BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: cptsnapper
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 09:42 PM

Mick and Montmorency starring Charlie Drake

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: cptsnapper
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 05:23 PM

Does anyone remember Whirligig with Humphrey Lestocq & Mr. Turnip?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jim Martin
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 08:18 AM

'Stranger on the Shore' - pity there weren't any home video recorders around then (1961), doubt whether the BBC kept any episodes:

http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/sots.htm

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 06:46 AM

Was the series called 'Score With The Scaffold'? The song itself was released in 1968, and the TV series in 1970. (By the way the words were written by Paul McCartney's brother and a young Roger McGough!)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 06:38 AM

Bert, the song was recorded by the Scaffold.

'Do do do you remember, Do do do you recall, The day we went out into the country, Just to get away from it all'

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 01:44 AM

The Forest Rangers (for all you Canucks)
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Mark Ross
Date: 10 Dec 11 - 09:07 PM

What? No SGT. PRESTON OF THE YUKON fans?


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 10 Dec 11 - 08:43 AM

I'm thinking of how many rainy Saturday Afternoon Movie shows I wasted my time on. I'm guessing it was locally produced, but don't know for certain. They almost invariably showed films from the '40's and early '50's - with an occasional earlier exception. Abbot and Costello films were much appreciated, as were those of the Thin Man. Unfortunately, it seemed the vast majority featured the East Side Kids. I watched these also - continually hoping they would somehow improve; but they never did.

Getting back to TV series: I very much enjoyed the adventures of Boston Blackie, Richard Diamond - Private Eye, and of course, Dragnet and the Badge 714 re-runs.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 10:35 AM

Yes - Whit Bissell played General Heywood Kirk. And according to Wikipedia the Titanic episode was the first one in the series.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Tunesmith
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 07:45 AM

Ah, The Time Tunnel!
Anyone remember the episode where out time travellers are transported on to the Titanic just before it hits that iceberg!
Somebody got their calculations badly wrong there! (Whit Bissell - was that the actor who played the scientist in charge of the project?)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 09 Dec 11 - 06:14 AM

I spent what seemed like hours watching the Test Pattern, waiting for the damn cartoons to start!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 07:50 PM

Bobert said, How about "Sky King"??? "Fury"???

They were good in pajamas while eating corn flakes with milk and sugar weren't they.



How about the Defenders, Masterpiece Theatre and Mr. Ed?

The Outsiders. Time Tunnel. I love Lucy.




Yep Max, Branded was a damn strong tune.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: RangerSteve
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 06:40 PM

Allan, that's where I first saw him, too. He was married, and not too happily to Gladys. There was a spin-off, "Pete and Gladys", with Cara Williams as Gladys. Unfortunately, Gladys was only funny when she was unseen on December Bride. In the spin-off, she wasn't nearly as bad as she had been portrayed, and the show was just one of many forgetable domestic comedies.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 06:04 AM

Harry Morgan's recent death put me in mind of the first time I ever saw him. It was in "December Bride".

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bert
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 04:43 PM

Lots of great shows above but what about...

Jack Jackson's Record Roundabout
Dad's Army
Steptoe and Son
Colditz
All Gas and Gaiters
Up Pompeii
The Two Ronnies (or was that a little later?)
The Army Game
Dixon of Dock Green
TW3 (which often included a song by Jake Thackray)

And what was the name of that show that started with the song "Do, Do, Do you remember, do, do , do you recall?

ANd when was it that Ken Dodd had a TV show?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 03:55 PM

Josepp - thanks for the Green Acres trivia.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 11:29 AM

Does anybody remember Super Circus on Sunday afternoons, with Mary Hartline? I had a paper doll of her. (There, aren't you glad you know that?)

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 11:24 AM

I actually got to meet Boston Blackie once. It was at some sort of charity event in our local civic auditorium, along with a load of other TV names like that, and he was just standing there. Why don't you go talk to him, my mother prompted, but I felt too shy (I was pretty young). Go on, she said, tell him you like his show. So I did, and got a signed picture, and found him very nice, much gentler in person than his TV persona. But my heart belonged to Sgt. Joe Friday.

