Earl (that guy from theLogBook)
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Opinions are my own, not my employers' or clients'. He/him.
Paladin rides into town not looking for a fight, but a misguided old friend may give him one anyway, with tragic results. Our look at #GeneRoddenberry ’s final Have Gun Will Travel episodes continues: a visit to the Marshal of Sweetwater. #ClassicTV #podcast www.missionlogpodcast.com/marshal-of-s...
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Paladin rides into town not looking for a fight, but a misguided old friend may give him one anyway, with tragic results. Our look at #GeneRoddenberry ’s final Have Gun Will Travel episodes continues: a visit to the Marshal of Sweetwater. #ClassicTV #podcast www.missionlogpodcast.com/marshal-of-s...
It's the sister act they're still talking about on Coruscant (or are they talking about it as little as possible?); I'll admit to being a little bit late in actually opening them, but this #StarWars #TheAcolyte set may have changed my thinking on the Retro Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YvA...
Voyages Of Shelf-Discovery: Star Wars: The Acolyte Retro Collection
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December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's the sister act they're still talking about on Coruscant (or are they talking about it as little as possible?); I'll admit to being a little bit late in actually opening them, but this #StarWars #TheAcolyte set may have changed my thinking on the Retro Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YvA...
The mazes may be amazing, the game may never be the same, and the arcade definitely wasn't the same. Time to take a Phosphor Dot Fossils look at an early computerized take on a classic puzzle in The Amazing Maze Game. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfq...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Amazing Maze Game (arcade, 1976)
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December 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The mazes may be amazing, the game may never be the same, and the arcade definitely wasn't the same. Time to take a Phosphor Dot Fossils look at an early computerized take on a classic puzzle in The Amazing Maze Game. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfq...
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Was this Ella West revisited or was it something else? @thelogbook.bsky.social & I discuss in this episode of #MissionLogGeneology. Available wherever you get your podcasts. @roddenberrypod.bsky.social
A man asks Paladin to break up his own wedding—at gunpoint. Why does he need a gunslinger for that job, and what’s really going on?
We’re starting our coverage of Gene Roddenberry’s final Have Gun – Will Travel scripts with “Taylor’s Woman.”
Listen here: pod.fo/e/35d94e
We’re starting our coverage of Gene Roddenberry’s final Have Gun – Will Travel scripts with “Taylor’s Woman.”
Listen here: pod.fo/e/35d94e
Gene-ology: A Roddenberry Podcast: Gene-ology 84 - Taylor's Woman
Welcome to Gene-ology, a podcast by Roddenberry Entertainment that dives deep into the early TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry. Paladin is accosted by a man who needs the gunslinger to break up ...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Was this Ella West revisited or was it something else? @thelogbook.bsky.social & I discuss in this episode of #MissionLogGeneology. Available wherever you get your podcasts. @roddenberrypod.bsky.social
Breakin' up is hard to do... harder if you hire a gunslinger to do the hard part? Our coverage of Gene Roddenberry's final episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel begins with "Taylor's Woman" (1962). www.missionlogpodcast.com/taylors-woman/
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Breakin' up is hard to do... harder if you hire a gunslinger to do the hard part? Our coverage of Gene Roddenberry's final episodes of Have Gun - Will Travel begins with "Taylor's Woman" (1962). www.missionlogpodcast.com/taylors-woman/
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While #MissionLogGeneology is on hiatus this month, now is a great time to catch up on the show. You can listen to the full run on #YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social @thelogbook.bsky.social #StarTrek #GeneRoddenberry #nerdlyfe
Gene-ology: A Roddenberry Podcast
Gene-ology from Roddenberry Entertainment dives deep into the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the visionary creator of Star Trek. From groundb...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
While #MissionLogGeneology is on hiatus this month, now is a great time to catch up on the show. You can listen to the full run on #YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social @thelogbook.bsky.social #StarTrek #GeneRoddenberry #nerdlyfe
We're off to outer space, protecting Mother Earth! Space Battleship Yamato gets shrunk down into a Game Boy cartridge, and undergoes the Phosphor Dot Fossils test. Is even part of the trip to Iscandar survivable in game form? #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7H_...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Space Battleship Yamato (Game Boy, 1992)
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November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
We're off to outer space, protecting Mother Earth! Space Battleship Yamato gets shrunk down into a Game Boy cartridge, and undergoes the Phosphor Dot Fossils test. Is even part of the trip to Iscandar survivable in game form? #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7H_...
