The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

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  1. The Old Mixer

    The Old Mixer Mih ssim, mih ssim, nam, daed si Xim. Moderator

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    55 Years Ago This Week

    May 22 –The 271st and final episode of the television legal drama Perry Mason was shown on CBS, bringing an end to a nine-season run that featured Raymond Burr in the title role. "The Case of the Final Fade-Out" included an uncredited appearance by Erle Stanley Gardner, the author who created the Perry Mason series of books, as a judge presiding over Mason's final murder defense. Members of the production crew appeared in cameo roles portraying the production crew for a fictitious TV series.
    May 24
    • Battle of Mengo Hill: Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.
    • The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.
    May 25
    • Five years after President John F. Kennedy's call for a commitment of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth", NASA unveiled the prototype of the machine that would take astronauts there. At 363 feet (111 m) tall (equivalent to a 30-story building) the Saturn V rocket was larger than any predecessor, and three times as powerful as the Titan II GLV rocket used in the Gemini program.

    • Explorer program: Satellite Explorer 32 (Atmosphere Explorer-B) is launched from the United States.
    • No. 9 Squadron RAAF becomes part of the 4,500 strong Australian Task Force assigned to duties in Vietnam, leaving for Southeast Asia aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney.
    May 26 – British Guiana achieves independence, becoming Guyana.
    May 27 – John Lennon and George Harrison see Bob Dylan in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. In the second half, Dylan--backed by the Band--is booed and jeered by the audience when he switches to electric instruments.
    [Come on, Britain, that is so 1965...]
    May 28
    • Fidel Castro declares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
    • The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation is over (a treaty is signed on August 11).
    • Boat ride "It's a Small World" opens at Disneyland.


    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," Cher (11 weeks)
    • "I'll Take Good Care of You," Garnet Mimms (9 weeks)
    • "Louie Louie," The Kingsmen (18 weeks total; 2 weeks this run)
    • "Love's Made a Fool of You," Bobby Fuller Four (6 weeks)
    • "Try Too Hard," The Dave Clark Five (8 weeks)

    Recent and new on the chart:

    "Solitary Man," Neil Diamond

    (May 21; #55 US; recharts in 1970, reaching #21 US, #6 AC)

    "River Deep – Mountain High," Ike & Tina Turner

    (#88 US; #3 UK; #33 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)

    "Crying," Jay & The Americans

    (#25 US)

    "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," The Temptations

    (#13 US; #1 R&B; #21 UK)

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    Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day.

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    I never knew much about him, but remember my dad liking him.

    Had to look that up. Neither the first nor second character I immediately associate with that name.

    In stark contrast to Gallagher, who wants to blab classified information during wartime to everyone! He makes it look good, though..."I trust my men, they deserve to know what they're facing!"

    A search didn't turn one up. Will you settle for Hogan's Heroes? (Also stumbled across this one.)

    There was a 12 O'Clock High Dell comic.
     
  2. Nerys Myk

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    As a kid I used to imagine all the WWII based comedies and dramas took place in the same Universe. So someone from 12 O'Clock High who was shot down could count on Hogan getting them home. I think the closest it cam to reality was a flashback on Green Acres where Oliver gets shot down over occupied Europe and Lisa mentions Stalag 13. :lol:
     
  3. RJDiogenes

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    These simple facts tell me that the producers were aware that the show was coming to an end. See how much Perry has taught me about observation and attention to detail? :mallory:

    Also, his girlfriend left him when he switched to an electric razor.

    Neil Diamond is still good.

    Yep, that's a good one.

    Nothing wrong with it, except it's unnecessary.

    This is pretty good.

    He's pretty funny. There's something endearing about him.

    I had a feeling that might be perplexing. :rommie:

    They used to be quite a thing. I had Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and It's About Time, of all things.

