Subject: Lesley is here now.
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
Posted by: lesley153
Date: Nov 09 09
I'd always thought that once you got a blog you had a blog in perpetuity, and could continue to add to it, whether you were a paying member or not. That may have been right at one time, but it isn't now.
I wrote an update yesterday, a few hours after I'd had an email to tell me that my paying membership had expired, and got an "access denied" message. I thought it was a shame to waste it. Off I go...
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sadwings 
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Ever seen King of the Hill? Ol' Hank says "I tell ya whut!" all the time, and ol' Jed Clampett always says "Hoooo, doggies!" I just love good ol' rednecks! :-) Reply #6061. Feb 14 18, 4:25 PM |
Blackdresss
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Okay... And Ellie May just loves her critters who get to swim down at the CEE-ment pond. While Granny churns butter out back, and Jethro... I'm not sure what Jethro does. When I first got here and was in very temporary housing, the only channels I could pick up were really old, old, old sitcoms. I am now fluent in The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, Petticoat Junction, Perry Mason (not a sitcom,) Alfred Hitchcock Theater (almost as scary as those enormous spiders in that house,) and... maybe Gilligan's Island? No, it was Dobie Gillis. Reply #6062. Feb 14 18, 8:26 PM |
terraorca
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Maynard G. Crebs aka. Gilligan Thalia = Tuesday Weld "I'm gonna kill that boy." Man, that takes me back. Reply #6063. Feb 14 18, 8:32 PM |
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Who played Zelda, or whoever that nutty girl was who had a HUGE crush on Dobie? He was always trying to dodge her while stocking shelves with cans in their family grocery store. And Maynard G. Krebbs was a beatnik! "WORK????" Reply #6064. Feb 14 18, 8:56 PM |
| sadwings
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I loved The Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan. What a concept on both shows to begin with. I loved all the gadgets the Professor made out of the island material. Like I'm SO sure! Amazing how everyone's clothes stayed so nice and clean all the time. And speaking of clothes, the huge wardrobe that the Howell's had, along with their suitcases full of cash they brought along with them on a three hour tour. Oh, and all of Gilligan's crazy dreams. Ha! All the strange visitors that came and went as they pleased, all the headhunters, Kurt Russell as the jungle boy, the beached telephone line that came and went......that show was just the coolest. I also loved Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie and Gomer Pyle and I Love Lucy. Kind of sad how those days are so long gone now and how they just don't make shows like that any more. Reply #6065. Feb 14 18, 9:43 PM |
| terraorca
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Zelda = Sheila Kuehl Reply #6066. Feb 15 18, 7:16 AM |
| Blackdresss
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Thanks, Mark. Zelda was priceless. I learned so much watching that show, like how to kill venomous hobo spiders. Oh wait, I learned that on my own, out of self-preservation but mostly to Save The Kitties. Where my bunny boys are concerned, I'm a Mama Grizzly Bear. It didn't cure or even help my spider phobia, but I turned those monsters into grease stains. The craziest thing about Gilligan's Island, and there were so many, is all the people who arrived on that island the same way the group did, kind of. Accidentally. Gilligan's Island was the precursor to LOST, I'm convinced of it. And then, all the mysterious arrivals also disappeared off the island, and not one of them sent anyone to rescue the rest of them. And why was no one even searching for them? It was a three-hour tour, not a 475-hour flight. That island couldn't have been uncharted. I don't care what the song said, there is just no way. The Minnow, a tiny ship, was tossed, not lost. But if not for the courage of that fearless crew, it would have been. I memorized the theme song while watching it to try to distract while counting down the hours until I could get out of that house. Want me to sing them for you? Because you just know that I will.... Reply #6067. Feb 15 18, 6:15 PM |
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Gilligan's Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 Reply #6068. Feb 15 18, 8:21 PM |
| sadwings
