Currently Watching Remington Steele - Season Two see related

Good news for those Remington Steele fans out there. The release of the final two seasons was announced today.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5590

Just what Steele fans have been waiting for; Seasons 4 and 5 will be released on August 15. We expected the final 2 seasons, which total 27 episodes (1323 mins), to be released together, but it's nice to have official word from the studio. The A/V specs are the same as previous sets; full frame (1.33:1) video, with an English mono audio track, and Spanish subtitles. The set will sell for $49.98 US, or $69.98 CAN, up a bit from the previous sets, but there are more episodes here.

Episodes include:

Disc 1 Side A:
1. Steele Searching part 1
2. Steele Searching part 2
3. Steele Blushing
4. Grapping Steele
   
   Disc 1 Side B:
5. Forged Steele
6. Corn Fed Steele
   
   Disc 2 Side A:
7. Premium Steele
8. Coffee, Tea, or Steele
9. Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele
10. Steele on the Air
    
    Disc 2 Side B:
11. Steele, Inc.
12. Steele Spawning
    
    Disc 3 Side A:
13. Suburban Steele
14. Santa Claus is Coming to Steele
15. Steele Blue Yonder
16. Sensitive Steele
    
    Disc 3 Side B:
17. Steele in the Spotlight
18. Steele at Your Service
    
    Disc 4 Side A:
19. Steele in the Running
20. Beg, Borrow, or Steele
    
    Disc 4 Side B:
21. Steele Alive and Kicking
22. Bonds of Steele
    
    Disc 5 Side A:
23. The Steele that Wouldn't Die (longplay version)
24. Steele Hanging in There part 1
25. Steele Hanging in There part 2
    
    Disc 5 Side B:
26. Steeled with a Kiss part 1
27. Steeled with a Kiss part 2

• Steele Fanatics Featurette
• Steele Stars Featurette
• Steele on the Road Featurette
• Steele on the Air Commentary by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart
• Beg, Borrow, or Steele Commentary by Michael Gleason, John Wirth, Brad Kern and Jeff Melvoin
• Bonds of Steele Commentary by Michael Gleason, John Wirth, Brad Kern and Jeff Melvoin
• Steele Farewell Featurette

There are a couple of things of interest here:

I know several of the fans that were interviewed for the Steele Fanatics Featurette. They are members of a couple of the Remington Steele mailing lists that I am on. They had to fly to LA on their on and then they were interviewed for the featurette.

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/RSFic/

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/SteeleWatchers/

At SteeleWatchers we were asked to do a poll and find out which episodes we, as fans of the show, would like to have commentaries on. So we set up the poll and the membership votes and we turned the results over to the company that produced the special features filler and with the announcement today, I noticed that with one exception, we were ignored.

Position / Episode / Votes / Percentage of vote

1. Sensitive Steele / 14 / 19
2. Premium Steele / 10 / 13
3. Beg, Borrow or Steele / 10 / 13
4. Dancer, Prancer, Donner and Steele / 8 / 10
5. Bonds of Steele / 7 / 9

Well, I guess I have to take that back, after a little research, I discovered that all three are on our list, just not as high as we had hoped

Next, I'll speak about stereo. Maybe I'm just being picky, but I bought a stereo VCR because the final two seasons of Remington Steele were broadcast in stereo. Now I'll admit that the 4th season stereo was mostly just the music. It made for odd listening with my headphones. The themes and opening were in full stereo and then the vocal tracks were all mono. It was actually better in season 5, one of the only things that was better, in fact.

Currently Listening Hummingbird By Wakeman & Cousins see related

My pirate name is:

Red William Kidd

Passion is a big part of your life, which makes sense for a pirate. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Arr! Thanks to Bassaf for this one, matey.

Currently Watching Remington Steele - Season Two see related

Point of Information

Since I am going to explain the joke, I guess it must not be funny, or at least no one has a point of view on the matter.

