tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354831722024-02-18T17:53:55.423-08:00Steve Canyon On DVDThe Steve Canyon NBC live-action TV series from 1958/1959 is coming to DVD in 2008 in an official release from the Milton Caniff Estate. Learn more and get up to the minute news here on the official blog!John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-91078672148320087582023-06-02T00:00:00.000-07:002023-06-02T00:00:07.484-07:00Steve Canyon Returns Home To NBC!<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Steve Canyon Streaming Update<br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Steve Canyon has now returned to where it all began in 1958, on NBC. The entire run of 34 series episodes is now streaming on NBC Peacock (with selectable English subtitles)! We're very excited about this and hope you will be too!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/steve-canyon/8320330631146075112" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="649" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrmNgYkWnN5KO1Tb535RIfHy5YKblJsMlsuPe5XLDy0rCGQmKIPwSooCHmigxPLWyXoYbtYMyJazsTHiRuVdXfObd5eo5XRPgj1UWRdNIZMVRMPRXtSuUJNgHm-vOWYLbK3GEs-RfErQMJQ0NmS9-rjth_8we3IOWOvAIS9Wi4H5m6U0xxqQ/w400-h265/Peacock-logo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsSfYIfG-0RK6iVtyNF_VRdZlVlJINj1hih15bBj6QtrcU-VdqBygkZjGjk-HZVeQgDTaXxQkq1AFHmjdDZeriNnxLdIH6pp2xm1o-1OMmLH68NaT2P_fZfwF4nduUbf_RpiW2NzF3Ab0bKxbUGxe3FBlVCqCIKusCdUMkbek-UiqmpJExNg/s708/PILOT-NBC-PRESS-RELEASE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="708" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsSfYIfG-0RK6iVtyNF_VRdZlVlJINj1hih15bBj6QtrcU-VdqBygkZjGjk-HZVeQgDTaXxQkq1AFHmjdDZeriNnxLdIH6pp2xm1o-1OMmLH68NaT2P_fZfwF4nduUbf_RpiW2NzF3Ab0bKxbUGxe3FBlVCqCIKusCdUMkbek-UiqmpJExNg/w400-h283/PILOT-NBC-PRESS-RELEASE.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NBC press release for the pilot in 1958</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/steve-canyon/8320330631146075112" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="707" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7Uev_HiacHcmjIOOA3VbFmOPUu_DGKRSN7Z5Lhm9VtpOEOSPkg00oKMdj8IBEduVu28dUALTHbWaLocb1E1V74wNfVFaxobMBHXDThfF8ysVO1ADlZAb509piJr66at9xUYTu_7yqtPnkxOpYqtwlvgYrXnIzjlkQ0b0vKC8Yfv9xCBhuA/w400-h243/Screen-Shot-2023-05-31-at-2.31.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/steve-canyon/8320330631146075112">https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/steve-canyon/8320330631146075112</a><br /></p><p>Steve Canyon is also now streaming for free on <span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>plex TV</b></span> (english subtitles available):<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://watch.plex.tv/show/steve-canyonm/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiciPUePjFXWe7RRHNpW12VtpGK9RUxTSU3nbbrMmLHtvsFWNPgGLgMDNX3hr0EFIgGFSG7yfA8fGXqkrkxk7PF_u2oTINjyJgDc4UNU3LtO-0qHNcGdjK9LS_t9nghSfYRO2tmH_0PmxePYDMMVba6TiZCCB4SpT3P77uqDiT06tdxUSOYQ/s246/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-12%20at%204.27.09%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="246" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiciPUePjFXWe7RRHNpW12VtpGK9RUxTSU3nbbrMmLHtvsFWNPgGLgMDNX3hr0EFIgGFSG7yfA8fGXqkrkxk7PF_u2oTINjyJgDc4UNU3LtO-0qHNcGdjK9LS_t9nghSfYRO2tmH_0PmxePYDMMVba6TiZCCB4SpT3P77uqDiT06tdxUSOYQ/w400-h257/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-12%20at%204.27.09%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://watch.plex.tv/show/steve-canyon">https://watch.plex.tv/show/steve-canyon</a><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://watch.plex.tv/show/steve-canyon" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1072" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtNcauAxyGtAZsAJTjVRbMsCIhcUI0W2XlLi-Qb1tyYtoJtsOlJe22aIyVEbGcXE7o91s0waf8vjYGuCYHraUaL_TqwokelzCOAie_HrYDUbhssPNpRCxNPwUehQ5bcg_tqpYNtEsU_y0wy1rBl0rtBqwHIrcWGIwmz2JJUMrNV7_RRiYyxg/w400-h194/Screen%20Shot%202023-04-12%20at%204.00.02%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Peacock and plex joins streaming services <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Canyon/dp/B0B8M21RS9" target="_blank"><b>Amazon Prime</b></a>, <a href="https://www.roku.com/whats-on/tv-shows/steve-canyon?id=ad4ab4b31b625422893509bbf7e88475" target="_blank"><b>Roku</b></a> and <a href="https://tubitv.com/series/300009980/steve-canyon" target="_blank"><b>Tubi TV</b></a> (free) that offer Steve Canyon (some with advertising).<br /></p><p>Note that things the streaming services DON'T offer are the commentary tracks for nearly every episode (32 of the 34 episodes), AND the original pilot version of the episode Operation Towline, which has about 2 minutes of additional footage. These are ONLY available on the 3 DVD Volumes which are still available from us on <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686&_ssn=j.r.ellis" target="_blank">eBay</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D5846KG" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and <a href="https://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html" target="_blank">our website store</a>.</p><p>For a taste of the episodes with commentary tracks, here is one of the most popular episodes, OPERATION INTERCEPT (with the director Arthur Marks!) :<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="317" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uC4Hte57x0Q" width="381" youtube-src-id="uC4Hte57x0Q"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">That's series regular Ingrid Goude, "Miss Sweden" 1956<br /></div><div><p></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Steve Canyon (1958) NBC episode #28 (03-31-1959)
"Operation Intercept"
Commentary track featuring director Arthur Marks, television historian Peter Greenwood and producer John Ellis </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Directed by Arthur Marks
Teleplay by David Haft
Story by Frank Benedict</span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">A freak accident kills the pilot and co-pilot of a B-47 bomber while the plane
is in flight, and the plane heads for the USSR on automatic pilot. Canyon tries
to intercept the plane and determine whether the third crew member is alive or not.</span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Cast: Dean Fredericks, Jerry Paris, Nelson Leigh, Harlan Warde, Harry Landers, Ingrid Goude, Don Richards, Gil Frye, Jeanne Tatum.
©2015 John R. Ellis. All rights Reserved. </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">The 1959 Steve Canyon NBC TV series episode "Operation Intercept". </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">### <br /></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Considered a lost series for nearly 50 years, made with the cooperation of the US Air Force and based on Milton Caniff's famous newspaper adventure comic strip of the same name that ran nonstop from 1947 to 1988. The Milton Caniff Estate's John Ellis has fully restored and released all 34 episodes on DVD, broadcast television and now streaming. To purchase the 3 volume complete DVD set, visit the official blog at: <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #065fd4;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmpnektkYlQ0bmM1eUEzR2xRY1pYRFE3T1hvQXxBQ3Jtc0tsN0NoWEExXzhGNlREV0UyYTcyblZVS2ZLUW5uM3JlMU4yTDE3S1MzMWxCbmZqNUpSOU1YWEQ3RXBXejRpTF81TTRIVDE1WXJncG80RFFZbWV4OGVqZDFuQl84cHIzeFljaUVqNlB2STRCdEc3XzZaWQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fstevecanyondvd.blogspot.com%2F&v=uC4Hte57x0Q" rel="nofollow" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com</a></span> </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">Steve Canyon ® is the Registered Trademark of the Milton Caniff Estate.
Contents Copyright ©2015 by John R. Ellis.
