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« Reply #2640 on: April 02, 2024, 10:09:27 AM »
How old was Tony Dow in that episode?

The episode was "The Wagon Train Mutiny," season 6, episode 1, broadcast Sept. 19, 1962. Apparently I'm losing my mind--or maybe just my vision. I looked up the episode, and apparently it wasn't Tony Dow. The character (Jane Wyman's son) appeared only briefly. It appears the actor was actually someone named Peter Helm--but in the brief time he was onscreen he sure looked like Tony Dow--sounded like him, too.

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Interesting what you wrote about Patricia Blair. I got Season 1 of Daniel Boone and watched it last year, about once a week and now I've been watching Season 2 this year. I didn't know Veronica Cartwright was gone after Season 2! I didn't watch much more than a few episodes of it during it's run, probably because it was on opposite Bewitched most of the time. But I'm enjoying it. I recently saw the episode called The First Beau which had Robert Logan and Fabian fighting over "Jemima." No wonder Patricia Blair was jealous. And what was Fabian palling around with that old man, anyway? They weren't related. Hmm.

If all the boys on the frontier looked like those two, man! Robert Logan had been in the last season or two of 77 Sunset Strip (72 episodes), before this. Logan appears to be a lot shorter in this series than 6'3" which he's listed as on IMDB. He's now 83 and Fabian is 81. How long was Logan on Daniel Boone? (I looked it up. Only 12 episodes of Daniel Boone. Likely Patricia Blair got him axed, too! Heh!)

I always thought that there should have been a romance between Jemima and Jericho. Robert Logan sure was easy on the eyes. Check the season 2 episode, the "Tortoise and the Hare." I think that's the one where Jericho is being kept locked up so he won't run away and skip a footrace against an Indian, and Jemima brings him some supper. There was definitely something there.

I'm sure I've written this before: I think DB was a case where Season 1 was the best of the entire series. One of my favorite episodes, one I've watched repeatedly, is actually the second episode of the entire series, "Tekawitha McLeod." "The Sisters O'Hanrahan" was pretty good, too. Then there is "Cain's Birthday," the two-parter featuring the attack on the fort.

I had a shock once when I watched the Season 2 episode "Fifty Rifles." The plot is essentially a reworking of the plot of the Season 1 episode "Lac Duquesne."

DB must have turned into an easy job for Patricia Blair. As the seasons wore on, we usually saw Rebecca briefly at the beginning of an episode and again at the end of an episode.

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« Reply #2641 on: April 02, 2024, 11:27:51 AM »

I liked Season 1, but I'm liking Season 2 just as much and I do like watching it in color more. I like the episodes when they touch on historical figures like Ben Franklin and Aaron Burr. I've seen the "Tortoise and the Hare" episode, it was the second episode of the second season. Right now I'm nearly halfway through Season 2 already! The next episode is "The Christmas Story."

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« Reply #2642 on: April 02, 2024, 01:56:14 PM »
I liked Season 1, but I'm liking Season 2 just as much and I do like watching it in color more. I like the episodes when they touch on historical figures like Ben Franklin and Aaron Burr. I've seen the "Tortoise and the Hare" episode, it was the second episode of the second season. Right now I'm nearly halfway through Season 2 already! The next episode is "The Christmas Story."

That was a pretty good episode. I liked it. I also like the two episodes where John McIntire was the guest star (one in Season 1, the other in Season 2).

I've felt that Season 1 had a more "rustic/frontier" look to it. Probably that was at least partly because it was in B&W, but there were other things, too. Compare the furniture in the Boone cabin from Season 1 to Season 2. I know the show wasn't really history, but things like the cabin furniture still bothered me. I didn't think too much of the Aaron Burr and Louisiana Purchase episodes. And the Aztec episode? Puh-leeze!

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« Reply #2643 on: April 03, 2024, 06:35:12 AM »
Award-Winning TV and Film Actress, Dies at 97

She received a Golden Globe in 1954 as that year’s rising star and appeared in movies alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman.

