Classic TV game

I should have known u would put Emergency lol

He makes me watch it all the time…..

The Adams Family:D

Marcus Welby MD

Remington Steele (hmmm!)

How about something from years ago, Like Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford. Anyone remember Laramie or Laredo classic westerns, I can remember quite a few, one when I was young was Sky King & lets not forget Roy Rogers.

Quincy M.E

Oh! and what about

Hart to Hart
“….. and this is Mrs. H….”

Adam 12. whats emergency without adam12 on a saturday night?!:D

Hawaii Five O

Get Smart– another Saturday night couldn’t be missed

The Munsters.:D

Leave it to Beaver

The Monkeys

“Gunsmoke” was a big hit in Norway – in black and white!

The Donna Reed Show

McMillan and wife

T. J. Hooker, with William Shatner

Anybody remember [B]Petrocelli[/B]?

Don’t forget this one the original Star Trek with William Shatner, & Leonard Nimoy. Myself I like Andy Griffith, Green Acres, & Petticoat Junction just to name a few.

Gilligan’s Island

Lost in Space

Bonanza
(1959 – 73)

I’m not sure how to spell it but

Dobie Gillias…..

that was a funny show gilligan stoned all the time lol 😮

ROUTE 66, STARING MARTIN MILNER? AND GEORGE MAHARIS AND THERE’S ALSO THE MOTORCYCLE COPS, “CHIPS” STARRING MARTIN MILNER? AND ERIC ESTRADA, hmmmm, seems like i just remember the dark haired men.

The Bob Newhart Show:D

Starsky and Hutch

Here’s some from yrs ago. Red Skelton, Jack Benny, & Ed Sullivan

Hill Street Blues
(not as old as some, I believe it started in 81 but I really enjoyed it)

I Dream Of Jeanie

Here’s an oldie, I think it goes back to my childhood. It’s HOWDY DOODY time with Buffalo Bob Smith.

Mr. Ed, the horse of course!:D

SHANE – Please tell me someone remembers Shane …. ” Shane, shane, I love you Shane” (with David Carradine)

No clue, and we are the same age!

how about Brady Bunch

Ali,
I remember SHANE, but I’m older then you and I remember Alan Ladd playing the part.

The Carol Burnett Show

[B]MAUDE[/B]

FYI
Television in South Africa was only introduced in 1976, and then it was only 1 channel for a couple of hours a night,….. it did increase overtime though. The only available shows except the news were American shows as the British had sanctions against South Africa because of Apartheid.

Dr. Ben Casey ~ I had a blouse fashioned like his work jacket ~ yumm
Dr. Kildare ~ so cute!

How about The Mickey Mouse Club? Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me?
M I C K E Y M O U S E . . .

I Love Lucy!

Don’t forget I LOVE LUCY, the re-runs are still being shown

And there’s the sullen doctor BEN CASEY. I think he was a neurosurgeon.

Well, if we are on to cartoons, Tom and Jerry, my favorite, or the Flinstones.

How about Happy Days & Laverne & Shirley?:cool:

Mork and Mindy

Fireman Dave: Do you remember this one Rescue 8 or The Millionaire, I also remember one called Panic Premiered: March 5, 1957 Last Aired: September 7, 1958

Six Million Dollar Man, or Bionic Woman

SUGARFOOT with Will Hutchins

The Flying Nun.:)

Dave, That Banana Split picture is just plain scary!:eek:

Bewitched

I loved the flying nun….if only flying were that easy! I think I could do that as driving is still to scary!

I remember the banana split show too…that was when Sat morning TV started to go down…..

Gun smoke or rawhide

adams family or brady bunch:rolleyes:

oh yeah and we cant forget those beverly hibillies

magnum pi ( ss if my list is one sided But we did not get more than two channels in our house until after i graduated 1987 high school and I bought the new satelite system for my parents ) otherwise I think they would still only have two channels. Brady Bunch

My favorite:
All in the Family

Did anyone say I LOVE LUCY yet? Re-runs are still being shown.

mork and mindy

Tim Conway Show:D

Hong Kong Fuey-the man. and the dog(cartoon):D

Speaking of Tim Conway McHales Navy

Hogan’s Heros.

