March 25, 2025 • 49 mins
Holy crap we sure did watch a lot of tv in the 70s and most of it was from the 50s and 60s!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, bussheads, Welcome to the Seventies Buzz Podcast. I'm Curtis Tucker.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Todd Wheeler, bringing you our memories or lack thereof,
of growing up in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We are not a history podcast. We just want you
guys to know that sometimes we get things wrong, and
if you listen to us long enough, you're going to
be screaming at your device trying to give us the
right answers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Listen up as we recount growing up in the Midwest
and our unique experience. Go to seventies Buzz dot com
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Boom Boom wasn't flashing at me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I got a flashy thing.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yo, My computer got a flashing yellow light.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The queer.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
This computer sold and getting older?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How bought this one? We had?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The thing?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
City was out city boots.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh mine, that's been it's been since like the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'll quite that long.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's still works. This is basically I'll use it for.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's the phone? How many of the phone? Hey, everybody,
welcome back for another exciting episode of the seventies buzz podcast.
We appreciate you guys. You guys can hit us up
at your Buzzhead hotline five eight oh five four one
three eighth five or email buzz at Buzzhead Media dot com. Uh,
(01:40):
and we are missing a few phone calls. For some
weird reason. Dave has decided to no longer call.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So what's up, Dave? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Were no more Dave call Retchendon' call this week? But
that's okay. Yeah, we got new callers. Yeah, guys, come on,
get on the ball. Dave Gretchen, where are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah? What's up with that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So let's jump into a couple of the old phony calls.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There they weren't phony, they were real.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Uh so real quick. I'm going to say that Dean Critchfield,
who's a fan, called, but his is more pertaining to
Buzzhead Radio. So Dean, if you're listening to this, we'll
answer your question over there on Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah. Directly after this podcast, Wendy called. Wendy from Virginia.
She's a She's a friend of Gretchen's apparently. I think
I think she sent I think we have got pictures
over her.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, and she likes carmel.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, she says Carmel from Virginia.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Somebody from Virginia says carmel.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was watching some national show the other day and
they were I think they were talking about a recipe
and they were talking about putting Carmel in it. I
mean it was it was like a National show. I
mean it was like, like, nothing like Carmel.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I guess it's kind of like biopic and biopic.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, this one's just caramel. What else did Wendy say,
like carmel apples?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We didn't get caramel apples.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We got apples.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She was talking about how cute and then she.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wasn't really shy. I think, yeah outgoing or she is outgoing? Yeah,
yeah she is, which we Yeah, Chritchen started out slow,
but she got more outgoing as Yes, today's.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
One she bard the out slow.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Anyway. So that's basically all all Wendy had to say. Wendy,
thanks for calling it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, thanks Wendy. Great to hear from you from Virginia.
Or did you remind me I gotta get I'm gonna
put Wendy on the map. So we'll have two from.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Virginia putting Wendy on the map and speaking the map
real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Michael Tallon called, and Michael, the map is actually a
real map on the wall with real pins in it.
And I think for some reason, I think I've got
you on the map. But what I Michael called and
was wondering where the map was, and so what I
think I'll try to do is take a picture of
(04:22):
the map and I'll post it in the seventies Buzz
Facebook group so everybody can kind of see where everybody's from,
and then the people that aren't on the map can
tell me if they want to be on the map.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And the map's in Curtis's studio.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it's actually physically somewhere, and I have not posted
a picture.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Of it, so I can see where that would be confusing.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So well, I'll try to. I don't, I can't. I
don't know if taking a picture of it you're gonna
be able to see the pins or not. But we'll try.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and he sent a commercial.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, he was wondering if so you guys, the reason
we started a Facebook Seventies Buzz Facebook group is because
that allows you guys to upload stuff and ask questions,
and he was wondering about uploading a video. I did
find your link, Michael, and I posted the link to
the video for you. But you guys, go to the
(05:15):
enit or to the Seventies Buzz Facebook group, and there's
a link to a YouTube video of old toys from
the seventies and we haven't actually looked at it yet,
but he says it's really interesting and everybody should watch
it and comment on it. So, yeah, go to the
Facebook group and check that out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, check it out.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Steve from San Antonio call Steve. He commented on the
chores episode he hated cleaning bathrooms because he had brothers
and they pete everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That would be kind of Gnarlyn.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That's what brothers did do. Does our doing. He did
mention our tongue clicking it subsided. Apparently had noticed we
really don't pay an attention to that stuff. Oh, in
strange sightings from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, he suggested a episode topic of people. It would
have to be people because Todd and I wouldn't have
enough sightings to do an episode. So if we do it,
it's gonna have to be one of those episodes where
you guys call in or email and let us know
of any weird sightings that you guys might have had
(06:26):
in the seventies. And I don't want it. Let's don't
go ahead and tell his Oh really, well, yeah, because
if we do the episode, we'll include his in the episode.
If we don't do the episode, we'll Yeah, a couple
of good ones, I know, but let's save them. So
what would really be fun is if you guys would
call in at five eight zero five four one three
eight oo five and then we could play your recordings
(06:49):
of your sightings and so basically, did you one time
see a fog that looked like a ghost, or did
you see something in the sky that looked like a spaceship,
or did you see a bear that you might have
thought was Bigfoot? Or you know, if you guys have
any weird sightings from the seventies, call in and if
we get enough, we'll do the episode. Yeah, So, but
(07:11):
it would be fun, So call in, and I'll have
to I'll have to go through my brain and think
if I remember seeing anything.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, So yeah, and then Dean called in and that's
for Bushead Radio cool over there, so we don't forget
to mention Dean on the Buzzhead Radio Poka okay.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And we did get several emails emails, so we got
the gal from Zimbabwewe. She says, I was at the
record store today to see if they have vintaged our
worst stuff. Sometimes they do, but mostly it's newer stuff.
And to see if they have Blizzard of Oz and
Zombie Mafia on CD. I don't know if I've ever
heard of the Zombie Mafia.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Blizzard of Oz.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The Blizzard of Oz is ozzy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But the Zombie Maffia anyway, she said, no dice on either.
They have a lot of used vinyl. I think there
is a bull Moose in Oklahoma. I don't know that
I've heard of bull Moose, but we'll check it out.
We'll see if there is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Is there a restaurant or something.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Or I think it might be a vintage shop. I
don't know. Huh, let's see. I looked at a couple
of these. They're ninety seven. I don't have an eight track. Oh.
She sent me a picture of a bunch of eight tracks.
She says. The Zombie Mafia is a horror punk band
that mostly plays in bars in New Jersey. They do
(08:36):
have a few albums out and can be found on iHeartRadio.
So I'm going to be looking up the Zombie Mafia
just because I love the name.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Thanks Gal from Zimbabwe. And then Jody Slimp emailed and
said Hi there, Curtis and Todd. So enjoyed your Choices
Chores episode last week. We grew up traveling from base
to base as my dad I was in the Air
Force two, which my dad was as well. Most of
my seventies memories come from more time spent in Alaska.
(09:08):
My chores were mostly the same as others mentioned, with
the exception of cleaning Here we go. Cleaning the bathroom.
It was an absolute It was the absolute worst, as
my dad and brother had terrible aim cross. That's too
funny that two people commented on that. My brother had
trash duty and we had a communal trash bin in Alaska.
(09:30):
One super cold night, he dropped the rubber made trash
can and the sound of it was like glass shattering
when it hit the ground and broke into a million pieces.
Keep the fun going, Jody, and then we got an
email from Jeffrey. He says, hello Jeffrey here, Yes, Curtis,
we did have Pippy Longstocking. Actually, it's very funny because
(09:51):
last week I ordered the complete DVD box set with
all movies and series of Pippy long Stocking, or as
she's called here, Hippy ling Gaus. When I was a
wee young lad, I had a huge crush on her
best friend, Onnica. I truly was smitten. Did you and
(10:12):
Todd have a TV crush? Oh? That might be an
episode TV? Oh yeah, definitely in the seventies, several Lindsay Wagner,
Jan Brady, not Jan Eve, No Mart Yeah, Jan, Yeah,
it was Jan Brady.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The middle one, the middle one.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I watched Pippy long Stocking on videotape when I was
a wee young lad. They persisted here until the late
two thousands, when we got DVD instead, which was a
huge change. Hey, maybe you could make an episode about
Pippy long Stocking because its history is fascinating. And I
think I did watch Pippy Longstocking in the seventies, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, I didn't you have like a show or something
or yeah, yeah, a kitsch. It was weird.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was weird. There was another like show from over
over the Pond about these kids, like a box car
club or oh, it was like a they had like
a double decker bus, the double Deckers or something. Do
you remember that show, the double Deckers. I think that
was it. I have to look that up, the double
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deck Somebody let me know. Jeffrey, I'm sure remembers that.
I think it was called like the double Deckers or something.
