The Beverly Hillbillies is on CHCH in Toronto at 11:00 am on weekdays now. They showed that episode just a few days ago.
I remember Joi best from the episode of Superman she was in, where she “married” George Reeves. I couldn’t have been any older than six when I saw it for the first time.
Took me a long time to really notice girls, maybe because I have seven older sisters. I don’t remember crushing on anyone until the third season of “Three’s Company”, which puts me right at the OP’s cut off. There was another crush a few years later but that’s a different thread.
Joi Lansing was amazing. Her appearances on The Beverly Hillbillies were quite amusing, for the absurdity of a 50-something hillbilly (albeit legendary musician) with a wife that young and beautiful, and for a woman built like Lansing having the surname ‘Flatt’.
She had another memorable appearance on Petticoat Junction as a rival to Betty Joe for husband Steve’s affections.
A close competitor to Joi was Sue Ane Langdon. I know I saw her on Dick van Dyke and McHale’s Navy in the '60s, but I remember her best as Herschel Bernardi’s wife in Arnie in the '70s.
“Lana Shields,” played by Ann Wedgeworth. I’m surprised to find she was 45 when she appeared in Three’s Company. I always thought she was maybe ten years younger than that.
Though I was a young adult by the time the Bangles were around, I heartily agree with you! The 2:47 mark in this video is what drove home that crush for me.
David Cassidy - The Partridge Family
Davy Jones & Peter Tork - Monkees
Randolph Mantooth - Emergency
Alan Osmond (not Donny!) - The Osmond Family
Burt Reynolds
Michael Landon - Bonanza
Ted Bessell - That Girl
James Brolin - Marcus Welby
Don Grady - My Three Sons
Michael Cole - Mod Squad
In an episode of MTM, Lou Grant confessed to having a crush on Joey Heatherton. I remember her from this commercial and an episode of It Takes a Thief, in which (IIRC) she didn’t have much to do:
Joey sounds a lot like Ann-Margaret in that clip from Bye-Bye, Birdie they showed on Mad Men.
Where cigar commercials are concerned, no one beats Edie Adams:
I looked for the one where she sings “Hey, Big Spender!” in that red dress, but couldn’t find it anywhere.