They don't write 'em that that today/ favorite tv shows

[deleted957600]

Remember 'Alice', a show about 3 waitresses with a difficult boss.

 

[deleted957600]

Three's Company was a show about 3 roommates, one male and 2 female. They convince the landlord that the male roommate is gay in order to allow him to live there.

 

[deleted957600]

'Ed' was about a lawyer who owns a bowling alley. Fun show!!

 

[185248]

I liked the Immortal, but it did not stay around for that long, so it was not really Immortal after all. But it was a good show as entertainment goes. Starred the guy out of the Rat Patrol....that wasn't a bad series either, Combat...Enjoyed the Outer Limits too, and the Twilight zone. May sound like I watched a lot of Tele....but didn't actually. The shows only came on once a week.

Now it's Pawn Stars, Repo all that edited "real life" nonsense. Watching a football match is real life.

 

[thirteenbyseven]

In those halcyon days of yesteryear TV shows invariably portrayed authority figures and institutions as working for the greater good of mankind. If a rosy-cheeked young lad obeyed his parents, said please and thank you and didn't masturbate than he too could one day become Jack Webb.

What does Stanley Stover become when he dons the green cape, white-plumed gay buccaneer hat and a costume manufactured out of his mother's old dresses? Why the Crimson Crusader of course. In this Dragnet episode actor Timothy Donnelly goes all-out in this cautionary tale for any school boy who desires to reach for that extra package of Hostess Twinkies and neglect physical fitness.

Detective Gannon: "Lets get this straight. Your family name is Crusader and your parents named you Crimson?"

Stanley Stover: "It's my mother!" A voice off-stage: "Stanley dear? Are you home?"

 

[deleted957600]

Loved this when I was in college:

 

[hannahbaby]

This is very interesting! Not the kind of thing you expect to find on lpsg

 

[185248]

This is very interesting! Not the kind of thing you expect to find on lpsg

Yes, LPSG is a bit like the

 

[Shepardson]

Nah, Ginger was waaaaaay tooo vain onscreen and off as Tina Louise.

Check out "God's Little Acre" if you ever get the chance. You not only get to see a less gaudy Ginger, but an albino version of Michael Landon.

 

[Shepardson]

Why the Crimson Crusader of course.

That ("Burglary") is probably my favorite episode of Dragnet.

 

[Haggard_Wisdom]

All for money. And not one of them can bake a coconut cream pie to save themselves from starvation.

I always wanted to give Maryanne a creampie, then watch Ginger eat it as the Professor got up to all sorts of dickens

 

[thirteenbyseven]

Another dandy from the sixties: The original Star Trek. Who Mourns for Adonais from season two is a memorable episode. It could have appropriately been sub-titled "can a beautiful Earth woman find happiness with a five-thousand year-old extra-terrestrial Greek god?"

Synopsis: Apollo is in a lonely funk and looking for love. Luckily the starship Enterprise just happens to be cruising through the solar system he now calls home. Better yet, aboard is a young attractive female officer that could light any male loin on fire and ancient civilizations, relics and myths are her specialties. What a coincidence. In a sense this was a very daring script for 1967 during a time when television couples slept in separate beds.

Most people today may find it surprising that Star Trek in its original form languished in the Neilson ratings in-part because it appealed to the imagination of the scientifically literate who could think outside the box. It demanded that the viewer be able to logically conclude if A and B then C. To illustrate this, about two-thirds through the episode Lt. Carolyn Palamas (played by actress Leslie Parrish decked-out in a silky Grecian toga outfit) suddenly materializes to visit her Enterprise landing party led by a then-fit and much younger William Shatner as the inimitable Captian James T. Kirk. The good lieutenant has been off conducting research on ancient relics- Apollo in particular- and has that golden afterglow women in love often have after they've...well.... Captain Kirk recognizes the symptoms immediately. After all this isn't his first dalliance with women in heat. So he springs into action and reminds her that her first duty is to the four-hundred poor slobs aboard the Starship Enterprise with no speaking roles and no residuals. She must break-off her relationship with Apollo.

"Why surely you know I've only been studying you. I could no more love you than I could love a new species of bacteria."

That has to go down as one of the greatest put-down lines of all time.

 

[TexanStar]

. In a sense this was a very daring script for 1967 during a time when television couples slept in separate beds.

Not all Darrin & Samantha (Bewitched) and Lily & Herman (The Munsters) were sleeping in the same bed before 1967.

 

[twoton]

No. 1 on my list of Golden Oldies is "All In The Family."

So much of that show would never, ever make it on the air today. Brilliant writing.

I liked "M*A*S*H" but it really got sort of lame toward the end. So did "All In The Family," now that I think of it.

 

[TexanStar]

No. 1 on my list of Golden Oldies is "All In The Family."

So much of that show would never, ever make it on the air today. Brilliant writing.

I liked "M*A*S*H" but it really got sort of lame toward the end. So did "All In The Family," now that I think of it.