Can this helpless video caterpillar survive long enough to crawl into a video cocoon and emerge as a beautiful video butterfly? Turn and face the strange with a unique arcade take on evolution as 1982's Changes gets the Phosphor Dot Fossils treatment. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKl...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Changes (arcade, 1982)
YouTube video by theLogBook
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November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Can this helpless video caterpillar survive long enough to crawl into a video cocoon and emerge as a beautiful video butterfly? Turn and face the strange with a unique arcade take on evolution as 1982's Changes gets the Phosphor Dot Fossils treatment. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKl...
No new video today, but that doesn't mean we can't rewind to some of the cool stuff from earlier in the year, such as this slice of #ClassicTV goodness. Have been hoping to do more like this one, but it's *very* production-labor-intensive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZH...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
No new video today, but that doesn't mean we can't rewind to some of the cool stuff from earlier in the year, such as this slice of #ClassicTV goodness. Have been hoping to do more like this one, but it's *very* production-labor-intensive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZH...
It seems Donkey Kong can climb to the top of any game or computer system - and even the TI 99/4a wasn't immune. Phosphor Dot Fossils can't go wrong with #DonkeyKong (other than that pesky elusive "winning" thing). #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5d...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Donkey Kong (TI 99/4a, 1983)
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November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It seems Donkey Kong can climb to the top of any game or computer system - and even the TI 99/4a wasn't immune. Phosphor Dot Fossils can't go wrong with #DonkeyKong (other than that pesky elusive "winning" thing). #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=el5d...
Dirk the Daring leapt onto our screens in a blaze of '80s hype. The latest edition of Phosphor Dot Fossils ponders: was #DragonsLair a video game, or a beautifully animated choose-your-own-adventure story that didn't give the player many choices? #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWG...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Dragon's Lair (arcade, 1983)
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November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dirk the Daring leapt onto our screens in a blaze of '80s hype. The latest edition of Phosphor Dot Fossils ponders: was #DragonsLair a video game, or a beautifully animated choose-your-own-adventure story that didn't give the player many choices? #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=htWG...
The walls aren't impenetrable. The enemy sentries aren't invulnerable. But then again, neither are you. Phosphor Dot Fossils fires up the #Vectrex and has fun storming the Star Castle. #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjPf...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Star Castle (Vectrex, 1983)
YouTube video by theLogBook
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November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The walls aren't impenetrable. The enemy sentries aren't invulnerable. But then again, neither are you. Phosphor Dot Fossils fires up the #Vectrex and has fun storming the Star Castle. #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjPf...
To celebrate the peak of spooky season, even #DonkeyKong is getting in on the scares. Just for giggles, let's take a Phosphor Dot Fossils look at the arcade hack Donkey Kong: Spooky Remix. Mind the ectoplasm! #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooJP...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Donkey Kong (Spooky Remix) (arcade hack, 2018)
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October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
To celebrate the peak of spooky season, even #DonkeyKong is getting in on the scares. Just for giggles, let's take a Phosphor Dot Fossils look at the arcade hack Donkey Kong: Spooky Remix. Mind the ectoplasm! #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooJP...
We finish finally getting to watch Mr. District Attorney, and after picking the best show of these last three, we try to narrow down: what was the best episode of Mr. District Attorney written by fledgling writer Gene Roddenberry, a decade before #StarTrek? www.missionlogpodcast.com/mr-da-replay...
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We finish finally getting to watch Mr. District Attorney, and after picking the best show of these last three, we try to narrow down: what was the best episode of Mr. District Attorney written by fledgling writer Gene Roddenberry, a decade before #StarTrek? www.missionlogpodcast.com/mr-da-replay...
I was trying to find Koosh so I could take his picture for #NationalBlackCatDay but he seems to be hiding. Let me know if you see him.
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I was trying to find Koosh so I could take his picture for #NationalBlackCatDay but he seems to be hiding. Let me know if you see him.
Before the widespread use of the internet, before licensed books on the topic, #StarTrek fans were rolling their own guide to The Next Generation - and making it look like the Enterprise-D's computer interface on the Apple IIgs. #retrocomputing #RetroGaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDKA...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Star Trek: The Next Generation HyperStudio Stack (Apple IIgs, 1991)
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October 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Before the widespread use of the internet, before licensed books on the topic, #StarTrek fans were rolling their own guide to The Next Generation - and making it look like the Enterprise-D's computer interface on the Apple IIgs. #retrocomputing #RetroGaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDKA...