All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission.</span></p></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-16850763823448091022023-01-17T00:13:00.000-08:002023-01-17T00:13:53.560-08:00Steve Canyon NOW Streaming on Amazon Prime & Tubi!<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We're NOW STREAMING domestically on Amazon Prime & Tubi TV!</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(And with selectable closed captioning!)</b></span></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course Prime is essentially a pay site: </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0SYKXL9HETJ7DRI6MYX36UJ9OY/</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/0SYKXL9HETJ7DRI6MYX36UJ9OY/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_lox1Kyhc2G-BG8ebF-4eK0j549yCKeUIUNV4fIiYm5U8lA5frdoZ0dJlxv3R2QO6jWwZ6b2Yt0X3ABmo6GPAwPc-frvq2SdGFH3VmSTtKlV4gIcgAPTI8sbJPYJjXVCJTJEkcrUnWqZRZHGXyKAa10ZpHxXdBvYDtx1Ux9rlL4icFsBLAA/w400-h225/Steve-Canyon-web.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We're also now streaming on Tubi TV! With selectable closed captioning! </span></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tubi is FREE, although you have to watch a few commercials.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/708426" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://tubitv.com/movies/708426</span></a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/708426" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="427" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaHfQqzJbvcDaDmhTtL5SIYndEjIJ4G4xKrQ4__qGZSUWo003cBMpfz7oQlJ8-bYm0g-bvPjdPLqFDnbVfFoaRearXau0U6KEEHkHO5In4IXiRgOmp8r3vGhQo2zhnp8Avc6UBBc4TzYwW08ZQdzAN3FE78ZGLG3luf2iZI0D0KGLSG1rrzQ/w400-h185/Steve_Canyon_Tubi.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;">It takes awhile to pass their QC (Quality Control) with all of these streaming services, but they are finally beginning to show up!</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">So will also be streaming soon on other popular domestic services, and will also start showing on some International platforms (such as Amazon UK)! </span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks and a tip o' the flight helmet to Dan Ross for spotting it on Tubi!</span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note that all of the episodes have the end credits on them, though you may have to click an arrow on Tubi. </span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also the shows are in original "production order", the order they were made, as they were intended to be seen.</span></div><div><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course fans should know that in order to get the commentaries and other extras, you still will have to buy the 3 Volume DVD set.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More info soon!</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Ellis
Hollywood, CA</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="688" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8sJm68FEy0U6TGhzFDIDsNlql2KmxFdw2-zZRFztLRBCL0--JFSU4_VnaHcS5qYXobQXe70kZXQxQadMzcsmwoF8-JEzpg_kV8PJOXqtgndGEgBV3rE5ogNuakgDJ9p6yr6aL5NKpNrbf_MGEENmfeyTwvdRuFyUenyIZVIG_QKQs_klLOQ/w400-h314/eric's%20steve%20canyon%20graphic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>https://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-54466403600763823882023-01-04T17:20:00.000-08:002023-01-04T17:20:18.857-08:00Steve Canyon Is Flying To International Streaming!<p></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>STEVE CANYON IS COMING TO DOMESTIC<br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>& INTERNATIONAL STREAMING!!!</b></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNoFVUl4lnWGcPA4hQ53UTMHm7LJ5LjR4C9FsJB-kImaYomotADk3UT8Upks3G251LKI9q50xktAj4qculvuP36vnAhjSg6HNb9Qy3GBk6AkRDlvR563x08MoP7pS2zSA81-jFhn4abQvUYrZnZMo9CbMWUSExGGJBd2dYI5B5SUYnWl3RhA/s400/Steve-Canyon-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNoFVUl4lnWGcPA4hQ53UTMHm7LJ5LjR4C9FsJB-kImaYomotADk3UT8Upks3G251LKI9q50xktAj4qculvuP36vnAhjSg6HNb9Qy3GBk6AkRDlvR563x08MoP7pS2zSA81-jFhn4abQvUYrZnZMo9CbMWUSExGGJBd2dYI5B5SUYnWl3RhA/w400-h225/Steve-Canyon-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Coming to major streaming services AND with closed-captioning!<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Details coming VERY soon... watch this space!!!<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Happy Holidays to everyone!</span></h4><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-41509205764046935212022-05-30T18:46:00.000-07:002022-05-30T18:46:13.038-07:00Memorial Day 2022<p><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">UPDATED from Memorial Day post May 26, 2019</span></b><br /><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In light of recent events and upheaval in Myanmar, Burma, we are offering this post concerning the loss of the brother of Steve Canyon star Dean Fredericks during WWII</span></h4><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. In other words, the purpose of Memorial Day is to memorialize the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. We spend time remembering those who lost their lives and could not come home, reflecting on their service and why we have the luxury and freedom that we enjoy today. We might consider how we can support and safeguard their grieving families and loved ones who are left behind." - The Farmer's Almanac</span><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUoOSfBIjMNAlJutU_dmNoWio0pAXzaAIXjb5yUMjEoNMmGZGyyoqaz4vcnj0vOL9jwRVSOGETVoeESusN58DS89XCbxtL6bdyfdW2QiZRvo-A7LBMGlkT5JZpDDRdaltbKaR/s1600/bud-clipping.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAUoOSfBIjMNAlJutU_dmNoWio0pAXzaAIXjb5yUMjEoNMmGZGyyoqaz4vcnj0vOL9jwRVSOGETVoeESusN58DS89XCbxtL6bdyfdW2QiZRvo-A7LBMGlkT5JZpDDRdaltbKaR/s640/bud-clipping.jpg" width="344" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Newspaper clipping from the Antelope Valley Ledger Gazette, Thursday May 10, 1945</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Sgt. Fred J. Foote was serving in action against the Japanese in New Guinea when he got the word that his brother "Bud" had been killed in a Japanese ambush on July 20, 1944. Fred's unit was preparing for the invasion of the Philippines in October. He would miss his fallen brother for the rest of his life, and visited his grave in Hawaii whenever he could over the years.</span></span></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_N0hOOVHyt0tslPObXHYl4pKTB2eXpSudTnCqXvoKoO0ieFHx4GijvJuIlDgXNCPZnHVKBftJKTCDZdAiC6mogqsZSxOZ-ZE-h_mEeizTxRqdN-2hMwV4E3-JSOrjvz1MQ23/s1600/bud_airman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_N0hOOVHyt0tslPObXHYl4pKTB2eXpSudTnCqXvoKoO0ieFHx4GijvJuIlDgXNCPZnHVKBftJKTCDZdAiC6mogqsZSxOZ-ZE-h_mEeizTxRqdN-2hMwV4E3-JSOrjvz1MQ23/s320/bud_airman.jpg" width="261" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Airman Edward "Bud" Foote</span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Edward "Bud" Foote enlisted in Los Angeles in March of 1942...just 7 months before his younger brother. While Fred had later joined the famed 1st Cavalry Division, Bud wanted to be a pilot and joined the Army Air Corps as a Private...he eventually attained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant with the 5307th Composite Unit, more popularly known as MERRILL'S MARAUDERS as a C-47 pilot.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUc46V2liiEw6PPtMwukt4VPa2VIQ89-6OJptuLKc6lNs-vNDGF_D4zvCtYhfBHLufcEy-M9k5AWE1oidAdgA-AH_Wq7N79zUjX7kchd6X4sVP-ol7K4-i5X7SBXmvCr_a3GrY/s1600/bud_wide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUc46V2liiEw6PPtMwukt4VPa2VIQ89-6OJptuLKc6lNs-vNDGF_D4zvCtYhfBHLufcEy-M9k5AWE1oidAdgA-AH_Wq7N79zUjX7kchd6X4sVP-ol7K4-i5X7SBXmvCr_a3GrY/s320/bud_wide.jpg" width="245" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Merrill's Marauder" Edward "Bud" Foote</span><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Though they were only operational for 6 months, their exploits in Burma under impossible odds and horrible conditions are legendary. Their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">battles against the enemy's superior forces as well as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">struggles against constant torrential downpours, hunger and disease (which took more of their lives than the Japanese did) were noted when the unit was awarded a Distinguished Service Citation in recognition of their heroism. Bud Foote (and each soldier in the unit) also received The Bronze Star...though his was posthumous, and was accompanied by a Purple Heart.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpt1xjZl3vIy69kULBU7SwFNs2tI8VAYzYPXV9dznHUwmCKJ0OXK6YXk9NJ3KSpqGfXFO3ENAGzzBn5S2LwcIkqkIT3h8LatGHUDktWu9EmPEF1HIGl4_f2GH7ggFW4GiGeyo/s1600/bstar-pheart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpt1xjZl3vIy69kULBU7SwFNs2tI8VAYzYPXV9dznHUwmCKJ0OXK6YXk9NJ3KSpqGfXFO3ENAGzzBn5S2LwcIkqkIT3h8LatGHUDktWu9EmPEF1HIGl4_f2GH7ggFW4GiGeyo/s320/bstar-pheart.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bronze Star and Purple Heart service medals</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I'm certain those reading this until now have never heard of Lt. Edward G. Foote, but he gave his life in the service of our country back in July of 1944, and was a hero in the very true sense of the word.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Remember him the next time you watch an episode of Steve Canyon, for his brother, who also was a hero during WWII...</span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb91Fpeu05XWAV_8BmQvh_xZO440Vw9ssS_8uyPWMZtmhu_pegT0Ox2GfQFJC_70suzgXyHUhZXyHaeLBM7MyJNBF6fh5OFfbW6pKznUwhhh2sHtmojIlchAXaDK_4Yb6ZW_kT/s1600/corporal_fred.