And then one more, Jim Hammond from Utah says, hoping
all is good in Oklahoma. I've just recently listened to
your episode on seventies TV Moms. Again, have you guys
done an episode on seventies TV dads?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We have not, don't think so.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If not, there's yet another future episode and that kind
of would go hand in hand partly with tonight's episode.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Hey, look, Gretchen just tixed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
He forgot. Well that's good enough, so Gretchand just texted
because she forgot to call. It's funny that she knows
exactly what we're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And there is a bull Moose record store.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh so we do have a bull Moose or is
it in Oklahoma? City or Tulsa. Uh, we'll have to
cruise by wherever it is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Hang on, I say we have one?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh maybe don't maybe just online.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There's a bunch of back East, a bunch of more
back East.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I don't know that I've ever noticed one, but doesn't
mean there's not one somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I don't think you do. Maybe not the New Hampshire
making Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So Todd No, so we don't have a bull Moose,
but somebody open up a franchise. We'd love to have
one locations and then real quick, I don't want to
divulge tonight, but something really cool happened today, So I'm
going I will be doing a Swinkies podcast this week
(13:01):
and it actually pertains to last week's Zinky's podcast And
uh so, if you guys believe in winks from the universe,
you must listen because it's a pretty crazy story. So
I don't want to go into too deep because it's
going to have another unboxing. Oh so you guys be
prepared for another unboxing on this week's Zinky's podcast episode.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What could Curtis have done?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What did I do? Everybody check it out? So tonight's episode,
shall we get to get to the episode.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And did we say that Dave didn't call.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I did say that Dave didn't call. I did, and
I even I just messaged. Let me see if he's
messaged me back yet, just in case. Oh look, exactly
same exact thing that Gretchen said. He said, I totally
forgot last night and I was going to call today
but was too late. Two weeks in a row. That's
earn unheard of from me. Okay, So Dave and Gretchen,
(13:58):
you're forgiven. At least, it's just bad memory and yeah
and all that. So everybody is forgiven. But get your
ringy dingy's going for next week.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I told Gretchen, I said, hello, we're giving you a
hard time as I type, and she goes, oh yeah,
she goes better quit or I just might call and
tell you to shut up. Oh my, Well, you know
I don't have to answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's correct, and they won't know until the next day
whether we answer it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, no, this show, tonight's show.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Tonight's show. So I got a Roku TV, and on
the Roku TV, as with all new TVs. Now, I
guess like if you don't have dish or satellite or
your local thing. If you have YouTube TV, when you
turn on the TV, it gives you all of the
apps that you can go in and watch all the things.
(14:52):
And I don't know if it's just because it's Roku
TV and because I don't know what other TVs do,
but it puts in in the three boxes at the
top before Netflix and Paramount and all that, and it's
just it just says leave It to Beaver. Mine says
leave It to Beaver, ghost Hunters, and then it always
(15:13):
changes the third one because I don't ever like click
on it, but for some reason, Roku knows that I
sometimes like to watch Leave It to Beaver. So I
guess there's a full time Leave It to Beaver channel
because every time I click on it, it starts playing
Leave It to Beaver twenty four to seven. So I
have been watching a lot now you know, it's on
in the background, but a lot of Leave It to
(15:35):
Beaver episodes, and that's been bringing back a lot of nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Oh, the old nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And those old Leave It to Beaver episodes remind me
of being a kid in the seventies because we watched
the reruns over and over and over and over again.
So that's what made me think might be fun. I
love that theme. I have a playlist somewhere on my
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iPod with this song on it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There's more to it than a minute in five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, I think that's even on the It was back
in the old napster days. Snagged it off a napster.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Poor Napster, say, poor Naster. Metallica killed Napster, which is
probably a good thing anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, So this episode, if you haven't been able to
tell by whatever Todd titled it, basically reruns that we
watched in the seventies. It's basically shows that were only
produced in the fifties and sixties, but we watched the
reruns in the seventies. None of the new shows were
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filmed in the seventies, and so even though they were
the fifties ones were probably cool to watch in the fifties,
and the sixties ones were probably pretty cool to watch
in the sixties, they were always better to watch in
the seventies. And why is that, mister Wheler.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Because I was the greatest I getting on to man.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes it was.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I cheated on a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yes, oh you did well, because some of them well now,
but I didn't. I didn't. I was like, oh, you go,
I can't not miss I know. I didn't include a
sink because there was I bet there was ten very
popular sitcoms that ended in seventy or seventy one. I
didn't include any of them. All of my list ended
before the seventies, so bad.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I was like, I can't leave them now.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, so I'm going to go over Leave It to
Beaver real quick.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
From nineteen fifty seven to nineteen sixty three, they had
two hundred and thirty four episodes out of six seasons,
and from the very first episode to Leave It to Beaver,
it has never been off the air.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh really, I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Leave It to Beaver has never been off the air.
It has been in syndication or somewhere around the world
ever since nineteen fifty seven. It was the first series
to have a finale. Oh did you know that? In
nineteen sixty three, Jerry Mathers was about to go into
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high school and he basically told the producers, Hey, I
want to quit acting and go have a real high school.
So they all kind of got together and decided is
that somebody's base?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, someone's bumping them.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, So they decided to, you know, cancel the show
and it was at its peak, and so they the
last episode, June pulls out a photo album and they
all kind of sit down and reminisce about old episodes.
So it was literally kind of the first finale.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh ks.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Every episode of Leave It to Beaver was in black
and white, even though they got to a point where
they could have done them in color, but they decided,
I guess they It took them five days to film
every episode, and had they done it in color, for
some reason, there was something about the lighting and the
processing would have taken longer, which would have made their schedule.
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They would have had to do the episodes in four days,
and they didn't want to skimp on quality, and so
they opted not to ever do any in color. Bless youes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Squeeze me squeeze about the.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Funny thing though throughout its run, Leave It to Beaver
never cracked the Nielsen Top thirty ever.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Really, yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So there's your little Leave It to Beaver?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Did you know there's a couple of urban legends come
from Leave It to Beever?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Urban legends legends let me know what are those?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You will probably remember this, uh when I should talk
about it. In the mid seventies, Mathers appeared on The
Tomorrow Show hosted by Tom Snyder. Snyder pointed out that
Mathers had not worked for a long time and that
there was rumor going around that he had been killed
in the war in Southeast Asia. Mathers replied that he
had heard that rumor and had no idea it started.
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The room began when a Sergeant Stephen Mathers was killed
in Vietnam in sixty eight. Newswires Services erroneously reported that
reported this was the Beaver. Actor Shelley Winners announced it
on The Tonight Show. Jerry Mathers said later that the
room was so widespread that his close friend Tony Dowell,
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who's played his brother, sent Marema.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Flowers to his parents.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And actually Jerry Mathers never set fit in Vietnam, though
he did serve in the National Guard. There's that.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I do remember that, now you say.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That, Okay, there's another one. Another urban legend was that
Ken Osmond Eddie Haskell uh huh became a porn star.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I think I do remember that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It became porn star John Holmes, Oh my Holmes took
Osmond's name and did several movies satirically under the name
Eddie Haskell. It started because there was some facial resemblance
between the two men, which porn distributors exploited by using
the name Eddie Haskell in the advertising Homes films. It
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was a pain in my butt for eleven years as Osmond.
He bought a twenty five million dollar defamation suit against
pornhouse producers and distributors to suit and all the way
to the California Supreme Court. The court ruled for Home,
saying that the name was protected as satire. This case
set a president in the matter, and it's still referred
(21:37):
to in other cases in California today.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, i'd be you couldn't win that one. And researching
which made me really sad, was Jerry Mathers is the
only family member still alive.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So is Eddie goilam.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think I don't know if Eddie's gotten now Eddie
became a policeman. Yeah, so, but I didn't. I forgot
to look up Eddie and see if I didn't see
if any of the other like smaller part characters were
still alive. But out of the family. Jerry, he's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So yeah, he's a now much old her or nurse.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Really, yeah he is. He's uh, he's getting up there. Okay,
what do you got on your list over there? Well,
even though you might have cheated.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Just a couple, like okay, probably the i'd have to say,
the the numero unu of them all. If my single play.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Play play play play play, come on while you're trying
to that's the next one on my list.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So my list is made up of shows that I
actually watched.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, yeah, because there's a there's a ton of them,
but we didn't want to We didn't want to do
every one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, no, no too. I guess I watched a lot
of TV, and there's.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Been We've talked about Gilligan's Island on you know, other episodes,
but this one strictly kind of kind of reruns.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, Gilligan's Islands sixty sixty seven ninety eight episodes. I
think they're all gone. It's don Well still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
She was the last one.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Gosh, I can't remember she's still alive or not?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
And she was the only one that was smarter about
her paycheck.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah. Well, and Jerry Mathers did the same thing. Yeah,
but he didn't get a whole lot of residual, but
he was the only one that got any. Did you
know that the first thirty six episodes of Gilligan's Island
were in black and white? I saw that and they
went back and later colorized them for syndication, and then
real quick I wanted to remind everybody these were the
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names of the characters on Gilligan's Eye Island. There was
Willie Gilligan, Captain Jonas Grumby, Thurston how the Third, Eunice
Lovey Howell, love Ginger Grant, Professor Roy Hinkley, and Mary
Anne Summers.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know why Professor Roy Hinkley sounds like something
from Scooby Doo, but that does for some reason, it
does a lot. Yeah. So that was one, definitely for
kids in the seventies. One of the top reruned sitcoms
of all time always on my next one is The Monkeys.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
With a Monkey.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I didn't get that one, and we actually did a
whole We've done a whole episode on the Monkeys. I think, ooh,
I think we have because we watched it in the seventies.
