It's obvious that some assclowns on the staff don't want me here so I'm retiring from all my guides with the exception of The Untouchables, Perry Mason, Daniel Boone, Dukes of Hazzard, and Maverick. I'll still check in and process submissions for those guides because I've put a huge amount of time into them but I won't make anymore subs nor will I try to become editor for anymore guides. It's been fun but now I suppose it's time to leave. You can thank the staff. They've finally done it.

The editorship for Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill finally kicked in today. I made two submissions to the guide yesterday and that was apparently enough to set things on the correct course. In other site news, it seems that British contributors are up in arms regarding TV.com's policy of duplicating guides for British shows currently airing in the United States. Can't say that I blame them. Maybe they could get the British fleet to attack San Francisco in retaliation.

Well, the editorship kicked in for The Forstye Saga but it still hasn't for Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill. Don't know if it ever will for the latter but since Danmod made me a TU I can still submit. Still, it would be nice to have my true title. In other news, they say a lot of the bugs which have been plaguing the site in recent days have been fixed. We shall see what we shall see.

I think I might be the only person here at TV.com who's Trusted User for a Guide that does not have an editor. How can this be, you might ask. Well, it began because of a bug. Naturally. Due to a bug, the editorship didn't kick in after I had received 85 points for a guide. So, trying to get the editorship to kick in, Danmod made me a TU. Unfortunately, the system has yet to be fixed or fix itself. So now I'm TU for a guide that lacks an editor. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

but I'm sending out kudos to the staff in general and Danmod in particular. Approximately one week ago I submitted a show for inclusion here at TV.com and it came back approved today. I was expecting a much longer wait given the horror stories I've read from others about their travails in getting shows added. Perhaps I've become someone special around here because my show was processed quickly and added. Or perhaps not. Anyway, I'll probably be picking up the guide for yet another British show once the points run tomorrow (not the one I submitted for inclusion BTW). The name of the show is The First Churchills, a mini-series which was the first installment of Masterpiece Theatre to air in the United States. The series deals with the lives of John and Sarah Churchill, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, who were the direct ancestors of Sir Winston Churchill. Hence, the title. Plus, there are two more British series which I have my eye on so I suspect I'll be quite busy here at TV.com the next few months. You can wish me luck or you can shrug your shoulders and say, "Whatever."

Crossed the pond yet again to pick up another British series. This time it's a UK production of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Last of the Mohicans. It first aired in Great Britain in 1971 and then aired in the United States as an installment of Masterpiece Theatre the following year. I've pretty much had to start the guide from scratch but fortunately the DVD of the series is available from Amazon. Anyway, working on the guide will keep me off the streets at night.

I finally crossed the pond and picked up the editorship for a British show. It's The Six Wives of Henry VIII, a six-part mini-series which first aired in Great Britain in January of 1970. The series then aired in the United States in the fall of 1971 to great acclaim and was re-run in 1972 as an installment of Masterpiece Theatre. Star Keith Michell won an Emmy for his role as Henry VIII.

Clemson just upset Dook in the semis of the ACC Tournament. Now Dick Vitale and all the other ESPN wusses can drown in their own tears because there won't be a Dook-Carowhina final tomorrow. The only thing better would have been if Virginia Tech had hung on against Carowhina thus forcing a VT-Clemson final and mass suicides among sports journalists.

I finally received the editorship for Hec Ramsey this morning. Apparently, all I had to do was make a few more submissions to the guide and this caused things to kick in. Better late than never I suppose.

Well, I was supposed to receive editorship of Hec Ramsey a show that was part of NBC's Sunday Mystery Movie rotation during the years 1972-74. Only 10 episodes were ever made of the series and I have found a bootlegger who has nine of them for sale. Unfortunately, there's a nasty editor bug going around and I have not yet received the editorship. Or will I? I don't think the updates have run as I'm typing this so I might yet receive my proper editorship before the day is done. Stay tuned.

If a thread in the forums is to be believed we now have a daily cap on level advancement of 11 submissions daily. That's right, 11 frigging submissions. This is simply unacceptable. I can do 11 submissions in five minutes time. If I'm not going to get credit for my work I don't think there's any reason to stay here. I'll just retire from my guides and go elsewhere. It seems as though a lot of other high level users feel the same way. I thought this site had advanced many miles from the Missribs reign of error where the two main priorities seemed to be fixing things that weren't broken and screwing over the higher leveled users.

