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Old shit on TV (part 2)

When I was a kid I loved December Bride mostly because I thought Spring Byington was the funniest name I ever heard. Then I saw Florida Friebus.

by Anonymousreply 292December 3, 2024 5:08 PM

Speaking of Florida Friebus, I loved The Adventures Of Dobie Gillis. Frank Faylen as Dobie’s dad: “I gotta kill that boy - I just gotta.”

Didn’t December Bride follow or lead into I Love Lucy on Monday nights? This guaranteed that it was a hit. It had similarities - Byington and Verna Felton got into some elderly Lucy-Ethel-type scrapes. As a kid I thought it was funny, in reruns - it was also re-run next to ILL on CBS in the morning (mainly watched it in summer).

by Anonymousreply 1January 8, 2024 10:52 PM

I'm watching Route 66 these days,

It was airing on MeTV+ for a long time until a few months ago. When they pulled it, I continued watching on Freevee.

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by Anonymousreply 2January 8, 2024 11:30 PM

Route 66 is on freevee? Cool. I loved that show. Martin Milner and George Maharis were hot together

by Anonymousreply 3January 9, 2024 2:10 AM

I was a big fan of December Bride in morning reruns (too young to stay up to watch it in its original run) but just old enough by 1962 to enjoy its spin-off Pete & Gladys, which had for its time, the novel premise of introducing us to a lead character who had only been alluded to in the first series.

And that character was Gladys, married to good neighbor Pete, who was always dropping into Lily's (Spring Byington's) home to whine about his seemingly obstreperous wife. They were played by Harry Morgan (later on MASH, of course) and Cara Williams, a gorgeous redhead (nothing like what we expected from Pete's whining) who was being touted as the next Lucy. I think Williams, who had apreviously been nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar, got a rep for being difficult. And I don't think she did much after this series.

The scripts weren't great though so, in spite of the big push CBS gave it, the series didn't last long. But I think it was one of the very first spin-offs in TV history. I loved it, never missed it. It probably doesn't hold up at all.

by Anonymousreply 4January 9, 2024 2:30 AM

KOJAK

John Ritter '74

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by Anonymousreply 5January 9, 2024 3:23 AM

Watched some MacGyver, Love Boat, and Becker on Pluto but am now watching Caroline in the City and flashing back to when this was on broadcast tv in the 90's and wanting Del and Richard to make porn together. Throw in Charlie and his rollerblades.

by Anonymousreply 6January 11, 2024 10:06 PM

Larry, Whitey and Gilbert are in a tree spying on Miss Landers having dinner at the Cleavers. They're surprised to see her...toes.

by Anonymousreply 7January 12, 2024 4:27 PM

Any Wiseguy fans? The show is airing on Retro TV or RTV.

Some may be interested in the upcoming "Dead Dog Records" arc. Often considered the best arc, with lots of notable guest performers.

If interested, I put a post on the Wiseguy thread that gives more information.

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by Anonymousreply 8January 13, 2024 2:18 AM

On Svengoolie tonight...

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by Anonymousreply 9January 14, 2024 3:08 AM

Attention Turhan Bey fans!

On tonight...

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by Anonymousreply 10January 19, 2024 2:13 AM

I've been watching "Dobie Gillis" on FreeVee. Tuesday Weld and Warren Beatty disappear early on, but then you have the delights of Chatsworth's mother (the wonderful Doris Packer) as well as both of Patty Duke's parents in recurring roles. And of course Maynard G. Krebs was one of the greatest characters in TV history.

by Anonymousreply 11January 19, 2024 3:13 AM

Gilligan wiped out America’s collective memory of Maynard.

by Anonymousreply 12January 19, 2024 3:21 AM

Harold : Hazel how do I have to be before I can do whatever I want to?

Hazel: I don't know Sport. As far as I know no man has ever lived that long.

Snort.

by Anonymousreply 13January 19, 2024 3:41 AM

My Favorite Matian is on TUBI. The premise is rather stupid but it's funny as hell.

by Anonymousreply 14January 19, 2024 12:56 PM

Odetta was the guest star on Have Gun, Will Travel. I thought it was interesting that Peggy Rea who cast the show also had a part in the episode.

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by Anonymousreply 15January 20, 2024 3:36 AM

I didn't remember that Zasu did a Perry Mason episode.

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by Anonymousreply 16January 22, 2024 5:45 PM

Tonight...Sister Season Hubley on Kojak

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by Anonymousreply 17January 28, 2024 4:33 AM

Was r13 supposed to make sense? I think it's missing a few words.

by Anonymousreply 18January 28, 2024 2:59 PM

As newlyweds, my folks got a TV set specifically to watch Dobie Gillis.

Del on "Caroline in the City" was hot AF!

by Anonymousreply 19January 28, 2024 3:04 PM

R17 That Hubley bitch was everywhere for a while.

by Anonymousreply 20January 28, 2024 3:20 PM

[quote] Then I saw Florida Friebus

I’ll see your Florida Friebus and raise you a Toppie Smellie.

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by Anonymousreply 21January 28, 2024 3:26 PM

MeTV just cycled back to the Mark Shera seasons of "Barnaby Jones." He was so gorgeous. Would love to know where he is today (I think he left the business several years ago).

by Anonymousreply 22January 29, 2024 5:34 AM

One Day At A Time was so dumb. Bonnie was annoying. Valerie was stupid and clueless. Alex was gay.

by Anonymousreply 23January 29, 2024 8:35 AM

Toppie Smellie sounds like a kind of turd.

by Anonymousreply 24January 29, 2024 4:20 PM

R22 Mark Shera (now 74) is still in the Los Angeles area. His Linkedin says that he's been working for the last 28 years as an "ADR Loop Group" coordinator for films and TV series. The company name is BACKTALK.

In 2020, a longtime friend of Shera's, Barbara Deutsch, put a New Years photo up on her Instagram that included Mark. Someone asked her if "Mark does any social media?", and her reply was, "No, he doesn't." So this photo of him is about four years old now:

L-R are: Mark Shera, Barbara Deutsch, Bob Garrett (PING!), and Julie McDonald

btw - Barbara was a young actress herself when she appeared as Mark's partner on the couple's game show, "Tattletales" in 1977. It was a "Barnaby Jones" game with Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether with their spouse/partner's at the time. Young Barbara went on to marry actor, Michael Lembeck, a few months later.

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by Anonymousreply 25January 29, 2024 7:33 PM

And here Mark and Bob are back in the day with Cheryl Barnes. Cute.

Bob is a longtime dialogue, vocal, singing coach. He seems to know everyone.

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by Anonymousreply 26January 29, 2024 7:35 PM

Is there a Mrs, Garrett, r26?

by Anonymousreply 27January 29, 2024 7:41 PM

It takes a lot to make someone who looks like Lee Merriweather look like a dumpy frau. The costumers on Barnaby Jones were somehow able to do it though.

by Anonymousreply 28January 29, 2024 7:47 PM

R27 I've never seen any kind of husband in the picture, and Garrett's FB page indicates he's "Single."

by Anonymousreply 29January 29, 2024 8:26 PM

Yes, r29, there *is* a Mrs. Garrett.

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by Anonymousreply 30January 29, 2024 8:40 PM

Speaking of old sitcoms, Bob Garrett wrote the lyrics to the "Gimme a Break" theme song used in the first two seasons.

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by Anonymousreply 31January 29, 2024 8:55 PM

R4 Cara Williams had her own TV show in the 1964-65 season. As I recall, the lyrics to the theme song were simply “Cara…Cara” sung by a female vocalist. Frank Aletter played her husband. And yes, I think she disappeared from TV after that.

