I subscribe to the Roku Guide. It comes out weekly with new programs added to the Roku channel. (If you have a Roku, you know there’s a Roku channel, right?)
Recent classic TV shows now available on the Roku channel. There are others that are too old even for me to remember. But these were some we watched regularly back in the day.
*Note: the quality is NOT good. These are black & white and did I mention the quality is not good? Good. *
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[li]Topper (Leo G. Carroll with ghosts George and Marian Kirby)[/li][li]Burns & Allen (“Say goodnight, Gracie”)[/li][li]Bachelor Father (John Forsythe before Dynasty)[/li][li]Death Valley Days (Ronnie before he was The Prez)[/li][li]Private Secretary (Ann Sothern as “Foxy” McNamara)[/li][li]The Falcon (George Sanders as a good guy, for a change)[/li][li]Batman & Robin (Adam West in the baggy tights)[/li][li]Our Miss Brooks (adorable Eve Arden, Richard Crenna, Gale Gordon)[/li][li]Life of Riley (William Bendix tackles Life’s Problems)[/li][li]Stories of the Century (Jim Davis before Dallas-- I developed a life-long thing for him when I was age 6. Does that make me precocious?)[/li][/ul]
There are lots of other shows, too, but not much that I find worthwhile. You might see something you like.
Apologies-- I have to correct myself. You aren’t adding these shows to the Roku Channel, you’re adding them to the Roku AS channels. So after you add them, you’ll find the programs with their own tiles/icons/badges in the main Roku menu next to Amazon, Hulu, AcornTV, Netflix, etc.
There is a Roku Channel, too, and it’s got a lot of stuff on it.
I have one of those Roku TVs, made by Insignia. Been watching their Cold Case Files channel, called Cold Case Files Classic. They also have a channel for the old “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack but nowadays every time I put one on it’s an episode I’ve seen recently.
The common pronunciation, of course is with the first syllable to rhyme with pal. The less common (older?) is with the first syllable to rhyme with ball.
If you notice, Humphrey Bogart and everyone else in the movie pronounces it as the Maltese “faw-kin.”
Radio versions of the character from the 40s and 50s also use faw-kin.
But now, it’s usually pronounced “Fal-kin.” There seems to be a shift from one to the other. I know the reason for it – words change pronunciation to match their spelling (e.g., often, where the “t” was silent for centuries). I’m trying to get an idea as to when the change happened.
Other [del]new[/del] old shows newly added to Roku(may have the whole series or only some episodes):
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[li]Adventures in Paradise - Episodes from the James Michener TV series about the the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure (Gardner McKay)[/li][li]The Westerner - An American Western series TV series from 1960 about a cowboy that wanders the Wild West with his faithful dog Brown (Brian Keith - only 13 episodes filmed)[/li][li]Tightrope - A 1959/60 drama series about an undercover police officer who infiltrates organized crime (Mike Connors)[/li][li]Whirlybirds - A 1957 drama/adventure television series about the owners of a fictitious helicopter chartering company in the American West [/li][li]Whispering Smith - A 1960s western detective series staring Audie Murphy [/li][li]Trouble with Father - Episodes of the 1950s TV sitcom also known as “The Stu Erwin Show” [/li][li]Combat - A 1960s World War II TV drama series about an American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe (Vic Morrow)[/li][/ul]
More old shows just added:
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[li]Honey West - A 1960s crime drama TV series with Anne Francis (of the beauty mark)[/li][li]Iron Horse - A 1960s Western TV series about a fictional gambler-turned-railroad baron - Dale Roberston (had a crush on him, too)[/li][li]Casey Jones - A 1950s American Western TV series about the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive - Alan Hale, Jr., later of Gilligan’s Island[/li][li]Meet Corliss Archer - A 1954 series about a pert blond teenager who must balance her life at school, her lovable but goofy boyfriend Dexter, and her well-meaning but clueless parents [/li][li]Seaway - A 1960s Canadian drama series about the investigation of shipping crimes on the St. Lawrence Seaway [/li][li]Racket Squad - Episodes of a 1950s crime anthology TV series [/li][li]T.H.E. Cat - A 1960s American action drama TV series about "T. Hewitt Edward Cat, a retired acrobat (also a retired thief) who has become a bodyguard. He works out of his friend’s café, “El Casa del Gato” (The House of the Cat), where he uses his skills to protect his clients. Stars Robert Loggia.[/li][/ul]
Update- just added:
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[li]“The Four Just Men” is a 1959 television series based on a sequence of novels by Edgar Wallace. The series revolves around four men who meet as Allied soldiers in Italy during WWII and fight crime from different regions of the world. I never saw or even heard of this series, but check out the cast: Richard Conte as Jeff Ryder, Dan Dailey as Tim Collier, Jack Hawkins as Ben Manfred and Vittorio De Sica as Ricco Poccari. [/li][li]“The Bob Cummings Show,” (“Love that Bob”) was a TV sitcom that aired from 1955 to 1959. The show starred Robert Cummings who played playboy photographer Bob Collins and his nosy match-making sister Charmaine “Schultzy” Shultz, played by Ann B. Davis (aka Alice from the Brady Bunch), who was always trying to get him to settle down with a nice woman.[/li][li]“Richard Diamond Private Detective” is a crime drama that starred David Janssen as a former New York City police officer who relocates to Los Angeles (season 2) and becomes a private investigator, where he eventually settles in the Hollywood Hills entertaining young beautiful women when he is not solving a case. Sam the operator is only shown in profile from the shoulders down seated in front of a switchboard, in tight fitting dresses, legs crossed, and usually dangling a stiletto-heeled shoe from her toe as she delivers Richard’s messages in a breathy low husky voice. She was played by Mary Tyler Moore, but her face was never revealed. [/li][/ul]
[li]Stories of the Century (Jim Davis before Dallas-- I developed a life-long thing for him when I was age 6. Does that make me precocious?)[/li][/QUOTE]
Got news for you: I was horny as hell for Marilyn Monroe when I was four, after my mother dragged me along with her to see Some Like It Hot.
“You shouldn’t take him to see movies like that!”
“Oh, he doesn’t know what he’s looking at.”
