FReeper Canteen ~ Most Excellent Adventures in TV Land ~ 16 Sep 2005

September 15, 2005 | Beachn4fun/Canteen Crew

[beachn4fun]

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.

Final note: All information found freely on the Internet

Footnote: Management is not responsible for the accuarcy of historical events. Management is not responsible for lost personal items in th time machine. Finders keepers. Shipping and Handling is separate. Taxes are applicable. Void where prohibited. Children under 40 must have parent's approval. When ordering have your credit card ready.

[luvie]

((((hugs)))))

Hope to see ya this weekend--I've missed ya!

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on September 16:
1387 Henry V king of England (1413-22)
1547 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1638 Louis XIV [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715)
1685 John Gay poet (Beggar's Opera)
1777 Nathan Rothschild (d.1836), banker, was born in Frankfurt
1823 Francis Parkman American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 James J Hill Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1875 James Cash Penney department store founder (J.C. Penney)
1877 James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1880 Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman)
1895 Charles W Bidwill Sr Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1901 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1914 Allen Funt Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1924 Bess Myerson NY, Miss America 1945/shoplifter
1924 Lauren Bacall Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1925 Charlie Byrd guitarist (Desafinado)
1926 Robert Schuller televangelist (Glass Cathedral)
1927 Jack Kelly Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love)
1927 Peter Falk Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, The Brink's Job)
1932 Anne Francis Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
1934 Elgin Baylor NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of the Year-Lakers)
1937 Aleksandr Medved USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1944 Ard Schenk Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Ed Begley Jr LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
1949 Susan Ruttan Oregon City Ore, actress (Roxanne-LA Law)
1956 Kevin R Kregel NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut
1956 Sergei Beloglazov USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)

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Deaths which occurred on September 16:
0096 Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45
1087 Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies
1498 Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1542 Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1672 Anne Bradstreet American poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1889 Robert Younger,(outlaw James/Younger gang) in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison.
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1946 Sir James Jeans dies
1973 Frederic Meyer actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
1977 Maria Callas American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53
1979 Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1992 Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1993 Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
1996 McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77

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Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
16-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Foster Pinkston Augusta, GA Non-hostile - illness

16-Sep-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Steven A. Rintamaki Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US 1st Lieutenant Andrew K. Stern Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire


Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY


http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
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Go here and I'll stop nagging.
http://soldiersangels.org/heroes/index.php

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On this day...
1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1668 King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
1782 Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1795 British capture Capetown
1810 Fr. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla begins Mexican revolt against Spain (National Day)
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
1857 Typesetting machine patent
1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee
1885 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1890 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers
1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1920 Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York's Wall Street financial district.
1924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1934 Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich.
1938 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1939 Yanks clinch pennant #11
1940 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
1940 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1950 The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur's troops heading south from Inchon
1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1955 US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Phila Phillies, 4-0
1963 Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br. N. Borneo & Sarawak
1964 "Shindig" premiers
1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" (sock it too me)
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
1972 South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army.
1973 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premiers on TV
1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Iran
1978 Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 "Miami Vice" premiers
1987 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
1988 Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA Dodgers (1-0)
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1990 Pirate Radio New York International begins transmissions on WWCR
1991 US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1992 The British devalue the pound and George Soros pocketed $2 billion on his short sale of $10 billion.
1996 Chicago and Paris sign a sister-city pact
1999 At least 18 people were killed and 200 more injured in the bombing of an apartment building in Volgodonsk, Russia.
2002 15,000 demonstrators march in Kiev Ukraine and tens of thousands of others gathered in public squares around the country, demanding that President Leonid Kuchma resign or call new elections.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Malaysia, Singapore : Independence Day (1963)
Papua-New Guinea : National Day (1975)
US : American Legion Charter Day (1919)
International Day of Peace
National Collect Rocks Day
National Thank You Day
National Honey Month

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Religious Observances
RC : SS Cornelius, pope (251-53), & Cyprian, bishop, martyrs
RC Eugenia, abbess of Hohenburg
RC Euphemia, martyr
Ang : Commemoration of St Ninian, Bishop in Galloway

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Religious History
1224 During an extended period of prayer and fasting, St. Francis of Assisi, 42, received the stigmata (crucifixion scars of Christ) on Mount Alvernia, in Italy. Francis, the founder of the Franciscans in 1209, has been called by some the greatest of all the Christian saints.
1620 The "Mayflower" set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World. On board were 48 crew members and 101 colonists (including 35 Separatists from Leiden, Holland, known afterward as the Pilgrims). During the three-month voyage, two passengers died and two babies were born.
1840 Scottish pastor Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Grace fills us with very different feelings from the possession of anything else. If you have tasted the grace of the Gospel, the irresistible longing of your hearts will be, "Oh, that all the world might taste its regenerating waters."'
1906 Birth of J.B. Phillips, Anglican clergyman. Ordained in 1930, he wrote "Your God is Too Small" (1951), but is better remembered for his biblical paraphrase, "The New Testament in Modern English," first published in 1958.
1976 In Minneapolis, the 65th Triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church officially approved ordination of women to the priesthood.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Dog shoots man
From: From correspondents in Sofia
September 16, 2005

A TUSSLE over prey between a Bulgarian hunter and his hound ended when the dog shot the man.

The man lost his temper and began beating his Deutsch-Drahthaar hunting dog with a rifle when the animal refused to release a killed bird it had brought back.

But the dog's paw caught the trigger and the hunter was blasted with buckshot. The extent of his injuries was not reported - but local media said the dog injured a paw.

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Thought for the day :
"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."
Lauren Bacall

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Beachn!

LOL! Kitty. ;)

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Tomkow and company. ;)

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Luv! :)

[GodBlessUSA]

UNITED WE STAND

[luvie]

G'Mornin', GB! How's everything around your house this morning?

Woof!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Morning Luv W! *HUGS* How are you?

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Morning GB! *HUGS* How are you?

[luvie]

(((hugs)))

G'Mornin' CMS!

I'm sooooo good--I'm off today so it's gonna be fun.

How're you--thought you were outta here. Good to see ya again!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

I'm good. Tomorrow is the last day I'll be in the Canteen till I get down To Ft. Campbell and get a new computer. Once that happens I'll be back again. I'll still try to get a message or 2 out a week to someone who will let the Canteen know hom I'm doing till I return.

[Young Werther]

I grew up in Belleville NJ. We got our first TV in 1948 so Yes I did the Howdy Doody trip. I wanted to make the trip to New York to be on thses shows but Mom and Dad both worked so it was not in the cards.

Plunk Your Magic Twanger Froggy

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning CMS!
HUGS!

[GodBlessUSA]

We were up all night. Poor Booboo sick. She probably only got a few hours sleep. She's having crackers now. So hopefully, she took a turn for the better.

[GodBlessUSA]

ROTFLOL!!!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning GBUSA.

Poor BooBoo.

I hope she'll be better soon.

[GodBlessUSA]

She said, tell her - thanks, Mrs.Noseman. I feel better cuz I'm eating some soup. ;)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

She is so adorable.

Tell her that Mrs.Noseman said that I am happy to hear this.:)

[GodBlessUSA]

Forgive my ignorance CMS. I prefer to ask than pretend I know. LOL! :) Ft. Campbell KY. How long do you stay there and what will you be doing there? :)

[GodBlessUSA]

She said Thank you because you said she's adorable. LOL!!

HUGS, Thanks Mrs.N