10 Rare/Lost tv shows of the 1960's (and their theme music)

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[DemforBush]

A neat little video of some less well-remembered shows of the 1960's.

[Dante3]

“Strike Force” with Robert Stack had great theme music. Not sure if it was 60s or 70s.

[centurion316]

Most of the offerings of 50s/60s television was just plain awful. With only three channels to choose from, you had to pick from some real dogs. Why else would Bonanza prove to be such a big hit. More telling was the instant success of Monday Night Football. What a welcome relief from the standard network drivel.

[potlatch]

Yeah, first thing I did was look up lyrics for Route 66 and saw Nat King Coles. It’s a jazzy car song [like a lot of the Beach Boy’s songs] and you do know your cars.

You should have started a Car Talk thread long ago because you’d be an expert at describing them in detail.

I looked up Reynolds in Hawk, it’s one of the ones in the video. He was very young then.

[potlatch]

Beautiful car, isn’t it? Bet you have it on your profile now, lol.

Daughter and grandaughter have been here today, Val still here.

[marsh2]

How can anyone look at the pictures of Magnum PI and think cars? He is one handsome fellow and a conservative to boot!

[devolve]

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Burt Reynolds played a blacksmith in one of his earliest TV roles -

Now those that are too young (or older and have lost their memories) will have to go GOGGLE up the show and the details.....

Bonanza came along and burst on the big color TV screens in vivid lush green pastures - men watched the macho action and women watched the macho men on the screen

As a child I myself was very young too -

[devolve]

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Yup - I had an F599 GTB coupe on my page - GOLDENEYE had an F355 GTS Spyder - but I swapped in an F348 GTS Spyder

The first Ferrari 308 GTS Spyders (as in Magnum PI) actually were made with fiberglass bodies - then later manufactured in metal -

I did some tricky ImageMagick wizardry stuff on a few photos to get the 980x735 proportion formatt (but wrong for an HDTV letterbox “Cinemascope/Todd-Ao” screen) - So many great photographs are severely cropped at top and bottom - and even at the sides - that they look like a squashed image except for the car

The Ferrari 348 GTS Spyder goes (used) for less than many (new) fully optioned plastic Ricemobiles and clones - The dumb Chevy VOLT goes for a dinky $41,000 buckeroos - to please O’Bummer and the Enviro-NUTSIES

[potlatch]

[As a child I myself was very young too -]
Aww, you're joshing, surely......!

I looked it up for you since you can't recall, lol.

GUNSMOKE - Burt Reynolds as Quint Asper (1962-65)(blacksmith)

There were lots of good series way back, in spite of what some think. But if they are used to the cussing and wildness of todays series, I guess the oldies seem tame.

Funny, I had just come back here and you had just posted! I'm heading off to bed. Night.

[potlatch]

I saw you had changed it out but couldn’t recall what you had had before that. Lots of pretty cars. Saw your ‘diamonds’ on the one.

Some of the cars look really nice cut out, but I remember painting pixel by pixel around some so they could be posted on black!! No more, my eyes are tired, lol.

I guess $41,000. can seem expensive to some people, especially now days.

[devolve]

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Yup - In his pre-Firebird Trans-Am days

Gunsmoke

They changed the great opening gunfight on mainstreet in Gunsmoke for the pansy PC idiots

Ah - That thar is Miss Kitty too!

Marshall Dillon carried a 7-1/2 barrel Colt SA like mine - except his had plastic fakeroo-stag prop-room grips as many of the Hollywood movie and TV westerns did -

His big Colt SA was up for action at an internet auction several years ago - mine is NFS

(....and don’t call me Josh!)

[goat granny]

The car Rockford drove in The Rockford Files was more realistic to what everyone was driving at that time...:O)

[devolve]

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A late 70s metallic gold-bronze Firebird Esprit “sleeper” I believe - likely with a well-tuned Trans-Am suspension and a 400ci engine with all the emission controls tossed back in a dumpster

James Garner also starred in “Grand Prix” - he was (and still is) good driver

Robert Wagner and his bunch ran a weird set of crooked production and prop expense books on “The Rockford Files” and scammed Garner bigtime -

If the series had continued Jim Rockford would have been driving a tricked-up Chevy El Camino pickup (race-mod and tuned ‘Vette 350ci engine and Chevelle SS suspension) in the show

[goat granny]

could be, but parked next to trailer, it looked beat up on the outside to me...but then so was his trailer....great show....

[dixiechick2000]

I loved Route 66! And, Tom Selleck was da’ bomb!

Love your graphic essay, potlatch. You couldn’t have chosen a better subject!

[who knows what evil?]

Lalo Schifrin...no wonder the tune caught my ear...good stuff. I actually remember ‘Blue Light’...I should root thru some books on 50-60’s television to see what other gems I may be overlooking...

[potlatch]

I imagine if they had used really expensive collector guns on the sets they would have mysteriously disappeared.

[mine is NFS]
Heaven's no, you need it to scare off the bad guys, lol.

[potlatch]

Gosh, I loved Rockford too. I remember the trailer but honestly don’t recall his car. Believe I read he was not in good shape this past year. Those old shows were great, I miss them.

[Political Junkie Too]

Nat King Cole did a great song called “Get Your Kicks On Route 66”

Also made famous by The Manhattan Transfer.

BTW, the song was written by Bobby Troupe, who co-starred as Dr. Joe Early on the TV show Emergency! His wife, Julie London, also co-starred on that show as Nurse Dixie McCall. London was previously married to Jack Webb, who created Emergency!

-PJ

[Mr. Lucky]

Your mother is very attractive.

[potlatch]

Thanks DC. I made a webpage of him with that graphic on it. When I made it I looked for a ‘spy song’ and found one I never heard before and really liked. If you click my graphic it will play and is called, “Private Eyes Are Watching You”.

Real ‘catchy’, lol.