Posted on 10/16/2010 7:57:12 PM PDT by DemforBush
I was thinking that maybe you were remembering Tom Corbett,Space Cadet from 50 to 55 but you said it only lasted a summer. Whirlybirds was a syndicated show from 57 to 60. That show and the one you’re trying to remember could both have been for a specific market and not on the networks. Was this a Saturday morning/afternoon event? I can tell you it’s not Richard Basehart you’re looking for, but there’s precious little information with which to work.
I remember the graphics from Suspense Theater and Gene Barry’s thing with the cigarette. Also Checkmate. None of the others. Funny, but my brain pulled up the name Coronet Blue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvof8Hvm3B0&feature=related I must have watched it because he was a hottie - lol.
Anybody remember the westerns- wagon train, gun smoke, paladin, Have gun will travel, Maverick, Bonanza, The Virginian, Rawhide?
My favorite really early series was Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel.
Honey West also has a pet Ocelot named Bruce and drove a black Jaguar XKE convertible.
Always thought that Robert Loggia was way too cool as THE Cat.
Amos Burke, Secret Agent was a miserably failed attempt to keep the Burke’s Law franchise alive.
Vaguely remember John Cassavettes as Johnny Stacatto. Same with Robert Lansing, et al in 87th Precinct. The more serious flip-side of Reinhold Weege’s later Barney Miller.
Don’t remember The Baron, though I did enjoy Checkmate.
Really miss David Susskind’s N.Y.P.D. with Jack Warden, Robert Hooks and a very young Frank Converse.
Peter Gunn was just untouchable with its Henry Mancici theme and scoring!
Jack.
Supertrain - writing and acting just doesn’t get any better ;o)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlsuuVXrSM&NR=1
supertrain - express to terror (episode one)
Nice, um, wheels.
ALL of them and another. Stagecoach was the syndicated show that I was trying to remember.
FWIW Bonanza still ahs a HUGE following. BonanzaBrand is a fan website I belong to. Some pretty interesing stuff HERE.
Bonanza's creator - David Dortort - passed earlier this year as did the last of the Cartwrights - Pernell Roberts.
Then there's Gunsmoke. A friend of mine and I watched that so many times we knew the dialoge. When we were at The Local Watering HOle we'd sometiems act out a scene from one of our fav episodes. It's the one where Bruce Dern is holding Miss Kitty=, Doc, Louie and a few others hostage at the Long Branch. Louie - the town drunk - is haveing booze withdrawl and Dern forces him to get in a corner, crawl across the floor and beg for a drink. Louie does it but after he gets the booze he reaches indside himself and puts it back. A slap in the face to the outlaw.
Sounds like you’re referring to “Men into Space,” a one-season show produced by Ziv. But it starred not Basehart, but William Lundigan (who really does resemble Basehart now that I think about it). The series was done in a fairly serious manner, showing the progress in space travel and eventually setting up a post on the moon. Heavy emphasis on science, not melodrama. Nice little series, actually, although probably too dry for modern tastes.
I remember her ocelot but had forgotten it’s name. Which is odd when you consider what my name is!
That was IT! I’ve been trying to recall that show for decades. LOL! THANKS!
I recall Bert Reynolds in Hawk, but not much else in the video. A bit later was;
I did a little searching, and the premise behind “Hawk” apparently was about full-blooded Iroquois lawman (Burt Reynolds) coming to the big city (NYC) to works as a detective.
Sounds a bit like the premise for the 70’s show McCloud, with Dennis Weaver, to me.
The thing I always found most interesting about Lost in Space was the transformation of Dr. Smith from ruthless Soviet agent in the pilot to hilarious rascal in the later eps of the series. Jonathan Harris was a hoot!
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Nat King Cole did a great song called “Get Your Kicks On Route 66” -
Yeah the ‘58 ‘Vette was the first of the quad headlight Corvettes - It had simulated hood louvers (left of on the ‘59 Corvettes) - Zora Arkus Duntov - the head Corvette Engineer - want actual hood louvers on the hoods to prevent front end lifting at speed, add downforce when cornering, and add mucho needed engine cooling (the factory Corvettes tended to overheat at LeMans - the quick pitcrew cure was to pack ice around the fuel injection plenum and intake manifold runners) - Duntov himself had a personal ‘58 Corvette which he kept and constantly used testbed for engine, suspension, braking, and handling modifications and inovations -
Unlike the Jaguar, Austin-Healey, Triumph TR2, MGA, and Sunbeam Alpines - the Corvette did not have factory (or even racing) front disc brakes -
I believe a ‘59 Corvette SS (”alleged” non-factory racecar) turned a zippy lap at Daytona Speedway of 180-190 miles per hour - again - still with drum (finned aluminum) brakes all around -
Tom Selleck’s car in “Magnum PI” was a (RED of course) Ferrari 308 GTS Spider (removable top section ahead of the Targa-style rollbar - as a hardtop they were called a GTB) - The car in “Goldeneye” that James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) played tag with in his vintage silver-birch highly tuned Aston Martin DB5 was a (RED of course) Ferrari 355 GTS Spider - in 1/24 hard to find (1/18 is easy to locate) - (RED of course) Ferrari 348 GTS Spider can be found - that whole series of cars started with the 246 Dino FIAT (not actually a Ferrari branded car) - the Ferrari engine size is now up to 599 and climbing -
The Ferrari model number refers to the displacement of one (1) cylinder - so a Ferrari V-12 or V-8 engine (or V-6) can be misleading if you attempt to ID the engine displace by the factory model number:
6 x 246 = 1.5 liters
8 x 599 = 4.8 liters
12 x 308 = 3.7 liters
I have not been up to Luigi Chenniti’s modest showroom/shop recently - Quite a trip to see the Ferrari 250LM (LeMans winning) on the showroom floor - great parts inventory too - I use 250LM front springs to fix an early De Tomaso “Pantera” (Ford Cleveland 351C mid-engine) and cure the bad terminal oversteer problemos encountered especially in rain, snow, ice, or rushing home on narrow country roads to a North Greenwich “cottage” from the RR parking lot
Burt Reynolds in “Hawk”?
Hmmmm - Dunno -
As Hillary said (150 plus times before a Grand Jury) “I do not recall.....”
I have been recording old “LAWMAN” shows on my DVR.
The theme for “T.H.E. Cat” was by Lalo Schifrin, who that same season contributed his memorable one for “Mission: Impossible.” His first TV theme belonged to the prior spring’s “Blue Light,” another good “forgotten” show starring Robert Goulet as a double agent in Nazi Germany. It was part of ABC’s “second season,” along with “The Baron” and “Batman.” The only portion of “Blue Light” that’s appeared on home video is “I Deal In Danger,” which is the feature comprised of the opening episodes’ story arc.
“Checkmate” is another good one, and the series has just been (or is about to be) released in its entirety on DVD.
“Suspense Theatre” (originally “Kraft Suspense Theatre”) spun off the Ben Gazzara series “Run For Your Life.”
Another memorable, yet “forgotten,” show is “The Smothers Brothers Show,” CBS’ answer to ABC’s “Bewitched” and NBC’s “I Dream of Jeannie” in the supernatural sitcom genre, in which Tommy played a probationary angel. Aaron Spelling was one of the show’s creators. It was such a tortuous experience for Tom that he will not talk about the series.
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