It ran from sixty six to sixty eight fifty eight
episodes and was syndicated in September of seventy five, so
that's probably about when we started watching it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, Mickey just had a birthday the other day, wowser.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I guess he did. I follow him on Facebook.
I think the series was filmed by screen Gems, and
many of the same sets and props from the Three
Stooges were used in a lot of the Monkeys episodes.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Most of these shows were all filmed with one camera too. Yeah,
and even though they other I mean, I think, wasn't
uh I Love Lucy, wasn't it like the first one
to use more than one camera?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I probably think it was a Desilu production. Yeah, uh,
you know, real quick, going back to leave it to Beaver,
I was watching one of the episodes and they were
talking about moving, and they moved to a new house
and the boy's bedroom was all different, and I was like,
why would why would you move? I mean, I guess
that's part of real life, is moving. But I found
out that at some point when it was on, they
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switched studios you know, from one station to another. So
they actually had to move the filming from one neighborhood
to another one, and that's why they had to go
to a new house.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, the fifty seven, fifty eight, it was a CBS
and then ABC got it from then on, Yeah, all
the way to sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Three, so they actually really did move, really really, which
is kind of funny. The monkey Mobile was a modified
Pontiac gto It's a cool car.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I bet it was a Frank Bearris car.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Had to be, I think, so for some reason I didn't.
I had it, but I didn't copy and paste it,
but I think, so, Okay, what's the next on your list?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Do Doom Dodom. You know what a lot of people
might not know is way back in the day, and
I don't I mean like thirties or forties, there was
a guy that drew the cartoons, the Adams family, and
a lot of them were in the New York, New
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Yorkrea and that's where all that came from.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
His name was Adams.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, and I've got I've got like a paperback book
of all of his single panel cartoons. They're kind of
they're basically like Herman but they're all, you know, death
and bats and they're all kind of gruesome.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, so the Adams family. It was only on two
years sixty forty sixty six, Carolyn Jones, John Aston, Jackie Coogan,
Ted Cassidy Blossom. Grandma's name was Blossom, Rock Blossom Rock.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Lisa Loring, and Ken Weatherwax. Little little tidbit here. The
California Child Actors Bill, also known as cougar an act
or Cougan Bill, is a lot applicable to child performers,
designed a to safeguard a portion of their earnings for
when they reached the age of It says majority, I
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think they met maturity and protect them from exploitation and abuse.
The original bill was passed in nineteen thirty nine by
the state of California in response to the plight of
Jackie Coogan, who played Uncle Faster. Right.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't sound right. Majority, They do use
that word there, but he would. Uncle Vester wasn't a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
No, Jackie Coogan, he played Jackie Coogan played him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I don't know who Jackie Coogan is, but is he
a kid?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
He was, He was a child actor back in the thirties.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But oh and then when he grew up he played
Uncle Fester.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, OK, gotcha, Yeah, I was gonna say yeah. He
was like he was the highest pay child actor way
back then, and he had earned millions of dollars as
a successful child actor, only to discover upon reaching adulthood
and his mother and stepfather had spent almost all of
his money.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But even with that law, they parents still did that.
I mean, Corey Feldman and kid after kid after kid,
their parents spent all their money.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Well, they're only required to save like fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that's pretty bad, pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Crazy, pretty not cool.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Next on my list was The Andy Griffith Show from
nineteen sixty to nineteen sixty eight, two hundred and forty
nine half hour episode spanning eight seasons, one hundred and
fifty nine of them were in black and white, and
ninety of them were in color. The series never placed
lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings, ending its final
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season at number one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Huh went out on top?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Huh yeah, and then so we And when it went out, Uh,
what's his name? Andy? Who played Andy Griffith?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Andy Griffith.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, wouldn't it well? Andy?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Ye, it was Andy Griffith. It was Yeah, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Now you got me wondering.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, anyway, Andy and Cunningham, Richie Cunningham left the show
and it turned into Mayberry RFD.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I guess with a cousin or Andy Griffith.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, what am I thinking of? Andy?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
What you're thinking of?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Andy?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Was I thinking it was something else?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah? No, Andy Griffith? Yeah, uh so anyway, yeah, I
became yeah with the the other guy.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah. And then it had like a bazillion spin offs. Yeah,
well maybe two bazillion, not that one. Okay, next, what's
your next one?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Well, you can't. If you're going to do as family,
you gotta do the monsters.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I don't know which one I like better, Adam's Family
or the Monsters.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You know, they came out at almost exact same time.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I wonder if the Groovy Goolies came out then too, though,
I don't know. Yeah, I think the Groovy Gooleyes later.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
They were both sixty four to sixty six, both of them.
The idea of a family comic of thinking of a
Jurney Nowaday. The idea of a family comical Monsters was
for suggested to the Universal News by animator Bob Klampett, who
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developed the idea in nineteen forty three. The project did
not make progress until nineteen sixty three, when a similar
idea was submitted by the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
and Friends writer Alan Burns and Chris Hayward. The proposal
was later handed to writers Norman Leebman and Ed hass
hass Holt, who wrote the pilot script, Love That Monster.
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According to Burns, we sort of stole the idea from
Charles Adams to the guy from the New Yorker New
York and his New Yorker cartoons because Universal owned Frankenstein
and Dracula characters in their movie rights.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Really yeah, you know Frankenstein's now royalty free.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh is it really?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, they decided to take their characters instead of the
characters he had we had written. So yeah, So that's
why they used Hermann, the Frankenstein guy, and the Grandpa,
which was the Dracula guy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Interesting, it's funny that they were the same exact years,
but that's kind of the way it go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, they do that a lot, like Dante's Inferred and
then the other volcano. There's always it seems like there's
voice yeah, or quite often two movies that are very
close to the same.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I added a couple of just a couple of cartoons.
The Flintstones Oh Yeah, nineteen sixty to nineteen sixty six.
It was the first animated series with a prime time
slot on television, meaning it wasn't actually made for kids.
The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest running
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network animated television series for three decades. Despite the animation
and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences.
This was reflected in the comedy, which resembled the primetime
sitcoms of the era, with family issues resolved at the
end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of
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a laugh track. The first two seasons were co sponsored
by Winston Cigarettes, and the characters appeared in several black
and light television commercials for Winston. So there was a
picture of Fred smoking a cigarette. So the characters actually
smoked cigarettes in the commercials.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Ads.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, and that's that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Could not do that today.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We can't even show you that today we'd be in
big trouble. Really no, Oh, but we can't show you
because it's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
But anyway, she's your imagination or google it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And then of course, and then when it into went
into reruns, it got thrown into Saturday Morning Cartoons. And
then I think it was on after school too, Like
I remember watching it like every day after school too,
so it was everywhere it was ever And then I
think they actually even started refilming new episodes like in
the eighties. Oh really, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, they did that with several things.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, okay, there was just one.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It might be a little tougher to nail train that
was rolling down the tracks to the Jukes.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Petty Coat.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I didn't watch a whole lot of Petty Grill.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was on for six seasons, two hundred and twenty
two episodes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I don't know why. I don't know why. I just
either it wasn't on or I didn't wasn't interested.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Man, I always had the hots for those girls. There
was Billy Joel, Bobby Joel, and Betty Joe. Betty Joe,
Billy Joe, Bobby Joel. I can't remember which one out
of the hotsport. There was three different women who played
Billy Joel, two different women played Bobby Joe. But yeah,
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there was a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
It'd be hard to keep up with it.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Was that a spin off or was that that was
cause of spin off?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I was a spin off of Beverly Hilldies.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Okay, that's right, which.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I put on my list, even though they even though
they went into seventy one cheater.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
There's a cheater right there.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Okay, I'll just mention it Pettico Junction.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Okay, real quick, back to another cartoon. This is my
I only did two cartoons, I think the Jetsons. It
was another primetime show from nineteen sixty two to nineteen
sixty three. It didn't last long. The original had twenty
four episodes aired on Sunday nights on ABC. It debuted
as the first program broadcast in color on ABC. I
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think we mentioned that on a prior episode a couple
of weeks ago. The show was originally scheduled opposite Walt
Disney's World of Color and Did This the Menace and
did not receive much attention. And the reason it didn't
is because almost everybody had black and white televisions and
so nobody could see all the cool colors in it.
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Due to poor ratings, it was canceled to the first
season and then moved to Saturday Morning where it became
very successful. And again I remember, I don't remember what episode,
but we were talking about it. I remember talking about
it that it didn't it wasn't popular because everybody's TVs
were black and white, really and it was in color.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And I just remember, well, I guess we had color
TV by then.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Huh, you know, sixty three, I bet I. I wonder
what year we got color TVs.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I remember the TV sitting right here was black and
white on legs, on four legs.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, it seems like we always had a black and
white TV somewhere in the house and then eventually the
you know, like the main TVs would change to color,
but it's like the ones in our bedrooms or the
kitchen or they always were black and white.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So uh, I think that's all the music I had?
