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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Buckaroo:
Anybody remember Thunderbolt the Wonder Colt? Beany and Cecil as puppets? Sadly, yes.
And many Saturday mornings with a mixing bowl full of Cheerios with about 2 cups of sugar on them. After the cereal's gone, you eat the sugar sludge off the bottom of the bowl... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK, Waskel and Buckaroo are old, but have great memories for old guys. Or is it the short term memory that goes first? I forget. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | What about one of my all-time favorites:
Fireball XL5
I've been a scifi fan ever since!!
The Ragin Rudolph was excellent
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Location: Southern California | And many Saturday mornings with a mixing bowl full of Cheerios with about 2 cups of sugar on them. After the cereal's gone, you eat the sugar sludge off the bottom of the bowl... I thought I was the only one who did that. Grossed my brother out every Saturday morning!
Here's another one: anyone remember Crusader Rabbit? |
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Location: NJ | . . and Raglan T. Tiger.
Fireball XL5 . .
. . . I remember it's predecessor . . SuperCar!!! |
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Location: SoCal | When I was 10 years old, SuperCar was soooooo cool! |
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Location: Southern California | Oh, my God. :eek: I saw the earlier references, but it just clicked. Fireball XL5 was under about two tons of memory dust bunnies!
Speaking of, this thread is bringing back some great memories. What a cool time of year for it, too!
This is fun... keep 'em comin'!!! :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Supercar....Mike Mercury...Mitch the monkey. Those were days. |
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Location: NJ | Y'know, I had a 3D AutoCAD file of SuperCar that I had found in Internet somewhere (somebody evidently had WAAAYY too much time on their hands.
This thing was WAY cool! Very detailed, and VERY accurate. I did a bunch of 3D renderings from it a couple years ago, and (naturally) I can't find the file OR the renderings . . .
I'll have to check the archive CD's. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Speaking of too much time on my hands (very slow at work this week)
Found this on e-bay:
Fireball XL5 Music
Available to our UK members only.
Can't remember anything about the music...
:rolleyes:
And ahh, Doctor Venus:
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Location: North Texas | My Dad won a TV in a contest. We could not have afforded to buy one in 1949, but we ended up with one. L.A. had a lot of local programming in the early days and I was fortunate enough to have the oportunity to watch. Everyone had radios, big ones, and when we went visiting, my Mom said I'd spend hours trying to tune in a picture on the the standup radios. |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | Cwk2... You forgot "Spinner"
Clutch Cargo, Spinner & Paddelfoot.
Woz |
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Location: Tennessee | Speed Racer. Underdog. Heckel & Jeckel.
Anyone remember The Big Valley? Linda Evans, Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long. Audra Barkley was the hottest of the hot during that era of TV.
Well ... maybe until Petticoat Junction came along. Hooterville ... what a place! |
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Location: NJ | Clutch Cargo had that really "innovative" form of animation that comprised STILL pictures with film of moving lips super-imposed where the character's mouth was . . .
. . SpaceAngel was another one. |
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Location: NJ | "Petticoat Junction"
Oh. . . t'be a f@^%in' WaterTank! . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Anyone remember The Big Valley? Linda Evans, Lee Majors, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Long. Audra Barkley was the hottest of the hot during that era of TV. AND Peter Breck (Nick,the bad(?) half brother! His wife is a friend of my Mom. They live a little south of here currently.
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Anyone brought up Captain Kangaroo, Mr, Green Jeans, and Tom Terrific yet?
Then, in my pre-teen years there was a Canadian knockoff of all the pop music shows, Hullabaloo, Shindig, Hollywood a go-go, that featured Chad Alan and the Expressions. Who, due to a marketing error, became The Guess Who. |
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Location: NJ | man from U. N. C. L. E.
top cat
quicksdraw mcgraw
foghorn leghorn |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Anyone remember Wonderama with Sandy Becker?
How about Officer Joe Bolton? Or Claude Kirschner? Or Chuck McCann?
My absolute favorite show was Rowin & Martin's Laugh-In. They once got President Nixon on the show to say "Sock it to me?"
Bet your sweet bippy, Here comes the judge.
Anyone got a nomination for the Fickle Finger of Fate award. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Buckaroo is even older than I am. Captain Kangaroo started the day my wife was born, October 3, 1955. They just celebrated their 50ths. Captain Kangaroo's birthday got more publicity, but my wife's cost me a whole lot more money. |
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Location: NJ | Wonderama was Sonny Fox.
Sandy Becker had his own afternoon show (remember "Hambone"??)
Chuck McCann RULED!! ("Let's Have Fun" - Sunday mornings)
This guy used to read the (NY Sunday News) SundayFunnies (Dick Tracy, Dondi, Lil Orphan Annie) frame-by-frame, doing ALL of the voices . . dressed in costume!
Officer Joe Bolton - The 3 Stooges
Capt. Jack McCarthy - Popeye
- I believe these were just local to NY/NJ only - they weren't broadcast nationally.
Remember Zacherly??
He was the local NY guy that dressed in vampire garb and showed all of the "B" horror films. I believe he was the original guy t'do this, and other markets "spun off" on it . . . |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | We had Captain Gus in the afternoons and "Project Terror" late Friday nights in San Antonio.
Project Terror had the likes of "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "The Man With The X-Ray Eyes", "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", etc...
Reminds me of SCTV's Count Floyd.
"We'll be back with some really scary stuff..." |
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Location: SoCal | Most of ones already listed...also Zorro and Wagon Train. Was also fun as my uncle wrote a number of the Zorro and Wagon Train episodes so, naturally, had to check them out. |
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Location: NJ | Zacherle |
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Location: Southern California | Remember Zacherly??
He was the local NY guy that dressed in vampire garb and showed all of the "B" horror films. I believe he was the original guy t'do this, and other markets "spun off" on it . . . Out here, we had a guy named Seymour doing the same thing... a guy dressed up all spooky, hosting a "horror movie" spot on a local L.A. station. Did nothing but tell lame jokes that you couldn't help but laught at... the lamer, the better!
Several years later, Elvira got her start on the same station doing the same schtick. She wasn't as funny, but she was a lot better to look at! |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Tony Calman:
Most of ones already listed...also Zorro and Wagon Train. Was also fun as my uncle wrote a number of the Zorro and Wagon Train episodes so, naturally, had to check them out. funny as it may sound but I learned to tell time by watching zorro. I knew what the clock had to look like when it was on. I think it was 7 pm. |
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