New Eldergay Channel! It's MeTV+ (PLUS!)

5 days a week of Space:1999? Count me in.

Matt Houston 👍🤩🥵

No My Little Margie or the Gale Storm Show - include me out.

Alias Smith and Jones!

Ahh, the lovely Pete Duel.

On Saturdays and Sundays.

Robert Conrad’s skin tight pants on weekends!

OMG Hawaiian Eye 10pm Monday - Friday!!!!!!!

How did I miss that? I'd watch Me TV now and then but now . . . every single night.

Thank you, OP.

Do they have Columbo? I miss Columbo on MeTV.

I read "Branded" as "Brendad" and almost had a heart attack!!

COLUMBO still runs on Monday and Tuesday nights on the Sundance channel.

[quote]I read "Branded" as "Brendad" and almost had a heart attack!!

Well, Brendad does have that effect on people.

They show Columbo on a local substation in DC. Saturdays and Sundays nights IIRC. I cannot find a TV schedule for these substations. Even my TV won't give me the schedule that far in advance. This is when I regret not having children and grandchildren. They'd know how to make this dang clicker give me what I need.

Columbo is on the Sundance Channel also.

Shit shows

r2 MeTV and MeTV+ are not cable channels.

Very heavy on the 70s cop shows. Probably not for me, but I know others will love it.

Mayberry RFD six days a week!

So, you can get your dose of Goober, Emmett, Howard Sprague and Aunt Bee.

We were just talking about Mayberry RFD on another thread.

I DEMAND I Married Joan!!!!

It’s amazing how liberal the old western tv shows were. They were all about treating people equally (except bad guys) and getting along with each other.

They keep repeating the same few Twilight Zones & Columbo episodes. They obviously bought a low cost package deal. There are twilight zone episodes I’ve read about that I’ve never seen.I’ve certainly seen the Melting Sun Painting episode and the Drunken Couple in Deserted Town ones far too many times.

I’ve been watching CoziTV but I’m burned out on Fraser & Roseanne.

Breaking news OP!!!

MeTV+ has been around for a year and a half.

Mama’s Family is on every weekday at 9 am Central. Poor Naomi had amnesia today.

Metv is free over the air digital channel, I enjoy it a lot. :-)

I have METv in my regular Comcast package. I keep it for ADAM-12 and Martin and Kent!

R21 = perv

It goes off the air at 8 pm

R23, do they play the national anthem when it goes off the air?

^^of course! Its for eldergays, and will be so soothing and nostalgic. The screen will then go to gray fuzz until wake-up time at 5am. The subscription includes rabbit ears which will sit on the maple tv stand.

r23 r24 It doesn't go off the air at all. (See schedule linked above.) But it's possible your local station that carries it goes off the air.

R26, R23 was making a joke at the expense of eldergays by indicating they go to bed at that time. My response was also in jest, because in my youth the national anthem would play when television went off air each night.

The were showing FAMILY reruns for a while. Sada Thompson was the poster child for the network.

3 am to see Lost in Space ? Who the fuck is watching at that time on a weeknight ?

I want to see the episope of Family when Sada has the post menapausal pregnancy and expells the fetus during a celebratory dinner at Red Lobster!

R22 Adam-12 is not his age.

thanks R31 - I guess someone has never seen Reed & Malloy on patrol.

My sister's ex wanted his h.s. glory days to go forever. So he kept the same hairstyle, listened to the Beatles and only watched stuff like Andy Griffith, Bonanza and the original Star Trek.

So "Adam-12" wasn't the prequel to "James at 15?"

I *live* for my weeknight 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye...and the Cinnamon Mission:Impossibles.

If you're into cowboys, this is the channel that does a lot of Westerns on the weekend.

Will Hutchins in "Sugarfoot" is cute.

My barber always has "Cheyenne" with Clint Walker on the TV when I go by around noon. Don't know what channel that is, though.

R37 Your barber is probably tuned to INSP, which stands for The Inspiration Network. It mainly runs old Westerns. My guide shows two hours of Cheyenne on their schedule (2pm - 4pm PT) M-F.

This channel was originally founded by PTL back in the late 70s. At some point, it rebranded. It's focus is on family-friendly content.

Nice compilation of Clint Walker's shirtless scenes in Cheyenne.

Will Hutchins was Carol Burnett's younger sister's first husband.

Will is 92 and still with us.

Funny as soon as I saw the name Will Hutchins I thought, “Hey Landlord.” So I looked it up and sure enough, Will Hutchins was one of the stars of “Hey Landlord.”

The other stars were Michael Constantine, who played the principal in Room 222 and was in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Sandy Baron who portrayed Jack Klompus, a friend of Jerry’s parents in Seinfeld who owned a pen that wrote upside down.

My mind is full of garbage like this. I wish there was a delete button so I could free up some memory.

Mission:Impossible is almost back to the first season episodes in its rotation. Count down to...Cinnamon!

Barbara Bains nosejob, like Marlo Thomas’, qualifies as an amputation.

r42 You and I were obviously separated at birth. I am constantly annoyed that I can remember who played Larry Mondello's mother but not what I ate for breakfast.

The Rebel is the best show on this channel.

R45 as Larry Mondello said: You always hurt the one your love.

And his mother Madge Blake had to turn down the role of Aunt Bea on The Andy Griffith Show because she was under contract to Leave It To Beaver.

She suggested they audition her friend Frances Bavier......

And Madge and her husband worked on the atomic bomb during WWII and had top secret clearance during that time.....

AND what DID I have for breakfast?

I used to have FETV with my former cable provider and it was vastly superior to METV in terms of programs.

Is FETV still run by that nutty Pentecostal family?

But you pay for cable, r48. MeTV is free.

Spoiler alert for Columbo

Patrick McGoohan did it

Dick van Dyke did it

Roddy McDowall did it

Patrick O’Neal did it

The Irish writer did it

And those are the same 5 episodes you’ll see over and over again on Columbo.

Excuse me, r51, ex-c-u-s-e me...

Isn't it Tubi that has the full Columbo catalog? One of the streaming apps has all of them, I just can't remember which (pretty sure it's Tubi). The commercials aren't obnoxiously long either.

"Route 66" was a great show--groundbreaking for the way it was filmed, in a different city along Route 66 each week. It also starred the incredibly beautiful (and gay) George Maharis.

Columbo is on Tubi and Peacock. I have Peacock for free so it's been Columbo and Cheers for me on there.

R51 Yeah, it's one of the reasons I could never get into Columbo. He did his same old shtick with the big name guest star of the week who was always the guilty party.

And you knew who the guilty party was from the beginning, because they showed them committing the crime. The rest of the episode was just Columbo annoying the shit out of the murderer until he could prove it.

R57, which was the formula that made it so popular. The real "mystery" would be if Columbo would pick up on certain "clues." He usually always did. I just wish he wouldn't have walked around eating hard boiled eggs all the time. Yuck. I turn green and want to vomit whenever I see someone take a bite of one of those (real life or on screen).

r58 is a little homosexual boy.

[quote] The real "mystery" would be if Columbo would pick up on certain "clues."

I guess some people find that entertaining. I did not. That's why I referred to it as "his same old shtick." I found it to be a really tiresome formula.

I’m enjoying the ‘Harry O’ reruns at 4pm, I haven’t seen that since I was in high school. Actually I like the whole block of cop shows they show during the day.

Last night on Mission:Impossible...

^ The episode was The Fountain with George Maharis...

I'd like to see Branded.

Nothing very "plus" about this lineup. Very oft seen and well worn episodes/shows.

Peter Lupus 🤤❤🥵💪

It’s true that MeTV and MeTV plus are over the air, but I get my TV through Verizon Fios, their most basic broadcast package, only $25 a month because I don’t want to fiddle with an antenna, and they had MeTV plus for a while but it’s not there anymore.

MeTV is immensely better because it features Cannon Fat Detective and that huge Mark IV he drives around in.

How often have you watched 77 Sunset Strip or Hawaiian Eye, r65?

r68 - Roll, Frank, ROLL!

