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Post by HoudiniDerek on May 15, 2006 10:31:45 GMT -5
Nice catch, J-Man. It is easier to see here. You have too much free time, again.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on May 19, 2006 23:00:43 GMT -5
Another one: Changing in phone booths. Ralph does it in the first season in SATURDAY ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. Murdock does it as Captain Cab in the second season episode THE TAXICAB WARS.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 3, 2006 21:19:14 GMT -5
And of course, both shows utilize the BELLER AIR company.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 19, 2006 17:17:58 GMT -5
There is a line used by Pam in the episode CAPTAIN BELLYBUSTER AND THE SPEED FACTORY that would later be used Murdock in THE OUT OF TOWNERS. "I guess I bobbed when I should have weaved." Pam said that after hitting her head and falling down when the bad guys were shooting at Ralph. Murdock said it after being hit by a car during a firefight. Nice touch, huh?
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 1, 2006 14:09:36 GMT -5
GAH and the A-Team seem to share bad guy names. THE HAND-PAINTED THAI we have General Chow. In MIND GAMES we have General Chow. Must be brothers.
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Post by MST3Claye on Aug 9, 2006 15:25:07 GMT -5
There are a few posts mentioning music and how they shared some of the songs Scarbury did. I caught A-Team on TVLand today, which I didn't think they still showed anymore so it was a nice surprise. The episode on was.... just now finding out the title of the episode. Thanks for ruining the whole point of my post TVLand schedule!! "Trouble on Wheels", and as you can probably guess by now, a certain song they played while testing out their altered car for the week was indeed "Trouble on Wheels" which was in Hog Wild. Just thought I'd add that, amazing how I could recognize it. Not too much a fan of musical interludes but I'll admit some of the songs are worth it.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 9, 2006 15:26:55 GMT -5
There are a few posts mentioning music and how they shared some of the songs Scarbury did. I caught A-Team on TVLand today, which I didn't think they still showed anymore so it was a nice surprise. The episode on was.... just now finding out the title of the episode. Thanks for ruining the whole point of my post TVLand schedule!! "Trouble on Wheels", and as you can probably guess by now, a certain song they played while testing out their altered car for the week was indeed "Trouble on Wheels" which was in Hog Wild. Just thought I'd add that, amazing how I could recognize it. Not too much a fan of musical interludes but I'll admit some of the songs are worth it. In the fourth season episode WHERE IS THE MONSTER WHEN YOU NEED HIM, the DVD sets also play the song TROUBLE ON WHEELS when Hannibal is driving away from Decker.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 9, 2006 20:26:23 GMT -5
In rewatching the fourth season episode ROAD TO HOPE of the A-Team, I realized another similiarity between GAH and the A-Team. In DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM, Ralph uses "white paper" to do his telekinesis. In THE ROAD TO HOPE, Murdock uses "white paper" to become invisible. See the connection?
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 9, 2006 21:23:47 GMT -5
Of course, another music tie in. In the pilot of GAH, the bald Gabriel's army lady who has a gun pointed at John Mackie starts singing "Onward Christian soldiers...marching as to war." In the fourth season episode THE ROAD TO HOPE, Murdock hears the bums singing that when he is trying to figure out how to rescue the gang from a superior force.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Oct 19, 2006 16:20:24 GMT -5
Another goody is radiation poisoning. We know that Bill in LIVE AT ELEVEN is worried that he might be exposed and losing his hair and having his watch stop. In the fifth season POINT OF NO RETURN, Murdock is having the same worries.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Mar 5, 2007 10:28:58 GMT -5
One of the recurring elements is more visual...and it seems that it is NOT contingent on the directors of the episodes. In GAH, there was an outdoor scene to start...and a huge flyover shot to do establishing credits. The A-TEAM had the same flyover shot to do credits. Not to be outdone, PROFIT started with a huge flyover shot too. You would think that renting helicopters is not THAT easy.
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Post by mmderdekea on Jul 14, 2007 17:51:42 GMT -5
You all keep forgetting about Jim Rockford:
1. War veteran 2. Drove a sports car 3. Episode with Burkley as biker (considered--righteously--to be the absolutely worst Rockford ep; slammed repeatedly at jumptheshark). 4. Wrongly imprisoned, constant problems with the law except with his cop friend, Dennis.
One thing that stands out in Cannnell shows is the gorgeously poetic language used by main characters, filled with creative metaphors that is really hard to do in real life. Bill Maxwell spoke in wonderfully descriptive metaphors (not even, probably, realizing what a metaphor was); Jim Rockford and Angel both use poetic examples regularly as a normal part of their speech patterns.
Mona
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Jul 14, 2007 21:48:47 GMT -5
Good call, Mona. Speech patterns are a definite good one used between a lot of the SJC scripts and main characters...even the bad guys.
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