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Movie Reviews / Re: Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Last post by Sitting Duck - Today at 06:49:43 AMStat Sheets for Carl Kolchak.
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/08/15/stat-sheets-kolchak-the-night-stalker/
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2026/08/15/stat-sheets-kolchak-the-night-stalker/
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Television / Re: tv series with no story ar...
Last post by claws - Today at 03:13:54 AMI quit watching TV in the mid-2000s so I wouldn't know of any 2000s series with no story arc. I did ask AI and it gave me this:
1. Light-Hearted Action & Adventure
Burn Notice (2007–2013): While there is an overarching background mystery about why the protagonist was blacklisted as a spy, every single episode is a completely standalone "client of the week" rescue/fix-it mission. It channels the exact breezy, high-action, problem-of-the-week energy of 80s classics like The A-Team or The Fall Guy.
Leverage (2008–2012): Think of it as a modern, tech-savvy Mission: Impossible crew operating as modern-day Robin Hoods. They pull off an elaborate heist or con to rescue an everyday person from a corrupt villain in every episode. While the characters grow slightly over time, you can drop into almost any episode cold and enjoy the caper.
2. Detective & Procedural Mysteries
Monk (2006–2014): A brilliant eccentric detective solves a completely self-contained murder mystery every week. Aside from a very loose emotional baseline, continuity is practically non-existent—characters don't drastically change, and the status quo is strictly maintained.
Psych (2006–2014): A hyper-comedic spin on the classic detective formula where a slacker pretends to be a psychic to solve crimes with the police. It is fiercely episodic, focusing purely on 80s pop culture references, witty banter, and a standalone whodunit every week.
House, M.D. (2004–2012): Take a procedural cop show, strip away the badges, and put it in a hospital. Every week follows the exact same bulletproof formula: a patient falls mysteriously ill, House and his team throw out wild diagnostic theories, nearly kill the patient twice, and miraculously figure out the rare disease in the final ten minutes.
Classic Crime Procedurals (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Law & Order: SVU): The 2000s golden era of network procedurals built their entire empires on self-contained stories. You can turn on an episode of NCIS or CSI halfway through season 5 or season 9, watch a crime get investigated and solved in 42 minutes, and turn it off without ever needing to know what happened last week.
1. Light-Hearted Action & Adventure
Burn Notice (2007–2013): While there is an overarching background mystery about why the protagonist was blacklisted as a spy, every single episode is a completely standalone "client of the week" rescue/fix-it mission. It channels the exact breezy, high-action, problem-of-the-week energy of 80s classics like The A-Team or The Fall Guy.
Leverage (2008–2012): Think of it as a modern, tech-savvy Mission: Impossible crew operating as modern-day Robin Hoods. They pull off an elaborate heist or con to rescue an everyday person from a corrupt villain in every episode. While the characters grow slightly over time, you can drop into almost any episode cold and enjoy the caper.
2. Detective & Procedural Mysteries
Monk (2006–2014): A brilliant eccentric detective solves a completely self-contained murder mystery every week. Aside from a very loose emotional baseline, continuity is practically non-existent—characters don't drastically change, and the status quo is strictly maintained.
Psych (2006–2014): A hyper-comedic spin on the classic detective formula where a slacker pretends to be a psychic to solve crimes with the police. It is fiercely episodic, focusing purely on 80s pop culture references, witty banter, and a standalone whodunit every week.
House, M.D. (2004–2012): Take a procedural cop show, strip away the badges, and put it in a hospital. Every week follows the exact same bulletproof formula: a patient falls mysteriously ill, House and his team throw out wild diagnostic theories, nearly kill the patient twice, and miraculously figure out the rare disease in the final ten minutes.
Classic Crime Procedurals (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Law & Order: SVU): The 2000s golden era of network procedurals built their entire empires on self-contained stories. You can turn on an episode of NCIS or CSI halfway through season 5 or season 9, watch a crime get investigated and solved in 42 minutes, and turn it off without ever needing to know what happened last week.
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Humorous Captions / Re: Of course this is gonna su...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 02:56:34 AMQuote from: sprite75 on August 06, 2026, 01:15:06 PM
It is a shore leave related episode, after all.
Ugh. Did you really have to borrow one of Trevor's shirts for this shot? 😳😉😏🐢
#4
Television / Re: tv series with no story ar...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 02:22:14 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 01:37:40 AMQuote from: Alex on August 15, 2026, 03:51:36 PMI've not watched them all, but the Dr Who episodes I have seen seem to have dumped the longer running story lines they had when I was a kid for a more monster of the week approach.
