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Posted: 11/13/2008 7:24:41 PM | Here in the Chicago area there is a cable TV station that airs TV shows from the 1950's and 1960's. Recently I have been watching three of the shows that air on Saturdays. Anyone remember Route 66, 77 Sunset Strip or The Man From Uncle? As a very young child in the 1960's I vaguely remember The Man From Uncle, but the other two shows were before my time. Now as an adult I can truly appreciate the originality of these shows. 77 Sunset Strip was an excellent detective show, and Route 66 was a drama that explored the darker side of America. Both were extremely well written.
It's unfortunate that today's TV producers and writers cannot come close to recreating the quality of these old TV shows. The current "Reality" TV shows pale when compared to the quality of shows like the ones previously mentioned. Does anyone else agree? | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 7:31:08 PM | Yes, I can... the older shows didn't have 'tech' aspect to them, but it seems in most cases it's only eye candy anyway. But they were very well done considering what they had to work with back then. Those and a few others as well!  | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 7:33:20 PM | | Summerwinds, you bring back some good memories. I never watched the ones you're watching now, but I Love Lucy, The Bob Newhart Show, Gilligan's Island, the Brady Bunch. Things were so different back then and it seems now so much less complicated. So many of those shows were about family and respect. The reality shows that are out now, the violence. Things are so different now. Thanks for the smile tonight. | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 8:11:20 PM | I'd settle for the Golden Girls.  | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 8:30:15 PM | there was a series with John Astin called I'm****ns He's Fenster about two carpenters. it was hysterical. vanished without a trace. damn shame.
try the very early Addams Family series. he's great in those. and the rest of the cast is a gas.
try Lucille Ball. her classic stuff is really funny. | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 8:38:03 PM | "77 Sunset Strip," set in Hollywood, had several spinoffs, such as "Surfside 6," set in Miami, "Hawaiian Eye," set in Honolulu, and, IIRC, "Bourbon Street Beat" set in New Orleans.
I think I remember that most TV shows at the time were only 30 minutes long, but with fewer and shorter commercials.
Anybody remember "Honey West?" The very HOT Anne Francis, with a pet ocelot named "Bruce" and a 289 AC Cobra... | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 8:57:03 PM | | I saw an episode of 77 Sunset Strip where Robert Conrad (as Tom Lopaka) from "Hawaiian Eye" was assisting Efrem Zimbalist (Stu Bailey) on a case. Poncie Ponce made an appearance too. | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 8:57:49 PM | | Well I'm only 29. The shows I knew of growing up watching was Mork and Mindy, Cheers, Adams Family, The Munsters, Tom and Jerry, The Looney Tunes, Mighty Mouse, Tracy Ulman Show, The Incredible Hulk, The A Team, Dukes of Hazzard, and Married With Children, were among my favorites. | |
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Posted: 11/13/2008 10:08:19 PM | No doubt older television seems to have something on today's television.
I am so glad that cable keeps the memory of such classic alive. Sad that my girls protest anything in black and white? LOL
If I am feeling stressed out... I tune into The Andy Griffth Show and become a cyber resident of Mayberry. (ahhhhh, small town life)
There were so many episodes of Bonanza that chances are that I grab the remote and I then tune into a rerun that I have never seen before?..... is there any episode where a love interest of any of the ole Ponderosa gang doesn't pass away tragically? (Does Hop Sing ever get a girl?)
I Love Lucy
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Star Trek
Big Valley
Addams Family
I Dream of Jeannie
Blondie
Hazel
Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Magician (Bill Bixby)
My Favorite Martian
Groucho Marx and his show....
Leave It To Beaver.... I really wish I had such a cool Dad like Beav and Wally had?
Watching old television programs .... I find it very relaxing and good for the soul.
Hope they have cable in heaven?.... if I don't end up there, I will probably be subjected to reruns of ....
"My Mother The Car, Sheriff Lobo, Dukes of Hazzard and The Facts of Life in the other (rather warm) place?
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Posted: 11/13/2008 11:56:26 PM | I remember I'm D.ickens He's Fenster with John Astin and Marty Ingels
I watched them all - Bachelor Father, D.ickVanDyke, Green Acres, Andy Griffith, Patty Duke...
My favorite was F Troop
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Posted: 11/14/2008 4:23:06 AM | | I miss all those old and good show's , even the classic ~ The Carol Burnett Show { I love TV ~ Land LOL } : | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 6:02:58 AM | "I remember I'm D.ickens He's Fenster with John Astin and Marty Ingels
I watched them all - Bachelor Father, D.ickVanDyke, Green Acres, Andy Griffith, Patty Duke...
My favorite was F Troop"
the early F Troops were really really funny.
"AGARN!" | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 6:11:37 AM | I remember reruns of "Family Affiar" that ran from the late 1960s till 1971. It had Brian Keith, Sebastien Cabot, Kathy Garver, Johnny Whitaker and Anissa Jones. I think it now available on DVD.
Also, a mid-1970s Saturday morning show called "Land Of the Lost." The Marshall family vs the Sleestak and other assorted weird characters and the dinosaurs.
