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Re: Classic TV
« Reply #2700 on: June 03, 2024, 02:22:46 PM »
I just can't get into podcasts. I don't drive where that might be a reaon to listen to one, nor take long trips in any vehicles. If I'm moving aroung I don't want to be distracted with voices in my head. Anyone else listen to these things?

Never have yet, though it seems to be all the rage these days. Not even sure what they are. Will have to look it up.

I did watch all of "Oz" again last month... wow... must've 10 or 15 years since I last watched it. Still great. And Christopher Meloni... well... I started watching "Law and Order: Organized Crime" because of him. Still hot, still a great butt...  8) It's even mentioned at the bottom of the cover pic.  :P


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« Reply #2701 on: June 03, 2024, 08:19:03 PM »
Never have yet, though it seems to be all the rage these days. Not even sure what they are. Will have to look it up.

Same here.

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« Reply #2702 on: June 04, 2024, 12:38:48 AM »
I Googled it:

What is a podcast?
"Today, podcasts are an extremely popular form of audio entertainment and have progressed beyond being downloadable radio shows. Each podcast is a series created by a host and then published episode-by-episode online, where subscribers can then download and listen to each episode when it's released."

What is the point of having a podcast?
"People might listen to a podcast to learn more about a topic, keep up with current events, or because they want to laugh. A podcast can also be a powerful marketing tool. Podcasting can be an opportunity to promote your business, broaden your reach, or market to your existing audience."

Why would anyone listen to a podcast?
"Podcast listeners most often turn to podcasts for entertainment, education and diversion. About nine-in-ten podcast listeners say learning (88%) and entertainment (87%) are reasons they listen to podcasts, including more than half who say these are major reasons they tune in (55% and 60%, respectively)."

Who mostly listens to podcasts?
"50% of monthly U.S. podcast listeners are aged between 12-34, 43% between 35 and 54 years old, and 22% are aged over 55."

Not sure it's for me.
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« Reply #2703 on: June 04, 2024, 09:11:57 AM »
So, has whoever invented podcasts reinvented radio? Especially from before television, when people gathered around radios to listen to shows (dramas, comedies, and so forth) for entertainment in the decades before television?

Despite the comment about progressing beyond downloadable radio shows, that description makes it sound an awful lot like radio before TV--at least to me.

(And of course, some of those radio entertainment shows later made the jump to TV; "Gunsmoke" and "The Lone Ranger" come to mind, and very early on, "Gunsmoke" on the radio overlapped "Gunsmoke" on TV.)

(The analogy came to me because I was remembering a New Yorker article from some time ago that discussed the various streaming services and paying for them. The author made the remark, "Congratulations. You've invented Cable.")

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« Reply #2704 on: June 04, 2024, 10:46:33 AM »
Yes. It sounds like pre-recorded radio, to be broadcast afterwards, as opposed to live radio? That's nothing new either.

So the only difference between a Youtube and a podcast is that a podcast has no video.
And the only advantage is that you can listen to it when you want.

Perhaps as lessons or lectures could it be of interest to me.
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« Reply #2705 on: June 04, 2024, 10:49:38 AM »
Something available as a podcast is also broadcast over WAMU radio in DC every Sunday morning at 7 am, I listen to it as I get ready for choir practice then mass.

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« Reply #2706 on: June 04, 2024, 01:55:55 PM »
[...] And Christopher Meloni... well... I started watching "Law and Order: Organized Crime" because of him. [...]

I like this series, too. NBC renewed it, but it's not airing on the Network next season, it's going to be streaming on the Peacock app. Apparently it's a series on the streaming site that "over performs". That's what it said, which I assume to mean it gets more viewers than a lot of other shows on the app. I can see that...most people are not going to sit down and watch three hours of Law & Order shows in a row on the network. I don't know how many episodes they'll consider a season on the app, though. It also makes me wonder if they could be more adult that way and also show Meloni like he is on the cover photo! Heh!

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« Reply #2707 on: June 04, 2024, 06:31:04 PM »
Yes. It sounds like pre-recorded radio, to be broadcast afterwards, as opposed to live radio? That's nothing new either.

So the only difference between a Youtube and a podcast is that a podcast has no video.
And the only advantage is that you can listen to it when you want.

Perhaps as lessons or lectures could it be of interest to me.

I guess you can get that from an audio book, too.

