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 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 9:40 AM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

WPIX was where I first discovered Batman. I remember they also had "Get Smart" initially using the clip of the "Harry Hoo" episode as their promo ("Who's that?" "That's Hoo.") but that later moved to Channel 5 at 2:30 AM or something and the first time I ever *really* stayed up late as a kid during summer was just to see that!

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 10:54 AM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

Get Smart was a lot of fun. I was too young to remember it on network tv.
WPIX was my first exposure to the show too.

Buck Henry was a great writer.

The older you get, the more you begin to appreciate those guys and what they brought to their work.



 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 11:55 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Bonanza did nothing for me as a kid.

All that splashy NBC color, and Ben Cartwright looked nothing like his sons! And that fake studio created Ponderosa set.

Did all cowboys really wear pastel colored shirts and have such cool vests back then?

What's with the vests in westerns? In every western show, they all wore them!


If you watch a color Gunsmoke episode, you can't help but notice that Dodge City--that town in Kansas with the desert terrain and mountains--had the same kind of fake-looking set. Strange, because in the B&W years the town looked fine.

Yes, the vests! Let's also not forget the clean-shaven cowpokes who didn't have sideburns and long hair, but Eisenhower and JFK-era clean cut looks. Funny how the 1970s and 1870s were both "mutton chop" decades. wink

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 11:57 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Love the music and that era in general, but it seems to me that 99% of those who like MFU were 9-12 years old when the series was on and the fan base is predominantly those who were original fans. I also put The Six Million Dollar man and The Bionic Woman in this category. To me, MFU is just camp silliness and cheap looking. Plus, IMO there were entirely too many changes in tone for that program to catch on.



...


You said it all mr. Phelps.
Why doesn't anyone else see the rightness of our position?
bruce

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 11:58 AM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Dennis Weaver's "Chester" is one of the most annoying characters in tv history
ughh!
brm

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 12:09 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

BONANZA was i show i remember very well from my childhood.
It was tremendously popular with all my friends but i never liked it.
It sucked then and it sucks now.
All the good tv westerns were made in the 50's and in black and white (Not counting KUNG -FU).
GO FEIGGER!
BRUCE

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 12:20 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)


MFU is a show I *should* like, based on my interest in TV spies, the Swinging Sixties, the numerous guest stars familiar from so many shows and movies etc., but it's just too "Batman '66" for my tastes--that's another program I should add to the list...sorry, Dr. Paddon! wink


... I'm NOT a fan of is Yvonne Craig's Batgirl, partly because Yvonne has never impressed me appearance wise,....


Say what!!!!!????
Did you see her in IN LIKE FLINT and feel the same way.
Yvonne is a Sixties goddess!!!!!
smile
bruce

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 12:44 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Hey NEO!
Lets see some Yvonne Craig yum!
thanks!
bruce

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 1:01 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

"Bonanza" I tried to watch but I just can't get into it, chiefly because the whole premise of a man with three grown sons, each one the product of a different marriage and conveniently all three wives just happened to die, is hard for me to swallow.


Little Joe and Adam at least lucked out on that one!

Their mother's had to have some looks, they certainly didn't get them from the old man.

But what did poor Hoss's mother look like?

I mean geez, was there Roller Derby around back then and Ol' Ben just happened to hook up with one of them?

Screw hanging around the Ponderosa, Hoss would have made a great middle linebacker had he been born about 50 years later.



All kidding aside, RIP Dan Blocker. When I did watch that show he was a main reason why.

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 1:51 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

But what did poor Hoss's mother look like?

I mean geez, was there Roller Derby around back then and Ol' Ben just happened to hook up with one of them?



Hoss's mother was played by Inga Swenson, later of Benson fame, in two "flashback" episodes, where Lorne Greene's toupee is of the salt and pepper variety.

Coincidentally, today is her birthday.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842421/?licb=0.9359256576281041


NP: Choma (Jerry Fielding)

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:01 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

But what did poor Hoss's mother look like?

I mean geez, was there Roller Derby around back then and Ol' Ben just happened to hook up with one of them?



Hoss's mother was played by Inga Swenson, later of Benson fame, in two "flashback" episodes, where Lorne Greene's toupee is of the salt and pepper variety.

Coincidentally, today is her birthday.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842421/?licb=0.9359256576281041


NP: Choma (Jerry Fielding)




I still don't see the "family resemblance". Is it possible Hoss was switched with another baby by mistake at birth?


The Choma cd is awesome.

The remixing and remastering job on that was superb. The source tapes were found under some leaky waterpipes at Victor Buono's estate in his basement and it was a stroke of luck that they were in such good shape.

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:04 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

The Choma cd is awesome.

The remixing and remastering job on that was superb. The source tapes were found under some leaky waterpipes at Victor Buono's estate in his basement and it was a stroke of luck that they were in such good shape.


I ordered mine from Buysoundtrax.com, so I'm still waiting.

