Old TV shows

[Luke]

I guess I will be showing my age here, anbody remember the following shows?

The Rat Patrol
Combat
Voyage to The Bottom of the Sea
The Prisoner
The Rifleman

[Ryan Ruck]

Nope...

I'm more along the lines of The A-Team, The Dukes of Hazzard, etc.

[samizdat]

The latest I saw were Kojak and Hill Street Blues.

I'm more of a Pick Temple, Shirley Temple, Ranger Hal and Ct. Kangaroo generation. Time tunnel was decent. Zorro and the Hardy Boys?

I consider Combat in the genre of Sgt. York as far as combat films. Decent. Nevertheless, the simple attraction of video violence breeds a sort of justified?? thirst for revenge. Stalin loved westerns. Correct me if I'm wrong-maybe Hitler too. I hated all westerns with a vengeance. To this day I can't stand even Bonanza nor - I'm getting old now- can't remember that show- Robin Hood, nah the Lone Ranger nah. Ah Gunsmoke- that's it; hated it. TV was self-pity. Should have been studying or praying. Saw a lot of Real McCoys, Art Linkletter and Password when I had the flu.

I despise soap operas with a passion. If TV is the devil, then soap operas are Satan's favorite torture.

Commie propoganda is and has been proliferate on TV since the 60's. Try Man from Uncle and Twiggy on Ed Sullivan.

[MinutemanCO]

It makes my brain hurt a little to remember my TV memories. What come to mind are the following...

Bonanza
Wild Wild West
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (scared the crap out of me)
All in the Family
Good Times
Mash
Taxi
Star Trek (the Original)
Bugs Bunny (the old ones)

My childhood in the '60s and early '70s was, to say the least, a strange time for me. We certainly allowed the distraction of television to enter into our lives as a family.

[falcon]

THese come to mind; We got our first T.V. in 1952 that was a big deal back then. Did not have all the T.V Commercials to deal with.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Long Ranger
Perry Mason
I Love Lucy
Jackie Gleason Show
Superman
Andy Griffin Show
Jack Benny Show
Jetsons
Leave it to Beaver
Carol Burnett Show

[American Patriot]

I remember:

The Rat Patrol
Combat
Voyage to The Bottom of the Sea
The Prisoner
The Rifleman
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Long Ranger
Perry Mason
I Love Lucy
Jackie Gleason Show
Superman - the original, with George Reeve
Andy Griffin Show
Jack Benny Show
Jetsons
Flintsons (when it came out)
Leave it to Beaver
Carol Burnett Show
Bonanza
Wild Wild West
All in the Family
Mash
Taxi
Star Trek (the Original)
Bugs Bunny (the old ones)

Added:
Zorro
Charle Chan movies... forgot those

My favorties... in no particular order (neither chronological nor favor)

Sea Hunt (Lloyd Bridges), Skyking, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Wild Wild West, I dream of Jeanie (I still like barbara Eden. lol), Lone Ranger, Bat Masterson (Gene Berry - also played in the original War of the World movie),Gunsmoke, Giligan's Island, Star Trek (The original series), Walter Cronkite's "The 21st Century" Death valley Days (Ronald Reagan was one of the several hosts! 20 Mule Team Borax! LOL) -- a few more I'm probably forgetting right this moment.

[Luke]

Wasn't there a show called Whirlybird? About helicopters obviously.

[Backstop]

Rick, you're the only person I've ever met that remembers Skyking. Maybe it was a Michigan only show or something.

Do you remember Milky the Clown, Bozo, and the Friendly Giant?



At the beginning of the show, he'd say, "Look up, waaay up."



I remember seeing Combat on the tube here about 2 months ago.

[samizdat]

How could we have forgotten?? May Spock's Mom rest in peace.
'Father Knows Best' mother Jane Wyatt dead at 96

POSTED: 7:56 p.m. EDT, October 22, 2006


http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/1...bit/index.html



(CNN) -- Actress Jane Wyatt, the prototypical housewife and mother in the television series "Father Knows Best," has died at age 96, her spokeswoman told CNN Sunday.
Wyatt died Friday of natural causes in her sleep at her house in Bel Air, California, said Meg McDonald, Wyatt's goddaughter and publicist.

