TIME TRAVEL
Hey, isn’t this new time machine just great?
ARE YOU READY? The Canteen is about to embark on another journey back in time.
Come one, climb aboard, no ticket required……free ride….we're about to take off.
Hop in, watch your step ...... Let me set my control
Buckle up. Now don't be afraid....I know how to fly this thing.......Here we goooooooooo.......
WHOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH
Landing with a thump. Sorry, folks. I’m still learning how to fly this new machine. Now, let me turn on the television and see what is on.
Do any of you remember these shows?
Car 54, Where Are You
9/11/1961 - 9/8/1963 NBC
Black and White - 60 episodes
Car 54, Where Are You Cast
Joe E. Ross as Officer Gunther Toody
Fred Gwynne as Officer Francis Muldoon
***Also:
Beatrice Pons as Lucile Toody
Paul Reed as Captain Martin Block
Albert Henderson as Officer O'Hara
Joe Warren as Officer Steinmetz
Al Lewis as Officer Leo Schnauser
Bruce Kirby as Officer Kissel
Hank Garrett as Officer Ed Nicholson
Jim Gormley as Officer Nelson
Charlotte Rae as Silvia Schnauser
Shelley Burton .as Officer Murdock (1961-62)
Duke Farley as Officer Rily (1961-62)
Jerome Guardino as Officer Antonnucci (1961-62)
Frederick O'Neal as Officer Wallace (1962-63)
Nipsey Russell as Officer Anderson (1961-62)
Car 54, Where Are You Theme Song
"Car 54, Where Are You" by John Strauss and Nat Hiken
Car 54, Where Are You Tidbits
Officers Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Muldoon (Fred Gynne) worked in New York's 53rd Precinct, which is a mixed neighborhood, both Irish and Jewish.
Aside from being cops, these two had nothing in common. One was smart, tall, thin and lived with his mother. The other was short, chubby and not too bright.
The first cop sitcom, it also featured Nipsey Russell as Officer Anderson, unusual as blacks weren't getting recurring roles in those days.
Andy Griffith Show
10/3/1960 - 9/16/1968 CBS
30 minutes
Black and White (1960-1965) and Color (1965-1968)
249 episodes
Syndication Title: Andy of Mayberry
Andy Griffith Show Cast
Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor (1960-1968)
Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife (1960-1965)
Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee Taylor (1960-1970)
Ron Howard as Opie Taylor
Jack Dodson as Howard Sprague (1966-68)
Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle (1963-64)
Andy Griffith Show Theme Song
"The Andy Griffith Show" by Earle Hagen
Andy Griffith Show Tidbits
Let's make this easy. Andy Griffith left the show in 1968 and it was renamed Mayberry R.F.D. Ken Berry as Sam Jones, another widower with a young son, carried on for Andy.
Andy Griffith Show began as an episode of the Danny Thomas' Make Room for Daddy show.
Almost everyone alive knows that Andy and Opie (Ron Howard) lived with Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who had raised Andy and who, when flustered flustered said "Oh, fiddle-faddle!"
Barney Fife (Don Knotts) was the inept but loveable deputy. When Knotts, who won five Emmy Awards for this role, left the show in 1965, they explained it by saying he became a detective in Raleigh. He got a brief shot at his own variety show, The Don Knotts Show, in 1971..
Green Hornet
9/9/1966 - 7/14/1967 ABC
Color - 30 minutes - 86 episodes
Based on the radio by the same name and created by George Trendle.
Produced by Richard Bluel
Green Hornet Cast
Van Williams as Britt Reid/The Green Hornet
Bruce Lee as Kato
****Also:
Wende Wagner as Lenore 'Casey' Case
Lloyd Gough as Mike Axford
Walter Brooke as District Attorney F.P. Scanlon
Green Hornet Theme Song
"Flight of the Bumble Bee" performed by Al Hirt.
Green Hornet Tidbits
Britt Reid (Van Williams) is handed management of his father Dan's newspaper, The Daily Sentinel in Washington D.C. With this comes a mandate to do good in the world, which this family comes by naturally as Dad is a grandnephew of John Reid, also know as - The Lone Ranger.
The Green Hornet is the great-grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger, you ask skeptically. Yes, because George Trendle created both and a plug is a plug is a plug.
The association inspires Britt and so he sets up shop as the Green Hornet, a crimefighting masked crusader. (Sound familiar?) His manservant, Kato (Bruce Lee) assists him in his deeds of derring-do. Only he and the District Attorney (Walter Brooke) know the Green Hornet's true identity.
Yes, THAT Bruce Lee, later to star in a gadzillion martial arts films.
The plot twist. The Green Hornet is considered a criminal by police and so has to beat a hasty retreat after nabbing the bad guys.
That's the end of the ride for today. Please watch your step on exiting the time machine. Now that I've shown you a few, how about you share something from your memory. Or, if one of these were your favorite show then, share a memory of the best episode for you.
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