Posted on 08/08/2022 12:47:39 PM PDT by grundle
I find myself watching the older shows more and more these days. Or westerns.
Obama bought the Magnum PI mansion in Hawaii and had it torn down.
I remember when Reagan became President starting in 1981. Soon after the nation took on an optimistic and positive vibe. The 80’s had its bad moments too but they paled in comparison to the upbeat tone all through the nation thanks in large part to The Gipper.
It was about Magnum and a woman (Patch Mackenzie) working as an investigative reporter discovering crooked interests attempting to conceal the death of a reclusive businessman/industrialist (likely for their own nefarious purposes) whom this woman was in the process in writing a book about. Meanwhile at the same time, TC was making some handsome sums of money doing deliveries to a location that proved, oddly enough, where the crooked interests were located (one of the taller office towers in Honolulu stood in for it, complete with helipad).
Very watchable story even for today, and it features Elisha Cook, Jr in it (first appearance on the show) and also Jon Lormer for laughs. And even Alan Fudge (RIP) playing one of the heavies in his many appearances in familiar movies or TV shows.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Dukes.
(sigh) the ruthless wheel of time. :(
Shuddup! Did not! Really? :(
I was bummed when I heard last year the woman who played the head nurse of Pappy's Lambs, Samantha, passed away. I had the biggest crush on her.
Yep. Sad but true. We had a close family member on the crew and got a tour of the Magnum PI sound stage set in Hawaii. Now that was an experience. Especially for my mother who posed for a family pic in Magnum/Tom Selleck’s bedroom. LOL.
Thanks.
Saturday night The Rat Patrol is on. When I was a kid I thought it was the coolest show. In retrospect it’s hokey as all get out but that just puts it in the guilty pleasure category.
I agree, it was a cool show when I was a kid but I still like it and that music intro is great.
By the way Christopher George had a accident in that show that caused a heart problem that later killed him.
That is terribly sad.
I take care of 95 year old Aunt and she loves westerns. I bought all 5 seasons of Maverick which we watch them quite a bit of. I actually like season 5 after Garner had left, they wrote in Peter Breck in the recurring role of Doc Holiday as a sidekick of Bart’s and they are hilarious.
I read that somewhere too. I also read that they moved the show to 6 AM in Australia because they were pissed he wore a Digger hat. Early cultural appropriation! 😀
In the 1990’s NBC was the king of sitcoms, all of them were great and the writing was top notch.
Here is some trivia for you when Nixon opened up China one of the first American TV shows they allowed to be broadcast was one called Garrison’s Guerilla’s , that show ran one season, but in China it was huge, the country came to a complete stop to watch it the nights it was on.
Never heard of it but I will look now.
It was on ABC, late 1960’s I think, inspired by the Dirty Dozen, and ran maybe one season I remember watching it as a kid.
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