Posted on 09/26/2012 8:17:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When I was little, best thing about being home sick was watching the morning reruns on tv. Also “Ellie Mae” used to pull into my school,s parking lot in a big convertible to pick up her step daughter. Which I thought was very cool.
Had a lot of minor stars in my town. The “Calamity Jane” type character from F-Troop was about 5 doors down. Back then they filmed all over the place. 12 O’Clock High was done mostly at our airport, IIRC.
It’s fun. Right now I am living in “Miami” as they film Dexter here. Funny to see, in LA, police cars saying Miami Dade on them! (They can’t drive them outside of filming; they have to flatbed them back to the studio.).
I wonder how many folks here know about the “Rural Purge”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge
Basically around 1970 all the “rural” shows got the ax by CBS.
In many ways it was (at least one of) the opening shots of the culture wars, the effects are with us to this day.
The basic idea was to replace the Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle, Mayberry RFD, Petticoat junction with Mary Tyler Moore and All in the Family.
The reason was that the “rural” shows were no longer “relevant” to “younger” and “urban” viewers.
I remember watching a MLB All-Stars/Celebrities softball game on TV in 1967. Mantle, Mays, Killebrew, Clemente, Drysdale, McCovey, and others versus Max Baer Jr., Peter Falk, Woody Allen, Larry Storch, and others.
The game was played in Dodger Stadium.
Baer crushed a softball over the fence in left center field. It was . . . impressive.
LOL!
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