I also played with George Feneman's (Groucho's straight man on You Bet Your Life) daughter one holiday when our families were staying in the same mountain resort. I don't remember George being around, and would have recognised him because my parents watched the show. My favourite bit was that roulette-wheel thingy with the (?) fake nose & mustache. Can't really remember it precisely but the pictures my mind is throwing to me are MUCH more fun than anything I could find on old YouTube clips.

Also liked Crusader Rabbit, loved Captain Midnight & Icky in equal measure, and was scared of the Howdy Doody characters for some reason.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 09:57 AM

Well remember Andy Divine as Jingles.

Other shows I loved were "Wyatt Earp" (my first TV crush...on Hugh O'Brian; wrote off and got an autographed picture postcard). The theme song was sung by the Ken Darby Singers - "Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, / Brave courageous and bold / Long live his fame and long live his glory / And long may his story be told."

Never was interested in Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room was after my time (I "grew up" with Ding Dong School), couldn't stand Mighty Mouse for some reason. Watched ALL the Saturday westerns, from "Lone Ranger", "Cisco Kid", "Gene Autry", (I preferred "Roy Rogers"), "Have Gun Will Travel", "The Rebel", "Cimarron City", "Rawhide", "Fury" (not exactly a "western" but took place on a ranch) and especially (though it was Sunday night) the early "Maverick" with James Garner. Oh, and Gunsmoke, of course. With Chester.

Friday nights when I was still fairly young, I could stay up later. After "Twilight Zone" I could watch reruns of "Boston Blackie" and "I Led Three Lives". When I watched the latter I never expected to move to Seacoast New Hampshire years later and to often drive past Herb Philbrick's store across from Jenness Beach in Rye, New Hampshire.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 05:59 AM

Yes, Bill, I remember the Smilin' Ed days. The references I could find didn't mention it; but the rumor at the time was that he died right there on the set.

Thanks, Wes, for the links!

I suppose everyone remembers that Andy Devine, at least at one point in his long career, played Jingles P. Jones, the "comical sidekick" on "Wild Bill Hickok". Guy Madison had the lead role. His horse was "Buckshot". Does anyone recall Jingles' horse? BTW, Sugar Pops sponsored the show.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,josepp
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 09:38 PM

Whoops, I typed up that last post.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 09:33 PM

Rufe Davis, who played Floyd Smoot, the conductor of the Hooterville Cannonball, also played in "The Strawberry Roan" in 1948 starring Gene Autry and Pat Buttram.

Other factoids include Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel) was the great-uncle of Tea Leoni. He was an excellent pianist and played in his vaudeville days. He was nearly deaf when he played Fred.

Alvy Moore (Mr. Kimball) served in the marines in WW2 and fought in heavy combat at Iwo Jima. He would rarely ever talk about it (only if asked) and then only very briefly.

Eddie Albert was also a war hero, having won a bronze star in WW2 after risking his own life to save 70 marines at Tarawa.

Eddie Albert founded Earth Day which is observed on his birthday--April 22. He and his son were among the first activists to get DDT banned. He farmed an acre of corn at his home and ran an apiary.

Frank Cady (Mr. Drucker) was a graduate of Stanford University and is the first actor ever to play the same role on three different series simultaneously.

The dialogue coach of Green Acres was Jack Bannon who went on to play Artie Donovan on "Lou Grant." Bannon is the son was Bea Benederet who played Kate Bradley, the proprietress of the Shady Rest Hotel.

Green Acres started in 1950 as a radio show called "Grandby's Green Acres" starring Gale Gordon and Bea Benederet. It was produced by Jay Sommers who also produced the TV show. Sommers was asked to come up with a spin-off for "Petticoat Junction" to be aired without a pilot episode so he revived the Green Acres idea.

Eddie Albert turned down the roles of Wilbur on "Mr. Ed" and Steve Douglas on "My Three Sons" before accepting the role of Oliver Wendell Douglas. He said he knew the show would be a big hit because every city man has the innate longing to get back to the soil and grow something.

The animal trainer for Filmways was Frank Inn. He trained Arnold the pig and the unnamed dog on Petticoat Junction whose real name was Higgins. Higgins and Edgar Buchanan would go on to star in the movie Benji. Arnold was a female piglet of the American Yorkshire variety. Since pigs become enormous, a new piglet was required each season. Arnold won Inn three awards in the 60s and Higgins won him another as Benji. Inn died in 2002 and had the ashes of the original Arnold and of Higgins interred with him in his coffin.