For any Britcom fans reading this, the plot of that show was done much better in a 1980s show named “Executive Stress” starring Penelope Keith and either Peter Bowles or Geoffrey Palmer as the husband, depending on which series/season of the show.

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by Anonymousreply 32January 29, 2024 9:11 PM

Cara was also in...

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by Anonymousreply 33January 29, 2024 11:00 PM

R15, Odette was outstanding in that episode. Her bearing, her aura was indescribable.

by Anonymousreply 34January 29, 2024 11:51 PM

Lee Merriwether is extraordinary

by Anonymousreply 35January 29, 2024 11:55 PM

We all have an actor or two that we wish had a bigger career. Lee is one for me.

by Anonymousreply 36January 30, 2024 12:08 AM

Lee. Pre Barnaby Frau.

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by Anonymousreply 37January 30, 2024 12:33 AM

Lee Merriwether as Betty Jones was really quite unique

by Anonymousreply 38January 30, 2024 12:40 AM

r35/r38 - Is she any relation to Lee Meriwether?

by Anonymousreply 39January 30, 2024 12:44 AM

a distant cousin.

by Anonymousreply 40January 30, 2024 12:46 AM

Meow.....

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by Anonymousreply 41January 30, 2024 12:46 AM

There she is...

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by Anonymousreply 42January 30, 2024 12:46 AM

That bitch is pussywether

by Anonymousreply 43January 30, 2024 12:53 AM

JFC! This is a Methuselah thread if there ever was one on DL!

by Anonymousreply 44January 30, 2024 12:57 AM

Lee was married to Frank Aletter, mentioned above.

by Anonymousreply 45January 30, 2024 12:59 AM

I watch BJ every night for several hours on Pluto

Lee is in every episode as Betty

by Anonymousreply 46January 30, 2024 1:02 AM

Didn't she carry the show for like the last three seasons? Barnaby was show looking through his microscope.

by Anonymousreply 47January 30, 2024 1:03 AM

R44 We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re old as Methuselah.

by Anonymousreply 48January 30, 2024 1:20 AM

[quote]JFC! This is a Methuselah thread if there ever was one on DL!

Do you have reading comprehension problems, r44? Did you blindly come to this thread without reading its title? Or...are you just so desperate for attention that you'll accept negative attention? That's what children do, you know.

by Anonymousreply 49January 30, 2024 1:38 AM

But Methuselah didn't own a television machine.

by Anonymousreply 50January 30, 2024 3:25 AM

As a child watching morning TV in the ‘60s, I loved watching really old series like “My Little Margie,” “December Bride,” “Burns and Allen,” “Our Miss Brooks,” “The Thin Man,” with Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk and “Mr. Adams and Eve,” with Ida Lupino and Howard Duff. And “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” before it was permanently yanked in the mid-‘60s.

Sterling Silliphant was involved with both “Route 66” and “Naked City,” and the two series often cycled guest actors from the set of NC in NY to the southern locations of R66. Though I think “Naked City” was the better series (more adult and hard-hitting) you can feel how prescient “Route 66” was in anticipating the stresses and conflicts of the end of that decade — all of the anger, restlessness, disillusion, the sense that old ways weren’t working anymore, the way women were breaking out of their traditional roles — it’s all there when ypu look back at those episodes. In Glenn Corbett’s first episode replacing George Maharis, he plays a Vietnam vet tortured by PTSD (when it was still called shell shock) who is trying to become a Buddhist, furious about what he had to do and witness over there. And this was in 1963!

by Anonymousreply 51January 30, 2024 4:42 AM

Don't forget Mrs. Steele's episode...

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by Anonymousreply 52January 30, 2024 5:15 AM

R25/R26, thank you! That was a great update on Mark. I really appreciate it. Nice to know he's doing well. Just out of curiosity, do you know if he ever married and had a family? I do recall someone posting on DL about him a long time ago and saying that he's straight.

By the way, though Mark isn't on social media, I believe Lee Meriwether is. She's 88 now.

by Anonymousreply 53January 30, 2024 6:00 AM

*Miss Billingsley's dresses by De De Johnson*

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DeDe invented pedal pushers!

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by Anonymousreply 54January 31, 2024 4:34 PM

1974 Kojak with Andrea Marcovicci...she was stunning.

by Anonymousreply 55February 3, 2024 3:14 AM

This is on tonight. Think I'll skip it.

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by Anonymousreply 56February 8, 2024 3:22 AM

"Barney Miller" is still a very funny show. Holds up quite well.

by Anonymousreply 57February 8, 2024 5:15 AM

Anyone catch That's My Mama! on Catchy!TV this week? Never heard of it seen it before. Catchy has featuring some rarely seen shows from the 70s.

Currently watching Newhart. Current scene features Larry, Daryll & Darryl selling pics of themselves posing with cars for "a buck a pic. Ten bucks for nudies!"

by Anonymousreply 58February 8, 2024 6:18 AM

Oh, the lovely Ellen McRae is guesting on Perry Mason this morning.

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by Anonymousreply 59February 8, 2024 5:12 PM

Todsy on Perry...Anne Welles!

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by Anonymousreply 60February 9, 2024 5:12 PM

She looks like she could do with a couple of dolls, there.

by Anonymousreply 61February 10, 2024 1:48 PM

Picked back up with Murder, She Wrote and as a child of the 80's who loved this show and murder mysteries, there are so many character and bit actors who were gay and are no longer with us. I'll look up and ep on IMDB and see so many attractive faces playing straight as Jessica's nephew or next door neighbor's son-in-law or whatever and they died in '92, or '95 and it's like a fingerprint time stamp on the impact of the plague from that time. Rest in power, kings. May your memory always be a blessing.

by Anonymousreply 62February 10, 2024 2:20 PM

[quote]Today on Perry...Anne Welles!

Perry probably would've preferred to have Lyon Burke "on" him.

by Anonymousreply 63February 10, 2024 6:57 PM

He probably would have preferred Mel, r63.

by Anonymousreply 64February 10, 2024 9:01 PM

Was Paul Drake a big mo too?

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by Anonymousreply 65February 12, 2024 1:18 AM

He never got over the trauma of fathering Rhoda Penmark.

by Anonymousreply 66February 12, 2024 5:19 AM

Oh look, Princess Leia was on Have Gun Will Travel...

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by Anonymousreply 67February 13, 2024 3:26 AM

Lightning Strikes Twice is on this evening...

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by Anonymousreply 68February 23, 2024 4:05 AM

I think the proper term is old as dirt.

by Anonymousreply 69February 23, 2024 4:31 AM

Watching Night Tide...

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by Anonymousreply 70February 24, 2024 5:13 AM

The Friday night film on PBS was "Love Story" (1970).

Why is this some kind of classic? The acting is horrible. My boyfriend and I couldn't stop laughing. We had to turn it off after 20 minutes. There are better "Made for TV" movies than this.

by Anonymousreply 71February 24, 2024 8:20 AM

It's not a classic, R71. It was a triumph of marketing over art even at the time, its main impetus having been that studio head Robert Evans fancied Ali McGraw and was determined she would be a star. It was a big hit on release, and then was never heard of again. It's not only the acting that's bad, it's the Hallmark story as well. The novel was a bestseller, but around the time that bestsellers were great works of literature such as Airport. Come to think of it, that great work of cinema, Airport, has been on TV and at retro cinemas way more often since the early 1970s than Love Story. Its idiotic marketing slogan, "Love means never having to say you're sorry" -- also a line from the film in case you didn't get that far -- was satirised at the time by just about every comedy writer living, and then was deservedly forgotten. Astoundingly, Evans's next hit was The Godfather, which essentially erased Love Story from history.

