#The Adams Chronicles

[icarusbetide]

just learned there's a 1976 pbs series called the adams chronicles and a few episodes feature his favorite person hambleton and his favorite person jeiffersan

[philiponmycracker]

Baby Tom Hulce as "Student" - The Adams Chronicles - Chapter X: John Quincy Adams, Congressman (1976, credited as Thomas Hulce)

Tom in his early 20s crushing it at one of his very first screen actor jobs. Watching this felt like a spiritual experience. First I was left gasping for air for how insanely ridiculously outrageous he looks, but then I heard him speak and WTF is going on holy jesus christ mother of

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

George Cooper Grizzard Jr. (April 1, 1928 – October 2, 2007)  Stage, television, and film actor. He was the recipient of a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award, among other accolades.

Grizzard made his television debut on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.  He guest starred in many television series, including The Millionaire, Thriller, The Twilight Zone, Espionage, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Rawhide, Marcus Welby, MD., Hawaii 5-0, Trapper John, MD, Spenser: For Hire, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote and The Golden Girls.

Grizzard guest-starred several times during the 1990s on the NBC television drama Law & Order as defense attorney Arthur Gold. He also portrayed President John Adams in the Emmy Award-winning WNET-produced PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles. In 1980, he won an Emmy for his work in The Oldest Living Graduate. He starred as reporter Richard Larsen in The Deliberate Stranger, a television movie about serial killer Ted Bundy. (Wikipedia)

[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]

HAPPY 96TH BIRTHDAY WILLIAM DANIELS!!!

love you sm ☺️☺️

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

I sometimes really miss having someone to talk to about the things I watch.

Yeah, sure I could post on here, but my viewing tends to either be way later for the pop culture conversation or way, way too obscure.

I mean, I don’t want to write a review or analysis, not some dang essay no one will read anyway. Just a chat is all I want!

Today I first watched an episode of “The Adams Chronicles”, a show from the 1970s that aired on PBS dramatizing the life of John Adams and his descendants. ** This was followed by “Mad God”, a film by Phil Tippett*** that I best not try to describe or I might end up with an essay after all.

I have thoughts! I have feelings! I have ideas I’d like to chew over with someone! I have connections sparking through my brain that don’t get to ignite outside my head.

Sigh

You would be surprised how often it makes me miss my family. Like, almost nightly! LOL

I even miss when we argued about something! I didn’t need them to like what I liked, just have their own thoughts to share. It’s not like online rants, insulting or dismissive of anyone that disagrees. Arguing when you respect and love the person you are arguing with, confident that the disagreement will never shake that foundation, is completely different from online “anyone that likes this is an idiot or sick” attitudes.

I once posted my thoughts on a popular Pixar film. I was trying to make clear was just my feelings and not an objective judgement, and that it was fine that others didn’t react like I did. Still, I managed to REALLY piss someone off on Tumblr so much that they launched into suggesting what they assumed was “wrong” about me, and even about my family!

But supposed I’d watched it with someone, like Mom or a friend. I could even have gone “OMG! I hated it! Why do you love it?!?”, without even a hint of tact, without anyone getting offended. We’d talk about what we thought or felt, debating maybe, probably not convincing anyone, laughing, agreeing unexpectedly or discovering some new thing about each other’s mind….

I miss that!!!

** Is it weird that John and Abigail Adams (even in bios I’ve read) remind me of my parents a bit? It’s probably weird. The episode tonight wasn’t about that generation anyway, so I dunno why I bring it up.

***Is it weird that I’ve known who Phil Tippett was since I was about 7? It’s probably weird! LOL

[seraphinitegames]

**b4 demo spoilers** will we get any explanation as to A's sudden shift in attitude at the beginning of b4? like them being super casual and stuff. i know you said you didn't wanna make it too heavy for /reasons/ but i was just wondering it A themselves has a reason for this switchup between end of b3/start of b4. hope ur having a nice day !!

It was the ending of Book Three when A realised they love the MC.

And they already knew they loved the MC, but now they really, really know it, and they told the MC as much…well, they sort of admitted they feel something, or that they can't deny there is something—but that's what they meant, lol!

And that admission is hard to cram back down inside of them for the moment. They'll get there…but for now they can't help let those feelings stay.

Plus, I really wanted a break for the A-mancers and give them some of the nice romance too for now, especially considering what's coming in Book Five…

Hope that helps!

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

[ladiemars]

when they run out of leads during a case, i like to imagine frankie and adam work the agency’s hotline looking for tips. it goes about how you’d expect.

[tragic-ships-tournament]

Tragic Ships Tournament Round 3

Propaganda under the cut!

Herongraystairs:

"Hey is it polyamory if you and your buddy are both in love with the same girl (and each other)? Is it polyam to die of old age and only have your wife and the guy you were platonic married to as a teenager in your final moments? Is it polyamory if you constantly bring up your wife's dead husband and make it clear you're also deeply in love with him?"

