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Television Q&A: What's on the docket for Netflix's 'Lincoln Lawyer'?

Rich Heldenfels, Tribune News Service on

Published in Entertainment News

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: Are there plans for more episodes of “The Lincoln Lawyer”?

A: Netflix reported in February that a fourth season of the series based on Michael Connelly’s novels had begun production in Los Angeles. At the end of Season 3, lawyer Mickey Haller was arrested after a body was found in his car’s trunk. “‘What is going to happen to Mickey?’ … plays out across the whole (fourth) season in the form of his trial,” co-executive producer and co-showrunner Ted Humphrey said. “In the first episode you’ll understand at least the broad strokes of what specifically has happened and what charges — and adversaries — Mickey is facing. This is going to be the biggest and most personal challenge Mickey has ever faced, and also the biggest roller coaster we’ve yet taken our audience on.” No air date yet.

Q: I was just wondering what’s going on with “NCIS.” There was a real good storyline about Alden Parker and a little girl (probably a ghost) that first appeared when Parker got hurt on the ship that was being investigated and Agent Knight saved him. He’s been continuously seeing the little girl. He’s been seeing that psychiatrist for assistance and that last time we saw the little girl she left a message not to tell anyone (only Parker could see the message). After the break, it was as if the whole story had disappeared. No mention of her or Parker or the psychiatrist at all. Why not finish the story?

A: With an array of characters to serve, “NCIS” often spreads out individual stories and the one about Parker and the girl Lily is not done yet. The CBS logline for the March 24 episode includes this tease: “Parker discovers a shocking connection between his mother’s death and Lily.”

Q: On Music Choice I heard Alice Pearce sing “The Invisible Man.” Is that the woman who played Gladys Kravitz on “Bewitched”?

A: It is. Besides playing nosy neighbor Gladys in the early years of “Bewitched,” Pearce was known as a musical-comedy performer. She was in both the stage and movie versions of “On the Town,” hosted her own TV variety show in 1949, and in 1958 contributed four songs to the album “Monster Rally” including “The Invisible Man.” She passed away from ovarian cancer in 1966. Sandra Gould then took on the Gladys Kravitz role.

 

Q: Do you know if Johnny Crawford from “The Rifleman” and Robert Crawford Jr. from “Laramie” are related?

A: They are brothers. Johnny — actor, singer and bandleader — passed away in 2021 at the age of 75. Older brother Robert, an actor and producer, is 80 and still with us.

Q: My favorite science fiction movie is "The Time Machine" which I've seen several times, but my second favorite is "World Without End" which also stars Rod Taylor, but I haven't been able to find it on Tubi or Amazon. Do you know anywhere it is available?

A: I found it streaming on Max, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray. For those of you tuning in late, “World Without End” is a 1956 time travel movie starring Taylor, Hugh Marlowe and others, and built, according to the Turner Classic Movies website, around some footage from a previous movie, “Flight to Mars.” A “tale of American astronauts who crash land on a hostile planet lousy in monsters and mutants,” as TCM put it, the movie resembled H.G. Wells’ novel “The Time Machine” enough that Wells’ estate sued for copyright infringement. According to TCM, “it remains unknown what the result of that litigation might have been.” But Taylor revisited that cinematic territory in 1960, with the screen adaptation of “The Time Machine.”

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