Ali McGraw, under the delusion that she WAS a star (and/or that Love means never having to say you're sorry), left Evans for Steve McQueen on her next movie and, happily for all, was virtually never seen again.

I was in middle school at the time, and I still remember vividly how dreadful it was and how, for about a year, it was wherever you looked. It was a Swiftian situation, but whether Taylor or Jonathan I leave you to deduce.

by Anonymousreply 72February 24, 2024 1:15 PM

I can't believe this has devolved into a discussion of Love Story, but my two cents is that I saw it again not too long ago and it holds up pretty well.

by Anonymousreply 73February 24, 2024 9:04 PM

R72 Thanks for the reply. I thought it must be considered some kind of "classic" because that's basically how PBS promotes the movies they show on Friday and Saturday nights.

by Anonymousreply 74February 24, 2024 9:39 PM

It *is* a classic, r74, but it's still a piece of dreck.

by Anonymousreply 75February 24, 2024 10:08 PM

But it's the biggest piece of dreck you'll ever love. Until you get to The Other Side of the Mountain.

by Anonymousreply 76February 24, 2024 10:36 PM

You have to remember that Segal wrote it as a screenplay first and they put it out as a book first and the book was *huge*....but still dreck. The movie was going to be a success no matter who they cast or how bad it was.

by Anonymousreply 77February 24, 2024 10:40 PM

As a young gayling I loved both Love Story and The Other Side of the Mountain (when Jill picks up that potato chip… Mary!) — both the movies and the books.

There were certain movies that I would see on tv once a year or so that really just imprinted on me. Not sure that would happen now since media is consumed in such a different manner.

by Anonymousreply 78February 24, 2024 11:48 PM

I just watched The Other Side of the Mountain. Marilyn Hassett should have had a bigger career. Much bigger. She was more appealing than Ali MacGraw. Not that the bar wasn't low but she could act circles around Ali. Marilyn made corn poe respectable.

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by Anonymousreply 79February 25, 2024 1:05 AM

WHET Marilyn Hassett?

by Anonymousreply 80February 25, 2024 1:11 AM

Marilyn and Natasha Richardson look like twins.

by Anonymousreply 81February 25, 2024 1:13 AM

R80 Hassett left the business for almost a decade. In 1988, the Los Angeles Times ran a short interview referring to her a "missing person" and she told the interviewer:

[quote] “I walked out on a career,” she said. “I was trying to keep a failing marriage (to “Other Side” director Larry Peerce) together and couldn’t. Then there was an extremely emotional divorce, which a sea cruise or a year of therapy wasn’t going to quickly overcome. But when I finally felt strong enough to work again, a lot of people didn’t think I was serious.”

Getting back in proved difficult, and she mentioned this again in 1991 when she was a guest on Tom Hatten's local KTLA film/interview show that was broadcasting The Other Side of the Mountain 1/2. (link below)

She's on Instagram, but rarely posts. Her most recent one was from December 2020. Due to old shows being picked up by streamers, she had a photo showing what looked like a pile of residual checks joking that she's finally back at work. The location on her photo said West Hollywood, California. She was also seen at a West Hollywood art gallery showing for painter Danny Minnick in 2017. (link in next post).

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by Anonymousreply 82February 25, 2024 2:12 AM

2017

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by Anonymousreply 83February 25, 2024 2:13 AM

Wow, she looks great in R83’s picture.

She was good in both Other Side of the Mountain movies.

I think was on an episode of Hotel.

by Anonymousreply 84February 25, 2024 2:20 AM

Don't forget Olivia's gorgeous theme to The Other Side of the Mountain.

by Anonymousreply 85February 25, 2024 2:22 AM

PBS does not show movies on Friday nights. Your local PBS station does.

by Anonymousreply 86February 25, 2024 2:27 AM

The old show that doesn't seem to get much love anywhere, including DL, is My Three Sons. The show was on for 12 seasons yet just seems so forgotten. I love the show.

by Anonymousreply 87February 25, 2024 2:52 AM

COZI TV shows Columbo reruns. The original series in the 1970s have so many actors in small or supporting roles who later became famous, but virtually every actor from the 1980s series - except the guest star playing the villain - is a nobody. It’s amazing to see so many actors in a tv series that you never saw again. It’s like the casting director was batting zero. Even the guest stars look terrible.

by Anonymousreply 88February 25, 2024 3:07 AM

Tonight on Svengoolie...

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by Anonymousreply 89February 25, 2024 3:24 AM

I Love Lucy was never not entertaining and it's enduring.

by Anonymousreply 90February 25, 2024 3:44 AM

Tonight on The Lucy Show:

[quote]Lucy schemes to measure a burly and unsuspecting pal (Clint Walker) for a sweater she's knitting. Lucy: Lucille Ball. Mooney: Gale Gordon. Mary Jane: Mary Jane Croft.

by Anonymousreply 91February 26, 2024 2:43 AM

On Kojak: Jennifer Hair Warren murders her hoodlum husband.

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by Anonymousreply 92February 26, 2024 3:21 AM

R88 I think the situation about the supporting players may have been because Columbo was produced by Universal, and I believe the studio still had some kind contract player mechanism at work at that point in time. I remember reading an interview with Howard McGillin (who's primarily known today for his work on Broadway) wherein he said he was among the last of these type of players signed by Universal, and yep, he was on Columbo.

by Anonymousreply 93February 26, 2024 9:38 AM

Route 66 had the best theme song.

by Anonymousreply 94February 26, 2024 10:06 AM

r94=Nelson Riddle

by Anonymousreply 95February 26, 2024 5:31 PM

Peter Gunn theme song is iconic.

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by Anonymousreply 96February 26, 2024 9:15 PM

r96=Henry Mancini

by Anonymousreply 97February 26, 2024 11:24 PM

The father-in law of The Who’s Pete Townshend’s wrote the theme song to The Saint

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by Anonymousreply 98February 27, 2024 12:03 AM

Two snaps, two snaps, one snap, shimmy!

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by Anonymousreply 99February 27, 2024 1:36 AM

I hate the current vogue for having minimal opening credits. The theme song or tune is a great casualty of this silly idea.

by Anonymousreply 100February 27, 2024 4:35 AM

The Patty Duke Show. Another sitcom where parents just leave their kid for someone else to raise.

See: Family Affair (And Uncle Bill left the kids to be watched over by the swishy butler).

by Anonymousreply 101February 27, 2024 6:03 AM

Well on Family Affair the parents didn't exactly drop their kids of and then go to Bermuda.

by Anonymousreply 102February 27, 2024 6:10 PM

That we know of, r102.

by Anonymousreply 103February 27, 2024 6:14 PM

Look how Harold’s parents dumped him on his uncle and moved to the Middle East on “Hazel.” Talk about cold-blooded!

by Anonymousreply 104February 27, 2024 8:06 PM

I can't watch any of that season.

by Anonymousreply 105February 27, 2024 8:12 PM

R105, neither can I. It was dreadful plus Shirley Booth seemed like she was totally over it.

by Anonymousreply 106February 27, 2024 8:33 PM

[quote]Look how Harold’s parents dumped him on his uncle and moved to the Middle East on “Hazel.” Talk about cold-blooded!

Lucy Ricardo dumped Little Ricky when he was a baby and hightailed it to Hollywood where she could hang out with Hedda Hopper, John Wayne, Eve Arden, William Holden, Rock Hudson, Harpo Marx AND Don Loper. THEN dumps him again when she wants to swan off to Europe.

by Anonymousreply 107February 27, 2024 8:34 PM

What about Princess Summerfall Winterspring OP?

by Anonymousreply 108February 27, 2024 9:00 PM

Such a sad story, r108. She died in a car accident at 24.