Confession: I visited the L.A. area and just *had* to stay in Pasadena...only because Barnaby Jones' office building was located there! The building is at 234 E. Colorado Blvd., and there was a Subway restaurant in the lobby (1st floor) when I visited 5+ years ago.

I get a kick out of the 1950s Los Angeles of Perry Mason

You didn't stop by the Lawrence's, r71?

R73, yes, I did! 🤣

KFLA shows reruns of "I Married Joan" for the poster who wants to torture himself.

I like it because the affable Jim Backus cannot hide his hatred and revulsion of Joan Davis and it shows onscreen. He privately called the show "I Married a Cunt."

[quote]The dislike between actor Jim Backus( later Thurston Howell III on Gilligans Island) made the unhappy relationship between Vivian Vance and William Frawley seem like a love affair. Backus absolutely detested Joan and the way she berated the crew and fellow actors. He told us that she even picked on the elderly Bernard Gorcey (Louie Dumbrowski of the Bowery Boys). We later talked to Sandra Gould (second Gladys Kravitz of Bewitched), Hope Summers (Clara on Griffith Show) and Hal Smith ( Otis the drunk) who confirmed her abuse of fellow actors.

I love the early seasons of Mission:Impossible where they constantly drop into communist East European countries and manage to get all around the place not attracting attention even without knowing the native language. The later seasons all took place in the US.

I don't like the Leslie Ann episodes, r76. Usually she's doing some sullen hippie chick and I just want to slap her.

lol, r75...

[quote]“She was a bitch on wheels. An insecure diva. A drinker. One year with her and I couldn’t wait to get away. She had the aspirations of being Lucy but did not have that fundamental talent, ” Rich told us. ” She was an absolute nightmare. She was cruel to the crew and every actor- she even demanded that her own untalented daughter, was cast as her f**cking sister, for christsakes…”

Jack Cassidy did it! Three times!

Robert Culp did it! Three times!

Anne Baxter did it! Twice!

Martin Landau did it! As twins!

The show took a hit in quality when Steven Hill was fired. And afterwards as much as I like Warren there was no way she could fill Barbara Bain's stilettos

It was interesting to see retired Cinnamon Carter in that one episode of Diagnosis Murder

Susan Clark did it! And got a kicky wardrobe!

My cable company stretches the picture which makes it annoying to watch MeTV.

Can you get a little rabbit ears and unplug the cable and plug the antenna in, r82?

r82 Your TV and/or your cable remote should have an "aspect" control that will fix that.

r75 - Joan of Arkansas

Connie *always* gets a damn song on Hawaiian Eye. But Bob Conrad managed to get a song or two.

OMG, Lynda Day George looks like she has a dead Gibson Girl on her head.

Joan Davis was the Eisenhower-era Lea Michele! I wonder if she ever shat in any wigs.

OMG, Miss Bain's real name is Millicent Fogel...

Beverly Wills was pretty funny as one of the members of the band in Some Like It Hot.

Hawaiian Eye just started. Guest starring...

I'm watching 77 Sunset Strip - "Wolf! Cried the Blonde"...guest starring the alluring Peters, Breck and Brown. Mission:Impossible is back to the beginning and airing the pilot episode tonight. Cinamon fix!

where is Metv plus available? Is it nationwide in all markets?

BTW Robert Conrad and Nick Adams were said to be a couple in the 50s and 60s until Nick's death. Nick even appeared on Wild Wild West twice.

r93...

[quote] No My Little Margie or the Gale Storm Show - include me out.

r3 Damn, I'm old but you must be really old. I've never even seen those, but just remember my mom talked about them when I was a kid. Lol.

I mean yeah I love "Lucy". I've seen Dobie Gillis reruns (but only to catch Gilligan as Maynard).

But yeah, that's some old stuff. I remember singing "I Marry Joan" and laughing at my own snark when I was 5.

And no Racket Squad...

When I lived in Dayton, we had Me TV through Time Warner. Now I live in Columbus (with Spectrum.) Anyone know where I can watch either channel?

Somewhere along the line I've seen an episode of Racket Squad. I was laughing out loud how the hero cop was handling his pistol. Like he had never held anything but a cowboy cap pistol even though in his career he had played in various western films..

According to r94's link, MeTV+ only is available in Chicago and Kingman, Arizona for the moment.

Have you or a loves one serve at Camp Lejeune?

^^^ loved one. I’ll go on and oh dear myself.

The M:I pilot is great. Getting to see Wally Cox in a wife-beater, well...lemme tell ya. And that sultry minx, Cinnamon, came to the rescue with a quick-thinking diversion!

We watch Svengoolie and those lame old 1950s sci-fi’s and monster movies.

I expect any program on Me+ will before too long also make its way to the regular channel.

Barnaby Jones and Cannon seriously need a rest.

[quote] And that sultry minx, Cinnamon, came to the rescue with a quick-thinking diversion!

r102 Love me some Cinnamon!

Her seasons are the best, r105.

[quote] Cinnamon, came to the rescue with a quick-thinking diversion!

Barbara Bain was 35 when she filmed that scene in the towel. And still was sexier and classier than any of the 20-something huge-chested "sexy" women stars of today.

“Remember the towel scene in our first show?” asks Barbara, referring to her bourdoir appearance in wich she was wrapped in a large turkish towel (I did indeed). “Well, before it went on the air, I was told that network brass were flying in from all points to discuss whether or not the scene should be left in. They were nervous and it took a six-hour meeting and lots or reassurance from Bruce before they could convince themselves it was all right."

r99 MeTV+ is available in many markets. That information needs to be updated.

r97 Go to the link. And remember that it's NOT a cable channel. Your cable operator may offer it if they transmit one of the local digital subchannels that's subscribing to MeTV+. In Los Angeles it's on channel 6.1 (KHTV).

Cinnamon!

MeTV+ Affiliates (from Wikipedia)

WCIU-TV 26.5, Chicago, Illinois; May 2021

KMOH-TV 6.3, Kingman, Arizona; May 2021

KCSG 8.5, Cedar City, Utah; September 27, 2021

KFFV 44.5, Seattle, Washington; September 2021

KVOS 12.6, Bellingham, Washington; September 2021

KHTV-CD 6.1, Los Angeles, California; September 2021

KTLN-TV 68.4, Palo Alto/San Francisco, California: September 2021

WZME 43.2, Bridgeport, Connecticut/New York; September 2021

WJFB 44.6, Lebanon/Nashville, Tennessee; September 2021[54]

WHCT-LD 35.6, Hartford, Connecticut; October 2021

WJLP 33.8, Middletown, New Jersey/New York; March 2022

WDME-CD 48.4, Washington, D.C.; May 2022

WMLW-TV 49.5, Racine/Milwaukee, Wisconsin; August 2022

If I was straight I'd parody Def Leppard "Pour Some Cinnamon on Me"!!!

R97 The Spectrum Channel Lineup (link) for Columbus OH, shows that MeTV is available with the Spectrum Select package (or higher) on Channel 986. I'm not finding MeTV+ listed in that resource for your area, but you might want to look yourself. It was just added a couple of weeks ago on my Spectrum service (in Los Angeles area). Also, do a search within the Spectrum TV Guide itself for some of the TV shows that are on MeTV+ and see if any of them come up.

Many of these shows can be purchased on DVD dirt cheap. Then you don't have to worry about them showing the same five episodes of something over and over or sitting through mesothelial commercials.

R95 yes, Mogul, I'm old.

Sounds like the Decades Channel… Etta help or your Medicare, insurance as low as $9.95 a month and Tom Selleck pushing reverse mortgages. Actually that “extra help” for Medicare is legit… I don’t know if you need to call that number or give them your zip code to get it

What about Trapper John, MD? Never on DVD, never streamable, never on cable. WTF?

I live in LA and have Spectrum cable.

Spectrum has had QVC and Home Shopping Network on channels 6 and 8 of our lineup for decades. A few months ago, I noticed that Spectrum had moved QVC and Home Shopping Network to some other channel (no idea where since I don't watch either channel).

In their place on channels 6 and 8, Spectrum added MeTV+ and Decades. That was my first exposure to both channels. Both air as subchannels on various broadcast channels here in LA, but I had never seen them before Spectrum added them to my cable lineup.