"Choma" sounds like "The Bionic Woman." That is, if the Bionic Woman looked like George Peppard and was suspended upside down in the Louvre while attempting to steal the Mona Lisa.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:14 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

Good Luck! I hope you get it soon! big grin

In the meantime..

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:26 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)


MFU is a show I *should* like, based on my interest in TV spies, the Swinging Sixties, the numerous guest stars familiar from so many shows and movies etc., but it's just too "Batman '66" for my tastes--that's another program I should add to the list...sorry, Dr. Paddon! wink


... I'm NOT a fan of is Yvonne Craig's Batgirl, partly because Yvonne has never impressed me appearance wise,....


Say what!!!!!????
Did you see her in IN LIKE FLINT and feel the same way.


I feel that way every time I see her, which is.....not impressed. Don't care for the face or hairstyle and I also think she was way in over her head in a role like Batgirl where she infused the character with an annoying "Anything you can do I can do better" kind of attitude, plus she had absolutely zero on-screen chemistry with West and Ward. Mary Ann Mobley's Miss America innocent quality, combined with her ability to be credible in a fight (as her "Mission: Impossible" guest shot demonstrated) is why I'm 100% convinced she would have been the better choice.

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:30 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Hoss's mother was played by Inga Swenson, later of Benson fame, in two "flashback" episodes, where Lorne Greene's toupee is of the salt and pepper variety.

Coincidentally, today is her birthday.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842421/?licb=0.9359256576281041


A Happy Birthday to Inga, and a reminder that at the time, she was quite "in demand" as a Broadway musical star with a glorious sounding soprano voice. Most notably, this included Irene Adler in the Sherlock Holmes musical "Baker Street" (the book incidentally, written by Jerome Coopersmith who was responsible for the best episodes of "Hawaii Five-O").

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:31 PM   
 By:   BobJ   (Member)


MFU is a show I *should* like, based on my interest in TV spies, the Swinging Sixties, the numerous guest stars familiar from so many shows and movies etc., but it's just too "Batman '66" for my tastes--that's another program I should add to the list...sorry, Dr. Paddon! wink


... I'm NOT a fan of is Yvonne Craig's Batgirl, partly because Yvonne has never impressed me appearance wise,....


Say what!!!!!????
Did you see her in IN LIKE FLINT and feel the same way.


I feel that way every time I see her, which is.....not impressed. Don't care for the face or hairstyle and I also think she was way in over her head in a role like Batgirl where she infused the character with an annoying "Anything you can do I can do better" kind of attitude, plus she had absolutely zero on-screen chemistry with West and Ward. Mary Ann Mobley's Miss America innocent quality, combined with her ability to be credible in a fight (as her "Mission: Impossible" guest shot demonstrated) is why I'm 100% convinced she would have been the better choice.


Man, I couldn't disagree more here. Craig is, in my opinion, an absolutely stunning beauty. I loved her in the role, and she is to date still my favorite Batgirl. As to the "on-screen" chemistry, none was required for this incarnation. Batman was after Catwoman, so I find no issue with their time together on-screen.

I had the pleasure of meeting Craig at a convention some years back, and she was kind and thoughtful. Even as a older woman she had more class than any actress out there today.

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 2:41 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

As to the "on-screen" chemistry, none was required for this incarnation. Batman was after Catwoman, so I find no issue with their time together on-screen.

What I'm referring to primarily is the lack of any sense that these are characters who know how to work together or have any respect for each other. There is an air of cold suspicion that always seems to exist among them, and part of the reason stems from the fact admittedly that the scripts in S3 were not very good by this point, but Yvonne just didn't demonstrate to me the ability to rise above the material she was given.

Press interviews Yvonne gave at the time implied there was supposed to be potential underlying romantic stuff with Adam which never came off, but watch the one scene where Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon are sharing a taxi together and their scenes just land with a giant thud.

This is a subjective issue, and I know I'm in the minority but that's just my view of it. I'm sure Yvonne is a fine woman but IMO her talents would have been better suited for more "sensible" roles in a more Mary Tyler Moore type tradition (more easy for me to see her as the wife on a sitcom reacting as straight lady to a comical husband)

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 5:20 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

I'm still trying to figure out how it could be possible that both Inga Swenson and Lorne Greene together produced Dan Blocker.

I learned quite a bit about Bonanza today!

 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 5:26 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

I'm still trying to figure out how it could be possible that both Inga Swenson and Lorne Greene together produced Dan Blocker.


Maybe it would have been more believable if it had been Inga Neilsen, the Amazonian bombshell of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum". smile

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 29, 2011 - 6:19 PM   
 By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member)

My issue with MASH has always been it's in-your-face humanistic preachiness.

Now, that original 1970 motion picture, that's another story. That was funny. big grin



Steve said it perfectly.

Now if only the MASH series reruns would stop! Please! They're all over the place on cable. My remote can't surf by them fast enough.

 
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