O NO- God only knows. Not another commie under the rug. I doubt it. I've seen the Bolshoi 3 times. Boris Gudonov- only paid 5 bucks. Damn good.

After World War II, President Roosevelt asked Wyatt to help host a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet in the United States. That led to her being blacklisted by Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s, McDonald said.

This is no poke at "McCarthyism" which if reason prevailed- in the courts and hearts of Christian America, may have prevented what is about to happen.

[Luke]

Man how could I have left off Skyking, the Songbird, and Penny!
Seems like about the same era as
Fury
My Friend Flicka
Rin Tin Tin
Howdy Doody,
Captain Kangaroo
and the ever popular Fireball XL5, early puppet show.

I watched too much TV as a kid.

[American Patriot]

I remember the Friendly Giant. My brother in law, Sis my real life sister is on here, and her husband is pretty good with that stuff. he runs a site up in Michigan... Sis if you're listening, post his site here.

No Milky was a local show. Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo was also Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody... I remember that show on reruns I think. I think they were reruns I mean.

For the record, my wife waas on the Milky the Clown show as a little girl.

oh here's Ed's site... http://www.detroitkidshow.com/

Soupy Sales, I forgot him, but I just remembered him. Anyone else remember him? He was local in Detroit too

[Bastastic]

Guys want to hear something sad? I'm 23 and know each and every show you are talking about (except the local ones of course).

[MTStringer]

"I remember bein',
buck-toothed and skinny.
Writin' fan letters to,
Skyking and Penny.
Oh, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache"

Topper
Highway Patrol (10-4)
You Bet Your Life (Groucho was a personal favorite)
It's About Time
Boris Karloff's Thriller
Pete and Gladys (Harry Morgan, another icon)
Sugarfoot
Cheyenne
Dick Van Dyke
Guns of Will Sonnet (Walter Brennan again)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Then Came Bronson
The Avengers (Dianna Rigg,mrrrowwww.)
Johnny Ringo (goin'deep, anybody remember?)
Maverick!!
Rawhide!!! (Clint has been just about my favorite for a looong time, it seems)

Kind of amazing what the electronic baby-sitter could accomplish with only 2, count 'em, 2 channels, eh, guys?

[Backstop]

I remember the Friendly Giant. My brother in law, Sis my real life sister is on here, and her husband is pretty good with that stuff. he runs a site up in Michigan... Sis if you're listening, post his site here.

No Milky was a local show. Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo was also Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody... I remember that show on reruns I think. I think they were reruns I mean.

For the record, my wife waas on the Milky the Clown show as a little girl.

oh here's Ed's site... http://www.detroitkidshow.com/

Soupy Sales, I forgot him, but I just remembered him. Anyone else remember him? He was local in Detroit too

Soupy Sales...he got a cream pie in the face every show.

I'll check out that site later - thanks.

[Joey Bagadonuts]

Hiya kids...hiya hiya hiya!

Anybody here remember THAT greeting? I won't give ya the answer now....surely someone here remembers.

Yeah I watched a lotta tv as a kid. It amazed me.
Remember an old tv show called "YOU ARE THERE!"? You guys woulda loved it!

It was a GREAT show about American and world history where the show would take the viewers to famous events in history and an "on scene" tv camera crew and the host would "interview" the actual participants. And it was hosted by Walter Cronkite! (back before he lost his friggin marbles and became a wacko liberal).

The show would start out with an announcer saying something like...."the year is 1775...American forces are in a bloody battle outside Boston on a small piece of land called Bunker Hill. ALL things are as they were then except....(echo)...YOU ARE THERE!

It was excellent and as a little kid I had no clue that it was't real....I actually thought they happened to have tv cameras on scene and were actually talking to people like Paul Revere at the Battle of Bunker Hill...or Abe Lincoln just after giving his Gettysburg Address.

hahaha....innocent kids in a more innocent time, eh? I never gave it a thought that ..."how the hell did they know to have a tv camera at the Burr-Hamilton duel...or at the death of Socrates"? (yeah, NOW I know that the ancient Greeks didn't have tv) but, hey...the show was only on until 1957, so I was just a little kid.

