Posted on 02/21/2008 4:36:29 PM PST by Bender2
What are your favorite TV variety and situation comedy series from 1948-1960? I am old enough to remember most of them!
We got our first TV in 1948. I lived in the NY metropolitan area, (north Joisey) and we could see the TV antennae on the Empire State bldg. Sid Caesar, Amos and Andy and of course Captain Midnight, Captain Video and Tom Corbett Space Cadets. Those made me the space geek that I am today.
Then there was Superman and Howdy Doody! Wowser
Duffy’s Tavern
Slowly, bit by bit they leak out of my memory.
"Norton... come down here...I want to show you something."
"I've been watching you, and I know you've been watching me....."
Tom Corbett Space Cadets. I never knew there was a TV show on that. I just read from that character/story line I don’t know how many cheap novels from the library. It was a major competitor of Tom Swift stories.
A classic!
Still funny/relevant today, IMHO.
Mrs. F is a self-styled ILL Expert. No bit of trivia too small.
Fred Mertz is The Man.
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Rusty, stop kicking my backside... or I'll replace you like I did your first mother!
BTW Sherry Jackson... WHOA... MOMA!
"The Twilight Zone" (1959-64)
You do realize... that Christina Ricci is playing your part in the 2009 movie!
"Car 54, Where Are You?" (1961-1963)
Will you stop putting your hand there... People will think we are a gay couple!
"You Bet Your Life" (1950-1961)
George, the secret word tonight is Hitler... So stop wisecracking in German!
Thanks for the info.
Glad we both survived.
Here are some more obscure ones—My Mother The Car, I’m Dickens He’s Fenster, Fair Exchange, and Burke’s Law. Just to say their titles makes them real again and brings back sooo many memories....
And the Gail Storm Show!
And Ann Southern!
They were excellent.
There was a great Saturday night line-up—Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Gunsmoke. Then there were the week night westerns—The Rifleman, which followed the Gary Moore Show with Durwood Kirby, Carol Burnett, and Marion Lord.
Lay off the Kingfish... He found a bottle of Viagra. He found it in Sapphire's handbag!
BTW I tell ya, Bogie! No one... no one puts a drink on my bar bill!
Remember December Bride? It was the first show I ever saw Harry Morgan in.
What... a band leader!
And that Edie chick he married... she was a real bocat in bed!
No, but do you remember Morgan in Pete and Gladys? BTW, do you know where you can get some of these less well-known shows on DVD?
LOL. I loved Gale Storm.
I’m glad to have been a kid back in the day! Lots of good shows back then...not so many now it seems.
I always liked George Burns and Gracie Allen too.
I find some of the old shows on DVD very cheap at Walmart, etc. but it's kind of catch as catch can. Picked up some old Ozzie and Harriet shows, and nothing ever happened on that show.
Was not a fan of "Lost in Space" (1965-1968)... Didn't even like the robot!
Danger, Will Robinson, my ass... Will, let Doc Smith put that ugly sumbitch out of his misery!
I've done some googling and there was a first pilot never aired, but it did not say anything about Billy Mumy not being in it. One reviewer mentions Billy Mumy, so I have no idea who that little redheaded sucker is in no more apples' picture--
But he sure don't look... like Billy Mumy to me either!
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