Retro TV

I have never watched any Law and Order.

No NCIS.

Are there others?

Am I missing something?


drummerboy said:

I have never watched any Law and Order.

No NCIS.

Are there others?

Am I missing something?

 I doubt it.


Good. I wouldn't want to miss something.


drummerboy said:

I have never watched any Law and Order.

 Wait, so whenever you go to a Broadway show, that's the only context you've ever seen any of those actors?


PVW said:

drummerboy said:

I have never watched any Law and Order.

 Wait, so whenever you go to a Broadway show, that's the only context you've ever seen any of those actors?

 unfortunately I don't get to Broadway much.

Don't they make movies too?


Pick up any playbill and I feel about half the actors have a Law and Order credit.


drummerboy said:

I have never watched any Law and Order.

No NCIS.

Are there others?

Am I missing something?

 https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/actors-law-order-special-victims-unit-14541/

Major actors have chosen to work on SVU. Seems to be something they enjoy having on their resume. Filmed around New York it has a big local following. 

It's had a 22 year run. Jerry Lewis played a fascinating character, Robin Williams did justice once again to a deeply disturbed and frightening man. As you are a fan of musicals, you would recognize Amanda Seyfried. Sybil Shepherd was an excellent villain. And the article above mentions about 59 actors who were guest stars.

And then there is the cast. I'm guessing it is the most popular of the 4 Law & Order shows. 


After posting about the stars that have been guests on Law & Order SVU, l was caught by surprise when an episode that I had never seen, featured none other than Joe Biden!


Just saw a classic Twilight Zone, Eye of the Beholder.


Ya wanna go retro? Lets go back to when my father brought home the first tv in the neighborhood. It was a 12" Fada. There were 7 channels, unlike when Pink refers to "13 channels of **** on the tv to turn to." There were 13 on the knob but only 7 of 'em did anything.

--- and they all went off at midnight with the Star Spangeled, then a test pattern until 6 a.m.

Uncle Miltie was the best. ( At age 4, Milton Berle was the model for Buster Brown shoes.) There was also Arthur Godfrey talent show on Monday and Arthur Godfrey on Wednesday. 

Andy Devine had a kids show on Saturday mornings. Howdy Doody was on weekday evenings at 6:00.

Captain Video saved us from space invaders. He was on Channel 5 at 7 P.M. Even my 7th grade art teacher watched Captain Video.

Couple'a years later, came the cowboy shows. Roy, Gene and Hoppy. -- and a few years later, the first "adult" cowboy show, Gunsmoke... in black and white with Chester as the sidekick before Festus. Side fact; Festus, played by Ken Curtis was one of the lead singers with the Sons of the Pioneers. The first lead singer of "Sons" was Roy Rogers.

I will leave you with my memory of Elvis on Ed Sullivan. I did not see Elvis on Steve Allen's show. Steve was broadcast too late at night and I was still a tyke.


What the heck was that UHF dial about?  100 channels with nothing on.


bub said:

What the heck was that UHF dial about?  100 channels with nothing on.

 I vaguely remember watching a fuzzy channel 21 occasionally.


UHF-  nj network was/maybe still is broadcasting on uhf


there was one station out of Montclair


It’s hard to find any metro New Yorkers who remember the Winky Dink and Me kids show. You sent for a piece of plastic and traced mystery pictures right off the tv with a “special” crayon. 
Grown -up shows I recall included Jackie Gleason, which is still in reruns on regular TV. Every time that theme song came on, my father would say: “You know he wrote that song!”


I remember Winky Dink. Unfortunately I never owned the tracing stuff.


annielou said:

It’s hard to find any metro New Yorkers who remember the Winky Dink and Me kids show. You sent for a piece of plastic and traced mystery pictures right off the tv with a “special” crayon. 
Grown -up shows I recall included Jackie Gleason, which is still in reruns on regular TV. Every time that theme song came on, my father would say: “You know he wrote that song!”

 Dale Evans wrote "Happy Trails To You."  

I remember the time, Roy asked Trigger if he wanted more hay,

Trigger: "No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed."  (Get it? Ya see, after Trigger died, Roy had him stuffed and mounted on the front law  --- aw, forget it.


Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Ya wanna go retro? Lets go back to when my father brought home the first tv in the neighborhood. It was a 12" Fada. There were 7 channels, unlike when Pink refers to "13 channels of **** on the tv to turn to." There were 13 on the knob but only 7 of 'em did anything.

--- and they all went off at midnight with the Star Spangeled, then a test pattern until 6 a.m.