    Oh, man, between Dell and Gold Key, I think there was a comic book for every TV show out there. :rommie:

    There we go, that's what we like to see. :rommie:
     
  4. The Old Mixer

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    50 Years Ago This Week

    May 23 – An air crash at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia kills 78 people, mostly British tourists.
    May 26
    • Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
    • Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.
    May 27
    • Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.
    • Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored.
    May 28
    • First release of Paul and Linda McCartney's LP Ram in the UK.
    • Portugal resigns from UNESCO.
    • Died: Audie Murphy, 45, "the nation's most-decorated hero of World War II" who was awarded the Medal of Honor, and later became a successful film actor, was killed along with five other people when the plane he was on crashed into Brush Mountain, near Catawba, Virginia. The twin-engine Aero Commander was on its way from Atlanta to Martinsville, Virginia when it went down shortly after 11:00 in the morning, when its pilot radioed that he was going to try to land in Roanoke because of bad weather. The wreckage was found after a two day search.


    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • "Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why", Paul McCartney (12 weeks)
    • "We Can Work It Out," Stevie Wonder (11 weeks)

    Recent and new on the chart:

    "Cry Baby," Janis Joplin

    (May 15; #42 US)

    "Walk Away," The James Gang

    (#51 US)

    "If Not for You," Olivia Newton-John

    (#25 US; #1 AC; #7 UK)

    "Signs," Five Man Electrical Band

    (#3 US)

    "Mr. Big Stuff," Jean Knight

    (#2 US; #1 R&B)

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    Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day.

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    Kinda good for the first time here.

    It's distinctive, and reportedly Phil Spector considered it to be his best work.

    It does sound very close to Orbison.

    One of their more classic numbers.

    My first thought was that maybe he did voice work...

    But sometimes the downed pilots were found and snitched on by young Gerhard Baumann, who went on to work for KAOS...
     
  5. RJDiogenes

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    I thought Twilight Zone was off the air by now.

    Not the best song, but it's got that signature Janis sound.

    Good one. Definitely sounds like the 70s. It's another one that I had no idea what it was until I heard it.

    I like early 70s Olivia Newton-John.

    Sounds like it should be profound, but makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. :rommie:

    This is cute and also has that strong 70s sound. I used to hear this on Lost 45s all the time.

    Oh, yeah. :rommie:

    I was actually going to write that it sounds like he's impersonating Orbison.

    I don't get it, but I think we're on to another epic here. :rommie:
     
  6. The Old Mixer

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    How's that?

    Strong vocal performance, but a little draggy.

    And another James Gang song that didn't make the Top 40 as a single, but became an album-oriented rock radio staple. I suspect that these singles attracted more interest after the Eagles became a thing.

    Olivia makes her chart debut doing Harrison doing Dylan. This one was unavailable for download...likely because it was done on an early label. But she doesn't seem to currently have a straight-up hits compilation available either. She did a few years back when I bought her other singles.

    In its original context, I think it's very you-know-what o' the times. My main issue with the song is that I was originally exposed to it via a 1990 cover by Tesla--ugh!

    This was just regular oldies radio fare in my neck.

    I think it underscores a similarity in Jay Black's singing style to Orbison's.

    Gerhard Baumann = Jerry Bauman, a.k.a. Siegfried.
     
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  7. RJDiogenes

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    Six-armed hijackers. :rommie:

    That's very odd, especially since she's been pretty sick for a while.

    Ugh, indeed. I unfortunately remember that.

    Ah, but of course. Sehr gut!
     
  8. The Old Mixer

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    That's why punctuation matters. :p

    :beer: Dylan has gone octogenarian! :beer:

    ETA: Today in my 55th anniversary shuffle, the Orbison and Jay & the Americans versions of "Crying" came up back-to-back!
     
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    :D

    I know! He' just three months younger than my Mother.

    Could you tell the difference? :rommie:
     
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    55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing

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    The Ed Sullivan Show
    Season 18, episode 3
    Originally aired September 26, 1965

    This is another episode that wasn't represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show. With the help of its Metacritic listing, I bring you these offerings...

    Sonny & Cher, "I Got You Babe" (short clip):

    According to the listing, this was part of a medley with "Where Do You Go?" (Cher solo) and "But You're Mine".

    Turk Murphy & His Band, "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey":


    Gertrude Berg, "How to be a Jewish Mother" comedy routine:


    Balancer Komazuru Tsukushi:

    Nice to hear some individualized performance music rather than the same three or so pieces that Best of always uses.

    Other performances:
    These appear to be the exact same listings that used to be on tv.com, just formatted differently on the new site's pages.

