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Diagnosis Murder
Day: Friday January 16 2015
Time: 3:00 PM Eastern
Channel: Hallmark Movie Channel
Record number: 1967

Title: Diagnosis Murder
Medium: TV Series
Actress: Victoria Rowell, Talia Balsam

Description: Episode: "Call Me Incontestable" (2.15)

Playing the female lead (Dr. Amanda Bentley), she gets bound and gagged with velcro straps. Short scene, but some nice mmpphing.

The action's around the last five minutes. Ms. Balsam, as the perp, is handcuffed as well.

Gagster
Superman
Day: Friday January 16 2015
Time: 4:30 PM Eastern
Channel: MeTV
Record number: 2955

Title: Adventures of Superman (1952)
Medium: TV Series
Actress: Noel Neill

Description: Episode: "Clark Kent, Outlaw" (3.8)

Clark concocts a scheme to infiltrate a gang of jewel thieves by allowing himself to be fired and publicly humilated from The Planet. The thieves are happy to recruit him, once they discover his knack for cracking safes. Lois and Jimmy follow him on a caper to try and turn him away from a life of crime and get captured. Clark convinces the crooks to drag them back to The Planet building, where the two reporters can be killed in a fiery accident, and the building torched at the same time. Lois and Jimmy are loosely bound back to back to chairs with twine (which encircles their bodies, but their hands aren't tied, leaving Lois able to maintain a tenacious grip on the strap of her purse with her white-gloved fingers) and loosely detective gagged with handkerchiefs while Clark sets the fire in a chair in Perry White's office. The camera shoots the pair from in front of Lois, which effectively diminishes Jimmy's presence, and enhances Lois' brief struggles as her captors escape.

Good news for the good guys: it turns out that the chair is fireproof and Clark secretly triggered the fire alarm as he and the crook fled the building.

This was the first of the show's episodes shot in color to contain a scene.

Gagster
Siege of the Saxons
Day: Friday January 16 2015
Time: 8:15 AM Eastern
Channel: TCM
Record number: 2002

Title: Siege of the Saxons (1963)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Janette Scott

Description: Janette plays King Arthur's daughter. She's cleave-gagged (over the hair) with a white cloth, her elbows are crooked around a tree branch athwart her back and her wrists are linked by a leather thong passing across her stomach. When she is freed it appears that a cloth was placed behind her back, presumably to cushion the branch.

Classy, if brief, scene. starting at 35 minutes of a 1 hour 35 minute broadcast slot with adverts.

Also at 47 minutes there is a brief handgag by the hero, by which time she has had her hair cut short trying to pass as a boy to elude the pursuing villains.

Gagster
Flight Of The Lost Balloon
Day: Friday January 16 2015
Time: 10-:45AM Central
Channel: TCM
Mala Powers on the rack.

Record number: 388

Title: Flight of the Lost Balloon (1962)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Mala Powers

Description: Great scene where Mala Powers gets stretched on a rack, to get her sweetheart to tell where Cleopatra's treasure is hidden. He knows, but doesn't care if she gets tortured, which is far superior to "Wait, I'll tell you. Just let her go." Long buildup, where the villain describes the rack to a fearful Mala. Another man enters and attacks the torturer. When the good guy wins, he unlocks the other man first before releasing Powers.

CM
Jack The Giant Killer
Day: Friday January 16 2015
Time: 12:30PM Central
Channel: TCM
Good day for scenes on TCM. Here's another one.

Record number: 9230

Title: Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Judi Meredith

Description: At the 43 minute mark (no commericials), the lovely Princess Elaine is the unconscious captive of the evil wizard Pendragon with her wrists chained over her head. After we see about ten seconds of her plight the camera pans to the evil wizard concocting a spell.

At the 44:15 mark, the wizard awakens the princess and hypotizes her with a sacred orb, at which point her arms fall magically from the shackles one by one. This scene lasts about thirty seconds.

At the 67 minute mark, Princess Elaine, her mind under control of Pendragon, is chained to a wall of a ruined temple as part of a plan to trap Jack. We see the evil minion Garna shackle her wrist to the wall and, after suitable dialogue, Jack release her wrists. What makes this short scene special is the evil glee the now mind-control princess exhibits as her arms are chained and the obvious effort she makes to change her attitude from willing conspirator to damsel-in-distress. This scene, though, only lasts about thirty seconds.

For most of the film, the cute, chestnut-haired Princess Elaine wears a simple, low-cut bodice type dress. There are no gags in either scene.

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