Some walk by night, some fly by day
Mar. 23rd, 2023 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_daileyBy means of a typically circuitous route, I came upon Memories of Moonlighting (circa 2006). I think this mini-doc was made at exactly the right time--after the lead actors' conflicts were mostly resolved, and before real-world life changed everything.
I'd heard that there were music-rights issues preventing the show from being rerun on TV or streamed on a service. But now I'm daring to hope that a streaming release might actually happen in my lifetime (though GGC says, "Lots of moving parts. And it could take quite a while").
Man, I adored that show and Maddie and David beyond all reason. Those two characters had the most powerful chemistry that I can remember seeing on a TV show. My pals and I would have endless discussions after every episode (always in-person, over coffee or a drink or while lollygagging around at the office, since none of us got online until 1989, just when the show was ending). Just the first notes of Al Jarreau's theme song are so evocative that when I hear them I feel like I've suddenly stepped into a time machine.
And the episodes themselves--the writing, the directing, everything. "Atomic Shakespeare," "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice," "Big Man on Mulberry Street," and of course "I Am Curious...Maddie" (60 million viewers for that last one, according to Wikipedia, and we can certainly see why).
I really, really wish that I could be that blissfully invested in a show again.
I'd heard that there were music-rights issues preventing the show from being rerun on TV or streamed on a service. But now I'm daring to hope that a streaming release might actually happen in my lifetime (though GGC says, "Lots of moving parts. And it could take quite a while").
Man, I adored that show and Maddie and David beyond all reason. Those two characters had the most powerful chemistry that I can remember seeing on a TV show. My pals and I would have endless discussions after every episode (always in-person, over coffee or a drink or while lollygagging around at the office, since none of us got online until 1989, just when the show was ending). Just the first notes of Al Jarreau's theme song are so evocative that when I hear them I feel like I've suddenly stepped into a time machine.
And the episodes themselves--the writing, the directing, everything. "Atomic Shakespeare," "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice," "Big Man on Mulberry Street," and of course "I Am Curious...Maddie" (60 million viewers for that last one, according to Wikipedia, and we can certainly see why).
I really, really wish that I could be that blissfully invested in a show again.
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Date: 2023-05-13 08:08 pm (UTC)And you know JungleKitty? We worked together and were friends when she was in California.
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Date: 2023-05-13 10:51 pm (UTC)I was very closely connected to JK for quite a while during the days of ASCEM and mailing lists, but I never met her in RL. She and I (and a couple of the other members of the TrekFest list--were you on that list under another name?) did a huge amount of brainstorming and corresponding and beta reading and general shenanigans. Eventually the lists and Usenet groups were replaced by newer social media, and JK and I gradually lost touch over the years (though I always tried to keep up with the LAHB podcast that she and Lene created). I never forgot her, and I miss her to this day.
Lucky you, to have had the opportunity to know her as a friend in person. As I've written elsewhere, I wish I'd had a chance to say goodbye.