# "ancient" TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 1999, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714 "1999-08-30T23:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/21 "1999-09-01T04:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Battlestar Galactica??? I remember that one, Omniscient! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/22 "1999-09-01T04:52:00Z")
Pete and Gladys was a spin off of “December Bride” with Spring Byington (sp). In the first show Gladys was never seen, only referred to by Harry Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/23 "1999-09-01T06:17:00Z")
Back in the old country, I’d come home from schol and just wait. Then about 4PM Lassie or Rin Tin Tin came on. And that was in 1984. just Kidding! It was about 1964. At night, maybe once a week, there was the Flintstones. I would saty up and peek through the curtain to see a bit of Untouchables. ---
**Author:** ![ChuckSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@ChuckSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChuckSki)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/24 "1999-09-01T13:07:00Z")
My earliest memories go back to a few local (around the Philadelphia area) children’s shows: Bertie The Bunyip, Chief Halftown, and Winky Dink (with the magic mat you could put over the TV screen and color on). Also, in the evenings, we’d watch Sally Starr host Popeye Theatre. On Sundays, it was Moose and Squirrel (Rocky and Bulwinkle), Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, then off to bed. * * * “The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.” Jacques Barzun Cheers! CAL ---
**Author:** ![gary\_horaczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gary\_horaczek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gary_horaczek)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/25 "1999-09-08T23:51:00Z")
Local shows(southern Ontario):1)“The Baby Blue Movies” on CityTv every Friday in the early 70’s. They were soft core porn and my brother’s place picked it up the best with rabbit ears antennas.2)“All Night Show” in the early 70’s with Chuck The Security Guard on CFMT TV. The station would finish for the day and go off the air. Several minutes later it would come back on after the staff had left and Chuck would show old Tv shows, videos etc. while he was doing his security round. That was the premis and it was pretty good…Anybody else want to share memories of local shows? ---
**Author:** ![popokis5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@popokis5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/popokis5)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/26 "1999-09-09T02:58:00Z")
Chuck, I remember Winky Dink. I even still remember the little ditty… Anyone remember Kimba the White Lion? People think I am making it up. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/27 "1999-09-09T12:54:00Z")
Chuckski, remember Gene London and Pixanne in the Philly area? By the way, Sally Starr is still alive and kicking, believe it or not! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/28 "1999-09-09T13:54:00Z")
# Hey, Ralf! Great thread! I’ve made myself almost _persona non grata_ at Thanksgiving get-togethers because I take on everyone else (5 people, at least) at Trivial Pursuit and bash them. Let’s see, where to begin? # _Pete and Gladys_– Gladys definitely _did_ appear in the show. Twenty points if you can name her. Hint: she was the same actress who played the woman w/a kid who gave aid to Tony Curtis & Sidney Poitier in “The Defiant Ones”. # Anybody besides me remember \*Man Into Space[/] and _Man and the Challenge_? MIS was the first & only lunchbox I asked my mom to get for me in my whole life! Name the lead actor in both shows. Hint: the lead in M&C was also the male lead in that favorite sci-fi movie _The Human Duplicators_. # What was special about the weapon Steve McQueen carried in _Wanted – Dead or Alive_? # What did Richard Boone’s western character have inscribed on his business card? # On “My Little Margie”, what was Margie’s Dad’s name, and why was it so important to the show? # What was Miss Brooks’ first name? What was the name of her boyfriend? # I’m not sure who sang “One Litte Candle” – but I thought it was the theme to ‘Lamp Unto My Feet’ – eh! “Help a hurt or lift a heart – Any place the job may start . . .” # What’s the organization being described, and who sang the song? # On _Peter Gunn_ name the two actresses who played ‘Mother’ and Peter’s chanteusse girlfriend. # What was the name of Yancy Derringer’s riverboat? # And, BTW, Chester A. Riley was _not_ really stupid – he was just a poor working schlub. What was the name of his neighbor? What was the name of the actress who played his neighbor’s wife? # And Omniscient – what’s this _crap_ about _Battlestar Galactica_? That’s practically yesterday – only about 20 years. # Yup, Riley was a carryover from radio. Anybody here from Louisville, Ky.? Remember “T-Bar-V” with Randy Atcher and ‘Cactus’ Tom Brooks (brother of Foster)? ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/29 "1999-09-09T16:23:00Z")
DIF: Okay, here’s my best shot - Josh Randall’s gun was a shortened lever-action .30-30 carried in an open-front holster; he called the gun a “mare’s leg”. (Spin-off movie starred Rutger Hauer) BTW, there were a bunch of westerns around that time that featured special firearms (Rifleman, Yancy Derringer, Wanted: Dead or Alive/Bounty Hunter, The Texan, etc. My favorite was the revolver used in Sundance - it fired a shotgun shell as well as regular ammo) Have Gun Will Travel, picture of a chess piece (the knight), Wire Pallidin (gave rise to the joke that Pallidin’s first name was “Wire”), San Francisco ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/30 "1999-09-09T16:36:00Z")
