The early 60s tv show Route 66 is getting remade!

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Martin Milner is still alive, too, but Glenn Corbett is no longer with us.

Marty and George's characters used to share a bed in some of the eps. Would network dare go there today?

Too bad Martin Milner didn't share a bed with Kent McCord for at least one scene on Adam 12.

Martin Milner was cute. I have seen a few of the episodes when I visit my mother (on ME TV, I think), and what I like is that they each present a slice of America in the days before fast travel was available to the masses. So you see a distinct regional culture. The two leads also treated minorities with respect and had good-hearted humor.

Are they actually going on Route 66 again, or someplace else? Because some of it is well kept, some areas roll through near ghost towns with horribly in-maintained roads full of potholes and washboard pavement. Parts of Route 66 in California have been superceded by larger highways, and the old route is pretty much deserted.

"Ill-maintained."

I know the shot with the horse is genuine but are the rest REALLY George Maharis?

Alternate "horse" shot.

Quite big dick.

I watched the series on Netflix a few years ago (I think they had three of the four seasons). It was a bit uneven, but some of the early episodes were interesting. They did not have clean cookie cutter endings and many of the characters were presented in shades of gray. As the series progressed it became more preachy with the leads often spouting moral platitudes. George also seemed to be a bit more manic as time went on and was wondering if there might have been some substance abuse behind the scenes.

Speaking of George, the second season was probably the peak for gratuitous beefcake shots. He was often in brief style swimming trunks, even in the hotel room when others were dressed. There definitely seemed to be a couple of shots that seemed to be focused on a rather nice ass in a swim suit that looked like black underwear.

Until recently, I never realized Martin Milner was also a child actor and in his teens, played opposite Miss Elizabeth Taylor in Life With Father.

Yeah -- that was him!

Martin Milner was SO cute and sexy in his day...and I'm not usually partial to squirrel cheeked blonds.

I remember George Maharis going on Carson (I was little ok? Like 6 months old, give me a break! LOL) and he said that his mother loved the pics. He said that his mother had sort of been wondering what had happened since his diaper days, and now she knows! Carson loved that.

How is Maharis holding up these days? He must be 85 or so

He was so cute.

[quote]Too bad Martin Milner didn't share a bed with Kent McCord for at least one scene on Adam 12.

Both were fucking hot (especially McCord), so I certainly wouldn't have minded.

I've posted in other threads about the series that I always felt the Milner character (Pete Malloy) was secretly gay due to the fact he rarely showed any interest in women (despite Reed's many attempts to hook him up), but of course being the late 60s, that hidden subtext was never considered by audiences (or the network for that matter, which would've insisted his character be rewritten otherwise).

No r16 -- people had gotten over the post ww2 marriage mania by the late 60s and for a while, people uninterested in marriage were free to be single.

Now that we've regressed (thanks to women and gays) suddenly there is talk of "subtext" that wasn't there.

Like Milner's Pete in Adam 12, wasn't God forbid not sexy at all Jack Webb's character in Dragnet unmarried? I always got the same vibe about him- probably a bitter closet queen who liked to go around gay clubs and beat up a queen.

Don't forget my sequel.

Glenn Corbett was so good looking.

No, thank you.

You gals are slippin'. More than 20 posts and no mention of MM co-starring with Bette Davis? He played the potential son-in-law , in "The Catered Affair." Screenplay by Gore Vidal. They don't come much gayer.

r17, the average age at first marriage in the 60s was something like 22 years old....maybe you have heard of statistics.

Marty was also in the classic "The Sweet Smell of Success."

Hollywood actor George Maharis (b. 1928) was arrested November 21, 1974 and charged with committing a sex act with a male hairdresser in the men's room of a gas station in Los Angeles.

46 years old at the time, Maharis was booked on a sex perversion charge and released on $500 bail. Six years earlier Maharis had been arrested by a vice squad officer for lewd conduct in the restroom of a Hollywood restaurant; the officer said Maharis made a pass at him.

Milner died in 2015

You girls really are slipping. Milner was in the gayest movie of all time.

You bumped a five year old thread for THAT?

So, was the show get remade? I haven't seen anything about a rebooted Route 66 anywhere. I would definitely watch it, especially if the beefcake were prime.

Well I guess that show never got remade.

In the 60s, car culture was underway after Eisenhower built the interstate highway system. Endless road met endless sky. No traffic jams yet.

Traveling Route 66 became a thing. It had been the only way to cross the USA and there was nostalgia for the old route after it was bypassed by the “new” America.

The space race was underway at the same time Jim Crow was happening. Prewar and post-WW2 were mixed for a while.

In some rural parts of 1960 America, the 1930s depression era was just ending. The hillbillies were moving to Beverly & the cool cats were traveling the backroad country. Acid had yet to be dropped. The leads were pre-hippies & probably would’ve ended up in SF in time for the Summer of Love if they’d been born a few years later than they were.

Wow, George Maharis kept getting hepatitis & had to leave the show. No wonder his career didn’t go far. They knew where that hepatitis was coming from.

I love the story that Maharis had a succession of wigs for the month, to give the impression that his hair was growing.

You know how bitch fags can be!