Been watching this old series on Crackle TV, over the internet. I haven’t watched in probably 50 years. No police killings, no sex, just fun. Nothing offensive here. Remember when?
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Been watching this old series on Crackle TV, over the internet. I haven’t watched in probably 50 years. No police killings, no sex, just fun. Nothing offensive here. Remember when?
Tooti and Muldoon ! Early 60’s .
Ahhhh . . . . long for those days . . Circus Boy . . . . Sgt. Preston . . . Sky King . . . .
Bobby Benson and the B Bar B riders
Roy and Dale
Just shows how not all change is good.
Whirly Birds, Sea Hunt, and Ripcord.
If you can fly in & out, SCUBA dive, or drop in---
you don't need any more Police than one personal friend that is a Detective.
All good stuff
To bad we got smarter
Mike
I could do with a good marathon of Laurel and Hardy, and a mess of The Three Stooges about now. Actually, anytime these past few decades.
When friends and I get to talking about the lack of good, decent television shows these days, simply put...they don't make shows for us older folk. We're not in the targeted advertising age group.
Murphy
Oh my, that 's a young Fred Gwynne in that picture. Always enjoyed him. He just passed away not too long ago. Lived down the road (so to speak) in Tawneytown, Maryland.
Yancy Derringer… had a fried named Yancy…
It was a very different and IMO much better country back then. Far less evil on display and pushing for more evil.
I'd be willing to bet that if you looked you could find the old shows on DVD. Where I live now it's like they never heard of Babes in Toyland and that was a classic pre-Christmas show when I was a child. So I took care of that for myself. I recently mentioned that to my brothers and we all did. Gotta love tech'.
Amazon just put out a movie about the I Love Lucy show. I didn’t think the movie was that great, but it did bring out how censored television was back then.
I Love Lucy, just a good tail.
Mark
It seems like starting in 2019 they haven't made a movie where they do not have at least one gay couple and an interracial couple. Even Disney is putting out garbage like this.
Oh, and BTW, nobody has mentioned Rin Tin Tin or Casey Jones.
Seems Hallmark movies went this route too. Shame ! They should at least bring back some of the old ones.Quote:
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Gun Smoke, Combat (Vick morrow,Rick Jason) Rat patrol.
I never ran out and killed anybody, but really enjoyed days of playing in the dirt with my neighbor playing out these shows with Sticks as rifles and bushes or trees being the enemy. No prisoners that way. Lol
Mike
I started to notice that trend before that. What makes it worse is it usually doesn’t add anything. It was just stuck in the script to make a few people happy.Quote:
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Rin Tin Tin was great. I was able to download a bunch from YouTube so my youngest son could enjoy them.
Greg, you just reminded me about Lassie and then Dragnet ! Oh crud, now they might change dragnet into drag queen and really screw up history of old tv shows.
Mike
The best comedy was delivered with no swearing by Red Skelton.
As kids we would holler ... Car 54 whereee areee yooooou !
Look how young Fred Gwynne was... WOW !
Thanks for posting ... I'm smiling right now :drinks:
Gary
Seldom mentioned is Maynard Krebs and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
That series predicted millennials in 1959...
Maynard Krebs voices an opinion on "WORK"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzpQPDSr2s
Captain Gallant of the French Foreign Legion
A lot of us seem to remember the same shows. It’s probably because back then, you were lucky if you had three channels to choose from, to decide what you would watch.
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FYI as of 12 years ago you could get Sky King off YouTube . I used to much episodes while I was on the midnight shift at work along with Star Trek. Spoiler alert, they are nowhere near as entertaining as they were when you were eight years old:dung_hits_fan::dung_hits_fan::dung_hits_fan::d ung_hits_fan::dung_hits_fan:
My favorite was the British show Secret Agent, with Patrick McGoohan. He had lots of cool toys to defeat the bad guys. The first time I ever watched Get Smart, I just tought it was stupid; at that age I didn't understand parody.
Wayne
Red Skeleton was big with Dad He seldom missed it. Lost In space, Star Trek,Buck Rogers. Daniel Boone ( sold a lot of coonskin caps over the years). The Beverly Hillbillies.
More so the producers and director that strived for this level of performance,
And also the War of the worlds that turned the nation on its ear with the first radio performance.
My childhood favorite was “Sea Hunt” with Lloyd Bridges. That show started me on a lifelong hobby of snorkeling and scuba.
Lloyd Bridges?? Don't you mean Mike Nelson. :bigsmyl2:Quote:
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You’re right Lloyd Bridges, aka Mike NelsonQuote:
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thanks to all for the casual stroll down Memory Lane. Not to take anything away from the TV shows mentioned, let's not forget our loved animated cartoons of the day: Quick Draw McDraw, Felix the Cat and my all time favorite good ole Fog Horn Leghorn, "I say boy..." On second thought, Ruff n Ready or that cartoon with Clutch Cargo and the weird moving mouths.
Always liked Rin Tin Tin and Foreign Legionnaires.
Rescue 8,Hopalong Cassidy,Commando Cody,Sea Hunt and Have gun,Will travel. Boston Blackie
Zorro, Mighty Mouse, Wanted: Dead or Alive, all old Looney Tunes, Captain Kangaroo, Art Linkletter (before Kids Say The Darndest Things). My favorite British show was The Avengers. Had Diana Rigg in that tight suit. I was a kid, but old enough to appreciate it!:bigsmyl2: Actually had real good plots too. also Andy Griffith (the b+w with Gomer ones). Shazam!
looks like my post was censored :?:
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Three channels? Goodness, that was a bunch ! In 1958 in Jacksonville, Florida WMBR TV was one of the first two stations in the state. One of our neighbors got a Muntz round screen cabinet set. From about 50 miles away and on rabbit ears, we watched clean comedy shows, and Wednesday nite's 'rassling, all seen through the weak video signal snow storm.Quote:
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Today's TV technology is far better but the programming is much worse. I can't watch much of it, not even the "news", without feeling like I need a shower just to get the "liberal" slime off.
Since reading this thread I have started watching old Tarzan / Captain Gallant / Jungle Jim movies on Youtube