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Yeah, because that Stalag 17 movie Hogan’s was based on wasn’t ever made?[/Q
You would think that 'Hogan’s Heroes" was based on “Stalag 17”, a famous play and film that won William Holden an Oscar. Except for the fact that creator Bernard Fein, who was a private on the “Sgt Bilko” show, said he was trying to create an similar antiauthority vibe, only set in a prison. It was after four years of trying to sell it that he gave up, got on a plane, saw someone reading “Von Ryan’s Express” and said “that’s it. A POW camp”. Of course Fein could be lying to avoid a plagiarism lawsuit.
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Mr. Ed was played by a palomino horse, part Saddlebred and part part-Arabian. His name was Bamboo Harvester.
How about the Dick Van Dyke Show?
I don’t think anyone could capture the pure wonder of Mary Tyler Moore.
Gilligan’s Island
maybe with the Harlem Globetrotters …
He’d want to show off his acting chops. Sergeant Schultz.
So how about a movie of The Invaders!
A Quinn Martin Production.
What, an updated version or a retro version? Maybe the latter, as a period piece. I don’t think a new version would work, you couldn’t capture the cheerful enthusiasm of the original; it’s too different a world now.
I think the Trix rabbit has tried (and failed with) enough gambits to support a hundred-minute scenario…
DVD would be a hard act to follow. I can’t think of many people that could pull off that kind of controlled nimbleness. Maybe Jim Carrey?
Wild Wild West would work as a movie if the people producing and directing it didn’t deliberately take a dump on it’s memory. I could see Matt Damon as James West, John de Lancie as Artemis Gordon, and maybe Ben Kingsley as Dr. Loveless(using The Lord Of The Rings shrinky-dink effect.)
I think something based on “Combat” could work, although you could say it’s been done with real life miniseries like “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific”. But then I ususally check out the Hitler channel to see what WWII documentary they are showing so I suppose that series/movies based on
it could last a century like Westerns did.
Re: The Dick Van Dyke Show I was talking about an egomaniac TV star and subservient producers/writer. Charlie Sheen/Chuck Lorre?
<SLAPS Czarcasm>
Don’t even mention that person’s name in the same breath with Dick Van Dyke!
meanie!