R116, Hi Gregory Harrison, here you go. Your show is free on YouTube.

r117 Decades has been on 725 on Spectrum in my area (eastern LA Co.) for a while. It used to be on another channel (219 maybe?) but they changed that to Story Television.

R112, thank you, it is 986! I just thought there were music channels up in the 900s.

With 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye you get a frequent dose of sultry vivacity from your Miss Ruta Lee.

What about Medical Center? Seven seasons, never streamable, never on cable! WTF?

On last night and tonight: Old Man Out (2-parter)

Cinnamon vs Mary Ann Mobley

r121 Miss Lee shows up on Perry Mason (on both MeTV and FETV) too.

No Spring Byington?

Cloris is on 77 Sunset Strip right now.

Ohhhh, not just Cloris, but...Peter, Paul & Mary!

Perry Mason in color tonight? That's just wrong.

If I have to pay for it (mtv Premium) forget it. If you search free stuff channels you will find old tv to watch, free. Cuz that’s why it’s free. Copyrights have ended. They didn’t know there was an audience out there loving this stuff.

R125 There are dozens of "December Bride" episodes on Dailymotion.

Cara Williams!

👺 Svengoolie !

Whaddabout The Streets of San Francisco? Five seasons, never on any channel, never streamable!

I know that was on some over-the-air station not too long ago, r133.

R133 "Streets of San Francisco" is actually on MeTV+, the very subject of this thread.

Where I am (PT) it airs every weekday afternoon at 3:00pm. The episodes are from Season 1 so far.

R133 It also appears that you can stream all five seasons of "The Streets of San Francisco" at the "Internet Archive."

Here's a link to the search results I put in. If you click on the season you want to watch, a scroll down menu for subsequent episodes within that season appears with the first video. I just tried watching a few, and they all play just fine. No commercials either.

^^^ Okay it appears that DL wouldn't take the direct link I used. .. So just use the "Subject Search" within the link above and type in "The Streets of San Francisco."

Good luck.

All of the ‘Streets of SF’ eps are on YouTube also. The next show the obnoxious r133 is going to claim is never on TV or streaming is Law & Order: SVU.

Tonight: Cinnamon in fetching tennis togs to entice Lloyd Bridges.

R138 = mega cunt 🖕🖕🖕

Oh, this Lloyd Bridges episode is wear she wears this navy gown twice. This pic is of her in it from a few episodes ago.

^where

oh, dear, myself

Do you have to pay for this plus shit?

R140, so what if I’m an ‘über cunt? What are you going to do about it? You’re trollin’, trollin’, trollin’, making up shit about shows that the details of which are widely available online.

r143 NO.

Girls, girls! You're BOTH cunts!

Take your minds off cuntiness for a moment and enjoy this classic thread about 70s detective shows.

I always liked the beginning of I Married Joan with the Robert Shaw Chorale singing and the announcer saying:

I Married Joan......The Joan Davis Show.......Starring America's Queen of Comedy......Joan Davis!!!!

No Honey West? Rats.

Nice ocelot.

Sigrid's was just as nice, r149...

That ocelot is GAY! (His name was Bruce.)

Wow, Hawaiian Eye tonight, is highlighting your Poncie Ponce. A particularly zippy rendition of Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.

I wish they'd have come out with a Cinnamon doll.

[quote] I wish they'd have come out with a Cinnamon doll.

Sorry but you will have to settle for a Space 1999 doll.

Sorry, r154, not the same. With my luck they would have gone with Gilbert who was responsible for that unfortunate Honey West doll.

Tonight's 77 Sunset Strip led me to this. Scroll to "The Tarnished Idol" episode where it explains the Dara Howard/Joyce Meadows mystery.

Oops

FEtv is my favorite. That and MEtv are the two stations I watch all the time. Perry Mason, Mannix, Time Tunnel, Peter Gunn, The Invaders, Emergency!, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, etc. Better than the woke crap they make today.

R158 = cunt

Look who's on M:I...it's Mel!

77 Sunset Strip: Miss Elinor Donahue is wearing a most divine silk robe. The episode is Scream Softly, Dear. Her character is named Laura Holt...which was Stephanie's name on Remington Steele.

Hawaiian Eye: Marie Windsor, Joe Flynn and...Mary Tyler Moore!

^ Oh, Bob Conrad just sang this most soulful number and really gave it his *all*.

Not on MeTV but on Decades I also enticed MTM in a short scene on "Steve Canyon" as a Puerto Rican girl (hooker?) flirting with the Air Force officers

Did she use an accent, r164?

Connie always gets her song...

Mission:Impossible with...Archie!

He looks like Rod Steiger in that makeup.

Well, r168, he *did* do the Heat of the Night series.

Sometimes a great cartoon...

So why is Eric Braeden billed as...Hans Gudegast?

OMG, that's his real name.

R172 You've never seen Rat Patrol? You couldn't miss his screen credit.

I think his agent told him to change his name to avoid type-casting. I

No, r173, Rat Patrol is too macho for me.

Rat Patrol currently is rerun on the Heroes and Icon channel. It's a lousy program but Hans stood out. He should have kept using that name.

They had a terrific theme.

Hawaiian Eye

The Pretty People

Andrea King as...Dorrie Breedlove

I'd forgotten that Robert Redford did a Perry Mason episode...

r177 With DL fave Phil Ober!

Oh, r178, you're right. Perry's defending him.

[quote]Robert Conrad’s skin tight pants on weekends!

Does he take them off weekdays?

Why isn't Hotel on this old folks channel? 🤔

What’s Hotel? Never heard of it. Was it on up against Amos ‘n Andy??

Guest on Hawaiian Eye tonight was Diane (Dyan) Cannon.

[quote]—The gay episode with Robert Reed

ALL episodes with Robert Reed are gay.

The Grace Foster/pearls episode of ILL just ended. "The role of Grace Foster was played by...Gloria Blondell". Yep, Joan's younger sister.

On Antenna TV right now: HAZEL guest starring Miss Diane Ladd as cousin Sharlene...

Did you know that Martha was flower girl at Thomas Alva Edison's wedding?

That’s one of my top favorite episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore show

Police Woman and The Big Valley! Angie Dickinson was one Foxy Lady and Do Not Mess Around with Victoria Barkley!

Can you get any of the classic TV channels (MeTV, Antenna TV, COZI) on services like YouTube or Hulu Live TV? I’m thinking of cutting the cord from cable but was just wondering if those channels would still be available somewhere.

Not just any police sergeant could go undercover as a go-go girl, r189.

[quote]Can you get any of the classic TV channels (MeTV, Antenna TV, COZI) on services like YouTube or Hulu Live TV? I’m thinking of cutting the cord from cable but was just wondering if those channels would still be available somewhere.

Just get a cheap antenna. They're all on the digital subchannels like 6-2 or 14-4.

Got it. Thanks, R192.

Burke’s Law, Mayberry RFD, 77 Sunset Strip, YES!! But why can’t they put these on MeTV #1?

At least these old fart TV shows will keep the Eldergays company when not posting on DL.

Only Pluto TV (free app) streams the eldergay fave Too Close for Comfort!

Watching: 77 Sunset Strip

The Left Field Caper

with Diane Ladd, Ed Nelson and Kathleen Freeman

and a certain Miss Grace Lee Whitney as...Flame

77 Sunset Strip tonight:

Mrs. Olsen did it!

Oh my goodness. On Alias Smith and Jones, Sally Field (with cleavage) kisses Alejandro Rey!

On right now...

She Loves Me Not

Samantha is on 77 Sunset Strip tonight...

Ohhhhh, Liz had a secret!

[quote]Stu Bailey investigates the title for a piece of land in Oklahoma that could yield a fortune in oil. But the owner is afraid to reveal that she has Negro blood, a revelation that would ruin her standing in the White world.

77 Sunset Strip - Cloris Leachman *and* Joanna Barnes! Cloris gets to sport a caftan.

They really used color with Barbara and she always carried it off.

I love MeTV's "Very Merry MeTV" every Christmas. They put on lots of great shows, many of which are not on their regular schedule (Lucy Show and MTM for example).