If you examine my avatar, you will discover that it is a fake. I have taken my head and placed it on the body of someone else. Just for your information, though I have in the past, I do not own a suit. The joke is funnier still because of the individual who's suit I am inhabiting. Unfortunatly I cannot tell you who he is, because he has shuffled off the mortal coil, and didn't have a chance to defend himself.

Now, before you think I am reprehensible, I actually had a great respect for this man. He was a minister, a teacher, a principal and a bus driver. But in the course of a project (joke) I was working on for a Remington Steele fiction challenge, I discovered that his suit would accept my head with great ease. Unfortunately my fiction (joke) is no longer online. I hit my bandwidth limits and it was removed from my site. Oh well.

I have been selling off my vast collection of science fiction paperbacks on Amazon.com. This is something I have resisted for over thirty years. But with the passing of my two half-brothers I came to the realization that I may never read some of these books again. So, I started selling them.

The profits have been slim, but I was astounded by a few books.

I sold a fantasy novel the other day for $30. It sure surprised me. I bought it in the early 80s and both my wife and I read it, but neither of us have looked at it since. So I said, "I'll put it online." When I looked to see what the going rate was, I was astounded to see a couple of copies listed for $50+. Since I felt this copy was mearly acceptible, I maked it $30. I figured I could always lower it later. I need not have worried, it sold in two days. Cool.

This left me with a little bit of a profit, so I decided to buy Remington Steele - Season Three. I had just acquired Season Two in March with my tax refund. This explains why I am watching Season Two, even though Season Three is out.

Mindless Blather

I finished Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and have been having difficulty starting another book. Though I found the first book the best written, I am a sucker for alternative reality fiction and read them all eagerly. I would like to read more in this universe, but for the moment Fforde has moved to Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division. My son read The Big Over Easy and loved it, but has yet to return my copy. So I'm stuck.

Some friends reccommended David Liss' Conspiracy of Paper but I haven't even read the first page. I picked up Clive Cussler's Black Wind at the library while I was reading Thursday Next and have read a good third of it so far, but I haven't gotten really connected.

On the other hand, I have been watching Bones on Fox television and something about the scripting has intregued me. So I recently picked up the tie-in novel by Max Allen Collins, a name that I normally trust when reading, Bones : Buried Deep. Now I read in the credits that it was based on the novels of Kathy Reichs about Tempe Brennan. The books and the television show are really not very closely related, mostly just the name of the main character and her job. Even though I had already acquired the Collins' book, I ordered the first couple of the Reichs' books from Amazon after reading a chapter online. They arrived in today's mail, so maybe I'll have something to read that I'm interested in again, but I feel obligated to finish the Cussler book.

On the other hand (or maybe eye) I have been watching the second season of Remington Steele DVDs. It has been an interesting experience. The mysteries have holes you could pilot a zeppelin through, but I am still captured by the humor and romance of the main characters. My oldest friend has been watching them with me, he was overseas in the Air Force when they played originally and he tends to review and pull no punches, so the conversation has been quite lively. When the shows came on broadcast television originally my wife and I watched them, but her family was never the talk about it kind of people.

In my family, we tend to talk everything to death. Every time I went out to the movies I would call my brother and we would talk about the direction, the writing and the actors. Since he passed away last year, I get home from a movie and say, "Can't wait to call Bob." I guess I'll have to wait a while longer.

I never mean to get into these maudlin mind sets, but what can I say?

I spoke to my son today and he should be home from college in less than two weeks. He has given me a list of movies I am to take him to see. When I taught school, we would spend the summer watching at least a movie a week, of course we had a dollar movie theater in town. My wife would get so jealous, but when we invited her, she wanted to do something else. Bah! My daughter loves going to the movies as well, but there is no dollar theater any more. Oh well.

For the past week I have been listening to Roy Harper. The first time I heard anything by him was Flat, Baroque And Berserk. I picked the cassette out of a remainder bin because the title grabbed me. Well, my cassette has gone the way of the dodo and I looked online to replace it and discovered that it is really hard to get Roy Harper CDs in the States under $15. These are used prices. What is the world coming to? 

Another piece of my youth that has become irreplacible.