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb91Fpeu05XWAV_8BmQvh_xZO440Vw9ssS_8uyPWMZtmhu_pegT0Ox2GfQFJC_70suzgXyHUhZXyHaeLBM7MyJNBF6fh5OFfbW6pKznUwhhh2sHtmojIlchAXaDK_4Yb6ZW_kT/s320/corporal_fred.jpg" width="257" /></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Corporal Frederick J. Foote at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas 1943</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(aka Dean Fredericks, star and namesake of STEVE CANYON)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EYYWOPMgbBYMKm4jR4Bcc-zVz6ZeevOa7DI7K33TXCwGYTzar36tCkpuVwuWmxiyQC_buSvdWNSeUS60JqWtUr8nfvoPlAZx1SNb_DWKs_0DchjpuwtOpXQ19fCOJEvadTXQ/s1600/Untitled-6-fix.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_EYYWOPMgbBYMKm4jR4Bcc-zVz6ZeevOa7DI7K33TXCwGYTzar36tCkpuVwuWmxiyQC_buSvdWNSeUS60JqWtUr8nfvoPlAZx1SNb_DWKs_0DchjpuwtOpXQ19fCOJEvadTXQ/s320/Untitled-6-fix.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px;"></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happier times: Teenaged brothers Bud and Fred Foote before the war.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7OrBBXH8UkY20V8R5A7zM0Ozz3lO7bCFDznGiZl_yftxVcb_hO4ei-se9V1PhaW5mAsJJwqKRl4NtDWATfzOpc0Q3m6kbtKaDL4YXrrKROun3OYfxL2KzVLQE88u3urCLrTK/s1600/we+remember+book+cover+by+Dayle+DeBry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="749" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7OrBBXH8UkY20V8R5A7zM0Ozz3lO7bCFDznGiZl_yftxVcb_hO4ei-se9V1PhaW5mAsJJwqKRl4NtDWATfzOpc0Q3m6kbtKaDL4YXrrKROun3OYfxL2KzVLQE88u3urCLrTK/s400/we+remember+book+cover+by+Dayle+DeBry.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">The following is an excerpt from the b</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: rgb(30, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">ook, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Stories-Courage-Antelope-California/dp/078843182X">We Remember</a>” by Dayle L. DeBry (courtesy of the </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">author):</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">EDWARD G. “BUD” FOOTE, JR.</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJoL8-vg1QaHWmBxZH5dF9HEfUq8cmh6rhalcBrKq0pEB4w0PfC51B3DDsmDIHfrfx62uRUf36MhgrMJSqvrAkCqxv0EzEwBcAVEbuWVFUirNKpm3YYCFeX2GaQPjRQXAZxrDU/s1600/Edward+Foote+-+1941+HS+photo+and+stats.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="454" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJoL8-vg1QaHWmBxZH5dF9HEfUq8cmh6rhalcBrKq0pEB4w0PfC51B3DDsmDIHfrfx62uRUf36MhgrMJSqvrAkCqxv0EzEwBcAVEbuWVFUirNKpm3YYCFeX2GaQPjRQXAZxrDU/s400/Edward+Foote+-+1941+HS+photo+and+stats.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Bud's Junior High School yearbook picture.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Edward G. Foote, Jr., was born about 1922 in Illinois, the son of Edward G. and Margaret Foote, Sr., from New York and Illinois, respectively. By 1930 the family was living in the South Gate area of Los Angeles Co., California where Edward, Sr. was employed as a salesman for an oil refining company. The family included Edward’s wife, Margaret, and sons Edward, Jr. and Fred Foote.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> While attending AVJUHS, Edward was involved in many activities including three years of Varsity football, and two years of basketball. In his junior year he was elected the Jr. Class yell leader and was also a member of the Letterman’s Club. Edward graduated from AVJUHS with the class of 1941.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On March 20, 1942, Edward enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with the U.S. Army Air Forces before attending Officer Candidate School. In 1943, Edward was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army after the successful completion of the Officer Candidate course at the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. He held the rank of corporal before being commissioned.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> As part of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), Edward was sent to Myitkyina, Burma. The group later became known as “Merrill’s Marauders” named after its leader, Brigadier General Frank Merrill. The jungles of Burma were thick with vegetation – no room for the jeeps and trucks needed to carry supplies. The men had to carry all their equipment and supplies over 800 miles, marching over jungle and mountain roads. All the equipment was carried by the soldiers, on their back, or on the backs of pack mules. They were re-supplied by air drops after clearing the thick jungles areas below. Landing strips were hacked out to allow small planes in to evacuate the sick and wounded. At the end of the Burma Campaign, all remaining soldiers were evacuated to hospitals suffering from tropical diseases, exhaustion and malnutrition. </span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On July 2, 1944, Edward was killed in action. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal and the Bronze Star. For their accomplishments in Burma, the Marauders were awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation in July 1944. The Marauders also have the rare distinction of having every member of the unit receive a Bronze Star, duly awarded for their “heroism and outstanding achievement in a combat theater.”</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2nd Lieutenant Edward G. Foote, Jr. was buried at the Honolulu Memorial, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his name is joined with thousands of other soldiers who died in World War II.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Battle of Myitkyina – Author unknown</span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At Myitkyina today they lie at rest</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were soldiers all and gave their best</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They fought and died in days of rain</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And prayed for sun that never came.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through mud they crawled to find their foe</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They cursed and swore but on they go</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As days went by and night fell</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They all slept on the walls of hell.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Artillery shells with their melody of death</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whizzed by with each and every breath</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As dawn came to light the earth</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amid sniper fire through dirt</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In falling rain they fought on</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hope to live by those had gone.</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Myitkyina has fallen at last</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They would be glad to know of the finished task </span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the trails are filled with Yankee blood</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of gallant men who fought, died in Burma mud</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Courageous men these, they fought and fell; Bless them all, God; treat them well.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">---</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Remembering our Veterans and fallen service men and women on Memorial Day 2022.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">John Ellis</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Hollywood, CA</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div></div></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-70435062139307899382022-04-28T13:55:00.004-07:002022-04-28T22:31:07.093-07:00Steve Canyon Run Ends on Decades TV<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE this weekend, Saturday April 30th, at 6am Eastern time (3am Pacific time) Decades TV network will end its final run of Steve Canyon episodes on the network with episode #17, "</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Search</b></i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"...so set your DVR's to Decades FREE TV and..."smoke 'em if you got 'em"!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM1vruUdx55hBaV9557LL-QI97ByFY6u4defnz7d2JaVeY8x08-sb-O8YZmBP2pAQfOQRBlPyI1Em7DJ-byW1-OXLIM9rlBcWLfHQMtJX_iwCoouhdVLEOxdla1KyJMnYj7NaWnHMcYvOsqtGCUr1p76ASC4dOSgLldsolh6EN8GOyU3K3ng" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="500" data-original-width="720" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM1vruUdx55hBaV9557LL-QI97ByFY6u4defnz7d2JaVeY8x08-sb-O8YZmBP2pAQfOQRBlPyI1Em7DJ-byW1-OXLIM9rlBcWLfHQMtJX_iwCoouhdVLEOxdla1KyJMnYj7NaWnHMcYvOsqtGCUr1p76ASC4dOSgLldsolh6EN8GOyU3K3ng=w400-h278" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock from the original <i>Star Trek TV series</i></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">) in an early role in</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">THE SEARCH</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">, the 17th episode of Steve Canyon that airs Saturday morning on DECADES TV. The episode also features Jerry Paris, Abel Fernandez, Bob Hoy, Ingrid Goude, Hayden Rorke and Meg Wyllie, who also appeared in the original <i>Star Trek</i> pilot film, THE CAGE! </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">We're working to find a new home on another TV network. Wish us luck and we'll keep you posted!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">Anyway, enjoy the final episode being aired this Saturday on FREE broadcast TV!