For all the good it did....

Apr 26, 2012 10:07

I didn't actually get to sleep last night til after midnight. Then my eyes popped open around 4:30 and refused to let me go back to sleep. Swell ( Read more... )

sleep, tv, nostalgia

Leave a comment

Comments 10

adventurat April 26 2012, 19:55:10 UTC
Ozzie's Girls will have involved Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, I think. The Nelsons and the Harmons were TIGHT. There are intermarriages. I think Tracy Nelson is a product of an intermarriage between the clans.

Reply

vanillafluffy April 27 2012, 04:02:22 UTC
Huh. Live and learn....

.

Reply


karaokegal April 29 2012, 17:07:38 UTC
One of the things I'm getting the weirdest enjoyment out of in the Columbos, (aside from awesome guests and full credits at the end)) is seeing those old copy-wright dates in the roman numerals.

Young Mark must have been absolutely adorable.

Reply

vanillafluffy April 29 2012, 17:21:10 UTC
I actually had to stop and think for a second: "Columbo? Was he the one with the cockatoo? No, that was Baretta." Gotta love those 70s cop shows! Who loves ya, baby?

.

Reply

karaokegal April 29 2012, 17:28:03 UTC
And the whole TV Show Named After Main Character is a trope that seems to have gone out the window. The last one I can think of is Frasier, although maybe The Good Wife counts?

I will probably be writing about Baretta, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak, McMillan & Wife, Banacek and a few of the others. I'm trying to keep a good mix of both eras and genres.

Reply

vanillafluffy April 29 2012, 18:05:57 UTC
If you count "The Good Wife", you have to count "The Nanny", too.

I liked "Hart to Hart" better than "MacMillan and Wife". I liked "Starsky and Hutch" partially because my cousin worked on it, , but would rather watch "Simon and Simon". And I liked "Magnum PI" even without Carl's name in the credits!

.

Reply


cbtreks May 2 2012, 01:31:30 UTC
Did you ever see Mark Harmon in Emergency!? It was actually a pilot ep for another series - good enough, I guess, but very disappointing because of the severe lack of Johnny Gage.

I think Mark Harmon's sister was married to Rickie Nelson and was is the mother of Tracy and the twin brothers who had a band back in the late 80s.

Reply

vanillafluffy May 2 2012, 03:03:23 UTC
Since it's never been out on VHS/DVD, I haven't seen Emergency! since it went off the air, alas. The first thing I remember watching Mark Harmon in is Chicago Hope, which had an all-around fabu cast.

I remember Nelson, the band---and the yummy twins!---vividly. Heck, I think I've still got their CD kicking around here somewhere....

.

Reply

cbtreks May 2 2012, 03:45:31 UTC
Netflix has Emergency! on streaming vid. (It also had them on DVD a few years ago, which is how I rewatched seasons 1-4. I watched season 5 on streaming and have season 6 saved for streaming sometime. I wonder if it's a special release for Netflix, or something? I don't remember ever seeing them in a video store or anywhere like Target or WalMart.

Reply

vanillafluffy May 2 2012, 03:58:12 UTC
I don't have/have never had Netflix, but that's certainly incentive....

.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up