TV Show - Fun Thread

[Swimmy]

cool.

[frankcor]

You could always tell Elvis was going to break into a song when they showed up. It was about the only time there would be another man in the scene with Elvis.

[dgriffin]

MASH ... I still like the original movie and watch it when I come across it. Quite a few actors went on from the movie to more success. Donald Sutherland, Eliot Gould, Tom Skerrit, The guy who played the dentist, the Painless Pole, became a regular on some TV series. Col. Blake went nowhere, but should have. Wasn't Radar of the movie the same Radar of the TV series?
By the way, switching shows, did you know the original actor who played the NY City D.A in Law and Order was years before the first Mr. Phelps, the leader of the Mission Impossible team, before Peter Graves, the real-life brother of Gunsmoke's James Arness. And speaking of Gunsmoke, the original radio voice of Matt Dillon was none other than William Conrad, later star of the TV series "Cannon." In CBS radio publicity shot, below, do you recognize the guy on the left who played Doc?

[dgriffin]

From Wiki:
"IMF leaders
The leader of the IMF, presumably with the official title of Director, was initially Dan Briggs (played by Steven Hill); he was replaced (for reasons never explained on the show) after the first season by Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), who remained as the leader for the remainder of the original series and again in the 1988-90 revival."

Actually, Steven Hill himself explained his disappearance a year or so afterward in a newspaper interview. A serious and observant Jew, he said that acting was his love but fame would only ruin his family life. So he quit IMF and didn't do much acting over the years.

Here's Barbara Bain, sole female of the IMF


Much better looking than radio's Miss Kitty.

[frankcor]

No clue, Dave. But Miss Kitty is hot.

[dgriffin]

Caption for the above photo:
Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Marshall Dillon), Parley Baer (Chester)
Georgia Ellis (Kitty).
Howard McNear played a number of bit parts, including (I think) the barber in the Andy Griffith Show.
Here is William Conrad around the time of his shows, "Conrad" and "Jake and the Fatman."



A continuing subplot of "Cannon" was the detective as bachelor chef.

[countrygal]

Barbara Bain and Martin Landau (Rollin) were married in real life. I think Linda Day George was another IMF female and there were a couple others that were just on for one or two episodes.

[dgriffin]

Countrygal, our memories agree. Linda Day George....I would have never remembered her name. Martin Landau was an excellent actor, by all accounts. Here's the whole crew, although with Peter Graves rather than Steven Hill.



Also, Leonard Nimoy appeared for a while and then took the role of Mr. Spock on StarTrek when Martin Landau turned it down (probably because of the pointed ears?)

Here they are with Lesley Anne Warren.



Peter Lupus and Greg Morris (Barney) rounded out the team.

[Swimmy]

That was a great series. I used to watch the reruns on FX before FX changed its programming.

[countrygal]

Ah yes, Leonard Nimoy as Paris. That was a show you HAD to watch from start to finish. If you missed anything, forget it. You couldn't catch up. Especially if you missed the beginning to hear about the mission in the first place. I liked the newer one in the 80's too. It was short lived. As most good shows are.

[Swimmy]

countrygal said:

It was short lived. As most good shows are.

Amen to that!

Instead we're left with beauty and the geek.

[Swimmy]

Punky Brewster. I loved that show as a kid.

[dgriffin]

In the mid sixties, I enjoyed Patrick McGoohan in the show, "The Prisoner." This was a rather dark psycho-spy show, compared to "I Spy" and the other James Bond imitations of the decade. The Prisoner was about a spy in forced retirement living on a Big Brother island in the middle of the ocean, where all the residents were drugged into submission. But our man, wearing what appeared to be a sorority jacket, managed to be the only prisoner who was able to avoid his medicine. His yearning to be free was symbolized by the balloon that would float around the island, but that balloon was also suspected of being able to eavesdrop. The Prisoner was a weird sort of show, made even more so by the theme song choice of Johnny Rivers', "Secret Agent Man," a nonsensical thumping song I would occasionally play at full volume on the stereo to wake the kids up in the morning. (My daughter says she still wakes up humming it, or my other early morning favorite, "Center Field," by CCR.) Mr. McGoohan was absolutely excellent as the English king in Mel Gibson's "Braveheart." He has had a long career.

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[Swimmy]

I saw the simpsons spoof of that show you're talking about, does that count? Now it makes more sense.

[countrygal]

How about "Get Smart"? That was so stupid it was funny.