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxEDcj7HiHHvkXjNe5GEVRBWIG2shQXCnomfmzzY8QUeA8AP1SsqN2oGCKlcCggtx2bi7ljI-rPtQMUOfrT_1jwDxa1dCGG-BSSHsiomiu-Jkqn3IxA0iApftpBNqVDOePfmMUSG5ktnZfx0hP66jsVL405QEH8ORuR37RUyM1nQ7R_6YkKA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="126" data-original-width="755" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxEDcj7HiHHvkXjNe5GEVRBWIG2shQXCnomfmzzY8QUeA8AP1SsqN2oGCKlcCggtx2bi7ljI-rPtQMUOfrT_1jwDxa1dCGG-BSSHsiomiu-Jkqn3IxA0iApftpBNqVDOePfmMUSG5ktnZfx0hP66jsVL405QEH8ORuR37RUyM1nQ7R_6YkKA=w400-h66" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">https://www.decades.com/schedule/</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>(with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="specials-item specials-item-featured" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Where to watch: </span><a href="http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Decades is a sister network to Me-TV.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Ellis</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hollywood, California</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;">(and be sure to check out my blog posts about my feature film<i><b> Twilight Of The Dogs</b></i>, which can be read on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/">Linkedin</a>, here's the link: </span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/</a></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Here's a related image from the film:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFXQmeC4Ypv7qLRDuAoe1Y45pLpCMOSDARaN0c2eCNgdIlbX3LUJdwvD_EBaQykNTtN2czX6d_Pla7z_-TblxcfLQ3MeU7giRk3CRwoYVPTQPsVjZwFgnlNpQYO4OFjHyfxovOkBY-NgFq301Ash9Rm12U-MlEFPsGEK_csGOHFIyoHRTzsQ=s1612" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1612" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFXQmeC4Ypv7qLRDuAoe1Y45pLpCMOSDARaN0c2eCNgdIlbX3LUJdwvD_EBaQykNTtN2czX6d_Pla7z_-TblxcfLQ3MeU7giRk3CRwoYVPTQPsVjZwFgnlNpQYO4OFjHyfxovOkBY-NgFq301Ash9Rm12U-MlEFPsGEK_csGOHFIyoHRTzsQ=w400-h258" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Sullivan flying an F-117 Stealth fighter-bomber in John Ellis'<br /><i> </i>soon to be released science-fiction epic<i> <b>Twilight Of The Dogs!</b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-size-adjust: auto;">###</div><div style="background-color: white; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;">Also, I have a limited number of Steve Canyon Mini-Posters available for $9.95 each, postage paid <b>(in the USA ONLY)</b> If you are outside of the US and are interested, please email me and we'll figure something out).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6cZbHXspoSz9Arae1mzfT2KtSwVlpC37Fd7uxXhB2usA7T2l2ZNbuYpU0rbshSLOZ01_yDwj5sgiNkVpyuh_n0l-nCDZAs7fQumwFzCGL-ixQWvxDFWu-sikTqnYSfdsWzGATHwbKBUrpcxuZ8oGvCacNo4E3_3iqOZNkjplA82Q36zVBg/s590/Steve-Canyon-Poster-2020.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6cZbHXspoSz9Arae1mzfT2KtSwVlpC37Fd7uxXhB2usA7T2l2ZNbuYpU0rbshSLOZ01_yDwj5sgiNkVpyuh_n0l-nCDZAs7fQumwFzCGL-ixQWvxDFWu-sikTqnYSfdsWzGATHwbKBUrpcxuZ8oGvCacNo4E3_3iqOZNkjplA82Q36zVBg/w271-h400/Steve-Canyon-Poster-2020.jpg" width="271" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve Canyon Poster design by Johann Mitchell</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">They are on nice sturdy coated stock and are 11" X 17", shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. </div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;">Click <a href="https://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html">HERE</a> to go to our online store to order!</div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiiWEiMpYERuR8252oS3b_nQEkOTb-kwmvHlCJeA6wN4SM6IqR2V5S3g-IxsaD3dGPyKwHhY4X2KqmBH0CJscAWo6EdILh4jjtf_xuicaNQpQdpzFbiR3rvo7WIT40KC-4tq9x-WMUPaqvnEBqtU5wDPKUY73NojLCGloOr_K6v7aqc5-LQ/s4000/IMG_0496%20brighter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2248" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXiiWEiMpYERuR8252oS3b_nQEkOTb-kwmvHlCJeA6wN4SM6IqR2V5S3g-IxsaD3dGPyKwHhY4X2KqmBH0CJscAWo6EdILh4jjtf_xuicaNQpQdpzFbiR3rvo7WIT40KC-4tq9x-WMUPaqvnEBqtU5wDPKUY73NojLCGloOr_K6v7aqc5-LQ/w360-h640/IMG_0496%20brighter.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks for your support!</div></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-80062432446040131522022-01-28T18:43:00.001-08:002022-01-28T18:47:30.019-08:00Steve Canyon Returns (to TV) One Last Time? (Or is it?)<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE tomorrow Saturday (January 29th, at 6am Eastern, 3am Pacific) Decades TV network has started re-running Steve Canyon episodes again in their original running order, starting with episode #4, "<i><b>Project Heartbeat</b></i>"...so set your DVR's to Decades FREE TV and..."smoke 'em if you got 'em"!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJM4sROn6vcJLUsfPVoG5v8dm-Be78NToeZ7ilwUElNGER6wnoOTCKkSXvJ8nubd5cHnmx_gAzDfWklEY24Cul7wA3TtJWMniYND5nnKVLhvj-PvBSJ3a_EqpYaUeg0czCJgE7TXVrIoo9NbUjsPtVVjNpIs9p0uYSrQsXWrxW4K9ZIu6d7g=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJM4sROn6vcJLUsfPVoG5v8dm-Be78NToeZ7ilwUElNGER6wnoOTCKkSXvJ8nubd5cHnmx_gAzDfWklEY24Cul7wA3TtJWMniYND5nnKVLhvj-PvBSJ3a_EqpYaUeg0czCJgE7TXVrIoo9NbUjsPtVVjNpIs9p0uYSrQsXWrxW4K9ZIu6d7g=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">Russell Johnson (the Professor on <i>Gilligan's Island</i>) in a seriously hairy moment (with Jason Wingreen and star Dean Fredericks) in <i>Project Heartbeat</i>, the fourth episode of Steve Canyon that airs tomorrow morning on DECADES TV.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">Truth be told, I have been waiting to hear from Decades about a final run of our show for several months...and it looks like they started airing in this slot 3 weeks ago with the first episode, <i>Operation Towline</i>, but just never managed to get back to me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: arial;">Anyway, enjoy the series again on broadcast TV!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2V-ryN_wNL3qaHP9jQN696HFfTOeHZlOjUNcQDzyoug0F2AuGJTtDJOPvBBj_N0Kg9pXumdyexo3SmeUZMUwXwsdnyVLvKTITugr_WjMXzX1DVIzyHIushCe2uY035AILdAxoX5PndKis_-RZsyOZBPzqWMbRwzlW1cyrGcbe0x0RjMMB9w=s796" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="796" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2V-ryN_wNL3qaHP9jQN696HFfTOeHZlOjUNcQDzyoug0F2AuGJTtDJOPvBBj_N0Kg9pXumdyexo3SmeUZMUwXwsdnyVLvKTITugr_WjMXzX1DVIzyHIushCe2uY035AILdAxoX5PndKis_-RZsyOZBPzqWMbRwzlW1cyrGcbe0x0RjMMB9w=w400-h141" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">https://www.decades.com/schedule/</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So I hope you all enjoy seeing Colonel Canyon on free broadcast television again! </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>(with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="specials-item specials-item-featured" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Where to watch: </span><a href="http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch" style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Decades is a sister network to Me-TV.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Ellis</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hollywood, California</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;">(and be sure to check out my blog posts about my feature film<i><b> Twilight Of The Dogs</b></i>, which can be read on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/">Linkedin</a>, here's the link: </span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-ellis-29b017b/detail/recent-activity/posts/</a></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Here's a related image from the film:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFXQmeC4Ypv7qLRDuAoe1Y45pLpCMOSDARaN0c2eCNgdIlbX3LUJdwvD_EBaQykNTtN2czX6d_Pla7z_-TblxcfLQ3MeU7giRk3CRwoYVPTQPsVjZwFgnlNpQYO4OFjHyfxovOkBY-NgFq301Ash9Rm12U-MlEFPsGEK_csGOHFIyoHRTzsQ=s1612" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1612" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFXQmeC4Ypv7qLRDuAoe1Y45pLpCMOSDARaN0c2eCNgdIlbX3LUJdwvD_EBaQykNTtN2czX6d_Pla7z_-TblxcfLQ3MeU7giRk3CRwoYVPTQPsVjZwFgnlNpQYO4OFjHyfxovOkBY-NgFq301Ash9Rm12U-MlEFPsGEK_csGOHFIyoHRTzsQ=w400-h258" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Sullivan in <i>Twilight Of The Dogs </i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-43755579561278898072021-06-11T18:06:00.000-07:002021-06-11T18:06:13.465-07:00Steve Canyon Full Series Rerun Starts Tomorrow<p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">NOTE tomorrow Saturday (June 12th, 7am Eastern, 4am Pacific) Decades TV network will start re-running all 34 episodes again in their original running order, starting with the pilot episode "Operation Towline" followed by "Operation Thunderbirds"...so set your DVR's to Decades FREE TV and..."smoke 'em if you got 'em"!</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOEMInnJa5X4vjE2DgHYXpynrqAHVA-p_svmkhvGfJG93cR2WGRAmiP9CXArk6gszLNBvwiFi5_r_-Qj4POyiHApBOxjJA3H49t3oXGjh0fP9EJGucR2KM-9wZapeOETlAhPf/s640/01+-+Operation+Towline+Morgan+Woodward+4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBOEMInnJa5X4vjE2DgHYXpynrqAHVA-p_svmkhvGfJG93cR2WGRAmiP9CXArk6gszLNBvwiFi5_r_-Qj4POyiHApBOxjJA3H49t3oXGjh0fP9EJGucR2KM-9wZapeOETlAhPf/w400-h300/01+-+Operation+Towline+Morgan+Woodward+4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Morgan Woodward in a seriously hairy moment in OPERATION TOWLINE, the first episode of Steve Canyon that airs tomorrow morning on DECADES TV.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IEBva_o-Ypss9cw358pWY34JMmzPY5Ca-RGJrqtqWzr8bIw-bC8_wDs_7nv-Uqjz4eoOXqUbZmT4WSWSrc5Wqwx0I7cUCgnaElSeNPiw03YAiXIBFr0SmCqcHAejLGKGU4Dh/s563/Screen+Shot+2021-06-11+at+5.26.35+PM+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="563" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IEBva_o-Ypss9cw358pWY34JMmzPY5Ca-RGJrqtqWzr8bIw-bC8_wDs_7nv-Uqjz4eoOXqUbZmT4WSWSrc5Wqwx0I7cUCgnaElSeNPiw03YAiXIBFr0SmCqcHAejLGKGU4Dh/w400-h306/Screen+Shot+2021-06-11+at+5.26.35+PM+copy.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So I hope you all enjoy seeing Colonel Canyon on free broadcast television again! </span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>(with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="specials-item specials-item-featured" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Where to watch: </span><a href="http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch" style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Decades is a sister network to Me-TV.