Cosmoline-
Hi. You met me on the "Lost World" forum at SF-Fandom.com I'm Explorer there. (That board was down for a few days this week as they changed servers. It's back up tonight.)
Keep in mind that "Sellout & Weasel" is now owned by a different firm, and that Colt in the past has tried to avoid the consumer market, as I recall, preferring to make its money from government M16 contracts. Pretty much all the major gun companies have sinned. Bill Ruger is partially responsible for the ban on large capacity magazines, and for years, refused to make any revolvers other than single-actions, as he felt that they were all a sportsman should want.
As for the Police Positive Special, I had one in high school, made in the 1920's. I knew what it was because I'd read Jim Serven's Colt books, and Keith's, "Sixguns", etc. I also owned a Colt M1917 .45 and a Webley Mk. VI.
I recall seeing quite a few of these guns on TV shows in the late 1950's, when I was a kid. I believe that "Phillip Marlowe" had a Detective Special on him, and a panel under the dash of his car with a Police Positive Special, and other TV detectives and crooks had them. It's a good blend of compactness and .38 Colt Special (lol!) power.
Chic Gaylord, the famed holster maker, also liked the PPS a lot.
Of course, on "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World" TV SERIES (as distinct from several movies based on the same book), the only Colts seen are Prof. Challenger's Single-Action Army and the M1911 .45 autos carried by Lord Roxton and Ned Malone in some episodes. (Roxton usually wears those ivory-butted Webleys in shoulder holsters in later episodes.)
I always felt that whoever chose Marguerite Krux's gun should have opted for a Police Positive Special or a S&W Military and Police, either of which would have been easily available when the expedition left for South America in 1920. As is, she has that S&W New Departure Safety Hammerless .38, occasionally filled-in for by a similar Iver Johnson. Seems to depend on what the prop house had on hand that day...
"The Lost World" airs in local markets, and is also on WGN Cable TV out of Chicago, and appears each weekday morning on TNT cable. (Central time for that is 6:00AM) It is one of the VERY few TV shows whose heroes carry guns and who aren't either cops or crooks. It is about the ONLY TV show to depict honest citizens using guns to defend themselves and which doesn't send a negative message about private gun ownership.
That's one reason why I like the show. Others include the general chemistry among the cast, and Rachel Blakely (Marguerite) and Jennifer O'Dell as Veronica. The last is featured on page 33 (I think) in the Jan., 2004 (50th Anniversary), "Playboy", where she is quoted on, among other things, her role as Veronica. Worth a look.
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