Posted on 06/12/2021 3:06:57 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I have mosquito bites all over my arms and legs. I'm thinking because I've been out camping, sitting by the campfire and doing a lot of cast iron based cooking over said fire. Which is some of the best kind of cooking if you are to be camping.
Then I go into my tent and roll myself into a "sleeping bag" but even then, I'm thinking mosquitoes are still able to get through.
So a lot of mosquito bites and it's only mid June. Lot of camping left to go this season.
Nothing better though then sleeping under a tent and hearing all the noises of nature, especially pit-pattering rain and crickets and tree frogs. Then you get the birds in the morning waking you up as the sun gains strength in the east.
Then you get the campfire going again in put some "cowboy coffee" on as you prepare the eggs and bacon to get your next camping day off to an acceptable start.
But I digress.
I'm old enough to remember back when "rural" themed TV shows ruled the day. You had "Hee Haw" which was such an incredible institution that I might need several posts to fully describe it. You had "Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", "Petticoat Junction", "Mr Ed", "Andy Griffith", "Jim Nabors Show", and "Lassie" just to name a few.
Oh yeah, and "Gunsmoke" and "F Troop" just to name a couple more.
All these shows (and more!) had respectable to great ratings on TV and presented good American values to the general public.
But along came this douchebag named Fred Silverman who took over CBS around 1970 and felt that rural values were not conducive to how he felt America should be and the "rural purge" was on.
In came more "urban" based shows like "Mary Tyler Moore", "All In The Family", "The Jeffersons", "What's Happening", "James at 15", and "Sanford & Son."
Certainly not all Fred Silverman creations but Fred did kill the rural-based TV shows in order to cater to more urban and suburban audiences (though those audiences did appreciate the rural shows as even "Hee Haw" got decent ratings in NYC and Boston.)
Fact is, rural shows basically disappeared in the early 1970s with the notable exceptions of "The Waltons" and "Little House On The Prairie."
Basically from then on, you had the urban-suburban TV shows with their loud voices, their canned laughtracks and their more liberal values dominating the airwaves.
Kirby with his BAR, Caje, Littlejohn. I loved that show!
He also directed "Breezy".
Will Geer was a perverted bi-sexual. Absolutely disgusted me when I found that out. The Waltons was one of my favorite shows. Geer playing the ‘wise’ grandfather but in real life was nothing but a depraved leftist freak. I guess that’s why it’s called acting.
Dang who’s dog was Beauregard ....hmm....google or the dux
Tik tik tik
Hee Haw
Should have known hon
Btw....I just cleaned up chihuahua dog poop I stepped in and tracked all over downstairs
Hardwoods thank God
Doesn’t Happen much...she usually squawks to go out...
Ugh
Not as bad as snale poop though.....I remember my corns....I guess the big ones like you have make some big scat
Red Skelton toured some after his show went off. He performed at the 1982 Worlds Fair for a while I remember that much. I saw a few minutes but I was working maintenance there and had a trouble call to go on.
Best MASH episode and funniest was “The General Flips at Dawn”. General Hamilton Steele paid a visit and that was Harry Morgan’s initial appearance on MASH. It and McArthurs visit IMO were the two best.
Love the songs.
The one thing my sister never forgave me for even 50 years later LOL. She was 5 years older and wanted to watch Ed Sullivan because The Beatles were on that night. I was maybe 7-8 and wanted to watch Bonanza and an argument took place. Mom comes in and turns the TV off end of argument.
Fast forward to 2015 and sis is in a memory care unit with Dementia. Every time I visited here which was several times a week she said "You're a Brat. I wanted to watch Ed Sullivan and The Beatles and you wanted to watch Bonanza. Mom turned the TV off." Bless her heart she couldn't remember hamburgers I had just brought to her and asked me where they were after she ate them but she never forgot that LOL.
The series was broadcast on ABC Network from January 23, 1975, to May 20, 1982.
Regards,
Brief but funny, “Fernwood Tonight”.
Here is a very retro clip of a February 1979 Today Show in which Gene Shalit hypes up the show. I forgot how bizarre Gene looked back in the day with his busy hair, his oversized mustache and loud bowties. But I guess that was rather stylish in the 1970s. Back in the day, they called people like that "colorful."
The Dukes of Hazard was the #1 rated TV program in America for several years in a row in the early 1980s.
Which proves that there is (and always was) an audience for rural-themed shows. Hee-Haw was one of the shows caught up in the 1971 "rural purge" yet that show flourished for two more decades in syndication and got decent ratings even in New York and Boston.
For most of my life, I thought Hee-Haw was just a corny show for cowpokes, but as I learned more about it in my research and saw some clips, I have a lot more respect for it (and the people involved in making it). Good humor done cleanly with a lot of good music.
Yes, she certainly was.
The Hee Haw jokes and skits were corny, but the music (Roy and Buck) and musical guests were top notch.
Gunsmoke was great; easily the best western that ever aired on TV. And some believe the radio version was even better; in fact, many of the early TV episodes were simply adaptations of scripts originally written for radio.
Of course, the radio series had a completely different cast: William Conrad as Matt; Parley Baer as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Engel as Kitty. You can even find publicity shots of the cast, in costume as their characters. All were given auditions for the TV series, and CBS decided to go in a different direction with casting. William Conrad actually directed two episodes of the TV series, one in 1963, the other in 1971. McNear made six appearances on the show, playing parts other than Doc Adams.
Some shows also have great theme music, too. Barney Miller and Rockford Files had great music. The Night Court theme is fun to play
I agree. Really good theme music is a requirement. Rockford and Barney Miller are upfront in my memory of music from tv shows.
I remember Combat. My father used to chuckle when my young brothers and I would talk about “Chargent Chaunders”. Of course Kirby was always out checking the perimeters.
The Lance White was a great one. Rockford had to play second fiddle Tom Selleck!
His only flaw was being nearly perfect.
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