Lawrence and Adam:

No propaganda submitted however I think everyone should read this giant essay written by the submitter

"Okay so our buddy Jigsaw here, John to his friends, puts Adam and Gordon in a trap in the so-called Saw Bathroom.

Adam wakes up from unconscious in a full bathtub and gasps for air trying to get out. In doing so, he inadvertently pulled the plug. It is pitch black in the room. A voice calls out from the other side of the room.

The voice is Gordon. His name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor. For a few moments his voice is all there is until Gordon turns on the light. They are both chained to metal pipes in opposite corners. They introduce themselves. There is a dead body in the middle of the room.

Neither man trusts the other. In attempts to escape, they find clues: a clock that is brand new and as such the opposite of the rest of the room; an envelope with a cassette in Adam's pockets; and a casette, a key and a bullet in Gordon's. The key opens neither man's chain.

But there is a casette player in the hand of the dead man in the middle of the room.

With some difficulty, Adam is able to reach it so that he can play his tape which detailed his crimes (as according to John) and how he will either watch himself die or do something about it. This is a poetic trap on John's part as Adam is a voyeur and is paid by various people to follow others around and takes photos on them. As for Gordon? Well, first he sends his tape to Adam to hear first before hearing it himself. His crime is that as a doctor (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) he spends his days telling people they're going to die, giving them their death sentence. Now he must carry out that sentence himself. He must kill Adam by 6 o'clock or Gordon's wife and daughter will die.

The dead man in the middle of the room was one of Gordon's patients.

The recording gives them several other clues and soon they find a plastic bag in the toilet with two hacksaws and a bag of photos inside. Adam throws one to Gordon and immediately begins on his own chain. The saw breaks.

In anger, Adam throws it at the mirror which smashes. Gordon realises the saws are not for the chains but for their legs. This is when they realise they've been abducted by Jigsaw. Gordon mentions that Jigsaw had previously tried to frame him for murder by leaving his penlight at the scene of one of Jigsaw's crimes. Adam grows distrustful of Gordon because that's a weird detail to mention, huh? And in a fit of panic and anger, he takes the broken mirror shard and threatens to kill our boy Gordon (Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) unless he explains what the hell is going on. Then he notices that the mirror is a one-way mirror. He smashes the rest of it until he's cut through the glass and they see a camera.

A camera watching their every move. Adam soon learns that the camera is protected by another pane of glass, this one shatterproof.

Gordon, bless his heart, is able to calm Adam down and he begins to tell Adam about his family. He has a wife named Alison and a daughter called Diana. Adam asks if he wants more children, Gordon replies no as he doesn't think Diana gets enough time with her parents as is.

This nice conversation is ruined when Gordon tossed Adam his wallet so Adam can look at the picture of them in his wallet. That picture isn't there; instead, there's a picture of them tied up and gagged in their apartment. Adam doesn't want to worry Gordon so he quietly pockets it and just says the photo isn't there. This photo also has a clue that leads to Adam asking Gordon to turn off the light at which point they see a glowing X and are able to get the next puzzle in the trap. (It's a very drawn out trap compared to Jigsaw's more oftenly used one and one em traps) Gordon retrieves a box with a lighter, two cigarettes, a note saying the cigarettes arent poisonous (factually untrue consideeing lung cancer but John's an engineer not a doctor) and a phone. The phone can't be used to make calls so no 911 can save these white boys right now.

Adam, who doesn't know about the note, asks for a cigarette. Gordon says no.

Gordon asks Adam how he knew to turn off the light. Adam tries to lie, like a liar, and fails, like a failure, and is forced to reveal the photo. This is how Gordon (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) is able to come up with his big plan. He, having figured out it was poidonous, dips one cigarette into the blood of the dead man in the middle of the room. He turns off the light again. He explains his plan to Adam.

Lights come back up, Gordon gives Adam a cigarette and a lighter. Adam takes a drag. Suddenly what? Oh no? He's dying? Never mind, he's being electric shocked through his chain because boy howdy can that boy not act.

Also, when you turn off the lights, people can't see you. They can still hear you.

Gordon points his anger at Adam for the failure of the plan though again, he did just tell Adam the plan by talking. Like that's not that secure. But the electric shock triggers something in Adam. He remembers his abduction and having no one else in the room to talk to (besides the dead body), he tells Gordon about it. Their traumas are entwining. Then the phone rings. It's Diana. She begs her dad to save them. Then the phone is given to Alison who tells Gordon that he can't trust Adam and that they've known each other for a long time. Gordon confronts Adam. Adam admits that he's known who Gordon was for a few days. He'd been paid to follow Gordon around and take photos of what he was doing. Adam shows him the photos. Which photos, you ask? The ones in that bag that were in the plastic bag in the toilet. I'm sure you've forgotten about them now. They argue and Adam admits he followed Gordon to a hotel where Gordon was meeting up with one of his students, Carla. They were about to start an affair. Adam knows about this. As does John. That's the real reason Gordon is in this trap. A Welcome Home Cheater sign? No, no. This one gets the Saw Bathroom.

