Classic TV

[Jeff Wrangler]

Watched The Partridge Family as a kid, 3rd Rock as a grown-up.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Recently I discovered by accident that Wild Kingdom still exists--or maybe exists again? I watched it as a kid as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

As I look back now, I see more evidence of my gay nature: Every episode I really liked watching Jim Fowler. 

[CellarDweller115]

Wild Kingdom......I haven't thought about that show in years.  I remember watching it.

[killersmom]

recently I discovered by accident that Wild Kingdom still exists--or maybe exists again? I watched it as a kid as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

As I look back now, I see more evidence of my gay nature: Every episode I really liked watching Jim Fowler. 

It was a good show and it would be great if it did come back. I agree about Jim Fowler.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

^^^

'Wild Kingdom' returns to inspire new wildlife enthusiasts

Sixty years after its original debut on broadcast TV, the groundbreaking wildlife show Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom will return to NBC next fall with an original new series produced by Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) in an exclusive partnership with Mutual of Omaha.

https://www.mutualofomaha.com/wild-kingdom/article/wild-kingdom-returns-to-nbc

Jeff, do you remember that Jim Fowler and wildlife, also used to be a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson?

Growing up I remember it usually airing on Sunday afternoons, when there wasn't anything else on. LoL!

Here's a good PBS NewsHour report about it returning:
https://www.pbs.org/video/wild-kingdom-1698962015/

[killersmom]

Thanks for the info, Lyle. I'll have to look for it and try to get the girls interested in it. And yes I also remember Jim Fowler taking the creatures to the Tonight Show. I always wondered whether Johnny was really afraid of some of the animals or it was just an act.

[Jeff Wrangler]

^^^

'Wild Kingdom' returns to inspire new wildlife enthusiasts

Sixty years after its original debut on broadcast TV, the groundbreaking wildlife show Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom will return to NBC next fall with an original new series produced by Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) in an exclusive partnership with Mutual of Omaha.

https://www.mutualofomaha.com/wild-kingdom/article/wild-kingdom-returns-to-nbc

Jeff, do you remember that Jim Fowler and wildlife, also used to be a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson?

Growing up I remember it usually airing on Sunday afternoons, when there wasn't anything else on. LoL!

Here's a good PBS NewsHour report about it returning:
https://www.pbs.org/video/wild-kingdom-1698962015/

Now that you mention it, I do remember Fowler and wildlife appearing on the Tonight Show, although I must say I've only seen clips of it. The Tonight Show has always been on too late for me! 

I was going to say something about the show airing on Sunday afternoons, but I didn't trust my memory. Thanks for confirming it!

That's a great article, and it was part of "The More You Know" programs that I saw it.

(Dylan Dreyer must have been pregnant when they filmed the two segments that I've seen lately because in both of them she's standing on a stone bridge and she's partially blocked by it's wall.    )

I see these programs when I'm visiting my dad. They're broadcast over the local NBC affiliate, which is part of the Hearst Media Group.

[Jeff Wrangler]

This afternoon I happened to catch an episode of Adam-12 on MeTV. I'm sure we've mentioned before how handsome Kent McCord was. There was a close-up of him in the episode I saw today, and until I saw that close-up I didn't know he had beautiful blue eyes.

Kind of laughing at myself right now. This week I've been skipping the early evening news to watch Adam-12. 

[Lyle (Mooska)]

It'll keep you saner than watching the same news over and over!

[killersmom]

It'll keep you saner than watching the same news over and over!

Isn't this the truth!!

[killersmom]

David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80

https://bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67895679

1. I had no clue he was British
2. I had no clue he was a singer

https://youtu.be/YY8APrYU2Gs?si=S0TspFJAZF9DThGb

[Jeff Wrangler]

Kind of laughing at myself right now. This week I've been skipping the early evening news to watch Adam-12. 

It'll keep you saner than watching the same news over and over!

Isn't this the truth!!

Anybody who has news on from 4 p.m. through to 7 p.m. or even 7:30 p.m. is asking to go insane. It's quite possible to watch an hour of classic TV and still catch local and national/international evening news--and still catch Jeopardy! 

[Jeff Wrangler]

David Soul: Starsky & Hutch actor dies aged 80

https://bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67895679

1. I had no clue he was British
2. I had no clue he was a singer

https://youtu.be/YY8APrYU2Gs?si=S0TspFJAZF9DThGb

I didn't know he'd taken out British citizenship. I did know he was a singer--I just needed reminding of it. 

[Jeff Wrangler]

OK, I'm sure this picky--or whatever--of me, yet I confess it's annoying me that only one obituary/appreciation of David Soul that I've seen mentioned "Here Come the Brides." This morning I saw an AP story datelined London that mentioned appearances he had made in other TV shows of the period, but he was a co-star of HCTB before "Starsky and Hutch," and the story didn't even mention that.

(in my family we watched HCTB. We never watched S&H. I would have preferred Paul Michael Glaser anyway. ...  )

[Jeff Wrangler]

Yeah, I have fallen into the habit of watching Adam-12 instead of early news. 

I wondered who was the voice of the dispatcher. I learned that her name was Shaaron Claridge, and she was a real LAPD dispatcher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-12

I've never been a car guy, but it's still neat to see the cars of the period in these old shows.

It still amazes me who shows up in these old shows. The plot of one of the Adam-12 episodes broadcast today involved a teenage boy who "took pills" at a party. He looked familiar. He should have. It was David Cassidy pre-Partridge Family.

We also saw Martin Milner in a Lacoste polo shirt. Ah, yes, I remember them well.