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    Branded
    "Mightier Than the Sword"
    Originally aired September 26, 1965
    Jason rides into town to find a fistfight outside the office of the Banner, a newspaper that we learn is renowned for its integrity. Jason punches his way past the winner at the door to find another thug smashing up the place and beating up one of its employees, while a woman lies huddled and crying--Ann Williams (Lola Albright), another old acquaintance. The employee is her printer, Anders (Ed McCready), who quits on the spot. Jason learns that Ann's father, Adam, passed away a month prior (in 1873). She's been running the Banner since, but is planning to sell it. Jason notices the paper's slogan--"Truth, Honor, Integrity"--carved on the tombstone.

    As they clean up the office, Ann explains how Paul Mandell runs the town, and that Adam had refused to endorse him for a political appointment and was digging into his past. A flirtatious woman named Teddi Stafford (Maureen Arthur) brings Jason to see Mandell (Kevin Hagen). He explains how he's under consideration to head the opening of a new territory, and plans to buy the Banner to take advantage of its reputation and endorse himself. Jason sees that he's ruthless and dangerous, and persuades Ann to finish her father's story. To that end, he reads from a framed personal letter that her father received from...Abraham Lincoln. OK, that's getting a bit heavy-handed.

    Ann finishes her father's expose, which describes how Mandell bought his way out of service and played both sides of the Civil War for profit. As she and Jason start getting romantic over their accomplishment, one of the thugs busts in shooting and Jason takes him down, as well as the other one, who tries to sneak in the back. Jason and Ann show Mandell the latest edition and inform him that they're sending copies to Washington. A fistfight ensues, with Jason taking it out into the street so the town can watch as Mandell gets the crap beat out of him by a renowned coward, ending up in a water trough...while Ann hands out copies of the paper to the onlookers. Teddi gets hysterical about how she'd been afraid of Mandell.

    In the coda, Anders is back on the job as Jason heads out to a bridge engineering job in Missouri, saying his goodbyes to Ann.

    The henchmen were played by Michael Lane and Charles Horvath. I didn't catch which was which.

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    12 O'Clock High
    "Then Came the Mighty Hunter"
    Originally aired September 27, 1965
    https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-75#post-12286385
    The episode opens with Gallagher's group getting flakked up in what he considers to be a suicide mission on a factory in Hagensburg. Back at Archbury, Corporal Steven Corbett (Beau Bridges), eager to get in on the action, approaches Komansky to get in as a replacement on Gallagher's crew. Everyone is impressed by his gunnery record, but a little put off by his over-eagerness to take advantage of the circumstances. In conference with Britt and some others at wing HQ, Gallagher offers a plan to go in with a small formation under cover of a larger diversionary run elsewhere. In a practice run against a simulated target over Scotland, Corbett loses his shit when his waist gun won't fire, following which he won't show his face on the ground. Komansky feels sympathetic for and invested in him, and Gallagher in turn sees the situation as an opportunity for Komansky to grow as a leader.

    Sandy takes Corbett to a place in Archbury that's a little quieter than the Star & Bottle and asks one of the regular girls there, Floy (Judy Carne), to hook Steven up with a girl who'd be his type...but by the time she's found somebody, an attraction has already sparked between Steven and the owner's more respectable 17-year-old daughter, Gillian Denby (Carol Booth). The episode goes out of its way to signpost the age issue with too-obvious stuff like Steven preferring milk to beer. The next day over Scotland, Corbett is showing signs of having gotten little sleep when the group runs into an actual squadron of German fighters. Corbett freezes like a deer in the headlights faced with the real thing, and only opens fire after his fellow waist gunner, Sgt. Rodale (Tom Skerritt), is shot up and with some prodding from the cockpit. When he does, he takes his target down cleanly, but seems horrified by what he's done, and is too shocked to get help for Rodale. Nevertheless, Gallagher promotes him to buck sergeant over the intercom. Back on the ground, Corbett asks to see Gallagher and confesses about being not 19, but 15.

