TV shows...the good, bad and the ugly...

[Industrial Toys]

I always liked "EMERGENCY" and those medics in their LIL RED (Dodge) EXPRESS TRUCK. And that NURSE. A fifteen years old dream!

The two tone paging was the best. Funny, how in this high tech world, it's still preferred in many areas. Although, probably not many Vibrasponders used these days.

 

[ultrarunner]

I had the last hospital issued pager and liked it... it worked everywhere and battery lasted a month...

Staff was quite good at using codes so I knew exactly what page was for AND never a spam call!

Now back to regular scheduled programming...

 

[ultrarunner]

I enjoyed Red Skelton but many today never heard of him...

Clip on Carson show

Red Skelton Carson Tonight Show 1983 - YouTube

 

[flyerdan]

Battlebots is back for a new season to satisfy our atavistic desire for mechanized mayhem.
Speaking of Andy Griffith, a few years back he did a movie (and later one season TV series) called Salvage 1, about a junkyard owner who cooked up a plan to build a rocket to go and salvage all the trick kit left by the Apollo crews on the moon.

 

[Diggin It]

Skelton was OK.

Red Buttons was OK too.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Robot wars sure can give you some insight into the power of a spinning blade.

 

[JethroB]

Carol Burnett skits with Tim Conway and Harvey Corman. I read somewhere that Tim Conways goal was to get the other actors to laugh. He often succeeded.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I think I remember Carol being funny. Beyond that, I can't say I everv found a female comedian the least bit funny.

 

[drssg]

I imagine being raised in the SF Bay Area not much intuitive knowledge of the South...

He graduated from Oakland Skyline public high school and on the local Junior College where his diploma is still waiting to be picked up... has been a big supported of the theater program back at his High School

I remember the day he told me he was heading to New York to act in Summer-stock theater... last time I saw him... from what I hear he has done alright.

Tom was always a hard working guy with a presence the captivated the room...

Waited tables at a Amelia's Restaurant in Oakland where my folks would see him...

Wow, that's a cool story!

I rode in an elevator once with "Dr. Smith" from Lost in Space. That's the most famous person I've ever met.

 

[ultrarunner]

Not sure it counts in my case as he had not found fame yet...

I guess I have met a few famous or infamous through the years... and they had shows we liked.

Fess Parker back in Daniel Boone days and Robert Conrad and George Foreman... all the above through Dad whose college roommate was Ed Ames and dad spent a summer as Bodyguard to the Headliners at the Tahoe Casinos... out of all of them he said Lina Horne was a class act and he really enjoyed time with her.

We were once out on Lake Tahoe in the little 16' runabout with 35 evinrude and the big cabin cruiser from Harrah's was adrift... we pull up and learn they had engine trouble and had to get the headliner back to the casino for the early show so we offered... I was 8.

Pulled in to Camp Richardson and the Casino Limo was waiting... that was exciting and made the Tahoe paper the next day. I wish I could remember the name but somewhere is the clipping.