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Surveying on TV
Found another show featuring surveying.
Matter of Honor episode of Death Valley Days broadcast in 1962. Main character is a young Army engineer played by Vic Morrow who we geezers remember from COMBAT! Oddly, his last name was Benson. Another principal character is Captain Warner, namesake of the Warner Mountain Range, portrayed by Trevor Bardette who we really old geezers remember in the role of Nehemiah H. “Old Man” Clanton from The Legend of Wyatt Earp.
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Did you watch Hell on Wheels on AMC a few years back, was about the race to complete the East coast to West coast railroad line. Had a few Surveyors in the show. My favorite line was, I need more money to pay the Surveyor so he can find us a route thru the mountains, or at least the quote was close to that.
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Yep, and the surveyor got killed by indians and his beautiful wife just picked up and carried on the route survey….piece of cake :). Jp
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Found another show featuring surveying.
Matter of Honor episode of Death Valley Days broadcast in 1962. Main character is a young Army engineer played by Vic Morrow who we geezers remember from COMBAT!
Remember Vic Morrow being decapitated filming The Twilight Zone back when. I think some kids were killed too.
I did see his daughter Jennifer Jason Leigh in a play once. Very odd play about mental illness and mathematical genius.
A few months ago, I saw a Law&Order rerun that had a surveyor in a scene being questioned at a construction site in Manhattan by Briscoe. The surveyor took an automatic level from a van, walked up to a tripod and placed it on a tripod and took a note pad from his vest then looked into the scope and started writing notes. Never screwed it to the tripod or adjusted anything.
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On the “Rifleman” (I believe it was) that the “surveyor” had to leave in a hurry so he just grabbed the tripod, with the transit still attached, and threw it into the back of the wagon (transit first). There was also a movie, “The Dog Soldiers” I believe where one of the characters found the treasure trove of the Indians. Inside was a transit still on a tripod.
Andy
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Man I have seen some people set up a level, if they film them, they would have enough material for a 2 hour tv movie.
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danny bonaducci played a surveyor on the tv show married with children
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Great screen name sir!
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Last of the Dogmen…
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Don??t see mention of Ward Cleaver, Beaver??s father on ??Leave it to Beaver.? He was a surveyor in the SeaBees during WWII. See: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630211/?ref_=ttep_ep15
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I know I’ve seen surveyors on episodes of Bonanza. I couldn’t help doing some research on the subject!
Bonanza – Bitter Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkHburPv61U
0:00 – 0:55 water rights agreement
Enjoy!
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As originally from Europe I grew up on European production of western movies. The most iconic was series of movies about Vinetou and Old Shatterhand written by a German writer Karel May. The main character starred by Lex Barker is a German surveyor working for a rail company. A big hero for boys across Europe in those days when we played to be cowboys and indians.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/wild-west-germany
Enjoy the movie in English especially from 17:30-20:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QAPryTMdA0
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It is a short 37 second snippet from one of our favorite TV detective comedy shows about a property line dispute…
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