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I can't believe Dawn Wells is the only living member of that cast now. If I had been on that island with her, well, let's just say there would have been more than seven of them by the time they made it back to the states. :-p Gilligaaaan! Gilligan, little buddy! D'OH!! Remember the mad scientist guy who came to the island and took everybody back to his spooky castle and made them all swap personalities with each other? Like I'm so sure! How about the time Gilligan was bitten on the neck by that bat and he thought he was going to turn into a vampire? Then he had that dream where he was a vampire and all that. Then there was the time the rock group The Mosquitoes came to the Island. Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving. Ha! Man, those cats could really rock out, too. They have to be the ones who started heavy metal. Man, I could talk about this show all day long but I have to lie down for a while before the Duels start. Fun Trivia Duels! :-) Reply #6069. Feb 15 18, 8:45 PM |
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Then how about the time the Skipper and Gilligan's hair fell out? I think it was because of something Gilligan was putting in the laundry soap to help things smell nicer or something. Ha! That was a really funny one. :-) Reply #6070. Feb 23 18, 1:41 AM |
brm50diboll
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Tina Louise, who played Ginger Grant, is still alive. Reply #6071. Feb 23 18, 10:24 AM |
| sadwings
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Wow, really, Brian? Guess I evidently read false information from somewhere. Reply #6072. Feb 23 18, 11:13 AM |
| terraorca
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Alan Hale Jr. "well gee little buddy." Reply #6073. Feb 23 18, 1:55 PM |
Memorycat65
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How about Green Acres (Ooh, all those pancakes, and Arnold the Pig), The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone? Reply #6074. Feb 24 18, 8:03 PM |
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The Twilight Zone rules. Those are so much fun to watch now because of the many big time stars that will pop up when they were really young. William Shatner, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Lee Van Cleef, the list goes on and on. Remember when Rod Serling went from the Twilight Zone to the Night Gallery, Anne? I guess I was just getting into my teens or maybe a couple of years or so before that when that show first began, and some of those shows were actually pretty scary and terrifying for me. :-( "I want my mommy!" said my little frownie face. :-p Reply #6075. Feb 24 18, 11:50 PM |
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Night Gallery was darker than The Twilight Zone, closer to horror than science fiction. My favorite Night Gallery was the third part of the 1969 pilot episode, entitled "The Fisherman", about an ex-Nazi who had fled to Argentina and was being hunted down by the Israeli secret police. In each of the Night Gallery episodes, a painting Central to the theme of the episode appears. The ex-Nazi (obviously modeled after the real-life case of Adolf Eichmann) wanted to escape his relentless Israeli pursuers by "wishing himself" into a painting of a fisherman in a small boat in a peaceful mountain lake. It turns out he really did have the power to wish himself into paintings. But Night Galleries are dark when you're fleeing and he made a small mistake. Night Gallery ran on NBC from 1969-1972. Three years later Serling died. He was 50. Reply #6076. Feb 25 18, 4:00 AM |
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Wow, brother, I guess you are up on your Night Gallery. I knew it didn't last but a few years but I didn't know the precise time frame. Was that '69 to '72, you said? No need to answer that, obviously. No wonder those things scared the crap out of me. I was only 7 years old in '69. Thought I was a bit older when I saw those things, but maybe I was watching reruns, I don't know. It's strange but I remember lots and lots of Twilight Zone episodes, but there is only one single episode of Night Gallery that I clearly remember. That and vague bits and pieces of a few others. Couldn't tell you the name of the episode but it starred Roddy McDowell or however he spells his name. His character was the conniving son of a very wealthy man, and he wanted the old man dead so he could have all the estate to himself. There was just the old man, the son and a butler, that was it. Remember that one? The one with the painting that was changing right before the butler's eyes? Oh, man, that one really scared the crap out of me! :-( Reply #6077. Feb 25 18, 4:31 AM |
| brm50diboll
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What you are remembering is part one of the three part pilot episode from 1969, entitled "The Cemetery". Roddy McDowall played the black sheep nephew trying to speed up his inheritance of his painter uncle's estate by "hastening things along" shall we say? Ossie Davis' portrayal of the loyal butler Osmond Portifoy was quite memorable. The whole gimmick of Night Gallery was that each episode revolved around a creepy painting. If you Google "Night Gallery Paintings", you can see them all and the titles of the episodes they went with. They actually were real paintings specially created for each episode. Reply #6078. Feb 25 18, 10:12 AM |