This show was so good that I remember them making the episodes available to public schools after it went off the air....and the episodes were shown to kids in history class. (IF you were good). (I'm not positive but I think there was even sound!)

OK...the rest of the good shows (that you guys haven't already named):

Amos and Andy (I LOVED that show)!!
Waterfront (not the movie...a tv show starring Preston Foster)
Tugboat Annie
Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
Yancy Derringer
The Rebel (Johnny Yuma, you remember Nick Adams, right?)
Rescue-8 (the FIRST of the rescue/paramedic/EMS type shows)
Dragnet
Zorro
Davey Crockett (oh man I would have died for one of those buckskin jackets)
Walt Disney (on Sunday nights....he really WAS every kids "uncle")
Shenannigans (a Sat morning kids game show)
Farmer Gray/Farmer Brown cartoons (some were still silent B&W's)
Then Came Bronson (who didn't love a show about a guy on a motorcycle)?
Diver Dan
Crusader Rabbit...(Nowadays, muslims would object to that title...hahaha)

And in the NY area we had:

TV WRESTLING (yeah, yeah...NOW I know it's fake) hahaha but in the 50's and 60's it was broadcast live from Sunnyside Gardens on Queens Blvd and me and my whole family loved it...even my Grandmothers! My Grandma's blood pressure musta have been 300 as "Nature Boy" Buddy Rodgers would use his usual dirty tactics and cheat the "good guy" out of his due victory. I can STILL hear her in a Polish/Ukranian accent yelling...." HIT HIM.....HIT HIM!! Mikey LOOK at thet son of a beetch, what he's doing"!
hahaha....and THIS from a woman who wouldn't say a bad word if you tortured her! hahaha

We also had the kids shows...Ray Heatherton (Joey's father) as "The Merry Mailman"... "Captain Alan Swift", who hosted the Popeye cartoons with a nautical theme and "Captain Jack McCarthy" who hosted the Popeye cartoons after Capt. Swift.
Jelly Beaner...(yeah that was his name)
"Officer" Joe Bolton and "Officer" Joe Bova...who hosted The Three Stooges ...(back when you could still tell kids to go to a cop for help.)


yikes...I'd better stop here....but HEY BACKSTOP!..."Milky the Clown"???
Yeah...I wonder how many bodies they found in his basement freezer...hahaha


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[Aplomb]

Sigh. Yes, I remember all of these. And what about the old cartoons. Favorites of mine were Kimba the white lion, and Astroboy, and Johnny Quest. What can I say? I've always been a tomboy. I also remember Star Trek getting banned in my home right about the time of the '67 Detroit riots.

Adding: Joey, you're killing me! Didn't you forget to mention Adam 12?

[samizdat]

Please, Bastastic. You're not doing your masters in Communications and your thesis on "How baby boomers were fried by the idiot box...and still can't forget their burn-out".

[American Patriot]

I met Daniel Boone. Fess Parker. I also grew up in a town (when I lived in Kentucky) called Barbourville, which was by the Boone Highway, and, lived in a place called "Boone Heights" on the top of a hill. We had the Daniel Boone Festival every year in October, and.. I HAD a buckskin jacket and pants and a coonskin hat. haha

[MTStringer]

Can't believe I forgot Uncle Milty and Red Skelton, last post. Then there's Arthur Godfrey, Lonesome George Gobel, the Chevy Show(Bob Hope), Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun, Will Travel(Richard Boone), Zane Grey Theater, Peter Gunn, Checkmate, The Untouchables, McHales Navy, Sgt.Bilko, whew. I suddenly feel older than dirt.

[Backstop]

yikes...I'd better stop here....but HEY BACKSTOP!..."Milky the Clown"???
Yeah...I wonder how many bodies they found in his basement freezer...hahaha


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No kidding?!?!