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Monday, May 28, 2012

Memorial Day 2012

In Memoriam

Col. Robert Malcolm Elliot
11/8/1929 - 2/14/1968


Photo of Robert "Wild Bill" Elliot from The Graham AFB Class 55-I Yearbook
Photo restored and courtesy of Dave Rickard

Just over 44 years ago, Captain Robert M. Elliot, was assigned to the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Korat Airbase in southern Thailand. He was due to come home after flying his 100th mission by the end of March 1968. But on the morning of Valentine's Day, February 14, 1968, his wife Billie awoke that morning in Hampton Roads, Virginia with the oddest feeling that her husband, Robert, had come to see her, to tell her he was gone. Her daughter, Julie, was crying, having felt it, too.

Halfway around the world that same day, Capt. Elliot's F-105D Thunderchief was number two in a flight of four. They were to make successive runs on their target near Hanoi. As Elliot was pulling off the target during one of his planned runs, his aircraft was struck by a surface to air missile. He radioed that he was hit, but the rest of the flight did not see any parachute or hear emergency beeper signals indicating that he was able to eject from the aircraft. Elliot was declared Missing in Action, and was posthumously promoted to the rank of Colonel.

His wife and family fought and lobbied hard with the Pentagon for years to find him or his remains and put their fears to rest. Fears that they were wrong and he might be wounded and tortured in a POW camp.

Finally in December 1999, The Pentagon announced that using DNA analysis and dental records, the Army Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii said that remains taken from a Vietnamese grave near the crash site are those of Air Force Colonel Robert M. Elliot.

Colonel Elliot's headstone in the Missing In Action section of Arlington National Cemetery was buried with him in new plot in the cemetery, Section 66, Grave 5652, on April 21, 2000. 

Rest in piece Col. Elliot, we honor you in remembrance this day, for giving the ultimate sacrifice for your country.

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In interviewing Lt. Colonel Russ Rickard, USAF (Ret.), who flew the F-102 Delta Dagger seen in the amazing beginning credits of every Steve Canyon Episode, he told me of another pilot he knew, at the time in 1958 who was also a young lieutenant flying "Deuces" out of George AFB in Victorville California. They had both flown F-102's for the Disney feature THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR (1961) and other Hollywood efforts and had become good friends. Lt. Colonel Rickard went on to describe the spectacular long fast climb up up up from the George AFB runway seen during the end credits of every Steve Canyon episode. He told me that wasn't him flying the Deuce, that was his friend, a helluva pilot, and his name was Colonel Robert "Wild Bill" Elliot.



Here's the end credits from the much anticipated Steve Canyon episode "Operation Intercept" with Col. Elliot's stratospheric climb...and featuring a double-whammy of the repeated opening sequence at the very end featuring the flying skills of Col. Russ Rickard!

MORE on Colonel Elliot and Lt. Colonel Rickard in Volume 3 of THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV, which is days away from going to the factory for manufacture. Stay tuned within the next several weeks for some big announcements!!

John Ellis
Hollywood, California

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To read more about The Complete Steve Canyon On TV Volume 3, click here and here (and also check earlier posts elsewhere on our blog).

NOTE that even though domestic and overseas shipping rates have gone up AGAIN recently, we are going to keep the $19.95 (postage-paid) price for the time being. I am certain however that we will have to change pricing for all of our DVDs following the release of Volume 3.

ALSO NOTE that only those that Pre-Order Volume 3 will get the special three volume slipcase (mailed in the same package) for free (as our gift to those who have supported us by pre-ordering)...once we release Volume 3 you will have to order ALL THREE VOLUMES of Steve Canyon as a box-set (which comes in the slipcase)!

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Friday, May 18, 2012

The Latest...

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I expect to wrap up the last few things remaining to be done and then submit the master disks to the factory before the end of this month. Then it should be manufactured and ready to ship within a week or two. Fingers crossed.



STOP THE PRESSES! Dean Fredericks as Col. Steve Canyon is reporting the good news in this post to the Big Thunder Air Force Base Newspaper! He and Airman Featherstone are ordering extra copies of all the DVDs to help support the effort!

REMEMBER that the only way to get the full-series slipcase is to pre-order Volume 3...once it is released the slipcase will only be available if you buy all three volumes together as a set...AND we are raising the prices on all of the DVDs when Volume 3 is released. You have been warned...

...AND here's a picture I forgot to share from last December...



By the way, here is Apollo The Dog on sentry duty in our driveway guarding all of the Volume 3 shipping materials when they arrived last December...12 big boxes (delivered to us on a freight pallet by truck) that have been waiting since then to safely carry all the DVDs and slipcases to all of those shrewd enough to have pre-ordered.

Yeah that's me trundling down the driveway to tip the driver of the truck.

Hey, here's a brand new promo below for the very last episode ever filmed, SABOTAGE! 

ENJOY this NEW CLIP from the 1st episode on Disc #2 of Volume 3, "SABOTAGE"!


Director Walter Grauman said that guest star Frank Maxwell complained that Dean Fredericks kept looking at the top of his head (instead of making eye contact)...well...when you look at them standing side by side you can see why: he (and James Drury) towered over Maxwell. Here's another frame from the episode, you be the judge:



Unknown performer standing far left, Robert Sampson as Sgt. Walsh (sitting), Dean Fredericks as Col. Steve Canyon middle, James Drury as Lt. Muller behind Canyon, and Frank Maxwell on right as Major Barr. in the Big Thunder control tower in the 34th filmed episode of Steve Canyon, "SABOTAGE", directed by Walter Grauman.

Here's a nice frame with "Century Series" goodness right out of that same episode:


F-100 about to take off in the Steve Canyon episode "SABOTAGE". Those F-100's are BEAUTIFUL planes aren't they? Lots of F-100 action in this final show of the series! The episode was directed by Walter Grauman.

Again, Harry and I want to thank you all for your patience and unflagging support. Note that once Volume 3 is out, I will be posting probably on a near-daily basis here, with tidbits and trivia and thousands of pictures! And contests, with chances to win scripts and other items that were used for the series. We have so much stuff it's kinda unbelievable...but true.

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REMEMBER this DVD will ONLY be available directly from us (for the time being)...so reserve your copy TODAY!
By purchasing this and/or other items from this site you are helping us to get the COMPLETE Steve Canyon TV series out on DVD and we thank you for your support.

(NOTE that you must pre-order Volume 3 separately from any other items that we offer here...we apologise for the inconvenience but it is necessary for us to do it this way at this time)


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