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Post by Jeff Haynes on Apr 20, 2014 2:05:50 GMT
I wish there had been more exchange of programs when they were new. After all, we almost speak English over here.
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Post by Mark P on Apr 20, 2014 4:10:49 GMT
Being born in the late 60s there were a number of US TV shows in B&W being shown in the 1970s and beyond;
Disney's Zorro with Guy Williams The Fugitive The Munsters The Adams Family Whirlybirds aka Copter Patrol Champion the Wonder Horse aka The Adventures of Champion Bewitched Lost in Space Dr Kildare The Beverly Hillbillies The Lone Ranger
Also US TV shows in colour/color that others have mentioned too but also; Tarzan with Ron Ely, Daktari, Garrison's Gorillas, Planet of the Apes (TV), The High Chaparral, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Salvage-1 and The Magician with Bill Bixby.
The trouble these days is trying to decide if classic US TV shows such as; Rawhide, Maverick, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Wanted: Dead or Alive etc... were actually transmitted in the UK or they have just been seen in remakes, DVD or the web. I first saw Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart on holiday in Australia in the early 80s.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Apr 20, 2014 12:07:51 GMT
I know for a fact that Rawhide , Maverick and Gunsmoke were all shown on various itv channels at the time , not sure about Wanted dead or alive.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 17:32:38 GMT
There were no end of U.S. shows on our screens in the '50s through the '70s and beyond. They formed a big part of the landscape of our childhood at that time and most (although not all) of the famous and not-so-famous ones were seen over here: Bewitched, Bilko, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Adams Family, The Fugitive, The Munsters, Batman, Green Acres, Car 54 Where Are You? The Name Of The Game, My Three Sons, Peyton Place, Burke's Law, Hawaii Five O, Cannon, Ironside, Arnie, The Ghost And Mrs Muir, Mission Impossible, Beverley Hillbillies, Bonanza, The Virginian, Lancer, The Wild Wild West, Tarzan, Casey Jones, 77 Sunset Strip, The Greatest Show On Earth, The Invaders, The Rifleman, Branded, The Big Valley, No Time For Sargeants, The F.B.I., Get Smart, Hiram Holiday, He And She, Nanny And The Professor, Gilligan's Island, Run Buddy Run, Longstreet, Deputy Dawg, It Takes A Thief, Here's Lucy, Kung Fu, O'Hara United States Treasury, all the Irwin Allen series, numerous Hanna Barbera cartoons etc. etc.
The list goes on and on and it would be easier to list which ones weren't shown here originally (Honey West and Mod Squad are two examples which spring to mind; Dark Shadows was another but that was a videotaped show and we didn't generally import those here).
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Post by John Green on Apr 20, 2014 18:03:34 GMT
Being born in the late 60s there were a number of US TV shows in B&W being shown in the 1970s and beyond; The trouble these days is trying to decide if classic US TV shows such as; Rawhide, Maverick, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Wanted: Dead or Alive etc... were actually transmitted in the UK or they have just been seen in remakes, DVD or the web. I first saw Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart on holiday in Australia in the early 80s. You'll find that quite a lot of the classic Western shows had annuals issued at Christmas in the UK,since they were shown at the time e.g. www.amazon.co.uk/Rawhide-Annual-1963/dp/B0015O5DPC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398017273&sr=1-1&keywords=rawhide+annual Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart were shown here way back when,too.The Radio Times Comedy Guide gives tx dates.
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Post by Richard Marple on Apr 20, 2014 21:57:39 GMT
My Dad can remember when there was almost a western on each night most weeks from about 1955 to 1975.
Many older BBC shows used a stock track of a cowboy & indian battle for someone watching TV or a film without seeing the screen.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Apr 21, 2014 9:12:23 GMT
Yes tv westerns were very very popular at that time i'm currently watching many of them now, it's fascinating watching Clint Eastwood in Rawhide ,seeing how he played the part of Rowdy Yates and how he acted in the spaghetti westerns ,i think he learnt alot from Eric Fleming who was brilliant as Gil Favour.
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Post by Patrick Coles on Apr 21, 2014 10:31:50 GMT
Look closely and you will see that Rowdy Yates & 'The man with no name' are wearing identical boots - in fact the SAME pair (Clint's own !)
