So many great Television series in the pre -internet Era. These shows still attract a lot of interest . Brady Bunch one of the All Time Greats. Greg shares some of the back story on the Cast .
https://nypost.com/2024/09/28/entertainment/barry-williams-admits-brady-bunch-co-stars-all-hooked-up-with-each-other/
Interesting path to initially take this thread down.
I will say Get Smart is my favorite classic TV show.
Quote from: cheebs09 on September 28, 2024, 02:37:30 PM
Interesting path to initially take this thread down.
I will say Get Smart is my favorite classic TV show.
Herm masterbated to the teen Brady girls quite a bit back in the day
My Spanish 1 course, in my freshman year at MU (74), there was a girl whose first name was Maureen and she looked a lot like Marsha Brady. I damn near flunked the course.
Great thread for more Smith jackassery once the firewater starts flowin', aina?
Quote from: cheebs09 on September 28, 2024, 02:37:30 PM
Interesting path to initially take this thread down.
I will say Get Smart is my favorite classic TV show.
Twilight Zone for me.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on September 28, 2024, 03:16:18 PM
Great thread for more Smith jackassery once the firewater starts flowin', aina?
starts flowing? it was noon in fondy a long time ago doc, he's gotta be good and blacked out by now
Gilligan's island and I still think maryann was hotter than ginger
Quote from: rocket surgeon on September 28, 2024, 04:20:09 PM
Gilligan's island and I still think maryann was hotter than ginger
Neither one would lower themselves down to going out with a dentist
Reako, ewe'd bea surprised wat money kan due four ya, hey?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on September 28, 2024, 04:36:01 PM
Reako, ewe'd bea surprised wat money kan due four ya, hey?
Those two aren't hanging around dentist money
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 28, 2024, 04:30:49 PM
Neither one would lower themselves down to going out with a dentist
who said anything about going out with them?? i've already got my arm candy locked up
Quote from: rocket surgeon on September 28, 2024, 06:20:04 PM
who said anything about going out with them?? i've already got my arm candy locked up
Oh, most MAGA have side pieces
Quote from: rocket surgeon on September 28, 2024, 06:20:04 PM
who said anything about going out with them?? i've already got my arm candy locked up
Silence of the Lambs style no doubt.
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Mr. Ed, especially when he got the best of Clint Eastwood or hit an inside the park home run off Sandy Koufax.
"Wilbur, why are you spending so much time with a woman when you could spend time with your little horsey?"
We didn't have cable or anything growing up, so I saw reruns of old people's television on the ~6 channels we had in the Milwaukee area.
I liked the Andy Griffith show quite a bit. The Munsters was good. Batman with Adam West was a romp.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on September 28, 2024, 08:54:42 PM
We didn't have cable or anything growing up, so I saw reruns of old people's television on the ~6 channels we had in the Milwaukee area.
I liked the Andy Griffith show quite a bit. The Munsters was good. Batman with Adam West was a romp.
Grandpa Munster was also a notes college basketball scout.
https://www.davehoekstra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/grandpa_munster_bb_scout.pdf
Hill Street Blues, Belker and Renko were both great characters. Victoria Hamel.
Barney Miller. 'Fish" had a unique, deadpan style of humor. The rest of the characters were also comical.
The original Night Court.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The late David McCallum as Illya Kuryakan.
Good Times was one of the great CBS series. Was sad to see John Amos pass away .
Quote from: dgies9156 on September 28, 2024, 08:14:05 PM
Mr. Ed, especially when he got the best of Clint Eastwood or hit an inside the park home run off Sandy Koufax.
"Wilbur, why are you spending so much time with a woman when you could spend time with your little horsey?"
Off subject, but this is a perfect chance for an anecdote. Years ago, my niece, an avid fly fisher, struck up a conversation with a nearby fly fisher in the stream. They had dinner afterwards, but it was not a romantic encounter. Just a couple of dedicated fly fishers talking shop. When asked about his pre-retirement career, the man said he had been a professional baseball player. He was surely amused that my niece, who has absolutely zero interest in sports, did not recognize his name.
Months later, she mentioned the encounter to my brother and SIL but could not recall the name of the MLB player. After a while, she said "Sandy........
Koufax?" My brother laughed Big Time and my niece, embarrassed that she was one of the few people who did not recognize his name, would quickly tell anyone who reminded her of that incident to
shut up. I guess the fact that his playing days were well behind him puts it in perspective, but....Wow!