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We only had the scripts to start, but now we've seen all 6 episodes that #GeneRoddenberry wrote for #MrDistrictAttorney. Check out what @thelogbook.bsky.social and I had to say about the first three. CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social #StarTrek #nerdlyfe
Gene-ology: Mr. D.A. Replay, Part 1 « Mission Log Podcast
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October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We only had the scripts to start, but now we've seen all 6 episodes that #GeneRoddenberry wrote for #MrDistrictAttorney. Check out what @thelogbook.bsky.social and I had to say about the first three. CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social #StarTrek #nerdlyfe
Three times the screen and three times the danger at four times the cost! What could go wrong with the groundbreaking arcade game TX-1? A uniquely Phosphor Dot Fossils look at an arcade game that managed not to be a trend-setter. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3aL...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: TX-1 (arcade, 1984)
YouTube video by theLogBook
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October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Three times the screen and three times the danger at four times the cost! What could go wrong with the groundbreaking arcade game TX-1? A uniquely Phosphor Dot Fossils look at an arcade game that managed not to be a trend-setter. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3aL...
When the podcast started, we had only the scripts to cover for Gene Roddenberry’s first TV writing job on Mr. District Attorney. But now we’ve gotten to see the shows themselves, we get to ask: do Gene’s first TV creations improve when they’re on film? www.missionlogpodcast.com/mr-da-replay...
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
When the podcast started, we had only the scripts to cover for Gene Roddenberry’s first TV writing job on Mr. District Attorney. But now we’ve gotten to see the shows themselves, we get to ask: do Gene’s first TV creations improve when they’re on film? www.missionlogpodcast.com/mr-da-replay...
The true measure of any civilized society - no, scratch that - any decent computer hardware platform lies in its ability to play a decent game of Pac-Man. Phosphor Dot Fossils feels the #PacMan love even on the TI 99/4a. #retrogaming #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMK...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Pac-Man (TI 99/4a, 1983)
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October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The true measure of any civilized society - no, scratch that - any decent computer hardware platform lies in its ability to play a decent game of Pac-Man. Phosphor Dot Fossils feels the #PacMan love even on the TI 99/4a. #retrogaming #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMK...
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We're looking back at another one-off #GeneRoddenberry wrote--"Bullet Wound," which he wrote for #DrChristian. Hear what @thelogbook.bsky.social and I had to say in this week's show! CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social #StarTrek #nerdlyfe
Gene-ology: “Bullet Wound” « Mission Log Podcast
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October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're looking back at another one-off #GeneRoddenberry wrote--"Bullet Wound," which he wrote for #DrChristian. Hear what @thelogbook.bsky.social and I had to say in this week's show! CC: @roddenberrypod.bsky.social #StarTrek #nerdlyfe
Attackers have e-stab-lished a foothold on your ship, leaving you to act as the con-stab-ulary to drive them away and stab-ilize the situation. Phosphor Dot Fossils finds out what the thrust of Swashbuckler is on the Apple II. #retrogaming #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnuL...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Swashbuckler (Apple II, 1982)
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October 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Attackers have e-stab-lished a foothold on your ship, leaving you to act as the con-stab-ulary to drive them away and stab-ilize the situation. Phosphor Dot Fossils finds out what the thrust of Swashbuckler is on the Apple II. #retrogaming #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnuL...
On this week's Gene-ology, @thenerdyblogger.bsky.social and I get wound up about a "Bullet Wound", a 1957 episode of the TV show Dr. Christian written by Gene Roddenberry. sites.libsyn.com/499568/gene-...
Gene-ology: A Mission Log Look into Gene Roddenberry’s Works: Gene-ology 81 - Bullet Wound
Welcome to Gene-ology, a podcast by Roddenberry Entertainment that dives deep into the early TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry. Gene-ology rewinds to a show from 1957, Gene's sole contribution to...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On this week's Gene-ology, @thenerdyblogger.bsky.social and I get wound up about a "Bullet Wound", a 1957 episode of the TV show Dr. Christian written by Gene Roddenberry. sites.libsyn.com/499568/gene-...
It's one of the final first-party games for the Odyssey2 in North America - so is this sting operation worth the buzz? Oh honey, get ready for Phosphor Dot Fossils to capture the Killer Bees! - and show you a very rare piece of #Odyssey2 hardware. #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd91...
Phosphor Dot Fossils: Killer Bees! (Odyssey2, 1983)
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October 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's one of the final first-party games for the Odyssey2 in North America - so is this sting operation worth the buzz? Oh honey, get ready for Phosphor Dot Fossils to capture the Killer Bees! - and show you a very rare piece of #Odyssey2 hardware. #rétrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd91...
Videos and podcasts are always cool, but deep down I'm still a sucker for the written word, so from time to time you might see some new reviews and articles on the site as well - the latest additions have their own slot on the site's main page. Here's what's currently featured at thelogbook.com...
October 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Videos and podcasts are always cool, but deep down I'm still a sucker for the written word, so from time to time you might see some new reviews and articles on the site as well - the latest additions have their own slot on the site's main page. Here's what's currently featured at thelogbook.com...