Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
Shows that interest me on the small screen.
Lola Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) Was probably best known for her role as Edie Hart, Peter Gunn’s love interest, in the TV show bearing the character’s name. For the first two seasons she sings in a local jazz club called Mother’s, by the last season she was running the joint. Continue reading “Lola Albright”
SETS LENS AND FOCUSES ON ADVENTURE….. Charles Bronson stars as Mike Kovac, ex-combat photographer now freelancing in ABC-TV’s “Man With a Camera,”
adventure-mystery series premiering Monday, October 19 (10:30-11PM, PST).
Kovac, a warm hearted but tough New Yorker, is as expert with his camera as his fists, and his freelance assignments give him plenty of practice in both fields. (ABC promotional copy)
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While watching “The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker” (1960) last night, towards the end of the episode, Perry asks cocktail waitress “Francis Banks” to stand, at which point confessions started to fly. It was an outstanding episode, but when Ms. Banks arose, I immediately thought it was Lola Albright from Peter Gunn, but since the actress was un-credited, and never spoke or smiled, we may never know. To stir the pot, I rewound the episode and took a screen shot. Is it Lola?
EDIT (02/21/24): Sometime after posting this queation, the imdb was updated to claim it was Donna Hayes, but it shows she only showed in one episode, The Case of the Envious Editor. I’ll admit here is a resemblance, so, who knows?
Since 1934, there have been six people to portray Earl Stanley Gardner’s famous defense attorney.
Warren Williams 1934-1936, The Case of the Howling Dog (1934), The Case of the Curious Bride (1935), The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935), and The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936)
“Murder Me, Murder You,” marks the first appearance of Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer. He would go on to star in a third Mike Hammer TV movie and then headline the television series that played from January 28, 1984, to May 13, 1987.
Aztec Rex (aka Tyrannosaurus Azteca) is a made for TV movie by the Syfy channel, released in 2008.
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Based on a character in John Dickson Carr’s The Department of Queer Complaints, Boris Karloff plays detective Colonel March. In this 26 episode television series we find Colonel March solve “unsolvable” mysteries. Being only 30 minutes long the mysteries don’t go very deep and in in the case of at least one episode, had a very “Scooby Doo” vibe to it. As of this writing it is available on TUBI
The role of Colonel March allowed Boris, then age 65, to go back to England to go into semi-retirement and visit old friends.
Orphaned at the age of 6, Shirley Hamilton is taken in by the Shamaness Kali and taught how to morph into almost any animal. She shall become Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. (IMDb) 
Gena Lee Nolin as Sheena