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Subject: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,mg Date: 26 Apr 02 - 12:09 AM Here is part 1. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46912& messages=127 I know there is a way to make it click. Can someone please explain that again. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 02 - 12:48 AM Part the First (Mary, see that thread for a quickie clickie course.) Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Melani Date: 26 Apr 02 - 01:04 AM Spin and Marty, and all the other Mickey Mouse Club serials. Also, I had forgotten The Golden Hind. There was one great scene where Queen Elizabeth was invited to dinner aboard after some adventure, and they showed her how to knock the hardtack on the table to get the weevils out. Adventures in Paradise. Ever wonder how such a small boat could have such an enormous interior? Jacob: MICKEY DOLENZ was Circus Boy???!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Steve Parkes Date: 26 Apr 02 - 03:54 AM "Girl from up north"? How dare you, Dagenham Doc! She was a Brummie, Janice Nicholls. Melani, He was billed in Circus Boy as Mickey Braddock, since an hispanic name would have been non-pc in the climate of the time; sounds utterly barmy to us Brits! Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Nigel Parsons Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:11 AM Refresh (to put it above part 1) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Trevor Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:23 AM The Danger Man agent's name was John Drake. It was scheduled at the same time as 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'. Many fights with my sister, who was in love with Ilya Kuryakin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:38 AM Steve Parkes, Yes she was a Brummie, but the show she appeared on was NOT Juke Box Jury but "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (they didnt give scores on JBJ but did on TYLS)on ITV I think, JBJ was on the BBC, Anyone remeber Snagglepuss, the ham actor lion " Exit, stage left, Yukkin all the way"? or " Ah 'tis Spring again and a young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts of this and that, THOSE even" |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:49 AM Of course I remember Snagglepuss...and Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw and Foghorn Leghorn and all the Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies characters that have had such a renaissance in the past decade (Bugs and Daffy and Elmer and Porky et al). You know, I still don't understand how "Taz" has become such a superstar. I remember his debut: he arrived in a box labeled "CAUTION: Tasmanian Devil", and I seem to recall that the first thing he did when he was let out was to eat the box. By the way, way back somebody mentioned Courageous Cat. I think his sidekick was Minute Mouse, not Motor Mouse. But I could be wrong. And does anybody remember that old stoneface, Clutch Cargo? It was such low-budget animation that only his lips moved when he spoke...and not very much! This sure is a lot more fun than working! Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Teribus Date: 26 Apr 02 - 05:07 AM From the first part some questioned if Robison Crusoe was French - Robison Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - Alexander Selkirk - all Scots. The series I'd like to see again was called "Spycatcher", the wartime cases of Major Pinto. Probably can't be repeated as it was shown in the days when not everything was taped and stored. It was a fascinating programme that was set round interviews with people coming into Britain from neutral countries. Pinto would interview them to determine whether their stories were genuine or not - the debrief at the end of each episode used to be terrific. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Teribus Date: 26 Apr 02 - 05:11 AM Another two that I forgot to mention above was a series called "Moonstrike". That was about the pilots of Special Operations Squadron, flying agents into and out of France during WWII. The second was called "Wings" all about the early days of the Royal Flying Corps during WWI. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: RangerSteve Date: 26 Apr 02 - 06:20 AM Mark Cohen - Clutch Cargo's lips were real. They animators filmed real people speaking the lines and then super-imposed the filmed lips over the cartoon characters faces. They did the same thing with a 'toon called Space Angel. The whole thing looked fairly creepy, which is why it never caught on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 10:19 AM Mark Cohen and Ranger Steve: I remember "Clutch Cargo", mainly because the lips did look so creepy! It wouldn't have been so bad if the people who were filmed reading the lines had kept as stock-still as the cartoons, but as it was, the effect was of the lips floating around on the faces! It sure made an impression on this impressionable young mind! Check out the "Clutch Cargo Story" here: http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/clutchstory.html Mark, you are correct; Courageous Cat's sidekick was Minute Mouse. The music for the cartoon was quite similar in style to that used for the live-action Batman series starring Adam West. I feel compelled to clarify your cartoon-character list, though. Foghorn Leghorn was a Warner Brothers creation, along with Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer and Taz); however, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw were products of the Hanna-Barbera team. Other Hanna-Barbera characters from that particular era included Yakkee Doodle (a tiny duck), Pixie and Dixie (with Mr. Jinks – "I hate meeces to pieces!"), Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, Snooper and Blabber, Wally Gator, Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, along with half-hour shows like the Flintstones, the Jetsons and my personal fave, Top Cat. There are lots more Hanna-Barbera characters and memories here: http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/HBindex.html Trevor: What young girl wasn't in love with Ilya Kuryakin? I know I was!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 10:56 AM P.S. – Now, here's a memory for ya: "Fireball XL5" (marionettes in space)!!!! A quote from fiddlersgreen.net: "For the 1962-63 TV season, NBC picked up a show from the UK for its Saturday morning cartoon lineup. 'Fireball XL5' was produced by Gerry Anderson, who would go on to create 'Thunderbirds', 'Stingray', and 'Captain Scarlet'. But this was his second show to be produced and the first to be picked up in the USA. XL5 featured, as did most of Anderson's work, marionettes or as they called it, 'Supermarionation.' " See pictures, synopsis, character list and episode descriptions here: http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/trekker/fireball.html To hear music from the series, click on this link (beware: music plays automatically when the page appears!):http://www.zip.com.au/~raoul/fireball.htm More XL5 images (black-and-white): http://www.chuckfoster.com/xl5/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SINSULL Date: 26 Apr 02 - 11:55 AM Johnny Yuma, "The Rebel". I just sat through "Die, Monster, Die" with Nick Adams. Made no sense but it was fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: DMcG Date: 26 Apr 02 - 12:11 PM SharonA: I remeber several Anderson things even older than XL5 (sigh)
- Twizzle (I can even remember most of the words to the theme tune of Torchy. Aargh!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,chanteyranger Date: 26 Apr 02 - 02:17 PM Anyone else remember "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster"? A sitcom about two carpenters, with John Astin and Marty...can't think of his last name. It was the first sitcom I ever watched, back in the late 1950's. chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST Date: 26 Apr 02 - 02:41 PM Marty Ingles, an updated Mack and Meyer For Hire, Herb Edlemann was also in the cast. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: John MacKenzie Date: 26 Apr 02 - 03:38 PM Spike Milligan's "Q" series What are we going to do now? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 26 Apr 02 - 03:45 PM "Man Into Space" a near-future science fiction starring William Lundigan. Late 50's or very early 60's. Short-lived series that shoulda made it: "Joe Bash" starring Peter Boyle |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Kim C Date: 26 Apr 02 - 03:54 PM Who was the cartoon dog that floated up into the air everytime he got a dog biscuit? And who was the old man who drew the little face on his hand and said, "'Sokay? 'Salright!" He did some TV commercials in the 70s. I used to like a show called Best of the West. It wasn't on very long but it sure was funny. 'Course, I was only about 10 years old at the time... |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Bardford Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:43 PM "Run, Buddy, Run" - Mid 60's. In which a fellow (Buddy, I presume)in a steam room overhears a conversation between some gangster types. They spend the series trying to catch him. About all I remember is the title shot and voiceover. Also, wasn't there a cartoon superhero called "Underdog"? If not, there should be. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:50 PM Kim C: The dog's name was Snuffles; he appeared in the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons. The old guy was Señor Wences (real name: Wenceslao Moreno). He called the hand with the face Johnny. He also had the head in the box called Pedro ("S'okay?" "S'allright!"). He died in 1999 at the age of 103. I remember "Best of the West", and I remember being disappointed when it was cancelled. Likewise Tim Conway's western sitcom, "Rango". |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Wesley S Date: 26 Apr 02 - 04:57 PM Yes Bardford - there was an Underdog cartoon series. Pretty good too as my ageing memory tells me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 05:15 PM ... with Wally Cox as the voice of Underdog! "Not plane nor bird nor even frog; just li'l ol' me: Underdog." Some pics and info: http://www.toontracker.com/totaltv/underdog.htm (from there, click on the "King Leonardo" link and the "Hoppity Hooper Homepage" link to dredge up even more memories!). To Larry (InOBU), who mentioned black-and-white "Crusader Rabbit" cartoons way back in Part 1 of this discussion: It seems we're both right – "Crusader Rabbit" appeared in two distinct incarnations, one black-and-white and one color. Pictures of each version are here: http://www.toontracker.com/crusader/crusapix.htm "Crusader Rabbit" history here: http://www.toontracker.com/crusader/crusader.htm |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Walrus Date: 26 Apr 02 - 05:24 PM Anyone remember Fred Barker, Ollie Beak and Pussycat Willum? W |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mark Cohen Date: 26 Apr 02 - 05:55 PM Jeremiah, speaking of Peter Boyle, his father--Pete Boyle--was a childrens's TV host in Philadelphia in the 50s and 60s. I still have his autograph somewhere! Sharon, incredible stuff! I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and presume you do have a life....! Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 26 Apr 02 - 06:23 PM Mark: Well, sure I have a life! I went to The Folk Factory last night (remember that? – open stage and circle); I've got an outdoor gig tomorrow morning and an indoor gig Sunday night... and a job... but I did watch a lot of TV as a kid (still do watch some, in fact). As for all the links: hey, a search engine is a girl's best friend! Besides, this little excursion down Memory Lane has been a lot of fun!! I ran across the following request on this "Rocky & Bullwinkle" page; perhaps some Mudcatter might be able to help with it: http://flyingmoose.org/moose/moose.htm "A Small Request: Sometime in the mid-1980s, one of the northeastern states of the U.S. (possibly Maine?) had an election where the legality of moose-hunting was on the ballot. One group opposed to the hunting ran a television ad which featured Rocky and Bullwinkle doing their standard "pulling a rabbit out of a hat" gag... only at the end, instead of pulling out the usual lion or rhino, Bullwinkle reached into the hat and pulled out a hunter with a double-barreled shotgun. If anybody reading this has a videotape of that ad, would you mind e-mailing me? I'd like to make arrangements to see a copy. Thanks!" It's worth going to that page and clicking on the "e-mailing" link just to read the disclaimer that pops up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Jeanie Date: 26 Apr 02 - 07:00 PM Chanteyranger: Thanks for reminding me of Dickens & Fenster - they were hilarious ! They were still on TV ca. 1965 when I started learning German - picturing *Fenster* breaking a *window* (which he often did in the series) was my way of remembering the German word. Walrus: We must be of exactly the same vintage ! Hope you've looked up Lockhart, your Demon Headmaster now. Also on that whirligig website, you will see photos of Fred Barker, Ollie Beak and Willum -with Muriel Young and the wonderful Wally Whyton. "There's a party here today, there's a party here today, I can tell it by your smiling face, there's a party here today." "ABCDE, goodbye from Willum and me; FGHIJ, we'll see you another day; KLMNO, it's time for us to go; PQRST, and the cat went fiddle-ay-dee..." Remember ? Do you think that seeing Wally Whyton and Bert Weedon (who was also on those programmes) inspired us all, from a tender age, to be the brilliant guitarists we are today ??? When I was 5, I was certainly madly in love with Mr. Whyton. Then I saw my hero a long time later at a recording for a BBC radio programme, where they had a studio audience - would it have been "Country Meets Folk" ? I know this is a TV thread, but people of the same era will remember the radio show "I-S-I-R-T-A : I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (Angus Prune and co.) - saw that recorded a few times in the same place, on the Embankment. Then there was "The Pop-Inn" which went out live from the Paris Studios - saw quite a few 60's chart-toppers there (Tom Jones, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, Gene Pitney... loads more.) Best of all, you just had to write off to the BBC for tickets, and it was free ! Before I'm told off - sorry, the last two were radio shows, but they just crept into my stream of consciousness .... - Jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Apr 02 - 10:40 PM Pathetically enough, I remember most of the American shows brought up here....a couple things come to mind to add. Winky Dink and You was way ahead of it's time. To my knowledge it was the first interactive kids TV program. You bought a kit that had a plastic sheet that adhered to the screen and it included a set of markers and other stuff so you could draw on the screen. The thing worked out pretty well and I remember being so excited when I got my Winky Dink stuff......just had to be home for that show! The dog that went nuts over the biscuits eventually wound up as Muttley on the Wacky Racers as the sidekick of Snidely Whiplash......that satisfied laugh/sigh was always unmistakable. I was also a big fan of Tom Terrific's dog, Mighty Mannfred who was always trying to take a bite out of Crabby Appleton. KIM....I hated Senor Wences and let me ask you.....Don't you find it odd that the dude painted the "lips" on his hand? Little Johnny.....yeah, right.......Did you wonder if Senor Wences had to shave Little Johnny? Early on I liked Captain Video but soon switched my allegiance to Captain Midnight and his Secret Squadron. Drank the livin' shit out of my Ovaltine so I could get a patch and of course my Secret Squadron Decoder Ring. I figured later that these were leftovers from Little Orphan Annie on the radio since it too was sponsored by Ovaltine. I was older when Shari Lewis came along with Lambchop........Still young enough to clandestinely admit loving Lambchop but getting old enough to think Shari was really cute....It was that in between age(:<)) But before Shari, there was Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Puppetry was a large part of early kid's TV and for my money, KFO had it all over Howdy Doody!!!! But I watched them both, and AMOS....Way back at the beginning of this thread I need to correct you. It was Princess Summerfallwinterspring. And has no one brought up "You Bet Your Life?" One goofy looking little old Jewish guy with a moustache and a big cigar sitting on a stool and making wisecracks at the expense of his guests while purportedly doing a quiz show. He had the best straightman imaginable in George Fenneman and the great Groucho was at his smart-assed best. With two guests both named Heidi he said, "I'll call you Heidi-Hi and I'll call you Heidi-Ho and you can call me Cab Calloway." The classic though was never aired. A couple named Storey were on and they had 26 children. When asked why they had so many, Mrs. Storey replied, "Groucho, we just love kids." Groucho gave the patented cock of the head, askance look complete with eyebrow lift, and said, "I like my cigar too but I take it out once in awhile." The audience laughed for a full 5 minutes and the recording became one of the earlier laugh tracks even though the words that created it were never aired. As a very verbal and smart-assed little kid, I loved Groucho........and I still do. Then of course there was Caesar......Sidney that is. Do you realize that for about the first 4 or 5 years that the show was not only LIVE but 90 MINUTES LONG? 39 episodes a year. Tell the cast of "Friends" and some of that other feeblestuff to do THAT!!! And the quality of writing and performing were both at a high standard. Folks, that like doing a new Broadway play every week. Seinfeld couldn't have cut it either. Nor has the writing staff of the show ever been matched......Caesar himself, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, the Simon brothers, Woody Allen, Howard Morris, Larry Gelbart........my gawd how can anyone top that? And the women of early TV may have been in "secondary" positions but perhaps because they always got the best of the men, at least for me they represented just how smart and better women were. Imogene and Sid were classic of course, but there was Ann Sothern as Maisy the secretary who ran the company, Gail Storm as "My Little Margie" who may have been in the soup for an entire half hour but always came out on top in the end. Then there was a favorite of mine, the first adult actress that I as a kid had a serious crush on....Audrey Meadows may have been "just a housewife" but she always had the better of Ralph.....and I just loved that voice! I should have been a New Yorker. Voices.............. Is it just me or were they far more distinctive then since so many came from radio and the movies/stage with characters already drawn. Audrey Meadows, Ann Sothern, Wally Cox as Mr. Peepers, Art Carney as Ed Norton, Ed Wynn, the Texaco Firechief, Eve Arden as Miss Brooks, Groucho, Walter Brennan, even Uncle Miltie.......You didn't need to see them to know who they were. Oh well............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SINSULL Date: 27 Apr 02 - 01:35 PM I thought that Gail Storm was the cruise disrector on a different show. Zasu Pitts played the ship manicurist. "Oh Susannah", maybe? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Peter Kasin Date: 28 Apr 02 - 02:23 AM Thanks, GUEST for reminding of Marty's last name. Jeanie -they were indeed hilarious. John Astin also had a bizarre role in an episode of Night Gallery. He played a hippie who ends up in hell, which is portrayed as a small room with two farmers who looked like they came out of the Grant Wood painting "American Gothic." |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Lanfranc Date: 28 Apr 02 - 06:07 AM An then there was ... "Danger UXB" - a series about bomb disposal in WWII. and on a musical note, there was a single program, probably sometime in the 80's, about Phil Ochs, which ended with just about every major folkie you could think of singing Ochs' "Crucifixion" a capella. No longer forgotten - I've remembered them! The first series of "Rock Follies" from 1976 comes out on video on 10th June!!!!! See amazon.co.uk for details. Wonder why they've never repeated it on air? Alan |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: RangerSteve Date: 28 Apr 02 - 06:08 AM chanteyranger - Gail Storm was My Little Margie first, and then went on the do the Gail Storm Show (which also went by the name "Oh Suzanna") |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Micca Date: 28 Apr 02 - 10:12 AM The ones I would most like to see on video(apart from the 2 Dorothy L Sayers/Petherbridge/Walter versions of, Have his Carcass and Gaudy night, mentioned above) are "Your Cheatin Heart"with Tilda swinton and Eddie reeder and "Tutti Frutti" with Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Harry Basnett Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:37 AM An adaptation of " Inheritance " by Phyllis bentley charting the lives of two families from the 18th. to the 20th. century...it was et on the Yorkshire, Lancashire border and featured John Thaw and James Bolam. Also "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"...stories by M.R.James and the like and "The Newgate Calendar"( or it might have been 'Chronicles' in the T.V. series....anyone remember them? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Steve Parkes Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:29 AM Remember Saveen the ventriloquist, with Daisy May and the two talking dogs--one real, one stuffed? There was one "spesh" (speciality act) making occasional appearances on tv in the fifties/early sixties that really gave me the screaming ab-dabs. I must have been a closet claustrophobe as a kid ... this chap came on stage wearing a flat cap and carrying a pipe or tube about two foot in diameter and long enough to reach just below his waist. After a bit of "business" with the pipe he'd stand it on end, then his hat would "accidentally" fall into it. He'd make several attempts to reach in and get it, but his arms were too short. He'd put one leg into the pipe and try, then the other. His arms were still too short, so (and here I'd start my panic attack) he'd put his arms and his head into the pipe (still with his legs in it) and work his way down till he was bent double, just his bum sticking out. There'd then be a bit of jiggling about until finally his feet, hands and head--wearing the cap--would appear at the bottom of the pipe, and he'd toddle off stage, still bent double inside the pipe, doffing his cap at the audience. It's brouht me out in a sweat just thinking about it! I'll have to go and have a rest now (maybe do some work?) ... Steve P.S. Anyone remember his name? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:48 AM MAX HEADROOM..FABULOUS SHOW |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Kim C Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:03 AM Thanks Sharon! I knew it was one of those doggie cartoons, I just couldn't remember which one. I used to love Underdog, too. I dunno, Spaw, when I was a little kid we all used to draw faces on our hands like Senor Wences... course then our parents would get mad at us for writing on ourselves.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 29 Apr 02 - 10:51 AM Spaw and Kim: Parents would get mad at kids for writing on the TV screen, too, during the Winky Dink show (instead of using the plastic sheet Spaw mentions)! chanteyranger: That short segment with John Astin on "Night Gallery" is IMO one of the best things that show ever broadcast! For the rest of the class: Astin (as a hippie) is first shown dying in a (motorcycle?) accident, then sliding down a tunnel into a small room, decorated in the style of an early 20th-century parlor. The elderly couple is viewing an extremely boring slide show and making pleasant but meaningless conversation that drives Astin up the wall. Finally he realizes he has died, and demands loudly to have an audience with the devil – who materializes. Astin is fuming because he's anxious to enter Hell, with all the "cool" fire and brimstone, after his less-than-holy life. The devil calmly informs him that he already is in Hell, where he'll spend eternity watching that slide show and listening to the chatter of those people. Before the devil leaves Astin to be tortured forever, he says as an afterthought, something like "The funny thing is, there's a room just like this... up there." Another great "Night Gallery" short segment that I recall is the one with the gum-chewing, pony-tailed babysitter who arrives at the creepy mansion to watch the creepy couple's son for the evening. The "boy" is never shown, but his growling and panting can be heard from the room above. After going through the list of her son's odd habits with the sitter, the creepy mother goes upstairs to get her "child" ready for bed. The sitter, still downstairs and increasingly doubtful about the wisdom of taking this job, listens as Mama coaxes her "baby" to take off his shoes: "First one foot... then the other foot... then the other foot..." ...at which point the sitter runs out of the house, screaming! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Pete Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:01 AM Yes. I remember Ollie Beak, Pussycat Willum and Fred Barker.One of our cats is called Willow and my children always look puzzled when I call him Willum.In a similar vein how about Joe Crow and Simon Scarecrow |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mickey191 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:57 AM One of my favorites from Masterpiece Theatre was "The Irish R.M." (Resident Minister). It was a about an R.M. posted to Ireland,a sort of ombudsmen. Of course the locals would beat him out every time. Funny as hell. My all time (and a cult classis) favorite play was a 3 night presentation of "Lives & Loves of a She Devil" It was a BBC production done around 14 yrs. ago. It was brilliant-funny & sad describing the lengths a homely housewife goes to. She's addressing a philandering husband, the church, job inequitiesIt has never been replayed,nor is it available on tape. I'd give my eyeteeth for a copy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Steve Parkes Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:05 PM And Roseanne Barr nowhere to be seen, Mickey! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SINSULL Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:15 PM How about "To The Manor Born"? Starred the same actor who played the Irish RM, I think. And the actress who played Margo on "Good Neighbors". |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: C-flat Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:17 PM From a very early age my mother would plonk me down in front of the T.V. at lunchtime for the daily showing of "Watch with Mother", including "Andy-Pandy", "Bill and Ben","The Woodentops" and "Muffin the Mule". All introduced in perfect B.B.C.English! "Are you sitting comfortably?......then I'll begin" |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:25 PM Sinsull That would be Peter Bowles and the fabulous Penelope Keith,,who also did the one about the woman MP. Peter Bowls was briefly part of Rumpoles law firm. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Trevor Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:26 PM For goodness sake - Janice Nicholls wasn't a Brummie she was from Wednesbury (ie the Black Country). One classic piece of TV that no-one has mentioned yet - OTT. Remember the balloon dance (Only kidding BTW!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Dave Bryant Date: 29 Apr 02 - 12:44 PM I'd also vote for The Irish RM starring Peter Bowles. I can remember that the title music was a combination of two traditional Irish tunes one of which was "Haste to the wedding" - can anyone remember what the other was - was it "The Irish Washerwoman" ? Can anyone remember a series starring Penelope Keith as a widow who ends up running her late husband's building firm, and who gets pregnant by her toy-boy architect lover ? Yes Teribus, I remember "Spycatcher" - great series. One of the episodes was about a French nobleman who'd built an aeroplane from wood and the engine of his Roll-Royce car to escape to England. It turned out that his chauffeur who accompanied him was a spy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: pattyClink Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:22 PM bert from thread 1: We have 'allo, 'allo, it has sought asylum, winding up on late at night in Mississippi. For the love of God, come get it out of here!!! I am willing to talk prisoner exchange, if you can get your hands on a Brit series called "The Nanny"! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Walrus at work Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:29 PM Mickey, Just one quick point, "RM", as in "The Irish R.M." stands for Resident Magistrate, not Minister. Regards Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Kim C Date: 29 Apr 02 - 01:36 PM I remember Night Gallery being on, and enjoying it, but I don't remember specific episodes. Twilight Zone... well, that's another story. I absolutely LOVED Twilight Zone, and it used to be, before we had all these inane late-night talk shows, one of our local stations would run Twilight Zone after the news. 'Course, they don't do that anymore, and there isn't a show on network television that's anything like it. They've tried to do some creepy shows but nothing seems to stick. Let's see... there was Talky Tina... the one where the guy is in the abandoned town... and the one where the guy goes back in time and ends up with John Wilkes Booth's handkerchief... one where Buddy Ebsen is telekinetic and gets mixed up with a gambler... the one where Agnes Morehead was assaulted by some tiny astronauts... and of course, who can forget the immortal Gremlin on the Wing episode? Oh! And the one where the woman had plastic surgery and they took the bandages off her face - I think it was called The Eye of the Beholder. Damn, but I miss that show. Maybe it's on cable somewhere, but I don't have cable. I also miss the old Friday Night Frights - just about every town had a station that showed a scary movie on Friday night. And we had one that used to show the old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. As far as I'm concerned, Rathbone WAS/IS Sherlock Holmes, and everyone else can go to grass. Did anyone mention Dark Shadows? Mister was a little kid when all the Western shows were on TV. I envy him that. I do still love Bonanza, though, as hokey as it is, and still think Adam Cartwright would be the perfect man, if only he were real. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:24 PM How about "The Banana Man"? He was a regular guest on the Captain Kangaroo show. He was a clown with this big, baggy suit on. The schtik was, he would produce items from his suit, like bananas, watermelons, apples, beach balls, etc with something like astonishment that they should be in there. He would say "oh!...oh...oh...WOW!" and produce a giant watermelon. The first thing that came out was a little train made out of foldable boards, which he assembled, and then filled with the other stuff in his suit. By the time he finished, this little seven-foot long train was full of items, and he would put on an engineer's hat, climb into the locomotive part, and drive it off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:30 PM And here's some info on him. Banana Man |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mickey191 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:35 PM Walwrus-Time has faded the gray matter-you are absolutely right. AND Steve-was that Roseanne movie an abomination or what? If you saw the original you must agree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mickey191 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:42 PM AND I do know how to spell walrus-but either way it sounds exactly the same. Isn't that neat?
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:43 PM This thread wouldn't be complete without mention of Ghoulardi. If you watch Drew Carey, you may have seen the T-shirts. If you grew up in a place that got the Cleveland TV stations, every kid was a Ghoulardi fan. Funny stuff based on the beatnik image of the late 50's/early 60's.....Ernie Anderson had quite a career. Last year, Hollowfox gave me a Ghoulardi T-Shirt that she'd taken to Old Songs and had signed by the 'Catters there. So to all of them and any of you who remember......... Stay Sick.........Turn Blue Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mickey191 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 02:44 PM Why does that happen? Anybody? After 4 min.s I figured it wasn't going to show. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:02 PM Kim: Yup, you're right; that Twilight Zone episode was indeed called "The Eye of the Beholder". Oddly, the role of the woman having the operations was played by two people. I can't find the name of the first actress right now (the one wrapped in bandages), but the story goes that that actress was supposed to dub the voice for the second actress (the unwrapped one at the end of the show). The second actress, however, did such a good impression of the first one's husky voice that it was left on the soundtrack. The second actress's name: Donna Douglas (Elly May on "The Beverly Hillbillies")!! A couple of other classic TZ episodes: "Time Enough at Last" with Burgess Meredith as the nearsighted survivor of the H-bomb blast, who wanted only time enough to read, and was just about to settle down with a book in the ruined library when he broke his glasses... and "To Serve Man", the title of the book belonging to the Kanamits, 9-foot-tall aliens who visited Earth offering goodwill and taking humans back to their home planet (which seemed harmless enough when only the book's title had been translated... but the humans translate the rest of the book too late: it's a cookbook!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:22 PM Yes Micca thank-you for reminding me of Tutti Frutti, what a wonderful cast. Richard Wilson, Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thomson, and the orgasmic Katie Murphy, plus lots of others I don't remember. Talking of the lovely Miss Murphy, another compulsive programme was "Taking over the Asylum", with her and Ken Stott, a real tear jerker as far as I was concerned. Failte....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Kim C Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:44 PM Yes! The Burgess Meredith episode! That was just so pitiful. I felt so sorry for him. I mean, talk about having a Bad Day... |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: AliUK Date: 29 Apr 02 - 04:55 PM The Herbs...I loved Parsley the lion, what a great show. Tutti Frutti was a tv piece de resistance and also the follow up which was about Country music and starred Tilda Swinton but the name escapes me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 29 Apr 02 - 05:23 PM Will no one share a "Bagpuss" memory or two? I have this lovely Bagpuss beanie-baby that Sarah the Flute gave me as a Secret Santa gift, and I'd love to know more about him! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: vectis Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:01 PM The series with "Razor Eddie" about some crooks with a load of safety deposit boxes who decide to blackmail the owners over the contents. I've racked what passes for my brain but I can't remember what it was called. Funny how most of us remember our favourite childrens programmes best. Captain Pugwash RULES!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Walrus Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:18 PM From earlier comments, (in this thread and elsewhere), would I be right in assuming the character known in the US as "Snydly Whiplash" is the same one known in the UK as "Dick Dastardly"? (It was the "Muttley" references, some time back, that started me wondering) Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:33 PM Walrus: Nope, they were two different characters from two ifferent studios. Snidely Whiplash was the nemesis of "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties" (a Jay Ward creation – the guy who gave us Rocky & Bullwinkle). See link: http://flyingmoose.org/moose/whiplash.htm "Dick Dastardly & Muttley" came from the Hanna-Barbera team. See this page: http://www.hotink.com/wacky/dastrdly/ and also see the Hanna-Barbera link I posted earlier in this thread. BTW Muttley may have had a laugh similar to that of Quick Draw McGraw's Snuffles, but Snuffles was an earlier character by several years. Besides, Snuffles was one of the good guys, and Muttley most definitely was not. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: catspaw49 Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:33 PM Hey Walrus...You're right. The Wacky Racers character is Dick Dastardly but is really a reincarnation of Mr. Whiplash...same with Muttley. Dunno' why the names cahnged though.... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Tone d'F I think I ate me' cookie Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:39 PM Well I have been away a while... no working, not at Her Majesties pleasure Let's begin Super Car with Mike Mucury Arthur King of Camelot [cartoon] Army Game Bootsy & Snudge Aurthur Hains Show The Woodentops and who can forget Muffin the Mule [yes seriously] Pettycoat Junction Green Acres Ruttland Weekend Television Hankocks Halfhour The Goodies The Good Old Days This could go on for some time as I had a sad life as a kid, I just watched comedies on film, TV and stage. Now I just hang around in bars and tell jokes, the can't throw me out they're my bars This reminds me I should do a telly addicts style quiz night |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Tone d'F I think I ate me' cookie Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:42 PM Micheal Bentines Potty Time Coffee Time with Denise Coffee |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Gareth Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:42 PM Mutley = My Hero !!!! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Tone d'F I think I ate me' cookie Date: 29 Apr 02 - 06:55 PM Dick Dastardly has to be mine because he did such a good Professor Fate impersonation