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Ellis</span></div><div style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hollywood, California</span></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-53435177725782407682021-05-07T16:40:00.003-07:002021-05-07T16:40:50.424-07:00Operation Intercept: Best Episode Ever?<p>Tomorrow morning be sure to catch two Steve Canyon episodes starting at 7am eastern, 4am Pacific.<br /><br />First up is an early Ron Ely appearance in THE SERGEANT. You may know him as the late 60's TV Tarzan and also title character of the mid 70's DOC SAVAGE movie by George Pal. Ely gets into it with a sadistic USAF Sergeant bent on stealing something very important from Ely's character. The episode also features Abel Fernandez (later of THE UNTOUCHABLES), was wrtten by Producer David Haft, and was directed by Walter Grauman.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-gZxT7zmzw_3K1j34RXEsa3XuTCeqD0BKY4zvmyuqV0e7ccajnDBNiREd_gJIojXn36LaHSfhJjI9zWpUXNwVvdMsYF_H6xS5rcewwItKbR8LKHtqJBxOwxE_sDGEh0U67R0/s669/Ep_32_2a.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-gZxT7zmzw_3K1j34RXEsa3XuTCeqD0BKY4zvmyuqV0e7ccajnDBNiREd_gJIojXn36LaHSfhJjI9zWpUXNwVvdMsYF_H6xS5rcewwItKbR8LKHtqJBxOwxE_sDGEh0U67R0/w254-h320/Ep_32_2a.JPG" width="254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Next up is arguably the best episode of the Steve Canyon TV series (and the most requested), OPERATION INTERCEPT!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMEPrkjjyzhPmm78ScAP1tEeMwMhkTe0gbt3rEenGCOi7QtQE9gmN-Irl44y9gdovCkahtv4HmfkAuIAq10cqB614bu2iounmDna5JRjrRfeNgzQaSIlwUJn_-MFWjB3fDiZo/s1600/Ep+28_2a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMEPrkjjyzhPmm78ScAP1tEeMwMhkTe0gbt3rEenGCOi7QtQE9gmN-Irl44y9gdovCkahtv4HmfkAuIAq10cqB614bu2iounmDna5JRjrRfeNgzQaSIlwUJn_-MFWjB3fDiZo/s400/Ep+28_2a.JPG" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Are these three men doomed?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43M9-AirpmuQHdm7O6JRo6Du1bVpmSLiL4fFuti8wCtCD8tB5AiWXUgXqA6R3W2YSM5EZKGwbg_iHekjnbAxdSGTJJm_OHBRyXQEVk_GCAcCF2xhWRDZVScRMkpr-oUkN9zPx/s1600/interceptx.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43M9-AirpmuQHdm7O6JRo6Du1bVpmSLiL4fFuti8wCtCD8tB5AiWXUgXqA6R3W2YSM5EZKGwbg_iHekjnbAxdSGTJJm_OHBRyXQEVk_GCAcCF2xhWRDZVScRMkpr-oUkN9zPx/s400/interceptx.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Featuring a B-47 crew on a tragic mission...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0nKP3m9yFDTogSAnec92juJJ7ipYG-q3yJrHVad_mzCTe-t6EDlpHKddl6aY9CUVph4TAKBAh25PKYPSxGMnNnVwXLzAUTqJ6WBpdczBlPEZpX9ovRGC5XM-wsE6ew-GEPkb7/s1600/Ep+28_1a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0nKP3m9yFDTogSAnec92juJJ7ipYG-q3yJrHVad_mzCTe-t6EDlpHKddl6aY9CUVph4TAKBAh25PKYPSxGMnNnVwXLzAUTqJ6WBpdczBlPEZpX9ovRGC5XM-wsE6ew-GEPkb7/s400/Ep+28_1a.JPG" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ingrid Goude and Jerry Paris co-star. She was Miss Sweden 1956 and he was Rob and Laura Petrie's wacky neighbor on the Dick Van Dyke show.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Y4x1WE8mjCHp85Fij7hKcIKHQT23sZAif6FKFpu1_4DO2z2N5-aagkrIlHQ6cSMJXdnYjygbBhfeOAygOIIO3afKeiU-Wlg0STlXrkFoMJtnEkRPukJ966YuzMgXZDTgvlU_/s1600/intercept-frame-14102.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Y4x1WE8mjCHp85Fij7hKcIKHQT23sZAif6FKFpu1_4DO2z2N5-aagkrIlHQ6cSMJXdnYjygbBhfeOAygOIIO3afKeiU-Wlg0STlXrkFoMJtnEkRPukJ966YuzMgXZDTgvlU_/s400/intercept-frame-14102.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A bomber crew doesn't respond and sets wheels in motion...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7RdJ7boBjN9Q200EhbkGj8XpCsrCxzIT_Xss0xL_VjjIbqhKXcV_1LJarkCAq15FFhe7M8j3Ur46Kv4yMlQG5MU_Hk5S4HSlEE4d6lCkNzNkU7FSj4QYbkv2XwY0noICSCYg/s400/OPERATION_INTERCEPT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">General Connors (Nelson Leigh) has a painful choice to make...</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNnkVrMcn_bJjBF5Wr4sgiy6h_azvR4RC_wN1eXGHGppUPVhF2U0Pvr-DgGNaVQcJ1gYezAVeaGGqQn0JUqqMnjsWC_CN8UB_XujJhiuX2q2bGYDbY4KBOSs2fMTJUzy8BXbc/s1600/operation-intercept.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNnkVrMcn_bJjBF5Wr4sgiy6h_azvR4RC_wN1eXGHGppUPVhF2U0Pvr-DgGNaVQcJ1gYezAVeaGGqQn0JUqqMnjsWC_CN8UB_XujJhiuX2q2bGYDbY4KBOSs2fMTJUzy8BXbc/s400/operation-intercept.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Don't miss OPERATION INTERCEPT tomorrow morning on The DECADES Television Network!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch">http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzFkmAiLnlLVdGACsZvQONEhQJbyfzuWdo6zHyt0SLosMB9g2rRR737d86YGnhTWlbk06uV-_lFd8rzV5PO9EXR2V98JQ7vcSFD6GAoVhxTzyeNdlLoJEUapKjquwKbEm_1fS/s329/Screen+Shot+2021-05-07+at+4.32.41+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzFkmAiLnlLVdGACsZvQONEhQJbyfzuWdo6zHyt0SLosMB9g2rRR737d86YGnhTWlbk06uV-_lFd8rzV5PO9EXR2V98JQ7vcSFD6GAoVhxTzyeNdlLoJEUapKjquwKbEm_1fS/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-05-07+at+4.32.41+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWlUDkKvZaTVkc2di25xkcloLdikN8ShIhVCKa9Xo5yZXtLRCYPK8K6oMWdxnWmS6gfFVTS2wOwwocTTSlPd3v-4WeJTTKmat5vTYhE57LvdltftrhKe77aYLJ0Cs8Cndhcqb/s793/Screen+Shot+2021-05-07+at+4.32.07+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="793" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWlUDkKvZaTVkc2di25xkcloLdikN8ShIhVCKa9Xo5yZXtLRCYPK8K6oMWdxnWmS6gfFVTS2wOwwocTTSlPd3v-4WeJTTKmat5vTYhE57LvdltftrhKe77aYLJ0Cs8Cndhcqb/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-05-07+at+4.32.07+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***</div><br />NOTE: Steve Canyon moved from Thursdays to Tuesday nights with this episode on NBC in 1959.<br /><br />26. OPERATION INTERCEPT<br />Show #28<br />Production #9229<br />NBC First Run Tuesday March 31, 1959<br />NBC Rerun Tuesday September 1, 1959<br />ABC Summer Rerun Thursday April 21, 1960<br />Photographed: Feb 5-6, 1959<br />Directed by Arthur Marks<br />Teleplay by David Haft<br />Story by Frank Benedict<br /><br />A freak accident kills the pilot and co-pilot of a B-47 bomber while the plane<br />is in flight, and the plane heads for the USSR on automatic pilot. Canyon tries<br />to intercept the plane and determine whether the third crew member is alive or not.<br />
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Jerry Paris, Nelson Leigh, Harlan Warde, Harry Landers, Ingrid Goude, Don Richards, Gil Frye, Jeanne Tatum.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iUmK_z3izKo" width="400"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a clip from the episode</div><br />“This film is dedicated to the Air Control and Warning Personnel of the United States Air Force”<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch">http://www.decades.com/wheretowatch</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />John Ellis<br />Hollywood, CA<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdm3MKiTD1LVLBLEiaD_8NPLsRP5FbgzFr3HXH8kqoefMUu35JyF6VaUzvem_FJbqK2lK8CShxC8hqZsIQXbnrfmhZXDBujNVo52yQayZ_uOW6jBBeLz_aSTyXmD-t3Ig07Sl/s1600/rInlN-1519421951-44-show-1060x400_LostTV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1059" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdm3MKiTD1LVLBLEiaD_8NPLsRP5FbgzFr3HXH8kqoefMUu35JyF6VaUzvem_FJbqK2lK8CShxC8hqZsIQXbnrfmhZXDBujNVo52yQayZ_uOW6jBBeLz_aSTyXmD-t3Ig07Sl/s320/rInlN-1519421951-44-show-1060x400_LostTV.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-39969552033761550482021-03-11T02:06:00.002-08:002021-03-11T12:24:50.220-08:00An Hour Of Steve Canyon Every Saturday!<p><b> A WHOLE HOUR of Steve Canyon every Saturday morning on The Decades TV Network! </b></p><p>Starting at 7am EST (4am PST ) two complete half hour episodes air every Saturday morning on the DECADES TV Network. </p><p>This coming Saturday will be two of the most popular episodes, starting with OPERATION B-52 followed by OPERATION MUSHROOM.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">OPERATION B-52</span></b></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6-Nb2kH3ppJt-T5o5_DYjr20WqzBgQ79zn5XRHcrLglGubnpy2BFQ5MlCV97zmLmfc8uE7N_iNAA9TcNbdYE9JwKtNRuRFiCz9GSB6ypfOriFh92z5jMcnj5pG_WEqfhSzKK/s663/Ep-13_2a.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="663" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY6-Nb2kH3ppJt-T5o5_DYjr20WqzBgQ79zn5XRHcrLglGubnpy2BFQ5MlCV97zmLmfc8uE7N_iNAA9TcNbdYE9JwKtNRuRFiCz9GSB6ypfOriFh92z5jMcnj5pG_WEqfhSzKK/w320-h255/Ep-13_2a.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Above, from left, Richard Anderson as cynical reporter Ben Radin, Dean Fredericks as Col. Steve Canyon, and John Compton as copilot Capt. Woody Buckler. This is an original 8x10 publicity photo from the series (which most likely has never before been published).<p></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a minute and 10 seconds long movie clip from the 13th episode, OPERATION B-52, which aired originally on Saturday November 15th 1958 at 9pm on NBC. It was repeated once by NBC on Tuesday June 30th 1959 at 8pm. When ABC aired summer reruns of Steve Canyon in 1960, for some reason this one (and 13 others) NEVER got repeated. What you are about to see is the first time in 48 years that any part of this episode has been seen in the United States. The shows were run on Armed Forces television overseas in 1963 and 1965, and dubbed in Japanese and broadcast by Nagoya TV in Japan in 1963, but otherwise (as far as we can ascertain) they were never aired anywhere else in the world. If you remember seeing STEVE CANYON broadcast at any other time or place since, we'd love to hear from you.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzVQWvnFqIONWR6kqIOmhSB-OS48MSUJijthUJmIVVIoMMZFWNh024zVR1RKq4TJ1jV5_H-hNsPuqo' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's a clip you ca watch from OPERATION B-52!