Man from Uncle? Did you watch Man from Uncle?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I did watch Man from Uncle?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That was on from sixty four to sixty eight, one
hundred and five episodes. Robert Vaughan, David mac oham. Where
was they I was trying to remember last night where
they stationed, and I mean, was that America was at England?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Where they were at I don't even remember.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And uncle stands for oh, almost shut it down something.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, that I don't remember either.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
And their their main adversaries was Thrush.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Rush.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, okay, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like that's like try this aid's candy to lose weight,
eight aids lose weight. Yeah. I remember watching, I just
don't remember a lot about it. I must not have
watched a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Oh, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
How about Batman No.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, nineteen sixty six to nineteen sixty eight. It was
one hundred and twenty episodes aired on ABC for three seasons.
When it was on the first two seasons, it was
twice weekly during the first two seasons and then weekly
and the third season. For the first two seasons, Batman
aired twice weekly on consecutive nights. Every story was a
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two parter, So when you watch the reruns and it
ends with a cliffhanger, it's because back in the day,
the second part was always on the next night.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It's pretty genius.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Well, when they moved it to after school and stuff,
you had to wait like a whole day, which was
always a pain. Except for the two three parters. Featuring
villainous team ups, that those would be three parters. The
titles of each multi part story usually rhymed, which I
don't remember the titles of the episodes. The third and
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final season, which aired one episode a week, consisted of
self contained stories. Near the end of the third seasons,
ratings had dropped significantly and ABC canceled the show, but
NBC agreed to take over the series, But before it
could do so, it discovered that hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of Batman sets had been destroyed. Rather than
(40:08):
rebuild the sets, NBC dropped the Projectaman was gone, Oh yeah,
so many ABC get pissed off, and they probably just thought, hey,
it's over, let's toss him.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Oh that's man. Can't you imagine those things if they
were still around.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean think of that, hundreds of thousands of
dollars in sixty eight, like we mailed a lot of
money today almost.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, Yeah, I guess. Adam West and Ward were kind
of they kind of got around. There's much much talk
about them and yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
And it was campy and cheesy and it was meant
to be I mean, it was never meant to be
like a serious superhero show. So like when they're climbing
up the buildings, Yeah, Sammy Davis Junior stick his head
out the window.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Did you watch Lost in Space?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I did watch Lost in Space.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Sixty five to sixty A lot of these only ran
three years. I don't know that seems to be like
a real common.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Danger Will Robinson danger.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Twenty nine of those episodes were black and white and
fifty four were in color.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Seems like I watched that when I was like a
little kid. Yeah, it's kind of one of those little kids.
How about my Favorite Martian? Did you watch my Favorite Martin?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Not watch that very well? Really, I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I just I don't want sixty three to nineteen sixty six,
there was on one hundred and seven episodes. It starred
Ray Walston as Uncle Martin the Martian and Bill Bixby
as Tim O'Hare.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I love Bill Bixby.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
The first two seasons totally seventy five episodes were in
black and white, and the thirty two episodes of the
third and final season were filmed in color.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Of course, star trek Oh. It was off for three
seasons sixty sixty sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
We watched a lot of Star Track.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Oh yeah, I remember sitting right here, this TV right here,
and that the spaceship would.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Be really small, bigger, right over your head.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
It looks like it's going right over your head. Whow
that would have been back when they were ran new
to you know.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I have a triple in my studio, Yes, yes, a
working trible does it?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Is it reproducing now?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Because it's there's only one, I won't let it near not.
I think are they self producing?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I think they wereried. You just didn't feed them. Remember
when somebody put them in the grain storage or some
kind of anyway.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I never feed mine.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
So he's okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Gomer Pyle U s MC.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I watched that.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That was a spin off from the Andy Griffith Show.
He was on three three seasons, maybe two or three
seasons on The Andy Griffith Show, but Gomer Pile ran
from sixty four to sixty nine. Jim Nabors he played
Gomer Pyle. It was a major ratings hit, never placing
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lower than tenth in the Nielsen ratings, and ended its
run as the second highest rated series in the United States.
Neighbors always said he had a hard time watching the
show's opening credits, as many of the Marines he was
filmed training with were later killed in Vietnam. Oh yeah,
what a bummer. And because they thought that it was
(43:35):
going to show such a good light on the Marines,
they basically let the show almost do whatever they want
and whatever equipment they needed or or scenes or whatever.
They rolled out the red carpet for those guys.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, that would have been that time, man. Yeah, do
you watch Riflemen.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
A little bit?
Speaker 2 (43:58):
I didn't watch it that much, but I do remember
he had that fast gun. He had a special kind
of rifle.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
That was yeah modified kind of cack it while he
was shooting it or something. Now he in the in
that show. I think they were for me at Oklahoma.
Oh really Yeah, I think like in like one of
the beginning episodes they talk about leaving Enid, Oklahoma, And yeah,
(44:26):
I'll have to I'll have to look that up. There's
something I've posted on in the buzz before about that
we don't Yeah, wrote that down. How about here was one?
And I only really remember watching this one like on
the remember the days when you were sick and you
got to stay home and then you watched like all day, Hazel.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I never watched.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I never watched. Hazel ran from sixty one to sixty
six American sitcom about a spunky living maid named Hazel Burt,
played by Shirley Booth and her employers, the Baxters. It
ran for five se and one hundred and fifty four episodes,
And like I say, it wasn't like one of those
that I watched like after school or all the time.
(45:09):
It just seems like if I was homesick, like Father
Knows Best and Hazel and some of those shows would
come on, and so I would only watch them sporadically.
But that was one I always remember being sick much
in Hazel.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
I never watched Father Knows Best?
Speaker 1 (45:24):
You do, yeah, say, it was the same deal. I
only watched it, I think on days that I was sick.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
No, I know. I Love Lucy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh yeah, I watch a lot of I Love Lucy.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Sixty to sixty six had one hundred and sixty seven episodes.
I was trying to remember that they bought that studio
from I think they bought that studio from the Howard
from Howard to use hmmm. I think that was originally
his studio and before that it was somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
And then everything was Desy Lou production from then on out.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, like Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, there was a lot of shows. It were Dizzy Loo. Yeah,
that's all I that's that was my list of There
was like a million more, but I kind of kept
mine to the ones that I actually watched. Johnny Quest, Johnny, Yeah,
I forgot to put that on my list, but yeah, Johnny,
I remember Johnny Quest being like when I was a
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little little kid, and so there was like cartoons like
Bullwinkle and Underdog and Johnny Quest. It seemed like those
were all like early seventies reruns when we watched those.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Bowl Winkle was my next one fifty nine to sixty three, fifty.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Nine fifty nine wow, one.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Hundred and sixty three episodes, The Monkeys that we already
talked about, The Monkeys, I Dream.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Of Jeannie Now that went into like seventy days.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, Dragnet, Oh yeah, Don't Don't Don't Smothers Brothers.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Smothers Brothers was a good one.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, see, I kind of I didn't even I was
so into the sitcom I didn't even go out. But yeah,
there was tons of like hour long shows.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
That lone Ranger.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh I love the Lone Ranger.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, forty nine to fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Forty nine to fifty seven, wow.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Two and twenty one episodes. I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
What about I didn't look it up. I wonder when Laredo.
I bet it was a seventy show.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
It sounds like it. U Flipper, Oh yeah, Flipper sixty
four to sixty seven to eighty eight episodes.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
What about Lassie? Was it a seventy show or was
it sixties?
Speaker 2 (47:42):
You know, I didn't watch much Lassie.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I think I watched more Lassie actually than Flipper.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Oh really no, I love Flipper. Flipper Flipper Oki of
the old show. Uh? What about Ozzie and Harriet?
Speaker 1 (47:54):
See? Ozzy and Harriet was kind of almost one of
those father knows best Hazel only only caught it every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
It was on from fifty two to sixty six, four
hundred and thirty six episodes.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
It was big time when it was on.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
And there they were actually Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, and
Nelson their sons. Yeah, yeah, they played They didn't really
play themselves, but they usually.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
They played a family, yeah, with their real names. So
that was pretty pretty kind of groundbreaking.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah, can you imagine your that's your job is to
be you, to be you with your family filming all
day and then you leave the set and go home
and you're with your family all day.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Hang on, are we acting right now?
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Camera's here exactly.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
I would get four hundred episodes, I'd get.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They were big time though.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, that was my list.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Okay, and that was my list. Do you guys, let
us know what your favorite And again, there was a
lot of shows that end like in seventy and seventy one,
but what old timey and it didn't have any sitcoms
or cartoons like you. There was variety shows and all
kinds of shows in the sixties that we watched reruns
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in the seventies. Let us know what your favorites were.
Hit us up at five eight oh five, four one
three eight oh five or buzz at Bushidmedia dot com
and go to Bushead Radio. We're going to be recording
that next with Christopher Todd.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Is he gonna be on?
Speaker 1 (49:32):
He's gonna be on tonight?
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Sweet.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
I don't know what our topic's gonna be over there.
I mean I do, I know a little bit of
it is, but yeah, once you get Christopher Todd on
the phone, you never know what direction you're going, so
we will find out. Okay, we're gonna get out of here.
