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- Prolog
- Star Trek
- This Side of Paradise
- SPECIAL: My Path to THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
- Metamorphosis
- SPECIAL: The Scarf And METAMORPHOSIS
- SPECIAL: Metamorphosis revisited again
- SPECIAL: Who Voiced the Companion?
- Bread And Circuses
- Obsession
- Return To Tomorrow
- Is There In Truth No Beauty?
- SPECIAL: Companion and the Ambassador
- The Tholian Web
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages - Season Two
- SPECIAL: These Are The Voyages - Season Three
- SPECIAL: Leonard Nimoy's Passing
- SPECIAL: STAR TREK and Me
- SPECIAL: Me and the Devil in the Dark
- ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS
- Dr. Kildare
- Twilight Zone
- Channing
- Route 66-Naked City
- Arrest and Trial
- The Nurses
- East Side West Side
- Breaking Point
- Suspense Theatre
- The Fugitive
- 12 O'Clock High
- Chrysler Theatre
- The Big Valley
- The FBI
- The Wild Wild West
- Mission: Impossible
- Judd For The Defense
- Ironside
- Mannix
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- Insight
- The Bill Cosby Show
- Then Came Bronson
- The Partridge Family
- Nanny and the Professor
- Matt Lincoln
- Dan August
- Night Gallery
- The Rookies
- Barnaby Jones
- Search
- The Waltons
- The Chicken Thief
- The Gift
- The Cradle
- The Conflict: Part I
- The Conflict: Part II
- The Marathon
- SPECIAL: Dancing at The Marathon again
- The Beguiled
- The Fire Storm
- SPECIAL: The Fire Storm rages again
- The Pony Cart
- SPECIAL: The Pony Cart Comes Home
- SPECIAL: Beulah!
- The Grandchild: Part I
- The Grandchild: Part II
- The Warrior
- Grandma Comes Home
- The Portrait
- SPECIAL: Walton's Mountain Revisited
- SPECIAL: Why I Loved Directing The Waltons
- A Dream For Christmas
- Black Lives
- Death Cruise
- Planet Of The Apes
- The Family Nobody Wanted
- Medical Story
- Three for the Road
- Jeremiah Of Jacob's Neck
- City Of Angels
- Westside Medical
- Family
- Eight Is Enough
- The New Adventures Of Heidi
- Hart To Hart
- How The West Was Won
- Dynasty
- Casablanca
- The Paper Chase: The Third Year
- The Paper Chase: The Graduation Year
- The Right Regrets
- From MCI to MGM in 21 years
- Epilog
- The Earlier Treks
- Special
Author Archives: Ralph
Creating a Series
Writer-producer Anthony Spinner once told me that when he goes into the studios or the networks to try to sell a new series, he presents them something old but with a change. Obviously he wasn’t the only one doing that. … Continue reading
Posted in Three for the Road
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SPECIAL: First Day First Film
Monday, October 16, 2017 So the first episode that you directed called JOHNNY TEMPLE, DR. KILDARE, your first time directing a filmed television show, what was that like for you, stepping out the first day on the set? That question … Continue reading
Posted in Dr. Kildare
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SPECIAL: Remembering
Sitting in my comfortable home in Carmel-by-the-Sea I am remembering a bleaker period in my life. It was near the end of 1960, a year of several professional ‘UPS’ and ‘downs’. In 1960 my extra-curricular activities (away from my jobs … Continue reading
Posted in Dr. Kildare
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SPECIAL: Beulah!
My first contact with Beulah Bondi was a telephone conversation in 1957. 17 years later I met her in person, face-to-face, in producer Robert Jacks’ office on the Warner Brothers lot. We had cast her as Martha Corinne Walton in … Continue reading
Posted in The Waltons
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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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SPECIAL: My Path to THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
September 4, 2016 Almost five and a half years ago as I took off on RALPH’S CINEMA TREK I wrote: STAR TREK was a phenomenon. Two days ago the United States Postal Service unveiled 4 STAR TREK United States Postage … Continue reading
Posted in Star Trek
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SPECIAL: Hello Again to Hastings’ Farewell
FILMED September 1962 I wrote my post for HASTINGS’ FAREWELL on my blog, RALPH’S TREK, 3 months shy of 7 years ago. The subject of the drama: Aphasia. A year and a half later in March, 2011, I updated the … Continue reading
Posted in Dr. Kildare
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Cop Out
FILMED October 1979 1934 was a significant year for Hollywood movies. It was the year when TEETH were put into the Motion Picture Production Code so that America’s movie-going public could finally be shielded from the multitudinous paths of sin. … Continue reading
Posted in Hart To Hart
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Return of the Hero
FILMED March 1968 Three months after I wrapped GIRL IN THE NIGHT on IRONSIDE and after a stopover at Paramount to direct an episode of MANNIX, I returned to Universal to guide Ironside as he solved another case. An unusual … Continue reading
Posted in Ironside
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