Classic TV Characters.

[Pucker]

I wonder what Leave it to Beaver might have looked like through the King lens.

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"Eddie . . . there's one Cleaver you haven't met yet . . .

Spoiler

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[Pucker]

wow

that didn't work at all

and that would have been a good joke, too.

 

[Pucker]

Jeez

that didn't work at all

 

[Tiny]

single biggest crush of my life, circa 1975

 

[Pucker]

Ah . . . Kristy McNichol.

It's funny how one thing leads on to another.

Some of you may know that dear Kristy "grew up" in a cinematic sense in the movie Two Moon Junction. Not much of a film, by most standards, but it did co-star a young man by the name of Richard Tyson (who would go on to fame and glory in Kindergarten Cop).

There's no reason you should remember Richard Tyson. I remember him because I met him on a Santa Monica bus way back when we were all young with the world. He and his friend had to flag the bus and run to catch up with it and when he thanked the driver for stopping he mentioned that they were going to the Lakers game at the forum.

I was visiting from Massachusetts and this was in the glory days -- Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan. So I piped up and started a basketball conversation with him. My girlfriend was mortified that I should be engaging a stranger on the bus, but he was a nice guy and when he was getting off at Inglewood, he mentioned that I should look for his movie on cable:

Three O'Clock High if you know it.

And I thought to myself: Wow! Look at that! Big Hollywood actor, running for the bus just like me.

Funny old world, says I.

 

[Neesy]

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Yes! Mr. Dress Up, The Friendly Giant too - I even watched one called "Chez Helene" on CBC back in the 60s in Toronto - it was supposed to help us learn French (with Suzie and the little mouse) or maybe the mouse's name was Suzie!??

 

[Pucker]

Let's try this again:

Eddie, there's one Cleaver you haven't met yet . . .

Spoiler

I refer to my inability to do stuff like this as "Tech-lol-ogy."

 

[DiO'Bolic]

One of the best commercials ever made...

 

[Neesy]

One of the best commercials ever made...

This guy is supposed to be a Native right?

Is this Grey Wolf? oops - Grey Owl (I think he was really an Englishman who really, really wanted to be an "Indian" (back when that was what they were known as).

Grey Owl | Historica Canada

 

[Neesy]

One of the best commercials ever made...

Ooops - never mind - different guy!

 

[Pucker]

And please forgive me if someone has already posted the Small Earth Traveller, but this kid was the first hero I ever remember having in my life:

 

[Neesy]

One of the best commercials ever made...

 

[Pucker]

I don't remember what show I was watching, but I seem to recall a scene where some people where lost in the woods or something and somebody said:

"Throw some litter on the ground. Maybe a crying indian will come rescue us."

Or something like that.


Maybe sometimes being "iconic" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

 

[skimom2]

One of my personal heroes, for as long as I can remember. Even when I was in college, if I heard the theme song, I'd stop and watch the show. His kindness and caring is something I aspire to.

 

[muskrat]

I always loved the old horror hosts. Zacherly, Sammy Terry, Elvira, Commander USA, Granpa Lewis, etc.. Svenghoulie still does his thing out of Chicago, tops off the Super Sci-Fi Saturdays on our local antenna Me-TV.

Check out E-Gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts site for an exhaustive list of hundreds of old horror hosts from all across the country--might find your own forgotten local favorite interred with the rest of the creeps. All kinds of info and vintage video links. More fun than a barrel of severed monkey heads, heh heh heh...

 

[AnnaMarie]

Land of the Giants.

 

[Grandpa]

To go with the aforementioned Top Cat, a silly short-lived series called T.H.E. Cat. He was like an Enforcer kind of guy, but in the half hour that he had, the script wore down the audience with endless soliloquys. I still liked it, though.

(Robert Loggia in his younger, more dangerous-looking days, before he voiced the memorable line in Innocent Blood as a Mafia boss vampire, "I can hear an angel fart.")

We used to watch Combat! too. Pictured: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason.

I must note that Vic is breaking uniform regs, while sitting with a lieutenant, no less.

 

[pegasus216]

I used to watch Combat too!

 

[Grandpa]

Snatch the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper

I enjoyed the series, I liked David Carradine in the role, but I never really quite bought into him as Chinese or Asian in any way. Ah, well.

 

[Mr Nobody]

And of course, I used to pretend to be her...

Watched this as a kid. I was about 6-7 years old. Explains why I have a thing for women with black/very dark hair, I guess (Daphne from Scooby-Doo explains redheads... ).
WW is airing again over here now - on The Horror Channel.
Damn, that Diana alter-ego of hers...she's so plain. (lol)

I always loved watching re-runs as a kid:

Oh...my... *thump*
How could I have never seen that? How?
(Rhetorical: I was never in to watch TV most weekends in the 90s.)

Classic progs/characters for me...most of them come from the mid-late 70s and into the 80s.
Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man (might get him a toe, these days), The Man From Atlantis, original BSG, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Space 1999, Airwolf, Street Hawk (loved that bike), and a couple of Brit ones.

and finally,