| Author |  Topic  | | | couldron
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1444 Posts |  Posted - 01/xix/2006 : 22:31:43
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This episode returns us to why there is a Secret Service, counterfeit money. This episode besides brings dorsum fond memories. Merely remember I have already admitted to existence older than dirt. The shop shows a contraption with strings that goes upwardly with the customers money and back with change. This is the style in which stores use to do it. No such thing as cash registers on the floor. This store also brought united states of america Dynamic Numerology and the month the story takes place which is May. I do not understand Jim�due south comment that he had two messages on Artie. Artie�s name is longer. The sleeve gun appears in this episode and information technology is dainty to see it non only used but how information technology is used. This is demonstrated well by Jim Due west. He has to push a push to make information technology slide down. Normally he would activate this button by pressing information technology against his body. The story is engaging. The boys run into nothing simply what they think are expressionless ends until they finally figure out that it has to be someone involved working at the mint and who has control over burning the unused paper. It is then their expressionless ends liven upwardly. Jim�due south running into a cage and being trapped was terrifying that king of beasts was very scary. I like his give thanks yous for being rescued. She was and so passive withal I wondered if it was much of a kiss until he walked abroad and she smiled. Artie is in height grade with his disguises. Offset every bit P Gentry who knows total well that 12 and 14 are sizes but tells Mrs. Moore �my wife is fully mature� is very mannerly. Information technology is squeamish to come across him using the knock out gas again. His janitor is perfect too and we see Artie brand a mistake by not shutting a door but he comes through with a clever hiding place. The setting of the store always has been an interesting detail to me. Not only is information technology down an incline only its back door is quite different than its back or is that visa versa? We likewise get a look at Arrabella . I am glad to see her with all her feathers. Artie say �Hey that�s wild� and made me wonder if this is a deliberate nod to the series title. I also wondered about RC�southward left arm which he was non using much. I went to Inside the Wild Wild Westward by Cangey and institute this episode mentioned and sure enough he talks about RC�s bursitis and how the last fight had to be arranged as a 1 handed fight. I didn�t observe that but I did notice how limp the left arm was. Harry Homes is such a sympathetic graphic symbol. I never become tired of the exchange between him and Jim. Every bit for his daughter, that is another story. That thing with her earring. Yuck! There she is dropping a rose with her right paw and twirling her correct earring with her left manus. Yuck! My rating Out of five  1/2 | | | Desert Roger
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4384 Posts | | | ccb
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3915 Posts | Posted - 01/20/2006 : 15:06:08
| | My review must come after�I only but got this weekend's quiz posted. And Silver has already hit a double! Merely before someone beats me to it, I wanted to ask if anyone else is mildly curious that the only other episode that concerns counterfeiting ("The Night of Sudden Death") also involves a circus? Were the producers already reaching into the first-season barrel�knowing that they'd never be repeated, because thet were in b/w and the show had since gone to color�because they were running out of story ideas? In "The Circus of Death" Jim comments to Artie that a circus is far too public a place for bodily counterfeiting to exist washed�which, oddly, is just what we encounter happening in the before episode! |  | | | Herr Ostropolyer
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209 Posts | Posted - 01/21/2006 : 07:46:49
| Hey all,
Great reviews once over again. ccb you are the best, again you lot beat me to the punch line of TNOT Circus of Death'southward very TNOT Sudden Death experience. Can anyone say rehash? Well yes and no. Subsequently all the heavies here are not counterfeiting coin to buy country in Africa, and so I guess that's enough difference, all the same TNOT Circus of Death ranks pretty depression for me also. The greatest counterfeiter in the globe isn't actually dead. (ho-hum). At least in TNOT Sudden Death we become an homage to the most unsafe game ala Trevor's West chase.The depression points for me are the similarities between this one and the Sudden Decease, however I don't want to steal ccb's clout, he said that he would like to hash out them in his review, and so I'll talk virtually other low points that bothered me. I too felt that Joan Huntington's last appearence subsequently TNOT Carmine-Eyed Madman and TNOT Bottomless pit left much to be desired, probably considering of terminal week'southward TNOT Pointer, in which the daughter was the head villian. I don't know her Private Musk was a force to be reckoned with, and Mrs. Mouvais was very manipulative. However, here they try to combine the 2 and Lennox's graphic symbol is over the top and is very ho-hum. she has the perfect plan making counterfeit money at the depository financial institution, why ruin it and apply the circus as a ways of distributing the bogus bills. I besides wish they stayed abroad from the counterfeit plot birthday. True, this is what real agents get assigned to practice, still information technology would have been squeamish to have these circus performers killing off agents for some unknown reason, but once more we already saw this in TNOT Eccentrics. Red West looked truly devilish every bit the pinnacle hatted flame thrower. Perhaps they could have made information technology a funeral domicile with a deadly secret. Oh that's right nosotros already did that with TNOT Ready-Made Corpse. Well, we have a very mortiferous novelty store. Nope it's been washed in TNOT Fell Valentine, and TNOT Hangamn already this season. Boy what could they have done with this turkey. RM and RC are superlative notch for the material they are given, all the same I don't like the chat betwixt West and Gordon over the hot dog. The hot dog was an anachronism (sp) They weren't invented until the early 1900'due south, plus Jim calls Artie a snob because he didn't like the hot domestic dog. These are the all-time qualified agents in the country. They are our James Bonds, and I don't know about you, but I never want to see Bond eating a hot dog. Obviously the writers were taken the downwardly to earth premise this season far too seriously. Quick question. Did anyone notice that in the scene where Jim tells Artie to get through the bank entrance while he goes thru the back entrance, that this was non RM, Artie's back is to united states, but it wasn't fifty-fifty Bob Herron he was slightly shorter than Jim. I wonder who that stand in was and I wonder where RM was? Well what tin can I say it was a low rate re-hash and once ccb responds I'll run into if there is anymore that I can fill up in.
