F TROOP (1965-7)
F TROOP (1965-7) It is hard to believe that this unique (and hilarious) series first came to our television screens more than half a century ago! This writer was still a teenager in 1965 and had enormous […]
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RANDOM QUOTES – PT70
JANET LEIGH (1927-2004) [Commenting on the making of the 1960 thriller Psycho, and whether or not it was true that she no longer takes showers]: ‘It’s actually, honestly true. And not because of the shooting of it [the shower scene]. It was the seeing […]
TV WESTERNS – PT12.
F TROOP (1965-7) 65 EPISODES The now iconic western comedy series F Troop (1965-7) has achieved a status not unlike that of the original Star Trek series that ran from 1966 -9. Both series were short-lived back in the sixties, but gained cult status decades later. It […]
BOYHOOD SCREEN CRUSHES
There were five of us who hung around together in East Fremantle in the fifties. We weren’t a gang or anything like that. We just kicked a footy together in the park across the road, played cricket in Fremantle, bashed golf balls wherever we could, went to the movies […]
Old TV Shows – more trivia.
Leonard Nimoy, the future Mr. Spock in the Star Trek series, served a stint in the US Army where he reached the rank of sergeant. In 1955 he suggested to an old army buddy named Ken Berry that he go to California and try to make it as a […]