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 02, 2024, 08:23:46 AM
Off subject, but this is a perfect chance for an anecdote. Years ago, my niece, an avid fly fisher, struck up a conversation with a nearby fly fisher in the stream. They had dinner afterwards, but it was not a romantic encounter. Just a couple of dedicated fly fishers talking shop. When asked about his pre-retirement career, the man said he had been a professional baseball player. He was surely amused that my niece, who has absolutely zero interest in sports, did not recognize his name.
Months later, she mentioned the encounter to my brother and SIL but could not recall the name of the MLB player. After a while, she said "Sandy........Koufax?" My brother laughed Big Time and my niece, embarrassed that she was one of the few people who did not recognize his name, would quickly tell anyone who reminded her of that incident to shut up. I guess the fact that his playing days were well behind him puts it in perspective, but....Wow!
I don't know why she tells people to "shut up" because that story is endearing. She should lean into it.
I had a friend who worked for a time with the Green Bay Packers. On her first day of work, she rode up in the elevator with Brett Favre. Similar to your story, she asked his name, he smirked and introduced himself. She had obviously heard of him, but doesn't watch football so had no idea what he looked like.
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on October 02, 2024, 08:28:40 AM
I don't know why she tells people to "shut up" because that story is endearing. She should lean into it.
I had a friend who worked for a time with the Green Bay Packers. On her first day of work, she rode up in the elevator with Brett Favre. Similar to your story, she asked his name, he smirked and introduced himself. She had obviously heard of him, but doesn't watch football so had no idea what he looked like.
The "shut up" was because she was embarrassed, and my brother's immediate laughing surely had a major part in her embarrassment. But I agree with you...it
is endearing. As the story circulated throughout the family, we were warned to never bring it up in front of her.
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 02, 2024, 08:23:46 AM
After a while, she said "Sandy........Koufax?"
Vero Beach's very own. Very well-liked around town.
Also, very quiet.
Quote from: dgies9156 on October 02, 2024, 09:28:08 AM
Vero Beach's very own. Very well-liked around town.
Also, very quiet.
When the bill arrived at the table, my niece wanted to pay half. Koufax said "That's OK. I can afford it." ;D
Getting back to Mr. Ed... what a fun show! Mr. Ed's voice, lines, delivery, humor, timing-it was all
spot on. An idea for a show that was probably difficult to get approved by the studio even then, when silly-ass shows were plentiful.
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 02, 2024, 09:39:08 AM
Getting back to Mr. Ed... what a fun show! Mr. Ed's voice, lines, delivery, humor, timing-it was all spot on. An idea for a show that was probably difficult to get approved by the studio even then, when silly-ass shows were plentiful.
Unlike so many comedies from back then, Mr. Ed is still funny.
Might be a bit new for this topic but the original 3 seasons of arrested development are still some of the best seasons of comedy ever made and hold up perfectly.
Huge Sorkin fan. Sports Night and West Wing are my two favorite series.
Quote from: tower912 on October 02, 2024, 05:41:33 PM
Huge Sorkin fan. Sports Night and West Wing are my two favorite series.
West Wing led me to misunderstand how politics was going to change during my lifetime.
Mad About You, Paul Reiser and Helan Hunt.
I loved the humor and their banter playing off of each other. Mel Brooks as Uncle Phil. I remember reading somewhere that Brooks often discarded the script on camera and ad libbed, making Paul Reiser having to come up with a reply on the spot. The clue that this was happening was that Reiser would be speechless for a moment while trying to figure out how to handle the curve ball that he was just thrown.
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 03, 2024, 12:16:53 PM
Mad About You, Paul Reiser and Helan Hunt.
I loved the humor and their banter playing off of each other. Mel Brooks as Uncle Phil. I remember reading somewhere that Brooks often discarded the script on camera and ad libbed, making Paul Reiser having to come up with a reply on the spot. The clue that this was happening was that Reiser would be speechless for a moment while trying to figure out how to handle the curve ball that he was just thrown.
I hope you didn't see the re-do a couple of years ago. It was horrendous.
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on October 03, 2024, 12:43:50 PM
I hope you didn't see the re-do a couple of years ago. It was horrendous.
You were supposed to notice that I did not make any reference to it and just wrote about the original. ;D
We're on the second page and nobody has mentioned MASH. Surprising. Back in the mid-80s when we had very limited options, we often watched two or three episodes of MASH per day. I don't remember the specifics, but I vaguely recall that there were a couple episodes between our late news and Carson. And I think it was also on in the early evening.