</div><p></p><p>This particular episode is an interesting one, as it was written by famed Twilight Zone scribe Charles Beaumont, and was directed by the man himself, Arthur Hiller. Richard Anderson, Sylvia Lewis and Roxanne Berard all appeared. and to our knowledge was the first time a civilian crew was allowed to film aboard an actual Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (which was considered top-secret back during the Cold War). </p><p>The film was shot at Universal Studios on October 3rd, 6th and 7th 1958 and concerns an around the world flight that is interrupted by a problem that threatens to destroy the $8 Million dollar plane. The film is dedicated to the Strategic Air Command 92nd Bomb Wing, Castle Air Force Base, California. Enjoy this restored clip, the entire program (along with 33 other broadcast episodes, lovingly restored from the original 35mm network broadcast masters), can be seen on DECADES TV. These shows never looked or sounded this good!</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>OPERATION MUSHROOM</b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxap59Su6ITZGLlJNyEyH4fCprkdf1B4Xn4Wlk-tMfZAhnjv7rFnrwcKIHx_-1vTUDxEhcsxujUva4' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's a clip you ca watch from OPERATION MUSHROOM!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>On Saturday November 29th, 1958, the Steve Canyon episode OPERATION MUSHROOM premiered on NBC. Told in documentary fashion, the curious public got a detailed and early look into just what went into an atomic test. Never mind that Steve Canyon didn't REALLY drop that very first hydrogen bomb...but this episode was SO popular it aired twice on NBC and once again on ABC (in 1960)!</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZM-4iLXXojLrKqMHqATQMIpTZLQB7nHKaykW50avkPNob8YJALqFi8siZLivkCBXQY_852_InPB_6iEsKUu0_AQK_NXzFtMy7QkxT7iiCo2ycqhoX4aZ-1cTcBwtfl-1YTudz/s637/15+-+OPERATION+MUSHROOM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="637" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZM-4iLXXojLrKqMHqATQMIpTZLQB7nHKaykW50avkPNob8YJALqFi8siZLivkCBXQY_852_InPB_6iEsKUu0_AQK_NXzFtMy7QkxT7iiCo2ycqhoX4aZ-1cTcBwtfl-1YTudz/s320/15+-+OPERATION+MUSHROOM.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic nuclear bomber.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">This is the episode with ALL the planes! Virtually EVERYTHING that the USAF was flying at that time is seen in this episode...including these great planes: F-84 Thunderjet, F-84 Thunderstreak, F-86 Sabre, F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, H-19 Chickasaw, H-21 Workhorse, C-47 Skytrain, C-54 Skymaster, C-121 Constellation, C-124 Globemaster, C-130 Hercules, KC-135 Stratotanker, B-36 Peacemaker, B-47 Stratojet, Martin B-51, B-57 Intruder, B-66 Destroyer, B-50 Superfortress, KB-50 Supertanker, B-52 Stratofortress, T-33 T-Bird, SA-16 Albatross and even more!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNbqMD07kWUSHvBXICm7mMtnjAa-4QmWrKz2STxNgvzrVRkXV_XInQ-NLYEmDlsyRfb2MMmnV9s4-UFSAmmlA58e2C2GYslbG0Pk77MefZO8HCg2epcRnDbPNtAanGghKCK2l/s637/15+-+OPERATION+MUSHROOM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="637" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNbqMD07kWUSHvBXICm7mMtnjAa-4QmWrKz2STxNgvzrVRkXV_XInQ-NLYEmDlsyRfb2MMmnV9s4-UFSAmmlA58e2C2GYslbG0Pk77MefZO8HCg2epcRnDbPNtAanGghKCK2l/w320-h240/15+-+OPERATION+MUSHROOM-1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MANY details on the handling and cleanup after an H-Bomb test is shown.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Don't miss these two great episodes on DECADES this coming Saturday morning, at 7am EST, 4am PST!<br /><p style="text-align: center;">###</p><p style="text-align: left;">I've been hearing from many that are enjoying the series on DECADES. Coming up I'll be posting some of the comments I've received. While owning and watching a high-quality DVD any time you want is a cool thing, the "shared experience" of watching a favorite TV series over the air has always been a pleasure for me, and seems to be the same for many Steve Canyon fans. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Stay tuned for more frequent posts right here on our blog...see you next time!</p><p style="text-align: left;">John Ellis, </p><p style="text-align: left;">Hollywood, California</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">###</p><p style="text-align: center;">(AND don't forget Daylight Saving Time begins the next day, on Sunday, March 14, 2021, at 2:00 A.M. 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Let's hope so!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">((Note that I am amending this post to mention that I just found out there <b>will</b> be <b>two</b> episodes each Saturday, a <b>whole hour</b> of Steve Canyon goodness, from <b>7am to 8am</b>, starting next Saturday with OPERATION TOWLINE followed by OPERATION THUNDERBIRDS! 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<br /></div>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-61347167785031853442019-11-12T14:51:00.000-08:002019-11-12T14:51:16.789-08:00Steve Canyon Returns...Again!<div style="text-align: center;">
This morning, Tuesday November 12th at 4am eastern time (1am pacific), Steve Canyon returned to DECADES Television for it's third complete modern rerun on free american broadcast television!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The juvenile delinquent Jaybirds, from left, Skippy (Ronnie Knox), Hawk (Larry Pennell) and Buck (Burt Metcalfe) give Col. Steve Canyon (Dean Fredericks) a bad time in the 2nd Steve Canyon episode, "OPERATION THUNDERBIRDS", airing early Wednesday November 13, 2019. Note that Metcalfe co-created the M*A*S*H* TV series and was one of the producers of the show for the entire run of 251 episodes.<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. In other words, the purpose of Memorial Day is to memorialize the veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. We spend time remembering those who lost their lives and could not come home, reflecting on their service and why we have the luxury and freedom that we enjoy today. We might consider how we can support and safeguard their grieving families and loved ones who are left behind." - The Farmer's Almanac</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Edward G. Foote, Jr., was born about 1922 in Illinois, the son of Edward G. and Margaret Foote, Sr., from New York and Illinois, respectively. By 1930 the family was living in the South Gate area of Los Angeles Co., California where Edward, Sr. was employed as a salesman for an oil refining company. The family included Edward’s wife, Margaret, and sons Edward, Jr. and Fred Foote.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> While attending AVJUHS, Edward was involved in many activities including three years of Varsity football, and two years of basketball. In his junior year he was elected the Jr. Class yell leader and was also a member of the Letterman’s Club. Edward graduated from AVJUHS with the class of 1941.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On March 20, 1942, Edward enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with the U.S. Army Air Forces before attending Officer Candidate School. In 1943, Edward was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army after the successful completion of the Officer Candidate course at the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. He held the rank of corporal before being commissioned.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> As part of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), Edward was sent to Myitkyina, Burma. The group later became known as “Merrill’s Marauders” named after its leader, Brigadier General Frank Merrill. The jungles of Burma were thick with vegetation – no room for the jeeps and trucks needed to carry supplies. The men had to carry all their equipment and supplies over 800 miles, marching over jungle and mountain roads. All the equipment was carried by the soldiers, on their back, or on the backs of pack mules. They were re-supplied by air drops after clearing the thick jungles areas below. Landing strips were hacked out to allow small planes in to evacuate the sick and wounded. At the end of the Burma Campaign, all remaining soldiers were evacuated to hospitals suffering from tropical diseases, exhaustion and malnutrition. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On July 2, 1944, Edward was killed in action. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal and the Bronze Star. For their accomplishments in Burma, the Marauders were awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation in July 1944. The Marauders also have the rare distinction of having every member of the unit receive a Bronze Star, duly awarded for their “heroism and outstanding achievement in a combat theater.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2nd Lieutenant Edward G. Foote, Jr. was buried at the Honolulu Memorial, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his name is joined with thousands of other soldiers who died in World War II.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Battle of Myitkyina – Author unknown</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At Myitkyina today they lie at rest</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were soldiers all and gave their best</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And prayed for sun that never came.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through mud they crawled to find their foe</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They cursed and swore but on they go</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They all slept on the walls of hell.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whizzed by with each and every breath</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Myitkyina has fallen at last</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They would be glad to know of the finished task </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the trails are filled with Yankee blood</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of gallant men who fought, died in Burma mud</span></span></div>
