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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 13, 2024 10:56:07 GMT -5
Fifty years ago today, the following TV shows debuted: Police Woman
The Rockford FilesI saw a few episodes of The Rockford Files. It was my grandfather’s favourite show, and I believe it aired on the BBC. I did watch some with him. I haven’t seen Police Woman. Anyone here seen these? is a great show. Amazing supporting cast and James Garner is just one of my favorites. He comes across like that fun Uncle who will let you get away with stuff...but not quite let you get into real trouble. And it holds up far better than most shows of that vintage. I haven't seen an episode of Police Woman since it was airing...so I got nothin' there. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2024 10:56:26 GMT -5
Thanks. I’ve found some vintage shows on eBay recently (and Amazon), as not many stores around here seem to be selling anything other than modern stuff lately. (My most recent purchase was Season 2 of Mission: Impossible). Season 1 of The Rockford Files is on Amazon for £18.75. Might give that a go… I echo what DubipR said on the Rockford Files completely, fantastic show! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 13, 2024 13:15:02 GMT -5
Somewhere around 40-45 years ago, my first wife and I were visiting her grandparents, and her great-aunt Jane was there too. Aunt Jane told us that her favorite TV shows were The Rutherford Files and Quimby.
We knew what she meant.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 13, 2024 13:48:07 GMT -5
Somewhere around 40-45 years ago, my first wife and I were visiting her grandparents, and her great-aunt Jane was there too. Aunt Jane told us that her favorite TV shows were The Rutherford Files and Quimby. We knew what she meant.  Errr...ahhh...Vote Quimby. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 13, 2024 18:20:03 GMT -5
Picked up The "Ms. Peel" Mega-set of The Avengers for a song the other day at work and watched "The Town Of No Return", "The Gravediggers", and "The Cybernauts" on disc 1. All three I thought were very good, interesting and unique. It's easy why ABC picked up Cybernauts as the first episode broadcast on American television, really shows the series' strengths. The stand out had to be Sir Horace Winslip's house in "The Gravediggers" where the man is so obsessed with trains that he turns his entire house into a makeshift replica
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 13, 2024 22:33:12 GMT -5
Fifty years ago today, the following TV shows debuted: Police Woman
The Rockford FilesI saw a few episodes of The Rockford Files. It was my grandfather’s favourite show, and I believe it aired on the BBC. I did watch some with him. I haven’t seen Police Woman. Anyone here seen these? Pepper, you're going undercover! Loved Police Woman, as a kid. The intro pretty well sums up the series, especially Angie Dickinson's legs! The series started as a pilot, in an episode of the anthology series Police Story, created by ex-cop-turned novelist Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Fields, The Blue Knight, The Choirboys). Polic Story is a good one, to watch, too, with a variety of stories and characters, which ran for 6 seasons, on NBC TV. Police Woman features Angie Dickinson as Sgt Pepper Anderson, while her boss is Sgt Bill Crowley (the great Earl Holliman), of the Criminal Conspiracy Unit. Working with them are detectives Pete Royster (Charles Dierkopf) and Joe Styles (Ed Bernard). The unit investigated all kinds of crimes, from murder to drug trafficking, prostitution, rape....usually serious crimes. Episodes usually involved Pepper going undercover, most often in "sexy" jobs......stewardess (flight attendant, but they were called stewardesses then and treated like flying geishas), waitresses (particularly cocktail bars, in skimpy outfits), dancer (plenty of skin), nurse and even teacher. Never as a librarian. the others would often be undercover in support roles. Bill Crowley usually managed things and got involved in the finales, while Royster and Styles rotated in an out of things, often playing pimps, buyers, pushers, sellers of questionable merchandise, etc. It was actually a pretty good show, with a little more brains than Charlie's Angels and Pepper came across as more mature and experienced. It wasn't without its faults and they did an episode in the first season ("Flowers of Evil") which featured lesbian criminals that raised a lot of ire from the burgeoning gay rights movement, as it is filled with negative stereotypes. The series actually influenced a lot of young women into taking up law enforcement, as a career. Dickinson was nominated for 3 Emmy Awards, during the run and won a Golden Globe Award. Dierkopf, with his distinct nose, was hard to forget and he appeared in both George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Ed Bernard also appeared in The White Shadow, as the school principal, and Hardcastle and McCormick. Earl Holliman had appeared in Forbidden Planet (the crewman who gets the robot to distil liquor) and in movies like The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Giant, The Rainmaker, and Sharkey's Machine. Good show, with a great cast and good writing.... The Greatest American Hero goes nuts! As said, The Rockford Files was one of the best shows, ever. Great cast, excellent stories, terrific character and tons of great actors in guest roles. Noah Beery Jr, as Rocky, his father, Joe Santos as Sgt (later lieutenant) Dennis Becker, and Stuart Margolin as Angel. Gretchen Corbett appears in the first 4 seasons as Beth Davenport, Rockford's lawyer and occasional girlfriend. Of course, his Camaro was iconic. Rockford was great, as he usually tried to avoid violence and Garner got to play him as smart and streetwise, rather than hard as nails, even though Garner could probably kick the sh@# out of most of the thugs seen in the series. Garner was always a great actor, with an easy going style, a certain wisdom and good humor and just a likeable guy. Love his work in film and tv and he had iconic series in both the 60s, with Maverick and the 70s, with The Rockford Files. Lot of great police and detective series, in that era: Police Story, Police Woman, The Rookies, Adam-12, Dragnet, Mannix, Ironside, Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, Starsky & Hutch, Baretta, Columbo, McMillan and Wife, Hec Ramsey (set in the transitional period of the Old West), McCloud, Barnaby Jones and even fluff like Hart to Hart. Barney Miller even showed that cops could be funny (and dramatic, in equal measures) and veteran cops would say it was the most accurate police show on the air. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 13, 2024 23:36:19 GMT -5
