Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2026

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Responding to a warehouse fire, Paramedics Gage and DeSoto discover the fire was set to cover the theft of cases of highly-radioactive radium chloride!

Unfortunately, the thieves damaged the casing of at least one of the containers, which is now leaking!
With one of the thieves captured and hospitalized, the police and paramedics have to find the thief still at large, secure the leaking containers, and treat the thief before radiation poisoning kills him and injures (or kills) any innocents he encounters!










Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!
(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

Friday, May 1, 2026

EMERGENCY! "Hot Cargo!" Part 1

Before He Reached Superstardom at Marvel and DC on X-Men and Superman...
...writer/illustrator John Byrne cut his artistic teeth in the mid-1970s working on projects like Charlton's Emergency! comic, based on the TV series!
To be Concluded...Next Friday!
Written by Joe Gill and illustrated (pencils and inks) by John Byrne as "Byrne Robotics", this never-reprinted, book-length story from Charlton's Emergency! #1 (1976) was part of a push by Charlton to do tv-tie-ins in both four-color comic book and b/w magazine formats!
(Besides Emergency!, they also did Six Million Dollar Man and Space: 1999 comics & magazines!)
Gill follows the TV series bible accurately in terms of characterization and Byrne is surprisingly-good at accurately-caricaturing the regular-cast!
Unlike the b/w magazine, the comic didn't adapt any aired episodes, but may have utilized plots and screenplays that weren't produced (reports vary).

Friday, April 17, 2026

Tales Twice-Told YOUNG DOCTORS "Star Patient"

What Do You Do When the Two Hottest Doctors on TV are Licensed to Another Comics Publisher?
Why, you put out a book about two doctors who look and sound just like them, of course!

Dr Kildare...excuse me, Dr Landon, treats his latest beautiful female patient...
Written by Joe Gil, inked by Vince Colletta, and penciled by someone whose name is, sadly, lost to the mists of time, this (sort of) never-repinted tale from Charlton's Young Doctors #3 (1963) was designed to lure unwary Ben Casey and/or Dr Kildare fans into buying what appears to be a team-up of the two incredibly-popular TV medicos!
It lasted six issues, after which Drs Landon & Burke disappeared from comics forever!
Ha!
Fooled You!
There's a reason this entry is classified "Twice Told-Tales", and you'll find out why...tomorrow!

Friday, April 10, 2026

Manga Medicine BLACK JACK "Is There a Doctor?" Conclusion

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...after the spoiled-rotten son of one of the world's richest men crashes his car and lies near death, the oligarch hires the greatest surgeon in the world, Black Jack, to save the kid's life.
However, the kid needs numerous replacements for damaged organs and limbs.
So the oligarch arranges for an innocent to be convicted and sentenced to death, so his limbs and organs can be harvested!
Note: to understand this Japanese comic, you must read right-to-left instead of the usual left-to-right (like the way you're reading this text)!
Besides being a talented writer/artist, Black Jack creator Osamu Tezuka was also a licensed physician, though he stopped practicing after he became a full-time manga creator.
Black Jack has been called Tezuka's alter ego, the kind of doctor he wished he could have been.
Since this premiere appearance in Weekly Shonen Champion (Nov. 19, 1973), he's appeared in hundreds of manga tales, and (in animated form) in several TV series and feature films, plus one direct-to-video mini-series.
Unlike most other manga characters, he's never appeared in live-action form.
However, the iconoclastic sawbones did appear (in animated form) in 2010 opposite Hugh Laurie's live-action Dr House (as it's called in Japan) in magazine ads and a commercial on Japanese TV to promote the release of the 4th season of the House M.D. TV series on DVD in Japan...while plugging his own OVA mini-series!

(Both series were distributed in Japan by the same company, Geneon/Universal!)
To paraphrase the phrase used at the end of the James Bond films...
Black Jack Will Return!

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Friday, December 19, 2025

LAND OF THE GIANTS "Operation Mini-Surgeon" Part 2 A Life in their Hands

...the teenage member of the tiny humans, Barry, is ill and their first aid antibiotics have had no effect on the disease.
 Captain Steve Burton and engineer/businessman passenger Mark Wilson find giant MD Doctor Rains and hope to force him to treat Barry....

Written by Dick Wood, penciled by Ted Galindo, and inked by Tom Gill, this was the final issue of the series, published just as the second (and final) season of the show began airing.
The five comics, the five prose novels, and the fifty-one episode TV series ever showed the cosmic castaways returning home...
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LINDA LARK: REGISTERED NURSE "The Play's the Thing!"

A Hospitalized Actress' Flirtations are Rejected by Dr Blasko ! And when the actress' significant other (who's also her co-star ...