    Steven's cousin Corporal Smith (Ted Bessell) comes to see him in the base hospital, and blabs to Rodale about Steven being underage. Komansky wants to bail on his responsibility for Corbett, but Gallagher won't let him off the hook. In the hospital, Corbett takes a lot of ribbing from Rodale and the other guys--including one patient played by William Christopher--and ends up running away, a.k.a. going AWOL. Sandy finds him hiding at the Not Star & Bottle, and convinces him to come back by sharing that he was also (not as) underage when he joined, as well as in trouble with the law. Sandy covers for Corbett having actually left the base, which Gallagher sees through, but considers to be a sign of that growth in Komansky that he was looking for. Corbett is eager to have another opportunity to prove himself, and when the real mission comes up, he bluffs his way onto the plane, with Komansky and Gallagher not finding out until they're approaching the target. This is when Sandy threatens to spank him, and if we're buying into the character's age, he has earned it by this point. Corbett is put in the radio room, but the radio operator and then both waist gunners are shot up by German fighters. After initially doing his deer impression again, he takes turns at both guns, shooting down several German fighters while fueled by rage.

    Back on the ground, Gallagher chews Corbett out, making it clear that the thing about officers not being allowed to manhandle enlisted men is the only thing stopping him from doing what Sandy threatened to do. But once Corbett has been dismissed, Gallagher tells Komansky that he wants Corbett promoted to staff sergeant and put in for a Silver Star that he won't be approved for, so that these things will be on his record before he's discharged.

    "Oh, Corporal Smith" count: 0

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    Gilligan's Island
    "The Little Dictator"
    Originally aired September 30, 1965
    Rodriguez is unceremoniously dropped off by a motorboat, and quickly runs into Gilligan picking berries. Gilligan accidentally picks el Presidente's gun, but he takes it back, and has Gilligan (whom he comes to refer to as George, based on Gilligan having sarcastically identifying himself as Washington) take him to the other castaways, whom he considers to be his new subjects, and himself to be the founder of a new country. The castaways conspire to get his gun from him or get him to fire all of his bullets...first via Ginger putting the moves on him, though she proves too interested in actually learning to fire it; then by trying to catch him in a net trap, though Mr. Howell ends up in it while trying to lure him out of his hut.

    Rodriguez tries to execute Gilligan, but it turns out that he's two bullets short, so the castaways confiscate his empty gun and try to turn him into a citizen of the island. He attempts to talk Gilligan into being a puppet leader...everybody seems to have forgotten that he was already the island's president. In his hammock, Gilligan goes into a dream sequence about being a dictator, with the others as his cabinet (or in Ginger's case Secret Agent 0036), who try to convince him what terrible shape his country is in. Rodriguez ends up implying that he's shot the others, and reveals that Gilligan's just his puppet, complete with the strings appearing. When Gilligan wakes up from his dream, he finds that the boat has come back to pick Rodriguez up, el Presidente's faction having regained power.

    The Professor's giving the others Spanish lessons to prepare them for their stay in Ecuarico when they get the radio report that Rodriguez has now been exiled to a mountaintop in the Andes, having been considered insane for his tales of ruling the island.

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    The Wild Wild West
    "The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth"
    Originally aired October 1, 1965
    In a foggy harbor town, with the assistance of Voltaire, Dr. Loveless plans to kill Professor Nielsen by blowing a pellet of a highly potent explosive at him; but Jim is posing as the professor for his protection...and Loveless can tell that he's not the real McCoy (Harry Bartell), whom he spots posing as Fake Nielsen's butler and blows away. Jim stays close to the professor's secretary, Greta Lundquist (Leslie Parrish), thinking that she may be a target...but when Voltaire brings her a message, we learn that she's working for Loveless. Loveless next makes an attempt on Jim via ride-by crossbow.

    Greta having been outed by the way she set Jim up for the hit, he pretends to be interested in selling secret papers that he claims the professor left with him, so she arranges a meeting with Loveless at his estate. Jim first meets his Moriarty engaged in combat practice against several burly fighters, armed with a cane. As a test of Jim's loyalty, Loveless asks him to deliver his demand for control of a vast area of desert land to the governor, threatening to kill 5,000 people a week with his planted explosives until it's been met. Jim delivers the message, but asks for men to surround Loveless's estate...and his secretary, Miss Piecemeal (future Klink secretary Sigrid Valdis), is also working for Loveless. Jim tries to escape Loveless's men via a trick coach that includes a passenger ejector seat and secret weapon compartments, but is still nabbed by Voltaire and another man outside.

