BS: part II Forgotten TV series

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

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

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???!!

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

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)

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.

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"

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

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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/

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.

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
- Torchy
- Four Feather Falls

(I can even remember most of the words to the theme tune of Torchy. Aargh!)

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

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

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?

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

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...

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.

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".

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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?

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."

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

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")

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!!

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?

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?

Subject: RE: BS: part II Forgotten TV series
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 02 - 08:48 AM

MAX HEADROOM..FABULOUS SHOW

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....

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!

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

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.

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!

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".

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"

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.

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!)

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.

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"!

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

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. ;-)