Quote from: MU82 on October 02, 2024, 04:45:50 PM
Unlike so many comedies from back then, Mr. Ed is still funny.
Similar and same sentiment, a few Christmas ago, we were sitting around on the 26th, flipping the TV looking for a movie and we came across a Mr. Bean marathon. Caught about 5 episodes and then it went into "Bean", the movie released a few years after the show ended.
My god, it shows the absolute comedic genius of Rowan Atkinson. The entire family, from my youngest sister in her early 20s to my parents, were DYING of laughter. I remember finding it funny seeing it as a kid in a goofy sort of way. But it aged MAJESTICALLY. Its so simple, so direct, but just absolutely perfect. Its the British sort of cringe humor, but unlike even some of the best modern shows of that nature, it never gets borderline unbearably awkward. Just a masterclass. Also one of those shows where you feel like its got to have a ton of episodes cause you remember so many scenes or skits...but there were only 15 episodes, 24 min each.
Quote from: StillAWarrior on October 03, 2024, 02:28:57 PM
We're on the second page and nobody has mentioned MASH. Surprising. Back in the mid-80s when we had very limited options, we often watched two or three episodes of MASH per day. I don't remember the specifics, but I vaguely recall that there were a couple episodes between our late news and Carson. And I think it was also on in the early evening.
As I recall, WFLD in Chicago (now the Fox affiliate, but then independent) used to run MASH reruns every weekday in the 6 p.m. time slot.
Sad that no one has mentioned "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" as a back-to-back powerhouse Saturday night lineup in the late 70s.
Mr. Ed etc. is all fine but where can I find Benny Hill episodes dammit!
Loved the opening theme song and imagery on Hogans Hero's.
Quote from: Herman Cain on October 03, 2024, 04:39:05 PM
Loved the opening theme song and imagery on Hogans Hero's.
And... I know Noth
THING! Noth
THING!
Quote from: MU82 on October 02, 2024, 04:45:50 PM
Unlike so many comedies from back then, Mr. Ed is still funny.
I agree. I always thought the Dick VanDyke show with Mary Tyler Moore was very funny as well and is still. Then there were the old variety shows featuring such great comedians: Sid Ceasar and Imogen Coca, Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Red Skelton.
Mash, aina?
The Dick Van Dyke Show. Know the dialogue by heart and I still watch the reruns.
My sister - in- law's father loved motorcycles and once chatted with a fellow motorcycle aficianado at a rest stop out west. Months later he saw the guys picture on a movie poster. Harrison Ford.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on October 03, 2024, 05:57:30 PM
I agree. I always thought the Dick VanDyke show with Mary Tyler Moore was very funny as well and is still. Then there were the old variety shows featuring such great comedians: Sid Ceasar and Imogen Coca, Burns and Allen, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and Red Skelton.
Don't forget the best of them all - the Jackie Gleason Show. It birthed "The Honeymooners".
Always liked Leave It To Beaver, hey?
And still do, hey?
Quote from: Warriors4ever on October 03, 2024, 07:27:52 PM
My sister - in- law's father loved motorcycles and once chatted with a fellow motorcycle aficianado at a rest stop out west. Months later he saw the guys picture on a movie poster. Harrison Ford.
These are always the best.
When I first started dating my wife, she lived in NYC in Nolita off of Houston. Fairly celeb heavy spot, not all that uncommon to see people or not realize after.
My mother-in-law watches a ton of TV and movies and is in tune with pop culture...but is also hilariously air headed sometimes. One time mentioned she was at the ice cream place at the corner, and she thinks "I was talking to that fat guy from Superbad...but he wasn't fat". We knew that Jonah Hill lived down the street but we'd never encountered him, so it tracked.
Well, next time she was in town for the day a few weeks later, she said she ran into Jonah again getting coffee and she talked to him for a bit. But he had some friend who wore sunglasses and wasn't friendly when she said hi and such...she didn't realize but pap photos a few days later confirmed what we expected...naturally it was DiCaprio
Any show with Bob Newhart. His deadpan humor was great.
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 03, 2024, 09:35:09 PM
Any show with Bob Newhart. His deadpan humor was great.
And that Jerry the Dentist guy was a national treasure. ;)
Quote from: StillAWarrior on October 04, 2024, 09:21:06 AM
And that Jerry the Dentist guy was a national treasure. ;)
Yep. And a Marquette alum as well. Jack Benny's deadpan humor was also classic. I think that in addition to his perfect delivery, his looking like
such a schmuck helped make it work.
