For What Exit?
Ringa-Majigs?
Holy crap, that’s it. Ringa-Majigs. Minute I saw it, it looked right. I half remembered they came in a tinker toy type canister. But as I wasn’t sure I didn’t include it.
Mayor Teddy Burnside, Carter Country.
I normally didn’t care for building toys since they exposed how horrible I was (and still am) at putting things together, but I loved me
some Crazy Ikes.
If you don’t mind.
Amazing. Well done. And it only ran for 44 episodes.
I liked the Mayor and used handle it handle it for a couple of years. It was actually pretty well balanced.
My grandparents had a big Mighty Manfred stuffed animal that I used to sit on when I watched the Captain at their house.
“Handle it, Roy. Handlit, handlit.”
Roy (the sheriff) was played by Victor French, better known as Michael Landon’s sidekick in Little House and Highway to Heaven.
I remember Carter Country pretty fondly. It was, strangely enough, in syndicated reruns when I was in college (which would be the late 80s), long after the Carter administration had passed into history. I remember it as being fairly amusing, as those things go. In addition to Victor French, Vernee Watson (Will’s mother on Fresh Prince of Bel Air, also recognizable from her recurring role as nurse Althea on The Big Bang Theory) was also a regular.
It also featured a man with one of my favorite names of all time: quintessential good ol’ boy actor Guich Koock. The best part being that his real name is William Koock. He actually deliberately chose “Guich” as his stage name.
When ABC’s Wide World of Sports had a Legends Special, they brought him out…and up until that moment, he had NO IDEA he was world famous. He was flabbergasted when Muhammed Ali enthusiastically shook his hand!
Albert Alligator Pencil Chomper
In my safe-box, I have a small book from the early-'60s featuring Tom Terrific and…
Crabby Appleton!
My siblings and I tossed that at each other when someone was acting, well, crabby.
Anyone remember Little Golden Books?
Yes. They are still being printed. Still being bought for little kids.
Yup. And “Book Trails” and “Dynamite Magazine” And…short detective stories like:
“Sir, we’d like to question you about a crime. Now your aunt has been to the hospital…”
“I didn’t hit her with a bat!”
“Lock him up.”
How did Encyclopedia Brown know!!
I’ll be durned.
:D:D:D
Anyone remember Best of the West? It was a sitcom-western. I remember liking it, but I was a kid.
I feel like Christopher Lloyd was on it as a recurring villain. I remember it being kind of funny. Was the main family recently from back east and in the first show was the wife trying to sweep all the dirt off the floor but it was a dirt floor?
That sounds about right, I remember Tracy Walters was in it playing a less creepy version of the role he always plays.
I remember Best of the West, it had Joel Higgins in it a few years before he was the dad in Silver Spoons. Funnily enough, I remember two jokes from it very vividly. The first is when the town villain is about to be hanged, his last request is for a bottle of wine from a future date and when he’s told that they’re not made yet he responds “I’ll wait.”
The other joke is with this Calamity Jane type character who caught an animal for dinner, when asked what kind of creature it is she says “This is a What-Yuck, when you look at it you say ‘what?’ but when you taste it you say ‘yuck!’”
The Golden Book Encyclopedias for children. Maybe early 60’s? They used to sell them in grocery stores, a new volume came out every month. I LIVED for the moment my mother brought me home the newest one. I probably memorized most of the articles. Later in life, the Womans Day Encyclopedias of Cooking - probably late 60’s, early 70’s - there were articles and recipes on regional cooking in the US, and for foreign dishes - the usual suspects, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico. Every time I go into a thrift store I take a look at the used book section, hoping to spot one or the other.
There might be a set in my basement along with the classic Funk & Wagnalls.