Posted on 07/26/2022 10:09:22 AM PDT by al baby
Tony Dow, has passed away he was 77
TMZ
The character’s name was Gus the Fireman, and the actor’s name was Burt Mustin. Mustin played an old geezer on just about *every* TV show in the ‘60s and ‘70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Mustin
This is my weapon.
This my gun.
One’s for fighting.
One’s for fun.đ
He always tried to avoid that.
Amen!!.
It also brings to mind the time when on a summer day I would leave the house in the morning with friends, and ride our bikes all over the neighborhood (10 plus square blocks) and be gone till lunch. Come home, eat, and then head back out until late afternoon when I would get close enough to the house that I could hear mom holler that dinner was ready. No one worried. No kids were harmed or kidnapped. Everyone on the block knew everyone else. In fact, for several blocks, we knew most of the neighbors. That world disappeared long long ago.
in the second episode of the show, Edgar Buchanan played a different character...Captain Jack, who ran an alligator farm.
After retiring he had a Christmas tree farm.
Many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. Played Judd Fletcher.
She speaks jive.đ
Another possible title for the two of them:
Monkey Beaver.
It was a great show. I watched it religiously.
Oh cool.
I *do* remember that. Thought it was hilarious at the time!
You had to know to get the joke.
Knew a guy in college in the â70s who was the spitting image of Tony. Of course, his nickname was âWally!â. RIP Tony Dow.
Golly!
He was on foot, in pursuit of a car thief when the thief shot him. 3 times. 2 bullets were stopped by his bullet proof vest. The third bullet stopped by his metal belt buckle. He was lucky.
“The thing is, I donât think I ever watched a single episode of Leave It To Beaver all the way through”
I’ve seen every single episode like hundreds of times over.
Being raised an an abusive, dysfunctional home, starting around the mid 1970s, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery. Such tv shows (movies and cartoons as well) more than just entertained me. They really helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter, and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
Out of all the daily syndicated reruns of classic tv shows, Leave it to beaver was just one of many I watched and loved (though i didnt start watching that show until my teens in the 1980s because i dont recall it airing in syndicated reruns in my area before then).
Comedic sitcoms, especially family type sitcoms were my favorite. I wanted to see, feel, and get an idea as to how a normal, loving, happy family lived and behaved or at least was supposed to behave. Dont get me wrong. I had no illusions. I KNEW the families in these tv sitcoms werent real families, just actors playing a part.
But God knows, those fictional families on tv were far more closer to happy, loving, and normal than my real life dysfunctional family and circumstances.
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