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Boom Boom wasn't flashing at me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I got a flashy thing.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yo, My computer got a flashing yellow light.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The queer.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
This computer sold and getting older?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
How bought this one? We had?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The thing?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
City was out city boots.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh mine, that's been it's been since like the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I'll quite that long.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's still works. This is basically I'll use it for.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's the phone? How many of the phone? Hey, everybody,
welcome back for another exciting episode of the seventies buzz podcast.
We appreciate you guys. You guys can hit us up
at your Buzzhead hotline five eight oh five four one
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(01:40):
and we are missing a few phone calls. For some
weird reason. Dave has decided to no longer call.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So what's up, Dave? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Were no more Dave call Retchendon' call this week? But
that's okay. Yeah, we got new callers. Yeah, guys, come on,
get on the ball. Dave Gretchen, where are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah? What's up with that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
So let's jump into a couple of the old phony calls.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
There they weren't phony, they were real.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Uh so real quick. I'm going to say that Dean Critchfield,
who's a fan, called, but his is more pertaining to
Buzzhead Radio. So Dean, if you're listening to this, we'll
answer your question over there on Buzzhead Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah. Directly after this podcast, Wendy called. Wendy from Virginia.
She's a She's a friend of Gretchen's apparently. I think
I think she sent I think we have got pictures
over her.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, and she likes carmel.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, she says Carmel from Virginia.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Somebody from Virginia says carmel.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I was watching some national show the other day and
they were I think they were talking about a recipe
and they were talking about putting Carmel in it. I
mean it was it was like a National show. I
mean it was like, like, nothing like Carmel.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I guess it's kind of like biopic and biopic.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, this one's just caramel. What else did Wendy say,
like carmel apples?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We didn't get caramel apples.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We got apples.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She was talking about how cute and then she.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Wasn't really shy. I think, yeah outgoing or she is outgoing? Yeah,
yeah she is, which we Yeah, Chritchen started out slow,
but she got more outgoing as Yes, today's.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
One she bard the out slow.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Anyway. So that's basically all all Wendy had to say. Wendy,
thanks for calling it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, thanks Wendy. Great to hear from you from Virginia.
Or did you remind me I gotta get I'm gonna
put Wendy on the map. So we'll have two from.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Virginia putting Wendy on the map and speaking the map
real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Michael Tallon called, and Michael, the map is actually a
real map on the wall with real pins in it.
And I think for some reason, I think I've got
you on the map. But what I Michael called and
was wondering where the map was, and so what I
think I'll try to do is take a picture of
(04:22):
the map and I'll post it in the seventies Buzz
Facebook group so everybody can kind of see where everybody's from,
and then the people that aren't on the map can
tell me if they want to be on the map.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
And the map's in Curtis's studio.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, it's actually physically somewhere, and I have not posted
a picture.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Of it, so I can see where that would be confusing.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So well, I'll try to. I don't, I can't. I
don't know if taking a picture of it you're gonna
be able to see the pins or not. But we'll try.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, and he sent a commercial.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, he was wondering if so you guys, the reason
we started a Facebook Seventies Buzz Facebook group is because
that allows you guys to upload stuff and ask questions,
and he was wondering about uploading a video. I did
find your link, Michael, and I posted the link to
the video for you. But you guys, go to the
(05:15):
enit or to the Seventies Buzz Facebook group, and there's
a link to a YouTube video of old toys from
the seventies and we haven't actually looked at it yet,
but he says it's really interesting and everybody should watch
it and comment on it. So, yeah, go to the
Facebook group and check that out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, check it out.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Steve from San Antonio call Steve. He commented on the
chores episode he hated cleaning bathrooms because he had brothers
and they pete everywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That would be kind of Gnarlyn.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
That's what brothers did do. Does our doing. He did
mention our tongue clicking it subsided. Apparently had noticed we
really don't pay an attention to that stuff. Oh, in
strange sightings from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah, he suggested a episode topic of people. It would
have to be people because Todd and I wouldn't have
enough sightings to do an episode. So if we do it,
it's gonna have to be one of those episodes where
you guys call in or email and let us know
of any weird sightings that you guys might have had
(06:26):
in the seventies. And I don't want it. Let's don't
go ahead and tell his Oh really, well, yeah, because
if we do the episode, we'll include his in the episode.
If we don't do the episode, we'll Yeah, a couple
of good ones, I know, but let's save them. So
what would really be fun is if you guys would
call in at five eight zero five four one three
eight oo five and then we could play your recordings
(06:49):
of your sightings and so basically, did you one time
see a fog that looked like a ghost, or did
you see something in the sky that looked like a spaceship,
or did you see a bear that you might have
thought was Bigfoot? Or you know, if you guys have
any weird sightings from the seventies, call in and if
we get enough, we'll do the episode. Yeah, So, but
(07:11):
it would be fun, So call in, and I'll have
to I'll have to go through my brain and think
if I remember seeing anything.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, So yeah, and then Dean called in and that's
for Bushead Radio cool over there, so we don't forget
to mention Dean on the Buzzhead Radio Poka okay.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And we did get several emails emails, so we got
the gal from Zimbabwewe. She says, I was at the
record store today to see if they have vintaged our
worst stuff. Sometimes they do, but mostly it's newer stuff.
And to see if they have Blizzard of Oz and
Zombie Mafia on CD. I don't know if I've ever
heard of the Zombie Mafia.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Blizzard of Oz.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The Blizzard of Oz is ozzy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But the Zombie Maffia anyway, she said, no dice on either.
They have a lot of used vinyl. I think there
is a bull Moose in Oklahoma. I don't know that
I've heard of bull Moose, but we'll check it out.
We'll see if there is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Is there a restaurant or something.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Or I think it might be a vintage shop. I
don't know. Huh, let's see. I looked at a couple
of these. They're ninety seven. I don't have an eight track. Oh.
She sent me a picture of a bunch of eight tracks.
She says. The Zombie Mafia is a horror punk band
that mostly plays in bars in New Jersey. They do
(08:36):
have a few albums out and can be found on iHeartRadio.
So I'm going to be looking up the Zombie Mafia
just because I love the name.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Thanks Gal from Zimbabwe. And then Jody Slimp emailed and
said Hi there, Curtis and Todd. So enjoyed your Choices
Chores episode last week. We grew up traveling from base
to base as my dad I was in the Air
Force two, which my dad was as well. Most of
my seventies memories come from more time spent in Alaska.
(09:08):
My chores were mostly the same as others mentioned, with
the exception of cleaning Here we go. Cleaning the bathroom.
It was an absolute It was the absolute worst, as
my dad and brother had terrible aim cross. That's too
funny that two people commented on that. My brother had
trash duty and we had a communal trash bin in Alaska.
(09:30):
One super cold night, he dropped the rubber made trash
can and the sound of it was like glass shattering
when it hit the ground and broke into a million pieces.
Keep the fun going, Jody, and then we got an
email from Jeffrey. He says, hello Jeffrey here, Yes, Curtis,
we did have Pippy Longstocking. Actually, it's very funny because
(09:51):
last week I ordered the complete DVD box set with
all movies and series of Pippy long Stocking, or as
she's called here, Hippy ling Gaus. When I was a
wee young lad, I had a huge crush on her
best friend, Onnica. I truly was smitten. Did you and
(10:12):
Todd have a TV crush? Oh? That might be an
episode TV? Oh yeah, definitely in the seventies, several Lindsay Wagner,
Jan Brady, not Jan Eve, No Mart Yeah, Jan, Yeah,
it was Jan Brady.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The middle one, the middle one.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I watched Pippy long Stocking on videotape when I was
a wee young lad. They persisted here until the late
two thousands, when we got DVD instead, which was a
huge change. Hey, maybe you could make an episode about
Pippy long Stocking because its history is fascinating. And I
think I did watch Pippy Longstocking in the seventies, didn't I?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yeah, I didn't you have like a show or something
or yeah, yeah, a kitsch. It was weird.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
It was weird. There was another like show from over
over the Pond about these kids, like a box car
club or oh, it was like a they had like
a double decker bus, the double Deckers or something. Do
you remember that show, the double Deckers. I think that
was it. I have to look that up, the double
(11:17):
deck Somebody let me know. Jeffrey, I'm sure remembers that.
I think it was called like the double Deckers or something.
