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I used to watch this show when I was very young and I remember the characters. Lori Nelson left and being young at the time I didn't understand why she wasn't on any more. But I found the show very funny and wish one of those sub-channels would run it today. I was familiar with the leads having seen them in a lot of film and television and the chemistry was good. Lisa Gaye was brought in as a new character, good idea that they didn't re-cast the Lori Nelson part. Semi-regular parts were taken by Jimmy Cross and Joseph Kearns. I always wondered why Ms Nelson left the series, met her a few years ago at one of those nostalgia shows and should have asked her at the time. Merry Anders who left us 3 years ago worked in a lot of films in the 60's and Lisa Gaye was the sister of Debra Paget, Teala Loring and Frank Griffith, all of whom were in films and of course Barbara Eden. Have to get the DVD of this series.

I saw it with about a third of the movie theater filled, it was the first show on a Saturday morning. You don't go in expecting Gone With The Wind but you know what you're getting. As in the first film, I got the impression the actors were enjoying themselves, in fact Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo were on a program and said the actors appearing in the films say they are getting a chance to do something that the studios they usually work for don't let them do. It's over the top, violent, tongue in cheek. Was it as good as Machete? No, I didn't think so, maybe a little too long but it was a fun ride. We'll see if a third will really be made.

Saw this one late night in New York many years ago..on WCBS...it was faded on TV then but the film was enjoyable. I agree that Whitman and Taylor had better times in the 60's and 70's but they were up to snuff here. Elke Sommers...as sexy as ever and better here than she was in "Baron Blood", maybe that was dubbing but it was not good for her...and Keenan Wynn was his grizzled old self along with Jeremy Kemp...too bad it's not on DVD.This film never resurfaced on TV since and that's too bad. With the dumping of films on late night TV, I guess it went into some sort of graveyard for films that made the rounds on late night. It was better than the film Whitman did about the Jim Jones cult