Jaxiecracks, you're the comunity producer. Until this latest development I thought you were doing an outstanding job. But no more. You need to know that a lot of users are dissatisfied over the latest developments and it's up to you to remove this assinine submission cap. Don't give us this "other ways of advancing your levels" either. What would these be? Taking part in some Sopranos chat. The only way this site can achieve excellence is through continued submissions by dedicated users such as myself. Being an attention whore in the forums isn't going to help the site one bit. But, since we seem to have returned to a past era, I guess the thinking has changed among TPTB at TV.com. You should be ashamed.

Roy Scheider, who starred in two classic films from the 1970's, Jaws and The French Connection, has passed away at the age of 75 due to complications from a staph infection. Fine actor who never really received the credit he should have. RIP, Mr. Scheider.

Barry Morse, best known to American TV viewers for his role as David Janssen's obsessed pursuer, Lt. Phillip Gerard, on The Fugitive passed away on February 2 at the age of 89. Morse was a fine actor who always gave it his best whether it be TV, radio, film, or stage. He will be missed by yours truly and hopefully many others as well. RIP.

Bruce Gordon, the greatest TV villain of them all, turns 92 today. Happy birthday, Mr. Gordon, and here's hoping you have many more.

Picked up the guide for Bret Maverick, the 1981-82 revival of the classic 1957-62 series. James Garner reprised the role which had made him famous. Though the series had its moments it fell short more often than not of re-creating the magic of the original. A mediocre supporting cast and failure to pay enough respect to the original series were the show's main flaws. Still, anything in which James Garner appears is never all bad so once again I've purcheased the entire series from a bootlegger.

Many thanks to my main man, crazyrhythm, for naming me as TU for one of my all-time favorite series, Maverick. I hope to be worthy.

Today, I purchased four episodes of The Alaskans and 25 episodes of He & She. Two shows for which I recently became editor but have never seen. I also began another Untouchables fanfic. What I don't have is a place to post my fanfic. Anyone know any good sites? I used to post them on this Untouchables Yahoo Group page but I've long since burned my bridges with that group and have no desire whatsoever to return.

Picked up my milestone 25th guide today. It's a sitcom from the 60's entitled He and She that starred real life husband and wife Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. Even found a bootlegger on iOffer who had 25 of the 26 episodes for sale. Unfortunately, the one episode that's missing features a guest shot by the great Bruce Gordon. Some days I feel like cutting my own throat.

So I'm watching my next to last episode of Bourbon Street Beat tonight and the storyline seems a bit familiar. Then it hits me in the head like a ton of bricks. The show, a private eye drama, is using a recycled script from Maverick, a western. The same basic storyline only modernized and different, happier ending for one of the episode's main protagonists. A little basic research into the situation revealed that when the episode was filmed there was a writer's strike going on so Warner Brothers started recycling scripts like crazy. An episode of Cheyenne would be re-filmed as an episode of Sugarfoot, an episode of Maverick would be re-filmed as an episode of The Alaskans and, well you get the picture. I thought it all so ironic what with the current writer's strike. The moral of the story: when it comes to television, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

I wrote a review of Bourbon Street Beat and an episode from the series tonight and decided to count up all the reviews I'd written in 2007. Only 14. Not much compared to all the reviewing I did in 2005 when I first arrived at TV.com. I might have to change that but we'll see. In other news, Christmas came and went. I celebrated Christmas Eve by watching an episode of The Untouchables entitled The Night They Shot Santa Claus. If you're curious about the storyline of the episode the title pretty much says it all. And, oh yes, the villain gets away scot free at the end. Even Eliot Ness couldn't gain a conviction on the killer of Santa Claus.

In other news, I picked up another guide, The Alaskans. It was yet another Western from the Warner Brothers factory that gave us the likes of Maverick and Cheyenne. Except that The Alaskans only lasted one season and as close as it ever got to Maverick or Cheyenne in terms of quality was the fact that it used recycled scripts from those two shows. They were cheap at Warners in those days. The series is also notable for being star Roger Moore's least favorite out of all the American and British TV series' that he appeared in. Considering that Moore starred in some clunkers that's saying something. Nonetheless, I've never viewed an episode and for now it seems that none of the bootleggers have any copies so I'll have to go with other sources in editing the guide.

Hang in there, everybody, and I'll talk to you after New Year's. I hope.