How about a really old one like me:
Sky King

The Flying Nun, or Family Affair with Buffy, Jodi, and Mr. French

The Six Million Dollar Man

Green Acres

That Bill Bixby show with the chineese cleaning lady that called Bill Bixby MR. Eddies father.

How about Mr. Ed the talking horse?

HAPPY DAYS with Ron Howard (Richie) and Henry Winkler (the Fonz).

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Well, you can’t have the Fonz without Lavergne and Shirley

The Carol Burnett Show 😀 😀 😀

Rin Tin Tin

THE ODD COUPLE with Felix and Oscar

Lassie and I Dream of Jeanie (Sorry no pictures!!!!)

MY THREE SON’S, with Steve the dad, Uncle Charley, Mike, Robbie and Ernie.

The Love Boat…
When I was little I wanted to be Julie, the cruise director…and Gopher was the cute one.

eeeek. 😮

One Of My Favorite Tv Shows Was “touched By An Angel” With Monica, Tess And Andrew.

How about Perry Mason.

The best for me is “Touched by an Angel”

The courtship of Eddie’s father…wonder what ever happened to Eddie

Waltons Mountain

Gilligans Island

Laugh In I’m not sure if thats the way it was spelled but it had Flip Wilson, the guy who rode the tricycle, the operator “one ringie dingie, two ringie dingie……” I’m not good at names as you can see! 😮

[B]Life of Riley [/B]

Cast:
Jackie Gleason …………… Chester A. Riley
Rosemary DeCamp ………….. Peg Riley
Lanny Rees ………………. Junior Riley
Gloria Winters …………… Babs Riley
Sid Tomack ………………. Jim Gillis
Maxine Semon …………….. Honeybee Gillis
John Brown ………………. Digby “Digger” O’Dell
Bill Green ………………. Carl Stephenson
Bob Jellison …………….. Waldo Binny
George McDonald ………….. Egbert Gillis

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

A spy show when people still had hope for the United Nations.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Star Trek under water.

Flipper – show about a dolphin

MASH. It is still one of my favorite all time shows although I have probably seen every episode at least twice.

I also looked up Northern Exposure because I really liked that show, but it came after 1982–quite a ways after.

WithHope

The Wild Wild West!

Atom Ant–cartoon

captain kangaroo
casper the friendly ghost
jack lalaine
fantasy island

The Ed Wynn TV show was a variety comedy series starring the delightful and foolishly funny legend of comedy … Ed Wynn. Its popularity drew a seemingly never-ending list of famous guest stars willing to get ridiculous by participating in Ed’s skits.

Broadcast History:

October-December of 1949: Thursday nights on CBS from 9:00 to 9:30 PM
January-March of 1950: Saturday nights on CBS from 9:00 to 9:30 PM
April-July of 1950: Tuesday nights on CBS from 9:00 to 9:30 PM

The Dinah Shore Show
The Liberace Show
The Don Ho Show
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson–And Hereeeee’s Johnny
The Gene Autry Show
Masterpiece Theatre

The Art Linkletter show-kids say the darndest things.

Mighty Mouse — Not Mickey Mouse

The Morey Amsterdam Show was a comedy/variety series with two slightly different settings. From December 17, 1948 to March 7, 1949, Morey Amsterdam was the emcee at a nightclub located in Times Square on the CBS network. In April of 1949, the series moved to the Dumont network and the setting shifted to another nightclub. Throughout, Morey told jokes, introduced guest acts, and played his cello until the series ended on October 12, 1950!

The Lorence Welk show and the Lennon Sisters

Bozo the clown

The Texaco Star Theater was a variety, comedy series in the grand old tradition of vaudeville as were many of television’s earliest programs. The show was on the air from its first episode on June 8, 1948 until its last show on January 6, 1967. The first year, Milton Berle was only one of several rotating hosts on the Texaco Star Theater. When he took over as permanent host in the second year, the show became so popular that sales of television sets went through the roof! In most cases, these sets were the first ones a family owned so, in a way, Milton Berle was largely responsible for taking television from a “futuristic toy” to a common household item! But even more importantly, the huge number of TV sales convinced the worst “naysayers” of the time that television was the future in entertainment and not just a passing fad. Movie actors, producers, directors, etc. began to realise that television was here to stay.

