Shirley MacLaine’s Out On A Limb
abc Monday night movie - 01/19/1987
part two
complete with commercials
now i know what you’re thinking. why did i put in the commercials? it’s really quite exciting when you think about it. i was able to find the commercials for the series as it originally aired. what i did was to put a cleaner copy of the movie in place of what would have been a VHS transfer, so it’s a really good copy, better than the other versions on youtube.
i saw this when it aired on tv way back when, but i think i only caught the second part which is probably the most important one. it’s funny the way the mind works because i had always thought the series aired in 1988. maybe it did and i caught a repeat. it was very influential on me because i was just a kid and i was really into the Beatles and i became fascinated with the NEW AGE.
at any rate i read Shirley’s book in 2021 while i was recovering from covid. what a great book. there are definitely differences. she wrote a follow up book which details the making of the series, and that is quite good too. the book is called, “IT’S ALL IN THE PLAYING.”
i watch OUT ON A LIMB all the time and whatever your spiritual background or journey is, i think it’s an important aspect of one person’s search for meaning in an otherwise confusing universe. when you think about it, Shirley Maclaine has got some stones for having the testicular fortitude to do what she did. that being said, whatever your feelings on the esoteric or the New Age, you have got to respect what this work is.