The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

[DarrenTR1970]

I'm at work so I can't post a link, but type in Northcoaster Hobby into YouTube search and the first thing that should pop up is a video regarding MeTV Plus the stations it currently airs on. It airs in Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas and Salt Lake City. He also includes a link to a PDF schedule you can download.

 

[J.T.B.]

Well I'll be damned, it is on here in Salt Lake. No channel guide info. Streets of San Francisco was on, and now Vegas. They ran a promo showing Streets, The Rookies, Mission Impossible, Five-O, and I think Police Woman.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Looking at the MeTV+ schedule, it looks like they're going for a police procedural line up in the afternoon not unlike the western theme on its parent channel.

Cannon, T.J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Mod Squad, The Rookies, Police Woman, Streets . . . , Vega$, Hawaii Five-O, Mission.

The sci-fi overnights - Lost in Space, Space: 1999, War of the Worlds.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Michael Constantine died two days after Ed Asner about a month ago.

Aw, I hadn't heard that. He was great on Room 222.

No, he was supposed to be out of town.

Yeah, but you don't just loan out somebody's bed without asking. Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!

The one trying on the negligee was a middle-aged woman.

You're right, she's probably too young for me.

Well that makes me feel old....

Makes me feel older.

Shat already looked like he'd gained noticeably anyway.

He had a tendency to trend that way.

Rub it in!

Oops, sorry.

I've never watched one of those "People react to X" videos before...is it typical that they constantly stop the song to talk about it on what's supposed to be their first listen?

I don't know, I've never seen anything like it. I thought it was amusing to see this young lady discover Jethro Tull like a British professor unearthing Herculaneum or something. And her reactions are priceless. And she's clearly learned in her field, so it was fascinating to listen to her dissections of the music and vocal performance.

RJ, has your MeTV newsletter said anything about a new subchannel called MeTV+? DarrenTR1970 just posted in the Trek Guest Actors thread about having discovered it in his channel lineup. I don't see it in my cable, and I see nothing about it on Me's main site. Looks like they're playing stuff like Mod Squad and Hawaii 5-O as part of their regular line-up.

The newsletter came last night and there was nothing, and there's nothing on the app either. I checked the YouTube page that Darren mentioned and it looks like the list of stations is now up to 25, but it's not in my area yet. The schedule does look pretty good, so hopefully they continue to spread.

 

[J.T.B.]

Looking at the MeTV+ schedule, it looks like they're going for a police procedural line up in the afternoon not unlike the western theme on its parent channel.

Three hours of McGarrett is a little much for me, though!

Aw, I hadn't heard that. He was great on Room 222.

He was indeed. The guy worked all over TV for many years.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Three hours of McGarrett is a little much for me, though!

I tried to watch an episode last night; I don't know what it was, maybe I needed to be in the right frame of mind, but I couldn't get through it. Maybe the story wasn't interesting enough.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I've got it! It's on 27 on my Xfinity lineup...which had been the location of my old MeTV affiliate, IIRC.

Shit, I'm gonna have to start recording Mod Squads....

 

[RJDiogenes]

I tried to watch an episode last night; I don't know what it was, maybe I needed to be in the right frame of mind, but I couldn't get through it. Maybe the story wasn't interesting enough.

I could never get into it back in the day. I loved the theme and the setting and the hula girls, but I just couldn't deal with McGarrett.

I've got it! It's on 27 on my Xfinity lineup...which had been the location of my old MeTV affiliate, IIRC.

Nice. I'll check on Sunday, but unless that list was out of date, I'm out of luck.

 

[The Old Mixer]

55 Years Ago This Week

October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.

October 4

• Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted.
• Basutoland becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the name Lesotho.
• Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen fly to Spain for a few days to see John Lennon filming How I Won the War.

October 5

• UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
• Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic.
• An experimental breeder reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
• The 1964 murder conviction and death sentence of Jack Ruby was reversed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on grounds that the trial judge should have granted a motion for a change of venue to somewhere other than Dallas. "Jack Ruby was forced to trial under the most adverse, unusual, and extraordinary circumstances that this member of this court has yet to consider," Judge W.T. McDonald wrote in a concurring opinion. The Court remanded the case with instructions for a change of venue and a new trial. Ruby's fatal shooting of accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been witnessed by more people than any murder in history, as millions of people had watched the crime take place on live television on November 24, 1963. Although a new trial would be scheduled for February in Wichita Falls, Texas, Ruby would become sick with pneumonia on December 9, and would die of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald had both been pronounced dead.

