White Snow, Icy Wind Chill :)

Hello!

The calendar says "March" and Spring is just around the corner. However, in much of the US, Winter is determined to stay put. The wind chill in my neck of the woods is forecast to be -4 degrees tonight! :0

So, here's an original NBC publicity still (with some artistic flourishes added) of Jack Kelly and Senta Berger in "White Snow, Red Ice", a 1964 segment of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre:

Original B&W 1964 still of Jack Kelly & Senta Berger 

scanned and color-tinted by La Bartista (2019).

Frame effect courtesy of LoonaPix.

The snipe on the back reads: "INDOOR SPORTS...Senta Berger is a beautiful ski champion (and jewel thief) and Jack Kelly a private eye in 'White Snow, Red Ice', airing in color Friday, March 13 (8:30-9:30 pm EST), on Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre, over NBC-TV."

 

No matter what the weather outside is like, you'll always find a warm welcome in TDS. Please stay tuned for more fun with JK! :)

"60 Minutes of Mystery and Suspense!" :)

Howdy!


Thankfully, the extreme hot weather of the past week or so seems to be cooling down a bit. What a relief!


Here's something else that's cool...

...A poster for "White Snow, Red Ice". This was actually a 1964 episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater. Since it's being advertised as a "motion picture for television", I'm guessing this poster was promoting the availability of the film for TV syndication. It shows a suave JK (as PI "Fred Piper") snuggling up to his co-star Senta Berger. 


For more info on "White Snow, Red Ice", click here and here. And, here's hoping we get to see the actual film some day...that would be really cool!  :)

There's "Snow" One Like JK! :)

Hello All!

Well, it looks like the sultry days of summer may finally be on the way out. I took my dog for a walk this evening and there was definitely an autumnal tinge to the air. Fall will be here in no time at all, which means winter is just around the corner, too! :0

While I'm certainly in no hurry for wintry weather to arrive, I do want to share this, uh, cool pic of Jack Kelly in 1964. It's from the "White Snow, Red Ice" episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater. JK portrayed private eye "Fred Piper"; the cutie he's cozying up to is Senta Berger. (Read more about this episode here.)

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Jack Kelly on TV - White Snow, Endless Ice :)

Okay, I give up.

It snowed all day yesterday. I drove home from work on unplowed streets, feeling like I was in an episode of Ice Road Truckers.

It snowed all last night. I was awakened this morning by the repetitive scraaaaape, scraaaaape of a neighbor shoveling their driveway.

I thought all the snow we've had would be a melted memory by now. But, no.

I'm resigned to the fact that I probably won't see anything green until St. Patrick's Day. So, I'm embracing winter by taking a look at Jack Kelly in "White Snow, Red Ice", an episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater which originally aired on March 13, 1964.

JK is"Fred Piper" (a private eye character he would portray three times on the Chrysler Theater) in what the St. Petersburg Times described as "a sophisticated, tongue-in-cheek spy story in the James Bond manner."

Piper pretends to be a skiing stuntman in order to help lovely jewel thief Senta Berger defect. He also works to free an American businessman who's been kidnapped by Communists.

One of JK's other curvy co-stars in the episode was Grace Lee Whitney, who would shortly become well-known in a little show called Star Trek. She revealed in her autobiography (The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy) that "White Snow, Red Ice" was actually an unsold pilot for a JK/Fred Piper series. It was filmed in the Mammoth ski resort area in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Ms. Whitney played a ski instructor, but didn't enjoy her role very much because she'd injured her neck during a previous acting job. She was still in extreme pain and wearing a neck brace that she removed to film her scenes. And, Senta Berger became temporarily snow-blind during filming.

With everything they went through, it's a shame "White Snow, Red Ice" didn't launch a JK series. Well, maybe it will show up on Retro TV or some other nostalgic network some day.

In the meantime, here's a peek at Piper:

"I ordered steak but they Senta Berger instead!" ;->

A video clip of JK in another Piper episode of The Chrysler Theater can be seen here.