Peter Griffith did an accapella version of the theme song in a Family Guy episode. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 10:25:25 AM | | Good to see some people reminiscing about old time tv shows...some of my favorites to add to the list: lost in space, the untouchables, have gun will travel, maverick, the fugitive, perry mason, get smart, diver dan, and a little later magnum pi, simon & simon, the rockford files. "they don't make 'em like they used to" | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 10:33:50 AM | | I agree with you. Although those shows weren't hi tech by any stretch of the imagination, the writing is what made them great. Those shows can still keep my interest to this day. Also a lot of now famous actors got their start on those old shows. A lot of this stuff is finally being released on DVD plus TV Land is always there too. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 11:19:04 AM | | They have Murder She Wrote...Matlock...Perry Mason...on cable too. Good Shows | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 12:34:21 PM | | i use to love watching THE SWEENEY..about scotland yards plod squad..it was good when they caught the armed blaggers bang to rights half way through a tickle and laid in with the heavy stuff..then the main players on the firm would end up getting a 20 stretch apiece in chokey..it was real kosher stuff..i loved it..know wha i mean guvnor.... | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 12:41:16 PM | Ah, Land of the Lost....
Possibly the worst special effects ever in any kid show... but at such a young age, you really don't care. I was more focused on the hot blonde Holly than the zipper suited Sleestacks?
Now it's being turned into a 100 million dollar movie with a 50 million dollar ad campaign waiting in the wings? It's coming out this summer. Here is the link with a pic.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/27/land-of-the-lost-photo-sleestak-and-will-ferrell/
I will wait until a certain critic passes judgement though.
If I hear "Chucka NO LIKE!" then I will pass. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 12:42:14 PM |
Also, a mid-1970s Saturday morning show called "Land Of the Lost." The Marshall family vs the Sleestak and other assorted weird characters and the dinosaurs.
I loved that show! No one else remembers it though! Loved the eyes on the Sleestaks...
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Posted: 11/14/2008 1:53:45 PM | Possibly the worst special effects ever in any kid show... but at such a young age, you really don't care. I was more focused on the hot blonde Holly than the zipper suited Sleestacks?
Bingo!
loved that show! No one else remembers it though! Loved the eyes on the Sleestaks...
No one my age that I know seems to remember it, either. It only ran for 2 seasons.
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Posted: 11/14/2008 2:08:59 PM | well, now to be fair, think back to just how bad TV was at points in the 60s.
we may look back fondly out of nostalgia but for instance, funny as the Smother Brothers were, My Mother the Car was horrendous.
speaking of the Smothers Brothers, how about their excellent TV show. I mean come on. the Beatles doing Hey Jude live? how cool was that?
of course we had Lawrence Welk to balance it all out. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 2:43:44 PM | Oscarz, yes, My Mother the Car was made fun of by comedians as being a bomb. I liked Mr. Ed the talking horse better :)
The Smothers Brothers was great! Bill Saluga cracked me up with his Ray J. Johnson routine
Agarn was too funny! And the Fakawees - Sgt. O'Rourke had quite the deal going with them 
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Posted: 11/14/2008 2:51:01 PM | | What about Hogan's Heros and Get Smart? I remember The Man from Uncle. My mother was madly in love with Illya - also - what about The Prisoner... remember that big ball named "Rover" that would bring people back when they tried to escape? I am not a number, I am a man... | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 3:06:08 PM | Yup, entertaining ..... Hogan's Heroes.... Sgt Shultz - "I see NOTHING!"
But I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the conception of that particular show?
Network Executive - "Say, I have an idea? Let's make a comedy that takes place in a Nazi POW camp?"
My head always hurt while watching "The Prisoner" but I loved watching it anyway? Unfortunately, every time I go to renew my license at the local DMV and I jokingly shout out "I am not a number, I am a man...." I get escorted out by security?
Okay, how did us kids from that era get our Ti-chi on? By doing slow motion moves from Kung Fu and The Six Million Dollar Man!
A dark confession.... I tuned in to The Sonny and Cher show.
Man, Cher tore into Sonny at times! (Now I understand... I Got You Babe!)
Sanford and Son
Flip Wilson Show
The Rat Patrol
The Banana Splits... (Sings Na Na Na!)
Kimba the White Lion
Speed Racer
The Kookla Fran and Ollie Show
The Flintstones (Back then, in prime time)
The Jetsons
Scooby Doo (All Episodes with Don Knotts)
To show you that anything old is available again....
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Saucer-Vol-1/dp/6305826773
If we are the sum total of what we watched in life... I am in deep trouble.  | |
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Posted: 11/14/2008 4:07:52 PM | "Please Don't Eat The Daisies" - Can you believe that was the name of a TV show? I think they lived in a lighthouse or something. Or maybe I am getting that mixed up with some other show. The family had a huge sheepdog.
"The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone" gave me many sleepless nights. But I loved watching them anyway! I can still remember some of the story lines. Creepy and thought-provoking, like the Twilight Zone where the man was stuck in a house where he couldn't open the doors, and no one else was there. Everything in the house was fake and as time went on he got more and more panicked. At the end, they showed a little girl picking him up out of her dollhouse. Creepy!
I remember an Outer Limits episode where something landed in a field and everyone who came in contact with it got some kind of skin boils, and all the people kept watching each other to see if the boils showed up. That would mean they were on their way to being possessed by the aliens!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I can still remember the "ping, ping, ping" of the submarine diving.
Does anyone remember the show that Jodie Foster was in? I thought it was Courtship of Eddie's Father, but I'm not sure. | |
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