Cast Members:

Milton Berle ……… Host
Jimmy Durante …….. Host
Milton Frome ……… Regular (1953-1955)
Fatso Marco ………. Regular (1948-1952)
Bobby Sherwood ……. Regular (1952-1953)
Arnold Stang ……… Regular (1953-1955)
Ruth Gilbert ……… Regular
David Winters …….. Jimmy
Dagmar …………… Nurse

Ok, so for those of us who are a little bit younger than others. (I mean those that weren’t born until after the “classics”) Here’s a list of “others” for us.

Full House
Saved by the Bell
Rescue Rangers
Small Wonder

Just to name a few.

Scooby Doo!

The Tenspeed and Brown Shoe TV show was a crime drama series about an accountant who dreamt of becoming a private eye like his paperback idol, “Mark Savage”. He teamed up with a con-man and “master of disguise” to form a detective agency. Ten Speed and Brown Shoe often became more like a comedy than a drama when the con-man had to deal with the accountants bumbling detective methods.

Cast Members:
Jeff Goldblum ……….. Lionel “Brownshoe” Whitney
Ben Vereen ………….. E.L. “Tenspeed” Turner

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

1 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe – Part 1 (1/27/1980)
2 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe – Part 2 (1/27/1980)
3 Robin Tucker’s Roseland Roof and Ballroom Murders (2/3/1980)
4 Savage Says: There’s No Free Lunch (2/10/1980)
5 Savage Says: What Are Friend’s For? (2/17/1980)
6 The Sixteen Byte Data Chip and the Brown-eyed Fox (?/?/1980)
7 The Millionaire’s Life (3/16/1980)
8 Savage Says: The Most Dangerous Bird is the Jailbird (3/23/1980)
9 It’s Easier to Pass an Elephant Through the Eye of a Needle Than a Bad Check in Bel Air (5/23/1980)
Loose Larry’s List of Losers (5/30/1980)
10 This One’s Gonna Kill Ya (6/6/1980)
11 Untitled (6/13/1980)
12 The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street (6/20/1980)
13 Diamonds Aren’t Forever (6/27/1980)

Ponderosa
Dr. Kildare
Ben Casey

The Sentinel TV show was a 60 minute fantasy series on UPN (later becoming the CW Network).

Sentinel Cast Members:
Richard Burgi ………….. James Ellison
Garett Maggart …………. Blair Sandburg
Anna Galvin ……………. Megan Connor
Bruce A. Young …………. Simon Banks
Kelly Curtis …………… Carolyn Plummer

Anyone remember Under Dog the cartoon?

Dark Shadows with Barnabas Collins!

My mom was addicted to that show! We would come home from school and could not wait to see what happened next! A good spooky soap opera. We all cried when they did away with that show!

The Burns and Allen Show
I Married Joan
My Little Margie
All in glorias black and white.

The Wizard of Oz

All Creatures Great and Small was a comedy, drama series about the Veterinarians who worked in a small town veterinary office in 1940’s Yorkshire, England.

Cast Members:

Christopher Timothy ………. James Herriot
Robert Hardy …………….. Siegfried Farnon
Peter Davison ……………. Tristan Farnon
James Grout ……………… Granville Bennett
Pamela Salem …………….. Zoe Bennett
Carol Drinkwater …………. Helen Herriot Née Alderson
Margaretta Scott …………. Mrs. Pumphrey
Teddy Turner …………….. Hodgekin

I Love Lucy

Rem Wall and the Jamoree – my grandma watched it every Sunday without fail

The Grouco Marz show

Mattlock is a great show. Did you know Andy had GBS!

HOPALONG CASSIDY
RIN-TIN-TIN

(yes I knew about Andy Griffith – While still in the hospital A nurse told me about him having GBS actually before he began doing the Matlock show. So I would turn it on and feel very encouraged)

The 12 O’Clock High TV show was a 60 minute action series on ABC about the lives Of the men with the Eighth Air Force stationed in eastern England from 1942 to the end of World War II. Their mission was to perform daytime bombing mission over Western Europe, specifically both Germany and territories occupied by German troops.

12 O’Clock High Cast Members:

Frank Overton ………… Major Harvey Stovall
Robert Lansing ……….. Brigadier General Frank Savage (1964-1965)
John Larkin ………….. Major General Wiley Crowe (1964-1965)
Chris Robinson ……….. Technical Sergeant Alexander “Sandy” Komansky (1965-1967)
Paul Burke …………… Colonel Joseph Anson Gallagher
Andrew Duggan ………… Brigadier General Ed Britt (1965-1967)
Chris Robinson ……….. Technical Sergeant Alexander “Sandy” Komansky (1965-1967)
Robert Dornan ………… Captain Fowler (1965-1967)

How about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Wonderful show.

