lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (08/29/83)
Greetings. I'm just back from a few days out of town, and have just caught up on the backlog of net.tv material. Lessee now... ----- In no particular order: --- I don't have the lyrics to the Bonanza theme handy. Sorry about that, chief. --- Sky King was a GREAT show. A complete episode popped up on USA's "Night Flight" quite a few months ago on cable, by the way. --- The original "Match Game" theme was taken (directly) from an old Bert Kamfert (sp?) album that is laying around nearby somewhere. If I can find it I'll pass along the album and cut number. That same album also contains a number of other very familiar cuts. It is important to differentiate between songs written for TV that became popular afterwards, and songs that were written and distributed AS SONGS before being picked up for TV. The theme to "Hawaii Five-O" fell into the former catagory, "Harper Valley PTA" into the latter. --- Science Fiction Theatre was another good show (with your host Truman Bradley). I *almost* managed to arrange an SFT film festival locally, but United Artists bugged out at the last minute. A similar fate met my Outer Limits film fest -- I stopped dealing with UA for those things after that. I have discussed SFT in considerable detail in fairly recent SF-LOVERS digests -- interested parties may wish to consult the moderator for archival information. By the way, SFT (like Sea Hunt and a variety of other programs) was a ZIV production. The history of ZIV is rather fascinating, but I won't go into it here... --- One person has suggested to me that it was Joe E. BROWN (not Joe E. Ross) who starred in It's About Time and Car 54. Nope, it was Joe E. (ooh ooh!) Ross himself. Joe E. Brown was a completely different person. --- My favorite (admittedly non-TV) role for Hans Conried was in the superb "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T." which was the highlight of my last film fest (along with "Plan 9" and "Little Shop of Horrors"). A great character actor. --- Dick Clark is indeed slowly getting on in years. My industry contacts tell me that he has a painting of himself from about 40 years ago locked in a vault in Oxnard -- this painting ages while he stays looking younger in the same manner as that done for a famous character in literature. --- Sorry, I don't have any specifics on the Robin Hood theme. --- Wassamatta U. is one of the better Rocky & B. sequences. It shows up on one of the compilation reels I used at my Jay Ward fest. It's not as good as "Upsidasium", "Rocket Fuel", or "The Metal Munching Moon Mice", but it is still a good one -- particularly funny when shown to a University audience. --- Tom Slick is one of the three cartoons featured in every standard George of the Jungle program. The other two were George himself and Super Chicken. --- The lyrics for F troop that were submitted were quite close to correct. So close that it's not worth the effort to correct a couple of words. I think we can clear up some problems with "Mr. Ed", however. I don't have that one on tape, but the lyrics are immediately avaiable via neuron lookup routing table EUKB2-39439-U87TFGGG-948-QWSHHBN84C... ----- MR ED ----- A horse is a horse, of course of course. And noone can talk to a horse, of course. Unless of course, the horse, of course, Is the famous Mr. Ed! Go right to the source, And ask the horse, To give you the answer that you'll endorse. He's always on a steady course, So talk to Mr. Ed! He will yackity yack and speak, And waste the time of day. But Mr. Ed will never speak, Unless he has something to say! A horse is a horse, of course of course. And noone can talk to a horse, of course. You don't believe in a talking horse? Well listen to this: I AM MR. ED. (spoken in Mr. Ed voice) ---- The closing portion about not believing in a talking horse appeared in the closing theme of the program under the credits. --- Well, I guess that about covers the current topics. Ta ta for now. --Lauren--