More press release photos added & Links page updated
I have added another batch of 15 original ABC press release photos to the media page which now totals 30 of these back-and-white pictures. Furthermore, I did an overdue update to the links page; all the dead links to external websites for the series were updated (where possible) or removed.
Check it out! :)
Screencaps for Ep 1.13 added
The screencaps for A Trout in the Milk were added to the episodes' page. The very difficult family connection between Yale Courtland Dancy, an eccentric and renowned poet, philosopher and bon viveur, and his daughter, Genea, gets stirred when a painting artist for whom Dancy's daughter acted as a model falls from the window of his studio and eventually dies. A great many of suspects ranges from competing street artists, models, fancy women and the likes, and our two cops soon have a lot of tracing work to do as Dancy - with an obvious antipathy against the late painter - is not as cooperative as Stone and Keller originally assumed. Actually, this one belongs to my favourite season one episodes (location- and script-wise) as it gets across much of the typical San Francisco atmosphere of the early 1970's.
This episode takes us through North Beach, including Washington Square, over to a street artist market at Justin Herman Plaza across from Ferry Terminal with Villaincourt Fountain and elevated Embarcadero Freeway in background (nice aerial view from the upper levels of the Hyatt Regency hotel). We are also taken to the City of Paris fashion-store at Union Square and the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, ending-up on a ferry right beneath Bay Bridge. Furthermore, an indoor-sequence was filmed at SF General Hospital.
DVD cover art completed
It took me some time but, finally, I managed to scan and upload the full DVD cover art to the media page.
The covers shown include the all-in-one DVD packets of season 1 and 2, respectively, as released for Europe and Asia, so there's no separate volume 1 and 2 package (and no separate volume cover art). The covers for season 3 through 5 represent the US releases - since these have not been released for Europe and Asia yet (but I am still hopeful) - so there's the familiar separation into volumes 1 and 2.
Screencaps for Ep 1.12 added
I have just added the screencaps for Bitter Wine to the episodes' page. Jason Kampacalas, son of a Greek restaurant owner, returns after twelve years in San Quentin for manslaughter. His family maintains the Greek Taverna, a downtown restaurant, and also owns a vineyard just outside San Francisco. The family business is managed by Jason's older brother, Dimitri, and we soon learn that it was the latter who actually killed the two children in a car accident for which Jason was detained and convicted - for the good of the family, as Jason thought at that time. Furthermore, the business is not running too well, however, there's little talk between Dimitri and his old man about ventures. On the other hand, Jason is not very welcome to his father who obviously repudiated his son for the killing of the two children, but his loving sister and his youngest brother keep his hope of a peaceful future alive. Soon, there is trouble and anger between the two brothers as Dimitri has not kept his promise to explain to their father what really happened twelve years ago. Following a fire in the restaurant, killing one of their employees and an old friend of their father, Mike and Steve need to investigate for fire raising and murder.
The opening of this episode takes us to San Quentin penitentiary as well as downtown, to Columbus Avenue to be precise. Most of the filming was done on the vineyard outside of San Francisco, and on a spot on Potrero Hill, where the former house of the Kampacalas family becomes a temporary home for Jason who sleeps overnight in the condemned building. Dimitri is living in a decadent apartment on Telegraph Hill, where a nice inside-sequence was taken on the terrace, offering a great view of the waterfront with elevated Embarcadero Freeway and Bay Bridge in background.
Blog comments enabled!
I finally managed to add a comment tool to the website, so please feel free and leave your thoughts or supplementations to anything on the blog topic you want. Don't be surprised that it might take some time until the comment shows up. I would like to avoid any kind of spam or complete trash on the site, so I decided to check any new comment before it is being published on the website. As the blogs on the latest screencaps addition are always detailing the filming locations of the respected episode, I would particularly appreciate your comments on additional filming locations if not included.
Furthermore, with the help of Marcin from Poland and Nancy from the United States I was able to add/correct two details on the characters' page concerning the lists of Mike's and Steve's injuries in the line of duty. Thanks much. :)
