Let us turn our eye toward a 1980s television mystery series that dealt with a husband-and-wife team who got mixed up in such things as smuggling, theft, corporate and international espionage, but more often than it, it was murder. Today we will be looking at their venture into the ever-so-popular genre premise of The Most…
Category: TV
Gunsmoke: Matt Dillon Must Die (1974) – Review
It’s not only impressive that Gunsmoke ran for a total of twenty seasons but the fact that it started as a popular radio series, which ran from 1952 to 1961, which is truly impressive. But while Gunsmoke was a show that helped usher in the television Western, as they say, all good things must come…
Bonanza: The Hunter (1973) – Review
Running fourteen seasons, Bonanza is the second-longest Western series – only eclipsed by Gunsmoke which lasted twenty seasons – so the fact that the writers of either show would dip into the classic story “The Most Dangerous Game” is not at all surprising, sadly, this episode titled “The Hunter” would also be Bonanza’s swan song.
I Spy: The Name of the Game (1968) – Review
In the 1960s everyone was trying to jump on the James Bond bandwagon but it was not only the big screen that saw this influx of international intrigue, enter I Spy from NBC. This action espionage series pitted a pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach who would go on…
Gilligan’s Island: The Hunter (1967) – Review
In my ongoing series of reviews on adaptations of Richard Connell’s short “The Most Dangerous Game,” there have been many interesting takes on his short story but today we will look at one of the more bizarre versions, where a hunter will attempt to bring down what most would consider “The Least Dangerous Game.”