    Back at his estate, Loveless boasts to Jim of outlandish-sounding inventions that he's devised to better the world--which we recognize as radio, automobiles, airplanes, and penicillin. He then uses a trap door to put Jim in an iron maiden. While she's feeding him, Jim appeals to Greta's romantic side to help free him, and she tells him that the explosives are in a clock tower near the governor's mansion. He busts out of unlocked cage, takes down a couple of Loveless's men, rushes to the clock tower, and gets past Voltaire a lot more easily that Roger Moore would. While Loveless defiantly sits on bottles of the explosive, Jim climbs into the tower rafters to stop the clock from striking by using the doctor's cane. Loveless mounts the pendulum to unjam the gears, but Jim reaches the bottles and defuses them.

    Artie, whose appearances in the episode are only bookends, pops back up for the train coda, in which he relates how Loveless took one of his inventions with him to prison...a glass tube that could catch pictures sent through the air!

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    Hogan's Heroes
    "Kommandant of the Year"
    Originally aired October 1, 1965
    The prisoners use the rain barrel periscope to check out the large item that's been brought to the Stalag on the back of a truck, though it's covered. In Klink's office, Major Hauser (William Allyn) presents orders from General Burkhalter (who doesn't appear in the episode) placing Stalag 13 at his disposal, and the prisoners learn via the coffee pot that it's a V-bomb (and they're still running the gag about the pot also being used to make coffee on the side). Hogan radios for permission to blow it up, but is told that three commandos and a scientist will be dropped into the area instead. Hogan uses a visit to Klink's office to plant a dispatch about Klink receiving his award, which identifies the scientist, Schneider, as a colonel in Burkhalter's staff who'll be visiting to bestow it.

    LeBeau is sent out to find the commandoes, and an escape is reported so that the prisoner-trained dogs are released to help him. After the party is found and LeBeau gets Schneider's measurements, he lets the dogs bring him in. Schneider (Woodrow Parfrey) is later brought in via a staff car in uniform, with the commandos posing as his staff. Schneider fakes a public presentation, and while Klink is giving a long-winded speech, slips under the nearby tarp to take pictures, while Hogan sets a bomb that will cause the rocket to fire. Schneider is caught coming out from under the tarp by Hauser, who buys his excuse for being there and wants to show off his rocket. Schneider manages to slip back out before the bomb goes off, following which Hauser walks out looking like he'd been smoking dynamite in a Loony Tunes installment.

    In the coda we learn that the rocket destroyed an airfield in Hamburg; and Schultz clearly knows that it was Hogan's doing, scolding him in private.

    "Now Hogan, I am a very busy man, you are dismissed!"

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    Get Smart
    "School Days"
    Originally aired October 2, 1965
    Arriving at the school under a cover that even Dean Watson (Byron Morrow) doesn't know about, Max goes to the wrong house; when he gives his pass-phrase, the neighbor (Kitty Kelly) tells him that the spy school is next door. 99 and K-13/Fang are already embedded there. Max walking through the grounds as everyone trains in various types of combat spoofs on the SPECTRE training school in From Russia with Love...and they're training with, among other things, garotte watches and razor-edged hats. Max throws his hat through the neighbor lady's window. British CONTROL officer Hillary Gainsborough (Ben Wright) catches Max and 99 snooping around, so they have to drop their covers, and eventually Watson is informed.

    Max zeroes in on three likely suspects--Grillak (Leo Gordon), Zukor (Henry Brandon), and Dimitri (an uncredited Philip Roth)--and attempts to covertly test them for unique characteristics that aren't in their training school files. One of these involves Max wearing a suit jacket with carbon paper lining to obtain a handwriting sample from a note written on his back. After each of the tests proves bumblingly inconclusive, Max announces his identity and that he knows who the impostor is. He and 99 and promptly abducted and tied up next to a bomb, but Fang saves them. Then Max confronts each of the three suspects and directly challenges them with new tests. When each passes, he names Gainsborough as a suspect, and he comes right out and confesses in a comedically anticlimactic manner.