Convinced that whoever hired Adam must be Jigsaw, Gordon presses him on it. Adam relents. It's not Jigsaw. It's a detective who's convinced Gordon is Jigsaw.

They fall silent again. They figure out one of Jigsaw's henchmen is a guy called Zep who's an orderly at the hospital. The time runs out. The phone rings again. It's Alison! She's broken free! They're saved! Gunshots. Diana screams. Gordon cries. The chain electric shocks Gordon into unconsciousness. Adam immediately tries to wake him up, terrified Gordon is dead. He's not. But he's broken down. And when he was being electrocuted, he'd chucked the phone out of reach. Out of all other options, Gordon (his name is Lawrence Gordon, he's a doctor) uses his shirt to stanch his leg and begins to cut his foot off. Adam begs him not to and to just calm down, but Gordon's too far gone. When the deed is done (which you don't see in the film by the way, the first Saw was very tame when it came to gore surprisingly enough), he crawls to the dead body in the room and takes the gun out of the man's hand. He loads the gun with the one bullet he has. He shoots Adam. Adam falls back like he's in Looney Tunes. Gordon screams at the camera and begs them to save his family. And then Zep comes in. He was the one holding Gordon's family hostage. Gordon tries to shoot him. Gordon had one bullet in his gun. His shots are unsurprisingly ineffective. Zep is unimpressed with this. It is just a rapidly paling man missing a foot shooting an empty gun like he's in a water pistol battle in a county undergoing a drought. He decides to kill Gordon as he didn't kill Adam by 6 o'clock. And Zep is from the county over and has plenty of water to spare. He aims his gun at Gordon.

But he forgot about Adam. Like a Bugs Bunny reborn, Adam comes in from behind with the toilet tank lid. In his fear and pain and anger, he beats Zep over and over and over with the lid until Gordon is able to calm him down. They stare at each other like sad gay men. Gordon tells Adam that if he doesn't get out, he'll bleed to death here. Adam begs him to stay. Gordon promises to come back for him. Adam begs him not to leave him. Gordon crawls out the room. Adam is left alone, a bullet in his shoulder and his heart crawling away. He's all alone. Apart from John Kramer. He was the dead body in the middle of the room this whole time. He stands up. He tells Adam that the key to his chain was in the bathtub. The one that Adam had accidentally pulled the plug out of. He leaves the room. Game over.

Adam will die in this room. It was always going to end like this. One of them was going to die in that room. If Adam lives, Gordon must die. If Gordon lives, he must kill Adam. There is no way in the world for these two to survive, not together. There was always going to be a dead body in that bathroom."

[mei1111]

When he was younger and too hot-headed

Adam du Mortain from The Wayhaven Chronicles by @seraphinitegames

[wayhavenmemes]

[emmodii-mode]

The other members of Unit Bravo calling A out on their shit regarding the detective.

We love good friends.

[glorismorningstar]

They're the exact same picture and nothing can change my mind.

[nepobabyeurydice]

shazam (captain marvel) x kane chronicles crossover all revolving around the basis of ‘The House of Life does not condone Black Adam’s beef with his fellow avatar of the gods, and in fact encourages its magicians to capture Adam to deliver to Captain Marvel of Fawcett City. Sincerely, Pharaoh Carter Kane, Eye of Horus.’ (it’s three a.m Carter is drowning under papyrus work.)

This somehow ends with Amos and John Constantine making out. I don’t know how we’ll get to that point but trust me we will.

[kwebtv]

Nicholas David Pryor (born Probst; January 28, 1935 – October 7, 2024) Character actor. He appeared in various television series, films, and stage productions.

Pryor's most notable television role was that of A. Milton Arnold, the Chancellor of California University, in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. Pryor's character, who appeared on the show from 1994 to 1997, was a widower and the father of one daughter, Claire (portrayed by Kathleen Robertson). His other television appearances included The Adams Chronicles (1976), Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977) and Gideon's Trumpet (1980).

In 1964, Pryor was an original cast member of the new soap opera Another World, playing Tom Baxter until the character was killed off after six months. In 1973 Pryor was the second actor to play the role of P.I. Joel Gantry on The Edge of Night. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he played the role of Victor Collins on General Hospital and its spin-off, Port Charles. (Wikipedia)

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[mariogagabriel]

Get in, loser! We're going to emphasize how unhappy Adam is but in a musical way.

[calnexin]

drawing request! wayhaven!alina...perhaps book 4 if you've played...

wayhaven Alina.. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time