Yeah and don't forget where they got the idea for "Mr. Ed">> that came about from the old "Francis The Talking Mule" movies. And those were pretty funny. I've seen two of them and they were great for the 40s and 50s.
I love the old radio programs.bearrowland wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 6:25 amNot to get away from the spirit of the thread, but does anyone listen to replays of the old radio shows? I know, in my neck of the woods, that AM 900 out of Toronto broadcasts them from around 9 pm on. Nights are the only time I can pick it up.
I used to have some of those tapes of them. But the ones that made me laugh until my gut hurt was the two dozen tapes of "Amos & Andy" that a good friend gave me some time back. Those guys were even funnier than the Marx Brothers if you can believe that.
There was just a plethora of classic TV shows from 1969 to about 1973. And the Mod Squad was truly one of them. It was one of my favorite cop shows during that time. But when Miami Vice came out in the 80s I quickly forgot about it>> because in my opinion Miami Vice was truly the best cop show ever IMO.
As a kid I enjoyed it too! Although I haven't seen it at all since around 1971; remembering it and looking up the intro on YouTube was the first time I've seen it in 48 years!!! And seeing it again brought back a bunch of memories.bearrowland wrote:Mod Squad was awesome!!
I don't know if I had a favorite cop show. Mod Squad was up there, but later I also liked Baretta (Beretta?). During most of the '80s, I wasn't watching a lot of TV, as I was doing a lot of other stuff. And of course when I moved to Taiwan, I didn't watch TV at all, unless there was a TV mounted on the wall of a restaurant. My favorite "crime" show was an unusual one that came much later: 'Millennium', starring Lance Henriksen. That was in the late '90s. But it wasn't really a 'cop' show.JD Spydo wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:58 pmThere was just a plethora of classic TV shows from 1969 to about 1973. And the Mod Squad was truly one of them. It was one of my favorite cop shows during that time. But when Miami Vice came out in the 80s I quickly forgot about it>> because in my opinion Miami Vice was truly the best cop show ever IMO.
Yeah Peggy Lipton did die here recently I heard.
It came out about the same time that Room 222 and All In the Family hit the airwaves. Didn't really like either one of those two at all but they did come out about the same time period.
I still like watching re-runs of any of the old Irwin Allen science fiction shows. The Time Tunnel is still one of my favs to this day. Also Land of the Giants is another one from that time period that I still like watching the re-runs of. Also Harlan Ellison who just died recently did some really intriguing science fiction shows. The Canadian classic of his called "The Star Lost" comes to mind and I would love to get tapes of that old Sci Fi show.
3JD Spydo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 5:23 pmJim I couldn't agree with you more when the sitcoms became total trash from the mid 70s onward. Now in the 60s we truly had funny sitcoms but in the 70s & 80s most of them changed to raw sewage. I hated Archie Bunker because I had rednecks in my family that reminded me of him. To them wife and kid beating along with adultery and drunkenness were all sports that they excelled in. The nation has had some positive changes in that problem area of domestic abuse but it's still a horrible problem in many homes today.
But other than Miami Vice the 80s didn't have a lot to offer me. It was about 86 and I got cable for the first time and for about a year I was addicted to the new Discovery Channel which later became kind of a weird channel>> but it was great in the early days.
I found out what that Science Fiction, outer space show that Martin Landau starred in. It was called "Space": 1999. In some ways it was even better than the original Star Trek.
Also there was another 1960s show that was along those same lines>> it was called "The Invaders". It was on right before the Time Tunnel which to this day is still one of my all time favorite Science Fiction shows. Irwin Allen and Harlan Ellison both had some great Sci Fi shows.
OK Mad Mac I remember two 1960s/early 70s Science Fiction movies that would even be timely in our present time. One being "The Andromeda Strain" and the other is called "The Satan Bug">> those were really creepy in the late 60s and actually gave me the creeps as a young person more than the horror flicks did. Those were movies about "bio-weapons" and how easy it would be to launch them this very day. Also on a humorous note Don Johnson's ( Miami Vice fame) first movie was called "A Boy & His Dog">> it was Sci Fi but really funny too>> especially with a really young Don Johnson
The 1953 War of the World's was one of my favorites as a kid. I saw it again recently, and it holds up today. And thanks for the heads-up about TCM.
Thanks, Joe. That sounds very interesting.JD Spydo wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 6:24 amAnd Jim the show "Space 1999" which starred Martin Landau has a lot of episodes on YT. It ran from 1975 to 1978 I think it was. It was kind of a cross between Star Trek and the Outer Limits. That other Canadian Science Fiction Show that I really liked i.e. "The STARLOST" also has full episodes on YT. In two episodes of the "THE STARLOST" the old Star Trek cast member Walter Koenig ( Mr. Chekov) was in two episodes (the Alien Oro) and ( The Return of Oro). I actually enjoy the Starlost more in this present time than I did in the 70s. I watched two episodes just yesterday.
The Starlost was written by Sci Fi genius Harlan Ellison who had a lot of them to his credits.
JD Spydo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 5:23 pmJim I couldn't agree with you more when the sitcoms became total trash from the mid 70s onward. Now in the 60s we truly had funny sitcoms but in the 70s & 80s most of them changed to raw sewage. I hated Archie Bunker because I had rednecks in my family that reminded me of him. To them wife and kid beating along with adultery and drunkenness were all sports that they excelled in. The nation has had some positive changes in that problem area of domestic abuse but it's still a horrible problem in many homes today.
But other than Miami Vice the 80s didn't have a lot to offer me. It was about 86 and I got cable for the first time and for about a year I was addicted to the new Discovery Channel which later became kind of a weird channel>> but it was great in the early days.
I found out what that Science Fiction, outer space show that Martin Landau starred in. It was called "Space": 1999. In some ways it was even better than the original Star Trek.
Also there was another 1960s show that was along those same lines>> it was called "The Invaders". It was on right before the Time Tunnel which to this day is still one of my all time favorite Science Fiction shows. Irwin Allen and Harlan Ellison both had some great Sci Fi shows.
That still just cracks me up that a young, crazy version of Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame could play two diametrically different roles like that and really do good at both of them. I remember when that movie was shown back in the mid 70s. There were just a few select, special theaters that would even show that movie. The big movie house chains wouldn't touch it with a 50 foot pole. However they jumped all over the CLOCKWORK ORANGE you mentioned.>> just goes to show you how much influence that Stanley Kubrick had in his day.
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