Brezhnev was a big fan.
Posted on 04/30/2021 2:45:02 AM PDT by lowbridge
Johnny Crawford, the original Mouseketeer who starred as the young son of the Civil War veteran portrayed by Chuck Connors on the 1958-63 ABC series The Rifleman, died Thursday, it was announced. He was 75.
In 2019, it was revealed that Crawford had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and a GoFundMe campaign organized by Paul Petersen — the advocate for former child actors and onetime star of The Donna Reed Show — was set up to help the family deal with expenses.
Crawford was 12 when he appeared for the first time as Mark McCain, son of the widower Lucas McCain, on The Rifleman. The Four Star Television series, set in the New Mexico Territory with storylines crafted by Sam Peckinpah, ran for five seasons, from September 30, 1958, to April 8, 1963, and then for decades in syndication and reruns.
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I watch TCM movies (about the only thing worth watching) and I’ve felt ancient for a long time. Time zips like the speed of light.
I've told my kids: when my mind is gone, please just let me go.
Of course, they believe this is already the case.
Oh. Sad. I loved him. (My first boyfriend looked quite a bit like him.)
In the early ‘90s I was dating a guy quite a bit younger. He got to work one day and said that he’d just heard a really good new group on the radio. Three Dog Night. I had to move on.
One of my favorites.
In the 80s the joke went "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings?
But we kids loved it when Lucas was in a gunfight, then went semi-lever full auto and blasted..”BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!” filling the air with lead!
But he never hit anyone in that mode. Only one or two shots put the bad guy down.
If I remember, the first RIFLEMAN episode I saw was the pilot and was shown on Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater.
Chuck Conners was one of few men that played two sports at the major league level. Baseball and basketball for him.
The Rifleman and Gunsmoke are my absolute all time favorites. The acting, especially James Arness, is magnificent.
I can think of two, right off the bat.
Gene Conley (Red Sox and Celtics),
and
Dave DeBuschere (Tigers and Pistons).
That was a different world.
CA....
Cue the Happy Trails to You song.
Roy nods
I was pretty shocked to learn that John Havlicek (Celtics) was drafted by the Cleveland Browns
Chuck Conners was also the first pro basketball player to smash a backboard.
Brezhnev was a big fan.
The Lucas McCain Character killed over 120 Bad Guys in the five Years the Show ran.
I think the other McCain lost five Jet Fighters during his stint in the Military.
Bo Jackson... Raiders and Royals
How about Have Gun Will Travel? Richard Boone.
RIP.
Indeed, and with a manly moralistic father and son, which today is very non-PC.
That was before someone decided shirts did not need shirt pockets!
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