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by Anonymousreply 109February 27, 2024 9:09 PM

On tonight...

*The Man I Love*

[quote]During an extended California visit, a singer wards off the propositions of her shady new boss, gets involved in the struggles of her siblings and falls for an ex-Jazz pianist. Read More

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by Anonymousreply 110March 1, 2024 4:10 AM

A shout out to Rita Norma Somers.

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by Anonymousreply 111March 5, 2024 5:05 PM

I've been watching "Four Star Playouse" on Tubi. It was a 1950s anthology series started by four film actors (DIck Powell, Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer, and David Niven) as their foray into television. The picture quality is pretty abysmal, but some of the stories are interesting and well-done. Lots of other movie star types show up too -- Ronald Colman and his wife, Merle Oberon, Joanne Woodward, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Malone, Broderick Crawford, Maureen O' Sullivan -- and virtually every character actor working in Hollywood in the mid'50s.

by Anonymousreply 112March 5, 2024 5:17 PM

Eddie Mekka and Lani O'Grady (in a bikini!) canoodling on The Love Boat.

by Anonymousreply 113March 8, 2024 9:12 PM

R107, Little Ricky does come to Hollywood eventually; Lucy's mother brings him, but Lucy does leave him at home when they go to Europe.

by Anonymousreply 114March 9, 2024 1:26 AM

R70, I’m late to the party, but I hope you enjoyed Night Tide. I remember it as a weird, haunting movie that stayed with me after it was over … but mainly I remember that Dennis Hopper was ridiculously handsome in it.

This is not a still from the movie, but I wanted to post shirtless Dennis from the same period.

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by Anonymousreply 115March 9, 2024 11:54 PM

Tonight on Svengoolie...

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by Anonymousreply 116March 10, 2024 3:22 AM

No one speaks of Angel Tompkins anymore, and that saddens me.

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by Anonymousreply 117March 10, 2024 3:44 AM

On today...

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by Anonymousreply 118March 11, 2024 1:12 AM

Lee Meriwhatever managed to look frumpiest as Andy Griffith’s pregnant wife in Angel In My Pocket. And her mom and brother were trash on it. Miscast.

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by Anonymousreply 119March 13, 2024 8:29 AM

Starting off my day with Billy Mumy, Connie Ford and Diane Ladd...

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by Anonymousreply 120March 14, 2024 5:49 PM

All day today on Catchy Comedy -

Sledge Hammer!

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by Anonymousreply 121March 18, 2024 3:08 AM

And why not?

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by Anonymousreply 122March 22, 2024 5:22 AM

Tonight on Hawaiian Eye:

[quote]*Kakua Woman*

[quote]Lopaka has two unlikely allies in a quest for an escaped killer---the man's wife . . . and his mistress. Carol: Stella Stevens. Grimes: Mike Road. Dora: Anita Loo. Cricket: Connie Stevens...

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by Anonymousreply 123April 8, 2024 3:24 AM

Diana Ross & The Supremes guest-starring on a 1968 episode of Ron Ely’s “Tarzan” TV series and, unfortunately here, singing.

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by Anonymousreply 124April 8, 2024 5:41 AM

Tonight on Kojak:

Mary Beth Hurt

Charles Kimbrough

and

Miss Page!

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by Anonymousreply 125April 9, 2024 3:33 AM

Miss Landers on Perry Mason this morning...

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by Anonymousreply 126April 10, 2024 6:03 PM

Not old TV but I just ran across this. I used to have it on VHS and I haven't seen it in years.

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by Anonymousreply 127April 11, 2024 3:13 AM

Oh no. Wally goes out with a good-time girl.

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by Anonymousreply 128April 12, 2024 5:01 PM

1960s Short Lived Tv Shows

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by Anonymousreply 129April 14, 2024 3:55 AM

The fabulous Nita Talbot (as Rowena) on Peter Gunn tonight.

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by Anonymousreply 130April 15, 2024 6:17 AM

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by Anonymousreply 131May 1, 2024 4:10 PM

[quote] KOJAK -John Ritter ‘74

Kind of disappointed to read that Ritter used hookers.

by Anonymousreply 132May 1, 2024 4:21 PM

Anne Francis wasn’t sexy to me. She was pretty, but not sexy. Too level headed.

by Anonymousreply 133May 1, 2024 4:22 PM

I just ordered the complete series of "Maya" on DVD, liked it as a kid. Also picked up the complete "Brady Bunch" - 20 discs for only $25!

by Anonymousreply 134May 1, 2024 11:19 PM

[quote]Anne Francis wasn’t sexy to me. She was pretty, but not sexy. Too level headed.

She was a doll, r133.

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by Anonymousreply 135May 1, 2024 11:29 PM

Oh noes, poor Tina!

KOJAK

Letters of Death

[quote]Through anonymous letters, a murderer blames her crimes on a model. Telly Savalas. Janelle: Cristina Raines. Marino: Stanley Kamel. Tyler: Bernard Behrens. Andre: Aharon Ipale. Eddie Hogan

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by Anonymousreply 136May 9, 2024 3:52 AM

Cristina Raines, Queen of the Overbite

by Anonymousreply 137May 9, 2024 4:04 AM

Some men love a girl with an overbite, r137.

by Anonymousreply 138May 9, 2024 4:22 AM

Mego Love Boat Playset!

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by Anonymousreply 139May 13, 2024 7:31 PM

R139 Does it come with a miniature vial of coke for Julie?

by Anonymousreply 140May 13, 2024 9:03 PM

Marti Stevens was on The Love Boat today. Who?

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by Anonymousreply 141May 23, 2024 9:24 PM

I'm sorry but I just can't get into Make Room For Daddy.

by Anonymousreply 142June 3, 2024 3:54 AM

R142 I also have trouble watching more than a handful of the episodes. Except for season 4, which was after Jean Hagen quit and the writers wrote her out of the show by having the character die. Now Danny was a single parent and had to struggle to raise his two young children without a mother. It wasn’t a typical 1950s situation comedy, and I watched that whole season. Once Marjorie Lord joined the show in season 5 as Danny’s second wife, I couldn’t watch anymore after a few episodes.

Incidentally, if Danny Thomas behaved like his TV character Danny Williams (angry, yelling, threatening) it may explain why Marlo became an angry, yelling, threatening adult. Danny belittled her as “Little Miss Know-It-All” rather than praising her for her intelligence. Not that it’s an excuse, but I cut Marlo a little slack because of Danny’s behavior towards her.

by Anonymousreply 143June 3, 2024 7:46 AM

Oh dear...

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by Anonymousreply 144June 13, 2024 7:04 PM

The guest star on tonight's Quincy I Miss Janice Lynde. She was a replacement Eve in Applause. She also did the tour with Eleanor Parker which I saw.

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by Anonymousreply 145June 19, 2024 5:17 AM

R145 Reminds me that in 1976, NBC tried to build a half-hour sitcom around Janice called "Roxy Page," or just "Roxy." There's one episode out there somewhere. The character's actual name was "Roxy Hagopian." And other members of the Armenian Hagopian family were to be featured. I believe the premise was Roxy was an aspiring actress/singer in NYC who would be trying to break into theatre. Main title sequence:

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by Anonymousreply 146June 19, 2024 7:11 AM

I just heard a podcast with Billy Mumy and Angela Cartwright talking about Lost in Space. Angela said the producers of The Danny Thomas Show let her miss the end of the season, which they didn't have to do, to start work on The Sound of Music (for which they had TWELVE MONTHS of rehearsals before they arrived in Austria).