·        Some inconsistancies of the show include Sarah the operator being Hank Kimball's mother and owner of the phone company but later she is the mother of Roy Trendall who owns the phone company.
·        Mr. Haney's first name is both Eustace and Charlton.
·        Hooterville was said in one episode to be 300 miles from Chicago. Some think it is modeled on Eldon, Missouri (Paul Henning's wife's grandparents lived there) which is 300 miles from Chicago but Eldon looks nothing like the scenery depicted on the TV show. Springfield was mentioned as a town which could be either in Illinois or Missouri. One of the names tossed around for Petticoat Junction besides Whistle Stop was Ozark Widow and since the Shady Rest Hotel was supposed to be near or in Hooterville, then Hooterville must be in the Ozarks. Missouri borders on Arkansas. Hooterville and environs have to be east of the Mississppi because the radio station that Oliver tunes into is WPXL. West of the Mississippi, call letters don't use W but K.
·        There is some connection to the Clampetts and Petticoat Junction because Cousin Pearl contacted Granny when she delivered Betty Jo's infant and the Clampetts came from Bugtussle in southern Missouri.
·        Pixley was supposed to be about 50 miles from Hooterville while Crabwell Corners was 5 to 8 miles away. Bugtussle was 25 miles miles away or so. The state capital (never named) was about 500 miles away. The county seat, erroneously assumed by many to be Pixley, is actually never named but is supposed to between 50 and 75 miles away from Hooterville. A town called Appleville was said to be about 300 miles away. The distances to towns as Stankwell Falls, Bleedswell, Springfield and Silver Dollar City (mentioned in The Beverly Hillbilllies) are not specified.
·        The Shady Rest and Drucker's General Store appear to be the only two businesses in the area. The Shady Rest is supposed to be 25 miles from Hooterville according to something Uncle Joe once said.
·        The Cannonball ran from Pixley to Bugtussle but passed through Hooterville. Drucker's store is located near railroad tracks. When Oliver and Lisa are handcuffed together, they go to Drucker's store for a key but it is closed. Kimball comes by and tells them to lay on the tracks but the Cannonball nearly runs them over. Floyd Smoot would enter Drucker's store to announce the arrival of the train and what the next scheduled stops were. So the store itself is an official stop for the train.
·        Yet in one episode of Green Acres, Oliver learns his farmhouse is in Hooterville, the barn is in Pixley but the rest of the property is in Crabwell Corners.
·        In a Petticoat Junction episode, we learn the Shady Rest straddles Hooterville and Pixley. So these towns must be touching.
·        There is a sexual element to all of it. Even though Hooterville was said in one episode to be named after Horace Hooter, there seems to be a reference to women's breasts involved since Lisa calls it "Hootersville" (nudge, nudge). The humor of Green Acres being far less restrained and far more absurd than on the more straight-laced Petticoat Junction where we don't get to see behind the water tower while the girls are bathing in it. The very titles of each program suggest a sexual element which, in turn, suggests the brand of humor. Lots of curves? You bet!!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 04:30 PM

A few random thoughts, Someone mentioned "Thriller" with Boris Karloff - they're available on DVD - I have the entire series. The show still holds up pretty well.

Variety shows: Tuesday night was reserved for Red Skelton and Gary Moore. As far as my neighborhood was concerned, there was nothing on the other channels on Tues. night. Moore's show had a dream cast - Derwood Kirby, Marion Lorne, and Carol Burnett. And on Wed. there was the Danny Kaye Show.

I didn't see any mention of Captain Kangaroo - I grew up with him. I even got to shake his hand once, back in the days when TV celebrities would attend supermarket grand openings.

I'd get up at 6am on Saturday mornings, just to catch the old b&w cartoons - especially the ones with the farmer who was always plagued by millions of mice. And Heckle and Jekyll, and Mighty Mouse.

I loved Amos and Andy - I never thought less of black people because of that show, they were no more insulting to blacks than "Life of Riley" or "The Honeymooners" were to whites. I had a black co-worker who also loved the show, and I asked her what the difference was between A&A and "The Jeffersons", and she said it was ok for George Jefferson to be a buffoon because he was rich. Had Amos and ANdy been wealthy, the show would have stayed on the air longer.