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: kendall Date: 29 Apr 02 - 07:56 PM December Bride with Spring Byington and Harry Morgan The Californians Restless Gun Tales of Wells Fargo |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Hiker Date: 29 Apr 02 - 09:19 PM Before he became famous as Steve McGarret on Hawaii 50 Jack Lord played a sort of journeyman rodeo rider in a show called Stoney Burke. In the early seventies a must watch in our house was Bronson a show about a guy travelling America on a motorbike. Onew of my favorite cowboy shows was one starring LLoyd Bridges circa 1969 called The Loner. Top of my list of forgotten shows has to be a dreadful thing called Dusty's Trail. Please also consider the following, Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Blakes Seven. F Troop. Rin Tin Tin. Boots and Saddles. The adventures of Noggin The Nog (toon) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mark Cohen Date: 29 Apr 02 - 11:17 PM And don't forget Lost in Space, with, oh, my memory is soggy: June Lockhart? Angela Cartwright? And the robot who was cribbed from the movie that I've also forgotten. The best thing about that show, though, (which is the best thing about many of these shows) was the MAD Magazine parody, "Loused Up in Space". I still remember when they were starting to pass out because there was no oxygen on the ship, and one of them gasped out, a la Snow White: "Robot, robot, on the wall, we need fresh air for us all." The robot replied, robotically, "Why...not...open...the...window?" Aloha, Mark And remember who preceded Peter Graves' Mr. Phelps on Mission: Impossible? And which two of the characters were married in real life? (this is SO much more fun than working!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: catspaw49 Date: 30 Apr 02 - 12:27 AM Too easy Doc.....Steven Hill, later to play the DA Adam Schiff on Law and Order was the original leader, and Martin Landau was married to Barbara Bain for a few years. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: alison Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:02 AM SharonA here is all you need to know about Bagpuss...... the most marvellous, the most magical, soggy old cloth cat in the whole world..... still wish I could see a rerun of "Brendan Chase" (ITV) 3 or 4 kids run off to live in the forest at theback of their house... brilliant.... and a fantastic theme tune... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Peter Kasin Date: 30 Apr 02 - 02:31 AM SharonA - Yeah, I remember that couple. They were showing slides of their trip to San Diego. "Here we are on the freeway..." Astin asks the farmer what he thought of the breakup of the Beatles, and the farmer starts telling him how to break up beetles. Another forgotten show - "Grindl." Imogene Coca as a maid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,The Walrus (at work and somehow Cookieless) Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:01 AM Mark, Didn't the Robinsons (Lost in Space) nick their robot from "Forbidden Planet"? Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Apr 02 - 09:08 AM Yes, the robot did seem to be based on the "Forbidden Planet" one. See him again in "Gremlins" when the main character's father is visiting an inventers convention. You should also spot H G Wells's Time Machine in the same clip |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 30 Apr 02 - 10:47 AM While Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet" appeared in an episode of "Lost in Space", the Jupiter 2's robot, "B-9", is a different model entirely. B-9 was designed by the prop builder who designed Robby, Robert Kinoshita, but Irwin Allen hired Kinoshita to come up with a similar design that was not as costly to build. Here's a site with lots of info on B-9: http://www.aboyd.com/robots/lis.html Compare with one of Robby's many sites: http://www.the-robotman.com/nv_fs.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: musicmick Date: 01 May 02 - 12:43 AM Is anyone old enough to remember a live western adventure show called ACTION IN THE AFTERNOON? It was brodcast by WCAU-TV, the CBS station in Philadelphia. They shot it on their parking lot on City Ave, and sometimes a passing car or bus got into the picture. How about the early shows like MR. WIZARD or TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET or later sitcoms like YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH or MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY. Ther was MARTIN KANE, PRIVATE EYE with William Gargan and MR.and MRS. NORTH with Pamella Britton and Richard Denning (in later years he played the Governor on HAWAII 5 0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mark Cohen Date: 01 May 02 - 04:32 AM Mr. Wizard! Did you catch the clips of him on the GE commercials recently? Yes, musicmic, I remember WCAU Channel 10 (CBS), WFIL Channel 6 (ABC), and WRCV (later KYW) Channel 3 (NBC). Then along came WHYY Channel 12 (PBS)--I remember the day they started broadcasting. When the UHF stations started broadcasting (17, 29, and 48), my dad went out and bought a little portable TV set because channel 29 was going to be showing a tennis match. He played tennis, but very few people did, and even fewer had ever watched it on TV. Channel 29 also showed the original Roller Derby, which for some reason I watched avidly, as well as the early seasons of the Flyers hockey team. And in the evening they would show bullfighting from Spain! Weird stuff back then...What do you think today's kids are going to get nostalgic about? MTV? Jackass? Home Shopping Network? Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 01 May 02 - 11:00 AM Mark: Nowadays, Channel 10 is NBC and Channel 3 is CBS! Channels 6 & 12 remain the same. 17 is WB (Warner Brothers), 29 is FOX, 48 is an independent station with some foreign-language programming. 57 is UPN, and 39 is another PBS station, WYBE. The days of the local kids' shows with local hosts are gone, and I think that's a shame. Back to Channel 12 for a sec... Remember the "Gentle Giant" show, with the giraffe puppet that would poke its head into the castle window, and the dollhouse furniture that the guy would move around as an invitation to kids to pull up a chair, so to speak, and listen to his stories? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Tone d' F Date: 01 May 02 - 11:21 AM Sharon A Was the Gentle Giant a guy who used to dress in medieval type clothes, tell stories then sing in a strong baritone? If so you've answered a long standing question |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Metchosin Date: 01 May 02 - 11:37 AM The Friendly Giant was played by Bob Homme, who sadly went "Up, way way up" in 2000. My brother's group Mandolirium did a tribute to him on their last CD. I think Rusty the Chicken and Gerome the Giraffe are still around. Check here |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 01 May 02 - 12:36 PM Metchosin: "The Friendly Giant", not "Gentle"! That's right!!! Thanks for refreshing my memory, and for the link. Yes, Tone d'F, that's the guy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 01 May 02 - 01:05 PM P.S. – Just read the link about "The Friendly Giant" (http://www.tvparty.com/lostgiant.html) and learned a lot: I'd always thought that the program was produced locally, in Philadelphia, just like those of Gene London, Pixanne, Sally Starr, Wee Willie Weber and Adam Android. But no! That link also mentions many details of the show that I'd forgotten: Rusty the Rooster popping his head up from Friendly's satchel hung on a wall peg; the drawbridge; the cow jumping over the moon; the lines such as "Once upon a time, not long ago and not far away..." and "...And for those who like to rock, a little rocking chair by the fireplace..." and "...look waaayy up..." I've forgotten how the theme song went. According to that tvparty page, it's "Early One Morning" (from the 16th century?). Is there a MIDI to the tune anywhere? The page mentions lyrics, too; can anyone find them? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 01 May 02 - 01:13 PM BTW, here's a nice review of Mandolirium's "Unstrung Heroes", which contains the tribute song Metchosin mentioned: http://www.greenmanreview.com/mandolirium.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 01 May 02 - 01:21 PM Found the theme song for "The Friendly Giant" – a MIDI with 2 sets of lyrics! Which set did they use (or didn't they use either)? http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/f021.html http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/e015.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Lonesome EJ Date: 01 May 02 - 01:41 PM And then there's Gentle Giant. An acquired taste. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Kim C Date: 01 May 02 - 03:16 PM Go go go Go go Speed Racer |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Metchosin Date: 02 May 02 - 03:12 PM SharonA, if my memory serves, only the tune was used on the show, never the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: SharonA Date: 02 May 02 - 05:44 PM Metchosin: Yes, normally the tune alone was played, but I was referring to a submission to the page you linked (http://www.tvparty.com/lostgiant.html): "I used to love watching Bob Homme as Friendly and Rusty and Jerome, and of course the rare appearances by those musical cats [Angie and Fiddle, two puppet cats, who'd play violins once a week].... Occasionally, they would perform concerts featuring the cats and of course the whole gang playing various instruments. I seem to also recall they even did a half-hour special, which was also a concert. "The theme song from FG was 'Early One Morning', which they mentioned once during a concert was an old song from the 16th century (I think).... In fact, during the same concert where they gave the name of the theme song, they played the song and Jerome sang the lyrics to the song." - Lynda VE So apparently the lyrics were sung only once, if this person's memory serves. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Paul from Hull Date: 02 May 02 - 05:47 PM I'm surprised no-one has mentioned 'Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea yet..or have they & I missed it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: catspaw49 Date: 02 May 02 - 06:10 PM That's because it was a turkey that is best left forgotten!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Steve Parkes Date: 03 May 02 - 03:42 AM Well, they made enough series, Spaw--somebody must have liked it. I was always impressed by the idea of a submarine with windows; how are you supposed to see where you're going, for heaven's sake? But I was most impressed that that grown men with all the resources of a US movie studio couldn't think of a better name for a submarine with windows than "Seaview"! I remember one Saturday evening back in the early seventies. We were sitting in the pub waiting for the rest of the gang to roll in when in burst Neil, whoi anounced dramamtically: "Kowalski didn't get beaten up!" Was that a record, does anyone know? Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,D-Rail Date: 03 May 02 - 03:04 PM I used to watch corageous cat and minuet mouse after school in 1962. I remember one of the heavies was Rodney the Rodent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Melani Date: 04 May 02 - 12:30 AM Mark C--Mr. Wizard was at the Exploratorium a few years ago, and the line went around the block--all the parents wanted to see him! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 May 02 - 04:25 PM Tone d'F. I told you that Herne Bay was in a different time zone to the rest of the UK..*BG*....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Paul from Hull Date: 04 May 02 - 09:20 PM Oh, I didnt say it was GOOD, 'Spaw....*G*....but I was in single figures back then anyway! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: allie kiwi Date: 05 May 02 - 02:52 AM I remember a show about a scarecrow or something, starring Jon Pertwee (who had previously been one incarnation of Dr Who, I think, although that was way before my time). Woozlegummage, or something like that. And the good old days of 'Skippy' the bush kangaroo...
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Paul from Hull Date: 05 May 02 - 11:10 AM Yep, Worzel Gummidge, Alli.....on in the late 70's to maybe the very early 80's here, if I remember right. Ah, & Skippy...how very bizarre! but not nearly as bizarre as another Aussie (or maybe NZ?) programme called Phoenix 5 that was a kids sci-fi programme. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,brackett2242@msn.com Date: 07 Apr 03 - 06:30 PM who was the blue dog that was with snidley whiplash or boris and natasha he was the dog that never talked but always had that hee hee laugh when they were about to do something terrible if you could writer me back i would greatly appreaciate it |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Padre Date: 07 Apr 03 - 07:30 PM How about 'The Sealtest Big Top' and 'Super Circus' - both on Saturdays if I remember right. Ed MacMahon was a clown on one of the shows I think. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Alba Date: 07 Apr 03 - 08:05 PM Mutley??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Alba Date: 07 Apr 03 - 08:08 PM Sorry a bit out there on it's own my answer ....the name of the dog with Snidley Whiplash was Mutley..I think :>) |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Amos Date: 07 Apr 03 - 09:38 PM Spaw: Ok, I got the sequence of the seasons in her name wrong, one shot o' seltzer and a blast of Clarabelle's Ah-Oogah for me. But Ann Sothern wasn't Maisy, she was Oh, Suzy! if memory serves. Or "My Miss Suzy" or some darn thing like that. I remember the opening pan, complete with the long-forgotten sound of typewriter keys pounding away and Ann Sothern peering opver the tops of her glasses with a twinkle. So you have to sit through six advertisements for "All" detergent. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Cluin Date: 08 Apr 03 - 02:45 AM The Friendly Giant. YES! Used to watch that one every day as a kid. With Rusty, the vaguely frightening rooster who lived in a sack on the wall in which he kept his harp and Friendly's other recorder. And of course, Gerome, the purple and orange giraffe with the voice and mannerisms of Lee Marvin, and who used to dance around like a stoner at Woodstock while Friendly and Rusty and the cats would jam on some old English hornpipe or something. It all go so much better with beer and pot, watching the reruns in University residence years later... Another cartoon I remember from my childhood and would love to see once more to see why I liked it, The New Adventures of Huck Finn. It had Huck, Tom & Becky as real-live kids, interacting with cartoon characters. I think Becky might have been my first crush or something. Another one I remember liking (and pretending to play with my friends) was Danger Island which was a short adventure series that usually aired during the Banana Splits. "Uh oh!... CHONGO!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Dave Bryant Date: 08 Apr 03 - 05:25 AM It's strange the way that some series seem to get re-played over and over again, while others seem to disappear without trace. Can anyone remember "Brass" (1983/4) that wonderful spoof on northern industrial romantic novels like those by Catherine Cookson. It starred Timothy West as the mine owner and Barbara Ewing as Agnes Fairchild the busty poor houswife whose blouse was always ripped open - usually by Bradley Hardacre or his son. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Jim Clark..London.England Date: 08 Apr 03 - 05:38 AM "The other one" which was a BBC comedy series starring Richard Briers as a sort of sharp talking wiseguy car saleman conman type and his dimwitted pal played by Micheal Gambon British TV early 1980's...the press seemed to hate the series and it got axed after a few episodes...Maybe I was the only one,but I realy loved it...Any British TV watchers remember it ??? Regards. Jim... |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Little Robyn Date: 08 Apr 03 - 05:53 AM I think Ann Sothern's show was just called Susie (or Suzy). About 1970 there was a ridiculous show called The Banana Splits. They were crazy animals but I loved their theme - La la la, lala la la, la la la, lala la la. Then when my daughter was little we always watched the Elephant Show. We just love Lois, Sharon and Bram, and their friends/guests. Luckily, that was in the early days of VCRs..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: daithi Date: 08 Apr 03 - 08:10 AM Any Brits remember a marionette series that used to be on in the early 60s (clashed with Dr Who I think). It was a space show and featured gyroscope - type space ships and aerial shots of cities with passenger tube monorail/transport? Any info on name, etc gratefully received - it's been haunting me for years. Or how about that Australian import, for children, about kids who make contact with benign humanoid aliens - but nobody believes them until they arrive, seeking shelter from their doomed planet? No idea what it was called (offers?)but they were called Soshons and the planet they fled from, Soshunis... And what about The Prisoner? Criss Cross Quiz (with Bernard Braden's wife, Barbara Kelly)? The Planemakers? And the BEST cartoon of all....Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote!!! Great thread...Dáithí |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Alba Date: 08 Apr 03 - 08:27 AM Was the show from the 60's with the marionettes called Stingray or maybe Thundersbirds? I used to watch the Prisoner but didn't really get it till years later lol. I also remember Juke Box Jury...hit or miss on Pop songs!!!!!! Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote though.....brilliant...Acme Company supplies !!!!! Does anyone remember Deputy Dawg and his side kick Muskey!! Wow now the memories are kicking in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Jeanie Date: 08 Apr 03 - 09:59 AM Daithi - I think the marionette space show you are looking for is this one: Space Patrol I always preferred it to the other space puppet shows, too (apart from wanting to be the mermaid in Stingray). Thanks for asking about it - seeking out this website brought it all back. - jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Cluin Date: 09 Apr 03 - 12:58 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: daithi Date: 09 Apr 03 - 04:34 AM Jeanie - you made my day! thanks so much -in forty years I've never met anyone who had even heard of Space Patrol , let alone seen it.That website just brought it all back. Now to watch the episodes...... Dáithí |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Nigel Parsons Date: 09 Apr 03 - 05:11 AM Mention of Road Runner brings this fragment to mind (Still working on a concluding verse) TTTo 'The Bubble Car Song' Beep! Beep! Nigel Parsons While running down a country road, so much to my surprise. I saw a pile of birdseed, of quite a gen'rous size. I thought I'd stop and eat my fill, 'cos eating is my thing. A giant rock fell past my head, and landed on a spring ! "Beep Beep, Beep Beep ", I just went "Beep Beep Beep." The next day on the roadway then, I spied a railroad track. It issued from a tunnel I remembered as a crack! While waiting for the crossing bells, I just admired the view. Then came a mighty gust of wind. A train came driving through. "Beep Beep, Beep Beep", I just went "Beep Beep Beep." One day upon a mountain pass, a rocket followed me. I thought I'd best protect my ass, and ran away with glee. The rocket followed on so fast, I didn't dare to stop. I dodged it round a sudden