The Lucy Show and MTM are both on Decades, which is MeTV's sister channel.

Connie sang the theme song tonight...

Speaking of Connie, Miss Towers is on Perry Mason right now doing a jazzy The Man I Love which isn't quite melding with her traditional soprano voice. She did five Perry Mason episodes.

[quote] 5 days a week of Space:1999? Count me in.

Wouldn't that mean the entire series would be done in two months?

Then they start all over again, r210.

r209 with the drop-dead gorgeous James Drury in the background.

Hawaiian Eye- OMG, Peter Breck socked Cricket in the jaw...twice.

I think I have a problem with Connie’s. Stevens, Francis, Sellecca…yuck.

English isn't my first language, sorry.

Miss Towers, r214?

No, r216. I love Constance Towers, but I never considered her a Connie.

Did you watch the clip at r216, r217? Oh...she was a Connie alright.

How about Miss Britton?

Look at the thread title, r219. The only appropriate Brittons would be your Barbara or Pamela.

Woo-hoo, 77 Sunset Strip just started.

Guest starring...

RUTA LEE

That bitch, Ruta Lee! I’ll never forgive her for betraying Barney’s confidence to get Andy fired. She’s dead to me!!!

I kept expecting a scene at the end where she'd either feel guilty or get a comeuppance, r222. As I recall, there was neither.

Miss Virginia Gregg looking especially drab on Perry Mason this morning...

Virginia Gregg was the QUEEN of "Dragnet." It seems like she's in just about every third episode, always playing some variation on her trademark bitch/cunt persona.

The hat she's wearing at r224 got used again...

A *lengthy* resume...

Sadly limited to Chicago

r228 See r108. It's on in many markets.

Another stalwart actress of the era (and before)...Marie Windsor

^ Oh, what made me think of her is that she's on Hawaiian Eye right now.

Whoopsie, Miss Windsor just picked up a gun and blew poor Ed Nelson away.

You know, I was surprised, but Ed Nelson had a really nice ass. This cap is from an episode of "Thriller".

Fine, r233, but he couldn't live forever.

Donnelly on tonight's M:I

Donnelly was hot.

I don’t get this plus channel.

“This channel is limited to Chicago and Kingman, Arizona at launch.”

r238 ONCE AGAIN, see R108. We are well past "at launch."

It was on Verizon for a hot minute in the New York market, but now it’s gone

Doncha have any rabbit ears?

On right now...

I Love Lucy is on Decades, not MeTV+

The thread also has added Decades to the discussion, r243.

[quote] We are well past "at launch."

It’s still not available in most markets.

In now: Mission:Impossible featuring Martin Sheen in his ingenue days...

^ *On* now

Change the damn channel! 📺

Decades - The Ricardos are on their way to Hollywood!

HAWAIIAN EYE

[quote]During a tropical storm Greg and a group of tourists are trapped with a mysterious killer in the mansion of elderly widow Felicia Fairweather.

The Yin of Antonette Bower and the Yang of Nancy Kulp...plus Hope Sansberry as Felicia Fairweather!

^ Not to mention Sheila Bromley as...

Angie Sloat

All I watch is PlutoTV.

I don't know how old this pic is, but Antoinette is still with us at 90.

R249, The episode where they pack the car and leave contains probably my favorite two minutes of the entire series, when they are singing “California here we come” while driving across the George Washington Bridge.

Yep, r254...

On right now: Beaver buys June the Ooh-la-la blouse.

On Get TV right now...

Kojak

Die Before They Wake

Kojak zeros in on an operation that snares call girls with narcotics. Kojak: Telly Savalas. Shana: Jess Walton. Podis: Harris Yulin. Audrey: Tina Louise. Galen: Colby Chester. Crocker: Kevin...

^

Tonight on 77 Sunset Strip...Miss Doris Kenyon!

[quote]Henry Lane hires Stuart on behalf of his wealthy aunt, former silent screen star Lucinda Lane for a rather odd assignment: she wants to do a lavish and expensive silent remake of her 1922 silent screen classic, Foolish Girl, with Stuart not only to locate and hire its director Harkness Jones, scenarist Roderick Delaquois and leading man Bramwell Stone for the remake, but also to be the movie's producer despite he knowing nothing about the movie business. Stuart locating the three is difficult enough as each never could make the transition into talkies and now lead low key and in some cases poor lives, but his job becomes even more difficult when she subsequently wants to rehire much of the remaining surviving cast and crew from the original production as well. Stuart believes the project is pure folly in today's day and age especially as Lucinda throws around money without much thought, but largely follows her directives in his affection for her. It isn't until he is well ensconced in the job that Stuart learns that Henry, his cousin Charles Lane and their respective wives have ulterior motives in hiring him: they want Stuart's reports to show that Lucinda is crazy so that they can have her committed in an effort to take control of her estate before she squanders away all her money on the film, her estate that is most-likely deeded to them anyway. Charles has further motives as he is deep in debt to a loan shark the result of his gambling. Stuart is between a rock and hard place as her directives to him thus far may indeed be evidence that Lucinda is no longer in possession of her faculties, while he cannot legally or morally go against Henry in being his client who has done nothing of a criminal nature. In the process of protecting Lucinda, Stuart also has to learn who he can and cannot trust within her entourage, including her personal secretary, Marsha Frome, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Link Cowan.

The Bain/Landau episodes ate done. Tonight, Leonard Nimoy and...

the Dina

^ aRe done

Mission:Impossible...I just looked up. It's obviously going to be set in Latin America because the stewardesses are wearing toreador hats and vests.

A fun, noir 77 Sunse4t Strip borrowing from Hitchcock. Richard Long is no Robert Walker. Connie Stevens as "Pat Forsythe"

NGL, I watch two hours of MeTV weekdays in the mornings – an hour (two episodes) of Leave it to Beaver and an hour (one episode) of Perry Mason. I have lived in LA for thirty years now and I love seeing LA in the late 50s-early 60s.

This month the ads are horrendous, especially the two minute St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ones. The kids are cute enough, then they trot out Alec Cabacungan at the end. Ruins it.

[quote]I have lived in LA for thirty years now and I love seeing LA in the late 50s-early 60s.

Yes, r264. Mission:Impossible is fun for that as well. The action will be taking place at some Latin American compound, all adobe and red brick.tiles. Beyond the compound are hills. Behind the hills is...downtown LA.

[quote]This month the ads are horrendous, especially the two minute St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ones. The kids are cute enough, then they trot out Alec Cabacungan at the end. Ruins it.

MY ADOWABLE BWANKET AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, KALEB!

The greatest episode of Streets of San Francisco ever. My brother and I laughed our asses off at this scene!

Tonight on M:I...May Britt...

Perry Mason this morning...

Zasu Pitts just fainted on the stand.

"Ethel...give her the money!"

"Is she going with us?"

Mission:Impossible tonight...

Miss Lee Meriwether in black leather

The weekend Decades marathon = Ed Sullivan

Followed by...

Good lord, how did Mike Douglas ever make it?

Drag on That Girl today...

I forgot Donald...

I can't even find out on MeTV's own website if I can get MeTV+. The link that's supposed to show where MeTV+ is available goes to the regular MeTV schedule. Anybody know if MeTV+ is available on Verizon Fios?

Have you tried an antenna, r277?

CoziTV is celebrating their 10th anniversary! Happy birthday 🎁 Cozi!

r277 For the umpteenth time, MeTV (and its relatives) is NOT a cable channel. Verizon FIOS can't "carry" MeTV. They have to carry the local station in your market that's affiliated with it.

My Verizon Fios includes MeTV on channel 523.

r281 Yes, that's YOUR local Verizon Fios. It's not a nationwide option. And again --they're not carrying MeTV-- they're carrying the over-the-air channel that broadcasts MeTV in your local area.

I get that, but I'm not watching it on an over-the-air broadcast channel (I don't even have the box for that)--I'm watching it via my cable box. I guess your definition of "carry" is different than mine.

[quote]I'm not watching it on an over-the-air broadcast channel (I don't even have the box for that)

Over-the-air doesn't require a box, r283.