The Loretta Young Show

Howdy Doodey

The You Bet Your Life TV show was actually two programs in one. First, Groucho Marx would “interview” two contestants by asking them questions about their lives. Groucho was truly a master at finding a joke somewhere in just about every answer they gave. After the “joking around” portion of the program, the quiz show would begin. The contestants could win money by correctly answering trivia questions. This process would continue with more pairs of contestants and the pair that won the most money would get a bonus round.

Cast Members:

Groucho Marx …….. Host
George Fenneman ….. Announcer
Marilyn Burtis …… Secret Word Girl

Trivia:

You Bet Your Life aired on TV from October of 1950 to September of 1961.

The original idea for You Bet Your Life came from some appearances Groucho Marx made on the radio with Bob Hope. Then came the You Bet Your Life radio show that aired from October 5, 1949 through April 28, 1954, coinciding with the TV series for its final 4 years!

Author William Peter Blatty won $10,000 on the show and said he would use the money to take time off of work to write a novel. The novel he wrote turned out to be “The Exorcist”.

After his death, Groucho’s children found a letter where he (jokingly) stated that he wanted to be buried on top of Marilyn Monroe! His death got very little attention because he died only three days after the death of Elvis Presley.

In the final season, the series’ title was changed from “You Bet Your Life” to “The Groucho Show”. The only other change was that the Duck was not always used to bring down the secret word. It might be a pretty girl and one time it was even Groucho’s brother Harpo.

There were two rather unsuccessful attempts to revive the show. Buddy Hackett hosted a syndicated version in 1980 and Bill Cosby tried in in the early 1990s.

During the summer months, reruns of You Bet Your Life were shown and they were called “The Best of Groucho”.

How about the Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom?

I am starting to run out of shows as we only got 2 channels when I was a kid and only one really came in without “snow” ! 😮

The Red Skeleton Show!
Carol Burnette Show!

The Millionaire

Hogan’s Heroes

The Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet TV show was a 30 minute family comedy series on ABC about the life adventures of Ozzie & Harriet Nelson and their sons Ricky & David. While there were scripts written to give some order to the filming, what audiences saw was pretty much the real lives of the Nelson Family. Due to the length of the series (14 years on the air), the Nelson boys were seen “growing up” on national television!

Ozzie and Harriet Cast:

Ozzie Nelson …………………. Ozzie Nelson
Harriet Nelson ……………….. Harriet Nelson
David Nelson …………………. David Nelson
Eric “Ricky” Nelson …………… Eric “Ricky” Nelson
Don DeFore …………………… “Thorny” Thornberry
Parley Baer ………………….. Darby
Lyle Talbot ………………….. Joe Randolph
Mary Jane Croft ………………. Clara Randolph
Frank Cady …………………… Doc Williams
Skip Young …………………… Wally
Gordon Jones …………………. Butch Barton
June Blair …………………… June “Mrs. David” Nelson
Kristin Harmon ……………….. Kris “Mrs. Rick” Nelson
Joe Flynn ……………………. Mr. Kelley
Constance Harper ……………… Connie Edwards
Ivan Bonar …………………… Dean Hopkins
James Stacy ………………….. Fred
Jack Wagner ………………….. Jack
Charlene Salerno ……………… Ginger
Sean Morgan ………………….. Sean
Greg Dawson ………………….. Greg

Ed Sulivan Show

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.; The Magic Boomerang, The Forest Rangers, Razzle Dazzle, Diver Dan, Great Movies, Walt Disney Hour, Mr. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, Chez Helene, Reach for the Top, Dr. Who, The Ed Sullivan Show, George, Take 30, Remington Steele, The Avengers.

The Name of the Game, National Velvet, Lassie, The Rebel, Route 66, 77 Sunset Strip, Juliette, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, Family Court, Tugboat Annie, Tarzan, Bomba-the Jungle Boy, Wojeck, Flip Wilson, Perry Como, Jack Benny, The Partridge Family, The old Bill Cosby Show, Julia, The Nature of Things, Welcome Back-Kotter, Peter Gunn, Maverick, The Waterville Gang, Maggie Muggins, The Tommy Hunter Show, Wayne and Shuster, Hawaii 5-0, Perry Mason, Zane Grey Theater, Red Skelton, The Saint, All in the Family, Maude, Zorro, Hazel, Roy Rogers, All in the Family, the westerns with Gene Autry or Audie Murphy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The Facts of Life, or is that too modern?

Wow DU you know your TV! :p The only one I can add is Speed Racer. It was a cartoon

Actually, the more tv shows I remember, the more I realize (uncomfortably)that I watched a lot of tv down through the years. But then, I was also very busy with schoolwork, home chores, hobbies, gardening, a part-time job as a teen, lots of volunteer work, lots of outdoor sports activities, later raising a family. Still, I don’t feel I watched too much tv then. And I watch almost none now. It’s just that I REMEMBER what I watch.

This topic is actually quite therapeutic. GBS affected my memory badly, but stuff is coming back to me now. There are still a lot of things that are just “out of reach”, but the brain network is still working away, and I hope to get them back someday. Anything to do with numbers, or comprehension of directions still beats me. I just can’t remember figures or cope with directive details. I need to reload my computer, but am scared I won’t know how to do it, though I’ve written out some of the instructions.

More tv shows: Profile and Top of the Morning (for those of you on the Canadian prairies); also, David and Goliath (I loved that one).
–Donna

PS: My sister and I sang on Profile once in our early teens.

The Jackie Gleason Show

To Tell the Truth, Front Page Challenge, Yogi Bear, This Hour Has 7 Days, Mork and Mindy, Robin Hood, Thierry la Fronde, Lost in Space

I’ll give you a hint: the one with the father who had three boys
If you post it, I’ll be back with another list. Dare you!

–Donna

My Three Sons

Laurel & Hardy

The Three Stooges, Rin Tin Tin, Gomer Pyle, Movie Matinee, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Mod Squad, Charlie’s Angels, It is Written, Hymn Sing, The Real McCoy, Patty Duke, Marcus Welby MD, Quentin Durgess MP, Father Knows Best, Country Canada, Take Kerr, Long John Silver, Sesame Street, The Seaway, Hey Landlord, Diff’rent Strokes, Ozzie and Harriet, The Jeffersons (if not already mentioned), 60 Minutes

–Donna

Get Smart, Country Hoedown, Lotsa Luck, Carol Burnett (if not already mentioned), and My Favourite Martian

The Twilight Zone…. What a great Show.

The Muppet Show

–Donna

Little House on the Prarie

Dennis the Menace

–Donna

PS: I have more, but I’m saving them for other challengers.

Sugarfoot, Wagon Train, Adventures of Jim Bowie, Real Mccoys

The Monkeys

I go back a longer time with my HERO, Flash Gordon, staring Buster Crabbe.
And I remember Mr. Giggles, a kid show, he played the piano and sang. Another one of my favorite childhood shows was Mr Imagination, The Man With the Magic Reputation. He’d take you on imaginary journeys. Paul Tripp had that show.

The Millionaire TV show was a drama series about an ultra-rich benefactor who has his private secretary present total strangers with $1 Million tax free! The lucky recipients were not allowed to tell anyone (except their spouse) how they got the money, how much they got or from where it came. If they violated that oath, they would have to return the money. It was exciting to see how the instant wealth changed the person’s life.

Cast Members:

Marvin Miller ……. Michael Anthony
Paul Frees ………. John Beresford Tipton (Voice)

Trivia:

It’s important to remember that in the mid-1950s, one million dollars was an absolutely huge sum of money. Those were the days of penny candy and nickel sodas. It was the equivalent of someone winning a mega-lottery today!

Marvin Mueller became very identified with his role as Michael Anthony, the fellow you wanted to see when you opened your door! For a while, instead of giving autographs to his fans, he would present them with a check made out for “One Million Dollars Worth Of Luck”! Marvin also won Grammys in 1965 and 1966 for his recitations of Dr. Seuss stories.

The face of the ultra-rich benefactor, “John Beresford Tipton” was never seen during the entire series! Each episode began with Mr. Tipton sitting in the den of his mansion handling pieces of a chess set. He would call for Michael Anthony and hand him the name of that week’s lucky new millionaire! All the audience ever saw of Tipton was the back of his head or his hand as he passed the name to Anthony.

