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ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS: Is There in Truth No Beauty

First Aired: July 24, 2022 At the start of this podcast I warned Scott and Steve, “Fasten your seat belts, this is going to be a bumpy dive.” As it turned out, that may have been an underprediction. There’s not … Continue reading

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6 Mantras That Mattered

mantra: a sacred utterance believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. I like the word mantra but my personal interpretation of the word eliminates sacred and religious and substitutes the word  and for the word or: mantra: … Continue reading

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SPECIAL: MORE Black Lives Matter

When I started this website, my aim was to provide readers with an eye-on-the-wall view on the sets where real life was being converted to reel life. This post is going to be different. Here I’m going to be giving … Continue reading

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The Ghost Of Sorworth Place

Filmed December 1971 I have resisted doing a post on THE GHOST OF SORWORTH PLACE, an episode of NIGHT GALLERY, just as I resisted doing a post on STAR TREK’s RETURN TO TOMORROW. As before I was disappointed with the … Continue reading

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SPECIAL: Another look at Dynasty

Filmed April/May and October/November 1980 Thirty-nine years ago from right now I was ‘in-between’. Why am I revisiting DYNASTY now? From this distance almost 4 decades since I directed the project my perspective on what I filmed has broadened. I … Continue reading

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SPECIAL: Metamorphosis revisited again

Filmed May 1967 When I published the post for METAMORPHOSIS (http://senensky.com/metamorphosis/) on March 9, 2011, I was very inexperienced when it came to websites. That was only my 3rd post on RALPH’S CINEMA TREK and I was hesitant and insecure … Continue reading

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SPECIAL: The Pony Cart Comes Home

In 1976 I directed THE PONY CART, an episode of THE WALTONS. For several reasons it was a very special experience for me: It was the second and final time I directed Beulah Bondi, but the friendship that began two … Continue reading

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