60-ish DUers and old TV

[mykpart]

How many of the REALLY old TV shows do you remember?

Mike Hammer (with Darren McGavin as Mike)
Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
Medic (starring Richard Boone)
Fabian of Scotland Yard
Life With Elizabeth
December Bride
The Loretta Young Show
The Jane Wyman Show
Armstrong Circle Theater
US Steel Hour
The Life of Riley

[book lady]

1. Here are some that I remember...

Our Miss Brooks
My Little Margie
What's My Line
Ozzie & Harriet
Cisco Kid
Topper
Phil Silvers Show
Queen for a Day
Hopalong Cassidy
Danny Thomas Show

[RebelOne]

4. I remember all of those.

My Little Margie and Phil Silvers were my favorites.

[mykpart]

9. Queen for a Day!

My sister and I watched that every afternoon and cried.
Remember The Big Payoff? Opened with Bess Myerson with her back to the camera, and she's wearing a mink coat.

And Phil Silvers! My father loved to imitate him, always saying, "Gladdaseeya!"

[LibDemAlways]

14. The Game Show Network shows old

reruns of What's My Line? on Sunday nights. What a show that was. Dorothy Kilgallen and Arlene Francis all decked out in evening gowns. Bennett Cerf, John Daly, and a rotating panel member like Tony Randall in tuxedos. Female contestants with unusual (for the time) occupations like judge or private investigator. Rhinestone studded blindfolds in place when the "Mystery guest," usually someone appearing on Broadway, came out, who was then quickly identified by the panel. Everyone unfailingly polite and well mannered.

For a game show, it was unbelivably polished.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. Yes, I remember when a young blonde woman stumpted the panel by

being (gasp) a lawyer!

[LibDemAlways]

15. Cosmo Topper.....Haven't thought about Leo G. Carroll in

years.

A few more:

The Millionaire
The Real McCoys
Truth or Consequences
The Donna Reed Show
Beat The Clock
To Tell The Truth
Love That Bob

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. I'm under 60 and I remember all of these except

Fabian of Scotland Yard and Life with Elizabeth

However, I do remember


The People's Choice
Topper
Amos and Andy
Andy's Gang
The Voice of Firestone (weekly opera program!)
Pinky Lee
Ding Dong School
Crossroads
Playhouse 90 (weekly live dramas!)
Corliss Archer
Beulah
The original Lassie, with Jeff
Hopalong Cassidy
Buffalo Bill Jr.
Annie Oakley
Sheena Queen of the Jungle
Ramar of the Jungle
Wagon Train
Yancy Derringer
Bourbon Street Beat
The original Today Show with Dave Garroway and the chimp, J. Fred Muggs

Most of these went off the air before the average DUer was born.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Andy's Gang! "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"

:rofl: I sure remember that one.

[RebelOne]

3. I remember most of them except for Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal,

Fabian of Scotland and Life With Elizabeth.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Hmm, that's two of us who don't remember Fabian of Scotland Yard and

Life with Elizabeth. I wonder if they were British imports.

[mykpart]

8. Fabian of Scotland Yard was a British import based on a real person.

Life With Elizabeth starred Betty White.
I was VERY young when Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal came on. I only remember the opening, which was hands pulling a book off a shelf, and the book was Dr. Hudson's Journal. I think it was based on a book or books by either Graham Green or A.J. Cronin.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear mykpart...

I remember Life of Riley!

The Medic!

December Bride....

US Steel Hour a little....

Wow, you just took me back!

[MistressOverdone]

7. Let's see

My first TV show was Ding Dong School with Miss Frances
Romper Room
Howdy Doody
Sandy Becker
I married Joan
Winky Dink
Queen for a Day
Art Linkletter
Edge of Night
Have Gun Will Travel
Betty Hutton
Million Dollar Movie
The Early Show
Soupy Sales
Ed Sullivan

[mykpart]

10. OMG, Winky Dink!

You had to have the clear plastic film to stick to your TV screen so you could draw on it and take part in the story! Isn't there some show on Nickelodeon that is similar to that?
(My mom wouldn't get us the Winky Dink screen, so we had to steal some Saran Wrap and improvise!)