Pretty much any cop show I've seen. They might have the occasional theme that pops up a couple of times but no grand story line running through them (NCIS etc, although again I only see the occasional episode so I could be missing things).
ah, I've basically tuned out of cop type series... didn't they remake HAWAII FIVE-0? think I did actually see a few eps of that and yeah they seemed to be of the self-contained variety. (rubbish tv though... thought it was pants)
The first three seasons of HAWAII FIVE O were good and the pilot was quite violent for TV. It tried to bring in people from the original series - Steve McGarret is now the son of a top Hawaii police officer, Kono is the niece of the original character, Danny is a former New York cop etc - and was focused on creating something different with the fearsome Wo Fat being played not only by a Hawaiian native but also portrayed as very dangerous.
Unfortunately it fell off after a while and jumped the shark when two of the main cast members left after a pay dispute and the writers killed off Wo Fat, substituting him with a Trevor clone running around with a machine pistol. 😳
It was good while it lasted.
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Television / Re: tv series with no story ar...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 01:37:40 AMQuote from: Alex on August 15, 2026, 03:51:36 PMI've not watched them all, but the Dr Who episodes I have seen seem to have dumped the longer running story lines they had when I was a kid for a more monster of the week approach.
Pretty much any cop show I've seen. They might have the occasional theme that pops up a couple of times but no grand story line running through them (NCIS etc, although again I only see the occasional episode so I could be missing things).
ah, I've basically tuned out of cop type series... didn't they remake HAWAII FIVE-0? think I did actually see a few eps of that and yeah they seemed to be of the self-contained variety. (rubbish tv though... thought it was pants)
#6
Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by Alex - Today at 12:40:10 AMOnly one I can think of close to that date is:
95. Strange Days. Set in the last couple of days of 1999.
95. Strange Days. Set in the last couple of days of 1999.
#7
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - August 15, 2026, 09:45:02 PMTonight's Stinker
Hells Angels on Wheels(1967)
https://youtu.be/K_TspgXRbMg?si=be_rocIUpMKVFYfF
Hell's Angels cruise around San Francisco, cause some trouble, the pull up to a gas station, where Jack Nicholson works as an attendant.... He gets fired after mouthing off at an impatient customer who doesn't like being one pump over from bikers.... He later shows up at their hangout, where he get in it with one of the Angels when they break his headlamp.... The leader (Adam Roark) breaks it up & offers him a new headlamp if he follows them, to a rumble.... Afterwards, he falls for one of the girls, but she's not into monogamy....
Following a gratingly long party scene, the Angels decide to make Jack a perspective member....
Lots of riding & rumbles, with very little time put into story development....
Failed to sit through this one as a kid, & quickly remembered why.....
Hells Angels on Wheels(1967)
https://youtu.be/K_TspgXRbMg?si=be_rocIUpMKVFYfF
Hell's Angels cruise around San Francisco, cause some trouble, the pull up to a gas station, where Jack Nicholson works as an attendant.... He gets fired after mouthing off at an impatient customer who doesn't like being one pump over from bikers.... He later shows up at their hangout, where he get in it with one of the Angels when they break his headlamp.... The leader (Adam Roark) breaks it up & offers him a new headlamp if he follows them, to a rumble.... Afterwards, he falls for one of the girls, but she's not into monogamy....
Following a gratingly long party scene, the Angels decide to make Jack a perspective member....
Lots of riding & rumbles, with very little time put into story development....
Failed to sit through this one as a kid, & quickly remembered why.....
#8
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Memes n' stuff of the day
Last post by Rev. Powell - August 15, 2026, 08:09:07 PM
#9
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - August 15, 2026, 06:37:44 PM"Rat Skates: Born in the Basement" (2007)
Founding Overkill drummer turned indie filmmaker Lee "Rat Skates" Kundrat takes viewers back in time to the start of not only his band, but of the early 80s Thrash Metal explosion in general, via vintage video clips and photos from his personal archives. I've seen this one a bunch of times over the years and it's still a fun trip down mosh pit memory lane.
Founding Overkill drummer turned indie filmmaker Lee "Rat Skates" Kundrat takes viewers back in time to the start of not only his band, but of the early 80s Thrash Metal explosion in general, via vintage video clips and photos from his personal archives. I've seen this one a bunch of times over the years and it's still a fun trip down mosh pit memory lane.
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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Historical Movies in O...
Last post by Rev. Powell - August 15, 2026, 06:24:24 PMBump for someone else.