Okay, but I think you got it wrong with the Sundance connection – that was Johnny Ringo. (Unless, of course, there was a series I _didn’t_ see about the Sundance Kid. Always possible.) My favorite was the ‘Buntline Special’ carried by Wyatt Earp; I had a version that fired rubber bands. Oh,yeah – let’s not forget Bat Masterson and his cane with the built-in rifle in the shaft. Had one of those, too. Now, c’mon, Alaska! That can’t be _all_ you remember, can it? And no resort to any other database but the one in your head or someone you know. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/31 "1999-09-10T05:31:00Z")
DIF: nope, I won’t consult other sources - don’t feel that’s right. Hmmm, you might be right about Johnny Ringo, but I remember the opening sequence had a hat band with silver conchos and then the next frame was shooting six shots in a star and then the shotshell blasting out the center…or am I mixing up two different intros? The show I remember wasn’t about the Sundance Kid legend as portrayed in the movie. Concerning the “Buntline Special” carried by Wyatt Earp: yeah, that was pretty tricky; do you remember the gun carried by (IIRC) John Payne in “The Texan” (again, IIRC) or some such - it was a regular revolver to which he could attach a longer barrel (screw-on I think) and a wooden stock and voila! he had a rifle. Colt actually made a revolver-rifle during the Civil War, so the premise was plausible. I guess I just remember TV Trivia, not TV Minutia! ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/32 "1999-09-10T05:37:00Z")
BTW - for the last couple of weeks I have been playing Jeopardy on the Sony website. At first, I found it to be very enjoyable, but I have given up on it. Turns out there are some very obnoxious people who apparently have memorized all the answers (must be a limited data base) and are playing games with novices just so the “bad actors” can improve their win percentages. Try it for a while and see how you like it until you run into the jerks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/33 "1999-09-10T05:48:00Z")
Thanks for the warning, but no, thanks anyway – I deal with enough jerks as it is to not go looking for them. Now, as for the gun with a shotgun – I’m now virtually certain you are actually describing the opening sequence of ‘Johnny Ringo’ – he blasts a rough hexagon into a window in a door, then there’s a _really dramatic pause_ (yeah, like we don’t know what’s coming!) as he cocks the pistol and puts the shotgun shell into the center of the pattern. I even remember the episode (must have been the first) where the town’s gunsmith (a character actor who specialized in old geezers) gave him the gun and told him about the seventh round being a “10/40: shotgun shell!”. Sometime later the old man ‘gets it’ from a desperado. I’m about as certain as I can be, because TVLand played the series recently and I happened to click past and catch it. I remember Mark Goddard was his deputy – the second male lead from “Lost in Space”. Oh, and Don Dubbins (there’s a name you’ll forget fast, unless you have a trove of useless and irrelevant facts cluttering up your head) was ‘Ringo’. I can’t remember a series called “The Texan”, but I do remember John Payne in a western series called “The Restless Gun” – could you be confusing the two? I also recall seeing the pistol with the barrel extension & stock, but I can’t place it in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/34 "1999-09-09T18:05:00Z")
DIF: You know, I think you know a whole lot more about this than I do. Good work. Take care. And as a friend from Kansas likes to close e-mails, cul8r (see you later). ---
**Author:** ![VegForLife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de0a6/32.png) [@VegForLife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegForLife)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/35 "1999-09-09T18:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Chuck, I remember Winky Dink. Me too! > [@](#): > > Anyone remember Kimba the White Lion? People think I am making it up. You’re not, I remember Kimba. I used to watch it on the same channel as Speed Racer, AFAICR it was 56 in southern California. Rich ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/36 "1999-09-09T18:15:00Z")
Who’s the bravest lion out in Africa (Africa)? Who’s the one who brought the jungle fame (oo-oo-oo)? Who’s the bravest lion out in Africa (Africa)? Kimba the White Lion is his name! Now, who can remember the Astro Boy lyrics? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 1999, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/37 "1999-09-11T05:39:00Z")
Jeeze, Ralf! I didn’t mean ta run ya off! Sorry if ya felt intimidated . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/38 "1999-09-10T20:24:00Z")
Astro Boy lyrics…Astro Boy lyrics…Damnation, the TUNE is certainly running through my head… Was the first line was “Astro Boy…bombs away” ? Seems like an odd thing to put in a theme song, but I distinctly remember it being somehting along those lines. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/39 "1999-09-13T22:53:00Z")
What’s this? Nobody remembers John Beresford Tipton? Oh, yeah, that’s right. You never saw him on screen. He’s the guy who handed out a million bucks every week. Marvin Miller was his private secretary. The name of the show? The Millionaire. * * * You are unique - Just like everone else. ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 1999, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714/40 "1999-09-13T23:03:00Z")
Just remembered a couple of more. Sky King, Annie Oakley, Sgt.Preston of the Yukon, The Ranger(Jock Mahoney)and Fury(starring James Arness’s kid brother Peter Graves).and oh yeah, Sagebrush Trail, I Remember Mama and Wild Bill Hickock(brought to you by Kellogg’s, the greatest name in cereal). * * * You are unique - Just like everone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ancient-tv-shows/7714.md?page=3)