Burns and Allen, in my opinion, is the best TV show ever made.

A few adventure shows geared towards kids that I haven't seen mentioned: Jungle Jim; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Brave Eagle (or was it Bold Eagle?), Ramar of the Jungle.

I love watching the Twilight Zone for the chance to see now-famous actors before they were famous. A classic has Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery - two people who would never be mentioned in the same sentence had it not been for that episode.

Some trivia - Gladys Pierce and Marion Lorne both one posthumous Emmy awards for their rolls on "Bewitched". Smiley Burnett was the engineer on Petticoat Junction, Pat Buttram was Mr. Haney on Green Acres, both played Gene Autrey's sidekicks in the movies.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 02:29 PM

Emergency Ward Ten, with nurses Pat and Carol. I loved that!

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: paula t
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 02:27 PM

How about Hughie Green's ,"Opportunity Knocks!" Some of the acts were so bad they were funny, but some people made their fortunes.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 12:36 PM

Allen - These are for you:

Plunk your magic twanger!

Andy's Gang with Magic and Sweaky

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 12:29 PM

A link to a site about Smilin' Ed

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 12:25 PM

"...on Saturday mornings. Sponsored by Buster Brown Shoes, hosted by Andy Divine. "

*I* am old enough to remember the original, before Andy Devine. Hosted by "Smilin' Ed" McConnell

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Baz Bowdidge
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 11:21 AM

Ampopfilms may be of interest to you guys:
Click for Ampopfilms
Also the Yuku forum Whirligig is 50's based:
Whiligig

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 08:54 AM

I remember enjoying "You Bet You Life" in reruns in the 70's and 80's. Groucho was a lot funnier when I was old enough to get the more "mature" jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 08:49 AM

Oh, AllanC, I remember it well...we got it on Saturday mornings. Sponsored by Buster Brown Shoes, hosted by Andy Divine. Loved the jungle stories.

And at about age 3 and 4, I watched Miss Frances on Ding Dong School. Loved it when she'd exhort us to not touch anything when going to wash our hands, after we'd just made a shambles of the living room in front of the TV.

Several of my other favorite shows were "Thriller" hosted by Boris Karloff. I was about 10 or 11, but remember episode titles: "The Grim Reaper" with Bill Shatner, and "La Strega".

Another show that only made it through one season was "Stoney Burke" starring Jack Lord with Warren Oates and Bruce Dern. Casey Tibbs (Rodeo Cowboys Assn. All-Around Rodeo Champion) did the saddle bronc riding stunts.

Oh, and "Doctor Kildare" with Richard Chamberlain, then on to "Laugh In" by the end of the decade.

"Twilight Zone", of course, and others of the same ilk: "One Step Beyond", etc.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 06:28 AM

It would seem there is nobody old enough to recall the reference to what I posted earlier: "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie!". There was a Sunday afternoon show, (just a little before Bishop Sheen's show, I believe,) called, "Story Time" which was at one point hosted by Andy Devine. A frog would suddenly descend from above on a spring whenever the incantation was spoken.

My favorite stories from the show were those about "Shamu the Jungle Boy"

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 10:59 AM

Believe it or not, I can remember the main Miss Frances' full name from a childhood Christmas present, a roll of Ding Dong School drawing paper which came in a box, rather like kitchen roll (paper towels) used to in those days, and on the side it had a little blurb about

Dr. Frances Horwich

looking very official and Qualified To Teach Children. HowzZAT for memory?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 09:49 AM

"Ding Dong School - anybody remember Miss Frances?" (and Romper Room)

Well... I was WAY too old to follow the program, but I knew personally a "Miss Fran" who did Romper Room in Kansas. (I assumed the show had various local persons).


ahhhh...looked it up:

"Romper Room was a rare case of a series being franchised and syndicated, so local affiliates – Los Angeles and New York were prime examples – could produce their own versions of the show instead of airing the national telecast."