bend, avoiding quite a drop. "Beep Beep, Beep Beep",I just went "Beep Beep Beep." |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Jeanie Date: 09 Apr 03 - 07:05 AM Happy to oblige, Daithi ! I'd never come across that website before seeking it out yesterday, either, but had always fondly remembered 'Space Patrol'. Lovely to see those faces and that city again - and I must say, I'm rather tempted to get the videos too. When reminiscing with people, I've hardly ever come across anyone who remembers it, either - as you say, it must have clashed with something most people were watching on the other channel. Here's another one: do you or anyone else remember an Australian series with children who had built their own fortress ? I used to love that one. Cheers ! - jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: clueless don Date: 09 Apr 03 - 09:10 AM Up front, let me confess that I have not read through every posting in this thread, nor have I seen the "part I" thread. So if my question has already been addressed, my apologies. Now, then, does anyone remember a cartoon series on American TV called "Ruff and Ready" (maybe it was Ruff n' Ready, or some alternate spelling)? I think the two main characters were a dog and a cat (don't remember which was Ruff and which was Ready.) I don't remember much else, accept that there were a series of episodes in which they went to a planet called "Muni Mula" - a planet made of aluminum ("Muni Mula" is aluminum spelled backwards, unless you're from Britain. :) ) That leads me to suspect that the show may have had a science fiction theme. I also remember fragments of a theme song "They're Ruff, and Ready, ???Ruff and Ready, they're tough, but steady, always Ruff and Ready, they sometimes have their little spats, even fight like dogs and cats, but when they need each other that's when, they're Ruff and Ready." This would either have been the late 50's or the early 60's. From the dustbin of my mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Cluin Date: 10 Apr 03 - 01:08 AM It disappeared when it fell into an "Acme Portable Hole". |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: daithi Date: 10 Apr 03 - 03:26 AM Jeanie - yes!! was it called something like "Tentown" I think - maybe bcause there were ten kids who "lived" there? I remember them building all sorts of water cannon, and flour bombs with which they defeated the evil grwon-ups. Sort of "Home Alone" knock-about stuff. Dáithí |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: JJ Date: 10 Apr 03 - 08:51 AM Ruff and REDDY, Don. The first Hanna-Barbera show, 1957-1960, 1962-1964. And I remember the theme song just as you do. To steal from www.toontracker.com/ruffredd/ruffredd.htm: Ruff and Reddy featured a brainy cat, Ruff, and a brainless dog, Reddy. Teamed with the kindly Professor Gismo, they faced such evil-doers as Killer and Diller, the terrible Texas twins, Captain Greedy and Salt Water Daffy, the chicken-hearted Chickasaurus, the Goon of Glocca Morra and others in various madcap adventures. ========== And your favorite episode, "The Mad Monster of Muni-Mula," can be found there in RealVideo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: clueless don Date: 10 Apr 03 - 01:32 PM Thank you, JJ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,phil/uk Date: 14 Nov 04 - 08:35 AM need some info on "tentown", wrecking our head in the pub. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,vanbushnell@yahoo.com Date: 15 Mar 05 - 01:38 PM I'm trying to get the name of a TV show that probably took place in the 50's or 60's. All I remember is at the beginning their was a guy in a space suite and he was sitting in a rocking chair on railroad tracks. Also I think some of the cast where in white space suites. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 15 Mar 05 - 05:55 PM Careful ... you'll be in here for ages: Watched it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 15 Mar 05 - 06:00 PM And I was in love with Liz Skinner in Timeslip |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Mike Miller Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:16 AM I am pleased to find that I may not be the oldest kid on the block. We got our first TV around 1950 back when there were few channels and transmission ended around midnight. I loved the cowboy movies on FRONTIER PLAYHOUSE. There are a few shows I'd love to see again One of my favorites was a short lived series called something like Emergency Room. It starred Elliot Gould and the actress who plays Stands With a Fist in "Dances With Wolves", Mary something. Here, in Philadelphia, we had a unique show. The local CBS affiliate produced a live action western program called "Action in the Afternoon". Because the show was performed outside the station, occasionally the viewers could see a bus or truck in the background of an old west shootout. I'd pay a pretty penny to see that again. Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: robomatic Date: 16 Mar 05 - 05:02 AM When I was a kid there was show on (US) which in retrospect was about as innocent as a show can be, yet with that little touch of implied larceny. The way i remember it was a young man with no money was getting a college education by simply attending classes, in other words, an unregistered auditer. The classes on TV were never crowded, so the implication was he wasn't really stealing anything, he was merely 'smelling the stew'. But the college was aware of him, and someone would always be chasing him (of course, at that conclusion of each class when he'd had time to impress the prof with his intelligence. There was also an implied irony that the kid ran so fast they never could catch him and the coach would've arranged a scholarship for him if only he'd stay still long enough to listen! For years I remembered the show as "Run Buddy Run" but according to jumptheshark.com that was a different show about a man on the lam from gangsters. So I don't know what the show was called. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Don Firth Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:42 PM Hell's bells. I grew up on radio. You remember radio, don't you? You got the audio, but you made the pictures in your head. Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, I Love a Mystery, the Lone Ranger, Gangbusters, the Green Hornet, the Shadow, Sam Spade. . . . I always knew that behind his mask, the Lone Ranger looked like me. Did you know that the Green Hornet (Britt Reid) is the great-nephew of the Lone Ranger (real name, John Reid)? Yup. Within the context, the two characters are indeed related. I remember in the early Fifties people standing around outside stores that sold television sets (usually had several sets in the window, turned on) and gazing in hypnotized fascination at what? A test pattern. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: just john Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:55 PM (Mainly to Nigel Parsons) Be sure to post it when you've completed it! Me, I've been working from the other end of it ... With the Bird --jj (I keep hearing this as a pseudo-reggae beat, but not actually reggae.)
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Peter T. Date: 17 Mar 05 - 01:24 PM "For a time, I was in the employ of John Beresford Tipton, whose eccentric habit it was to give away one million dollars tax free to people he had never even met....." Now that was a weird programme! yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Don Firth Date: 17 Mar 05 - 02:01 PM The Millionaire, if I remember correctly. Interesting character studies. Started out the same way each time. Out of the blue, comes this guy who hands you a check for a million dollars, no strings attached, do with it what you will. But it was a different story each time. In some cases, it changed people's lives for the better in an almost miraculous way. In others, it was the ruination of them. Depended a lot on the situation--and the character--of the recipient. Kind of a thought-provoking program, I thought. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Trevor Date: 26 Jan 06 - 11:31 AM Did anybody uncover anything about the Aussie series called something like 'Tentown'. It's driving us mad in our office as well!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Janie Date: 26 Jan 06 - 11:48 AM When I saw this thread, I thought, how come I am the only person who has any memory of Fireball XLV. Open the thread and Voila! There is Sharon A.'s post of April, 02. I really had decided a few years ago that I had somehow dreamed the show every Saturday morning. As I recall, Ovaltine was the sponsor. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 26 Jan 06 - 12:03 PM The Terrible Ten, originally produced as 10-minute fillers, showed the knockabout adventures of a group of children in the miniature hamlet of Ten Town, with a population of under-13s. (Filming was restricted to Saturdays because of the all-child cast.) It became the first Australian children's series with extensive overseas sales, selling to 20 countries. Though the cast had to be replaced as they grew up, The Terrible Ten lasted 117 episodes, and led to a sequel series, The Ten Again (1963), and a feature film, Funny Things Happen Down Under (1965), starring a 16-year-old Olivia Newton-John. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,shakiema Date: 10 May 07 - 10:20 AM who is the father of geometry |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Micca Date: 11 May 07 - 05:20 AM Euclid |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,john c Date: 18 May 07 - 03:37 PM Wasn't it called " The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten" |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST Date: 24 May 07 - 12:29 PM anyone know of a show ... i think it was British. the characters were marionettes and formed a rock band similar to the Monkeys. One of the members didn't speak he just made a strange noise like a jack-in-the-box and another member of the band translated for him. it's really bugging me because i remember watching it but, can't find it anywhere. