A Friend <nope@noway.com> writes [to Micky DuPree]:

> We got the call that my 89-yo grandfather had died right in the middle
> of the first run of the episode where they all get old and senile, and
> they're cured by a-adren-adrena-adrenaline. None of us knew what to
> do, so my parents sat on the couch quietly while we all sat on the rug
> near them and continued to watch. I was pretty uncomfortable with the
> situation, but I didn't know what else to do. I was 15, I guess.

I'm sure that in a family melodrama, one could get up and go hold the
hand of the parent that was now parentless, but I didn't grow up in that
kind of family either.

>> I didn't have a _Buffy_-style horrible high school experience, but it
>> was mostly marking time.
>
> I got the 50th-reunion notice last fall. (Delayed for a year by
> Covid.) We graduated 221 and they got 26, about half of what they'd
> expected. I hated the place and was very glad to get out, and I've
> never gone to the reunions.

I went to my 20th because I was already in town on family business
anyway. It was O.K. I actually talked with some of the people I
remembered favorably. But it's not worth making a special trip to
Florida for. The three schoolmates that I was close to have all passed
away.

>> All the roles I've liked Shatner best in -- _The Brothers Karamazov_,
>> the pilot for _The Defenders_, _The Twilight Zone_, some other guest
>> spots, the eps. of Trek where he didn't play the lantern-jawed hero
>> -- were character roles. I always found his famously quirky vocal
>> delivery distracting when he was obviously supposed to be The Hero.
>> Even when he played the lead in _For the People_, as a crusading
>> district attorney, he was a frequently troubled soul. I liked that
>> show a lot.
>
> Me too. We may be the only two people who remember it.

I'm a few years too young to remember it first-run. A collector friend
sent ma a package of "crusader" DVDs a few years ago, which included
most of _For the People_, a few of _The Reporter_, and three of
_Slattery's People_ (probably transfers from 16mm film, but copied
down). If I can find where they're packed away, I could hook you up.

> One of the things I liked about it was all the NYC location shooting.

I liked that about Beverly Garland's _Decoy_ and Darren McGavin's
_Mike Hammer_ as well. There was actually some footage of the original
Penn Station in them.

-Micky

In article <t9dtdi$7ab$1@pcls7.std.com>, Micky DuPree
<MDuPree@theworld.com.snip.to.reply> wrote:

> I'm a few years too young to remember it first-run. A collector friend
> sent ma a package of "crusader" DVDs a few years ago, which included
> most of _For the People_, a few of _The Reporter_, and three of
> _Slattery's People_ (probably transfers from 16mm film, but copied
> down). If I can find where they're packed away, I could hook you up.

Thanks very much, but that's 'way too much trouble to take. Appreciate
the thought.