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Prince of Darkness (1987)
Technical Flaw
About midway in this movie one of the graduate students makes a comment to one of the other graduate students that a sample taken from the large canister of swirling green pre-biotic fluid is 7,000,000 years old using carbon 14 dating. Carbon 14 dating is useful for dating organic compounds with ages 50 to 60 thousand years. Beyond that time the remaining carbon 14 is so minuscule that it is immeasurable. Measurements of ages older than that require utilization of isotopes of other atoms such as rubidium-strontium dating. Although is seems that the writer and director John Carpenter may have missed more than a few classes in high school chemistry this movie remains one of his best horror flicks.
Mike Hammer (1958)
One of the best detective/action series of the time.
If you liked Darren McGavin in Kolchak: The Night Stalker, he is more avant-garde, irreverent, and disrespectful of authority is this series than any other character he has played since. Laced with his constant humor and bungling case solving attempts, the guy is a blast to watch. Considering that there have been 78 episodes should give anyone and indication that this series had great appeal. He gets into more situations than Colombo, Rockford, or that Hawaii 5-0 team put together. Maybe if we are lucky enough this series will be re-released on TV Land channel. Not doubt in my mind that this could up any channel's ratings. This is definitely one of TV-dom's classic efforts.