October 6

• The hallucinogenic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) became illegal in the state of California as a new law went into effect at 12:01 a.m. California became the first state in the U.S. to ban LSD, and in 1970, LSD would be reclassified as a Schedule I drug nationwide by the Controlled Substances Act. The bill, sponsored by California state Senator Donald L. Grunsky, had been signed into law on May 30, 1966.

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• The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).

October 7

• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, announced for the first time that NASA was considering JPL's suggestion for what would become the "Grand Tour program" after JPL aerospace engineer Gary Flandro pointed out the approach of a rare opportunity for exploration of four outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune with one spacecraft. Flandro had noted that if a probe could be readied for launch within 12 years, the four planets would be closely aligned so that an optimal liftoff date of October 7, 1978 would reach all four over a nine year voyage; a similar positioning of the planets would not happen again for 180 years. Homer Joe Stewart, JPL's manager of advanced studies, would tell the press a month later that by the late 1970s, solar-electric systems could be developed for taking advantage of gravity assist (commonly called the "slingshot effect") to use one planet's gravitational field to propel a probe at high speed to the next planet on the tour. Given funding for two probes in case one failed, NASA would launch both in the summer of 1977, with Voyager 2 lifting off on August 20, 1977 and Voyager 1 16 days later on September 5. The alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will not happen again until the year 2155.
• The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "Cherish," The Association
2. "Reach Out I'll Be There," Four Tops
3. "96 Tears," ? & The Mysterians
4. "Black Is Black," Los Bravos
5. "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep," The Temptations
6. "Last Train to Clarksville," The Monkees
7. "Cherry, Cherry," Neil Diamond
8. "You Can't Hurry Love," The Supremes
9. "Psychotic Reaction," Count Five
10. "I've Got You Under My Skin," The Four Seasons
11. "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted," Jimmy Ruffin
12. "Sunshine Superman," Donovan
13. "Born a Woman," Sandy Posey
14. "Walk Away Renee," The Left Banke
15. "Bus Stop," The Hollies
16. "Yellow Submarine," The Beatles
17. "Mr. Dieingly Sad," The Critters
18. "Wipe Out," The Surfaris
19. "See See Rider," Eric Burdon & The Animals
20. "Poor Side of Town," Johnny Rivers
21. "Eleanor Rigby," The Beatles
22. "If I Were a Carpenter," Bobby Darin
23. "Hooray for Hazel," Tommy Roe

25. "B-A-B-Y," Carla Thomas
26. "All I See Is You," Dusty Springfield
27. "Sunny Afternoon," The Kinks
28. "Summer Samba (So Nice)," Walter Wanderley
29. "All Strung Out," Nino Tempo & April Stevens
30. "Flamingo," Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

33. "Just Like a Woman," Bob Dylan
34. "Summer Wind," Frank Sinatra
35. "Guantanamera," The Sandpipers
36. "See You in September," The Happenings
37. "Girl on a Swing," Gerry & The Pacemakers

39. "Working in the Coal Mine," Lee Dorsey
40. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?," The Rolling Stones

42. "Open the Door to Your Heart," Darrell Banks
43. "Little Man," Sonny & Cher
44. "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," Lou Rawls
45. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," The Beach Boys
46. "Land of 1000 Dances," Wilson Pickett
47. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
48. "Dandy," Herman's Hermits

51. "The Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin," Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
52. "The Great Airplane Strike," Paul Revere & The Raiders

55. "You're Gonna Miss Me," The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
56. "Mr. Spaceman," The Byrds

63. "Go Away Little Girl," The Happenings

66. "Coming on Strong," Brenda Lee
67. "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)," Otis Redding

69. "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," Dionne Warwick

71. "I'm Your Puppet," James & Bobby Purify

73. "(You Don't Have to) Paint Me a Picture," Gary Lewis & The Playboys

76. "But It's Alright," J. J. Jackson
77. "Knock on Wood," Eddie Floyd

79. "Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly," Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

90. "Lady Godiva," Peter & Gordon

Leaving the chart:

• "God Only Knows," The Beach Boys (8 weeks)
• "7 and 7 Is," Love (10 weeks)
• "Sunny," Bobby Hebb (15 weeks)
• "Turn-Down Day," The Cyrkle (8 weeks)
• "Wade in the Water," Ramsey Lewis Trio (13 weeks)

