tugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull) (08/22/83)
1) On Have Gun Will Travel, I believe the business cards said "Wire Paladin".
The wire isn't his first name, it's how to get in touch with him, i.e. by
telegraph...
2) Now when the west was very young,
There lived a man named Masterson.
He wore a cane and derby hat,
They called him Bat,
Bat Masterson...
3) The Guns of Will Sonnett, with Walter Brennan and his grandson looking
for his son.
3a) ...Grandpappy Amos and the girls and the boys
And the family's known as the Real McCoys.
4) The Iron Horse with Rory Calhoun (?)
5) Branded,
Marked with a coward's <?>
What do you do when you're branded
And you know you're a man?
Wherever you go for the rest of your life
You must prove you're a man (?)
with Chuck Connors.
Remember the episode where he re-met and helped save the life of
General Ulysses S. Grant? Even Grant couldn't clear his name.
6) The High Chapparal, with Leif Erickson.
7) The Virginian, with Lee Majors.
8) The Big Valley, with Barbara Stanwyck and some others...
9) What one was Lee J. Cobb in?
10) Supercar, with Mike Mercury, Dr. Beaker and Professor Otto Matic.
Was the kid's name Jimmy? Remember how it took half the show to warm
up the damn engines? To 15,000.
11) Fireball XL-5, with Steve Zodiac, Venus and Robert the Robot... and
Zooney, the thing that could only say "Happy BIrthday" and "Welcome
Home".
I wish I was a spaceman,
The fastest guy alive,
We'd fly around the universe
In FIreball XL-5.
Through a wonderland of stardust,
We'll zoom away to Mars.
My heart would be a fireball (doo-doo-do-doo)
A fireball (doo-doo-do-doo)
Every time I gaze into your starry eyes.
12) Stingray, with Troy Tempest and Phones and Marina and Atlanta.
They were part of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP),
an incredibly powerful group that apparently only had one submarine...
Remember the bongo drum alarms, and the way the entire base went
underground in the event of an attack.
Marina,
Aqua Marina,
Why can't you whisper the words that my heart is longing to hear...
Marina came from the undersea city of Pacifica, which looked like
a blatant ad for Anglo-Dutch Shell.
What were the names of the bad guys who sounded like they were talking
through a glass of Coke?
WHat was the name of the base commander who rode around in that
fancy wheelchair that looked like a bumper car? He was Atlanta's dad...
13) Thunderbirds (my favourite).
The Tracy family:
Mr. Jeff (?) Tracy, father and the first man on the moon.
Scott Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 1 (the fast one that got
to the scene of the emergency and then did nothing).
Virgil Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 2 (the big fat one that
carried all the stuff around, including T-bird 4).
Alan Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 3 (the spaceship that almost
hit the sun).
Gordon Tracy, pilot of Thunderbird 4 (the poor man's Stingray),
who evidently spent all of his time stuck in pod 4.
John Tracy, occupant of Thunderbird 5, (the space station),
who stayed up in space most of the time (had a personal
hygiene problem), but was occasionally spelled by Alan.
Brains (not family), the geek who desinged all the stuff, and
won a gold medal in the '64 Olympics for powerlifting a
3,500 pound pair of eyeglasses.
Some hot-looking babe that Alan had the hots for - nobody
knew it, but her father was the Tracys' arch-enemy, the guy
with the glow-in-the-dark eyeballs.
Lady Penelope, their English agent. Her car (licence plate
FAB-1) was driven by Parker.
The Tracys lived on what was evidently an artificial island,
at least it was when they got through with it.
Did anyone ever notice that the sons' first names are significant?
Why, and what names are missing?
I've got to go... no time to talk about Captain Scarlet (who knows the
Myaterons' game) and Joe Sixty (Ninety?).
These people went on to make live action shows:
UFO
and
Space:1999
which featured their most realistic marionette, Martin Landau,
and their least realistic one, Barbara Bain.
These shows were all done in England by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Ever
notice that all the heroes were American, but all the extras were British?
Filmed in SUPERMARIONATION
steve hull and dave browman
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Arpa utcsrgv!tugs@UW-BEAVERhalle1@houxz.UUCP (08/22/83)
Lee Majors was not in the Virginian (I forget who was), but he was in The Big Valley. The song to Bonanza was "sung" (I use that word very loosely) only once - on the first show. The four of them sang it as they rode off into the sunset. If you'd heard it, you'd know why it was the only time. Fortunately, I forget the words.
bdot@hogpd.UUCP (J.BARRETT) (08/22/83)
Wasn't Doug McClure in The Virginian??
pjm@pyuxll.UUCP (PJ Maioriello) (08/23/83)
The first part of the branded theme that somebody posted was slightly wrong. It went something like: Branded, Branded Scorned as the one who ran What do you do when you're branded, and you know your a man Still wishing they'd bring back The Rifleman, Paul Maioriello pyuxll!pjm
jab@ritcv.UUCP (John A Biles) (08/23/83)
I believe that James Dreary, uh Drury, was the Virgin Ham, uh
Virginian. I think Doug McClure was also on the show in the blonde
beefcake role he plays so often.
- Al Biles
{allegra, seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jabwombat@uicsl.UUCP (08/26/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-204500:uicsl:5200014:000:525 uicsl!wombat Aug 25 14:32:00 1983 The Big Valley had Barbara Stanwyck(Victoria Barkley), Linda Evans (Audra Barkley), Richard Long (Jarred Barkley), ??? (Nick Barkley), and Lee Majors (Heath). I think in the last season or so Heath got upgraded to Heath Barkley. Richard Long is he of "Nanny and the Professor" fame. Linda Evans is she of "Dynasty." Etc. Re: Branded, I could never decide whether it was "marked with a coward's shame" or "... coward's name." But my favorite western was "The Wild, Wild West"... Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat