So this was a very popular show in the 00s, and it is not officially available anywhere except a few episodes on DVD.

Someone made this post a couple of years ago, and they compiled a few YouTube video links. However, most of those no longer work…

I was able to find this link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s9aT9Khh1XI on the wayback machine, but I can’t get it to play. Does anyone know how to do that if it’s even possible?

Does anyone have any of these formerly-found and available episodes archived somewhere? Know of any way to access the old YouTube videos?

EDIT: I did find a few episodes on the internet archive from the DVD collection compiled here, but there are hopefully more episodes out there.

Thank you.

So one of my safe foods is a burrito with cheese, rice and beans, nothing else. And I make them and store them. Or my dad helps me. But the wax paper touching them is grossing me out all of a sudden so much…like I got it in my head and i ate some a short while ago and I just want to throw up I can’t stop thinking about it and feeling like I ate paper and it’s contaminated, and I just feel so nauseous right now and im crying and the stupid google ai said not to throw up so I’m trying not to and I hope I’m not breaking rules but I am looking for support right now.

This is a 1968 film called Certain Honorable Men notably written by Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone), and it was made for TV. It aired on NBC on September 12 of that year, and was never released on home media or even broadcast ever again.

I’m a huge fan of Alexandra Isles (possibly still Moltke at the time).

It was apparently the first of five “On Stage” dramas shown by NBC that season.

The production was recorded on color Video tape. The running time was 95 minutes including commercials, airing from 9:30pm-11:05 EST.

Taken from this article on atvaudio.com about the film:

“This video tape appears to have been wiped (erased) as so many television Quad tapes were erased and reused to record other television productions during the 1960's and 1970's…. The one and only time "CERTAIN HONORABLE MEN" aired on TV was on Sept. 12, 1968, on NBC. Subsequently, this production vanished from the cultural landscape. Despite its pedigree, "CERTAIN HONORABLE MEN" has essentially been lost to the sands of time. It was never been released on video, or as a DVD.

The teleplay has never been posted on You Tube. It is also difficult to even locate more than a single photo or the original artwork advertising this fascinating presentation adaptation to the television screen.”

Any bits or pieces you can find of this… stills, promotional material, sound recording (which apparently exists but I’m not sure if it’s available to the public, I can’t find it)

I love the Laura Collins story arc possibly the most. Rewatching it, I have questions. I did last time also, but even more this time and as I was going I got more questions.

Lore

My first observation was that the lifespan of the Phoenix dramatically changes over the course of these episodes.

Laura arrives and first tells the story about the Phoenix and indicates that it “goes on living for another 500 years” after it emerges from the ashes.

Later in the storyline, we find Laura Murdock Radcliffe and Laura Stockbridge, who died exactly 100 and 200 years earlier respectively. Indicating the Phoenix has a 100 year lifespan.

Presently, Laura has just burned in her apartment and been reborn mere days ago, and by the end of the storyline she’ll have done it again. Indicating the Phoenix has a 🤷 *shrug emoji* Willy Nilly Life Span.

Family

Another obvious glaring question is how does she have family?

We are told about her having family that have “long moved away” when she returns. How does she have parents (presumably biological ones in their 60s) if she is a magical being? Are the parents also Phoenixes or magic? Did they conceive another baby and Laura switched places like a changeling?

Age

Surely if Laura in 1967 grew up in Collinsport, people must have seen her… age? Or was she born a 35 year old woman?
Does a Phoenix age?
Does she have the ability to change her age?
Does being reborn have any effect on her appearance?
How is she in her 30’s if she dies every 100 years?
Is she periodically born as a baby?

David’s Role

If David is supposed to be the reincarnation of David Radcliffe, is he also 300+ years old?
Was there a David Stockbridge?
Will his children be Phoenixes?
Was Roger Collins or some iteration of him the father every time?

Laura Hospital stay

We are told early in the story that Laura is in a sanitarium. Presumably not voluntarily.
Why doesn’t anyone know she left?
Who was paying for it that hadn’t noticed returned checks or something?
How did she get to Phoenix Arizona when Laura and Roger lived in Maine and had only arrived at Collinwood months earlier?

There’s not much more to add. I’ve made a few arrangements of songs I like (not originals), and transcribed them and would like to share them such as on Ultimate Guitar, but they have dedicated “ukelele” etc tabs, but there isn’t one for Dulcimer, so in order to stick with the strict formatting rules on the site, how do you handle it?

Also, Typically I think dulcimer tabs are the opposite of guitar, with the low string being on the top row, but Ultimate Guitar says to always do it high to low string.

Does anyone publish tabs on there and what do you do?