Barbara Rush, the supremely poised actress who rose to fame with supporting roles in 1950s films like “Magnificent Obsession” and “The Young Lions,” died on Sunday at her home in Westlake Village, Calif., in Los Angeles County. She was 97.

The death, in a senior care facility, was confirmed by her daughter, Claudia Cowan.

If Ms. Rush’s portrayals had one thing in common, it was a gentle, ladylike quality, which she put to use in films of many genres. She was Jane Wyman’s concerned stepdaughter in the 1954 romantic drama “Magnificent Obsession” and Dean Martin’s loyal wartime girlfriend in “The Young Lions” (1958), set during World War II. In 1950s science fiction pictures like “It Came From Outer Space” and “When Worlds Collide,” she was the small-town heroine, the scientist’s daughter, the Earthling most likely to succeed.


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« Reply #2644 on: April 03, 2024, 09:05:05 PM »
Interesting episode on Adam-12 this afternoon. Malloy and Reed were basically "frames" for the episode, appearing at the beginning and the end. The plot involved attempting to expose and prosecute a con-man doctor by a DA and two detectives. The DA was played by Ed Nelson, and the detectives were Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Sharon Gless. They all got special appearance credit.

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« Reply #2645 on: April 04, 2024, 09:12:11 AM »

I looked up some info about that episode, Jeff. Jack Webb made a pilot for a new half-hour 1974 series, "Fraud", for Universal in association with Mark VII productions. It was directed by Jack Webb as well. The cast included Frank Sinatra Jr., Ed Nelson, and Sharon Gless. Nelson starred as an assistant district attorney combating fraud, with Gless and Sinatra, Jr. as agents under his command. The series was not sold and it was turned into the 24th and final episode of Adam-12's season six. It was not shown in Adam-12's regular Tuesday evening time slot that season, but rather on Wednesday, the day after Episode 23 ("Keeping Tabs") was shown. It was mentioned that this was the third appearance of Frank Sinatra, Jr. in Adam-12.




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« Reply #2646 on: April 04, 2024, 07:18:26 PM »
Thanks, Lyle. That was interesting. I'd seen Frank Sinatra, Jr., in one other episode; I think I mentioned that.

I've been forgetting I wanted to mention that in an episode last week (I think it was just last week) there was a young Boy-Scout-type teenager at the station. His thing was electronics, so he worked on Reed's TV (which had tubes  :o ). I recognized the kid immediately by his very distinctive jaw line; it was a quite young Andrew Stevens.

This afternoon MeTV ran a two-part episode of Adam-12 from 1974 that featured June Lockhart and the then-child actor Lee Montgomery (aka Lee Harcourt Montgomery, aka Lee H. Montgomery), who grew up to be a teenage hottie.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599837/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_q_Lee%2520H.%2520Montgomery
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« Reply #2647 on: April 05, 2024, 09:46:17 AM »

I remember that name somehow, but not him so much.

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« Reply #2648 on: April 05, 2024, 10:14:41 AM »
I remember that name somehow, but not him so much.

Me, too. I thought I remembered him, but the face I put with the name in my memory was the wrong face. Now I can't remember the name of the guy whose face I put with Lee Montgomery's name.  :(

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« Reply #2649 on: April 14, 2024, 10:08:04 AM »
The Daniel Boone episode I watched this weeked was titled The Tamarack Massacre Affair. That year, season, a new show premiered and became a hit, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and all of their episodes were titled things like The This Affair or The That Affair and I wondered if that's why they might have titled this Daniel Boone episode like they did.

It guest starred Dina Merrill and Robert Lansing. He was the lead in the 12 O'Clock High TV series that premiered the previous year, when higher ups wanted to recast the lead to someone more, let's says, younger or appealing for the second season and they, in effect, fired him. I can't imagine how one would feel about that. He was replaced by Paul Burke, a veteran of other TV series. He was, in fact, nearly the same age as Lansing. I don't mind either of them in the role, but Lansing was more like the character Gregory Peck played in the movie, more cerebral, and I'd have to say the better actor. Burke was more like a movie star personality and that also has it's appeal. Couldn't they both been in the show?