I guess podcasts have just added one more thing to choose from for education or entertainment, but it still sounds to me like it's just a new platform but doesn't really do anything new.


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« Reply #2708 on: June 04, 2024, 06:34:11 PM »
I like this series, too. NBC renewed it, but it's not airing on the Network next season, it's going to be streaming on the Peacock app. Apparently it's a series on the streaming site that "over performs". That's what it said, which I assume to mean it gets more viewers than a lot of other shows on the app. I can see that...most people are not going to sit down and watch three hours of Law & Order shows in a row on the network. I don't know how many episodes they'll consider a season on the app, though. It also makes me wonder if they could be more adult that way and also show Meloni like he is on the cover photo! Heh!

But aren't they watching three hours of "Chicago" shows and three hours of "FBI" shows?

Anybody know what's up with those shows?

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« Reply #2709 on: June 08, 2024, 11:12:44 AM »
Quite an interesting episode of Wagon Train on MeTV this morning. It was called "The Silver Lady." It was in B&W and was originally broadcast April 25, 1965. The Guest Star was Vera Miles. The cast included Henry Silva, Don Galloway, Arthur O'Connell, Denver Pyle, and Kevin Hagen, all of whom did lots of TV in the Sixties and Seventies. I was a little confused at first the because the story included Michael Burns, who played Barnaby West, a teenager who worked on the wagon train, as another character.

This was the next-to-last episode of the series.

The cast also included Don Collier. His face and deep voice were so familiar to me from countless Westerns that I had to look him up. Seems he did over 200 roles in Westerns. He worked with the best of them, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Arness, and so on. He died in 2021 a the age of 93. I wouldn't have known his name to look him up except that he was listed as in the cast in a Wagon Train episode guide that I found online and printed out years ago.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171896/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_q_Don%2520Collier


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« Reply #2710 on: June 11, 2024, 08:05:56 PM »
This afternoon I had the experience of seeing the very first episode of Wagon Train, which I had never seen before. It was titled "The Willie Moran Story," and it was originally broadcast Wednesday, September 18, 1957.

The guest star was Ernest Borgnine, who played Willie Moran. The supporting cast included several familiar TV faces, Marjorie Lord, Kevin Hagen, and Andrew Duggan.

In this first episode, Frank McGrath, who played supply wagon driver/cook Charlie Wooster, was clean shaven; I think from then on he was always bearded. Terry Wilson, who played Bill Hawks, had a blink-and-you-missed-him appearance where Major Adams addressed him as "Bill." Elsewhere in Season 1 Bill Hawks was a traveler on the wagon train with his wife Emily; by the end of the season he was employed by Major Adams to help run the wagon train.

This fellow also had a brief role at the beginning of the episode. I must have seen his face hundreds of times on TV and never knew his name: Richard Devon.

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« Reply #2711 on: June 12, 2024, 02:44:47 PM »
It appears that MeTV has now gone "back to the beginning" of Wagon Train, as today it's running "The Jean Le Bec Story," the second episode of the series. Ricardo Montalbon was the guest star.

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« Reply #2712 on: June 12, 2024, 04:14:55 PM »
Good that they do that. The old time radio broadcast here in the DC area, The Big Broadcast, always starts out with Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, starts at the beginning with Dick Powell in the audition story, then goes in chronological order to the end (1949-1962), at which point they go back to the beginning. It takes quite a few years to go through a cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours_Truly,_Johnny_Dollar

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« Reply #2713 on: June 12, 2024, 07:46:29 PM »
I like it, too, when these shows are run in original broadcast order. For some reason, it appears that MeTV doesn't show the color Wagon Train episodes (apparently from 1961-62).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Train

Somewhere a long time ago I swear I saw the Ronald Regan episode, and it was in color.

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Re: Classic TV
« Reply #2714 on: June 16, 2024, 10:28:35 AM »

I liked the Daniel Boone episode I watched this weekend titled The Search. I've always really liked Nita Talbot, who was a guest star in the episode, and she looked really good. Also in the episode was Michael Ansara who I recall n a lot of 1960s TV series.

She appeared in dozens of movies and TV series and I wondered why she never had her own series. She made quite a few appearances on Hogan's Heroes as a Russian spy and most people recognize her from that series. She got an Emmy nomination for this role. She is still with us at age 93.