I woke up early for a Sunday-- about 5:30 a.m.-- so I had a good three hours of Boobpedian work done before breakfast. I continued with the Boin Box series project. Did some shopping and other real-life crap that cut into my precious BP-editing time, then got to flop out 1-5 more article stubs at a time whenever I could sit down at the computer. The day's work produced 27 DVD stubs, nestling my day's editing comfily between the two lovelies, Madoka Ayukawa from Boin "Madoka Ayukawa" Box (BOBB-079, seen at left) and Yuu Aiuchi from Boin "Yuu Aiuchi" Box 2 (BOBB-106, seen at right).

This evening's excursion into the risky realm of public domain cinematic pleasure consisted of The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West (1976; from 1973 TV footage). I'm not really sure it's public domain though, since it's not available for download at the Internet Archive. Maybe it's just that nobody wants to claim ownership...The film was simply four episodes of the television series Dusty's Trail lazily stitched together. Dusty's Trail was a lazy imitation of Gilligan's Island. What made Gilligan work well for what it was-- crap-- was that its plots moved. It had enough plot in any one episode for any three run-of-the-mill crap TV sitcoms. An incident would set off a plot point, which would lead to another incident setting off more things, and another, and another. Dusty, like most crap sitcoms, had one thing set off the entire episode, and that was it. The setting for the series was simply the Gilligan characters moved to the old west. Forest Tucker as the "Skipper" figure was pretty good. Bob Denver in the Gilligan / Dusty role seemed listless and tired, but not too awfully bad. The rest of the Gilligan characters-- Mr. & Mrs. Howell, the Professor, Ginger & MaryAnne-- were all there, but without the talented actors that made them work well in Gilligan. The stitched-together aspect of the film was pretty obvious. Every 25 minutes one stopped and another started. All-in-all it was pretty damned bad.