I will guess that most people do not have a cable box and a rabbit ear or over the air antenna hooked up at the same time

Why R285? I have a Roku and antenna hooked up. I would guess most people do.

Barbara Hale seemed so nice.

Fun episode of Perry Mason on now - The Case of the Ancient Romeo

The Frankie Ortega Trio is featured on tonight's 77 Sunset Strip.

I'm sorry. I just don't find Diane Varsi all that compelling.

Aunt Bee is on 77 Sunset Strip...

Miss McRae is on Perry Mason right now!

The Case of the Dodging Domino

[quote]Damion White married an actress who has an offer to return to work that involves a great song. However, she recognizes the song which has been plagiarized multiple times. Her husband is one of those involved and is charged with murder.

Today's Perry features Miss Anne Welles...

Watch out, Honey, it's Mrs. Upson!

Last episode Honey had a microphone in her pearl drop pendant. In this one, it's in her lipstick. It makes more sense for her to be talking into her lipstick than her necklace.

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Octavia Spencer watches MeTV:

Burke's Law all day today on Decades...

Tonight on Peter Gunn...

[quote]A singer is sure someone's out to kill her. Lynn: Linda Lawson. Gunn: Craig Stevens. Edie: Lola Albright. Nat: Guy Prescott. Jacoby: Herschel Bernardi.

Any relation?

Miss Lawson

Good episode of Hawaiian Eye tonight. Miss Audrey Totter, Miss Myrna Fahey, and this is the one where Bob Conrad sings I've Got a Crush on You.

[quote]An actress shooting a movie in Honolulu accidentally runs over and kills a man with her car. Panicking, she flees the scene. However, the film's assistant director witnessed the accident, and uses that fact to blackmail her.

R60 I totally agree with you. I did watch Columbo, sometimes, because there wasn't that much on TV in those days, but even as a young teen I hated that formula. I remember saying it to my friends (who liked the show). You knew who did it, at the beginning, and then watched it go on and on with Peter Falk playing cat and mouse with the person. To me it only would have been interesting as a whodunit.

I'm not that interested in shows from the 70s. Is there a channel that shows 50s shows? Before my time but I'm interested in (and like) the TV of that era.

Try Decades or Antenna Tv.

The more obscure stuff is on very late night/early morning.

OMG, Beaver's babysitter is Anne Welles!

Tonight on Hawaiian Eye...

Gloria Upson

^^ Did they play ping pong around the pool?

No, r306, but Shirley Knight was also in it. Cricket sang a breathy but perky What's New?

How did I miss this? I checked the schedule and couldn't find Hawaiian Eye. Is it Friday nights?

Embarrassing confession: When I was very young I loved Hawaiian Eye. I think it was the fact of the beach and I thought they lived around a pool and that seemed so cool to me. It was on Wednesday nights at 9 and my mother let me stay up late to watch it every week. Later I thought that living at the airport on Wings would be cool. My grown-up idea of a Barbie Dream House.

Suzanne Pleshette is on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She looks 18. She's a wayward daughter.

And Robert Morse as the young male potential paramour who is getting a lift to San Fran with Suzanne and her ornery father. He's a jailbird. Uh ph.

I liked Hawaiian Eye as a kid. It was already in syndication by then, it was not on at night when I saw it. My mom watched it. I now find it crazy that Jack Warner took his young contract movie stars and put them in TV series, in order to give a boost to the new Warner Bros TV production company. He just ended their movie careers. And most of the TV series were not super successful, so after that their careers were toast for a while.

Poncie Ponce didn't have the career he deserved.

r312 What about Leon Lontoc?

Tonight on 77 Sunset Strip...

the lovely Estonian, Miss Narda Onyx

r2 I used to drool over Matt Houston as a youngster. Oh my, the memories.

Tonight on Hawaiian Eye:

Miss Lee does a *mean* Ruta hula!

If it's Tuesday it must be 77 Sunset Strip.

^ A very tense episode.

Kathleen Freeman doing...Kathleen Freeman.

I have one of those crazy phones @ r319.

Do you dial it with a pencil, R320?

They're worth quite a bit, r320.

Actually, r320, I take that back. I just looked on eBay and they aren't unreasonable.

R323, thanks, I just checked too and I’m not complaining! I got it at a garage sale about twenty years ago for a few bucks.

I used to have a black rotary Princess that got left behind along the way, r324.

R325, I get it.

r326...

Tonight on Kojak:

My Brother, My Enemy

Sylvester Stallone plays a cop who shoots a boy. Kojak: Telly Savalas. Capt. Nolan: Frank Aletter. Insp. Kekola: Alan Manson. McNeil: Dan Frazer.

I never watched Kojak when it was on because I can't stand Savalas. But I watched some episodes on ME!! and they were pretty good. They've held up well.

Perry Mason this morning:

Connie Ford

Diane Ladd

&

Billy Mumy!

r330 The better Connie Ford episode is the one where she has a split personality. Nice girl and slut. Connie camps it up big time. With Denver Pyle and Murray Hamilton.

Tonight on 77 Sunset Strip...

Miss Fay Wray!

I just realized that I was watching the wring channel and that's why I kept missing programs I wanted on MeTV!! It's listed at Channel 48 (OTA) but it's really 48.4

Yes! Hawaiian Eye with Troy Donahue as a drunk out of control heir to a pineapple fortune. He just has to completely change and totally get his act together by his 21st birthday - NEXT MONTH!!

Were Tom and Cricket supposed to be an item? He acts like it and he talks to her like they are but I don't remember that from when I watched it as a child. Maybe I just didn't recognize the signs then.

Though short, Conrad is awfully cute and sexy.

Everywhere I look it's either Ruta Lee or Myrna Fahey.

I didn't know Connie Stevens was married to James Stacy. In 1963.

Tonight on Hawaiian Eye...Mr. Phillip Terry

Now on Mission:Impossible...Dan Travanty!

I'm a high school teacher, and my students love MeTV.

Oh, really, R339? That's nice to know. I'm always glad to hear that young people appreciate classic TV shows just like we did when we were growing up.

I can't even sit through most of this stuff. Dragnet appeals to me (ranges from brilliant to awful, depending on the episode). I like a show that has narration since they're able to cover a lot of ground with narration, in only half an hour.

I love the cars and fashions!

Peter Gunn is this weekend's Decades binge.

This episode of Peter Gunn...

[quote]A bank manager robs his own bank after disabling everyone with knockout gas. When the manager's co-conspirator escapes to Italy with the money, Gunn is hired to track the man down.

Guest starring Ted Baxter

I tried watching a couple of I Married Joan episodes, but it is really, really dreadful.

Watching Oscar winners and nominees play games ought be a lot of fun

Good lord, r345, indeed it is.

On this Peter Gunn episode:

Miss Norma (Golde) Crane

But R345 it's I Married Joan....The Joan Davis Show..... starring Joan Davis....America's Queen of Comedy.

I listened to a few Joan Davis radio shows (also starring Jack Haley) - I forget the name, The Sealtest Country Store, I think (a famous brand when I was a kid, I don't know if it's still around - milk and ice cream). She was very broad.

Peter Gunn and Munchkin LaLanne...

A certain Mr. Chuck Hicks is in the current episode...

Mission:Impossible '71

Tyne Daly as...Sareta Lane

What about Emergency! with Randolph Mantooth!?

The Georges...

Hawaiian Eye...

R354 Jack Webb cast his ex-wife and her current husband (Bobby Troup) in the leads. He also lived next door to them in Palms Springs to be near his daughters. (Fun facts)

Julie was such a tart...

R356, I watched that episode. It was pretty good. I am rather surprised that many of these old shows are as good as they are. We wrongly assume our modern story telling is better. I think we have an unearned exalted view of ourselves. We're more sarcastic and in-your-face sexual now and act hip but that's not necessarily a better story telling mode.

I was never crazy about Jack Lord or his character but I watched a really good episode the other night about a national black mailing racket. With lead guest star William Shatner as a shady private eye.

Really glad DL clued me into this channel. Thanks all.

On Svengoolie tonight...

