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I remember seeing a movie marquee in Scotland, which read "Red Dawn the film that electrified America."

I don't know if America was electrified, but speaking for myself, I have watched this movie so many times that I've lost count.

The ending, which features the voice of one of the characters talking about World War 3, it's end, those who fought and died and her visits to Patriots Rock still kind of chokes me up.

Well, the Communist forces are no longer such a threat.

Maybe it's about time for a remake of Red Dawn, but this time, with Muslim terrorists invading a town like Mayberry, imposing their savage "sharia' law which provokes some young patriots to take matters (and some terrorist throats) in their own hands. The heroes would then defeat the raghead invaders and bring victory to the real Americans, who want nothing to do with having Islam nor having "sharia" imposed upon them.

In 1982, I saw a commercial advertising the program "Q.E.D.," an upcoming new series about an adventurer scientist which took place in 1912 and was aired on the CBS network.

Not only was "Q.E.D." a great series, but it was worth staying home to catch each episode. Considering that at the time, I was a single 27 year old man who just finished nearly five years of active duty in the U.S.Navy, that says a lot about a TV program! To this day, I can't understand how or why Joanie Loves Chachi, which was aired on ABC at the same time, fared better in the ratings.

Within a year of returning to the U.S.Navy, and a tour of duty in Scotland's Holy Loch, I managed to catch "Q.E.D." on British television.

I'm sure that I'm not the only one who would gladly buy a complete box set of episodes of "Q.E.D."

When I first saw the commercials for Vengeance Unlimited, I knew that this was one program that I mustn't miss. I was right! Vengeance Unlimited was a great series with good triumphing over evil and the wrongdoers getting what they deserved. It brought to mind the old classic series "The Equalizer," but unlike the gentleman avenger Mr.McCall, Mr.Chapel really leaned hard on the scales of justice. ABC, the network which carried Vengeance Unlimited, along with other networks have gone out of the way to prop up flop programs, and defy the tastes of the viewers by canceling some great shows. Examples are Love, Sidney; Joannie Loves Chachi; Ellen Degeneres;along with countless other shows which started out as ideas that belonged in the trash from the start. I wish that Vengeance Unlimited was never taken off the air. A box set would be a distant 2nd best thing to returning to production.