And then one more, Jim Hammond from Utah says, hoping
all is good in Oklahoma. I've just recently listened to
your episode on seventies TV Moms. Again, have you guys
done an episode on seventies TV dads?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
We have not, don't think so.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If not, there's yet another future episode and that kind
of would go hand in hand partly with tonight's episode.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Hey, look, Gretchen just tixed.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
He forgot. Well that's good enough, so Gretchand just texted
because she forgot to call. It's funny that she knows
exactly what we're doing right now.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And there is a bull Moose record store.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Oh so we do have a bull Moose or is
it in Oklahoma? City or Tulsa. Uh, we'll have to
cruise by wherever it is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Hang on, I say we have one?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh maybe don't maybe just online.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There's a bunch of back East, a bunch of more
back East.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I don't know that I've ever noticed one, but doesn't
mean there's not one somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I don't think you do. Maybe not the New Hampshire
making Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
So Todd No, so we don't have a bull Moose,
but somebody open up a franchise. We'd love to have
one locations and then real quick, I don't want to
divulge tonight, but something really cool happened today, So I'm
going I will be doing a Swinkies podcast this week
(13:01):
and it actually pertains to last week's Zinky's podcast And
uh so, if you guys believe in winks from the universe,
you must listen because it's a pretty crazy story. So
I don't want to go into too deep because it's
going to have another unboxing. Oh so you guys be
prepared for another unboxing on this week's Zinky's podcast episode.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What could Curtis have done?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Now?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
What did I do? Everybody check it out? So tonight's episode,
shall we get to get to the episode.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
And did we say that Dave didn't call.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I did say that Dave didn't call. I did, and
I even I just messaged. Let me see if he's
messaged me back yet, just in case. Oh look, exactly
same exact thing that Gretchen said. He said, I totally
forgot last night and I was going to call today
but was too late. Two weeks in a row. That's
earn unheard of from me. Okay, So Dave and Gretchen,
(13:58):
you're forgiven. At least, it's just bad memory and yeah
and all that. So everybody is forgiven. But get your
ringy dingy's going for next week.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I told Gretchen, I said, hello, we're giving you a
hard time as I type, and she goes, oh yeah,
she goes better quit or I just might call and
tell you to shut up. Oh my, Well, you know
I don't have to answer the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
That's correct, and they won't know until the next day
whether we answer it.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, no, this show, tonight's show.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Tonight's show. So I got a Roku TV, and on
the Roku TV, as with all new TVs. Now, I
guess like if you don't have dish or satellite or
your local thing. If you have YouTube TV, when you
turn on the TV, it gives you all of the
apps that you can go in and watch all the things.
(14:52):
And I don't know if it's just because it's Roku
TV and because I don't know what other TVs do,
but it puts in in the three boxes at the
top before Netflix and Paramount and all that, and it's
just it just says leave It to Beaver. Mine says
leave It to Beaver, ghost Hunters, and then it always
(15:13):
changes the third one because I don't ever like click
on it, but for some reason, Roku knows that I
sometimes like to watch Leave It to Beaver. So I
guess there's a full time Leave It to Beaver channel
because every time I click on it, it starts playing
Leave It to Beaver twenty four to seven. So I
have been watching a lot now you know, it's on
in the background, but a lot of Leave It to
(15:35):
Beaver episodes, and that's been bringing back a lot of nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Oh, the old nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And those old Leave It to Beaver episodes remind me
of being a kid in the seventies because we watched
the reruns over and over and over and over again.
So that's what made me think might be fun. I
love that theme. I have a playlist somewhere on my
(16:08):
iPod with this song on it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
There's more to it than a minute in five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
No, I think that's even on the It was back
in the old napster days. Snagged it off a napster.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Poor Napster, say, poor Naster. Metallica killed Napster, which is
probably a good thing anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, So this episode, if you haven't been able to
tell by whatever Todd titled it, basically reruns that we
watched in the seventies. It's basically shows that were only
produced in the fifties and sixties, but we watched the
reruns in the seventies. None of the new shows were
(16:56):
filmed in the seventies, and so even though they were
the fifties ones were probably cool to watch in the fifties,
and the sixties ones were probably pretty cool to watch
in the sixties, they were always better to watch in
the seventies. And why is that, mister Wheler.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Because I was the greatest I getting on to man.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yes it was.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I cheated on a couple.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yes, oh you did well, because some of them well now,
but I didn't. I didn't. I was like, oh, you go,
I can't not miss I know. I didn't include a
sink because there was I bet there was ten very
popular sitcoms that ended in seventy or seventy one. I
didn't include any of them. All of my list ended
before the seventies, so bad.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I was like, I can't leave them now.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Well, so I'm going to go over Leave It to
Beaver real quick.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
From nineteen fifty seven to nineteen sixty three, they had
two hundred and thirty four episodes out of six seasons,
and from the very first episode to Leave It to Beaver,
it has never been off the air.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Oh really, I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Leave It to Beaver has never been off the air.
It has been in syndication or somewhere around the world
ever since nineteen fifty seven. It was the first series
to have a finale. Oh did you know that? In
nineteen sixty three, Jerry Mathers was about to go into
(18:21):
high school and he basically told the producers, Hey, I
want to quit acting and go have a real high school.
So they all kind of got together and decided is
that somebody's base?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, someone's bumping them.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, So they decided to, you know, cancel the show
and it was at its peak, and so they the
last episode, June pulls out a photo album and they
all kind of sit down and reminisce about old episodes.
So it was literally kind of the first finale.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh ks.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Every episode of Leave It to Beaver was in black
and white, even though they got to a point where
they could have done them in color, but they decided,
I guess they It took them five days to film
every episode, and had they done it in color, for
some reason, there was something about the lighting and the
processing would have taken longer, which would have made their schedule.
(19:20):
They would have had to do the episodes in four days,
and they didn't want to skimp on quality, and so
they opted not to ever do any in color. Bless youes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Squeeze me squeeze about the.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Funny thing though throughout its run, Leave It to Beaver
never cracked the Nielsen Top thirty ever.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Really, yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
So there's your little Leave It to Beaver?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Did you know there's a couple of urban legends come
from Leave It to Beever?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Urban legends legends let me know what are those?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
You will probably remember this, uh when I should talk
about it. In the mid seventies, Mathers appeared on The
Tomorrow Show hosted by Tom Snyder. Snyder pointed out that
Mathers had not worked for a long time and that
there was rumor going around that he had been killed
in the war in Southeast Asia. Mathers replied that he
had heard that rumor and had no idea it started.
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The room began when a Sergeant Stephen Mathers was killed
in Vietnam in sixty eight. Newswires Services erroneously reported that
reported this was the Beaver. Actor Shelley Winners announced it
on The Tonight Show. Jerry Mathers said later that the
room was so widespread that his close friend Tony Dowell,
(20:35):
who's played his brother, sent Marema.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Flowers to his parents.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And actually Jerry Mathers never set fit in Vietnam, though
he did serve in the National Guard. There's that.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I do remember that, now you say.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
That, Okay, there's another one. Another urban legend was that
Ken Osmond Eddie Haskell uh huh became a porn star.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I think I do remember that.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It became porn star John Holmes, Oh my Holmes took
Osmond's name and did several movies satirically under the name
Eddie Haskell. It started because there was some facial resemblance
between the two men, which porn distributors exploited by using
the name Eddie Haskell in the advertising Homes films. It
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was a pain in my butt for eleven years as Osmond.
He bought a twenty five million dollar defamation suit against
pornhouse producers and distributors to suit and all the way
to the California Supreme Court. The court ruled for Home,
saying that the name was protected as satire. This case
set a president in the matter, and it's still referred
(21:37):
to in other cases in California today.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, i'd be you couldn't win that one. And researching
which made me really sad, was Jerry Mathers is the
only family member still alive.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So is Eddie goilam.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think I don't know if Eddie's gotten now Eddie
became a policeman. Yeah, so, but I didn't. I forgot
to look up Eddie and see if I didn't see
if any of the other like smaller part characters were
still alive. But out of the family. Jerry, he's still alive.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So yeah, he's a now much old her or nurse.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Really, yeah he is. He's uh, he's getting up there. Okay,
what do you got on your list over there? Well,
even though you might have cheated.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Just a couple, like okay, probably the i'd have to say,
the the numero unu of them all. If my single play.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Play play play play play, come on while you're trying
to that's the next one on my list.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So my list is made up of shows that I
actually watched.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, yeah, because there's a there's a ton of them,
but we didn't want to We didn't want to do
every one of them.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, no, no too. I guess I watched a lot
of TV, and there's.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Been We've talked about Gilligan's Island on you know, other episodes,
but this one strictly kind of kind of reruns.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, Gilligan's Islands sixty sixty seven ninety eight episodes. I
think they're all gone. It's don Well still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
She was the last one.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Gosh, I can't remember she's still alive or not?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
And she was the only one that was smarter about
her paycheck.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah. Well, and Jerry Mathers did the same thing. Yeah,
but he didn't get a whole lot of residual, but
he was the only one that got any. Did you
know that the first thirty six episodes of Gilligan's Island
were in black and white? I saw that and they
went back and later colorized them for syndication, and then
real quick I wanted to remind everybody these were the
(23:57):
names of the characters on Gilligan's Eye Island. There was
Willie Gilligan, Captain Jonas Grumby, Thurston how the Third, Eunice
Lovey Howell, love Ginger Grant, Professor Roy Hinkley, and Mary
Anne Summers.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know why Professor Roy Hinkley sounds like something
from Scooby Doo, but that does for some reason, it
does a lot. Yeah. So that was one, definitely for
kids in the seventies. One of the top reruned sitcoms
of all time always on my next one is The Monkeys.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
With a Monkey.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I didn't get that one, and we actually did a
whole We've done a whole episode on the Monkeys. I think, ooh,
I think we have because we watched it in the seventies.
It ran from sixty six to sixty eight fifty eight
episodes and was syndicated in September of seventy five, so
that's probably about when we started watching it.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, Mickey just had a birthday the other day, wowser.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, I guess he did. I follow him on Facebook.