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    A belated Happy Birthday to her, too!

    FWIW, my ex's landlord turned 96 last week! He's a WWII vet and still very physically active. Does all the lawn work, snow-blowing, you name it.

    Not much.
     
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    These old clips of Sonny & Cher are kind of sad-- they were so Hippie, and then... yeesh.

    I wonder if comedians like this even exist anymore, outside of open-mike night.

    Three? I thought there was just that one loop that was later used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo.

    Journalistic integrity. Branded is now officially Science Fiction. :rommie:

    He really got around.

    "Please cancel my subscription forthwith...."

    If only it was that easy. Maybe if we break down real life into thirty-minute segments.

    Yep, I remember talking about this episode before.

    Intellectually, I know that's a significant difference, but.... :rommie:

    There's a familiar name.

    Who later felt guilty about it and decided to become a chaplain.

    If you're underage, are you really officially in the service, and can you actually go AWOL?

    When he should be home reading comic books.

    Nice touch.

    :rommie:

    There must have been a mothership out there somewhere. :rommie:

    There were endless recounts until everybody got bored with the whole thing.

    I always love these dream sequences-- I remember the ships sinking in the harbor. :rommie:

    It would be funny if he found himself with another group of seven people stranded in the caves on the mountaintop.

    A good title for Miguelito's first appearance.

    This is exactly the scene I was thinking of when I said the black-and-white episodes worked well.

    A bit of a Bondian touch there.

    If only he used his powers for good.

    Much as I love Roger Moore, there's quite a difference in physique there. :rommie:

    He won't be wasting time watching the tube, though. The prison hasn't been built that can hold Dr Loveless!

    But they instinctively know that it's vital to the Axis war effort-- why else store it in a random stalag?

    Something tells me this show is not intended as a documentary.

    Good shot.

    So weird. I wonder how long that lasts.

    Killing time while getting over writer's block?

    Fang is kind of a deus ex machina.

    Thank you. :)

    Good for him. He's an inspiration. :mallory:
     
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    Funny you should mention that...I was just working ahead on my 50th anniversary posts and came across a news item about the debut of the first iteration of their variety show as a summer replacement series...and the full episode is on YouTube...

    There's definitely at least a fast and a slow one. The slow one gets used a bit less. I'll have to pay more attention when watching clips from Best of.

    It made a big difference to Gallagher...in addition to the danger to the boy, it left the service open to all sorts of liability and bad propaganda. That was the role of No Donald that I missed the first time around...Gallagher was trying to keep it quiet while they dealt with the matter, and Mr. Newsview went to the hospital and blabbed about it to the guys.

    Evidently so. The way the episode was playing it, he was being treated as a noncom until he was formally discharged. And you hear about guys who signed up a little early all the time.

    Spinoff...?

    And I'm pretty sure that foggy harbor town was meant to be Frisco, though I didn't catch it identified as such.

    Plus, he doesn't get any stations...

    Before we met Shouty Spock, there was...Smart Schutlz!

    Ah...IMDb classifies him as "Philip Roth (II)," a character actor.

    Or a canine ex machina...another bit of early installment weirdness in one of these shows, as I don't recall him appearing from where I originally picked up in late Season 2.

    As for the ex herself...50 Years Ago Last Week, she hit 18! 70 Years Ago This Season, I think her oldest brother has been born, but I'll have to ask about his birthday.

    ETA: I've confirmed that the Mixer's Ex Generation kicked off 70 Years Ago Last Season, in March!
     
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    I'll have to track that down. I used to watch them whenever they were on.

    Oh, yeah, definitely. It's just that I'm not seeing a lot of difference in 15 and 19 year olds. Or twenty and thirty year olds, for that matter, but that's partly contemporary society. :rommie:

    Well, if he gets to be AWOL, he should be able to get that medal. :rommie:

    Right! Labyrinthine caves and Yeti. Do they have Yeti in the Andes? I'll have to check.

    He invented stations, too. He had three networks, broadcasting to nobody....

    I think we already speculated that he was faking, didn't we? I seem to remember something like that.

