Kathryn Morris UK

To Kathryn,
with boundless affection

Family Values

This is one of those things I thought I’d never get to see. Ain’t life full of surprises?

Thanks to Cruzlite on YouTube we have a chance to see a short clip Kathryn in one of her earliest roles, as the oddly named Borgyork Grumm in the TV movie sitcom pilot Family Values from 1995. I’m not sure about the “TV movie” part, because it looks more like a sitcom, but that’s how IMDb is listing it so I’ll go with that for now. Perhaps it is because it never became a series.

The “men”, and I use the term loosely, in the clip describe Borgyork as “Miss Huck’s new socialworker”. Kathryn looks very young and very cute.

The video as posted by Cruzlite can been seen on YouTube HERE. I’ve added a version of it and a set of screencaps to the Gallery.

Thanks to Kareen_T for the heads-up.

Update: I’ve moved the gallery entries to the TV section because from what little I can find on this else where suggests that it is a TV show that didn’t go beyond the pilot and not a TV movie as IMDb says.

One Day In The Year

And now for something a little different.

In early December last year artist Lynne Schlumpf started a project to create 51 sketches, one for every year she’s “been allowed to be on this earth.” These drawings were to be created solely using applications for the iPhone.

Luckily for us Lynne decided to extend the project to cover a whole year (to become the 365 Days of iPhone Sketches) because on day 54, Thursday the 27th of January, seeing Kathryn on an episode of Cold Case inspired that day’s sketch (as seen on the right and in the Gallery).

“Was watching the show Cold Case and was thinking the woman who plays detective Lilly Rush has a really interesting face. Very pale with very blonde hair and sea blue eyes.” – Lynne

How do you create such images on a phone? Good question, and one I put to Lynne. Autodesk, best known for products like AutoCAD that cost thousands of Pounds/Dollars/Euros etc., have created some sophisticated apps for Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch and iPad range for next to, and including, nothing. Lynne uses their SketchBook Mobile app and is clearly enamoured with it. There is a limited feature free version, SketchBook MobileX, for those that want to try it out. Zen Brush by PSOFT also gets the thumbs up from Lynne.

Lynne has kindly allowed me to add her work to the KM UK Gallery. You’ll find the full-sized version of the sketch in the Drawings area of the Fan Art gallery along with a couple more small items Lynne has created (thumbnails below). We may be seeing more of Lynne’s work here in the future.

You can read about Lynne’s 365 Days of iPhone Sketches project and see other images she has created on her blog Art Haunts Me Everywhere.

Birthday Fan Art – Updated x2

Happy Kathryn Day Eve (thanks Gina 😉 )

Ahead of tomorrow’s celebrations we have some appropriately themed fan art for you from some of our artistic readers.

Thanks to regular fan art contributors to KM UK IcyWinter and Kareen_T for the banners and wallpapers. Check them all out in the Fan Art section of the Gallery.

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for the big day.

If you create Kathryn-related fan art (wallpapers, banners, avatars, buttons or other drawings) and would like to showcase it here on KM UK please contact me.

Update: additional images from IcyWinter and smallbarbie. Thank you both.

Update 2: Kareen_T has passed along images for her planned KM Birthday video project from other Kathryn fans. Thanks to Harllen Jales, Letícia Medeiros dos Santos, Pamella Pereira, Rebeca Felix, Renata Pinheiro and Sérgio Cabral for their efforts. You can find their images in the Fan Art Drawings section of the Gallery.

L.A. Firefighters

L.A. Firefighters was a short-lived TV series from 1996. The show followed the lives of, believe it or not, a company of firefighters in the Los Angeles Fire Department. The presence of female fire officers in such a male dominated environment being a key issue they dealt with.

Only the first season’s six episodes ever aired. The real L.A. Firefighters Union were none too pleased at the they way were portrayed and disassociated themselves from the show. A reworking for the second season, including a name change to Fire Co. 132, came to nought and it was never broadcast. The first season has rarely, if ever, been repeated.

Kathryn was in three episodes from that first season playing a woman called Helen Regan. Helen was the wife of one of the crew killed in the line of duty at the end of the pilot episode. In the trio episodes Helen attends the funeral of her husband and spends time with another fireman, Jack, who has decided to look after his departed colleague’s widow and children. She then announces she is leaving for Seattle to live near her brother.

A very small collection of small screencaps has been in the Gallery for some time but I have now added a few more and organised them by episode. Sadly the additions are even smaller and of lower quality than the existing ones, but many thanks to our friends at The Elizabeth Mitchell Fan Club for kindly donating them. Elizabeth, best known now for her role in Lost, starred as the wife of a fireman in L.A. Firefighters.