" rather than an artist, and works came out like serial scenes of a play. He illustrated a rake's progress in eight pictures, a harlot's downfall in six. "My picture is my stage," he wrote, and he made it roar with rogues in wrinkled breeches and buxom wenches in disarray...