Is that a show you ever watched, Jeff? It was on for three seasons, 1964-1967. The last season in color. It didn't make 100 episodes, only 78, so it wasn't syndicated, but it's popped up a great deal on various retro TV channels which is when I first watched it. It popped up on Amazon Prime for streaming for one year (last year) and then it was removed. It's never been put on DVD or I'd buy it. I watched it all again when it was on Prime, they were the full running times of 50-51 minutes and no commercials.

I never was interested in the WWII shows when they were on in the 1960s, I only saw them decades later. Combat!, which is on DVD, was really good and on for six years. The mid-70s had a show called Baa Baa Black Sheep, retitled The Black Sheep Squadron for the second season. That one starred Robert Conrad and lasted two years, but that is also on DVD. I was not into McHale's Navy. Even for me, it was just too silly. They had too many supporting actors who were crazy--Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine--together they were just too much even for me as a kid who loved whacky! Incidentally, I ran into Carl Ballantine when I was visiting a chiropractor for a time for TMJ. I was about to go into the office and the door opened and there he was, coming out! He was still crazy! Said hello and made a joke or something! I did enjoy that.



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« Reply #2650 on: April 14, 2024, 01:05:03 PM »
The Daniel Boone episode I watched this weeked was titled The Tamarack Massacre Affair. That year, season, a new show premiered and became a hit, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and all of their episodes were titled things like The This Affair or The That Affair and I wondered if that's why they might have titled this Daniel Boone episode like they did.

That was a good episode. I've watched in on the DVD set. I particularly like the part where Mingo figured out the wrong thing in Dina Merrill's story.

Incidentally, I've seen Dallas McKennon (Cincinnatus) on a couple of episodes of Wagon Train.

I never watched any of the WW II series except, oddly, I guess, McHale's Navy (I remember watching that so early in the evening that I wonder if it was already in syndication) and--Hogan's Heroes. My dad liked Baa Baa Black Sheep, but I never watched it.

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« Reply #2651 on: April 17, 2024, 01:16:47 PM »

Jeff, I thought you might like this:

Two-time Oscar-winning screen legend, Bette Davis proved she had the gams to can-can on the "The Elizabeth McQueeny Story" episode (10/29/59) of the popular western television series, WAGON TRAIN. Though the episode was filmed in black and white, here's a color pic of Davis with some leggy lovelies from the episode.



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« Reply #2652 on: April 17, 2024, 01:42:01 PM »
Jeff, I thought you might like this:

Two-time Oscar-winning screen legend, Bette Davis proved she had the gams to can-can on the "The Elizabeth McQueeny Story" episode (10/29/59) of the popular western television series, WAGON TRAIN. Though the episode was filmed in black and white, here's a color pic of Davis with some leggy lovelies from the episode.



https://shebloggedbynight.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bette-cancan-tv.jpg

Yes, thanks. That's one of my favorite episodes. I've watched it on DVD quite a few times. I've always appreciated the line where she tells Major Adams that she was in an epidemic in New Orleans once. ...

The last time I watched it I was puzzling out whether the young woman who died was actually Madame McQueeny's daughter. Something Bette said, or maybe it was the way she said it, got me wondering.

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« Reply #2653 on: April 17, 2024, 01:45:28 PM »
Yesterday's Wagon Train episode was "The Sam Darland Story." The guest star was none other than Art Linkletter, but the supporting cast included a certain Nancy Davis. ... I recognized her at once!

A very young Billy Mumy (missing a tooth!) was also in the cast.

The episode is Season 6, episode 15, and was originally broadcast Dec. 26, 1962.

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« Reply #2654 on: April 19, 2024, 11:43:22 AM »
The second of the two Adam-12 episodes broadcast on MeTV yesterday feature Reed going undercover. Kent McCord looked pretty good with scruff.  ;D

Of course, back then he looked pretty good without scruff, too, but he also looked pretty good with scruff.  ;D

This was the first part of a two-part episode, so I presume the second part will be the first episode broadcast this afternoon.

The episodes MeTV is showing now are from the early Seventies because when they ask for a check on a car, the models are post-1970.

Police equipment was still pretty primitive compared to today.