NOSTALGIA TV – Comedies, sitcoms & family shows Pt 3.
1964-5 #2 BEWITCHED Alice Pearce Dick York Dick Sargent (1964-72). This delightful series owed most of its enormous popularity to Elizabeth Montgomery who played Samantha, the cute witch who […]
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TV NOSTALGIA – Comedies, sitcoms, family shows Pt 2.
1960-1 #5 THE REAL MCCOYS #11 DENNIS THE MENACE #13 MY THREE SONS (1960-72). Fred MacMurray is widower Steve Douglas who raises his three sons with the help of his housekeeper ‘Uncle Charlie’. The irascible William Frawley (above right) developed health issues and was replaced in 1965 […]
TV NOSTALGIA – Comedies, sitcoms, family PT 1.
Between 1950 and 1980 nearly a hundred different shows in this genre made the Top 30 in at least one season, so it has been necessary to divide them into several separate postings. Here is section one. 1950-1 #10 MAMA (1949-57). This much-loved series was set around an […]
Nostalgia TV Pt 3 – Law & order, spies, secret agents, 1967-80.
1967-8 #22 THE F.B.I. #26 IRONSIDE (1967-75). Detective Robert Ironside is wheelchair-bound due to an assassination attempt, and is portrayed by the former star of Perry Mason, Raymond Burr. A large man, Burr encountered great physical stress from spending many hours in the wheelchair over the nine years the […]
Nostalgia TV – Pt 2 – Law & Order, Spies, Secret Agents, 1950 to 66-7.
For Pt 2 of my look at nostalgic TV series I will look at the ‘Law & Order Shows’, those involving police or lawyers, private eyes or secret agents between the years 1950 through to 1966-7. As with the westerns, the focus will be on those series that made […]
TV nostalgia 1950-80 Pt1 – ‘The Westerns’.
I thought it might be fun to examine the Ratings Lists for American television through 1950 to 1980. Most of the Australian shows at the time were imported from America (probably still are), so tastes here were very similar to those of the United States. Even so, there were […]
Sara Shane aka Elaine Hollingsworth.
I recently watched a 1956 Clark Gable western titled The King and Four Queens and was struck by the beauty of one of the leading ladies, an actress named Sara Shane. Indeed, she was not the only beauty in the picture for it featured one of my all-time favourite […]
TV Classic – Perry Mason (1957-66)
I doubt very much if there has ever been a more popular courtroom drama series than the legendary CBS show starring Raymond Burr called Perry Mason. It was shot at 20th Century Fox’s studio and ran for a total of 271 episodes between September 1957 and May 1966. The […]
Did you know? Points of interest – Pt. 17
Yesterday, I watched an old 1937 classic on Foxtel called They Won’t Forget. In all honesty I chose it because I wanted to see for myself why audiences in 1937 instantly fell in love with newcomer, 16 year-old Lana Turner, in her debut performance as the ill-fated Mary Clay. It […]