New on the chart:

"(You Don't Have to) Paint Me a Picture," Gary Lewis & The Playboys

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(#15 US)

"Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?," The Rolling Stones

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(#9 US; #5 UK)

"Lady Godiva," Peter & Gordon

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(#6 US; #16 UK)

"Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly," Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

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(#4 US; #428 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)


And new on the boob tube:

• The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 4
• Gilligan's Island, "The Producer"
• The Monkees, "Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers"
• The Rat Patrol, "The Kill or Be Killed Raid"
• Batman, "The Greatest Mother of Them All"
• Batman, "Ma Parker"
• Star Trek, "The Enemy Within"
• That Girl, "Anatomy of a Blunder"
• The Green Hornet, "The Frog Is a Deadly Weapon"
• The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Big Blast"
• Tarzan, "The Prisoner"
• The Time Tunnel, "The Last Patrol"
• Hogan's Heroes, "Operation Briefcase"
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Super-Colossal Affair"
• 12 O'Clock High, "A Distant Cry"
• Get Smart, "The Only Way to Die"
• Mission: Impossible, "Old Man Out: Part 1"

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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, with minor editing as needed.

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I could never get into it back in the day. I loved the theme and the setting and the hula girls, but I just couldn't deal with McGarrett.

The Sinatra of police detectives...?

Nice. I'll check on Sunday, but unless that list was out of date, I'm out of luck.

I think that channel used to be a tryout channel in my lineup, FWIW.

They're just getting into Mod Squad S5, so I should be able to record that for next year; but S4 is already in progress in 50th Anniversaryland, so it'll be a while before I'd potentially be able to include it in this season's viewing. However it falls, I'll have to catch up on part of S2, all of S3, and at least part of S4 somewhere down the line...probably in the coming hiatus season.

They also have WWW, so I should be able to grab the S2 episodes that I still needed eventually. They're in S4 at the moment, I believe.

And they have Branded, which I was missing some later S2 episodes of...but they're playing one episode each on Saturday and Sunday, and my affiliate is preempting it for other programming on Sunday.

 

[J.T.B.]

Shit, I'm gonna have to start recording Mod Squads....

I can't record anything until my DVR has the programming schedule info, and so far it's still blank.

I could never get into it back in the day. I loved the theme and the setting and the hula girls, but I just couldn't deal with McGarrett

I heard an interview with Joyce Van Patten, who guest starred with Andy Griffith in a S5 Five -O. She said Griffith was so put off by Jack Lord's arrogant manner on set that he refused to speak to speak to Lord for the entire shoot.

 

[Commander Troi]

Getting back to "Aqualung"-- and why not?-- I stumbled across this video by accident, and I think some peeps here will find it amusing:

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She's got a few others that I have to check out now.

That was trippy! I see she's an opera singer and vocal coach. I wondered how anyone could NOT have heard Aqualung! Her comments on message over style sound like something I would say. I was lucky enough to see Tull back in the 90s - fantastic show!

Looking at the MeTV+ schedule, it looks like they're going for a police procedural line up in the afternoon not unlike the western theme on its parent channel.

Cannon, T.J. Hooker, Matt Houston, Mod Squad, The Rookies, Police Woman, Streets . . . , Vega$, Hawaii Five-O, Mission.

The sci-fi overnights - Lost in Space, Space: 1999, War of the Worlds.

AHA! That was on in my grocery store last Saturday night. They showed original Star Trek ("And The Children Shall Lead") and then Buck Rogers(!).

 

[The Old Mixer]

AHA! That was on in my grocery store last Saturday night. They showed original Star Trek ("And The Children Shall Lead") and then Buck Rogers(!).

Actually, that sounds like original-recipe MeTV--those are part of their Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night lineup. It looks like MeTV+ has a Western Saturday night lineup.

ETA: I'm getting myself a bit spoiled as I have a mid-Season 4 H5O on in the background, which is one I'll be watching later this season. McGarrett gets in an auto accident and there are shots of Danno looking in the busted window. Did they use that as his main credits shot in later seasons? It looks very familiar.

OMG--I should save this for the eventual review, but Wo Fat just entered the episode...in a bright yellow mini-sub with a red hatch! Hit it, Ringo!

And...two McGarretts! Double Your Displeasure!

"Which one, Danno, which one!?!"
"Eh...shoot 'em both."

 

[J.T.B.]

McGarrett gets in an auto accident and there are shots of Danno looking in the busted window. Did they use that as his main credits shot in later seasons? It looks very familiar.