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</style>John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-66681211695307421572018-12-17T22:57:00.001-08:002018-12-17T23:41:44.683-08:00A Ray Bradbury Christmas!<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">( Watch Steve Canyon "The Gift" </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">early-early morning Wednesday December 19th 2018 on DECADES TV! )</span></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Fredericks as Steve Canyon.</td></tr>
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Saturday December 20th 1958 marked the only Christmas network airing of Ray Bradbury's Steve Canyon teleplay THE GIFT. In fact it was the ONLY airing of this episode in the US until Decades TV ran it this past June 7th. Early morning Wednesday December 19th Decades TV will air it once again for the first holiday airing of this Christmas episode in nearly 60 years to the day. As promised, here's some background on this unique story.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Bradbury.</td></tr>
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Ray Bradbury's THE GIFT began life as a science fiction short story that appeared in the December 1952 issue of ESQUIRE Magazine. It has been reprinted many times over the years since, most notably in the Bradbury anthology R IS FOR ROCKET (1st printing by Doubleday 1960), and has been translated into French, Italian, German, Romanian and Dutch.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve Canyon Story Editor Sidney Carroll.</td></tr>
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Bradbury told me in 2006 that he did it as a favor for his friend, Sidney Carroll (Steve Canyon Story Editor), who thought it could be adapted for the TV series as their "Christmas episode".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover of the first printing of Bradbury's anthology in 1952 with Carroll's short story.</td></tr>
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Carroll had written short story called "None Before Me" which which impressed Ray Bradbury so much he included in his 1952 anthology "Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow". It describes a lonely miser who becomes fascinated by a lavish dollhouse. Bradbury's book is an anthology of fantasy stories, and it is only in the last sentence that Carroll's story turns to fantasy, with rather startling result.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover of Bradbury's script with the "1968" typo.</td></tr>
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Carroll wrote an outline for Bradbury adapting "The Gift" short story to fit the Steve Canyon TV series format, and Bradbury turned in a 35 page teleplay on September 26, 1958 (mis-typed on the cover by the Steve Canyon typist/secretary as September 26, <u>1968</u>). This was too long for a half-hour show, and although Bradbury probably performed a shorter second draft, the final shooting script was undoubtedly polished by Sid Carroll and turned in on October 23rd, 1958...nearly a week before shooting commenced on Wednesday October 29th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First page of the revised shooting script for THE GIFT.</td></tr>
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Most of the Steve Canyon episodes had only one day of rehearsal, which was customary for half-hour network shows, but curiously The Gift had two. It appears that something wasn't working out that day (Monday, October 27th) with the child-actress that had been cast, as the daily production report page notes (besides the "Child Welfare Worker" and "School from 9am to 12pm") that, "Above child-actress was re-cast as of this date."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbara Beaird and Dean Fredericks in a publicity shot from THE GIFT.</td></tr>
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Barbara Beaird was then cast as "Lisa Serenko", and following that rehearsal day (with Director Don Taylor and cast members Dean Fredericks, Sean McClory, Celia Lovsky, Trudi Ziskind, Wendy Stuart, Frank Nehez, Lillian Adams and William Bryant) began filming the next day, Wednesday October 29, for 3 days, ending on Friday October 31st. Shooting that had been every week since Monday July 14 would stop for two weeks to "re-tool the series" and not begin again until Friday November 14th (with the 17th episode "Operation Big Thunder").<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exterior scene from THE GIFT, shot Thursday October 30, 1958, Universal Studios. Left to right, Sean McClory, Celia Lovsky, Barbara Beaird and Dean Fredericks.</td></tr>
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Not long after, Producer David Haft commented in a letter to Canyon-creator Milton Caniff that he had a funny feeling that at some point during the season the Air Force, advertising agency and the show's sponsor got together, and said "Let's teach Haft the television business", and had apparently done so. The remaining half of the series' shows would be very different in content (in an attempt to make it more like Caniff's comic strip and to not upset the aerospace industry, test pilots. etc). More about this in a future post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Producer David Haft with Steve Canyon creator Milton Caniff during Caniff's visit to Universal Studios at the end of June 1958, about 2 weeks before shooting commenced on the TV series on July 14th.</td></tr>
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Barbara Beaird apparently impressed sufficiently to warrant returning for a sequel episode (along with Celia Lovsky), "Iron Curtain", though not written by Bradbury. Beaird was later the voice of "Rolly" in "One Hundred And One Dalmatians" (1961, and Lovsky appeared as "T'Pau", the ruler of the planet Vulcan on Star Trek in 1967. William Bryant returned to Steve Canyon as "Kirby" (with a promotion to Captain) a few months later in the episode "Strike Force". More about that particular "peculiar" episode in a later post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barbara Beaird reprises her role as Lisa Serenko in a publicity photo taken during the filming of the 25th episode of Steve canyon, "Iron Curtain", on the Universal Studios "European Street" backlot on Thursday January 15, 1959.</td></tr>
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Two and a half weeks after the episode aired on NBC, Ray Bradbury wrote a letter to Sid Carroll. In it he mentions "I'm sorry the stars didn't work out at the end". What that means is they didn't have the budget (or technical ability at the time) to create a shot that we would take for granted today. Here is the snippet of his script for you to compare to the end of the filmed episode:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last page of the September 26th draft of Bradbury's script.</td></tr>
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Here's Bradbury's letter to Sid Carroll, courtesy of my pal Matt Tauber, and be sure to visit his EXCELLENT Caniff/Comics blog at <a href="https://matttauber.blogspot.com/">https://matttauber.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Bradbury's January 8th 1959 letter to Steve Canyon Story Editor Sid Carroll.</td></tr>
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I previously reported that this episode played on NBC exactly 60 years ago to the day of this screening...well, I apologize for my "senior moment, I was one day off, it was on December <u>20th</u> 1958...my bad.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by Ren Wicks that appeared in the December 1952 Esquire magazine <br />illustrating the first printing of Ray Bradbury's "The Gift".</td></tr>
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You can read Ray Bradbury's entire short story "The Gift" online <a href="https://classic.esquire.com/article/1952/12/1/the-gift">here</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@AdrianSantuario/the-gift-ray-bradbury-fd0a44ec492a">here</a>.<br />
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I had intended to post this yesterday (Sunday) but health issues intervened. I hope you get to watch Steve Canyon "The Gift" early Wednesday December 19th 2018 at 4am Eastern time (1am Pacific time) on Decades TV. Alternately "The Gift" can be seen uncut on our The Complete Steve Canyon On TV Volume 2 DVD available from us on our web-store <a href="http://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html">here</a> and via these links on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/j.r.ellis/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686">eBay</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/shops/A2VWL72PEMQISE">Amazon</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watch the Steve Canyon Christmas episode "The Gift" Wednesday December 19th at 4am Eastern time (1am Pacific time) on Decades TV's LOST TV.</td></tr>
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Finally, though I knew Ray and Maggie Bradbury a bit, and had dinner with several them times and attended a social event with them years ago, my dear friend Patricia Rogers was also a dear friend to Ray and Maggie, and this post is dedicated to her.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray Bradbury and Patricia Rogers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Fredericks as Steve Canyon in OPERATION TOWLINE, the first episode aired (and the original "pilot" film) on NBC on September 13, 1968, which will be on DECADES TV this coming Tuesday.</td></tr>