Tonight's 77 Sunset Strip:

S2 E28

Legend Of Crystal Dart

[quote]Crystal Dart (Marilyn Maxwell), an ex-dancer with a weakness for gems, snares Bailey for a strange mission: foreclosing on a remote mountain cabin. Dexter: William Schallert. Bailey: Efrem...

I'm loving the channel. Some of the stories are quite good.

Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip and Original Hawaii 50. Some of the Mission Impossibles are pretty good - but they seem too 1970ish for me. The first season has the great Steven Hill as mission leader (replaced by Peter Graves (bother of James Arness - Gunsmoke). Hill later played Adam Schiff on Law & Order. Schiff was one of the originals in the Actors Studio and it was Schiff over Brando who Strasberg considered the more brilliant actor.

Never realized how small Bob Conrad was. Very fine and all but, well, compact. Also Tracy Steele is portrayed as kind of dopey at times. That surprised me. Like the old classics Connie Stevens has been singing.

Conrad's diminutive height , I think, gave him a pugnacious attitude, r362. I still want to know why Eisley's mustache looks fake. For me the M:I episodes with Cinnamon are the best. She's got that sophisticated late '60s look and Lesley Ann always looks like a sullen hippie chick in her groovy '70s threads.

Fun Fact: Cult actor India Eisley is Anthony's granddaughter.

Anthony Eisley? Who is that?

She's beautiful but then so was her grandfather. Thanks, R364.

R365, you're so uncool. Eisley played Tracy Steele on Hawaiian Eye. Next you'll tell me you don't know who Poncie Ponce was.

Oh, R364, Olivia Hussey is her mother. Married to Eisley's son, David. No wonder she's beautiful.

Here are a few of the past and future stars that have appeared on 'Wagon Train' o'er its 284 episodes:

Barbara Stanwyck (4 times!)

Bette Davis (3 times)

Dick York AND Dick Sargent AND Elizabeth Montgomery

Ernest Borgnine, Leonard Nimoy (4 times each)

Vera Miles

Joseph Cotten, Rory Calhoun, Robert Ryan, Linda Darnell (twice each)

John Ashley, who went on to star in 'Attack of the The Eye Creatures.' (sic)

Episodes directed by John Ford, Tay Garnett, Mitchell Leisen, Richard Donner and Sydney Pollack, among others.

RH

Oooh, if I was little Patty McCormick, I'd be offering myself up to Robert Horton for whatever he wanted to do!

Bette Davis was on Wagon Train? Wow. and LOL! I hope she didn't play a Native American.

On Hawaiian Eye Tom is helping an old girlfriend from Wilkes barre, Pa., who is now a Princess in a Middle Eastern country married to some handsome prince - she tells Tom the country has slaves and treats women like slaves - even a Princess. Her Prince husband has been ordered to return home and make sure he brings his Princess with him. Tom is going to help her get away.

Rather topical for 1960.

r372 We need NAMES! Who played the prince and princess?

Princess From Manhattan, r373, John Van Dreelen and Janet Lake

Umm, R370, Patty McCormack was 13 when that episode aired.

Too bad we never get the 90-minute color episodes of ‘Wagon Train.’

I just torrent the complete series of those shows, throw ‘em on a 1TB flash drive and keep it plugged into my TV.

When there's a shine on your shoes there's a melody in your heart . . . Sing it, Cricket.

I wonder if she ever wears Alfred Shaheen. She wore something like the link.

I can't tell who Cricket is supposed to be interested in Tracy or Tom.

Connie's o.k. with a novelty number, but she's too lightweight for the standards.

Connie's fine for weeknights at 10 at the Shell Bar.

She gets to wear kicky hats...there's that.

Tonight's "Perry Mason" on FeTV -- with Miss Angie Dickinson!

I know lots of shows did it back in those days but I always marvel at how "Adam-12" tended to use the same group of guest actors over and over again. They'd arrest an actor one week, then two episodes later they'd be back on as a victim (or vice versa). And I think Fred Stromsoe literally played a crook one week, then was added to the cast as Jerry the very next week (and stayed with the show till the end of its run).

By the way, MeTV has been running "Adam-12" at 5pm ET for a long time now. I imagine it must get good ratings for them since they don't seem eager to switch it out for something else (not that I'm complaining as I still enjoy it).

Woo-hoo, the Decades Binge this weekend is...

When was the last time you thought about...Malachi Throne?

Woo-hoo! Ellen McRae is on 77 Sunset Strip.

r383 There was practically a Jack Webb Repertory Company that appeared regularly in different roles on all of his shows. It's even more obvious on "Dragnet" than on "Adam-12" or "Emergency."

R377 I don't even know what that means.

Dragnet was the first show to be successfully revived. It ran from 1950-1959, then from 1967-1970 (the color episodes). In the later version, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan dress the same in every episode, for four seasons - other than in scenes when they wear casual clothes. The reason was so that footage could be re-used to save time/money.

Many of the actors from the 1950s version returned for the 60s version. Virginia Gregg, Peggy Webber, Herb Vigran, Ralph Moody, etc. The 60s version gave parts to a lot of black actors and some Asian actors, which was unusual for that time.

Virginia Gregg's IMDb page starts in 1946 (Notorious) and goes to 1986 (Psycho III).

More 77...Miss Gena Rowlands and Tony Young. Madlyn Rhue is also in the episode under the name Madlyn Young because she was married to Tony.

Virginia Gregg!

When I read r387 I immediately thought of her but couldn’t place her name.

Thanks.

Virginia Gregg...as Trudie Vogel

^ Woo-hoo, Virginia gets a *make-over* including items from Chez Nanette!

^ Ohhhh, she snatches off her own wig (the black one she got in the make-over).

"Keep your hand on your wallet, it's a clip joint."

S3 E11

Convicts At Large

Barney and Floyd are held hostage by three escaped women convicts in a cabin outside of town. Big Maude: Reta Shaw. Naomi: Jean Carson. Sally: Jane Dulo. Barney: Don Knotts. Floyd: Howard...

It looks like DECADES is going bye-bye. Starting on Monday, it's re-branding as "Catchy Comedy," with all sitcoms (plus "The Love Boat.")

You know, it's funny, R398, because that's clearly what also happened with Antenna TV -- they didn't change the name of the station but they only show sitcom reruns now. Just a few years ago they used to broadcast shows like "Adam-12" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" but I guess they decided that an all-sitcoms format was the way to go.

Is the LAFF channel still around? It had an all-sitcom format.

Well, r399, they've lost me.

^r398

Checking the Decades schedule, it really doesn't seem like it will change all that much when it morphs into Catchy Comedy next week.

It will lose the nightly Dick Cavett shows and the overnight airings of Dark Shadows, but other than that, the programming looks like it will stay relatively intact.

The weekend marathons apparently will be limited to comedies rather than hour-long dramas they often have.

The only Binges I watched numerous episodes of in about a year were 77 Sunset Strip and Peter Gunn.

Hawaiian Eye has another episode tonight that seems before its time. n abusive father of a grown daughter. I wonder how far they'll go and if they'll imply there's incest or at least in 1960 terms, an unnatural protective nature toward his daughter. Maybe she's really his mistress and not his daughter. They're from Texas.

Just looked. They are con artists trying to steal a diamond necklace. LOL

The Blue Goddess. First Aired Oct. 19, 1960

Harmon Kane believes his new girlfriend is from a wealthy family, but the fact is that she and her rich "father" are actually con artists planning to steal the valuable "Blue Goddess" necklace. When the girl's accomplice buys the necklace with a phony check and then skips, Tom is hired to get the necklace back.

Director Edward Dein

I hope MeTV never decides to do that. I'd hate to lose shows like Rifleman, Highway Patrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Adam-12, etc. I don't need or want a daily diet of only sitcoms.

Hawaiian Eye: Chad Everett and Shirley Knight in swimwear...

quote]Hired to guard the privacy of an heiress, Lopaka becomes concerned when her boyfriend begins to involve her in séances to retrieve her lost teddy bear.

Barbara Anderson had gorgeous hair.

