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The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

^^ Did you notice the computer in the back with the sign that said "Black Sheep Computer?"

I got in some retro viewing yesterday morning. I saw an episode of It Takes A Thief with Yvonne Craig (yowza!) and Roger C Carmel (different kind of yowza). Also an old black-and-white Avengers with Honor Blackman-- it was starting to show a bit of the quirky humor that would make it a classic in the Emma Peel years.

I've had McCloud on in the background, but I've barely had a chance to glance at it.
 
Jeez, Diogenes! You hit many of my sweet spots in that post!

"There ya go""
 
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This is a pretty good time for retro TV.

I had forgotten that the guy from Battlestar: Galactica was in McCloud. Or maybe I had forgotten by the time BSG came on the air.
 
I wish that we had these kinds of over the air channels on TV here in Canada, but we don't (although we can get them here if we're close to a U.S. border city.)
 
Just wait a bit. If November goes "south", there should be some Americans joining you...perhaps they will bring OTR channels with them...Plus, Fan Films, American Style! :techman:
 
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I don't know if I like the show enough to buy it on DVD, but I wouldn't mind seeing that finale again.
 
Think they've been known to show it in their rotating weekday programming...that's probably what they've saved it for.
 
Frank Sinatra Jr. has died. I especially remember him from an episode of Adam-12 called "The Clinic on 18th Street," which was intended as a pilot for a spinoff about a "fraud squad" in the DA's office. They gave him a huge entrance: Someone calls his name in the bustling office, and he pops up over the back of a couch where he's apparently been napping. He freezes with a big grin, and the camera quickly zooms in to a closeup and holds, like they could picture everyone in the audience gasping with recognition. Sharon Gless was also in it, but nothing came of it.
 
Eh, not a big Doris Day fan.

Decades showed a two-part episode of Vega$ last night. I didn't get to see it, but I remember it. It was a back-door pilot for a series about two female cops in San Francisco. I think it was supposed to be called Ladies In Blue or something like that. It didn't fly, obviously, but somebody at Aaron Spelling Productions liked Tanya Roberts, because she ended up as the final TV Angel. She went on from there to a brief career in B-Movies.

I also missed the Mission: Impossible episode that followed, which is a shame because it was Jim Phelps' first appearance. I don't think I've ever seen it.
 
I was thinking of catching that MI episode, but it was that or starting Daredevil before bed....

So...the 1960s Tarzan series...it amazes me that they could have a show starring a guy running around wearing so little in the same era that wouldn't let us see Barbara Eden's navel....
 
The Old Mixer said:
So...the 1960s Tarzan series...it amazes me that they could have a show starring a guy running around wearing so little in the same era that wouldn't let us see Barbara Eden's navel....
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That's because our society has never objectified the male body in the same way as the female. In the view of society at the time, a shirtless man could easily have been an athlete or a workman or a gladiator or the like, but one would only expect to see an undressed woman in a sexual context. So there was, and to a large extent still is, a double standard.
 
(CNN) "TV actor Joe Santos, best known for his role as police Sgt. Dennis Becker on the 1970s show "The Rockford Files," has died, according to his agent, Alicia Beekman. He was 84."

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Jimmy Loved ya', man!!! RIP
 
Retro TV alert! Barney Martin (best known to TV audiences of my generation for his later role as Morty Seinfeld) on Car 54!
 
^^ I haven't seen much of it, but I walked in yesterday just in time to see Larry Storch's name in the credits. I also saw Wally Cox's name.

HIjol said:
(CNN) "TV actor Joe Santos, best known for his role as police Sgt. Dennis Becker on the 1970s show "The Rockford Files," has died, according to his agent, Alicia Beekman. He was 84."
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He was definitely one of the cool character actors of that time. RIP, Joe Santos.
 
HIjol said:
(CNN) "TV actor Joe Santos, best known for his role as police Sgt. Dennis Becker on the 1970s show "The Rockford Files," has died, according to his agent, Alicia Beekman. He was 84."

Jimmy Loved ya', man!!! RIP
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Aw, too bad. He was great on "Rockford" and kept working, it was always good to see him. He also had a recurring stint on the later seasons of Magnum P.I. David Chase must have liked him because he brought him back for The Sopranos. He really made an impression on my young mind on Hill Street Blues as a gay mobster who had a crush on undercover Mick Belker.

It's funny to compare The Rockford Files to Mannix, which was a few years older. On "Rockford" Becker (Santos) was Jim's friend and helped him when he could, but the higher-ups didn't like private eyes and Becker had to walk a fine line to keep himself out of trouble with his bosses, and he actually had to arrest Rockford a couple of times (on mistaken evidence, of course). Whereas Mannix was like part of the police department, they let him practically run their investigations for them. He had some friction with an early police contact, played by Larry Linville, but the rest (Ward Wood, Robert Reed, Jack Ging) basically treat him as an insider.

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Retro TV alert! Barney Martin (best known to TV audiences of my generation for his later role as Morty Seinfeld) on Car 54!
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He was actually a NYPD cop back then, I believe, and got into acting full time when he retired.
 
The April 9-10 Decades Binge may be of interest to those who don't get two episodes a week on H&I: Black Sheep Squadron.

ETA: The currently airing episode of The Fugitive has a guest actor named Rex Thompson who bears a distractingly uncanny resemblance to Tobey Maguire.
 
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The April 16-17 Decades Binge:

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