I think the series was filmed by screen Gems, and
many of the same sets and props from the Three
Stooges were used in a lot of the Monkeys episodes.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Most of these shows were all filmed with one camera too. Yeah,
and even though they other I mean, I think, wasn't
uh I Love Lucy, wasn't it like the first one
to use more than one camera?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I probably think it was a Desilu production. Yeah, uh,
you know, real quick, going back to leave it to Beaver,
I was watching one of the episodes and they were
talking about moving, and they moved to a new house
and the boy's bedroom was all different, and I was like,
why would why would you move? I mean, I guess
that's part of real life, is moving. But I found
out that at some point when it was on, they
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switched studios you know, from one station to another. So
they actually had to move the filming from one neighborhood
to another one, and that's why they had to go
to a new house.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, the fifty seven, fifty eight, it was a CBS
and then ABC got it from then on, Yeah, all
the way to sixty.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Three, so they actually really did move, really really, which
is kind of funny. The monkey Mobile was a modified
Pontiac gto It's a cool car.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I bet it was a Frank Bearris car.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Had to be, I think, so for some reason I didn't.
I had it, but I didn't copy and paste it,
but I think, so, Okay, what's the next on your list?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Do Doom Dodom. You know what a lot of people
might not know is way back in the day, and
I don't I mean like thirties or forties, there was
a guy that drew the cartoons, the Adams family, and
a lot of them were in the New York, New
(27:06):
Yorkrea and that's where all that came from.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
His name was Adams.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, and I've got I've got like a paperback book
of all of his single panel cartoons. They're kind of
they're basically like Herman but they're all, you know, death
and bats and they're all kind of gruesome.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, so the Adams family. It was only on two
years sixty forty sixty six, Carolyn Jones, John Aston, Jackie Coogan,
Ted Cassidy Blossom. Grandma's name was Blossom, Rock Blossom Rock.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Lisa Loring, and Ken Weatherwax. Little little tidbit here. The
California Child Actors Bill, also known as cougar an act
or Cougan Bill, is a lot applicable to child performers,
designed a to safeguard a portion of their earnings for
when they reached the age of It says majority, I
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think they met maturity and protect them from exploitation and abuse.
The original bill was passed in nineteen thirty nine by
the state of California in response to the plight of
Jackie Coogan, who played Uncle Faster. Right.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't sound right. Majority, They do use
that word there, but he would. Uncle Vester wasn't a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
No, Jackie Coogan, he played Jackie Coogan played him. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I don't know who Jackie Coogan is, but is he
a kid?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
He was, He was a child actor back in the thirties.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
But oh and then when he grew up he played
Uncle Fester.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yes, OK, gotcha, Yeah, I was gonna say yeah. He
was like he was the highest pay child actor way
back then, and he had earned millions of dollars as
a successful child actor, only to discover upon reaching adulthood
and his mother and stepfather had spent almost all of
his money.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
But even with that law, they parents still did that.
I mean, Corey Feldman and kid after kid after kid,
their parents spent all their money.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Well, they're only required to save like fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that's pretty bad, pretty.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Crazy, pretty not cool.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Next on my list was The Andy Griffith Show from
nineteen sixty to nineteen sixty eight, two hundred and forty
nine half hour episode spanning eight seasons, one hundred and
fifty nine of them were in black and white, and
ninety of them were in color. The series never placed
lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings, ending its final
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season at number one.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Huh went out on top?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Huh yeah, and then so we And when it went out, Uh,
what's his name? Andy? Who played Andy Griffith?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Andy Griffith.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
No, wouldn't it well? Andy?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Ye, it was Andy Griffith. It was Yeah, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Now you got me wondering.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, anyway, Andy and Cunningham, Richie Cunningham left the show
and it turned into Mayberry RFD.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I guess with a cousin or Andy Griffith.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, what am I thinking of? Andy?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
What you're thinking of?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Andy?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Was I thinking it was something else?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah? No, Andy Griffith? Yeah, uh so anyway, yeah, I
became yeah with the the other guy.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah. And then it had like a bazillion spin offs. Yeah,
well maybe two bazillion, not that one. Okay, next, what's
your next one?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Well, you can't. If you're going to do as family,
you gotta do the monsters.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I don't know which one I like better, Adam's Family
or the Monsters.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You know, they came out at almost exact same time.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I wonder if the Groovy Goolies came out then too, though,
I don't know. Yeah, I think the Groovy Gooleyes later.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
They were both sixty four to sixty six, both of them.
The idea of a family comic of thinking of a
Jurney Nowaday. The idea of a family comical Monsters was
for suggested to the Universal News by animator Bob Klampett, who
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developed the idea in nineteen forty three. The project did
not make progress until nineteen sixty three, when a similar
idea was submitted by the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
and Friends writer Alan Burns and Chris Hayward. The proposal
was later handed to writers Norman Leebman and Ed hass
hass Holt, who wrote the pilot script, Love That Monster.
(32:17):
According to Burns, we sort of stole the idea from
Charles Adams to the guy from the New Yorker New
York and his New Yorker cartoons because Universal owned Frankenstein
and Dracula characters in their movie rights.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Really yeah, you know Frankenstein's now royalty free.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh is it really?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, they decided to take their characters instead of the
characters he had we had written. So yeah, So that's
why they used Hermann, the Frankenstein guy, and the Grandpa,
which was the Dracula guy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Interesting, it's funny that they were the same exact years,
but that's kind of the way it go.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, they do that a lot, like Dante's Inferred and
then the other volcano. There's always it seems like there's
voice yeah, or quite often two movies that are very
close to the same.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I added a couple of just a couple of cartoons.
The Flintstones Oh Yeah, nineteen sixty to nineteen sixty six.
It was the first animated series with a prime time
slot on television, meaning it wasn't actually made for kids.
The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest running
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network animated television series for three decades. Despite the animation
and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences.
This was reflected in the comedy, which resembled the primetime
sitcoms of the era, with family issues resolved at the
end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of
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a laugh track. The first two seasons were co sponsored
by Winston Cigarettes, and the characters appeared in several black
and light television commercials for Winston. So there was a
picture of Fred smoking a cigarette. So the characters actually
smoked cigarettes in the commercials.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Ads.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, and that's that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Could not do that today.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We can't even show you that today we'd be in
big trouble. Really no, Oh, but we can't show you
because it's a podcast.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
But anyway, she's your imagination or google it.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And then of course, and then when it into went
into reruns, it got thrown into Saturday Morning Cartoons. And
then I think it was on after school too, Like
I remember watching it like every day after school too,
so it was everywhere it was ever And then I
think they actually even started refilming new episodes like in
the eighties. Oh really, yeah, I think.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh yeah, they did that with several things.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, okay, there was just one.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It might be a little tougher to nail train that
was rolling down the tracks to the Jukes.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Petty Coat.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I didn't watch a whole lot of Petty Grill.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was on for six seasons, two hundred and twenty
two episodes.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I don't know why. I don't know why. I just
either it wasn't on or I didn't wasn't interested.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Man, I always had the hots for those girls. There
was Billy Joel, Bobby Joel, and Betty Joe. Betty Joe,
Billy Joe, Bobby Joel. I can't remember which one out
of the hotsport. There was three different women who played
Billy Joel, two different women played Bobby Joe. But yeah,
(35:51):
there was a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
It'd be hard to keep up with it.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Was that a spin off or was that that was
cause of spin off?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
I was a spin off of Beverly Hilldies.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Okay, that's right, which.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I put on my list, even though they even though
they went into seventy one cheater.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
There's a cheater right there.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Okay, I'll just mention it Pettico Junction.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Okay, real quick, back to another cartoon. This is my
I only did two cartoons, I think the Jetsons. It
was another primetime show from nineteen sixty two to nineteen
sixty three. It didn't last long. The original had twenty
four episodes aired on Sunday nights on ABC. It debuted
as the first program broadcast in color on ABC. I
(36:37):
think we mentioned that on a prior episode a couple
of weeks ago. The show was originally scheduled opposite Walt
Disney's World of Color and Did This the Menace and
did not receive much attention. And the reason it didn't
is because almost everybody had black and white televisions and
so nobody could see all the cool colors in it.
(36:57):
Due to poor ratings, it was canceled to the first
season and then moved to Saturday Morning where it became
very successful. And again I remember, I don't remember what episode,
but we were talking about it. I remember talking about
it that it didn't it wasn't popular because everybody's TVs
were black and white, really and it was in color.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
And I just remember, well, I guess we had color
TV by then.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Huh, you know, sixty three, I bet I. I wonder
what year we got color TVs.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I remember the TV sitting right here was black and
white on legs, on four legs.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, it seems like we always had a black and
white TV somewhere in the house and then eventually the
you know, like the main TVs would change to color,
but it's like the ones in our bedrooms or the
kitchen or they always were black and white.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So uh, I think that's all the music I had?
Man from Uncle? Did you watch Man from Uncle?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I did watch Man from Uncle?