two stars out of 5. Herr Ostropolyer "Artie y'all're a snob. You gotta think of hot canis familiaris as a portable steak." -TNOT Cutback at the Hush-hush Service aka TNOT Circus of Death LOL! | | | | | couldron
SS novice field agent
1444 Posts | Posted - 01/22/2006 : twenty:48:15
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The Circus of Decease" Jim comments to Artie that a circus is far likewise public a place for bodily counterfeiting to be done�which, oddly, is just what we see happening in the earlier episode!
I meant to comment on the similarities but somehow didn�t. As for this annotate, in Sudden Death the press wasn�t hidden in the Circus but in their wild life preserve that was not open up to the public. As for the hotdog, I am not sure how much of an anachronism it really is from Wikipedia quote:
The American story of the invention of the hot canis familiaris, like the hamburger and ice foam cone, is often attributed to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Withal, like sausages were made and consumed in Europe, particularly in Federal republic of germany, as early as 1864, and the primeval example of a hot dog bun dates to New York City in the 1860s. The hot canis familiaris'south clan with baseball as well predates the 1904 Exposition. St. Louis Browns owner Chris von der Ahe sold them at his ballpark in the 1880s.Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, merely the name "hot canis familiaris" became popular by the early 1900s. The origin of this name is non precisely known, but at that time hot dogs were ofttimes marketed as "dachshund sausages" since they resemble the canis familiaris brood of that name. Hot domestic dog lore suggests that paper cartoonist Tad Dorgan coined (or at to the lowest degree popularized) the term "hot dog" when he used information technology information technology in the caption of a 1906 cartoon illustrating sausage vendors at the Polo Grounds baseball stadium considering he couldn't spell "dachshund." However, this rumored cartoon has never been located. While "hot dog" remains past far the most commonly heard term in oral communication, people buying them in grocery stores demand to know that they are still almost always labelled as "franks", which is rarely heard in actual oral communication.
So Jim may have been ahead of his time by calling information technology a hotdog or maybe not. quote:
Did anyone observe that in the scene where Jim tells Artie to go through the bank entrance while he goes thru the back entrance, that this was not RM, Artie's dorsum is to us, but it wasn't even Bob Herron he was slightly shorter than Jim. I wonder who that stand in was and I wonder where RM was?
No I didn't. I am going to take to take some other wait. | | | | | Herr Ostropolyer
SS 1st assignment - desk-bound job
United states of america
209 Posts | Posted - 01/24/2006 : 16:xiii:26
| Hey couldron,
As one wise human being said to another wise man "You are a walking encyclopedia!" lol! Thanks for the info. The scene to which I refer is a little before they enter the depository financial institution for the reveal of Mrs. Lennox every bit the villianess. Male child, I wish ccb would comment on the similarities between this and TNOT Sudden Plague already, I'm getting a little anxious. Herr Ostropolyer P.S. In guild to brand this one a little better I will accept Jim being a little ahead of his time. Why not? Artie e'er is. | | | | | ccb
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3915 Posts | Posted - 02/03/2006 : xx:15:xiii
| | "The Circus of Death" retreads the starting time season's "Sudden Death": counterfeiters operating in conjunction with a circus. The third flavor'south color version is basically a comedy (Jack Pleis'southward happy harpischord makes that clear), punctuated with some scary moments (Flamo, Bronzini'due south murderer; West in the panthera leo's den). The showtime flavour, b-&-west version is a more serious circuit, with exotic intrigue, bizarre decease-traps, and a lot more sex activity, fifty-fifty for 1965. (Compare West's fairly chaste kiss of Ericka [Act Ii] and his heavy-petting with Janet Coburn [Act Iii]�capped with his changing apparel in her chamber!) Which episode you favor is largely a matter of taste. My preference is for the b-&-west, which, ironically, is more "colorful" than the show filmed two years later, in color. "Sudden Death" (whose working title was "The Nighttime of the Circus") likewise boasts more fanciful villains with more than interesting motives: Warren Trevor, a bad Frank Buck, who wants to buy up Africa (!), over Mary Lennox, due north�e Holmes, who only wants to mint funny coin while making her husband, the mint's manager, look even more than nebbish than he already does. Those figures, by the mode�scheming wife who plays dominance�figure hubby for a fool in the latter'south ain headquarters�volition also be replayed with Mrs. and Admiral Hammond in the fourth flavour'due south "Kraken." Which of these two similar episodes you prefer also depends to a big degree whether you favor Fred Freiberger's productions, which focused on Due west and more outlandish schemes equally the serial was finding its footing, or Bruce Lansbury'southward approach, which gives each of the agents equal time (action for Conrad; comic characters for Martin) but