TimConway, Harvey Korman.
The elephant sketch.
The new dentist.
The dentist stuff was hilarious.
But the Gone with the Wind spoof.... 'I saw it in the window and couldn't resist it ' as Carol comes down the stairs of Tara wearing curtain rods...🤣
Winston Ads for The Flintstones....
https://youtu.be/fSmU65ZoRYo?si=cJOSYRIiYumQCx1v
The president of Argentina has been watching reruns of "The West Wing."
Argentina's rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/argentina-javier-milei-accused-plagiarising-un-speech-west-wing
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 04, 2024, 09:31:44 AM
Yep. And a Marquette alum as well. Jack Benny's deadpan humor was also classic. I think that in addition to his perfect delivery, his looking like such a schmuck helped make it work.
What most people forget is that Eddie "Rochester" Anderson made Jack Benny great. Those two were way way ahead of their time.
Quote from: Scoop Snoop on October 03, 2024, 09:35:09 PM
Any show with Bob Newhart. His deadpan humor was great.
His best role ever as Professor Proton on Big Bang Theory!
Quote from: Lennys Tap on October 03, 2024, 07:34:39 PM
Don't forget the best of them all - the Jackie Gleason Show. It birthed "The Honeymooners".
Yes, how could I forget Jackie Gleason. We could debate the "best" all day, but one of the most underrated and very funny comedians of that era was Ernie Kovacs. Chevy Chase paid homage to Ernie upon winning his Emmy performance on SNL. Since I from Jersey, Ernie was a Trenton favorite son.
They've all been mentioned separately, but in 1973 CBS had the following line-up on Saturday night
All in the Family
M*A*S*H
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Carol Burnett and Friends
I'm not a fan of M*A*S*H (Hawkeye Pierce gets my vote for the guy I'd most want to punch out in television history), but all of them were great.
CTWarrior
Are you sure on All in the Family in that lineup? My memory has All in the Family as a Sunday night show and MASH on Tuesday. I definitely remember the last three as Saturday night on CBS.
That would be a fun thread. TV character I most want to punch out.
Quote from: Goose on October 08, 2024, 02:01:43 PM
CTWarrior
Are you sure on All in the Family in that lineup? My memory has All in the Family as a Sunday night show and MASH on Tuesday. I definitely remember the last three as Saturday night on CBS.
All in the Family moved from Saturday to Sunday in the late 70s. MASH started on Saturdays but moved to Tuesdays in the mid-70s.
Quote from: Goose on October 08, 2024, 02:01:43 PM
CTWarrior
Are you sure on All in the Family in that lineup? My memory has All in the Family as a Sunday night show and MASH on Tuesday. I definitely remember the last three as Saturday night on CBS.
Funny Goose, that's how I remembered it. But I looked it up before I posted to be sure. In 1973 that was CBS' lineup. All in the Family was only on Sunday it's last two seasons, 77-78 and 78-79. M*A*S*H seemed to change nights almost every year and at one point or another had full seasons on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights.
Edit: I see Hippie beat me to it.
CTWarrior
Interesting trivia there. I would have lost that bet. I don't remember the exact lineup that NBC had on Thursday nights, which included Hill Street Blues. but that was very solid, but not Saturday night CBS solid.
Quote from: Herman Cain on September 28, 2024, 09:08:27 PM
Grandpa Munster was also a notes college basketball scout.
https://www.davehoekstra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/grandpa_munster_bb_scout.pdf
Al Lewis. He was also Patrolman Leo Schnauzer on a short-lived but very funny and well written "Car 54 Where Are You" circa 1961-62.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on October 03, 2024, 07:51:41 PM
Always liked Leave It To Beaver, hey?
"Ward, I think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night!"
Its first season, 1970-71, All in the Family was on Tuesday nights. My father thought it was an "important" show, and he let me stay up to watch it. As we watched, he explained to the 10-year-old me that Norman Lear was using the Archie character to make fun of bigots, not to glorify them.
It moved to Saturdays for S2 and remained there for several seasons.
I was in college during that powerhouse CBS Saturday night lineup. There were nights where we didn't head to the Gym until Carol Burnett was over.
Quote from: tower912 on October 08, 2024, 02:04:12 PM
That would be a fun thread. TV character I most want to punch out.