Billy said Jonathon Harris personally made up all the insults Dr Smith flung at the robot. Whereas the entire cast loved the guy who played the robot, for his perpetually sunny nature and his willingness to stay in the suit all day, even when not filming, although it was hot and hard to move in.

Just thought Old Shit DLers would enjoy those tidbits. If you're really keen, apparently the two of them wrote a book about it.

by Anonymousreply 147June 20, 2024 3:57 PM

Billy Mumy also was a big fan of the Kingston Trio and refused to see the Beatles in person because he thought they were a flash in the plan. Angela got to meet them all.

by Anonymousreply 148June 20, 2024 4:30 PM

Sisters

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by Anonymousreply 149June 20, 2024 4:38 PM

Does Janice Lynde have a wonky eye ala Andy Cohen and Karen Black?

The Roxy opening is similar to the opening of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The end of the Roxy opening where to camera pans above the theater to showcase the smog is very of its time.

I think I read (within the past year or two) that Janice Lynde had some issues with drugs that really altered her career path.

by Anonymousreply 150June 20, 2024 4:41 PM

Many will disagree, but I believe that Janice Lynde is no Victoria Mallory.

by Anonymousreply 151June 20, 2024 4:42 PM

I had a girl crush on Lee Meriwether in 'The Time Tunnel' because she was different from most of the female characters on TV - she played an intelligent scientist, and she was brunette and cool. Made the mistake of telling a schoolmate, and soon the word was spread that I was a lesbian. That made my teenage years in a tiny Kentucky town awful. And I'm not a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 152June 20, 2024 5:06 PM

Old TV shows (and movies) have served my household as something to turn on after lunch and before returning to work.

We've been through all of Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Leave It to Beaver, Naked City, Mission Impossible, and others.

It's reassuring and comforting. Despite the murders and Tony Dow's distractions at time.

by Anonymousreply 153June 20, 2024 8:03 PM

R151 When Vicki Morales played Leslie, I had to convince myself that Jen hadn't gotten knocked up by Felipe Ramirez.

by Anonymousreply 154June 20, 2024 8:53 PM

On Svengoolie...

The Leech Woman

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by Anonymousreply 155June 23, 2024 5:55 AM

Louanne's on Love Boat.

by Anonymousreply 156July 5, 2024 9:01 PM

[quote] but then you have the delights of Chatsworth's mother (the wonderful Doris Packer) as well as both of Patty Duke's parents in recurring roles

I had to figure this out. I thought, "The Rosses? I don't know they acted."

by Anonymousreply 157July 5, 2024 10:42 PM

On in an hour. Lois and Betty Garde, the original Aunt Eller.

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by Anonymousreply 158July 8, 2024 3:56 AM

I always think of Betty Garde in Call Northside 777, with James Stewart--I think it was Betty, anyhow--as "Wanda Scutnik", I love the contemptuous way Jimmy says Wanda Scutnik.

by Anonymousreply 159July 9, 2024 6:15 AM

Female Jungle is on tonight.

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by Anonymousreply 160July 22, 2024 4:16 AM

Ellery Queen Mysteries, my brothers and I loved that show. Was only 1 season in 1975. Tim Hutton's father starred in it.

by Anonymousreply 161July 22, 2024 4:24 AM

“Tim Hutton’s father” lol

by Anonymousreply 162July 22, 2024 4:25 PM

I watch Dark Shadows on FreeVee......a few episodes at a time.

by Anonymousreply 163July 22, 2024 5:34 PM

This episode of 77 Sunset Strip with Mr. Bert Convy is fabulous.

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by Anonymousreply 164July 29, 2024 5:43 AM

R163 I'm watching what they're now calling "Dark Shadows: The Beginning" on Tubi. It consists of the first 209 episodes before Barnabas shows up divided into what they're calling six seasons, each about 35 episodes. It's so gothic and melodramatic, but fascinating. I sometimes go through four or five episodes at a time. Joe and Burke are hot. The little demon David is better than I remember. Liz is so regal, and Roger is such a hoot. Quite enjoyable.

by Anonymousreply 165July 29, 2024 7:29 AM

I watch episodes of Upstairs Downstairs (1971-1975) over and over.

I like the first two seasons best.

Lady Marjorie was perhaps my favorite character.

by Anonymousreply 166July 29, 2024 11:54 AM

Tonight on The Flintstones...

*Dino Goes Hollyrock*

Fred has stars in his eyes (and money on his mind) when he takes Dino to Hollyrock for the opportunity to appear on a TV series starring the pet's favorite personality, Sassie.

by Anonymousreply 167July 31, 2024 2:22 AM

Oh dear, tonight on Have Gun, Will Travel:

[quote]A tong demands that Kim Sing serve as payment for the debts of her deceased father. Paladin: Richard Boone. Chee Yan: William Schallert.

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by Anonymousreply 168August 3, 2024 2:54 AM

[quote]Tonight on The Flintstones...

Speaking of "The Flintstones," MeTV had just moved them to 6:30am weekdays not barely two months ago, but when I woke up early this morning "Adam-12" was on in that slot instead. So I guess "The Flintstones" got bad ratings or something? And even so, why replace them with reruns of a show that's already on twice a day at 5:00? You couldn't put something different on like "I Love Lucy" or "Our Miss Brooks" or something?

MeTV doesn't even try anymore.

by Anonymousreply 169August 3, 2024 4:12 AM

For all the Mark Shera fans out there, I went to Boston University with him when he was still Mark Shapiro. He was very cute in a bland way, straight and not terribly talented, rarely cast in productions. Nevertheless, he was one of few actors from that time at BU who went on to have a solid career, f only in that one TV series.

by Anonymousreply 170August 3, 2024 4:29 AM

Cool info, R170. Prior to "Barnaby Jones," he also did "S.W.A.T." with Steve Forrest and Robert Urich, which lasted for two seasons on ABC (but which ran for a while in syndication). Someone here posted a recent picture of him not too long ago and he looks good, if of course much older.

by Anonymousreply 171August 3, 2024 4:42 AM

Nobody enjoyed a lot of these shows more than I did as a kid (when many of them were new), but I can't get into most of them now. Not sure why.

by Anonymousreply 172August 3, 2024 4:00 PM

Tonight on Svengoolie...

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by Anonymousreply 173August 4, 2024 4:06 AM

r172, I'm with you. Besides I Love Lucy, Burns & Allen, The Beverly Hillbillies and Love That Bob! (I know that one might be controversial) all the others seem very tedious and unfunny to me now, including My Little Margie, Private Secretary, I Married Joan and especially Our Miss Brooks. But I watched them all in endless reruns as a child.

And I loved all those Goodson/Todman quiz shows but only What's My Line? holds up. I've Got a Secret is particularly ghastly.

by Anonymousreply 174August 4, 2024 11:21 PM

I can still watch Hazel, Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best.

by Anonymousreply 175August 4, 2024 11:28 PM

R174 I like Our Miss Brooks. But other than I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners, I don't watch any old comedies...other than Jack Benny. Is that show still on? I can watch that any time. I was referring more to dramas, detective shows and westerns. I can watch Dragnet for some reason.

by Anonymousreply 176August 5, 2024 3:29 AM

I watched Our Miss Brooks as a kid but I don't enjoy watching it much now.

by Anonymousreply 177August 5, 2024 3:32 AM

I never watched it as a kid, it was never on TV in my area. I like listening to the radio show, as well. I was listening to a season from the mid-1950s that wasn't funny at all, then I listened to one from the late 40s (one of the ones with Jeff Chandler as Mr. Boynton) and it was hilarious.

by Anonymousreply 178August 5, 2024 3:47 AM

Robert (Mr. Boynton) Rockwell's son was in college with me in the early 70s in the BU acting program (yeah, I'm the poster who also went to school with Mark Shera). He was astonishingly handsome and probably gay, though he hadn't figured it out yet. Wonder what happened to him? Sadly, I can't remember his first name to do a search.

by Anonymousreply 179August 5, 2024 4:05 AM

[quote]Sadly, I can't remember his first name to do a search.