All in the Family is fantastic. We get two back to back episodes every day on local TV here.

I laugh harder at this show than any other show on TV. As you said, the writing is exceptional, and I have to mark it down as one of the straight up funniest shows that's ever been on air. Carroll O'Conner is a god of facial expressions on this show and Rob Reiner & Jean Stapleton crack me up too (Mike Evans as well, who played Lionel Jefferson). Just a ton of comedic talent all squished into one show. So good

<3 that sarcasm

 

[TexanStar]

 

[Fritz]

 

[CUBE]

Another dandy from the sixties: The original Star Trek. Who Mourns for Adonais from season two is a memorable episode. It could have appropriately been sub-titled "can a beautiful Earth woman find happiness with a five-thousand year-old extra-terrestrial Greek god?"

Synopsis: Apollo is in a lonely funk and looking for love. Luckily the starship Enterprise just happens to be cruising through the solar system he now calls home. Better yet, aboard is a young attractive female officer that could light any male loin on fire and ancient civilizations, relics and myths are her specialties. What a coincidence. In a sense this was a very daring script for 1967 during a time when television couples slept in separate beds.

Most people today may find it surprising that Star Trek in its original form languished in the Neilson ratings in-part because it appealed to the imagination of the scientifically literate who could think outside the box. It demanded that the viewer be able to logically conclude if A and B then C. To illustrate this, about two-thirds through the episode Lt. Carolyn Palamas (played by actress Leslie Parrish decked-out in a silky Grecian toga outfit) suddenly materializes to visit her Enterprise landing party led by a then-fit and much younger William Shatner as the inimitable Captian James T. Kirk. The good lieutenant has been off conducting research on ancient relics- Apollo in particular- and has that golden afterglow women in love often have after they've...well.... Captain Kirk recognizes the symptoms immediately. After all this isn't his first dalliance with women in heat. So he springs into action and reminds her that her first duty is to the four-hundred poor slobs aboard the Starship Enterprise with no speaking roles and no residuals. She must break-off her relationship with Apollo.

"Why surely you know I've only been studying you. I could no more love you than I could love a new species of bacteria."

That has to go down as one of the greatest put-down lines of all time.

They did a continuation of this character on the Star Trek you tube series. Not sure what's is called. Same actor plays the part

 

[Shepardson]

No. 1 on my list of Golden Oldies is "All In The Family."
So much of that show would never, ever make it on the air today. Brilliant writing.

You wanna see some weird shit, skim through some of this if you haven't seen it:

It's like Archie "unchained". He's even a cab driver. His wife is that Lana lady that used to chase Jack around on Three's Company. I ran into it by accident while watching TV movies on there or something and had never heard of it. I doubt the AITF creators were too fond of it.

the writing is exceptional, and I have to mark it down as one of the straight up funniest shows that's ever been on air.

Definitely! The Bunkers & the Swingers where Edith replies to that personals ad is my all time favorite. The main cast and the costars were all hilarious and the concept was great regardless. I noticed the idea got copied at least a couple times on post-AITF sitcoms.

 

[thirteenbyseven]

In the early B&W days of broadcast television CBS decided to produce a TV comedy series as an outgrowth of a very popular radio show from the 1940s. It was called Amos n' Andy. Before the NAACP protests grew too loud to ignore, 65-episodes were shot with an incredibly talented all-black cast. If one ignores the stereotypically written scripts and focuses on the incomparable comedic timing, delivery and facial expressions of Tim Moore as Kingfish and Spencer Williams as Andy, is it no wonder Amos n' Andy has stood the test of time? Perhaps I am bias but The Kingfish Teaches Andy To Fly is a classic episode from 1954.

Synopsis: Andy is frustrated because his girlfriend Charmaine thinks he's a boring fuddy-duddy and has just accepted an invitation from a flashy new guy in the neighborhood with a speedboat. How is Andy going to acquire some of that glamour? Perhaps he could buy himself one of those sport-model cars so she would think of him as "a hot-rod guy" or he could hire Kingfish dressed in a hotel bellman's uniform doubling as the official long-dress uniform of The Flying Eagles. Kingfish must be legit. Why just look at that eagle embellishment on that cap.

To fully appreciate this episode one should be versed in aviation history but the situational humor is done so well it transcends whatever occupation one is in. Kingfish whisks Andy through an abbreviated ground school course and flight training utilizing sound effects from an old 78-record on a turntable and he (Kingfish) providing pitch-and-bank inputs on the most cleverly devised homebuilt flight simulator ever made..."now drop your gear and flap your flaps!"

After an exhaustive and comprehensive flight training course successfully completed, Andy goes to the airport for some "smooch-in' and fly-in'" with his girlfriend in a 1940s Taylorcraft with blackened-out windows. "I's take-off on the beam, I's land on the beam. I's always on the beam." A clearly impressed Charmaine beams back.

Unfortunately they don't write scripts like this today.