Classic TV

[Lyle (Mooska)]

This thread is obviously interesting, but does anyone else find it also a bit overwhelming?
Veering from one thing to an opposite thing on a whim and then wanting to write a dozen
posts all at once? That might get old or repetitive.

Maybe we should have one genre a week, like westerns, sitcoms, sci-fi, game shows or the like.
Or one theme, like movie stars making guest appearances on series, or shows we love who had
gay actors on them (!) or favorite holiday episodes or the like.  Something like the topic of the
week used to be.

Just some ideas thrown out there. The thread is new and enjoyable, but I fear it will become
too overwhelming. So many posts have gone by all ready that I wanted to answer or talk
about and if that happens you don't really feel like going back.

ALSO:  Can the thread be moved to the TV & MUSIC section now where it's right in the line of sight!
(Hey another theme: Shows with great/favorite theme songs.)

[bubba]

I agree with you 100 percent, lets do that!


Actually I am in back in school right now and I have just been hit with a shit load of assignments, so Lyle baby, take the wheel........please!!!!   

[Ennis Del Mark]

If we do this then can we include shows from the 1980s, too?

[Jeff Wrangler]

You should never have brought up Tarzan because it's only classic TV if you're talking
about the Ron Ely tv series in the 60's! And nobody has yet! Lol!

I mentioned it three days ago. 

 

[Ennis Del Mark]

Yes you did, Jeff.  I'll vouch for you. 

Oh, Ron Ely!  Of course Tarzan is my fantasy dream figure anyway.

Fridays were so stressful as I had Ron on NBC and at the same time Robert Conrad and Ross Martin on CBS!

OK someone who can post, post a picture of that divine Wild Wild West credit sequence with the boot, etc.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I remember when Gloria Swanson guest starred on The Beverly Hillbillies. The Clampetts wanted to make a silent movie. When the head of the studio they owned protested, Mr. Drysdale said he didn't care if the Clampetts wanted to make a movie without film.  The film had its world premiere at the Bijoux Theater in Bugtussel. 

And I loved Swanson TV Dinners when I was a kid, loved them because they were different and therefore a treat, as was a trip to McDonald's back in those days. When I was a small boy my mother didn't have a job outside the home, so ordinarily we had a home-cooked dinner every night. So on the rare occasions when we got to eat out of little aluminum trays, I loved it! (I liked the chopped steak and gravy best.)

[Jeff Wrangler]

Buffy and Jodie!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Yes you did, Jeff.  I'll vouch for you.

Thank you!   

Oh, Ron Ely!  Of course Tarzan is my fantasy dream figure anyway.

Fridays were so stressful as I had Ron on NBC and at the same time Robert Conrad and Ross Martin on CBS!

I guess that explains why we didn't watch Wild, Wild West at my house when I was a kid; we were watching Tarzan. 

It might also be that the local TV station was an NBC affilate, and so the reception of NBC was better than the reception of CBS. 

Seeing as how all this was before cable, everyone we knew had an antenna on the roof, and ours was hooked up to a device we called a 'tenna-rotor, to turn the antenna for better reception! 

[Jeff Wrangler]

How odd. I recognized "Uncle Martin" right away, but I didn't think that looked like Bill Bixby. Must be the camera angle. 

[Jeff Wrangler]

OK, I give up. I live in a cave. Who's that with Roddy McDowell? I'm sure I should know who he is, but I just don't recognize him. 

[Ennis Del Mark]

I think it's Tab Hunter.

Roddy (and Bill in the picture before that) sure got better looking as they got older (and had longer hair)!

[Ennis Del Mark]

I remember when Gloria Swanson guest starred on The Beverly Hillbillies. The Clampetts wanted to make a silent movie. When the head of the studio they owned protested, Mr. Drysdale said he didn't care if the Clampetts wanted to make a movie without film.  The film had its world premiere at the Bijoux Theater in Bugtussel. 

And I loved Swanson TV Dinners when I was a kid, loved them because they were different and therefore a treat, as was a trip to McDonald's back in those days. When I was a small boy my mother didn't have a job outside the home, so ordinarily we had a home-cooked dinner every night. So on the rare occasions when we got to eat out of little aluminum trays, I loved it! (I liked the chopped steak and gravy best.)

Oh, yeah!  I loved getting to have a TV dinner whenever Mama and Daddy were going out to a party or something!  It was a special treat! 

I love that episode of HILLBILLIES.  I remember how Granny was always bragging how everyone used to say that she looked like Gloria Swanson!

[Ennis Del Mark]

Seeing as how all this was before cable, everyone we knew had an antenna on the roof, and ours was hooked up to a device we called a 'tenna-rotor, to turn the antenna for better reception!  

We got cable TV in our town in 1965, when I was six!  I think it was maybe ten channels but boy, did we think it was neat!

We got our first color TV complete with remote control in 1969.  A big ol' Zenith.

[garyd]

I think it's Tab Hunter.

Roddy (and Bill in the picture before that) sure got better looking as they got older (and had longer hair)!

Speaking of Tab Hunter, yes it is him in the pic, want to see something fun?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzsryffz5s
Watch all the way through and you will get links to others.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Speaking of Tab Hunter, yes it is him in the pic.

Thanks!