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The Over 40s Club Meeting

Many have been mentioned. Muttley, Cecil&Beanie, Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The Flintstones. Speed Racer. The Kroft shows.
What about Hong Kong Phooey, Jabberjaw, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Luno, Grape Ape, Magilla Gorilla and non-cartoons like Ark II, Shazam!, and Isis!

A bowl of Coco Puffs or Quisp and a couple of hours of these shows, along with Land of the Lost of course, made my Sat mornings great!
 
I remember liking Kimba, but I was 3 and 4 years old - so, if it was preachy, I didn't know it.

Saturday mornings my brother dominated the tv. I asked my mother one time not too long ago why she always sided with my brother and let him watch his shows, but never me and she said because I was never that interested in watching tv anyway. If I started watching a program, I never just sat and watched it, I was always doing something else - if I even finished watching the show.
 
I was born in 1964, and as best as I can recall I've never even heard of this "Kimba" that so many people are mentioning. I'm a bit baffled at how something that popular could have gotten by me. :eek:
 
Actually, I'm surprised so many people have heard of it. I've always had the impression that it was pretty obscure. Here's the info, if you're interested.
 
Yeah, Kimba was great. I liked that it had a through story, instead of just stand alone stories.
 
Joeman said:
I was born in 1964, and as best as I can recall I've never even heard of this "Kimba" that so many people are mentioning. I'm a bit baffled at how something that popular could have gotten by me. :eek:
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I was also born in '64. But, as RJ says ...

RJDemonicus said:
Actually, I'm surprised so many people have heard of it. I've always had the impression that it was pretty obscure. Here's the info, if you're interested.
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... apparently is wasn't shown everywhere in the US.
 
My husband (5 years older than I am) loved Kimba so much that up until recently, every password was some combination of it.

I remember rushing home from middle school every day to watch that futuristic, animated space soap opera, Starblazers. And just typing that means I'll have that awesome theme song in my head ALL DAY.

I also loved The Courtship of Eddie's Father (both the theme song and the show). I had a crush on all three main characters: Tom Corbett (Eddie's father, played by Bill Bixby); Eddie (played by Brandon Cruz); and Mrs. Livingston (played by Miyoshi Umecki). This was one of the best shows ever.
 
Joeman said:
I was born in 1964, and as best as I can recall I've never even heard of this "Kimba" that so many people are mentioning. I'm a bit baffled at how something that popular could have gotten by me. :eek:
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I guess it depends on the area you grew up in. I still remeber seeing the first episode I ever saw of Speed Racer over at a friends house (I was 7 it was 1970); and that was when I discovered UHF on TV (it was a local UHF station that broadcast Speed racer, Kimba, and a couple other show in my area).

So, if you didn't have a local UHF station, you might not have seen Kimba.
 
Joeman said:
I was born in 1964, and as best as I can recall I've never even heard of this "Kimba" that so many people are mentioning. I'm a bit baffled at how something that popular could have gotten by me. :eek:
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Same here. I was a major telly addict as a kid but I never came across it. It was never shown on the American channels we got in Montreal, or I would have come across it.

Thinking about it, I would spend about 6 hours in front of the idiot box every Saturday morning, and several hours after school. :eek: I suspect my family liked having me out of the way. *develops complex*
 
When I was little, I mostly watched the Mickey Mouse Club. A bit older, I remember Merv Griffin, Bewitched, the Addams Family -- mostly stuff that my mother watched.

I've always been more of a reader than a TV watcher. Didn't even discover Star Trek until I was in my 40's.
 
Does anybody else remember "Search", the SF-ish spy show that only lasted one season (72-73)?

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

It was really cool ... three different lead characters (played by Hugh O'Brian, Tony Franciosa, and Doug McClure), and each episode featured a different guy's adventure, with the main control room run by Burgess Meredith. Nifty! I was extremely bummed when it got canceled.
 
TJinBOOca said:
Does anybody else remember "Search", the SF-ish spy show that only lasted one season (72-73)?

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

It was really cool ... three different lead characters (played by Hugh O'Brian, Tony Franciosa, and Doug McClure), and each episode featured a different guy's adventure, with the main control room run by Burgess Meredith. Nifty! I was extremely bummed when it got canceled.
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Yes! I remember Search, but I thought nobody else did. I remember having the novelization of the pilot movie and reading it several times. I, too, was bummed out when it had been cancelled.
 
macghoul said:
Joeman said:
I was born in 1964, and as best as I can recall I've never even heard of this "Kimba" that so many people are mentioning. I'm a bit baffled at how something that popular could have gotten by me. :eek:
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Same here. I was a major telly addict as a kid but I never came across it. It was never shown on the American channels we got in Montreal, or I would have come across it.
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On the US West Coast we had Kimba and Speed Racer and Gigantor, I think it was weekday afternoons for the first two, but I don't think we had Stingray or Thunderbirds or Fireball XL-5, which many people seem to have seen. I also don't recall UFO being on out here.

TJinBOOca said:
Does anybody else remember "Search", the SF-ish spy show that only lasted one season (72-73)?

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

It was really cool ... three different lead characters (played by Hugh O'Brian, Tony Franciosa, and Doug McClure), and each episode featured a different guy's adventure, with the main control room run by Burgess Meredith. Nifty! I was extremely bummed when it got canceled.
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I remember that it existed, but I'm not sure I ever saw very much of it.

Evil Brain Bug said:
How about the following..

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xExiIxS48[/yt]

it came on BEFORE Star Trek's 3rd NBC season..so as my parents let me stay up to watch Star Trek of Fridays at 10PM.. it also let me see one of Steven Speilberg's
1st TV episodes..

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUbUhy-5z6c[/yt]

http://www.tv.com/the-name-of-the-g...sode/57764/recap.html?tag=episode_recap;recap
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I do remember watching this show every week--another one which had several leads, rotating by week (Tony Franciosa again, Robert Stack, Gene Barry and later Susan Saint James was moved up from being Barry's executive assistant to a full magazine-reporter spot)--and I recall the Episode "LA 2017" quite well, even now. It was unlike anything I could recall having seen before.
 
Of the few shows I actually watched back when, UFO & Time Tunnel & TOS & TAS & Mission Impossible & I Dream of Jeannie & The Avengers & Space 1999 have already been mentioned...

But I don't think these have:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuybfKuBP-A[/yt]
video linky

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZawDSONb6I[/yt]
video linky
(Most of the TV of my childhood was dubbed in German :sigh: )

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RfzkhqBLY[/yt]
video linky

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8kFHCXiEg[/yt]
video linky

Of course, some were German to begin with (do enjoy the background music in the last part of this clip! -it's not entirely untypical or the series):

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8aSPT81pA[/yt]
video linky​


Edit: NOW what's wrong with embedding YT-vids???
Edit²: Cool, embedding is back!
 
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