Norman?

by Anonymousreply 180August 5, 2024 5:00 AM

R179 You're talking about Robert Rockwell's son's name? Here's the actor's obituary from 2003. It lists his children near the end. Perhaps "Jeffrey" or "Gregory." The other son is named "Robert Jr."

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by Anonymousreply 181August 5, 2024 8:46 AM

R181 I predict the person you answered will never bother to do said search.

by Anonymousreply 182August 5, 2024 1:38 PM

No, r182, I did the search, and I believe it's Junior. Thanks, r181.

by Anonymousreply 183August 5, 2024 2:32 PM

R183 Jeffrey Rockwell is the one who studied acting, and yes, he's gay. He has his CV on Fraubook as well as photos of his big gay wedding ca. 2014. You can see the resemblance to his father, "Mr. Boynton."

jeffrey.rockwell.18

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by Anonymousreply 184August 5, 2024 8:33 PM

[quote]My Favorite Matian is on TUBI. The premise is rather stupid but it's funny as hell.

Same as Mr. Ed. Stupid premise but funny. A talking horse!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 185August 5, 2024 8:57 PM

r185=Matthew Broderick

by Anonymousreply 186August 5, 2024 9:20 PM

But not a talking car, who's someone's dead mother!

by Anonymousreply 187August 5, 2024 9:21 PM

I’m so tired of olives channels showing Andy Griffith, MASH

by Anonymousreply 188August 5, 2024 9:22 PM

Oldies

by Anonymousreply 189August 5, 2024 9:22 PM

R188 I agree. And I'd add Hogan's Heroes to that list. And why two episodes? A whole fucking hour on the schedule.

I do wonder, though. Has MEN.com ever done a parody of that sit-com? -- Five guys of various nationalities living in a prison barracks with an older German queen and his comic burly bear assistant holding them captive ... seems made for such nonsense. And Hilda and Helga could be gay blond twinks named Hilton and Helmut

by Anonymousreply 190August 5, 2024 10:38 PM

[quote] But not a talking car, who's someone's dead mother!

R187 Ann Sothern said she took the job as the car’s voice because she could record the lines at home and not have to go to the studio. On Lucille Ball’s radio interview show from the mid-1960s, Sothern was adamant about not going back to work on a full-time TV show.

by Anonymousreply 191August 6, 2024 5:46 AM

By that time Ann Southern could no longer FIT on a tv screen.

by Anonymousreply 192August 6, 2024 1:54 PM

R192 Yes, there’s only so much that wearing black can do. Lucille did talk Ann into making guest appearances as time went on (when TV screens had gotten larger).

by Anonymousreply 193August 6, 2024 7:59 PM

I only watch 227 and I LovevLucy

by Anonymousreply 194August 6, 2024 11:32 PM

Sorry but what is 227?

by Anonymousreply 195August 7, 2024 2:47 PM

Some shows really hold up - mostly due to the writing.

Even when I was little and watching the reruns....when the credits were read:

I Married Joan - The Joan Davis Show - starring America's Queen of Comedy - Joan Davis.....

I was thinking WTF?

There are two episodes of that show that still make me laugh. Joan gets a mannequin's leg stuck on her arm and her physical struggles are hilarious......and in another she tries to sell a stuffed moose head at an auction....other than that....NOTHING.

by Anonymousreply 196August 7, 2024 3:16 PM

Even as a little gayling I found Jim Backus as Judge Bradley Stevens on I MARRIED JOAN to be a hot daddy.

by Anonymousreply 197August 7, 2024 3:22 PM

I used to love sneaking downstairs to watch I Married Joan, Jack Benny, and Burns amd Alken on CBN at midnight. Circa 1983.

by Anonymousreply 198August 7, 2024 3:35 PM

[quote]Sorry but what is 227?

227 is a sitcom starring Marla Gibbs, who played the maid on The Jeffersons.

She was supposed to be the lead, but Jackee Harry quickly became the breakout star and got more attention than the other women who were longtime actresses.

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by Anonymousreply 199August 7, 2024 5:39 PM

[quote]227 is a sitcom starring Marla Gibbs, who played the maid on The Jeffersons. She was supposed to be the lead, but Jackee Harry quickly became the breakout star and got more attention than the other women who were longtime actresses.

Excuse me, but NEITHER of those people has an OSCAR.

by Anonymousreply 200August 7, 2024 10:31 PM

[quote]Excuse me, but NEITHER of those people has an OSCAR.

Neither does Glenn Close.

by Anonymousreply 201August 7, 2024 10:39 PM

R199 Thanks, that's actually what I thought, but I wasn't sure!

by Anonymousreply 202August 8, 2024 1:00 AM

Fuck you! Just watch 227

by Anonymousreply 203August 8, 2024 1:02 AM

Tonight on Svengoolie, for Vincent Price and Eva Gabor fans...

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by Anonymousreply 204August 11, 2024 3:46 AM

R198 CBN in those days at those hours also showed a lot of old Republic pictures.....it was a Vera Hruba Ralston festival.

by Anonymousreply 205August 11, 2024 4:40 PM

Angie's on Perry Mason this morning...

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by Anonymousreply 206August 15, 2024 5:44 PM

December Bride! Makes me remember Harry Morgan and his TV career. That man was incredible. Between TV and film, he must have been employed constantly. God bless him.

by Anonymousreply 207August 15, 2024 6:06 PM

This had to be so much fun for Beverly and Dorothy...

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by Anonymousreply 208August 15, 2024 9:19 PM

Forgotten '64

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by Anonymousreply 209August 16, 2024 4:43 AM

Courtney MSW '86

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by Anonymousreply 210August 16, 2024 6:12 PM

Remember when Harry Morgan was old and his wife reported him for hitting her?

by Anonymousreply 211August 17, 2024 12:53 AM

"In 1996, Harry Morgan was arrested for beating up his wife. The couple were drinking and fighting at a party and the fight escalated after they returned home. The charges were dropped after Harry agreed to attend classes on spousal abuse."

by Anonymousreply 212August 17, 2024 12:55 AM

The Dick van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy and Burns & Allen are the only "classic" shows that stand up to repeated viewings. And Mary Tyler Moore.

But the others -- Beverly Hillbillies, Hazel, My Favorite Martian, Danny Thomas -- are strictly one and done.

December Bride, I Married Joan, Love That Bob -- I sampled them but they're nearly unwatchable.

by Anonymousreply 213August 17, 2024 2:20 PM

Didn't I Married Joan only run one or two seasons?

by Anonymousreply 214August 17, 2024 2:22 PM

[quote] The Dick van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy and Burns & Allen are the only "classic" shows that stand up to repeated viewings. And Mary Tyler Moore.

The Jack Benny Program and The Honeymooners are both better than Burns & Allen. I also think Ozzie and Harriet is watchable, so is Father Knows Best, and Leave it to Beaver isn't bad either. I haven't watched Danny Thomas for many years but I used to like it. There seems to be no love for Our Miss Brooks here but I like it.

by Anonymousreply 215August 17, 2024 2:30 PM

[quote]The Dick van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy and Burns & Allen are the only "classic" shows that stand up to repeated viewings. And Mary Tyler Moore.

