Quaid In Full

Quaid In Full

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  • S01E06: The Seniors

    Time Out London called it a "satire of sorts" -- but what exactly is college-sex-clinic proto-Risky Business romp The Seniors satirizing -- capitalism? women's lib? shaggin' wagons? What it's not doing is holding my interest very well, but if you'd like to consume a parade of naked breasts AND rockin' late-seventies boot style, this is the forgotten flick for you. I would tell you to grab a six-pack, but Dennis Quaid's got that covered, bless his heart.

    Quality: 1.5

    Quaidity: 4.5

    SHOW NOTES

    • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
    • Watch The Seniors
    • stunt_rock's review at The Betamax Rundown
    • Time Out's review
    • Keith Bailey's at The Unknown Movies
      • 12 min
    • S01E05: Our Winning Season

      Quaid returns to period pieces in Our Winning Season, not that you'd necessarily know from the production. This failed attempt to combine a Porky's-esque sex farce with a high-school-sports roman a clef AND the blight of Vietnam isn't so much bad as airless and dull, and on top of that, it's both not very Quaidy and TOO Quaidy somehow. Tonal whiplash and fern-bar soundtrack cues: it's Episode 5!

      SHOW NOTES

      • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
      • Watch Our Winning Season (if you must)
      • TV Guide's review
      • Peter Hanson's review at the Every '70s Movie blog
      • Keith Bailey's at The Unknown Movies
        • 11 min
      • S01E04: Baretta S04E04, "The Sky Is Falling"

        It's the most expensive, least worth-it Baretta episode in history: Season 4, Episode 4, "The Sky Is Falling," which stars Barry Miller as a beset teenage prostitute, Dennis Quaid as his pimp, and a lot of '70s ideas about who's considered a victim. Oh, and an uneven distribution of AAAAACKTING! that may shortchange Dennis Quaid. Television curator at the Paley Center David Bushman joins me to discuss bad '70s pacing, ideal casting for Quaid, whether such a dark role on episodic TV could have hurt Quaid's career, and more.

        SHOW NOTES

        • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
        • Watch the episode (or...don't) at the Paley Center
        • More on Tony-winner Barry Miller

          • Special Guest: David Bushman.

          32 min
        • S01E03: September 30, 1955

          I'm completing the DQ-early-roles 1970s-contemplate-the-1950s trilogy with September 30, 1955, an achingly adolescent meditation on how the death of James Dean allowed John Boy Walton to feel his own losses...or something. James Bridges's (The Paper Chase, Perfect) melodramatic tale of a tragic afternoon isn't entirely successful, but it does bring us a Breaking Away pre-union AND our first Dennis Quaid sex growl.

          SHOW NOTES

          • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
          • Watch September 30, 1955 on Amazon
          • Vincent Canby's review
            • 10 min
          • S01E02: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

            It's Dennis Quaid's first role...with actual lines! Still not a full wardrobe, though, as he's shirtless -- but how does a pitcher named Shark fit into 1976 mental-illness drama I Never Promised You A Rose Garden? An Apollo 13 reunion, Kenickie in beads, and much more in this slightly Quaidier second episode.

            SHOW NOTES

            • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
            • Rose Garden on Amazon
            • The movie summary on IMDb
            • Roger Ebert's full review
              • 12 min
            • S01E01: Crazy Mama

              It's Dennis Quaid's first role: 1975's Crazy Mama, a Julie Corman/Jonathan Demme outlaw-action drive-in joint that's quite charming, thanks in part to 1) Ann Sothern and 2) Quaid not wearing drawers under his bellman rig. What's going on with this throuple Donny Most is in? Was that Bill Paxton? And most importantly, how Quaidy is it?

              SHOW NOTES

              • Want to help defray the costs of the pod, like getting a print of that Baretta episode made? Throw a few bucks in the hat at QIF's GoFundMe page!
              • Crazy Mama on Amazon
              • The movie's Wikipedia page and IMDb plot summary
              • You Must Remember This
              • Leonard Maltin's review
              • Brooklyn Vegan on Concrete TV
                • 8 min

              About Quaid In Full

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              The Quaid In Full podcast rates, reviews, and ranks every single televisual work in which Dennis Quaid appears. This highly unscientific endeavor is hosted by Sarah D. Bunting and Jeb Lund, because…