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The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

Has there ever been a DL thread about this mildly campy late '70s TV show? Does there even need to be? There were only 38 episodes, according to Wikipedia, but I recall it airing a lot in syndication in the early '80s. It was sort of a weird mix between Little House on the Prairie and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

Dan Haggerty was kind of a hot bear -- although with that mane of his, maybe lion would be more appropriate?

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by Anonymousreply 17May 29, 2022 12:44 AM

Theme song

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by Anonymousreply 1May 28, 2022 7:51 PM

My grandmother's two favorite shows beside her soap( Days Of Our Lives) were Little House On The Prairie and Grizzly Adams.

by Anonymousreply 2May 28, 2022 7:52 PM

Dan Haggerty had a great face and body. Why did he keep that beard when Grizzly Adams only lasted for a year?

by Anonymousreply 3May 28, 2022 7:53 PM

R3- In the 1970's he was a really FIT bear.

by Anonymousreply 4May 28, 2022 7:59 PM

I think it used to show in syndicated repeats on Sunday afternoons. My dad would watch it sometimes. I was little but I remember liking the theme song and the animals. This was 1980-ish, just before cable TV, and so you literally had like 4-5 channels to choose from and that was it! Weird to think about now.

by Anonymousreply 5May 28, 2022 8:01 PM

I loved this as a tiny kid too. I can't imagine kids today liking this. Or Rockford Files or any of the slow shit I used to watch. I want to make a Youtube channel of kids reacting to all of these old shows.

by Anonymousreply 6May 28, 2022 8:06 PM

R5- It's also weird that you had to walk over to the tv to change the channel and there was no mute button so one had to endure the commercials- which were not as torturous back then.

by Anonymousreply 7May 28, 2022 8:08 PM

In 1980 he appeared in an episode of Charlie’s Angels as a post-hippy drug using kidnapper.

by Anonymousreply 8May 28, 2022 8:11 PM

From his wiki page ! !

[quote] In 1977, his beard caught fire from shooting back a flaming cocktail.

by Anonymousreply 9May 28, 2022 8:37 PM

It was a Flaming Mame, R9!

by Anonymousreply 10May 28, 2022 8:48 PM

Loved him. Wanted him up my bum.

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by Anonymousreply 11May 28, 2022 8:53 PM

He was one of my first celebrity crushes when I was a boy. I was never enamoured of the smooth young guys, always the beefy hairy ones.

by Anonymousreply 12May 28, 2022 9:07 PM

He was an acquired taste.

by Anonymousreply 13May 28, 2022 9:08 PM

He was a g-damn JAILBIRD! Busted buying cocaine in 1985 and tossed in the slammer.

by Anonymousreply 14May 28, 2022 9:29 PM

(R11) If you had some crack and looked good in a dress in the late 1990s, Ol' Dan might have stuck his semi flaccid manhood up your ass. Ol' Dan had a huge crack habit. He was notorious among Hollywood blvd. crack- trannie- prostitutes who hung out at the Spotlight Bar. Ol' Dan would check into the fleabag Mark Twain Hotel for days at a time. He'd never leave except to pick up crack-bearing Trannies roaming the streets and alleyways close to the bar. I finagled my way into his room with a couple of rocks + red lipstick, a filmy top, tons of mascara, and a tragically coquettish demeanor. I loved his Mountain Man persona but by the time I got him alone in a room he had gone from Grizzley Addams to broke Hollywood has-been Hillbilly. He had scraggly hair with a bright red nose, pimples on his chest and back + the aforementioned semi-flaccid dick. BTW I'm not trans or even a transvestite. I found my sex niche as a nelly, Mic Jaggerish he-bitch with flair.

by Anonymousreply 15May 28, 2022 9:47 PM

He was one of the bodybuilders (Biff) in "Muscle Beach Party" with Don Rickles.

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by Anonymousreply 16May 28, 2022 11:21 PM

From Pound, Wisconsin

by Anonymousreply 17May 29, 2022 12:44 AM
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