Ahem!

The Andy Griffith Show

by Anonymousreply 216August 17, 2024 2:40 PM

Tales From the Darkside

Christian Slater '84

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by Anonymousreply 217August 17, 2024 8:32 PM

For anyone interested, MeTV is bringing "Laverne & Shirley" and "I Love Lucy" back to the weekly schedule starting this Sunday.

by Anonymousreply 218September 5, 2024 4:01 AM

Catchy Comedy (used to be Decades) also has them, r218.

by Anonymousreply 219September 5, 2024 4:07 AM

I think ILL is on MeTV for episode each week only on Sundays.

by Anonymousreply 220September 9, 2024 6:42 PM

for one episode...

by Anonymousreply 221September 9, 2024 6:43 PM

It's on Catchy every weekday morning, r220.

by Anonymousreply 222September 9, 2024 7:00 PM

'Lola Lasagna' as played by Ethel Merman in the 1960s Batman TV show impressed me greatly.

by Anonymousreply 223September 9, 2024 7:24 PM

[quote]'Lola Lasagna'

Oh dear.

by Anonymousreply 224September 9, 2024 7:33 PM

Well, I still love watching Love That Bob! (The Bob Cummings Show), The Beverly Hillbillies and Burns & Allen and what they all have in common was Paul Henning who produced/wrote for all of them. And then did the same for Petticoat Junction, yet I find that one wanting. It lacked the zaniness of the the other three and was more homey humor.

by Anonymousreply 225September 10, 2024 1:24 AM

Looking for something to watch, I'm going with Quincy ME:

*A Star Is Dead*

[quote]A scandal-sheet publisher exploits a star's mysterious death to wreck her lover's political career. Jack Klugman. Sinclair: Robert Foxworth. Reardon: William Daniels. Roberta: Donna Mills...

by Anonymousreply 226September 10, 2024 3:43 AM

When it comes to sit coms, Paul Henning was the first hog to the trough.

by Anonymousreply 227September 10, 2024 4:51 PM

Mrs. Cotten just gave a tearful confession on the stand.

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by Anonymousreply 228September 10, 2024 5:59 PM

I just finished Perry Mason. Sorry I waited so long. This is just about the best series ever. Talk about so many soon to be major stars on Perry Mason.

by Anonymousreply 229September 10, 2024 6:08 PM

I appeared on five episodes with my good friend Raymond Burr.

by Anonymousreply 230September 11, 2024 2:25 PM

R223 I preferred Spring Byington as the wealthy "J. Pauline Spaghetti."

by Anonymousreply 231September 11, 2024 2:53 PM

Some of the Perry Mason locations are very weird, I wonder what California viewers thought of them. Off hand I can't think of anything but it would be like he'd be driving through Joshua Tree to get to a ranch that looked like it was in Chatsworth, but the ocean was nearby.

by Anonymousreply 232September 11, 2024 2:57 PM

I wonder why the really hot, twinkish associate just disappeared on Perry Mason.

by Anonymousreply 233September 11, 2024 9:27 PM

Ray was through with him.

by Anonymousreply 234September 13, 2024 3:34 PM

Twinkish?

Actor Karl (Carl) Held turned 30 during the season he was featured on Perry Mason.

btw - He's still alive (age 92) and posts on Fraubook.

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by Anonymousreply 235September 13, 2024 7:52 PM

Just watched an old episode of "The Invaders" the other night featuring none other than Gene Hackman. It was called "The Spores" and originally aired in 1967 just before he was about to blow up as a major film star.

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by Anonymousreply 236September 13, 2024 8:56 PM

When was the last time you thought about...Darlanne Fluegel?

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by Anonymousreply 237September 14, 2024 3:29 AM

I bought the whole series DVD of the Invaders. You haven't seen enough TV until you've seen Grandma Walton as an evil alien.

by Anonymousreply 238September 14, 2024 3:35 AM

It's almost as good as seeing Clara Edwards from Mayberry saying "Hail, Satan!" in Rosemary's Baby.

by Anonymousreply 239September 14, 2024 2:55 PM

The movie line-up on one channel tonight is:

Now, Voyager

The Best of Everything

Valley of the Dolls

by Anonymousreply 240September 15, 2024 6:20 AM

Year, 1964-65 maybe. I was on my friend's dad's commercial fishing boat, which we had taken from Oahu to the Big Island of Hawaii for the Kona Billfish Tournament (sort of a big deal back in the day)... we were going to head back home to Oahu but decided to make a stop at the very chi-chi Kona Village Resort for the night, anchoring in the bay. We swam ashore and crashed the resort party which was a drunken mess of rich tourist fishermen. I spotted Richard Boone who was getting older but was still well known from his starring role on Have Gun Will Travel, one of my favorite shows. I decided to be an asshole by making a point of pushing him into the swimming pool. Thing is, he was nicely dressed, was wearing an expensive watch and had his wallet on him. Shit was he pissed off. I ran to the bay, jumped in the ocean and swam away. I hid out on the boat until we left the next morning.

by Anonymousreply 241September 15, 2024 8:01 AM

I knew I'd find you sooner or later, punk!

by Anonymousreply 242September 15, 2024 2:50 PM

I ordered seasons one and two of Room 222 on DVD - I'll see if I like it. I certainly enjoyed it as a kid.

by Anonymousreply 243September 15, 2024 5:44 PM

It's good. I bought some Room 222 comic books off of eBay LOL

by Anonymousreply 244September 15, 2024 5:49 PM

Karen Valentine is still fun to watch.

by Anonymousreply 245September 16, 2024 3:42 PM

Anyone here remember Pat Conway? I've been watching him in old reruns of "Tombstone Territory" on FETV. He was a pretty sexy sheriff back in the day.

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by Anonymousreply 246September 18, 2024 7:42 PM

I loved Room 222. Lloyd Gaines was so handsome and Denise Nicholas, so beautiful.

And then there were the students.

by Anonymousreply 247September 18, 2024 7:54 PM

Is there anywhere to stream 222?

by Anonymousreply 248September 18, 2024 9:26 PM

Yes, the students in Room 222 are fun to watch. I don't care for that Heshimu guy (Jason), but I liked Ed Begley, Jr. a few episodes ago (he was so blond) and in today's episode there was a young Cindy Williams, although I didn't even recognize her.

by Anonymousreply 249September 18, 2024 10:39 PM

R248, the first season is on YouTube.

by Anonymousreply 250September 20, 2024 9:44 AM

Oops, should have looked further. It looks like all the seasons are on YT. I can't vouch for the quality. The first season episodes look OK - a bit grainy, but that's how they would have looked on a typical 1969 color TV anyway.

by Anonymousreply 251September 20, 2024 9:49 AM

R248 R250 There's an individual on youtube who has a channel with separate playlists for the remaining Seasons 2 thru 5.

The channel name is: sfinthecity

Go to the channel's Playlists and you should find the link for each season. Based on the show's episode guide at Wikipedia, it appears each season there is complete except for Season 3. Wiki says there were 23 produced that season, but the channel's playlist only has 18.

by Anonymousreply 252September 20, 2024 10:16 AM

R247, it's Lloyd HAYNES, not Gaines, but yes he was a very handsome man. He was a former marine and a pilot. I don't think it gets much sexier than that. Unfortunately, he died young from lung cancer at age 52 in 1986.

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by Anonymousreply 253September 20, 2024 10:26 AM

Tonight on Svengoolie...

