The Ten Year Honeymoon: Claude Akins and Paul Burke
The Ten Year Honeymoon, Season 1, Episode 3, aired Tuesday October 23, 1973. Claude Akins and Paul Burke have been partners for ten years, but suddenly Akins is acting shockingly out of character. No spoilers, but it does have some intense shooting violence and (fairly fake-looking) blood. It's a great episode, in my Top Five of the series. It opens at the Claude Akins' family home. The Columbia lot (Warner Bros. Ranch in Burbank where Samantha Stephens' house facade was), which is sadly now gone (rather recent destruction, late 2023), but so much of the Valley looks (looked?) like that. It fooled me at first that it was a real street in Burbank or neighboring Toluca Lake. But never too far from Universal. Why do they always have older actors with such young kids? Claude Akins is 47 here. Paul Burke was just two months younger than Akins; both born in mid-1926. Check out this Planet of the Apes blog for Claude Akins as I always think of him, when I'm not thinking of M...
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