Ed-Shullivan

After just watching the pilot episode Murder in a Small Town, I was more than impressed with the simple plot of a murder that the small towns' new Police Chief was thrust into solving having just recently joined the Gibsons Police force.

The new police chief. Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) is an impressive murder investigator bringing his vast knowledge from a major city police force to the small quaint town of Gibsons.

Within the first episode we also get to know some of the characteristics of the other officers of the Gibsons police force, both rookies and seasoned police officers. All who look up to their new police chief, Karl Alberg.

One other key character in this new TV series is the town's librarian, Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk) who meets Police Chief Karl Alberg through a dating web site service they both decided to subscribe to.

If the story line appears vaguely familiar to you (as it did to me) you may recall the previous former TV movie series Jessie Stone which delivered nine (9) TV films between 2005 and 2015 starring the aging but still appealing Tom Selleck. Sound familiar now?

Regardless whether or not Murder in a Small Town is trying to recapture some of the magic in the bottle of the Jesse Stone TV films, I really enjoyed this pilot episode and I am looking forward to the new story lines and the characters in the town of Gibsons.

I give the pilot a solid 8 out of 10 IMDb rating. I like it. Yes, I really did like this pilot episode. A Lot!

I have always been interested in the 1960's era which had significant impact on both the moral values of North Americans as well as the right to see the difference of individuals thoughts and beliefs.

Of course where there is money to be made, Americans above all other nations will stretch the limits of both the current laws and moral values.

Carol Doda, was an attractive young woman in the early 1960's who just happened to be the right woman at the right place and at the right time to be expolited. Or, let me rephrase, maybe it was Carol Doda who was doing the exploitation, by taking advantage of the sexual revolution and introducing first the local San Francisco nighy clubbers to her topless strip tease shows at the Condor Club, located at the corner of Broadway and Columbus in the North Beach section of San Francisco. This documentary also touches on the introduction of breast augmentation(s) by public figures (no pun intended) such as Carol Doda both of her risks and her reward$.

Her act included descending from a large hole in the night clubs ceiling while dancing topless on top of a piano. It must have been quite the spectacular show in the 1960's and remained so until arrests were made across the strip shows in San Francisco. The arrests were front page news as was the eventual trial and acquittal of Caro Doda and her co defendants right to continue to strip topless.

This is a documen I give it a well deserved 7 out of 10 IMDb rating.tary well worth seeing.

Awww the film title Baby Doll when accompanied by the stock film poster of actress. Carroll Baker who plays the young teenage virgin bride Baby Doll Meighan laying seductively in a life sized baby crib is enough to titillate most young men (and many women) to want to see what the film is going to lead to in sexual arouseness.

Playing the gullible and older newly married husband to the nubile Baby Doll Meighan is Archie Lee Meighan (Karl Malden) who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his new bride who refuses to consumate their marriage until her twentieth (20Th) birthday.

As patient as Archie can be waiting to sleep with his virgin bride there is another challenger for Meighan's virginity which comes in the form of a suave and more experienced male suitor named Silva Vacarro (Eli Wallach).

Once Silva first sees the nubile Meighan the hunt is on to see who will become Baby Doll Meighan's first sexual conquest, Silva or her older less experienced husband Archie. For its time in 1956 this film was quite controversial and spurred the anger and resentment from the Christian community for its provocativeness.

It is well worth seeing at least once and I rate it as a 6 out of 10 IMDb rating.