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Post by Bob on Aug 23, 2004 13:32:59 GMT
Does anybody know if this great detective series has survived?...will be good to see "Kookie" flicking his comb again!!!
Bob
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Post by trevmds on Aug 24, 2004 5:00:42 GMT
Our local public access TV station runs it all the time, along with a lot of other TV shows that must be very cheap to broadcast: Hollywood Palace, Bonanza.. etc
The thing that gets me about 77 Sunset Strip is the ear-splittingly loud finger clicks on the theme tune: "Seventy seven Sunset Strip BANG!!! BANG!!!".. they sound like 2 large planks of wood being smashed together...
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Post by Bob on Aug 24, 2004 6:09:58 GMT
Great!!....I dont suppose there is a chance of a video release?...I have the theme tune on an American WB L.P (1960) soundtrack...i think its pretty cool...agree?... I think there was a Re-run, but that was 20+ years ago....
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Post by John Bisson on Aug 30, 2004 7:24:18 GMT
There was a novelty single made by Ed Byrne a.k.a 'Kookie' called, I think, "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your Comb'. Anybody remember it? It's one of those songs, if that isn't too flattering a description, which unfortunately still sticks in my memory after 40+ years!
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Post by Bob on Aug 30, 2004 8:31:57 GMT
I sure do...I have the WB 45 r.p.m. also "Yulesville"...a Christmas song (1960)....Really Cool!!
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Post by David L White on Aug 30, 2004 11:23:01 GMT
I found this quote in the 16 February, 2004 edition of 'USA Today.
"Warner's Mike Saksa says his company is only now beginning to mine its rich library of classic TV shows. Nearly 30 series have been pegged for DVD release over the next five years, including 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick and F Troop."
Vague, but pretty hopeful!
David
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Post by Bob on Aug 30, 2004 15:45:26 GMT
Dave, I too would love to see a video/D.V.D release, do you hapeen to know how much exists? EG:- the `57` pilot show?....
Bob
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Post by Steven S on Aug 30, 2004 18:35:07 GMT
The entire series exists as far as I know. Unlike UK TV shows, there is not a big problem with missing episodes for US TV shows (In fact, I can't think of a single US TV Show that has missing episodes - although there probably are some somewhere)....
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Post by BOB on Aug 31, 2004 11:18:51 GMT
Great...its funny how the Americans seem to look after their own Archives than the British do....perhaps they have more of an insight into the future?....interesting....
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Post by David Brunt on Aug 31, 2004 14:36:05 GMT
The Johnny Carson-era 'Tonight Show' archive is almost entirely wiped, that covers into the 1980 period...
Only about 2/3 of the Jack Benny Show are in existance. Red Skellton's shows fare even worse, as does Milton Berle.
Several early Jackie Gleason programmes haven't survived.
That's just a few off the top of my head...
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Post by Bob on Aug 31, 2004 17:03:14 GMT
I`m not surprised...you picked 3 of the most boreing shows ever!, they wont be missed!!!
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Post by RMF on Aug 31, 2004 17:11:57 GMT
The Johnny Carson-era 'Tonight Show' archive is almost entirely wiped, that covers into the 1980 period... Not quite. The entire New York run of the "Tonight Show" (pre-1972) is basically gone. Only a few episodes survive of the Steve Allen and Jack Paar versions of the "Tonight Show". Most of the "Today Show" before 1975 is gone. The network news archive of the 1950's and 1960's are in poor shape. NBC and CBS did a poor job at taking care of their soprt programming archives. Most of the DuMont Network's archive was dumped into the East River sometime in the 1950's. Finally, up until 1978 or so, most daytime programming was erased by the networks.
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Post by David Buck on Aug 31, 2004 20:41:12 GMT
There's an appendix in Dick Fiddy's book "Missing believed wiped" given over to missing American television which is a pretty basic list of key material that the museum of television are interested in, amongst the missing material are lost James Dean appearances , early Rod Serling plays etc. And ,believe it or not , the first superbowl from '68
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Post by Bob on Sept 1, 2004 9:54:51 GMT
Just out of interest...Whats Ed Byrne, and other cast members doing now?...all still alive?, I know Byrne has appeared in various things over the years...dont think he can shake off the "Kookie" image....
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Post by Ron on Sept 3, 2004 18:27:22 GMT
I think that primetime tv series in general all survive. I know a lot of the daytime shows, soaps, gameshows, news and sporting events have a lot of missing material. A few years ago someone was trying to find the one missing episode from Dark Shadows and found a warehouse with most of the episodes of Hollywood Squares. I think it was something like 3000 episodes! I am kinda curious as to what soaps dont all survive? I just read where a dvd release of some soaps by year is being considered. It would be kinda hard to release them if they are gone.
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