Posted on 03/11/2013 9:43:47 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I'll Start. I LOVED "Emergency", I loved(what young boy doesn't?) Fire Engines and Sirens.
The Spike Jones TV show.
The Adams Family, I though Gomez was just too cool!
Radio and TV, Space Patrol
MeTV on Dish Network, Channel 20. Watch it.
Topper
I think that anything these gentlemen produced were good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Cinader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rosner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Cannell
I fondly recall a very early TV detective show called “Rocky King, Private Detective.”
It had good characters and very innovative camera work. Whenever Rocky was talking to his wife it was shown from her POV, with Rocky speaking into the camera.
The Rat Patrol
My dad said his favorite when he was a kid was an old old “Tales of the FBI” (not sure of the name) show where the perps were described to the public. I asked if any were ever caught from these radio descriptions and he said “yes.”
My grandmother listened to soap operas every day, don’t know their names.
My mother said her uncles LOVED Amos ‘n Andy, they listened through an early type of head set but with only ONE speaker for the ear which they had to hold. They’d laugh uproariously but nobody else could hear what they were listening to so they looked ridiculous.
Listened to the Lone Ranger on our Radio then switched to TV and Hi Yo Silver!
that would be Johnny Crawford who coincidentally gave the Eulogy at Conners funeral.
I also liked Conners as he attended my college, Seton Hall.
Buffalo Bill ... Dabney Coleman was a perfect anti hero.
Wiseguy (the first two seasons) ...... So well executed.
The Willd Wild West ..... James Bond in the old west...what's not to like? Series has not aged well, IMO
The Carol Burnett Show .... I grew up with this show in the background.
Odds against you? Call the equalizer.....
Speaking of The Rifleman...guess who taught John Wayne how to act? Marshal Micah Torrance (Paul Fix) taught him in the 1930s and appeared in almost 30 films in which Wayne was the star.
Loved Rockford Files as a kid then and even more now. Throw in most of me tv programming and Remington Steele that is on another channel.
“Carol Burnett Show” and “Carson” was the ONLY show that would casue my dad(a GRUMPY WW II Infantry Combat vet) to Laugh/Crack Up out loud. Usually he was grumpy.
You nailed it with the OP.
“Emergency”, probably the most realistic first reponder show in television history (followed closely by “Adam 12”).
Dixie McCall.
Mreeeow.
Compare Crawford to the child stars of later era’s. Big difference.
“Bigfoot and Wildboy”
fascinating plots.
TV: Laugh In, Johnny Carson, Archie Bunker, Carol Burnett, Married with Children.
Never could understand the “Julie Jondon” “attaction”(too young I guess). Now later on “CHiPs” “Brianne Leary”, I thought was HOT!
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