1. Every character on Succession except Willa
2. Everyone related to Walter White
3. Go back to #1
Quote from: TAMU, Knower of Ball on October 08, 2024, 09:35:34 PM
1. Every character on Succession except Willa
2. Everyone related to Walter White
3. Go back to #1
The Greg the Egg disrespect is outrageous
Quote from: tower912 on October 08, 2024, 02:04:12 PM
That would be a fun thread. TV character I most want to punch out.
Who was that guy on the Apprentice? He had really orange hair.
Never watched.
Quote from: JWags85 on October 09, 2024, 09:03:17 AM
The Greg the Egg disrespect is outrageous
He's first on my hit list. I know too many Gregs in real life.
Not classic TV, but a classic movie ...
Hoop Dreams debuted 30 years ago today. My all-time favorite sports flick.
Gopher gives the inside story
https://people.com/fred-grandy-says-lauren-tewes-was-a-victim-of-circumstance-in-love-boat-firing-8709921?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com
I'll lay out a show that was very serious in its time but incredibly comedic now:
Dragnet
The show from 1965 to 1970 was supposed to be a serious Jack Webb crime drama but the stereotypical 1960s "establishment" depiction of the counterculture, hippies, divorced women assorted other "misfits" is, today, humorous.
Probably the most amusing was a character in a fake TV show named Mambo Mubamba from the "Black Widow Party," wailing on the police for beating the crap out of black folks in Watts. The character was dressed "hippie, African style" with sunglasses and a "fro" and spoke in a slang that today would be considered highly racist, were it not so absurd. The sad thing is what the Mubamba character was saying was, sadly, quite true.
The Blue Boy episode was one for the ages.
Back when I was in college, I had a summer class at the University of Minnesota--Duluth in program messaging. The class was dramatically ahead of its time but one takeaway was that Dragnet was an amazingly accurate characterization of how our parents and grandparents saw the Boomer generation.
Today, it's such a joke it's hilarious.
Quote from: dgies9156 on November 04, 2024, 10:57:26 AMI'll lay out a show that was very serious in its time but incredibly comedic now:
Dragnet
The show from 1965 to 1970 was supposed to be a serious Jack Webb crime drama but the stereotypical 1960s "establishment" depiction of the counterculture, hippies, divorced women assorted other "misfits" is, today, humorous.
Probably the most amusing was a character in a fake TV show named Mambo Mubamba from the "Black Widow Party," wailing on the police for beating the crap out of black folks in Watts. The character was dressed "hippie, African style" with sunglasses and a "fro" and spoke in a slang that today would be considered highly racist, were it not so absurd. The sad thing is what the Mubamba character was saying was, sadly, quite true.
The Blue Boy episode was one for the ages.
Back when I was in college, I had a summer class at the University of Minnesota--Duluth in program messaging. The class was dramatically ahead of its time but one takeaway was that Dragnet was an amazingly accurate characterization of how our parents and grandparents saw the Boomer generation.
Today, it's such a joke it's hilarious.
Famous Line at the beginning of the show:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent".
Quote from: Herman Cain on November 04, 2024, 12:35:56 PMFamous Line at the beginning of the show:
"Ladies and Gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent".
I don't think that's accurate
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 04, 2024, 12:37:20 PMI don't think that's accurate
Herm statement is 100% accurate. Whether the show's claim was is anyone's guess.
Quote from: Lennys Tap on November 04, 2024, 03:16:13 PMHerm statement is 100% accurate. Whether the show's claim was is anyone's guess.
I disagree
Always enjoyed the Dick Van Dyke Show
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 04, 2024, 03:21:30 PMI disagree
Dragnet 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-qhIGTXdU
Quote from: HouWarrior on November 05, 2024, 12:23:15 PMDragnet 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-qhIGTXdU
Anyone could make that using AI
I remember watching the Army/Navy game in 1963.
What is unique about that game is that it was the first time instant replay was used in a game. I can remember Lindsay Nelson telling all the viewers that what they saw was not Army scoring a second touchdown, but a video replay of the score. What we take for granted today was amazing back then.
Candid Camera. My Gawd, some of their stunts were hilarious. Just a couple of samples-
A car without an engine was staged at the top of a hill and rolled into a repair garage-s lot. The actress said that her car seemed to lack power. When the mechanic raised the hood and was shocked that an engine was not there, she replied "Are you sure? It was there yesterday."
The show was resurrected briefly some years ago and there was a scene where an actor walked into a donut shop and ordered just a donut-no coffee-and sat at the counter. Then he dunked the donut into the coffee of a customer sitting right next to him. With the customer still in disbelief, the actor took a bite out of the donut and dunked it in the coffee again.