Posted on 02/08/2020 3:29:49 PM PST by Rastus
Actor Robert Conrad has died at the age of 84, according to a report.
The exact cause and location of his death were not immediately confirmed.
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There was a mini-series of James Mitchner’s book “Centennial” back in the 80’s. In the first 2 hr episode Robert played a French fur trapper. I thought it was the best acting he ever did.
Was he wearing a red shirt?
I had read a few months ago, that on the set of Baa Baa Black Sheep or Black Sheep Squadron, that the real Pappy had told Conrad, that if Conrad had been in his squad, he would have kicked his ass.
Yeah I read that too.
The real Boyington supposedly had a cameo in one episode
Okay, if you insist.
Some people just gotta hate, posting on an obituary thread without first verifying their facts.
-PJ
The famous CBS “Rural Purge” of the late-60s/early-70s. CBS was derisively call The Country Broadcasting System by the other networks. CBS shows were extremely popular but sponsors said that the viewing demographics of CBS’ programming weren’t buying enough of their products. Network executives wanted to win audiences that spent money and that skewed hip, young, urban...or so it was said at the time.
The Wild Wild West, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbilies, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, (Hee-Haw, too, I think,) and a slew of other Country and Western-themed shows were canceled to make way for All In The Family, MASH, and other more contemporarily-themed and topical shows. Gunsmoke was, I think, the only Western to surive The Purge. One of the stars of Green Acres once declared that (IIRC), “1968 was the year CBS began killing every show with a tree in it!”
RIP, Mr. Conrad. I used to enjoy the Wild Wild West as a little kid. Man was devastatingly handsome!
It took the British to learn how to land the Corsair on the decks of carriers.
They’d do a sweeping approach, keeping the ship in view above the bent wing, until the last moment.
The land-based Marines got the Corsair first because the weird stall speed encountered when doing carrier landings made the beast drop severely. The bounce was difficult at best to handle, and the bounce often led to the tail hook missing the carrier deck arrestor cables. Many Corsairs plowed into planes arrayed on the forward portion of the carrier deck. The Brits figured out how to cope with this characteristic with Corsairs they acquired.
The short landing gear was a result of needed deck/strip clearance for the 13’-4” diameter three-blade prop on the first Corsairs. The inimitable gull wing of the F4U was a design fix to permit shorter and thus stiffer landing gear suitable for carrier duty.
Never bored with the fact that the 13’-4” prop arc sweeps 140 square feet.
On the radio, Hawaiian Eye was the only show of his they referenced.
I remember my sister saying he had a nice ass. At 9 or 10 I really had a difficult time figuring out why his ass mattered.
LOL!!! EXACTLY!
They would switch to a neutral radio frequency and trade barbs as they sparred in the sky:
“Good mor-ning, Majah Boy-ying-ton. Lovely to see you today!”
Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak!
“Nice to see you too, Rice Ball. Eat hot lead!”
Dakka-dakka-dakka!
I remember Mahtin Sheen. It was weird that he played an old cop buddy of Cannon’s on a pair of episodes and later appeared as a murderer. They did that a lot back then but wouldn’t get away with it on modern shows.
Go ahead...
Knock it off...
I dare ya.
Same here.
Built many models in early teen years.
Corsair was one of my favorites.
QM tended to recycle guest stars.
As formulaic and predictable as his shows were, I still like them better than the stuff of today.
He had one short lived series called “Most Wanted”. It had a different vibe.
I think of it as “Strike Force” before the a later series of the same name. They both starred Robert Stack.
“Just saw an ad for “Black Sheep Squadron” on H&I tv today”
That show also featured (a bit) Dan Blockers (Hoss Cartwright’s) son Dirk Blocker whom is “Holly Cow” now 62 years old himself.
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