Robert Wagner: 2000s

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Saturday, 23 January 2010

Dr. Horrible vs. Batman

TV star Neil Patrick Harris clearly has musical talent, given his song-and-dance appearances on everything from The Emmys and Sesame Street to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and even the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother. Last fall, Cartoon Network series Batman: The Brave and the Bold recruited NPH to play Music Meister, a bad guy whose hypnotic voice forces everyone around him to sing and dance to his whim -- including Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary, plus an assortment of familiar baddies. They even released a soundtrack album.

Batman: the Brave & the Bold "Drives Us Bats" Music Video

Speaking of Dr. Horrible, here's when he interrupted the Emmy Awards ...

Friday, 22 January 2010

Watch CASTLE episodes free online!

Episodes of Castle starring Nathan Fillion as best-selling mystery writer Richard Castle and Stana Katic as Detective Kate Beckett. Castle's fame gives him an all-access pass to her cases and he's working her last nerve. But somehow, together, they're the perfect partners in crime.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Watch CASTLE online: "A Rose for Everafter"

Castle: A Rose for Everafter, Season 2 : Ep. 12 - aired on Jan 11, 2010
While investigating the death of a bridesmaid at a wedding, Castle runs into an old flame (Alyssa Milano). This video will expire on Jan 31, 2010 at 05:00 (EST).

Saturday, 2 January 2010

Opening Theme: SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN

More main titles:
Opening Theme: SPIDER-MAN 1967
Opening Theme: The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan 1972

Friday, 1 January 2010

Watch PSYCH episodes free online!

Episodes of USA Network's Psych starring James Roday, Dule Hill, and Corbin Bernsen. Mystery-comedy wherein a police consultant uses his powers of observation to solve crimes.

More free TV episodes online:
Watch BIONIC WOMAN episodes free online!
Unaired '60s Batgirl pilot
Watch the MONK finale online!
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954)

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Watch the MONK finale online!

USA Network's Monk says farewell in a two-part episode. Starring Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, and Jason Gray-Stanford.

Mr. Monk and the End, Part 1
Monk is called to a crime at the location where he first heard the news of his wife's murder and begins the most important investigation of his life.

Mr. Monk and the End, Part 2
Monk pursues the killer of his wife in the series finale.

Monday, 4 February 2008

Mystery TV Themes: DRAGNET

Spotlighting the great themes from mystery/crime TV shows ...

DRAGNET
The "Dragnet March" ("Danger Ahead") by composer Walter Schumann (1913-1958) is one of the most recognizable themes in history. During World War 2, Schumann was musical director of the Armed Forces Radio Service; after the war, he returned to L.A., where he was a conductor and arranger for the motion picture and television studios. (He wrote stock music for several Abbott & Costello films.) Schumann also recorded several albums of choral music. His 1954 theme for Dragnet won him a 1955 Emmy Award.

Dragnet started as a radio drama (1949-1957), which Jack Webb created after he had a small role in the semi-documentary film noir He Walked by Night (1948). Like the film, the radio series kept the low-key, documentary style, made use of actual police cases, and even had the same L.A.P.D. technical advisor. The success of the radio show led to the first Dragnet TV series (1952-1959, 263 episodes), starring Webb and several partners. A top 10 hit during its first run, the show was also a feature film in 1954. The show was brought back for another 100 episodes (and a TV movie) in 1967-1970, again starring Webb, with partner Harry Morgan. Webb died in 1982, but the show was revived twice more -- as a syndicated TV series (1989-90) and as the short-lived 2003-2004 ABC series starring Ed O'Neill (also called L.A. Dragnet). This most recent version had a spiffy new theme by Mike Post that riffed off Schumann's original march.

Three versions of the theme at Mark Little's MyThemes.TV

More about composer Walter Schumann:
Space Age Pop Music
IMDB

More about Dragnet:
Badge 714
TV.com
TVShowsOnDVD

Dragnet 1951

2003 opening

More themes:
THE LONE RANGER
PERRY MASON
HART TO HART
BATMAN 1966 (w/ THE ODD COUPLE)
BARNEY MILLER