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Category Archives: Television
Al’s wardrobe
The idea of the wardrobe was Don’s. And I thought it was terrific. I don’t know if anybody ever said, “Why does he ever dress like that?” Nobody ever asked, “Why does he dress like that?” It was just accepted. … Continue reading
First season
Like any show, when you create it, when you do a pilot – the show develops in the season that follows that. That’s why the first season is so interesting to me, because you can actually watch the growth and … Continue reading
Preparation
When they got me they had somebody who played a lot of sports, who sang, who danced, who could play the piano, play the guitar. My whole life had, in a sense, prepared me to be in this show. — … Continue reading
Killing Scott
The biggest lead-in I would get was, “You’re gonna be a boxer in 2 weeks. How’s your boxing?” “Uh – not great.” That would be the clue. It became like: what else can we do to Scott? We joked at … Continue reading
Indoor hockey
[Scott Bakula] thinks that I don’t know to this day that he used to sneak off and play indoor hockey on lunch breaks which was not allowed by the studio due to insurance purposes. — Don P. Bellisario
Pounding nails
Another thing I gotta say: at the beginning of that show, Scott [Bakula] was pounding nails with the grips the first episode. And nearly 5 years later, on the last episode, Scott was still pounding nails. — Don P. Bellisario
Episodes
We would be doing an episode and somewhere around the 4th or 5th day of shooting, we’d get the preliminary for the next episode. And we looked forward to it so much every week. You’d be tingling to open the … Continue reading
The leaps
If I could keep it within the modern timeframe, within the span of life of the man who was jumping, there would be tv, there would be automobiles, people basically dressed the same – there would be wardrobe changes, yes, … Continue reading
Swiss cheese
Don [Bellisario] worked this convention of me being swiss cheesed each time I leapt. My desire as Sam to get back home didn’t build necessarily … It didn’t keep building in frustration, or “I hate this” – especially in the … Continue reading
Observer
He watches. He’s a perfect observer. He watches, he chomps on his cigar – he gives you little stuff here and there, that kind of lets you know … “That was a good one.” — Scott Bakula on Dean Stockwell