TV Westerns ruled on both USA & UK Television once....but like the buffalo were later doomed to extinction, the final ones were: Bonanza (season 14 - but the shock death of Dan Blocker probably ended it), Gunsmoke (season 20 - by then almost a soap saga centered on guests - normally women & kids - with James Arness by then almost a 'bit player' & very rarely featured as star), 'The Virginian: Men From Shiloh'(season 9),The High Chaparral, Lancer (anyone remember that fine show ?), Alias Smith and Jones (great fun but which had virtually no gunfights & Pete Duel's tragic death was a big blow to the show) and one colour season of Bret Maverick
- all were gone by about 1975 (despite most still getting decent viewing figures) as 'TV Execs' (those clever people who "know about these things" - apparently) decided that 'TV Detectives & cops' were (would be) all the rage and only they, plus a few sci fi shows like bionic folk etc, should continue on in the later seventies (most if not all the popular spy shows had been dropped by then too)
TV Westerns, like fifties Rock & Roll, seemed dogged by a succession of shock deaths of actors still going strong in their careers too which didn't help ! - Ward Bond ('Wagon Train'), Eric Fleming ('Rawhide'), Charles Bickford ('The Virginian'), & later Pete Duel ('Alias Smith and Jones') were all shock losses....while James Stacy ('Lancer') was horribly injured when a drunk driver crashed into his bike (killing his girlfriend) - tho' after the show had ended
- while Lorne Greene, Mike Landon, & Pernell Roberts of 'Bonanza', Doug McClure (of 'The Virginian') & Chuck Connors ('The Rifleman' / 'Branded') all died of cancer - indeed following the passing of James Arness a couple of years back only a few stars of the classic TV Westerns are still with us now...
James Arness & Bruce Boxleitner later were in the mini series 'How The West Was Won' (popular but had to end when Arness needed an operation) but besides the later 'Lonesome Dove' saga that was pretty much it for many years until recent shows like 'Hell on Wheels' & 'Deadwood' (complete with alot of totally uneccessary foul language) have now tried to revive the genre
'Honey West' (played by Anne Francis ) WAS screened here in the UK, it was on ITV in the sixties, but not for very long - it's out on DVD, including the 'Burke's Law' episode (Starring Gene Barry) that first introduced Anne as 'Honey' and led to her own one season show produced by Aaron Spelling.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 10:46:07 GMT
Ah, interesting about Honey West. Didn't know that. A bit like Twilight Zone's blink-and-you-missed-it screenings by Rediffusion in the '60s then!.
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Post by Tom McPhillips on Apr 21, 2014 13:04:29 GMT
One series that no-one has yet mentioned is Hogans Heroes. Thankfully all series are available on US DVD but I'm amazed that no re-runs are to be found. Same goes for the original Raymond Burr "Perry Mason" although that was mentioned earlier.
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Post by John Green on Apr 21, 2014 13:30:35 GMT
The 1959 Bob Hope film 'Alias Jesse James' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gb-Zrf9scE has cameos from quite a few TV and movie Western heroes,in character,though the Maverick cameo was deleted,apparently Hawkeye must have time-traveled a hundred years...
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Post by John Green on Apr 21, 2014 14:08:50 GMT
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Post by Mark P on Apr 21, 2014 18:44:43 GMT
One series that no-one has yet mentioned is Hogans Heroes. Thankfully all series are available on US DVD but I'm amazed that no re-runs are to be found. Same goes for the original Raymond Burr "Perry Mason" although that was mentioned earlier. Mentioned above I first saw both Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart in Oz in the early 80's.
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Post by John Green on Apr 21, 2014 19:08:36 GMT
Hogan's Heroes 168 episodes,of which 68 were shown in the UK. Get Smart 138 episodes of which 30 episodes were shown in the UK. Have I got that right? That's my reading of the 'Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy'.
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Post by Richard Marple on Apr 21, 2014 22:16:42 GMT
Ah, interesting about Honey West. Didn't know that. A bit like Twilight Zone's blink-and-you-missed-it screenings by Rediffusion in the '60s then!. IIRC The Twilight Zone's UK premier was on Border in 1962.
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