Putting the 1990s on hold for the time being, I've gone back to the 1980s and late-70s as I've noticed a few things from that period I wanted to look at. Last month in tv it was Boys from the Blackstuff, this month it's Only Fools and Horses, a popular sitcom of the 80s that I'd heard of but never seen until now. So far, up to the first couple episodes of series 2, I'm finding it a lot of fun. I also watchd the first few episodes of The Kenny Everett Television Show: this one I hadn't even heard of until recently but it's really funny. Of course like all skit shows not every single skit is a complete success but overall it's pretty consistently amusing.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 14, 2024 2:56:07 GMT -5
Somewhere around 40-45 years ago, my first wife and I were visiting her grandparents, and her great-aunt Jane was there too. Aunt Jane told us that her favorite TV shows were The Rutherford Files and Quimby. (...) Oh yeah, the Rutherford Files. You'd think a show about a young Rutherford B. Hayes during his time as an attorney in pre-Civil War Ohio would be pretty dull, but they made it work. |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 14, 2024 15:22:11 GMT -5
Watched a Season 2 episode of Mission: Impossible earlier tonight - called “The Survivors”. Scientists are being held underground in San Francisco, being forced to work on a formula to develop a deadly weapon. Forcing them is Stavak (Albert Paulsen). A routine rescue is out of the question as Stavak would likely kill them at the first sign of trouble. So the IMF do something we’ve all done in our spare time: simulate an earthquake, which will force Stavak to take the hostages above ground - where the police will be waiting for him.
The plots in these stories do require suspension of disbelief - and “earthquake simulation” requires major suspension of disbelief - but the production, writing and performances are so convincing, it’s easy to accept such things.
What I like most about this show (I’ve only seen Season 1 and some of Season 2 so far) is how deflated the villains look whenever it dawns on them that they’ve been conned.
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Post by 80sChild on Sept 14, 2024 15:55:18 GMT -5
As a kid I loved watching reruns of Perry Mason and the Perry mason Tv movies that came out in the 80s. I also came to find the Perry Mason novels by Erle Stanley Gardner as a kid and loved them. I own many of them today... but I digress. I still love the Perry Mason TV show to this day and thanks to Paramount+ I throw on an episode or two here and there because it is awesome. I tried watching that abomination retelling/reboot or whatever you want to call it on Max... pure garbage. Classic Perry Mason for me all the way. Other classic TV shows I miss and watch either on DVD, YouTube or other streaming method are.. Peter Gunn, One Day at a time, Alice, The Jeffersons, Fantasy Island, TJ Hooker, A-Team, Moonlighting and Miami Vice (my favorite 80s TV show), just to name more than a few.  |
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 15, 2024 3:52:05 GMT -5
Forty years ago today, The Tripods debuted on BBC One: I haven’t seen this. I know it’s based on a series of novels by John Christopher. The intro above, and various photos I’ve seen, do suggest something rather ominous… I do know the comic Look-in did a strip:  Anyone here seen it? |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 15, 2024 4:53:32 GMT -5
I remember the Tripods, but I never saw it. I would've only been a little kid at the time and it was aimed at adults predominantly, so I think it was on at a later time. I might've been in bed by then.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 15, 2024 20:15:32 GMT -5
Watched a Season 2 episode of Mission: Impossible earlier tonight - called “The Survivors”. Scientists are being held underground in San Francisco, being forced to work on a formula to develop a deadly weapon. Forcing them is Stavak (Albert Paulsen). A routine rescue is out of the question as Stavak would likely kill them at the first sign of trouble. So the IMF do something we’ve all done in our spare time: simulate an earthquake, which will force Stavak to take the hostages above ground - where the police will be waiting for him. The plots in these stories do require suspension of disbelief - and “earthquake simulation” requires major suspension of disbelief - but the production, writing and performances are so convincing, it’s easy to accept such things. What I like most about this show (I’ve only seen Season 1 and some of Season 2 so far) is how deflated the villains look whenever it dawns on them that they’ve been conned. There is a later season one, where they fake a train journey, that was rather like the railroad nut, in The Avengers episode, "The Gravediggers". I recall one from the tail end of the series where they made a criminal believe he had woken up from suspended animation, in the future, after the statute of limitations was up, to then tail him when he went for the loot. The series always required suspension of disbelief, from Rollo and Paris' perfect facemasks, to the ridiculous laser security systems everywhere, Barney's gadgets, and ventilation shafts that were big enough to accommodate Barney, let alone Willy. Albert Paulsen appeared in 5 episodes. He was beaten by John Vernon (Dean Wormer, in Animal House) with 6, and the great Sid Haig, with 9 guest appearances (usually as Middle Easterners). Sid was also the deliciously evil Dragos, on the Saturday morning live action serial adventure, Jason of Star Command, from the Tarzan and the Super 7 series. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 15, 2024 20:16:27 GMT -5
Forty years ago today, The Tripods debuted on BBC One: I haven’t seen this. I know it’s based on a series of novels by John Christopher. The intro above, and various photos I’ve seen, do suggest something rather ominous… I do know the comic Look-in did a strip: Anyone here seen it? I read the first book, but not the other two, but have never seen the series. Didn't it get cancelled before reaching a climax? |
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Post by berkley on Sept 15, 2024 21:50:50 GMT -5
The artwork in the comic adaptation looks good.
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