Just read that William Christopher passed away yesterday at the age of 84. For those of us that can remember that long ago Christopher played Father Mulcahy on the tv version of MASH. Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) was fond of calling him "Padre" in the script. RIP Padre.
Did not realize he was cast as a fellow Marine of Gomer Pyle, USMC named Lester Hummel. Studied Greek literature and competed in fencing.
I'm so damn old I remember when Harry Morgan was Sgt. Joe Friday's sidekick. 😉
Ya ain't old unless you can remember Spring Byington and Zasu Pitts on television shows.
Does Your Holiness remember such a time?
John, post: 407146, member: 791 wrote: Does Your Holiness remember such a time?
But of course he does, he was also instrumental in the development of the "wheel". 😉
In reruns for Spring in December Bride. We didn't get a TV until 1958. Saw her in Laramie.
Zasu was on The Gale Storm Show also known as Oh Susanna.
Holy Cow, post: 407151, member: 50 wrote: In reruns for Spring in December Bride. We didn't get a TV until 1958. Saw her in Laramie.
Zasu was on The Gale Storm Show also known as Oh Susanna.
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Plunk, your magic twanger Froggy!
Robert Hill, post: 407208, member: 378 wrote: Pluck, your magic twanger Froggy!
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Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows", Our Miss Brooks, 30-minute Gunsmoke and Paladin, 1952 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Dragnet with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith, The Lineup with Detective Guthrie and Inspector Grebb tooling around in a 1952 Ford way past 1952, ...
My favorie was:
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FL/GA PLS., post: 407240, member: 379 wrote: My favorie was:
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I paid ten cents every Saturday afternoon to see that movie (only a year after it came out) for months. The Saturday Matinee at the "Pearl" Theatre in Buena Vista, CO also usually included two short Lone Ranger re-runs (maybe a Cisco Kid too) and a slew of Woody Woodpecker cartoons. I can still feel the sticky floor there...
Holy Cow, post: 407139, member: 50 wrote: Ya ain't old unless you can remember Spring Byington and Zasu Pitts on television shows.
Or William Conrad as Matt Dillon!
Loyal, post: 407259, member: 228 wrote: Or William Conrad as Matt Dillon!
Wasn't that on the radio?
Rubrew, post: 407428, member: 954 wrote: Wasn't that on the radio?
Yes sir. I'm sure Conrad lost the part to Arness when the tv series came out due to physical attributes...;)
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Rubrew, post: 407428, member: 954 wrote: Wasn't that on the radio?
Yup!
Along with the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and others that I only vaguely remember (but then I only vaguely last week).
Loyal
My mother would stop what she was doing to listen to Perry Como sing on the radio. Spent many hours "watching" the radio before a TV set arrived at our house.