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Steve Canyon's 34 episodes will run (in this time slot) 5 days a week from Tuesday through Saturday for 7 weeks, presumably ending Friday January 18 2019. They will be run in their original 1958/1959 original broadcast order…if you want to watch them in the order they were originally made (and intended to be seen) that is the way they are presented on our <a href="http://stevecanyondvd.blogspot.com/2007/08/ye-olde-caniffcanyon-shoppe.html" target="_blank">3 volume DVDs.</a><br />
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John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-58708545525609743102018-11-04T01:05:00.000-07:002018-11-04T01:15:35.550-08:00Steve Canyon Returns!...one month from this coming early Tuesday morning, on December 4th, Steve Canyon returns to DECADES Television for it's second complete modern rerun on american broadcast television!<br />
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ALL 34 episodes only ran ONCE in it's initial run on NBC primetime in the 1958-1959 season. NBC only repeated 14 episodes in 1959, and ABC then only repeated 20 episodes in 1960. 11 episodes were NEVER rerun in the US until earlier this summer on Decades. So set your DVRs accordingly!<br />
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<br />John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-41300423589530183012018-07-07T00:26:00.000-07:002018-07-07T00:26:24.765-07:00Operation Firebee Ends Reruns Tonight<br />
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<span class="s1">I hope some of you got to enjoy Steve on Decades, and though I don't know when it'll air again, I'm sure it will and I'll let you know as soon as I do. Be sure to write to Decades (or comment on their Facebook page) and tell them what you think.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">34. OPERATION FIREBEE</span></div>
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<br />John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-78505438575201872542018-06-25T16:51:00.000-07:002018-06-25T17:26:59.138-07:00OPERATION INTERCEPT on DECADES!In about 9 hours arguably the best episode of the Steve Canyon TV series will air on american television for the first time in 58 years (since it re-ran on ABC in the summer of 1960).<br />
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NOTE: Steve Canyon moved from Thursdays to Tuesday nights with this episode on NBC in 1959.<br />
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26. OPERATION INTERCEPT<br />
Show #28<br />
Production #9229<br />
NBC First Run Tuesday March 31, 1959<br />
NBC Rerun Tuesday September 1, 1959<br />
ABC Summer Rerun Thursday April 21, 1960<br />
Photographed: Feb 5-6, 1959<br />
Directed by Arthur Marks<br />
Teleplay by David Haft<br />
Story by Frank Benedict<br />
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A freak accident kills the pilot and co-pilot of a B-47 bomber while the plane<br />
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<br />John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-63979980761867755692018-06-10T02:29:00.001-07:002018-06-10T02:29:53.411-07:00Abel & Bobby & Other ThingsEarly yesterday morning Decades Television aired the Steve Canyon episode OPERATION BIG THUNDER, that introduced Abel Fernandez, Bob Hoy, Ted de Corsia and Jerry Paris in the series.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lt. Colonel Steve Canyon, Major Williston, Master Sgt. Maconochie, Sgt. Pete Berger and Airman 1C Abel Featherstone ponder a serious issue at Big Thunder Air Force Base.</td></tr>
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<br />So last month Abel Fernandez's 2nd year passing memorial slipped right by me...but better late than never (as Abel would sometimes say). Abel you are missed.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abel's headstone at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/109440/riverside-national-cemetery">Riverside National Cemetary</a>. Big thanks to Barbara Lima for this image!</td></tr>
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I should have done something for both Abel and Bobby Hoy for Memorial Day but I'll just have to shoot for next year. Two of the greatest (and funniest) guys around. We had a blast recording their commentaries here! Coffee and sinkers just about blew our budget!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bob Hoy, me (John Ellis) and Abel Fernandez clowning (after a commentary recording session) in my back yard Friday March 20, 2009. Less than a year later Bob would leave us on Monday February 8, 2010. We miss you, Bobby!</td></tr>
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So OPERATION BIG THUNDER is the "change of format" episode to appease the Air Force and the aircraft industry (who felt trivialized by fictionalizing their successes)...the Air Force was just upset in principle and thought they knew how to do it better than the professional filmmakers. They should have just left them alone to make a good show. What they did do was excellent and if allowed to continue "on their own flight-path", I suspect they would have gone another season or two. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From left, Ken Lynch, Jerry Paris (seated), Bob Hoy, Dean Fredericks and Abel Fernandez in the 17th Steve Canyon episode produced, OPERATION BIG THUNDER. Lynch and Bob Hoy appeared together in THE DEVIL IN THE DARK episode of the original Star Trek!</td></tr>
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<br />The roots of this episode were in the Steve Canyon newspaper comic strip in a story from 1956!<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon daily from Saturday November 17, 1956, story arc titled "The Girl From Little Dogie", which introduced Poteet Canyon AND was also the story which this TV episode was loosely based (which only happened twice during the series run). Alas, we could have used a bit of Poteet in the TV series, don't ya think?</td></tr>
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Wow! I just noticed something today that I hadn't before: that the first 4 episodes he's in have Abel's rank being Airman First Class (A/1C):<br />
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<b>Also, as is customary they are cutting out 3 minutes of each episode to make room for commercials. They are doing a pretty good job as the cuts are barely noticable (even to me), but if you want to see the shows uncut (and in the proper order and in the highest quality), I refer you to our 3 volume COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV DVDs.</b></div>
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For DECADES TV tomorrow, Tuesday at 5am eastern (or 2am pacific time if you are on the left coast) to record Steve's return to American Television, the first time since the episode "Iron Curtain" aired on ABC summer reruns on Thursday, September 8, 1960, nearly 58 years ago!</div>
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I'm glad some of you get DECADES and can watch, and am sorry for those who don't have it in their area in the US and in foreign countries. I urge you to write to you local cable providers and local stations urging them to add DECADES, and to write or comment to DECADES about Steve Canyon on their <a href="https://twitter.com/decadesnetwork">Twitter account</a> and their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/decadesnetwork">Facebook page</a>.</div>
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I'm thrilled to announce that in a little over a week, on early Tuesday May 22 during Decades TV's “Lost Television” 2 hour block, Steve Canyon will begin airing on american television for the first time in nearly 58 years…at 2am Pacific time / 5am Eastern time, starting with the very first episode “Operation Towline” and continuing 5 days a week (Tuesday am through Saturday am), in the order they were made in, AND with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired!</div>
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I’m really excited as the whole point of the project I started in 2006 was to get it back on TV, the DVDs were a way to fund the restoration and I never planned to handle every aspect of the back-breaking production and sales of them. But things don't always turn out the way we plan. It's been a battle and though it's 10 years later than I wanted, I'm glad to finally see it returning to TV, which Milton Caniff would have wanted.<span class="s1"></span></div>
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<span class="s1">The last time it aired in the US was on ABC on Thursday September 8, 1960, nearly 58 years ago...so i</span>t’ll be cool to watch it on TV again, right? Let me know what you think!</div>
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John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-40314853645007382602018-05-04T02:15:00.000-07:002018-05-04T02:15:57.925-07:00Big Mystery...Afoot!There's somethin' happening here,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Telegram from David Haft and Mike Meshekoff (the producers of the Steve Canyon TV series) to Milton Caniff, on the morning of September 13, 1958, the day the series premiered on NBC.</td></tr>
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John Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161774132300540812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35483172.post-18494200797854383172017-12-25T15:27:00.000-08:002017-12-25T15:27:21.843-08:00Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sergeant Frederick Foote recuperating from wounds received in a firefight during the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944. The future Steve Canyon star spent 15 months in several hospitals recuperating from injuries that nearly cost him his leg.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happier times: Teenaged brothers Bud and Fred Foote before the war.</td></tr>
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