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Brilliant But Cancelled - Crime Dramas (Delvecchio/ Gideon Oliver/ Johnny Staccato/ Touching Evil)
$19.98
There were reasons why the four crime drama shows on this DVD were "cancelled before thier time"not the least of which was that none of them were particularly good...
"Johnny Staccato"had John Cassevetes as a piano player who moonlights as a sort of private eye..the episode included here"Tempted"had Elizabeth Montgomery,the"Bewitched"girl as the guest star,in some sort of poorly thought-out script about an expensive piece of jewely that may or may not be stolen..Staccato ,the so-called hero is apparently more interested in taking the jewel and the crooked but pretty "Bewitched"girl than doing the right thing and returning the jewel and turning the crooked young thing in to the authorities..No wonder that the audiences in 1959 found this show hard to swallow..but it had nice jazzy music by Elmer Bernstein...too bad the scripts weren't as good
Delvecchio starred Judd Hirsch of"Taxi"fame as a cop who really wants to be a lawyer..Charles Haid ,the director,played his side-kick...In this episode we have John Hillerman,Tom Selleck's"Magnum P.I."sidekick as a quack doctor who so convinces an 18 year old woman that she has stomach cancer that she kills herself..from this point on the script wanders all over the place,from an old cleric's refusal to say a high mass for her because of the nature of her death,to the sub-plot involving her two hot-headed brothers who want to beat the tar out of the doctor for what he'd done..All of the while Delvecchio,who is supposed to know about both police procedures and the law manages to transgress both,without any harm coming to him(in fact,the judgemental script had the quack doctor being beaten and almost killed by the two hot-tempered brothers all to a collective"so what"from Delvecchio and his partner...No wonder this show did not last
Gideon Oliver had Louis Gosseett jr as some sort of a college professor who is also an incredible busy-body,involving himself in areas best left to the police...In this episode(overly long and very draggy)the subject was"satanism",as seen from the vantage point of a script writer who apparently had his head up his butt all of the time he was writing it..The fact that the script writer was none other than Dick Wolfe,responsible for "Law & Order" only beggers the question;how did someone so out of touch with reality ever come up with such a successful show as"Law & Order"?In this moronic script all of the idiot nonsense about pagans and satanists being child-murdering monsters are put on display..Anthony LaPaglia plays some sort of satanic cult leader who murders babies,kills people in order to make snuff films,and behaves like an over-the-top psycho..One of the people LaPaglia has killed is a galpal of Gossett's and he buttinskis his way into the police investigation...I still can't believe that Dick Wolfe wrote this drivel
Touching Evil was apparently a sort of lurid soap opera/crime drama,and as such plopping one isolated episode onto this disc served only to confuse the average viewer,who really had no idea about what was happening or why
NO WONDER THESE SHOWS WERE AXED..AND WHAT CRITIC'S LIKED THEM?

Bozo Got Cancelled
$0.99

Vince Lombardi Autographed Cancelled Check with 16" x 20" Photograph in a 20" x 24" Deluxe Photograph Frame
$1,300.00
This Is an Absolutely Gorgeous One of a Kind Piece of Memorabilia That Would Be Great in Your Home, Office or Business. This One of a Kind Piece Features an Autographed Cancelled Check with 16" x 20" Photograph of Vince Lombardi. This Piece Is Double Matted and Is Professionally Framed. The Total Size of This Wonderful Looking Piece of Memorabilia Is 20" x 24". This Is a One of a Kind Piece and Is Must Have for Any Vince Lombardi Fans! Impress Your Friends, Family, Employees or Colleagues with This Hanging on Your Wall. What a Great Conversation Piece.

My Dad Cancelled Christmas!
$12.95
This book is a great book for kids of all ages. It tells the story in such a fun and creative way that it makes the reader want to keep reading, while simulataneously teaching a lesson. Definitely a must-have for teachers to read and discuss with the children.

About the author and illustrator: it's great to hear about a Dad collaborating with his children and inspiring them to utilize their creative energy in such an exciting manner as publishing a book together! Great job . . . keep them coming.