Red Hooded Crane

In the mystifying opening sequence of BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER, a double kidnapping takes place on a rainy night in Vancouver with a minimal amount of wasted time and a maximum amount of violence. A little boy is picked up at the airport by his mother (Talisa Soto), whose car is stopped minutes later by thugs who steal the boy and say they're taking him to his father. Rounding the corner, the thugs see a car explode in front of them, and a dump truck smashes into a wall of other cars, spraying fire...

Television is fickle. A popular situation comedy of the late 1960s and early '70s, this wholesome family fare began following young widow Doris Martin (Doris Day) and her two young sons, Billy and Toby. At its start, the family had absconded from the congestion of San Francisco to live with Doris's dad Buck on his ranch, located just outside the city in Mill Valley; Doris had given up a career as a singer to make the move, and much of the show's humor came from her attempts to adjust to the unfamiliar...