[MistressOverdone]

18. I still remember the song..

"Winky Dink and me...Winky Dink and you..."

or something like that.

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. Rink a dink a do

Good Night Mrs Kalabash , where ever you are


Jimmy Durante

also

Steve Allen and Caesar Romero

[Digit]

11. More

I remember many of these, plus the following:
Zorro
I Love Bob
Oh Susannah
Doby Gillis
My Friend Flicka
Skyking
Bat Masterson
Rin Tin Tin
Leave It To Beaver
Father Knows Best

ah, it's late
Whoops, another....
Afred Hitchcock Presents

[mykpart]

12. How could I have forgotten Rin Tin Tin?

My little brother had a complete Fort Apache set! Yahho, Rinty!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Yo, Rinny!

:-)

[Hardrada]

16. Here are some: Dragnet

The Halls of Ivy
Life with Father
The Milton Berle Show (Texaco Theater)
Crusader Rabbit
Private Secretary
Person to Person
Your Hit Parade
Pinky Lee (Yoo Hoo it's Me, etc.)
Sky King (& Penny)
Air Power
Navy Log
Victory at Sea
Your Show of Shows (Sid Caesar)

& something with "Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggie!"

& The Army/McCarthy Hearings (saw them live since I was home with the flu).

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. "Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggie" is from Andy's Gang

"Ive got a gang
You've got a gang
Everybody's gotta have a gang
But there's only one gang for me
Good old Andy's Gang!

[Hardrada]

33. I liked that show.

Some pompous person was always being hit with a pie or something. I think that's why some of us later on became Yippies!

[Hardrada]

17. December Bride with Spring Byington

My Gawd, I didn't think ANYONE else remembered that one!

[trof]

19. "I remember the big white house on Steiner Street, and my little sister Dagmar...

and my big brother Nels, and Papa. But most of all, I Remember Mama."

I Remember Mama

(The guy on the left is a very young Dick Van Patten.)

7/1/49 - 3/17/1957 CBS
30 minutes

Black and White

Produced and directed by Ralph Nelson and later, Carol Irwin

Based on Kathyrn Forbes's book "Mama's Bank Account" I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama Cast
Peggy Wood as Marta Hansen
Judson Laire as Papa Lars Hansen
Rosemary Rice as Katrin Hanson
Ruth Gates as Aunt Jenny
Carl Frank as Uncle Gunnar Gunnerson
Alice Frost as Aunt Trina Gunnerson
Dick Van Patten as Nels Hansen
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/i-remember-mama.htm

[yy4me]

24. Friday night, 8PM. It was my favorite show as a child. Life sure

was a lot more simple then.

[JitterbugPerfume]

20. Arthur Godfrey

Garry Moore ( he introduced Carol Burnette , among others)

Captain Kangaroo (watched it with my kids)

My little Margie

and old soaps---Search for Tomorrow , The Edge of Night, and others I can not recall right now


damn I am OLD

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. Also

The Millionaire

Omnibus

You are There

Westinghouse Theater

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. "Everything is just as it was...but YOU ARE THERE!"

An ingenious way of teaching history--covering it as if it were a current event and interviewing the participants.

[Hardrada]

23. How about those rigged quiz shows? Anyone watch those?

I watched Dotto and thought it was quite entertaining!

[yy4me]

25. You mean the $64,000 question? Sure do remember! We

wondered how someone could be so smart. What a let-down when we found out it was rigged.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Yup, I remember them

The $64,000 Question (equivalent to $640,000 now, probably) and "21."

[yy4me]

26. Anyone remember an oldie called "Lights Out"? It scared me to

death. No-one has ever told me that they ever saw the show. I always bring it up whenever we have one of these "do you remember" conversations. Maybe I just imagined it.

[wain]

27. Soupy Sales

If you're from Detroit. The original "Lunch with Soupy"!

:)