40 and Over Club

[Mary Ann]

Welcome! Park your zimmer frame in the hallway and join us for bingo.

Matlock and Murder, She Wrote marathons to follow. Dinner will be served at 4:30 p.m.!

And Quincy! We mustn't forget Quincy. Now where's the nice young man with the tray of hot cocoa?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I loved Quincy. Never saw the other two. How about Columbo? He was the best.

 

[MANT!]

The filmstrips they used to show in 6th grade as Sex Education..
(Your Body and You!..Boys and Girls..a LOT less interesting and less informative as the Playboy mags I had stolen from my dad)

 

[CorporalCaptain]

^ Punished if you laugh.

 

[Captain Ice]

^^ I loved Quincy. Never saw the other two. How about Columbo? He was the best.

Was? Was?

Don't forget Trapper John, M. D.

 

[RandyS]

^^ I loved Quincy. Never saw the other two. How about Columbo? He was the best.

Was? Was?

Don't forget Trapper John, M. D.

Barnaby Jones beats them all.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Amateurs, all of 'em. Frank Drebin rules!

(and by that I mean the Drebin from the Police Squad! series - you know, the one who was actually a good cop, not the bumbling idiot from the films.)

 

[Gojira]

I grew up being afraid of nuclear war. I was also terrified of dogs and thunderstorms...love both of them today.

 

[scotpens]

I grew up being afraid of nuclear war. I was also terrified of dogs and thunderstorms...love both of them today.

And how do you feel about nuclear war today?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I loved Quincy. Never saw the other two. How about Columbo? He was the best.

Was? Was?

Was, is and shall be.

I don't think I ever saw Trapper John. Barnaby Jones was pretty cool, though.

 

[auntiehill]

I remember Trapper John well, for some reason. I think it was the first hospital show I really watched.

 

[SPOCKED]

I remember Trapper John well, for some reason. I think it was the first hospital show I really watched.

The first? What about M*A*S*H ??

 

[auntiehill]

That's not exactly representative of hospitals, though. That's more about war-time, not the hospital down the street.

 

[JiNX-01]

I was afraid of thunder. My parents had grown up in central New York where you never heard the word tornado in a weather forecast.
Then they moved to Detroit where such alerts occurred occasionally. My mother thinks she instilled a fear of thunderstorms in me because she freaked every time a tornado watch was issued.

I outgrew it, of course, and actually enjoy T-storms these days. Especially like watching the lightning come in off Lake Ontario at night.

 

[TheSeeker]

Has anyone mentioned the TV show Emergency yet? Randolph Mantooth's name always stuck with me, but for some reason I always that it was Rudolph Mantooth when I was a kid.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si_Dx0wUwa8&feature=related[/yt]

 

[Mary Ann]

Yes, I remember watching this a few times, but I don't remember much about it. I remember one bit where the ambulance was called to a house because a man had passed out from blowing up too many balloons for a children's birthday party. That may have turned me off the show.

 

[auntiehill]

I loved Emergency! A little neighbor girl and I had such big crushes on Randolph Mantooth. I tried watching the show as an adult and was bored silly; 30% of all the screen-time was devoted to shots of the firetruck going down the street.

I guess I was easier to entertain back then.

It is interesting to look back at it now and see how much emergency medicine & response technique has changed in such a short time.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8TmDvPMifU[/yt]

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Oh yeah, Emergency sure brings back memories... Talk about lots of stock footage!! *Laugh*

Since we're in the same (general) ballpack, give or take a few years, two other classics: Magnum P.I. and, of course, C*H*i*P*S.

And I used to glue myself to the screen every time there was a mention of Space: 1999.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Mary Ann]

Good grief, how could I have forgotten about Wonder Woman? I loved that show with a passion. It was on Friday night after the Donny and Marie Osmond show, which I'm downright embarrassed to say I also loved. Hey, I was 9, OK?