[quote]"My lover is only a dream but he's still more of a man than you!"

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by Anonymousreply 254September 22, 2024 3:05 AM

On tonight...

Blonde Ice

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by Anonymousreply 255September 27, 2024 2:52 AM

Someone posted the entire series of "Hawaiian Eye" on Youtube and I was watching it, but I only got up to episode 12 and they pulled it down. Boo!!

by Anonymousreply 256September 27, 2024 4:10 AM

I love Hawaiian Eye.

by Anonymousreply 257September 27, 2024 6:36 AM

R256 If you get MeTV+ they're currently showing two different episodes of "Hawaiian Eye" on Sunday nights. In my Pacific Time Zone, one airs 8pm - 9pm, and the second one airs 11pm - 12am. They put two episodes of "77 Sunset Strip" in between. The guide shows that the episodes coming up this Sunday are S1E22 and S1E24.

by Anonymousreply 258September 27, 2024 9:30 AM

[quote]I've been watching "Dobie Gillis" on FreeVee. Tuesday Weld and Warren Beatty disappear early on, but then you have the delights of Chatsworth's mother (the wonderful Doris Packer) as well as both of Patty Duke's parents in recurring roles. And of course Maynard G. Krebs was one of the greatest characters in TV history.

I loved Doris Packer. When Warren Beatty played the original "rich kid," Milton Armitage, in early episodes, Doris also played his mother, exactly the way she later played Chatsworth's mother.

by Anonymousreply 259September 27, 2024 12:05 PM

Chatsworth was played by Steve Franken, who always pinged wildly to me no matter what role he played. Even so, Franken was married twice and had three kids, which shows a certain enthusiasm for the process. Bisexual? Remarkably dedicated to bearding? Or one of those straight guys who are always wondering why people think they're gay?

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by Anonymousreply 260September 28, 2024 9:33 AM

Steve Franken was the predecessor of Lyle, the effeminate heterosexual from SNL

by Anonymousreply 261September 28, 2024 9:48 AM

He was funny.

by Anonymousreply 262September 28, 2024 3:07 PM

I hearts Dobie Gillis

by Anonymousreply 263September 28, 2024 7:11 PM

[quote]Gilligan wiped out America’s collective memory of Maynard.

Not for me. I'll always remember Bob Denver as Maynard and not as Gilligan. "Dobie Gillis" was a quirky and genuinely funny show. "Gilligan's Island" seemed to be pitched to 5-year-olds. I know it has many fans, and that's fine, but I never enjoyed it.

by Anonymousreply 264September 28, 2024 11:00 PM

I liked Dobie's record......he starts out fine but by the end - he's kind of a creepy stalker.

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by Anonymousreply 265September 29, 2024 4:20 PM

Jessica's on Quincy...

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by Anonymousreply 266October 5, 2024 5:26 AM

I am NOT watching Quincy tonight...

*A Small Circle Of Friends*

[quote]A roundup of prostitutes follows the death of an athlete who contracted a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea. Jack Klugman. Marsha: Jo Ann Pflug. Harlan: James Keach. Laura: Kathryn Leigh...

by Anonymousreply 267October 10, 2024 5:14 AM

Ray and Julie Danton are on Hawaiian Eye. Cricket's singing The Man I Love.

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by Anonymousreply 268October 14, 2024 4:13 AM

^ It also has Richard Garland...

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by Anonymousreply 269October 14, 2024 4:19 AM

I loved Mr Ed.

by Anonymousreply 270October 14, 2024 4:32 AM

There's a poster at Dailymotion who's put every episode of Mr. Ed up. (Channel name: Mr Ed)

by Anonymousreply 271October 14, 2024 7:31 AM

[quote]I loved Mr Ed.

I still remember when Mae West made a guest appearance on "Mr. Ed."

by Anonymousreply 272October 14, 2024 8:55 AM

That Catherine the Great chick knew what she was doing.

by Anonymousreply 273October 14, 2024 3:13 PM

Someone put up all of Bachelor Father a while ago but it was all taken down. That show was pure nonsense but was really good nonsense. The discontinuity of the show put the Golden Girls to shame. One episode Kelly would be worrying about her first school dance and the next she's be away, alone, at a ski lodge, contemplating a marriage proposal. So stupid yet so good.

by Anonymousreply 274October 14, 2024 3:54 PM

R274 Maybe you already know, but Bachelor Father is being broadcast on Antenna TV - two episodes on Saturday morning and two on Sunday morning. Schedule and timezone info at their website.

by Anonymousreply 275October 14, 2024 11:47 PM

MSW today. Bruce's eyebrows '85...

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by Anonymousreply 276October 18, 2024 8:40 PM

and Mr. Butkus

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by Anonymousreply 277October 18, 2024 8:40 PM

Did an episode of MSW ever have a starrier cast than Jessica Behind Bars??

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by Anonymousreply 278October 21, 2024 7:53 PM

Oh noes!

*That Girl*

-The Other Woman-

[quote]A gossip columnist links Ethel Merman with Ann's father. Ann: Marlo Thomas. Ethel Merman: Herself. Don: Ted Bessell. Father: Lew Parker. Mother: Rosemary De Camp.

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by Anonymousreply 279November 1, 2024 7:23 PM

On The Streets of San Francisco...

*The Most Deadly Species*

[quote]Keller becomes romantically entwined with his new neighbor, unaware that she is a freelance hit woman. Sidney: Brenda Vaccaro. Murray: Barry Sullivan. Stone: Karl Malden.

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by Anonymousreply 280November 8, 2024 9:07 PM

On Hawaiian Eye...

*Vanessa Vanishes*

[quote]A ransom note arrives before a young heiress (Mary Tyler Moore) can be abducted. Her father hires Steele---and then the girl disappears! Kinard: Phillip Terry. Steele: Anthony Eisley.

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by Anonymousreply 281November 11, 2024 6:06 AM

Today on Perry Mason, not only the legendary Beverly Garland...but Miss Louise Fletcher as well!

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by Anonymousreply 282November 13, 2024 6:16 PM

I watched the first two seasons of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and started on the third, but have finally had enough for now - I'm taking a break. Will continue sometime later.

by Anonymousreply 283November 24, 2024 9:30 PM

A lot of those ancient sitcoms are on the Pluto, Tubi and/or Roku channel. Pluto also has The Patty Duke Show.

by Anonymousreply 284November 24, 2024 11:10 PM

I'm watching episodes of Bewitched and Family Affair on Youtube

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by Anonymousreply 285November 24, 2024 11:24 PM

I will admit that I watch episodes of Highway to Heaven on streaming services. It's cheesy comfort food TV for me.

by Anonymousreply 286November 24, 2024 11:45 PM

I like to watch The Danny Thomas Show on the Roku Channel......my favorite is Season Six with several episodes featuring Annette Funicello as an Italian exchange student, Gina.

by Anonymousreply 287November 25, 2024 4:11 PM

Just found Shout TV......watched some episodes of Route 66 and MST 3000......lots of other stuff available there.

by Anonymousreply 288November 27, 2024 3:25 AM

The posterior of Mr. Glenn Corbett...

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by Anonymousreply 289November 27, 2024 4:15 AM

Bobby Redford on Perry Mason this morning.

The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

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by Anonymousreply 290November 27, 2024 5:21 PM

Right now FETV and Antenna TV are both showing the exact same Thanksgiving episode of "Bewitched."

by Anonymousreply 291November 27, 2024 5:31 PM

Two words...Whit Bissell

by Anonymousreply 292December 3, 2024 5:08 PM
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