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Donuel Date: 24 May 07 - 02:07 PM Topper Life of Riley Time Tunnel |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Walrus Date: 24 May 07 - 09:00 PM Now this threead has been revived: Does anyone remember a series called "Sentimental Agent" ? I can't remember a single thing about it except the theme music (for which I have no name, nor means of communicating to other 'catters) and part of the opening titles (B&W, of course), they involved a white sports car speeding throgh London streets and being stopped on Tower Bridge as it opens. Not much to go on, I admit. W |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: katlaughing Date: 25 May 07 - 12:26 AM Here ya go, Walrus: click here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mickey191 Date: 25 May 07 - 10:58 AM "Cagney & Lacy" They (Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly) are back at work & planning a reunion. That was a breakthru for women-CBS took a chance on it thinking it wouldn't do well. They were on the "View" two wks. ago. Angie Dickinson as "Police Woman"--I think that was title. Sada Thompson, William Broderick & the wonderful Christy McNichol as Buddy. Great show "Family." Never missed it. Whay happened to Christy? Going back to 1950- "Martin Kane-Private Eye" can't recall the actor's name. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Donuel Date: 25 May 07 - 08:14 PM The INVADERS |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: The Walrus Date: 25 May 07 - 08:22 PM kat, Many thanks. Walrus |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,mark Date: 08 Jun 07 - 06:24 PM i remember fireball XLV i was 5 or 6 at the time early 60,s i also found through google "clyde crashcup& his assistant leonardo i thought it was a separate cartoon,but found out it was part of the chipmunks. wow does this bring back memories! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,jratliff Date: 16 Jun 07 - 12:16 PM want copy of tv series adventures in paradise 1959-62. any advice? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Bizibod Date: 17 Jun 07 - 09:44 AM Yes ! Supercar with Mike Mercury and Mitch the monkey ! Which one was Robert the Robot in? " On our way 'ome..." Was that Fireball XL5? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: RangerSteve Date: 17 Jun 07 - 10:13 PM Was anyone else a fan of "Thriller"? It was a supernatural/mystery anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff. Originally I was going to ask if anyone knew if it was available on DVD, but decided to check first, so I googled "Thriller Boris Karloff" and got quite a few hits. It's available, all 67 episodes. I ordered a set, and I'll be in TV heaven when it arrives. And I'll be running around acting like an impatient kid until it comes. Is it here yet? When is it going to get here? Is it here now? I'll write a review when I get it. I hope it's as good as I remembered. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Wesley S Date: 18 Jun 07 - 04:12 PM J Ratliff - If you're looking for Adventures In Paradise look here DVD for sale I know nothing about this retailer however. But it at your own risk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,starman Date: 21 Jul 07 - 07:36 PM The aussie thing... it was called "The Stranger" and at the time (I was only little) I thought it was the greatest thing ever - mainly because the aliens had their own language, which actually seemed "right", i.e., it wasn't just a meaningless jumble of sounds. I can even remember some of the Soshunite dialogue. How f***ing sad is that? This series came at a time when aliens were universally supposed to be nasty, and here we had "strangers" who were not only benign, but civilised, intelligent, etc. It was superb. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Andy Elman Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:01 AM I remember pussycat willum, in fact I was in hospital when i was about 8 or 9 and i hhada copy of the Pussycat willum book with me and it was stolen fro me in the ward. I was heartbroken and have never found another copy. any ideas where i could find a copy Cheers Andy |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: katlaughing Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:22 AM If you google it, there are a number of sites which tell about the show, Andy, including THIS ONE. Evidently this CHildren's CD has some of the songs on it. Looks like it was a neat programme: click, but no luck on finding it on DVD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Mrrzy Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:25 AM Can't recall what I was watching the other day, when in walked... My Favorite Martian! WHAT a great show, even the music came back! |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: robomatic Date: 28 Apr 09 - 11:45 AM I wouldn't call "Fireball XL5" and "My Favorite Martian" forgotten TV series. Quite the reverse. I've heard several times now how kids in Anchorage were at the TV watching Fireball XL5 when the Big '64 earthquake hit. I did some research on the series I was trying to remember some ms's back, and apparently it was just called "Hank" and lasted about a season and was (one of) the first to have its last episode staged so as to rap up the loose ends. I would sure like to see a bit of it to see how it reverberates 'round the ol' skull these days. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Janie Date: 29 Apr 09 - 06:54 AM As I clicked this thread, I was thinking of FireballXL5. I loved that show and never missed it on a Saturday morning - but my sister doesn't remember it at all. I also remember the Ovaltine/Nestles commercials that accompanied it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 29 Apr 09 - 07:43 AM Max Headroom......................great series and way ahead of its' time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser) Date: 29 Apr 09 - 08:28 AM 'Power Without Glory' - Australian series shown in the UK around 1977. Concerned a family of Irish emigrants in Australia and the central character, Jack West, had ambitions to rise above his origins and become rich and powerful. Stymied at every turn by machiavellian Irish fenian priest. I remember all the Gerry Anderson shows as well. It's funny how you never see puppets smoking on television anymore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: GUEST,Tunesmith Date: 29 Apr 09 - 08:52 AM I wonder how many tv programs from the past are getting dusty in vaults. I remember the first time ( 1980ish?) I became aware of Jenny Seagrove, it was a tv mini-series which started with Jenny playing a sort of rich, feather-headed society type, but then the war comes along and she turns into a British spy parachuted into occupied France. That series, to my knowledge, has never been screened in the past 20 years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: JohnInKansas Date: 29 Apr 09 - 08:56 AM Nostalgia ain't what it once was. This afternoon the DJ on the local AM Country Music station asked "What was Mr. Magoo's first name" and then broke for a commercial. Two minutes later, when he came back from the commercial the answer was on the phone from a semi-juvenile who wasn't old enough ever to have seen one of the cartoons. She admitted she got it from Wikepedia, and implied that she didn't really know who Mr. Magoo was. But she won the four tickets to the upcoming shindig. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: Donuel Date: 29 Apr 09 - 09:48 AM The Invaders was about human looking Aliens who looked just like us except they could not bend their little finger. A really low budget cartoon : Chuck Cargo in which the figures were static and only their mouths sort of moved. It was sort of a spin off of the 50's Sky King that was filmed in B&W. I now remember Ruff and Reddy !? and did not know I still had brain cells still dedicated to remember them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: RangerSteve Date: 29 Apr 09 - 11:13 AM Donuel, it was Clutch Cargo. There were a few cartoons done in the same style. They filmed actors speaking the lines, then superimposed their lips over the cartoon characters faces. It was supposed to make the animation easier, but I thought it just looked creepy. I also remember Ruff and Reddy. Just vaguely. How about Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger - the forerunners of Rocky and Bullwinkle? |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: robomatic Date: 29 Apr 09 - 03:04 PM I remember Clutch Cargo. Conan O'Brien used if anything a more primitive version of the 'moving mouth' for some of his political 'interviews'. That reminded me of a series about a trucker called "Cannonball" Can't remember any of the episodes, but the theme song was inerestin' for a single digit aged kid. |
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Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series From: robomatic Date: 30 Apr 09 - 12:32 PM A first rate series that left us relatively recently, about ten years ago: "I'll Fly Away" about black-white relations and a period piece of life in a part of the American South done with heart, wit, and not over-sentimentalized, starring the great Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, and some support from Bill Cobbs. Worth renting/ buying. |
