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S01E06: The Seniors Oct 18, 2019

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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

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stunt_rock's review at The Betamax Rundown
Time Out's review
Keith Bailey's at The Unknown Movies

S01E05: Our Winning Season Oct 11, 2019

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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!

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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

S01E04: Baretta S04E04, "The Sky Is Falling" Oct 04, 2019

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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.

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Watch the episode (or...don't) at the Paley Center
More on Tony-winner Barry Miller

Special Guest: David Bushman.

S01E03: September 30, 1955 Sep 27, 2019

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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.

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Vincent Canby's review

S01E02: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden Sep 20, 2019

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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.

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Rose Garden on Amazon
The movie summary on IMDb
Roger Ebert's full review

S01E01: Crazy Mama Sep 13, 2019

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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?

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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

Episode 0: Welcome to the Quaid In Full podcast! Aug 18, 2019

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Quaid In Full: the podcast that ranks and reviews every single thing Mr. Dennis Quaid has ever done in front of a camera, in chronological order. Coming soon!

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