    Random trivia: It was also the name of Tony Curtis's character on Vega$ (not counting the pilot, where he was Bernie Roth-- how do I remember these things?).

    I think he will disappear pretty quickly.

    Happy Birthday to her. [​IMG]
     
  14. The Old Mixer

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    No need, it's coming in due time. But...

    Steady work for Janos Prohaska.
    Does 1960s TV give a crap?

    You mean that Schultz was acting dumb later? Possibly. The weird thing here is that the prisoners are perfectly in the know and open about the things they're doing in front of him...showing off Newkirk's disguise, Hogan admitting that he sabotaged the rocket. I imagine that somewhere down the line, they decided that Dumb Schultz was funnier.
     
  15. RJDiogenes

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    Groovy. August 1, 1971. That was a great Summer.

    A veteran of Outer Limits and Star Trek? I'd make him a regular. :rommie:

    A very good point.

    Yeah, I think we had Schultz being taken away by Allied soldiers at the end of the war and basically acknowledging that he was no Nazi and he knew everything. That would have made a good finale.
     
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    The Old Mixer Mih ssim, mih ssim, nam, daed si Xim. Moderator

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    55 Years Ago This Week

    May 29 – Sports stadium Estadio Azteca officially opens in Mexico City in advance of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
    May 31 – The Philippines reestablishes diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

    June 1
    • The 158th and last original episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show appeared on the CBS television network. The situation comedy, starring Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie, ran for five seasons after its debut on October 3, 1961. During the final season of production, each of the supporting members of the cast featured in at least one show about their character. In the series finale, entitled "The Last Chapter", Van Dyke's Rob Petrie finally completed the project he had been working on for five years, the writing of a book, and much of it was a "clip show" featuring film clips of prior episodes. In syndication, however, the last episode shown in rotation would be "The Gunslinger", a Wild West dream that was filmed on March 22 and marked the last appearance of the entire cast.
    • White House Conference on Civil Rights opens.
    • George Harrison sees Ravi Shankar in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
    June 2
    • Surveyor 1 landed in the Oceanus Procellarum (the "Sea of Storms"), 35 miles north of the crater Flamsteed at 2:17:37 a.m. Florida time, after a 63-hour journey, becoming the first American spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, using retrorockets to slow its descent. Hours later, NASA received the first television transmissions from Surveyor. The photos were expected to be sharper than those transmitted from the first probe to make a soft landing on the Moon, Luna 9, which had arrived four months earlier, on February 3. Over the next 11 days, the probe returned 11,240 photographs of the Moon to Earth before the transmission batteries failed on July 13.
    • Éamon de Valera is re-elected as Irish president.
    • Four former cabinet ministers including Évariste Kimba are executed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu Sese Seko.
    • BBC Television's Top of the Pops is the first British programme to screen the 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain' promotional films.
    June 3
    • After several postponements, Gemini 9 was launched into orbit at 9:39 a.m. from Cape Kennedy carrying astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan, but was not able to dock with the Augmented Target Docketing Adapter (ATDA) that replaced the Agena vehicle, after discovering that the ATDA's shroud had not jettisoned.
    • Joaquín Balaguer is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
    • The British weekly pop newspapers carry whole-page advertisements for 'Paperback Writer', sporting the 'Butcher' picture.


    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • "Gloria," Them (7 weeks)
    • "Leaning on the Lamp Post," Herman's Hermits (8 weeks)
    • "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby," Stevie Wonder (7 weeks)
    • "Secret Agent Man," Johnny Rivers (11 weeks)
    • "Shapes of Things," The Yardbirds (11 weeks)
    • "Time Won't Let Me," The Outsiders (15 weeks)
    • "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration," The Righteous Brothers (13 weeks)

    New on the chart:

    "Popsicle," Jan & Dean

    (#21 US)

    "He," The Righteous Brothers

    (#18 US)

    "Little Girl," Syndicate of Sound

    (#8 US)

    "Along Comes Mary," The Association

    (#7 US)

    "Hanky Panky," Tommy James & The Shondells

    (#1 US the weeks of July 16 and 23, 1966; #39 R&B; #38 UK)

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    Doesn't seem like nearly as much of a curve ball now. More like a continuity patch.
     
