The Sopranos - Season 6 Part 1 (2006 David Chase)

Look at what happens just in episode 1. Paulie robs Columbians and is almost stabbed.* 2. One of the team inherits $2m, wants to retire to Florida - Tony won't let him. Turns out he's a rat. Kills himself. 3. The older rat in the gang conveniently dies whilst ratting - "one of the good guys" someone says of him at his funeral. 4. Junior 'Marvin Gayes' Tony.* Terence Winter wrote.

Then we have a different kind of dream scene - it's interesting how they differ. I can't remember the one in Season 1 now, but 'Funhouse' is totally bizarre and uses sound in a brilliant way, 'The Test Dream' is kind of Buñuelian, and this one is played straight, with Tony at a convention and being mistaken for 'Kevin Finity'. Meanwhile Silv is not enjoying being temporary boss.. (Chase and Winter).

Ojibwe is an indigenous tribe located in Canada

Chris tries to talk Ben Kingsley into appearing in 'Saw meets GF2', with predictable results, ends up assaulting Lauren Bacall - the effrontery - where's Bogie when you need him? Matthew Weiner wrote this one.

Vito (Joseph R Gannascoli), or 'the cock-sucker' - as Q likes to refer to him - is outed so flees to New England, ends up in a short lived relationship with a fireman.

Artie's losing his grip at the restaurant - best moment is when a couple comes in late and he resorts to his old hand-written cookbook. And AJ's beginning to realise he's only popular because of who his dad is.

Carm's hotel is the Marriott in the Champs-Elysées, and the restaurant is Le Grand Vefour.

You think it will all end in some orgy of mob violence, but Phil has a heart attack and all is peaceful... for the moment.

*'What's Going On?' on vinyl was a birthday present - August 3. Quiet a bizarre coincidence to have that staring at us through these references.

* Editor's note: This doesn't happen in episode 1. Not all the contents of the jottings are necessarily accurate. That extends to editor's footnotes, too.