Since this was mentioned in one of the Miami Condo Collapse threads, I decided to check it out on Youtube. Total schlock-fest, as expected, but this one has gay subtext spilling out everywhere! Steve Forrest and Dan Haggerty have their hands all over each other as they shack up together and cook for each other (watch for the shot of Dan sitting on Steve's reflected bed in the mirror!) and two of the lead actresses are on the verge of lezzing out big time throughout the second part. It's a 4-part miniseries commercial-free on Youtube. Check it out, it's lots of fun, and not a little spooky considering the similarity of theme to the Champlain Towers tragedy. Anyone know if the writers had LGB connections?
Thanks OP! I wanted to look this up from the Condo collapse thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 28, 2021 3:20 AM |
1980? It looks like 1961
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 28, 2021 3:23 AM |
Is it just me, or was Barbara Eden's apartment made up of a rearrangement of the Brady Bunch set?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 28, 2021 3:30 AM |
^^^ Not just you - I noticed it too and kept trying to figure it out.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 28, 2021 3:32 AM |
SEE Barbara Eden's bra, more precariously built than the condo tower! HEAR Dan Haggerty struggle to deliver his lines intelligibly! HEAR Joey Bishop's actor-son talk like a full-on Marlon Brando impression! SEE Arte Johnson and experience DEEP 70s deja-vu! SEE MacDonald Carey and the hot Don Galloway before their declines into TV soap operas!
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 28, 2021 3:40 AM |
R5 MacDonald Carey had been doing DAYS for around 15 years, at that point.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 28, 2021 5:02 AM |
Steve Forrest and Dan Haggerty? Who was the bottom in tha relationship?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 28, 2021 12:44 PM |
Not long ago I read the reissue of the book. Breezed through it, even though it was nearly 600 pages. It was a quintessential 1970s bestseller, written by John D. MacDonald but less like a Travis McGee series novel of his and more like an Arthur Hailey novel with the large cast of characters and the multiple plot threadlines converging in a given location and the nuts and bolts information that causes the disaster.
From just the opening credits alone, it seems there are a lot of overacting non-actors in this, and very few people who could really wow you with a piece of good acting. And then there are the randos who must be there because they needed the gig and worked cheap or their agent was trying to branch them out into more tv.
Like posters above, I saw this when it first aired. My memory is that it was a miniseries produced for strip syndication, and not shown on one of the three networks. The miniseries is like a very dramatic, dirtier but still ok-for-tv version of an episode of Love Boat or Hotel...or like a TV Towering Inferno...and I'm looking forward to getting to the special effects part (I'm on part 1 now)...I remember the effects being well done, but I was just a young thing at the time.
Right now I'm watching the owners meeting. These people are all so rude!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 28, 2021 6:12 PM |
R8 It aired first on HBO and was then later syndicated as part of Operation Prime Time.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 28, 2021 10:36 PM |