tamer story-lines as the series was settling into a comfy, predictable format. Each has its pleasures; the very best episodes alloy both approaches. On residual, however, I like my Due wests wilder and thus detect "The Circus of Death" as ho-hum as its title. P.S. I agree with Herr O. that, whoever was standing in for Ross Martin in Act Four, on the Denver street at night, looks nothing at all like him. Very sloppy. P.P.S. An assignment for couldron our anachronism-spotter, if she choose to accept information technology: When did mechanical greenbacks-registers come into commercial use? I know that the overhead cash-trolleys were used commercially in the late nineteenth century, but West shows us plenty of cash registers, usually on saloon confined (e.m., "The Sudden Plague," "The Death Masks"). | | | | | couldron
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1444 Posts | Posted - 02/03/2006 : 21:42:56
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Originally posted by ccb P.P.S. An consignment for couldron our anachronism-scout, if she choose to accept it: When did mechanical cash-registers come into commercial employ? I know that the overhead greenbacks-trolleys were used commercially in the late nineteenth century, but West shows united states of america plenty of cash registers, usually on saloon bars (e.m., "The Sudden Plague," "The Decease Masks").
On Jan xxx, 1883, James Ritty and John Birch received a patent for inventing the greenbacks register. James Ritty invented what was nicknamed the "Incorruptible Cashier" or the first working, mechanical cash register. His invention came with that familiar bong audio referred to in advert equally "The Bell Heard Circular the World". After reading a description of the cash register designed by James Ritty and sold by the National Manufacturing Company, John H. Patterson decided to buy both the company and the patent. He renamed the visitor the National Cash Annals Company in 1884. John Patterson improved the greenbacks register past adding a newspaper scroll to record sales transactions. Charles F. Kettering designed a cash annals with an electric motor in 1906, while working at the National Cash Register Company. He after worked at General Motors and invented an electric cocky-starter (ignition) for a Cadillac. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcash_register.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_registers | | | | | Michael
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139 Posts | | | Herr Ostropolyer
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United states of america
209 Posts | Posted - 02/04/2006 : 08:45:02
| Excellent review ccb!,
Here are my comparisons of TNOT Circus of Death to TNOT Sudden Death. I didn't want to steal your thunder. So I waited for you to complete your review. I merely wanted to add that TNOT Circus of Decease is definently a lighthearted retread of TNOT Sudden Death. Instead of being squeezed to death by the circus strongman, West is most incinirated by Flamo. I find the one on ane confrontation of the earlier more exciting because Westward is very vulnerable, and perhaps West has met his match. However, the later's flame thrower could have jammed or been easily disarmed past W making information technology less frightening. Next, instead of the fearsome alligator trap that West fell into in the prior, here he falls into the lion's den, just to become a stern warning from Erika. (ho-hum) In TNOT Sudden Death, the laughing girl that tricks Due west is more chilling on a psychological level, just to be truly disappointed when Due west kills the gator. Lastly, the third human activity trap of West stuck under a huge crate while acid poors down the ramp higher up is as menacing equally the dredded Pare game in Sudden Death. Both are not effective at all and used mainly as filler to add together a trivial more drama to the plot. I wish instead of the skin game, Trevor's man hunt was two acts instead of i. Oh, and Artie going to utilise the counterfeit money in the tag scene is just plain impaired and out of graphic symbol for everyone. Herr Ostropolyer | | | | | ccb
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3915 Posts | Posted - 02/04/2006 : 10:39:49
| | couldron: On January 30, 1883, James Ritty and John Birch received a patent for inventing the cash register. James Ritty invented what was nicknamed the "Incorruptible Cashier" or the kickoff working, mechanical cash annals. His invention came with that familiar bell sound referred to in advertising every bit "The Bell Heard Circular the Globe". Afterward reading a description of the cash annals designed by James Ritty and sold by the National Manufacturing Company, John H. Patterson decided to purchase both the visitor and the patent. He renamed the company the National Cash Register Company in 1884. � Charles F. Kettering designed a greenbacks register with an electric motor in 1906, while working at the National Cash Register Company. He later on worked at General Motors and invented an electric cocky-starter (ignition) for a Cadillac. Thanks, Mary. I knew yous could exercise it, and in tape time. Fascinating stuff�right down to the Kettering connection with automobile self-starting ignitions! | | | | | couldron
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