Moderator: Modern Buddy Staff
No love for "F" Troop or Alfred Hitchcock Presents?That Scooter Guy wrote:I noticed the other day that an alarming number of TV shows I listed in my FaceSpace profile were black and white at some point. Gomer Pyle, Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Petticoat Junction, Mr Rogers, The Twilight Zone, and Gilligan's Island.
Ugh.
And this is one of the best sitcoms ever. I watched much of it again recently on DVD and it not only holds up, but parts of it were better than I remembered. In particular, when I was a kid I'd never realized just how good Eva Gabor is on the show. Her character is much smarter and more sarcastic than I'd remembered.irishtim wrote:Green Acres is the place to be!
I grew up in a subdivision called 'Green Acres'!! (Originally planned and named in the 1930's) The 60's and 70's were tough on many facets for me...irishtim wrote:Green Acres is the place to be!
Can you account for your whereabouts around noon on November 22?rollin thunder wrote:So was I and you're right....I was also home from school with the flu and watching TV coverage of the JFK assasination and watched Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live in the basement of Dallas police station. Won't never forget that moment. I was in the 6th. grade in Dallas at the time.
+1 for Supercar! Although it originally aired just before my time. Not sure if I saw episodes in the 60's or more recently on Nickelodeon. My memory is gone. That's the second thing that goes.Tenchi wrote:Who remembers Fireball XL5? Stingray? Supercar?
I was 5 years old at the time. Dad came and got me and said, "Come watch the Ed Sullivan Show. You'll want to remember this." He was right. That was almost half a century ago. Whew!Mikie M. wrote:All right youse guys. Top this one.
I was sitting on the floor in front of the television set when the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show...
I'd do it again. 
Funny, I was talking to some guys about the Gerry Anderson supermarionation shows last night. They mentioned Thunderbirds and I said I liked Supercar, partially because of the theme song. "Supercaaaaaaaar!"That Scooter Guy wrote:+1 for Supercar! Although it originally aired just before my time. Not sure if I saw episodes in the 60's or more recently on Nickelodeon. My memory is gone. That's the second thing that goes.Tenchi wrote:Who remembers Fireball XL5? Stingray? Supercar?
I loved Hillstreet Blue. Great series. That was the eara of a lot of cop shows. But do you remember "Baretta" with Robert Blake?That Scooter Guy wrote:http://www.hulu.com/watch/61426/hill-st ... 2-n3-so-i0
Not only do I remember it, but I wasn't even particularly young anymore when it was on. The thought just occurs to me because it looks so ancient.
Look for the...
Misguided scooter quote @ 4 minute point.
Sad scooter abuse moment at 10:00.
Scooter high speed chase at 31:00.
"Let's be careful out there."
Must have been Goldie Hawn? And here I was thinking it was Judy Carne. Not that I'm old enough to have seen this show, or most of the others mentioned.gigi wrote: or the "sock it to me " girl on "laugh in". I know who she was/is--maybe you guys know her daughter better.
Yup. Do you also remember "Hell Town" in which he played an ex-con or street tough who became a Catholic priest? I used to love it when he'd preface a confontation with the bad guys by getting all pseudo-biblical and saying, "Let us go among them".Howardr wrote:.....But do you remember "Baretta" with Robert Blake?.....
The Fleischer Superman cartoons (from several decades before my birth, even) are still brilliant! Someone needs to do a good digital restoration on them; all I have are crummy versions on VHS. The art and character design hold up. They're not exactly politically correct, though, like many from that era, which may be one reason they're not treated as groundbreaking classics.charlie55 wrote:My earliest TV memories were those Saturday morning cartoon blocks with Betty Boop, Popeye, and all the old Max Fleischer cartoons.
I'm of the opinion that, rather than trying to update classic characters like Superman or Wonder Woman,* filmmakers should treat them like Sherlock Holmes or Tom Sawyer, and do them as "period" pieces. 1940s Superman - changing his costume in a phone booth, the newspaper job putting him in the thick of things, fighting street thugs and war criminals and the occasional killer robot - rocked.ericalm wrote:The Fleischer Superman cartoons (from several decades before my birth, even) are still brilliant! Someone needs to do a good digital restoration on them; all I have are crummy versions on VHS. The art and character design hold up. They're not exactly politically correct, though, like many from that era, which may be one reason they're not treated as groundbreaking classics.
Yes it is that damned political correctness that have killed those cartoons, but they're still what I too grew up with. And I haven't become a bigoted ax murdering sociopath suffering from schizophrenia with pedophilic tendencies.ericalm wrote:The Fleischer Superman cartoons (from several decades before my birth, even) are still brilliant! Someone needs to do a good digital restoration on them; all I have are crummy versions on VHS. The art and character design hold up. They're not exactly politically correct, though, like many from that era, which may be one reason they're not treated as groundbreaking classics.charlie55 wrote:My earliest TV memories were those Saturday morning cartoon blocks with Betty Boop, Popeye, and all the old Max Fleischer cartoons.
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. It's much easier for animation. The Bruce Timm Batman: The Animated Series and Superman shows worked because they happened in a sort of timeless bubble where elements of the characters from the '30s, '40s and so on were combined with modern elements and suspended everything outside of "real" history. The recent Batman: Brave & the Bold did the same by cherry picking classic versions of characters and villains right down to imitating the artists that drew them back then.TVB wrote:I'm of the opinion that, rather than trying to update classic characters like Superman or Wonder Woman,* filmmakers should treat them like Sherlock Holmes or Tom Sawyer, and do them as "period" pieces. 1940s Superman - changing his costume in a phone booth, the newspaper job putting him in the thick of things, fighting street thugs and war criminals and the occasional killer robot - rocked.ericalm wrote:The Fleischer Superman cartoons (from several decades before my birth, even) are still brilliant! Someone needs to do a good digital restoration on them; all I have are crummy versions on VHS. The art and character design hold up. They're not exactly politically correct, though, like many from that era, which may be one reason they're not treated as groundbreaking classics.
*e.g. the upcoming David E. Kelley Wonder Woman TV series.
Yup. He was on an island whose inhabitants were all former spies who are all now just referred to by numbers. The mysterious people who ran it were either trying to get them to divulge secrets or test their resistance to psychological torture. He never breaks!gigi wrote:Was the prisoner the show with the guy who would try to make his escape and be recaptured by a giant bubble and then wake up back in his room in the asylum? it ran about the same time frame as the Avengers with John Steed and Emma Peale.