Paul Frees made a career out of his voice. Prior to doing the voice of multi-millionaire “John Beresford Tipton” on “The Millionaire”, he did many popular radio programs including, “The Green Lama (1949)” and the “Escape Radio Show (1947-1954)”. Many years later, he would even participate in one of the few attempts to bring drama back to radio as the narrator for “Bradbury 13”. Some of his other more well-known voices included Boris Badenov on the cartoon series, “Rocky, Bullwinkle, & Friends”, Inspector Fenwick on “Dudley Do-Right” and Ludwig Von Drake, the professor duck from Walt Disney Productions. He could vary his voice so widely that he even once starred in a show titled, “The Speaker” where he played ALL the parts. He also did re-dubs for actors that either had foreign accents or when they “flubbed” a line.

Coronation Street, Columbo, The Flintstones, Batman, My Favourite Martian, Green Acres, The National, The Irish Rovers, The Young Rascals, The Flying Nun, Get Smart, The Littlest Hobo, and a personal favourite “The Shirley Temple Movies”

–Donna

Nanny (the old one), Dean Martin, Market Place, The Untamed World, Cannon, Time Machine, Lost in Space

–Donna

Any replies, eh?

Life of Riley, Sgt. Bilko

Life of Riley and Sgt. Bilko that has been a long time ago. What a walk down memory lane.

The Whiteoaks of Jalna

–Donna

Another oldie that I remenber well is Amos and Andy.

The 21 Beacon Street TV show was a 30 minute detective drama series on NBC about a private investigator who tackled the toughest cases that the police department hadn’t been able to solve using the most up-to-date technologies and gadgets. He got help from a law student, a master of disguise, and from his secretary.

21 Beacon Street Cast Members:

Dennis Morgan …………….. Dennis Chase
Joanna Barnes …………….. Lola
Brian Kelly ………………. Brian
James Maloney …………….. Jim

21 Beacon Street Trivia:

21 Beacon Street was a summer replacement series for The Ford Show on NBC during the summer of 1959.

The series obviously took place in a large city but the city’s name was never mentioned!

21 Beacon Street was the address of detective Dennis Chase’s office.

Dennis Chase was different from most TV detectives. He simply determined who the bad guy was and then sent the cops out to pick him up. He never actually pursued a criminal himself.

In a rare move, every episode of 21 Beacon Street was rerun on ABC in the second half of the 1959/1960 season!

Due to its use of 1950s “high tech” gadgetry and an expert in disguise, 21 Beacon Street is often referred to as a forerunner of the series, “Mission Impossible”.

Episodes List With Original Air Dates
The First And Only Season

The Rub Out (7/2/1959)
Safety Deposit (7/9/1959)
The Payoff (7/16/1959)
Double Vision (7/23/1959)
The Swindle (7/30/1959)
The Execution (8/6/1959)
The Break-In (8/13/1959)
The Trojan Horse (8/20/1959)
The Hostage (8/27/1959)
The Trap (9/3/1959)

Payton Place

–Donna

PS: I wasn’t allowed to watch this one.

The Friendly Giant ~ it was a 15 minute children’s program in Canada. My younger sis would cry when it was over and we had to leave the castle till the next day 🙁

SEA HUNT
Gee – I always wanted to go scuba diving in the ocean.

Blondie and Dagwood. (I loved the name of their baby: Baby Dumpling)

–Donna

What interesting memories are jogged loose with these old TV show.

Sky King was one of the best but then I didn’t have that many to choose.

I Dream of Jeanie!

The Rovers—I still remember that beauty contest!

–Donna

As far as I can determine The Rovers was a britsh show? Tell us more about this one.

“H.R. PufNStuf” by Syd and Marty Kroft. I remember the witch on the show sang a song “Oranges Poranges – who says there ain’t no rhyme for oranges?”

Remember when TV shows advertised “Broadcast in living color”?

And how about “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color?” I was amazed to see it in color when we got our first color set.

Gary

Dick van Dyke , the old black-and-white one with Laura, his “wife”.

–Donna

The Orginal Star Trek was great then. However the new version have much better special effects. Thinking back all those old Sci-Fi shows did not have special effects that could make with todays Sci-Fi shows.

