Posted on 10/11/2014 3:22:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I knew it had come out on dvd about a year ago. From the same dvd-company that released some old Ziv shows like “Highway Patrol,” “Sea Hunt,” “Ripcord,” and “Bat Masterson.”
Great quote, he generated a lot of great passages like that. Not bad for a poof.
The thing that sticks with me about “Highway Patrol” is how Brod always stopped the car and stood in the open door to talk on the radio (just to get the shot). It was always at “the junction of such-and-such” and on location in the middle of nowhere. One of the best gritty voices ever.
“Ripcord” and “Sea Hunt” were pretty much the same premise, and really didn’t work too well — apparently they never heard of taking a car anywhere.
“Bat” is a little before my time (in fact, most of these I remember from reruns), but I’ve seen some epi on Antenna TV or something, one of the subchannels on the new digital broadcast TV. :’)
:’D /bingo
“Those who can’t do, teach, those who can’t teach, teach gym.”
“The theater isn’t what it was.”
“Yes, and it never was what it was.”
[I, Claudius]
The Immaculate Conception is not the conception of Jesus. It is the conception of Mary, who Catholicism teaches was preserved from sin in preparation for the conception of Christ. No flame wars from anyone, please, I am simply clarifying what IC is.
LOL!
And he’ll grow up to be transgendered — assuming the show lasts more than a partial first season.
I’ve often thought that a line from an episode of “The Monkees” would make a good name for a series — “Pismo Beach Massacre”. And since “The Big Lebowski”, I’ve thought up some cameos for various actors from that movie (Donnie surfed as far off as Pismo, y’know).
Accidentally? He was carrying around a loaded turkey baster when he tripped and fell into her lady parts?
"Immaculate Conception" refers to Mary's conception, i.e. Mary the embryo, not Jesus the embryo.
On this show, though, it’s artificial insemination.
I love the old Ziv tv-shows. There was something so doggedly unpretentious about them. Very no-nonsense and matter-of-fact. The scripts, the characters, the whole attitude of just “not putting up with crap” which they exuded. No whiney displays of over-emotionalism, no ulterior political subtexts, no overblown ‘operatic’ dramatics, no moral relativism, no self-conscious direction. Sort of the exact opposite of everything you see on tv today. Just masculine, Cold-War era, American confidence.
“Highway Patrol,” “Sea Hunt,” “Men into Space,” “Ripcord,” “The Man Called X,” “Harbor Command,” “This Man Dawson,” “Science Fiction Theater,” “West Point Story,” and countless others.
>>>>A resigning secret agent is kidnapped and taken to a seaside resort and is chased by giant weather balloons.
HEY!!!! LOL!
Meanwhile what about Inside Herman’s Head?
H R PuffnStuff?
BananaSplits?
Alf?
Cleopatra 2525?
Brisco County, Jr?
And one I actually liked and still watch on DVD...
Jack of all Trades! Great opening - CHECK IT OUT! Only a minute long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNsjjYRgjc , HOT gal, and Bruce “The Chin” Campbell!
Brilliant! I think you win the Internet for tonight. Even as a boy, I could never understand why both Tony Nelson and John Steed seemed so oblivious to their companions.
Highway Patrol was one of the best shows EVER! Used copters and planes way before other similar shows.
I get to watch it several times a week and of course it was my favorite show when I was growing up. Episodes are also available for free on IMDB!
FWIW a lot of the show was filmed in and around North Hollywood, Lancaster and several other California locations in San Fernado and Simi Valleys. Quite often street signs and business signs can be seen. There is an internet group that notes them and searches for them on Google maps.
It’s interesting to see that some are still around! - a Motel on Rt 14 IIRC - a couple of diners/restaurants and the construction company that developed the area. That name escapes me...I think it started with M and there is an entire town named for the developer.
The writers also often used real street names and they can be found on Google maps.
Not weather balloons, “blacmanges”. They did manage to work in a couple of Beatles tunes into the series finale, so it wasn’t completely weird. Just mostly. Admittedly the weirdest thing on TV until “Twin Peaks” came on.
CC
Another chance for Hollyweird to attack traditional American values
Another reason I watch Korean shows online... often they don;t even hold hands until the 8th episode and they might kiss before the final episode. Sometimes.
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