R407, did you see Chad's trunks? His boys were free ranging and as obvious as could be. I was rather shocked that was on TV in 1960 or 61.

r403 They'll also be losing "Through the Decades," which aired twice daily, "The Millionaire," and "The Ed Sullivan Show."

I guess LAFF does still exist. It's just not available on my cable system, just over-the-air.

Millionaire, Dark Shadows, Dick Cavett and Ed Sullivan can easily move to one of the other retro channels -- ME TV and ME TV+.

That will especially be true if people write in to complain about those shows not being there anymore.

R396 Virginia Vincent was also a regular on Dragnet. There was one where she was supposed to be the 29 year old wife of a 17 year old boy (who looked at least 21). I thought: she has to be older than 29. I looked her up - she was 40.

The Masked Bandits

R414 I don't know whether it was their voices or what but the sound was excellent on Dragnet. The dialogue sounds so crisp and clear. Today the sound mix on a lot of TV shows is sort of diffuse, with a lot of ambient background noise.

Dack Rambo at 3:15.

Jack Webb was *very* specific in having the actors say their lines in that matter of fact way of speaking.

Connie just sang I Think You're Wonderful with a Connie marionette wearing the same dress. I did some research...

Taquita from A Star is Born went for $6,400...

Sweet baby Jesus, there was also a Connie Muppet...

The Decades re-branding started yesterday, and they are starting a whole bunch of shows from episode one, including all in the family, Laverne and Shirley, night Court, Mama’s family…

These last few episodes show Steele more interested in Cricket. Eisley wrote that episode. I read that the show wanted to pair Steele and Cricket but the fans wanted her with the seemingly more desirable and more popular Robert Conrad's Lopaka. Not so sure I don't think Steele is the sexier one. Not as obvious as Lopaka.

I wish these were in color.

Mama's Family vs Hawaiian Eye. Surely you jest.

Oh my god, R418, thank you. So the dress is green.

[quote]I wish these were in color.

Good lord, no, r422. They'd lose the noir aspect.

Is Cagney & Lacey on anywhere?

r425 It's streaming on Pluto, but I don't know if it's on any of the broadcast channels. Seems like it would be a good fit for START TV, which is mostly female-oriented shows.

Tonight at the Shell Room on Hawaiian Eye

Cricket performs the 1928 George and Ira Gershwin jazz standard "Embraceable You", with vocal accompaniment by Kim and Tracy.

And Stella Stevens guest stars.

And Eisley ending the song with a cigarette between his fingers, r427.

Ooh, hunky Mike Road with his short sleeves rolled up on his Hawaiian shirt.

I used to watch Hawaiian Eye reruns in the afternoon with my mom - even then (the 60s) it was already in reruns. Around 1966-67. I don't remember anything about it. Just that I liked it.

[quote] And Eisley ending the song with a cigarette between his fingers, [R427].

And kissing Cricket on the arm. Sweet.

I now like them together better than Cricket and Tom. Maybe it's my age.

Lopaka gets shirtless...twice.

Tonight on Hawaiian Eye Swan Song for A Hero first aired 1960 Dec 7

The Pacific Foundation awards Otto Van Helgren a hefty grant to sail a raft across the Pacific Ocean as a scientific experiment. However, a foundation official suspects something fishy when Von Helgren refuses to allow any photographs to be taken of him. He hires Tracy to find out what Von Helgren is up to, and Tracy in turn calls on Los Angeles private detective Rex Randolph (of Warner Bros.' companion show 77 Sunset Strip (1958)) to help him.

The Shell Bar presents Cricket singing "Lucky Day", a song written by Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson for the revue George White's Scandals of 1926.

Cricket great dress w/ delicate beading - very nice – typical sweeping full skirted – low bodice with spaghetti straps – bit of sheer on bodice. I wish this was in color.

This is actually kind of funny. The guy is a Walter Mitty type con man.

I think this may be the very first episode of Mission Impossible with Mr. Briggs.

He gets his instructions from a record album in a record shop. Going through the photos of the possible agents to use on the mission. This looks so much cooler than the later ones.

Special Guest WALLLY COX!!!!!!

Yes, tonight is the MI Pilot episode. Aired Sept 17 1966

When the team first gets together they are in this very cool very modern apartment playing poker or something. They act like funny agents waiting for some action to begin. Greg Morris tries to cheat and Cinnamon catches him and Wally Cox has to chastise Martin Landau about something.

Plot

IMF team leader Dan Briggs (Stephen Hill) assembles his team for the first time. The mission: to recover two nuclear warheads belonging to General Rio Dominguez from a hotel vault in Santa Costa. Jim and Willy sneak safe-cracker Terry Targo into the vault, who figures out how to get out. The team then captures Dominguez but Targo's fingers are broken in the attempt. With no other alternative, Briggs has himself and Dominguez put into the vault, and Briggs threatens to enter a random combination if Alicio doesn't tell him the code. Dominguez breaks. With the bombs defused, Willy takes the warheads out of the vault. Briggs remains behind and uses the information Targo gathered earlier to get out during a fireworks distraction set off by Barney. Briggs and the rest of the team make a desperate race for safety and get onto a plane heading to safety seconds before the military can catch up to them.

Dan Briggs apparently rejoins the Impossible Missions Force after some sort of sabbatical. His recorded instructions include the words, "Welcome back, Dan. It's been some time."

r435...

[quote]IMF team leader Dan Briggs (Stephen Hill)

STEVEN.

Okay a really stupid ending to Hawaii Five-O. A defendant on trial kidnaps and holds the young child of one of the jurors. Of course, McGarrett finds the child and pops into the courtroom just as the foreperson is about to announce they are still hung. So the dad - the one holdout on convicting the dastardly defendant - sees his daughter is free, whispers to the foreman and voila they have a verdict of conviction. Puleeze.

Oh well, It's just Tinsel Town, Jake. Forget it.

I'm not into Hawaii Five-0. My mother watched it and I didn't like Jack Lord (and his hair). She also watched Mannix which didn't bother me.

Shouldn't OP be posting another TCM update?

I loved Mannix. Something about Hawaii 5-0 didn't appeal to me.

Sharon Acker died. Great actress. And it's so strange how her obit hit my email just a few minutes ago, then I look up at my TV and she's on today's "Gunsmoke" episode on MeTV.

RIP.

[quote]Shouldn't OP be posting another TCM update?

This is Warner Brothers Month on TCM! (It's their 100th anniversary, and of course TCM and WB share ownership.) All WB, all the time.

A very handsome Max Baer Jr is on 77 Sunset Strip tonight. He doesn't look like the idiot Jethro in this. Very smooth and rugged looking. Very tall, too.

[quote] I loved Mannix. Something about Hawaii 5-0 didn't appeal to me.

I had the same issue with Hawaii Five-0 because I didn't like McGarrett cause he seemed arrogant so I didn't watch many of them. But now watching them I realize they have some very good stories and McGarrett just kind of fades into the background. I am enjoying 77 Sunset Strip the least.

I knew I recognized her. Sharon Hugueny is on Hawaiian Eye. I did a quick check and found a sordid story of her marrying Robert Evans. He really was a creep.

[quote] While filming Parrish (1961) in 1961, actor (later, producer-and-president of Paramount) Mr. Robert Evans visited her set and was immediately bedazzled by breathtaking Sharon, whose dark beauty earned frequent comparisons by Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons to Elizabeth Taylor. Evans' feeling for Sharon was reciprocated; and so, seventeen-year-old Sharon began dating the thirty-one-year-old Evans, much to the dismay of her parents, friends, and studio. Within weeks, the two became engaged and then, on May 28, 1961, married. Unfortunately, their union was doomed from the start. Sharon was, by all accounts, extremely mature for her age; yet Evans seemed to regard her as a child, not as a wife. Their relationship deteriorated. At one time, Mr. Evans abandoned California for his clothing business, "Evan Picone", located in New York, which effectively broke her motion picture and television contract with Warner Bros. This uprooting had taken Sharon thousands of miles from her family, work, and friends; furthermore, Warner Brothers placed her on suspension. (Evans later said that "taking Sharon to New York was like forcing a Persian cat into the Amazon"). In Mexico, less than six months after they married, he arranged for a quick, no alimony, divorce, which confused his naive wife.