The Our Miss Brooks TV show, like many other comedy series of the day, began on the radio in 1948. It was a comedy about a wise-cracking, spinster English teacher at Madison High School who yearns for love with Philip Boynton, a Biology teacher. She also had lots of trouble with the Principal. She was generally depressed about her lot in life and yet she joked about it in ways that kept the audience laughing throughout each episode. In the fourth season, the high school got torn down to make way for a highway project. Miss Brooks started teaching at a nearby private school and most of the cast from the first three seasons continue to appear. One new cast member (Gene Barry) adds a new element as Miss Brooks new love interest. The difference is … this time the guy isn’t shy and pursues her!

Cast Members:

Eve Arden ……………. Connie Brooks
Richard Crenna ……….. Walter Denton
Gale Gordon ………….. Osgood Conklin
Robert Rockwell ………. Philip Boynton
Leonard Smith ………… Stretch Snodgrass
Jane Morgan ………….. Mrs. Margaret Davis
Gloria McMillan ………. Harriet Conklin
Mary Jane Croft ………. Miss Daisy Enright
Virginia Gordon ………. Mrs. Martha Conklin #1
Paula Winslowe ……….. Mrs. Martha Conklin #2
Nana Bryant ………….. Mrs. Angela Nestor #1
Jesslyn Fax ………….. Mrs Angela Nestor #2
Joseph Kearns ………… Superintendent Stone

Trivia:

The antics of Connie Brooks began on the Our Miss Brooks radio show with its first audition show on April 9, 1948. That program ran for approximately 375 episodes over 10 years! In fact, it aired alongside the TV series for its entire run and the radio show even continued for another year thereafter! There was also an Our Miss Brooks stage play in 1950 and a movie in 1955.

In the 1955 movie, Miss Brooks finally got her proposal from Mr. Boynton and married him!

Miss Brooks had a cat named, “Minerva”.

Eve Arden’s real name was Eunice Quedens. Deciding that she needed a stage name, she chose it while shopping for cosmetics and spotting the names “Evening in Paris” and “Elizabeth Arden”. She was so accepted in her role as Connie Brooks that she was often asked to speak at PTA and other educational meetings. Dozens of High Schools even tried to hire her as a teacher! After this series ended, she starred in another very briefly called, “The Eve Arden Show (1957)”. After that, other than guest spots, we didn’t see much of Eve until 1967 when she appeared on the series, “The Mothers-In-Law” starring Kay Ballard for 2 years. She made a couple of TV movies after that and appeared in her unforgettable role as Principal McGee in the 1978 movie, “Grease”. Eve passed away November 12, 1990 from a heart attack at 82 years of age.

Connie Brooks rented a room from an old lady (Margaret Davis) and rode to school each day with Walter Denton.

Gale Gordon got his break as “Mayor Latrivia” on the radio in the “Fibber McGee & Molly Show (1935)” which was on the air for 24 years till 1959! He also appeared on several Lucille Ball programs including the My Favorite Husband radio show. He played a bank president on both that program and also later on “The Lucille Ball Show (1962)”. He passed away June 30, 1995 from lung cancer at age 89.

Richard Crenna’s crackly teenaged voice on Our Miss Brooks was good acting. In real life, his voice, even when young himself, was actually deep and adult-sounding. Prior to playing Walter Denton on “Our Miss Brooks”, he had a similar role on the radio program, “A Date With Judy (1946). When “Our Miss Brooks was cancelled, he got the role of Luke on the series, “The Real McCoys”. He appeared in more than 70 movies. As a tribute to his days on “Our Miss Brooks”, he appeared in the movie, “Hot Shots: Part Deux” as “Colonel Denton Waltors”. Richard passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 17, 2003 at the age of 76.

Robert Rockwell was so identified as the “apple of Miss Brooks’ eye” that he had difficulty finding other major roles. He did manage to appear on more than 350 television programs spanning a fifty year career, however.

Joseph Kearns was probably best known for his role as “Mr. Wilson” on the series, “Dennis the Menace”. He started as a theatrical organist, playing music to accompany silent films. He then moved on to play the organ for radio program’s background music. He loved the organ so much that he built a home around one. He is also remembered as “The Man in Black”, the narrator on the radio program, “Suspense (1942)”.

An all time great for me!
Before the Twilight Zone (1958)
Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone and has even been adapted as one of the The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.