Posted on 08/12/2005 10:34:36 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
I watched some of the later seasons, and I have seen some of the earlier shows in syndication, but it was not one of those must-watch shows at the time. Perhaps there was something that came on opposite it that was usually watched, or perhaps it came on at meal time. It did lose something when it went from B&W to color.
Do like "Porco Rosso", a good "after the war" war movie.
You want to try something amazing, try a search on
http://print.google.com/
I get thousands and thousands of hits on "6th Armored Division". This can become the greatest thing the Internet has accomplished. The greatest research tool, period. For sure and all the greatest historical resource.
Enthusiastic?? Yeah.
Can't img src the google files, it seems. Pity.
Up until about 8 months ago, the History channel up here was running "Combat!" consecutive episodes 3 times (one per day) daily, in consecutive order.
They ran through the whole series about six times before replacing it with "Twelve O'Clock High" on the same schedule.
Neither show is very realistic, but the drama was more the point. The acting was sometimes pretty bad, but both series had standout performances and excellent writing on occasion.
We're nearing the colorization transition for the 4th time in TOH, so perhaps they'll bring back "Rat Patrol" again. That was a fun and entertaining series, except when they got preachy.
Apparently my parents tell the stoy that when I was younger, I wanted to go to Germantown (A small town near where I grew up) and kill all the germans.
And I'm german! (Youthful indescretion)
I actually saw it for the first time in years, while on vacation in Maine. I only watched a few minutes of it, and then had to get going.
A couple of humorous pics for the Saturday Foxhole
How about some armor from the show "Combat"
Well off to work I go, I will be boiling water for the next couple of weeks.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Do you remember "The Lieutenant?".started Marty Millner..later of Adam-12....playing a Marine Lt..That's what first got me thinking about the Corps..
Oops..memory plays tricks..just went to IMDB..it wasn't Millner.but Gary Lockwood...whoever he was
Good morning Snippy and everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.
Be sure to click on my screename and then "In Forum" to read my comments about the Sheean ordeal.
Good morning ALL.
Does that ever bring back the seventies (when I was a youngster)! Back before they came up with this new-fangled thing called cable and there were only FOUR channels that tuned in on the old TV box, two of them used to compete with each other on late Saturday night in my neck of the woods with dueling genres: one would run a couple of horror movies in a format hosted by this character called "Count Gregoire"; the other would run a war movie bracketed, or sometimes followed by, a couple of episodes of "Combat!". IIRC, "Combat!" also used to run occasionally just before shutting down time on Sunday evenings, when a guy would come on and explain that the station was "ending our broadcast day," followed by the Star-spangled banner or footage of a jet fighter going through maneuvers while a poem was recited by a deep voiced narrator; but this Cad wouldn't know anything about that because he was supposed to be sound asleep...you betcha.
Well, I've gone on too long but remembering that show brought back a flood of memories, all of them good. I'd forgotten all about "Combat!" in these intervening years, but checking my cable guide here I see it's on EACTE. More proof of how much life has changed: it's on a channel in the 200's, from FOUR stations available to hundreds. My kids simply shake their heads in disbelief whenever the subject comes up and I mention that, at one time, there were only four channels on television, and even they went off the air early in the morning. They've never seen a test screen. Anyway, thanks for the thread; it really brought back some memories!
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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 13:
1422 William Caxton 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)
1655 Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1814 Anders Jonas Angstrom Sweden, physicist, founded spectroscopy
1818 Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights
1820 Sir George Grove London, England, biblical scholar/musicologist
1860 Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)
1888 John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1898 Jean Borota France, tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
1899 Alfred Hitchcock London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
1902 Felix Wankel Germany, inventor (Wankel rotary-piston engine)
1902 Regis Toomey Pitts Pa, actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction)
1904 Charles "Buddy" Rogers actor (Wings)
1907 Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp Essen Germany, arms manufacturer
1908 Gene Raymond NYC, actor (Paris 7000, Fireside Theater)
1912 Ben Hogan Dublin Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53)
1912 Rita Johnson Worcester Mass, actress (All Mine to Give)
1919 Rex Humbard televanglist
1920 George Shearing London, blind pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1921 Neville Brand actor ("Laredo")
1927 Fidel Castro Ruz Cuban political leader (1959- )
1929 Pat Harrington Jr NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time)
1930 Don Ho Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles)
1931 Norman Read NZ, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Gary Davidson founder of ABA, WHA, WFL
1942 Robert L Stewart Wash DC, Brig Gen US Army/astronaut (STS 41B, 51J)
1943 Gary Ilman US, 100m freestyle (Olympic-4th-1964)
1947 Gretchen Corbett Camp Sherman Ore, actress (Beth-Rockford Files)
1948 Kathleen Battle Portsmouth Ohio, soprano
1949 Bobby Clarke Manitoba, NHL player/coach (Phila Flyers)
1951 Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1955 Betsy King LPGA golfer (1990 Dinah Shore, 1990 US Women's Open)
1959 Danny Bonaduce actor (Danny-Partridge Family) (1959 approx)
1959 Mark Nevin rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1963 Tigg Ketler Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1964 Ian Haughland heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1967 Quinn Cummings LA Calif, actress (Annie-Family, Goodbye Girl)
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