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 Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 01:26 AM
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I cannot believe that people actually pay a cable company to hook up some fancy hardware so they can sit and vegitate in front of these old shows. I mean, come on, a trip down memory lane is good for the soul some of the time, but a steady diet of it!?!
One of the reasons I am glad that we do not have cable or satelite. I would rather spend the money on a real-life adventure with my real-life family. |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 09:58 AM
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| SMB wrote: | I cannot believe that people actually pay a cable company to hook up some fancy hardware so they can sit and vegitate in front of these old shows. I mean, come on, a trip down memory lane is good for the soul some of the time, but a steady diet of it!?!
One of the reasons I am glad that we do not have cable or satelite. I would rather spend the money on a real-life adventure with my real-life family. |
They`re are currently only 2 other cable sources in america that I know of for vintage shows besides THE REMNANTS of what is left of TV Land`s vintage shows. That would be RTN (Retro Television Network) and Chicago SuperStation WGN NEITHER OF WHICH my cable provider carries. You talk as if there were a glut of vintage TV shows on cable, SMB, and that is most certainly not the case. ALL I SEE on cable is a glut of 80s, 90s and 2000s crap that most people never liked in the first place. |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 11:59 AM
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| morgram wrote: | | SMB wrote: | I cannot believe that people actually pay a cable company to hook up some fancy hardware so they can sit and vegitate in front of these old shows. I mean, come on, a trip down memory lane is good for the soul some of the time, but a steady diet of it!?!
One of the reasons I am glad that we do not have cable or satelite. I would rather spend the money on a real-life adventure with my real-life family. |
They`re are currently only 2 other cable sources in america that I know of for vintage shows besides THE REMNANTS of what is left of TV Land`s vintage shows. That would be RTN (Retro Television Network) and Chicago SuperStation WGN NEITHER OF WHICH my cable provider carries. You talk as if there were a glut of vintage TV shows on cable, SMB, and that is most certainly not the case. ALL I SEE on cable is a glut of 80s, 90s and 2000s crap that most people never liked in the first place. |
Oh, I see.  I do enjoy the history and other educational channels when I am at my inlaws or if I am on vacation and am relaxing in a hotel.
I think I got burned out with vintage stuff when I was in the hospital years ago. It seems like all of the channels on the TVs there were vintage ones. They were showing "Mr. Peepers." Talk about boring! 
Well, gotta get back to work. I am doing a few hooty owl shifts. Better money. Thanks for the info.  |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 02:13 PM
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| morgram wrote: | | They`re are currently only 2 other cable sources in america that I know of for vintage shows besides THE REMNANTS of what is left of TV Land`s vintage shows. That would be RTN (Retro Television Network) and Chicago SuperStation WGN NEITHER OF WHICH my cable provider carries. You talk as if there were a glut of vintage TV shows on cable, SMB, and that is most certainly not the case. ALL I SEE on cable is a glut of 80s, 90s and 2000s crap that most people never liked in the first place. |
It's insane, isn't it comrade? Well, you know you're not alone in this fight. Together, with Mr. Turbo, we shall prevail and the Lumiere Brothers will once again be where they deserve to be seen. I tell you what, NEVER has a fight required as much gallant courage as the one we share. All for one and one for all. As Orson Welles once said, "A jar of pickles is only a jar of pickles when the pickles have been pickled long enough." Not my words, his!  |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 07:04 PM
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Well, SMB, I like the old shows. I can't help it. I've often felt I was born in the wrong time. Besides, they're often funnier then what passes for comedy today.
Like one episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show they're doing a flashback when their son was born. Robert is convinced that the babies were switched at the hospital. So he calls up the family he thinks his son was switched with and they come over - and I'll leave it there but let's just say that the other father came over cause he just had to see Robert's face. Oh you never get comedy like that today cause it wouldn't be considered PC. |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:09 PM
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| Jami wrote: | Well, SMB, I like the old shows. I can't help it. I've often felt I was born in the wrong time. Besides, they're often funnier then what passes for comedy today.