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    They matured and changed with the times. Some of the banter routines they did on their variety show are actually pretty funny. And Cher was so damn gorgeous. :adore:
     
  18. RJDiogenes

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    One of the all-time classics.

    Retro now, maybe, but cutting edge at the time. Thank you, I'm here all week. Don't forget to try your waitress and tip the beef.

    Oh, yeah, I do know this. A happy Summer song, I guess, but it doesn't grab me.

    Wow, okay. I think I've heard this, but I never paid attention. Go for it, guys, but not really my thing.

    Vaguely remembered, and shall remain that way.

    Now here's an Oldies Radio Classic. A very good Summer song.

    An Oldies staple, if not a classic, but far from their best work.

    True enough, but it would be cool to see. "By ze vay, Colonel Hogan-- I knew ev-ree-thing." Salute.

    She was amazing at that age, and her early solo work was personal and charming. My yeesh was about what happened to them both later-- she became a glamour queen and lost that intimate charm, and he left music to become a Right-wing Congress critter.
     
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    50 Years Ago This Week

    May 30 – Mariner 9 was launched by the U.S. toward Mars at 6:32 p.m. local time from Cape Kennedy, 11 days after the Soviet Union had launched Mars 2. On November 14, it became the first spacecraft from Earth to orbit another planet, when it reached Mars and took photographs, but no attempt to land a probe was made.
    May 31
    • Beginning with 1971, a three-day Memorial Day Weekend became an annual observance within the U.S. federal government and by nearly all of the U.S. states, as the scheduled Memorial Day was fixed permanently for federal agencies as the last Monday in May, pursuant to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Public Law 90-363. From 1868 to 1970, Memorial Day (formerly "Decoration Day") had been observed on May 30, regardless of what day of the week it fell upon.
    • The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan.

    June
    • Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting special education.
    • Ringo Starr films his role in the movie Blindman, an Allen Klein production.
    June 1 – Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.


    Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

    Leaving the chart:
    • "Layla," Derek & The Dominos (10 weeks)
    • "Lucky Man," Emerson, Lake & Palmer (12 weeks)
    • "Power to the People," John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (9 weeks)
    • "What's Going On," Marvin Gaye (15 weeks)

    New on the chart:

    "I Don't Want to Do Wrong," Gladys Knight & The Pips

    (#17 US; #2 R&B)

    "Bring the Boys Home," Freda Payne

    (#12 US; #3 R&B)

    "Sooner or Later," The Grass Roots

    (#9 US; #37 AC)

    "You've Got a Friend," James Taylor

    (#1 US the week of July 31, 1971; #1 AC; #4 UK; 1972 Grammy Award for Song of the Year; written by Carole King)

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    I may add it to my Summer! playlist just because of the subject matter. (Thought maybe I'd be breaking out the playlist this weekend, but that seems unlikely now given the crappy weather.) This was originally released as an album track back in '63, and rereleased as the title track of an album of previously released material that was put out in the wake of Jan Berry's accident. It's also Jan & Dean's final Top 40 single.

    Knew you'd like this one.

    This one's a bit of a minor period classic. I was originally exposed to it through a Divinyls cover.

    A welcome addition to the party for their distinct period sound.

    It was their best work so far at this point! This is another that was originally released significantly earlier...back in early '64, and it just took this long for it to gradually catch on. Tommy James has become something of a hometown-area hero to me because he was at the time and reportedly remains a resident of Niles, Michigan; and was originally exposed to this number that became his breakout hit when he saw another band performing it in a club in South Bend, Indiana.

    I was reminded from having the show on in the background that there's an episode I covered sometime back about a famed mystery agent who was close to what was going on at Stalag 13...Schultz seems like a leading contender now, though it doesn't explain how the prisoners came to forget how in-the-know Schultz used to be. Another thought that popped in my head because of this conversation is that maybe he's the camp's Russian spy...who doesn't openly help the prisoners because he has his own agenda.

    I was never a big fan, but we used to watch the variety shows when I was a kid, and she's a better variety show co-hostess than any of the Monkees...
     
  20. Nerys Myk

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    Not sure either one were actually hippies or counter culture. Their look was probably marketing.