Thank you for reminding me - although I went the Mel Profit saga more than the Sonny Steelgrave (it's only a matter of degress, though).

Shit, at this point, I'm just so excited that WISEGUY IS ON DVD!!!1! that I can wait. In my bunk.

I loved that show when it was on the air. I hope it's as good as I remember it being.

Oh, PMM, me too. I saw that it was out just yesterday... I need to order it.

Hmmm, I'd rather have Crime Story on DVD than Wiseguy. Still, Mel Profit..."The toes knows...." Talk about your cool creepy incestuous decadence.

OZ is actually very strange to watch because so many of the actors are people you know or associate with other projects.

Heh. I was just showing JZ the last episode of Pete and Pete and the silent barber with the fetish for quality footwear is the Aryan Nation bad guy on Oz. Then I channel flipped and caught Big Pete (with freaky mutton chops) in the movie Slackers.

God, Wiseguy. Poor Ken Wahl.

The one I remember most clearly (other than the culmination of the Sonny Steelgrave arc, with the self-electrocution ), was the one where wassname (I forget the name of Ken Wahl's character) had to infiltrate the group that sheltered his brother's murderer, and I just remember the one bit where he's in a parking lot, knowing he has to do this, and he's crouched next to a car, vomiting.

In 1987 you didn't see a lot of vomiting on television.

Whoa. I wish I'd seen Summit pt 2 (Last Stand?) with "Proving Ground" in mind. Also, after the one where Martouf died.

Much sadder now.

I never did watch Wise Guy, though later I kind of wished I had. Good news about the DVDs.

I loved Chris Meloni in his guest spot on Homicide - enough to carry me through the slow torture that is SUV and on to check out OZ, where I'm liking him so far, and anticipating better to come. But christ, here's an actor who postitively simmers, and somehow L&O has managed to suck all the heat and spark out and leave some platitude-spouting hollow man - WTF? I remember when that show used to be electric. Now even the original annoys, and the spin-offs are a showcase of wasted potential.

The unfortunate thing about the Wiseguy DVDs is that they were either unable to obtain, or too cheap to pay for, the rights to "Nights in White Satin," which means that One of the Slashiest Scenes in Television Evah will be sadly vitiated. That said, I'll be getting the DVDs anyway.

My brain acknowledges that the Proffit arc is probably better overall, but my heart belongs to the Steelgrave arc, because it's such classic doomed romance, and because I love Ray Sharkey as Sonny to an extent that is positively indecent.

Summit was on yesterday? ARRRRGH. Dammit, I've never seen that one or the one after it!

Not that it would have helped to have known. I was busy. Repeating to myself over and over, "I am too stupid for this. Too damn stupid. What do the basal ganglia do again? Uh huh. I get the Huntington's/Parkinson's thing... wait, what does the cerebellum do?"

Still, that's the one with Daniel Jackson undercover, isn't it?

Emily, I should have both of those on the TiVo. We could arrange for a visit, if you like. The place is clean and all that.

Someone needs to cast Chris Meloni and Elias Koteas as brothers in something.