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Day #20 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge
This is Day #20 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge.
The prompt is A show from your childhood that you enjoyed or remember vividly
I'm going to pick one that I haven't picked in a previous meme.
After school, my best friend and I would race home and watch "Batman" on her big color television set. And in her family room, where she'd get snacks. Her parents worked, so we often had the house to ourselves or if her mom was home - she'd leave us alone to watch.
This was in the 1970s, it was re-runned at 3pm. I didn't tend to see much in evening television series because I was...well in bed by 8:30, and television shows started at 8 on the east coast.
I'm picking this one - because we went all the way up to a gas station to see Batman and Robin in person, and were horribly disappointed, because Robin had an afro, and clearly wasn't Robin.
The prompt is A show from your childhood that you enjoyed or remember vividly
I'm going to pick one that I haven't picked in a previous meme.
After school, my best friend and I would race home and watch "Batman" on her big color television set. And in her family room, where she'd get snacks. Her parents worked, so we often had the house to ourselves or if her mom was home - she'd leave us alone to watch.
This was in the 1970s, it was re-runned at 3pm. I didn't tend to see much in evening television series because I was...well in bed by 8:30, and television shows started at 8 on the east coast.
I'm picking this one - because we went all the way up to a gas station to see Batman and Robin in person, and were horribly disappointed, because Robin had an afro, and clearly wasn't Robin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG2DSFtYbY
ON, KING!
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My former boss loved to say - "see you next week, same bat time, same bat channel."
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We've watched reruns on cable and the show is still very funny, by the way.
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Great opening credits, great wardrobes for both. It was so sophisticated that half of it went over my head. I was 12 in 1965.
I adored the series. I wanted to dress like her, be like her.
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It wasn't that it was outrightly bad, it was just... so much potential lost, especially considering the fanatical (and deserved) devotion the original TV series had created.
If you are COVID-currently into intelligent, well-crafted fluff provided by very talented people, I'd be checking out the originals.
( A quick search indicates Amazon Prime has them available, there are probably other sources. Macnee/Rigg eps start in 1965, which is Season 4. I notice that Amazon states these are in "HD". Not sure what that means, as that didn't exist in the 60s. Aspect ratio would be the old TV 4x3 format, and '65's were in B&W. )
If you do viddy these, by all means let us know what you think!
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Gold doubloons and pieces of eight handed down to Applegate
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Didn't make it as an adult actor though, but he was a great child actor. He was in a lot of Disney films, along with Annette Funnicello, Jodie Foster, and Kurt Russell. Jodie and Kurt were among the few to graduate to major movie star roles.
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I thought they only did The Hardy Boys with Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy, I didn't know Disney did it first.
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More there than at home in the 1970s. When we moved, which was about the time I was 12, that kind of changed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8m9Z010pM4
Mike Mercury looks a mite creepy to me now, re-watching the show's intro, but marionettes in general are a mite creepy to me sometimes. T'wern't back in the day, obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar_(TV_series)
The "Supermarionation" concept itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarionation
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Honestly, I think I may be the only person under the age of 60 doing this meme. LOL!
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;-)