Question:Seeing Regis Philbin back on TV reminded me of when he was on "The Joey Bishop Show" and got fired on the air. Is that episode on VHS or DVD?
Answer: Actually, the "firing" of Philbin is one of those TV urban legends. It never really happened. First, a tiny bit of background. From 1967 to 1969, comic Joey Bishop hosted a late-night talk show on ABC that tried (and failed) to dethrone Johnny Carson on NBC. Philbin was Bishop's sidekick. There was no firing. What did happen is that one night, Philbin emotionally announced that there had been a lot of criticism of him behind the scenes, that the network brass wanted him off the show and so he was going to quit. A couple of nights later, Bishop announced that the conflict had been resolved and welcomed Philbin back to the show. No episodes of the talk-show version of "The Joey Bishop Show" are on video or DVD, but his sitcom of the same name from the early 1960s is on DVD.
Question: I remember watching a British television series, probably in the late 1960s or early '70s. It was about a forensic pathologist and was a kind of a precursor to "CSI." Can you tell me the title and if it's on DVD?
Answer: Sounds like "Strange Report," a series that ran in England in the late 1960s and then on NBC in the spring of 1971.
Anthony Quayle played Scotland Yard commissioner Adam Strange, and his helpers were young attractive guy Hamlin (Kaz Garas) and young attractive woman Evelyn (Anneke Wills). The series is on DVD.