How Many of These Vintage TV Themes Do You Recall?

[gh]

I watched all of the shows except the last two (The Baron & Man In A Suitcase), probably because they're likely the newest of the bunch and came at a time when collegiate pursuits (not to be confused with studying) took priority.

Anybody remember the name of the character Norman Fell played on 87th Precinct?

[wineturtle]

I watched all of the shows except the last two (The Baron & Man In A Suitcase), probably because they're likely the newest of the bunch and came at a time when collegiate pursuits (not to be confused with studying) took priority.

Anybody remember the name of the character Norman Fell played on 87th Precinct?

Meyer Meyer

[racewalker]

Anyone besides me remember what "T.H.E" stood for? Hint: It was the character's name, and he always said it--a' la Bond, a movie contemporary nearly all of these character's were patterned after--at the end of the teaser.

Thomas Hewitt Edward, I believe. But the middle name might be off a bit.

[bijanc]

Chuck C

Connors was first NBA player to break a backboard in a regulation game.

[Brian]

Anyone besides me remember what "T.H.E" stood for? Hint: It was the character's name, and he always said it--a' la Bond, a movie contemporary nearly all of these character's were patterned after--at the end of the teaser.

Thomas Hewitt Edward, I believe. But the middle name might be off a bit.

Nice. As my lady-friend used to say, with Spanish accent, congratulations, you are a weener!

I thought it might be tricky, as he always said the intro bit as "Cat. T. Hewitt Edward Cat." It was only during a few episodes his Gypsy girlfriend Maria would (sensually) refer to him as Thomas. I suck at trivia, but I did know this one, only because I loved the show as a kid.

Well done.


Try for Double Jeopardy? I already gave away the name of his girlfriend, but what was the name of his friend, the police inspector? [Last name only; I don't know the first myself.]

[Brian]

Bond, a movie contemporary nearly all of these character's were patterned after--at the end of the teaser.

Anyone remember the first female version of Bond? On late Saturday mornings, after the cartoons but before "American Bandstand"--Honey West.

Blond, with beauty mark on cheek, (lucky) male sidekick. Also first babe in a black leotard jumpsuit, I believe, even before Mrs. Peel.

[gh]

Pretty sure Honey West (Ann Francis) was on Friday nights...... to be seen during my frosh year at college only by losers like me who didn't have real dates (sigh).

She predates the Diana Rigg character by a few months but is couple of yeas behind early Patrick McNee foil Honor (yes, that one) Blackman.

[Brian]

Pretty sure Honey West (Ann Francis) was on Friday nights...... to be seen during my frosh year at college only by losers like me who didn't have real dates (sigh).

She predates the Diana Rigg character by a few months but is couple of yeas behind early Patrick McNee foil Honor (yes, that one) Blackman.

What, no Palouse women fell for your charm?

I know here at the edge of the known universe (Northern Minnesota), we got it (Honey West--the show; not dates) on Saturdays. Always a tense battle between me and much older sister for TV supremacy (the days when most households had ONE set), and there was some lead-in show to Bandstand she liked. These could easily have been a few years after the fact reruns, too.

I remember the old Van Williams/Bruce Lee "Green Hornet" on Fridays, though; used to annoy the Hell out of my parents to get home in time for it when we had gone to town for bi-weekly groceries after payday. If only there had been VCR's...!

For youngsters such as myself, "The Avengers" began showing here during the Rigg era. First broadcasted show here was, in fact, one of my favorites I now have on video: The Cybernauts."

Speaking of Ms. Blackman, I remember chuckling with my second-grade friends the day after the network broadcast of "Goldfinger"...too bad most of us didn't even know why we were laughing. :]


This thread is fun.

[Texas]

I remember all of those.

While this doesn't realy fit, it's forever etched on my brain.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7IleR1oFA

[Brian]

I remember all of those.

While this doesn't realy fit, it's forever etched on my brain.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7IleR1oFA

Scary stuff for a kid. Especially since your parents were always warning you to not touch electrical things or "You'll get electrocuted!"

In this scene, Jean Rogers is the epitome of the cliche' "heaving busom." Even if for the wrong reason.

[Texas]

I remember all of those.

While this doesn't realy fit, it's forever etched on my brain.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7IleR1oFA

Scary stuff for a kid. Especially since your parents were always warning you to not touch electrical things or "You'll get electrocuted!"

In this scene, Jean Rogers is the epitome of the cliche' "heaving busom." Even if for the wrong reason.

I hear ya!

Never forget watching.. The Davey Crockett...saga on Disneyland as a kid. I had no idea that was based on a true story. I thought it was just another TV fantasy. I kept waiting for Davy to somehow come out victorious at the Alamo. As the Mexican Army just kept coming, it's now down to just Davey and Ole Betsy. I'm still confident he'll somehow find a way out of this situation. If you recall we never actually see Davey done in, we see him using Ole Betsy as a club then it's just his shadow swinging away as we are left to... :cry: Pretty traumatic for a kid who would be Davey Crockett for Halloween.

[dukehjsteve]

Anyone remember " Crusader" with Brian Keith ? He was always over somewhere behind the Iron Curtain trying to free people from Communist opression.

[Brian]

Anyone remember " Crusader" with Brian Keith ? He was always over somewhere behind the Iron Curtain trying to free people from Communist opression.

Don't remember that one, but have a fun Brian Keith tie-in.


My mother was in a Duluth hospital, ready to give birth to me, and got to be friends with another pregnant woman in the same hospital wing. Not really thinking about the actor, my parents named me "Brian Keith" (first and middle). Without my mom ever knowing it (at the time), the other woman named her two-days-later-born son "John Wayne."

That's not the best part.

The other woman lived in Proctor, the town of 3,000+ where the high school was located that also took in three rural elementary schools--including the area where my family lived--besides the two in-town elems.

"Brian Keith" and John Wayne" ended up classmates.

Better yet, we found all this out when comparing notes on the bus coming back from a cross-country meet our sophomore year, the first time in the sport for both of us.


There was a kid named "Don Adams", too, but he was a few years older. He missed it by that much. :]

[Brian]

Anyone besides me remember what "T.H.E" stood for? Hint: It was the character's name, and he always said it--a' la Bond, a movie contemporary nearly all of these character's were patterned after--at the end of the teaser.

Thomas Hewitt Edward, I believe. But the middle name might be off a bit.

Nice. As my lady-friend used to say, with Spanish accent, congratulations, you are a weener!

I thought it might be tricky, as he always said the intro bit as "Cat. T. Hewitt Edward Cat." It was only during a few episodes his Gypsy girlfriend Maria would (sensually) refer to him as Thomas. I suck at trivia, but I did know this one, only because I loved the show as a kid.

Well done.


Try for Double Jeopardy? I already gave away the name of his girlfriend, but what was the name of his friend, the police inspector? [Last name only; I don't know the first myself.]

McAllister. He was one-handed.

[Halfmiler2]

T.H.E Cat was unusual as a half-hour drama show in the 1960's. The only other one that comes to mind was N.Y.P.D. Of course, in the late 1950's there was Peter Gunn.