[quote] Sharon's career, unfortunately, never recovered. She would become one of many fine actresses of the 1960s who possessed great beauty and tremendous talent but were not provided with good-quality material to showcase their assets. . . There followed a marriage to photographer Raymond Ross in 1968, a child, and a divorce in 1974. By 1976, she was under new management and married to Gordon Cornell Layne, founder of "Mid-America Pictures".

[quote] Sharon was en route to ABC to sign two contracts when a new tragedy intervened: Sharon was struck by a speeding police car, doing 90 mph in pursuit of a fleeing drug addict. Not only did this end Sharon's career, it very nearly ended her life. Still seeking recovery, she and Mr. Layne left Santa Monica for Lake Arrowhead, in 1987. After nineteen years under Gordon's personal around-the-clock care, on July 3, 1996, Sharon Elizabeth Hugueny Layne died at home, from misdiagnosed cancer.

She really was beautiful. She's playing a blind woman pretending she saw a murder to trap the guy into confessing.

Oy, r446, such a life. Another Liz wannabe, Myrna Fahey died of cancer at 40.

This morning on Perry Mason...did June kill Sue Ane Langdon?

You know you fuckers are old when "Rockford Files" seems too peppery and modern for your tastes!

James Garner can never be too peppery, r449.

Yahoo!

MeTV+ (MeTV Plus) OTA channel is channel 48-4 in Chicago area.

R452, same in DC. Channel 48.4 over the air.

Mission:Impossible- Oh no, Archie wants to "heat up the Cold War".

Tried to post earlier that Carroll O'Connor was on MI playing a corrupt foreign prosecutor trying to take over the government.

His accent very effectively disguises his regular voice. I laughed when the more honest deputy prime minister took the stand to testify disguised as Martin Landau, the defense attorney, and then rips his fake face off.

Oohhh Mission Impossible looks good tonight.

Somewhere behind the Iron Curtain is a replica of an American town. Agents are trained there. The IM force is sent in to halt a plan to use the unwitting agents as carriers of a deadly plague, and to bring down the man who has organized it.

Arthur Hill plays the American working for the Russians heading up the Russian mission. And George Takei plays one of the MI agents sent into the replica town to stop the dastardly deed. Oh my someone is training them to do the Frug - Cinnamon looks fab. It's all so gear!

I'd never seen this episode of Mama's Family. Vicki is absolutely wonderful.

^Little Eunice is also swell.

Fine, OP. You just stay away and leave Robert Conrad as James West all to us Almost-Croaked!

MeTV+ is only in Chicago and somewhere in Arizona.

[quote]MeTV+ is only in Chicago and somewhere in Arizona.

Not correct.

I watch MeTV+ in Los Angeles.

^Me too.

[quote]MeTV+ is only in Chicago and somewhere in Arizona.

Read the thread. We debunked this many posts ago.

[quote]Not correct.

[quote]I watch MeTV+ in Los Angeles.

I watch it in Washington, D.C.

I'm watching Route 66 on MeTV+.

I'll stand only partially corrected, until someone from Philly posts that they get it (on RCN).

What's RCN, r466?

Hawaiian Eye tonight has Ruta Lee as the wife of a man who has hired a hit man to knock her off so he can marry his girlfriend. Well, Wife Ruta agrees to a divorce so now he has to somehow call off the planned hit.

Interesting tidbit about Ruta Lee - still alive at 87.

Born in Montreal child of Lithuanian immigrants who moved to LA in 1948. She went to Hollywood High and UCLA.

In 1976, Lee married Texas restaurant executive Webster B. "Webb" Lowe Jr. They divided their time between their homes in Hollywood, Palm Springs, Fort Worth, and Mexico. Webb died July 1, 2020. They had no children. Lee describes her political views as "conservative" and she appeared at the 1972 Republican National Convention. On August 24, 2013, Lee was inducted into the National Lithuanian American Hall of Fame.

In February 2019, Lee had her Lithuanian citizenship restored.

In 1964, Lee called then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, asking him to pardon her grandmother Ludvise Kamandulis, who had been in an internment camp in Siberia since World War II. The pardon was granted, and Lee's grandmother came to live with her in California in 1964. Kamandulis died two years later. Lee again rescued a relative from the former Soviet Union when she secured custody of her 18-year-old cousin, Maryte Kaseta, from Lithuania in 1987.

Lee has been involved with the charitable organization The Thalians for over 50 years. In addition to raising money and providing services for troubled youth and mental-health organizations, Lee, who is also the board chairman, co-produced the annual Ball of the Thalians with the late Debbie Reynolds throughout these five decades. In 2011, after 55 years of involvement with The Thalians, she stepped down and is now a member emerita.

Gotta go - Cricket's singing Lulu's Back in Town.

[quote]Gotta go - Cricket's singing Lulu's Back in Town.

You mean swingin', r468.

[quote]Interesting tidbit about Ruta Lee - still alive at 87.

Her fellow bride from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" Julie Newmar is also still alive. Julie is 89.

Ruta & Ann Jillian

[quote]I'll stand only partially corrected, until someone from Philly posts that they get it (on RCN).

MeTV+ is always on over-the-air local digital sub-channels. If it's available in your area, you can pick it up with an antenna.

List of MeTV+ affiliates. Nothing in PA as of yet.

Thank you, r473. R472 and r467 replied, but didn't answer.

R467, If you have to ask......

Don't Kiss Me Goodbye

Minus Mr. Briggs tonight but Cinnamon gets to do Nora in A Doll's House!

"All I can tell you is you were conceived the week I was guest-starring on Mission: Impossible."

"So, you're telling me my father could be Peter Lupus, Greg Morris, or Martin Landau?"

"Well, I think we can rule out Greg Morris, given your hair. Let's hope it's Marty. He has an Oscar now!"

Kathleen Crowley on 77 Sunset Strip right now...

[quote]In the episode "Strange Bedfellows," she appeared as Martizza Vedar, a character purposely similar to Zsa Zsa Gabor due to their extremely close physical resemblance.

^ and Ty Hardin as Drew Dekker!

FETV has a nice feature in its monthly email newsletter where they give all the important dates for that month. Here are the events for May:

2nd – Wagon Train finale (1965)

6th – Raymond Bailey birthday (RIP)

9th – Marion Lorne passing (1968)

11th – Bernard Fox birthday (RIP)

12th – Robert Reed passing (1992)

14th – Mother's Day, Hugh Beaumont passing (1982)

16th – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman finale (1998), Joseph Campanella passing (2018)

18th – Elizabeth Montgomery passing (1995), Ken Osmond passing (2020)

20th – Barney Miller finale (1982), Adam-12 finale (1975)

21st – Raymond Burr birthday (RIP)

22nd – Perry Mason finale (1966)

23rd – Harry Townes passing (2001)

26th – Jay Silverheels birthday (RIP), John Wayne birthday (RIP)

27th – Lee Meriwether 88th birthday

28th – Emergency! finale (1977)

29th – Memorial Day

30th – Ruta Lee 88th birthday

31st – Clint Eastwood 93rd birthday

[quote]Elizabeth Montgomery passing (1995), Ken Osmond passing (2020)

Strange to think that Eddie Haskell outlived Samantha by 25 years.

[quote]Strange to think that Eddie Haskell outlived Samantha by 25 years.

Ken was born in 1943 and died in 2020 at age 76.

Elizabeth was born in 1933 and died in 1995 at age 62.

Awwww, Miss Rochelle Hudson is bumped off halfway through.

Cloris is on 77 Sunset Strip...

I knew that was her the minute I saw her. Looked it up and she was in 3 episodes of 77 Sunset Strip over the years. She was in lots of those TV series like Wagon Train, Hawiian Eye, Loretta Young, Zaner Grey etc during the late 50s early 60s. I'm not sure if I knew she had been on Lassie for 28 episodes.

This second season of Mission Impossible is inferior to the first season. Too bad. I had no idea how good that first season was until just seeing it these past few weeks.

I had never realized what a nice build Joseph Campanella had.

R487, LMAO! God we are old.

Now live in 30 markets.

BRACKEN'S WORLD!