Yeah Danny looking through the hole in the glass was the James Macarthur credit shot starting S5 and I think was the same until he left.

 

[Neopeius]

"The hallucinogenic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) became illegal in the state of California as a new law went into effect at 12:01 a.m. California became the first state in the U.S. to ban LSD, and in 1970, LSD would be reclassified as a Schedule I drug nationwide by the Controlled Substances Act. The bill, sponsored by California state Senator Donald L. Grunsky, had been signed into law on May 30, 1966."

Dammit!

 

[The Old Mixer]

Which was the subject of the series premiere of Dragnet 1967...the bill got passed during the episode!

ETA--just looked it up:

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Aw, they're gonna sack Kono?

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I've never watched one of those "People react to X" videos before...is it typical that they constantly stop the song to talk about it on what's supposed to be their first listen? As with a lot of YouTube commenting/review material, 27 minutes for a 6-minute song (assuming the live version she was listening to was the same length; and a first listen should have been the studio version anyway) seems a bit indulgent. I could only take about six minutes of it, I'm afraid.

There are a couple of reviewers out there that will play the whole song through (Andy & Alex being one) and then comment on it afterwards; but most, they feel the need to stop the songs and comment on things they hear, which can be really annoying.

My biggest issue/complaint is that I sometimes feel it's all a bit contrived; there's no way that they can't have heard the songs they review in one form or another either on the radio or some other medium.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yeah, from what I watched of that video, the woman had clearly done some homework on Jethro Tull and the song before what was supposed to be her first listen. Seems like at least a casual listen along the way would have been in order. How many people would study a song in that detail before ever hearing it?

 

[J.T.B.]

Aw, they're gonna sack Kono?

Of the original cast, only Lord made it through all twelve seasons.

 

[The Old Mixer]

One 'do to rule them all...

 

[DarrenTR1970]

All this talk about antenna's and over the air broadcasts made me write up a comprehensive list of all the stations I can receive from my indoor antenna.

1) 4.1 – ABC (KOMO)
2) 4.2 – CometTV
3) 4.3 – Charge!
4) 5.1 – NBC (KING)
5) 5.2 – Crime
6) 5.3 – Quest
7) 5.4 – Twist
8) 7.1 – CBS (KIRO)
9) 7.2 – CoziTV
10) 7.3 – Laff!
11) 9.1 – PBS Seattle (KCTS)
12) 9.2 – PBS Kids
13) 9.3 – PBS Create
14) 9.4 – PBS World
15) 11.1 – CW11 (KSTW)
16) 11.2 – Start!
17) 11.3 – Grit!
18) 11.4 – Dabl
19) 11.5 – Circle
20) 13.1 – FOX (Q13 FOX)
21) 13.2 – CourtTV
22) 13.3 – Mystery
23) 13.4 – Buzzr
24) 16.1 – KONG (KING Affiliate)
25) 16.2 – Bounce
26) 16.3 – THiS!
27) 20.1 – TBN
28) 20.2 – Hilsong
29) 20.3 – SMiLE
30) 20.4 – Enlace
31) 20.5 – PosiTV
32) 22.1 – KZJO (Q13 FOX Affiliate)
33) 22.2 – FOX (Rebroadcast)
34) 22.3 – Antenna TV
35) 22.5 – AAN (Asian)
36) 28.1 – PBS Tacoma (KBTC)
37) 28.2 – NKH World Japan
38) 28.3 – FNX (First Nations Experience)
39) 28.4 – TVW (Washington Public Affairs Network)
40) 33.1 – ION
41) 33.2 – CourtTV (Rebroadcast)
42) 33.3 – Bounce (Rebroadcast)
43) 33.4 – Grit! (Rebroadcast)
44) 33.5 – Defy
45) 33.6 – TruReal
46) 33.7 – Telemundo
47) 44.1 – MeTV
48) 44.2 – Movies! TV
49) 44.3 – H&I (Heroes & Icons)
50) 44.4 – Decades TV
51) 44.5 – MeTV+
52) 51.1 – Univision
53) 51.2 – TBD (To Be Determined)
54) 51.3 – Stadium!
55) 56.1 – Daystar
56) 56.2 – Daystar Spanish

Granted, I'm in a third floor end unit with clear line of sight North/South for the broadcast transmitters. These are on on good days, and like any antenna, the signals are subject to the weather, especially in fall and winter.