Speaker 2 (37:59):
That was on from sixty four to sixty eight, one
hundred and five episodes. Robert Vaughan, David mac oham. Where
was they I was trying to remember last night where
they stationed, and I mean, was that America was at England?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Where they were at I don't even remember.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And uncle stands for oh, almost shut it down something.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, that I don't remember either.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
And their their main adversaries was Thrush.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Rush.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yeah, okay, it's.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like that's like try this aid's candy to lose weight,
eight aids lose weight. Yeah. I remember watching, I just
don't remember a lot about it. I must not have
watched a lot of it.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Oh, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
How about Batman No.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, nineteen sixty six to nineteen sixty eight. It was
one hundred and twenty episodes aired on ABC for three seasons.
When it was on the first two seasons, it was
twice weekly during the first two seasons and then weekly
and the third season. For the first two seasons, Batman
aired twice weekly on consecutive nights. Every story was a
(39:11):
two parter, So when you watch the reruns and it
ends with a cliffhanger, it's because back in the day,
the second part was always on the next night.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It's pretty genius.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Well, when they moved it to after school and stuff,
you had to wait like a whole day, which was
always a pain. Except for the two three parters. Featuring
villainous team ups, that those would be three parters. The
titles of each multi part story usually rhymed, which I
don't remember the titles of the episodes. The third and
(39:44):
final season, which aired one episode a week, consisted of
self contained stories. Near the end of the third seasons,
ratings had dropped significantly and ABC canceled the show, but
NBC agreed to take over the series, But before it
could do so, it discovered that hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of Batman sets had been destroyed. Rather than
(40:08):
rebuild the sets, NBC dropped the Projectaman was gone, Oh yeah,
so many ABC get pissed off, and they probably just thought, hey,
it's over, let's toss him.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Oh that's man. Can't you imagine those things if they
were still around.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean think of that, hundreds of thousands of
dollars in sixty eight, like we mailed a lot of
money today almost.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, Yeah, I guess. Adam West and Ward were kind
of they kind of got around. There's much much talk
about them and yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
And it was campy and cheesy and it was meant
to be I mean, it was never meant to be
like a serious superhero show. So like when they're climbing
up the buildings, Yeah, Sammy Davis Junior stick his head
out the window.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Did you watch Lost in Space?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I did watch Lost in Space.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Sixty five to sixty A lot of these only ran
three years. I don't know that seems to be like
a real common.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Danger Will Robinson danger.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Twenty nine of those episodes were black and white and
fifty four were in color.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Seems like I watched that when I was like a
little kid. Yeah, it's kind of one of those little kids.
How about my Favorite Martian? Did you watch my Favorite Martin?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Not watch that very well? Really, I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I just I don't want sixty three to nineteen sixty six,
there was on one hundred and seven episodes. It starred
Ray Walston as Uncle Martin the Martian and Bill Bixby
as Tim O'Hare.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
I love Bill Bixby.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
The first two seasons totally seventy five episodes were in
black and white, and the thirty two episodes of the
third and final season were filmed in color.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Of course, star trek Oh. It was off for three
seasons sixty sixty sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
We watched a lot of Star Track.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Oh yeah, I remember sitting right here, this TV right here,
and that the spaceship would.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Be really small, bigger, right over your head.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
It looks like it's going right over your head. Whow
that would have been back when they were ran new
to you know.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I have a triple in my studio, Yes, yes, a
working trible does it?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Is it reproducing now?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Because it's there's only one, I won't let it near not.
I think are they self producing?
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I think they wereried. You just didn't feed them. Remember
when somebody put them in the grain storage or some
kind of anyway.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I never feed mine.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
So he's okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Gomer Pyle U s MC.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I watched that.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That was a spin off from the Andy Griffith Show.
He was on three three seasons, maybe two or three
seasons on The Andy Griffith Show, but Gomer Pile ran
from sixty four to sixty nine. Jim Nabors he played
Gomer Pyle. It was a major ratings hit, never placing
(43:11):
lower than tenth in the Nielsen ratings, and ended its
run as the second highest rated series in the United States.
Neighbors always said he had a hard time watching the
show's opening credits, as many of the Marines he was
filmed training with were later killed in Vietnam. Oh yeah,
what a bummer. And because they thought that it was
(43:35):
going to show such a good light on the Marines,
they basically let the show almost do whatever they want
and whatever equipment they needed or or scenes or whatever.
They rolled out the red carpet for those guys.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, that would have been that time, man. Yeah, do
you watch Riflemen.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
A little bit?
Speaker 2 (43:58):
I didn't watch it that much, but I do remember
he had that fast gun. He had a special kind
of rifle.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
That was yeah modified kind of cack it while he
was shooting it or something. Now he in the in
that show. I think they were for me at Oklahoma.
Oh really Yeah, I think like in like one of
the beginning episodes they talk about leaving Enid, Oklahoma, And yeah,
(44:26):
I'll have to I'll have to look that up. There's
something I've posted on in the buzz before about that
we don't Yeah, wrote that down. How about here was one?
And I only really remember watching this one like on
the remember the days when you were sick and you
got to stay home and then you watched like all day, Hazel.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I never watched.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I never watched. Hazel ran from sixty one to sixty
six American sitcom about a spunky living maid named Hazel Burt,
played by Shirley Booth and her employers, the Baxters. It
ran for five se and one hundred and fifty four episodes,
And like I say, it wasn't like one of those
that I watched like after school or all the time.
(45:09):
It just seems like if I was homesick, like Father
Knows Best and Hazel and some of those shows would
come on, and so I would only watch them sporadically.
But that was one I always remember being sick much
in Hazel.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
I never watched Father Knows Best?
Speaker 1 (45:24):
You do, yeah, say, it was the same deal. I
only watched it, I think on days that I was sick.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
No, I know. I Love Lucy.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Oh yeah, I watch a lot of I Love Lucy.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Sixty to sixty six had one hundred and sixty seven episodes.
I was trying to remember that they bought that studio
from I think they bought that studio from the Howard
from Howard to use hmmm. I think that was originally
his studio and before that it was somebody else's.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
And then everything was Desy Lou production from then on out.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Yeah, like Star Trek.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, there was a lot of shows. It were Dizzy Loo. Yeah,
that's all I that's that was my list of There
was like a million more, but I kind of kept
mine to the ones that I actually watched. Johnny Quest, Johnny, Yeah,
I forgot to put that on my list, but yeah, Johnny,
I remember Johnny Quest being like when I was a
(46:18):
little little kid, and so there was like cartoons like
Bullwinkle and Underdog and Johnny Quest. It seemed like those
were all like early seventies reruns when we watched those.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Bowl Winkle was my next one fifty nine to sixty three, fifty.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Nine fifty nine wow, one.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Hundred and sixty three episodes, The Monkeys that we already
talked about, The Monkeys, I Dream.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Of Jeannie Now that went into like seventy days.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, Dragnet, Oh yeah, Don't Don't Don't Smothers Brothers.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Smothers Brothers was a good one.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah, see, I kind of I didn't even I was
so into the sitcom I didn't even go out. But yeah,
there was tons of like hour long shows.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
That lone Ranger.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh I love the Lone Ranger.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, forty nine to fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Forty nine to fifty seven, wow.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Two and twenty one episodes. I had no idea.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
What about I didn't look it up. I wonder when Laredo.
I bet it was a seventy show.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
It sounds like it. U Flipper, Oh yeah, Flipper sixty
four to sixty seven to eighty eight episodes.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
What about Lassie? Was it a seventy show or was
it sixties?
Speaker 2 (47:42):
You know, I didn't watch much Lassie.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
I think I watched more Lassie actually than Flipper.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Oh really no, I love Flipper. Flipper Flipper Oki of
the old show. Uh? What about Ozzie and Harriet?
Speaker 1 (47:54):
See? Ozzy and Harriet was kind of almost one of
those father knows best Hazel only only caught it every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
It was on from fifty two to sixty six, four
hundred and thirty six episodes.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
It was big time when it was on.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
And there they were actually Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, and
Nelson their sons. Yeah, yeah, they played They didn't really
play themselves, but they usually.
Speaker 1 (48:22):
They played a family, yeah, with their real names. So
that was pretty pretty kind of groundbreaking.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah, can you imagine your that's your job is to
be you, to be you with your family filming all
day and then you leave the set and go home
and you're with your family all day.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Hang on, are we acting right now?
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Camera's here exactly.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
I would get four hundred episodes, I'd get.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They were big time though.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, that was my list.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
Okay, and that was my list. Do you guys, let
us know what your favorite And again, there was a
lot of shows that end like in seventy and seventy one,
but what old timey and it didn't have any sitcoms
or cartoons like you. There was variety shows and all
kinds of shows in the sixties that we watched reruns
(49:15):
in the seventies. Let us know what your favorites were.
Hit us up at five eight oh five, four one
three eight oh five or buzz at Bushidmedia dot com
and go to Bushead Radio. We're going to be recording
that next with Christopher Todd.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Is he gonna be on?
Speaker 1 (49:32):
He's gonna be on tonight?
Speaker 2 (49:33):
Sweet.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
I don't know what our topic's gonna be over there.
I mean I do, I know a little bit of
it is, but yeah, once you get Christopher Todd on
the phone, you never know what direction you're going, so
we will find out. Okay, we're gonna get out of here.
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