TV WESTERNS – PT27
THE MONROES (1966-7) 26 EPISODES Ma and Pa Monroe die in an accident in the first episode, leaving their five orphaned children to survive as a […]
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TV WESTERNS – PT10.
DANIEL BOONE (1964-70) 165 EPISODES The television series entitled Daniel Boone, starring Fess Parker in the title role, was so popular it continued on for six seasons on NBC, and ran for 165 episodes. The only place it was not popular was at the Kentucky Legislature, the […]
WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT13.
EBSEN, Buddy: It took quite a long while for Buddy to recover from the effects of the toxic aluminum paste he had breathed in as the Tin Man in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, (he had to leave the production). So he took up sailing and became quite proficient in […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT142.
Errol Flynn Errol Flynn had various mirrors and hiding places constructed inside his mansion, including an overhead trapdoor above one of the guest bedrooms for surreptitious viewing! Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood toured the house as a prospective buyer back in the seventies, and reported: ‘Errol had two-way […]
FIFTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT6.
The two leads in Carnival Story (1954), Steve Cochran and Anne Baxter, did not enjoy each other’s company during the shoot. ‘One minute I was Mother Cabrini, helping him with his complicated love life’, Anne said later, ‘the next kicking him out of my tiny penthouse for attempted rape. He […]
Gay/Bisexual Actors in Old TV Shows ( Pt 5 )
Peter Wyngarde (1933 – ) Peter Wyngarde was born in Marseilles, France to an English father and a French mother. For about three years between 1969 and 1972, he portrayed the suave, silky-voiced, woman chasing sleuth Jason King in two series, (Department ‘S’ and Jason King), and seemed to […]