More on Harry O.

Over on The Rap Sheet, J. Kingston Pierce conducts an extensive interview with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, authors of McFarland's Harry O Viewing Companion, about the beloved PI series starring David Janssen and Anthony Zerbe (the latter in an Emmy–winning performance). Topics include Janssen's approach to the role, series locations, costars (such as Farrah Fawcett), the important contributions of screenwriter Howard Rodman, and much more. I acquired the book for McFarland.

Clues CFP: Transportation and Mobility in Crime Fiction.

Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) in a tight spot
in The 39 Steps (1959)

There's a new Call for Papers for a theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection: Transportation and Mobility in Crime Fiction (guest editors: Šárka Bubiková and Olga Roebuck, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic; proposal deadline: 1 Mar 2026).

The CFP follows below. To access a text version, visit this link. 

New releases: On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Prince of the City

As Scott Bettencourt mentions in Film Score Friday, new releases include John Barry's score for the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (dir. Peter H. Hunt, 1969) from La-La Land and Paul Chihara's score for the police corruption drama Prince of the City (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1981) from Quartet.

For more information and to listen to some excerpts:

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service 
• Prince of the City

 

A glimpse of Ernest Tidyman.

Ad for Shaft's Big Score
(1972, screenplay by 
Ernest Tidyman)

Archives on the Air of Wyoming Public Radio features an image of a press pass for a young Ernest Tidyman (1928–84; author-screenwriter of Shaft and screenwriter for The French Connection), who worked for newspapers since his teens. His papers are at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.