BenjaminO (05-03-2021)
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
BenjaminO (05-03-2021),carolina73 (05-03-2021),DGUtley (05-03-2021)
I was a western fan.
The Rifleman, Bonanza, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, and a really old one, Have Gun Will Travel.
That's a short list.
Then there's Leave it to Beaver, Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, Ozzie and Harriet, The Monkeys, and...
Buddy Hackett on The Carson show always cracked me up.
The internet has given us the ability to watch all those old programs upon demand.
The days of antenna only TV and 3 channels are long gone.
Red Green
The man's prayer:
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
Peter1469 (05-03-2021)
I think it is TV Land. It's 148 on Armstrong. I get home and while I'm changing I click 148 as I'm changing (I don't watch the news anymore). It's always Andy Griffith. I think it's 6 - 8. At 8, it's Everybody Loves Raymond. Nice, funny, mindless, easy going. Yes, I've seen them all dozens of times each but Ms. Crump and Debra are both kind of hot....
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
BenjaminO (05-03-2021)
I remember back when I was in grade school, every day at the same time in the afternoon the local independent station would show an episode of - and it rotated throughout the week - The Lone Ranger, Superman, Robin Hood (with Richard Greene), William Tell (hardly anyone remembers that one these days, but I can still remember the words to the theme song) or Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. (At the end of every episode, he would say to his husky, "Well, King, this case is closed".)
As for Westerns, I never ever really favored the "singing cowboys" like Autry or Rogers, but I liked 'Have Gun, Will Travel', 'The Rifleman'...and 'The Rebel' with Nick Adams, who died much too early.
'T.H.E. Cat' with Robert Loggia. That series is not available on DVD, although I certainly hope it will be someday. I bought a bootleg set of DVDs a few years ago, but they didn't work very well or last very long. There was another show called 'World of Giants' - about an American spy who is exposed to some kind of gas while watching a Soviet space launch and shrinks down to being 6" tall. His partner carries him around in a briefcase. And of course 'Sea Hunt'. One of the nostalgia channels ran almost the entire series a few years ago, and it was great seeing that again.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
BenjaminO (05-03-2021)
I saw "Live & Let Die" on the classic movie channel yesterday.
My first reaction was that movie is not that old.
I guess that means that I am a classic now too.
If you watch the old shows on DVD, you see that a one-hour show in the 1960s had about 52 minutes of content. The other 8 minutes was for commercials.
That number has been sliding down over the years. A one-hour TV show today wil have about 44 minutes of content. Commercial levels have doubled. The old shows sometimes have pieces cut out to fit in more commercials.
If a conservative makes an accusation, it's actually a confession.