Classic TV Thread

[Warriors4ever]

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...🤣

[Herman Cain]

Winston Ads for The Flintstones....
https://youtu.be/fSmU65ZoRYo?si=cJOSYRIiYumQCx1v

[Pakuni]

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

[muwarrior69]

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.

[dgies9156]

Any show with Bob Newhart. His deadpan humor was great.

His best role ever as Professor Proton on Big Bang Theory!

[muwarrior69]

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.

[CTWarrior]

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.

[Goose]

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.

[tower912]

That would be a fun thread.   TV character I most want to punch out.

[The Sultan]

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.

[CTWarrior]

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.

[Goose]

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.

[Dickthedribbler]

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.

[Dickthedribbler]

Always liked Leave It To Beaver, hey?

"Ward, I think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night!"

[MU82]

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.

[Warriors4ever]

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.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

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

[JWags85]

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

[muwarrior69]

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.

[tower912]

Never watched.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

The Greg the Egg disrespect is outrageous

He's first on my hit list. I know too many Gregs in real life.

[MU82]

Not classic TV, but a classic movie ...

Hoop Dreams debuted 30 years ago today. My all-time favorite sports flick.

[Herman Cain]

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

[dgies9156]

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.

[Herman Cain]

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.

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".