Vintage TV shows

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Watched a mid 1970s episode of Adam - 12 police tv show...  Pete Malloy's daily driver was a gen 2 AMC Matador 2 door car.

Weird a main character has an AMC product as a driver?

A high school buddy drove a black on black Matador in the late 1970s.  We always teased him about the car.  He bought it cheap.  Price was his number 1 concern when looking for a car. 

[enjenjo]

CHP used 401 Ambassadors about that time.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

CHP used 401 Ambassadors about that time.

I did not know that...  A few searches turned up the CHP used AMC Eagle wagons on Highway patrol too.

25+ years ago, a friend had several AMC Eagles.  He lived in Black Canyon City Arizona then.  His place was at the end of a dirt road with ups and downs. He learned the Eagles did not get stuck in the mud.  His wife and him drove the snot out of the Eagles.  WHen he found a runner - driver at a fair price , he bought it.  Had about 5 of them at one time.  LOL

 

[enjenjo]

youtube.com/watch?v=E3iQWhAWt5U

[idrivejunk]

Top notch Dagmars-

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6L07286X0Oo&pp=ygUNaG90IGNhcnMgMTk1Ng%3D%3D

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Watched a few 1965 Perry Mason shows last week.  Paul Drake was in a new 1965 Corvette roadster.  The actor Bill Hopper that play Paul  was a taller guy and he did not fit the Corvette much better than the earlier 1950s Ford T-bird cars he drove.

Watched a couple Petticoat Junction shows.  The show's theme song was stuck in  my head for a whole day

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Still watching Highway Patrol when I have a chance. I record a few on the DVR device.

To say the HP were a bit gun shooting happy is being nice.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Watched a few Carol Burnett shows the other evening.  Some stream service that is n/c, with ads.. 

The shows were chopped up to half hour pieces.  Carol would do her intro chat with the audience, mention the celebs on the show....  Then you never see 1 of the celebs or the missing celeb is at the end , signing the autograph book Carol often had at the closing.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Got our SAT tv working up here in the AZ mountains..  Somebody (me) forgot the power cable for the Directv box when stuff was loaded into the RV for the road trip.

More old TV shows to watch for me.

Ordered a new power cable setup from AMazon of course...  Delivery up here is 1 week on most items.  None of that next day , same day stuff up here.

       

[sirstude]

I got stuck on watching Highway Patrol this morning.  Neat 55 Oldsmobile that  one of the cops drove.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Fun to see a few 1957 convertible Chevy or 1955 Nomad roll thru the scenes of these olde TV shows.. They were just new cars then in Highway Patrol TV show


Watched a few Barney Miller TV shows.  Not as funny as I recall ?  Weird

[lofat46]

Accidentally came across two old police shows on YouTube, both from 1957. One is based on LA County Sheriff files called "Code 3".  The other stars veteran actor Wendell Corey called "Harbor Command" about the exploits of the San Francisco harbor patrol. Pretty cool shows.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Watched season 1 , episode 1 of the Lone Ranger. Its been a while since i have the first few episodes.

Explains how he became the Lone Ranger. Tonto found him after the ambush,that killed the other rangers, etc .

[idrivejunk]

On radio, one of the other Rangers was his brother. His wife was killed in a raid on the wagon train to their new beginning but young son survived. About the time he was 14, his and LR's paths crossed and he ended up riding with them for some time once they figured out he was a nephew. Name was Dan Reed and  there was a time when Silver was allowed to return to his home herd and sire a horse. For Dan, who named it Victor. This was during wartime.

I have the LR DVD set but the radio playlist on youtube is over 2,000 episodes. I might be halfway thru.

Watched the Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974) on youtube yesterday. Amazing wildlife interactions. Must have Ben a bear to film.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Watched a few Dragnet episodes recently.  Sorry , cant for the life of me understand how popular this show was back in the day. 

I watched it a lot when it was new.. Must be when I was younger it was interesting  thing?