When Cox Cable in Fairfax, Va, finally went digital, we started getting Boomerang, the Cartoon Network spinoff cable chanel that shows old cartoons from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I’ve been catching up with shows I remember as a wee tot, like Ruff N’ Ready, Jonny Quest, The Banana Splits, and so on.
But now I’m having repressed memories of other shows I loved, like GE College Bowl, which went off the air when I was 8. I remember Gentle Ben with the hot dad in the Everglades, My Favorite Martian, which came on Sunday nights after The 20th Century with Walter Cronkite, presented by Union Carbide. When I started 1st grade, I had a It’s About Time lunchbox.
I remember watching F-Troop (with the luscious Ken Berry) and then Bewitched on Tuesday nights.
Gods, for years I sung the theme from It’s About Time hoping to find another person who even remembered the show!! People told me I was delusional, but I wasn’t. It really was on the air, and other people saw it, too. Not just me. Nope, other people, too. My mind is at ease. Blessings on your head, astro for providing that link, and to you gobear for having great taste in lunchboxes.
Now if only I could find someone who remembered Lancer. Cute cowboy brothers, one with angst, my favorite.
Gods, for years I sung the theme from It’s About Time hoping to find another person who even remembered the show!! People told me I was delusional, but I wasn’t. It really was on the air, and other people saw it, too. Not just me. Nope, other people, too. My mind is at ease. Blessings on your head, astro for providing that link, and to you gobear for having great taste in lunchboxes.
Now if only I could find someone who remembered Lancer. Cute cowboy brothers, one with angst, my favorite.
OK, JayJay, how about Ron Ely as Tarzan? Ain’t no question 'bout his lusciousness! And that tight loincloth… And, yes, I watched Lancer, but I was more into Bonanza and The High Chaparral (oh, that Henry Darrow and those leather pants!)
I’m all about Eva Gabor in a really clingy nighty fixing some flapjacks. Or making “hot water soup” (Eb: “Gee, Ms. Douglas, you make hot water soup just like may mama used to make!”)
Our version of the theme song to “It’s About Time” went:
“It’s about Time
It’s about Space
It’s about Time
I slapped your face”
Sheesh! You sure brought up some ancient memories. I clearly remember watching “It’s About Time” and thinking that it was hysterical. Of course, I thought “Gilligan’s Island” was hysterical, too. IAT had Imogene Coca in it, didn’t it? And Mike Mazurki, I believe.
And BTW astro, a pox upon you for that link.
::banging head on wall to change mental channels::
I’ll tell you (and 10,000+ other Dopers) a little secret.
[sub]Ron Ely’s Tarzan was my first indication that I was gay, at 5 years old![/sub]
I spent more time trying to hide the obviously aroused state of my pajama-clad privates from the view of my dad when that show was on than anything else I can remember at that age.
McDonald’s is your kind of place,
They serve you rattlesnakes.
French fries up your nose,
Pickles between your toes.
Last time that I was there,
They stole my underwear!
McDonald’s is your kind of place.
great. now I’ve got the facking reruns of Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants that I watched on a saturday afternoons in the mid 80’s along with Here comes the Grump.
thank you.
Frank Converse was also on a show called NYPD when I was a pup, and he appeared in episodes of Night Gallery and another anthology horror show called Circle of Fear, hosted by Sebastian Cabot.
Coronet Blue was a pilot pulled off the shelf as a summer replacement show about a year after it was shot. Frank Converse played a guy who woke up remembering only the phrase 'Coronet Blue".
He had to try to discover who he was & what Coronet Blue was with people chasing him & trying to kill him.
The show was a surprise hit, but they couldn’t continue it since Converse had already signed to do NYPD on another network & couldn’t get out of his contract.