| Memorycat65
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Wonder who has all those paintings now? My brother-in-law gave me a "Twilight Zone Companion" years ago which had synopses of each episode, along with commentary. I have always treasured that book. From what I understand, TZ almost never happened - the network said it would "never work." Boy, did they get fooled! After the show's initial and surprising wild popularity, the network wound up giving Serling a vast amount of creative control. He wrote a huge number of episodes, and got top-notch writers like Harlan Ellison, Buck Henry, and others to contribute as well. Serling never got the same type of creative control of "Night Gallery" and finally left the show. TZ lasted 5 years, NG lasted for 3. The TZ episode that stands out for me was "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder." Donna Douglas (of Beverly Hillbilly fame) plays a woman whose face has been hideously disfigured and has gone through multiple surgeries to correct the problem. She lives in a society where people who don't conform to societal ideals of "beauty" are banished to an island somewhere to live with others of their own kind. The doctors are never seen, but their voices are beautiful. The ending is a shocker; when Douglass' face is finally revealed, she IS beautiful, but the doctors and nurses all have the faces of pigs. I saw that when I about 7 or 8 and just about flipped out. The NG episode that stuck with me the most was titled "The Earwig." Anyone remember that one? It made me want to wear earplugs to bed for about six months! The thing about TZ, particularly, was that it has never become dated; sure, the clothes, cars, and sets look extremely old-fashioned now, but the stories remain universal in meaning, and ageless. Anne Reply #6079. Feb 25 18, 11:06 AM |
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Yes, you are right about Rod Serling not getting full creative control of Night Gallery, despite his name being in the official title of the show: "Rod Serling's Night Gallery". Serling was a genius and very protective of his "art", so not giving him full control of that show was a mistake and it is why the show didn't last as long as The Twilight Zone and isn't remembered as well. Serling was a WWII veteran who had fought in the Pacific Theater (and several TZ episodes are set in the Pacific Theater of WWII, most notably "The Purple Testament" and "A Quality of Mercy".) After the war ended, he quickly became a screenwriter for the brand new medium of television in the early 1950s, a true wunderkind. He mostly wrote teleplays for the various "playhouse" shows of that era. "Requiem for a Heavyweight" is one of his greatest pieces from that era. He wanted a show of his own, and his intended pilot "The Time Element" aired on the Westinghouse Desilu Theater with an introduction by Desi Arnaz himself, giving credit to Serling as the writer. But when CBS was eventually convinced to give Serling The Twilight Zone, the rights to "The Time Element" were still owned by Desilu, so a different pilot "Where is Everybody?" had to be filmed. Nevertheless, "The Time Element" has been included in modern DVD sets of TZ and is considered the true pilot of The Twilight Zone. Serling wrote the majority of the screen plays himself (although he did have a terrific supporting cast of writers he assembled) and in those days TV seasons were 30-36 episodes, not the paltry 20-26 of today. That workload, combined with frequently having to deal with the very aggressive CBS censors of that era, burned him out after five years. After TZ was cancelled, Serling continued to write screenplays, some of them for movies, most famously the original Planet of the Apes in 1968, although he was only a cowriter, not the sole writer of that screenplay, and he chafed at all the changes the other writer made. Nevertheless, the famous ending of that movie, with Charlton Heston on the beach seeing the half-buried Statue of Liberty and screaming out, was Rod Serling's idea, a definite Twilight Zonian twisted ending. He would have his name taken off screenplays he thought were changed too much and could be quite argumentative at times, but he kind of just "gave up" after awhile on Night Gallery and let the producer sink that show with progressively poorer and poorer writing. They should have just let Rod Serling do whatever the heck he wanted to do. Period. As anyone who ever watched the Twilight Zone absolutely should know, Serling was a chain smoker, 3-4 packs per day. Most of his famous TZ intros show him holding a cigarette. This led to the heart disease that caused his early death at the age of 50 in 1975. Most geniuses are quite mercurial and many pass away too soon. Imagine what another 20-25 years of Rod Serling would have been like. Reply #6080. Feb 25 18, 12:52 PM |
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