Uncle Miltie was the best. ( At age 4, Milton Berle was the model for Buster Brown shoes.) There was also Arthur Godfrey talent show on Monday and Arthur Godfrey on Wednesday. 

Andy Devine had a kids show on Saturday mornings. Howdy Doody was on weekday evenings at 6:00.

Captain Video saved us from space invaders. He was on Channel 5 at 7 P.M. Even my 7th grade art teacher watched Captain Video.

Couple'a years later, came the cowboy shows. Roy, Gene and Hoppy. -- and a few years later, the first "adult" cowboy show, Gunsmoke... in black and white with Chester as the sidekick before Festus. Side fact; Festus, played by Ken Curtis was one of the lead singers with the Sons of the Pioneers. The first lead singer of "Sons" was Roy Rogers.

I will leave you with my memory of Elvis on Ed Sullivan. I did not see Elvis on Steve Allen's show. Steve was broadcast too late at night and I was still a tyke.

 There never was and never will be a more charismatic TV star as Oliver Dragon, of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I rest my case.


annielou said:

It’s hard to find any metro New Yorkers who remember the Winky Dink and Me kids show. You sent for a piece of plastic and traced mystery pictures right off the tv with a “special” crayon. 
Grown -up shows I recall included Jackie Gleason, which is still in reruns on regular TV. Every time that theme song came on, my father would say: “You know he wrote that song!”

There was a "Sopranos" episode where Steve Buscemi's character (also named Tony) mutters, "M'Boyyyy are youuu fat." Tony Soprano takes offense to this and Buscemi insists that wasn't making a crack about his boss's weight, but just doing a little Reggie von Gleason impersonation. At the end of episode, the music over the closing credits is one of those lush Jackie Gleason compositions.

I too remember the Winky Dink TV screen thing but did not have it.  I guess none of my friends had it because to this day, I can't picture what it was.  


You had to send $5 to some PO Box in Manhattan to get the plastic screen. Most kids couldn’t afford it so we drew right on the tv with a regular crayon. Didn’t end well.


This really goes back. At 7 P M there was a live Perry Como show for 15 minutes followed by a live 15 minute Stork Club Show with Sherman Billingsley interviewing patrons at the restaurant.


Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe. I lived for those shows.


drummerboy said:

Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe. I lived for those shows.

 I may have mentioned this already but Buster once owned the summer camp I went to and on movie night, the feature would be preceded by installments of Buck Rogers shorts.  Hokey but very fun.  I loved the little space ships obviously dangling on strings with the sparks flying out the back.


drummerboy said:

Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe. I lived for those shows.

 My hero, Ming the Merciless. My name for one of my cats.


At about the 20 second mark:


drummerboy said:

I remember Winky Dink. Unfortunately I never owned the tracing stuff.

 I did. Unfortunately I once forgot to put the protective screen on our Zenith TV (with the round screen) and traced the picture directly on the glass screen with the heavy red wax crayon. Mom was not amused. Good thing we had Windex even back then.


Morganna said:

 There never was and never will be a more charismatic TV star as Oliver Dragon, of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I rest my case.

 I still remember how much I enjoyed watch Kukla, Fran and Ollie some 60+ years ago!

So many shows are hiding in the far back corners of my memory...Rin-Tin-Rin, I Married Joan, Queen for a Day, Treasure Hunt, Ramar - King of the Jungle, The Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger (I loved anything with horses in it for quite a while), Circus Boy....I remember my parents liked the MIlton Berle show and I HATED it -even at 4 or 5 I thought it was dumb!


cody said:

Morganna said:

 There never was and never will be a more charismatic TV star as Oliver Dragon, of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I rest my case.

 I still remember how much I enjoyed watch Kukla, Fran and Ollie some 60+ years ago!

So many shows are hiding in the far back corners of my memory...Rin-Tin-Rin, I Married Joan, Queen for a Day, Treasure Hunt, Ramar - King of the Jungle, The Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger (I loved anything with horses in it for quite a while), Circus Boy....I remember my parents liked the MIlton Berle show and I HATED it -even at 4 or 5 I thought it was dumb!

 cody, this is for you


cody said:

 I still remember how much I enjoyed watch Kukla, Fran and Ollie some 60+ years ago!

So many shows are hiding in the far back corners of my memory...Rin-Tin-Rin, I Married Joan, Queen for a Day, Treasure Hunt, Ramar - King of the Jungle, The Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger (I loved anything with horses in it for quite a while), Circus Boy....I remember my parents liked the MIlton Berle show and I HATED it -even at 4 or 5 I thought it was dumb!

 Wow, thanks for reminding me of Ramar of the Jungle!


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