...and here is the one I knew.. Miss Fran ... she & her husband, Claude Lee were active in the Democratic party in Wichita in the 60s & 70s.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 08:41 AM

One of the shows I loved didn't quite make it a full season, I think -- "The Travels of Jamie McPheeters"...Dan O'Herlihy played Doc McPheeters, a medicine show guy and lovable scoundrel; Kurt Russell played Jamie.

LOOOOOVED the theme song -- "By river boat or wagon train / Old Doc McPheeters crossed the plain / And on his mind, keep moving on / There's gold in old California..."

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 08:31 AM

Basil Brush boom boom! With Mr. Roy North or Mr. Derek Fowlds. He used to sing a little song at the end of a story of Basil de Farmer the man in shining armour. I loved early Basil Brush he could also cross over to an older more mature audience too. The modern version of Basil just does not seem the same.

I recall a magic show too David Nixon but I wasn't impressed with magic when I was a child and it seemed to go on and on. The tv series that had my whole family watching was Candid Camera especially the one where the car had no engine, I had a childish crush on Jonathan Rowth (it was his voice).

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Joybringer
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 06:24 AM

Z Cars,Dixon of Dock Green and Till death do us part. Priceless

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jim Martin
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 06:36 PM

'What's My Line' with the rather grumpy Gilbert Harding. Guests used to mime their occupation and the panel had to work out what it was (subtitles were shown for viewers who didn't want to participate).

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:59 PM

Ooops, triple cross-posted... the Baby Boomers are out in force tonight...

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:59 PM

Jerry Lewis in a bathrobe would make me laugh even now.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:58 PM

I remember that show - wasn't it called What In The World though? Whatever the object was would fly towards the viewer from a far-off perspective and then get bigger and bigger until you could recognise it (or fail to). That's such an old memory for me that it's almost pre-verbal, but I can still see it in my mind.

Also loved The Colgate Comedy Hour with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, back in the days of live transmission when Jerry would sometimes come out and talk to the audience wearing a posh bathrobe cuz he hadn't time for a costiume change, which always tickled me when I was little (well, there's no accounting for what makes very young kids laugh). And my fave of faves, The Lucky Strike Hit Parade. I recently listened to an old recording of Dorothy Collins again, after a gap of decades, and was impressed by just how good she was. Think I harbored a secret crush on Snooky Lanson. And that trippy opening-titles sequence...

And Ding Dong School - anybody remember Miss Frances?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Lighter
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:53 PM

Rootie Kazootie; Winky-Dink; Beanie and Cecil (the puppets, not the cartoon); Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. And for more geeky tots, Romper Room, and Ding Dong School with Miss Frances.

I even had a Winky-Dink Magic Screen. One would certainly help make current TV more entertaining.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:52 PM

Ed Sullivan was a Sunday tradition.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:43 PM

I may be the only one who remembers "What's In the World", a series with museum curators and experts in antiquities trying to identify odd objects.

This was in about 1954, when they were hot to fill empty air time with almost anything. The program was really interesting.... and I couldn't watch Lucy every day! I watched Sid Caesar every chance I got......I have a B&W video of "The Nairobi Trio".....oh...also Ernie Kovacs.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Bettynh
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 04:47 PM

Josepp, you named all those westerns, and forgot "Rawhide???" How could you? ;-)

Great song, and I fell in love with Clint Eastwood instantly.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Tunesmith
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 04:32 PM

I loved a western series that nobody else seems to recall: The Restless Gun - which featured the very macho John Payne.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,Josepp
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 03:58 PM

All those westerns:

Big Valley, Cheyenne, The High Chaparral, The Men from Shiloh, The Outcasts, Wild Wild West, F Troop, Rango, The Rebel, Laredo,

I also remember a lawyer drama called Judd for the Defense.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Beer
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 01:17 PM

How about Jet Jackson,also The Four Just Men.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: GUEST,josepp
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 01:11 PM

What about Surfside 6? Alfred Hitchcock Presents? The Outer limits? The Guns of Will Sonnett? T.H.E. Cat?

Subject: RE: BS: TV series from the '50s and '60s
From: Tunesmith
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 12:49 PM

Talking of 77 Sunset Strip, I loved it when the odd episode featured Kookie heavily, and I always thought that they should have built an entire series around the Kookie character.
I wonder if the studio bosses ever contemplated that?