Like one episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show they're doing a flashback when their son was born. Robert is convinced that the babies were switched at the hospital. So he calls up the family he thinks his son was switched with and they come over - and I'll leave it there but let's just say that the other father came over cause he just had to see Robert's face. Oh you never get comedy like that today cause it wouldn't be considered PC. |
I remember that one! The other father was Greg Morris, who was in everything from Password to Password Plus to TekWar to T.J. Hooker to Mission Impossible to Love, American Style. Guess what TV Land thinks about showing ANY of those shows! Talk about Mission Impossible! |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:35 PM
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| Jami wrote: | Well, SMB, I like the old shows. I can't help it. I've often felt I was born in the wrong time.
Like one episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show they're doing a flashback when their son was born. Robert is convinced that the babies were switched at the hospital. So he calls up the family he thinks his son was switched with and they come over - and I'll leave it there but let's just say that the other father came over cause he just had to see Robert's face. Oh you never get comedy like that today cause it wouldn't be considered PC. |
Indeed. And they'd be unable to do it if Huseinn gets elected too.  |
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Post subject: Re: TV Land & Howdy Doody
Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 08:44 PM
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William Shatner was a replacement host for the Canadian version of Howdy Doody. He played Ranger Bill or Bob depending on your source but I cannot find a pic or more info than that... now someone somewheres must have a pic or can offer up more info???
| Harry_Mudd wrote: | AT LAST, they showed some Keystone Cops films yesterday. Obviously, our pressure is now reaping rewards, as such as they are.
However, I was looking through the scheduling for kids shows only to find that they will be doing re-runs of Howdy frickin' Doody! I am certain that many of you will support my campaign to replace this Fifties modernity with the far more appropriate 1920's Felix The Cat.
WHEN WILL TV LAND LISTEN TO ITS PAYING PATRONS!!! Thank goodness, I have so much free time to spend on this campaign! Perhaps, one day there will be a statue erected of me in Washington DC, which will be replete with the valour I have shown in fighting the scourge of TV Land.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 09:05 PM
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In 1954, Canadian and Cuban spin-off shows were licensed using local casts and duplicate puppets.
A then unknown Canadian actor named William Shatner (who would later play Captain Kirk in Star Trek) appeared occasionally as a fill-in host on the Canadian show as "Ranger Bob." Coincidentally, another future Star Trek actor would join the Canadian Howdy Doody cast. The Canadian show starred James Doohan and later Peter Mews as forest ranger Timber Tom who corresponded to Buffalo Bob in the U.S. version. |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 10:49 PM
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"I cry for TVLand." |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 05:57 PM
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way way better. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 06:56 PM
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I SAW Howdy Doody in the Smithstonian Museum of American History...
..in a Little Glass Case...I must have 15 pictures of him, also in the same case were Cells from Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flintstones, Bugs and Daffy, Mr Roger's Sweater, Jimmy Olsens Tie from the 50s Adventures of Superman... I have pictures..
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:42 PM
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Neeto windslipper. Maybe you could post a photo or two??
There are those of us who remember, vaguely, Howdy and Clarabell.  |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 08:01 PM
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Whooooeeeee Angel! That was the first thing that popped up when I clicked on the link to this site. Talk about a wake-up jolt. 
It's a good thing I am on my way to the shower. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 09:48 PM
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| SMB wrote: | | angel wrote: |
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Whooooeeeee Angel! That was the first thing that popped up when I clicked on the link to this site. Talk about a wake-up jolt.
It's a good thing I am on my way to the shower. |
Glad to make your day, Sue Marie  Yep, I've adopted ol' Chuck Norris w/ his hoppin' hooters. He's such a turn-on compared to the rest of the stuff on this board now-a-days, since he's an Okie and a martial artist and all, and I thought I'd liven up this board a bit with him. I was talking to my husband on the phone a while ago and he was telling me that there's some machinists from Missouri checking out the presses at the paper co. where my husband works. Evidently there's a guy among this bunch that my husband swears is about 300lbs and could bend a steel bar with his teeth. The guys at work are saying my husband is calling him Junior Samples from Hee Haw. Pretty darn funny to me, but my husband says if he's late coming home tonight it's because that guy's bent my husband into a pretzel. My husband gets all bent out of shape for nothing! |
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