Anybody here have early memories of watching TV where they can remember details of scenes, but can't recall the name of the program?
For many years, I would recall watching a TV program where a suspension bridge collapsed in a rainstorm and they showed the debris piled up on the riverbed, as well as a police roadblock stopping people from trying to get to the bridge.
Didn't figure out the title of the program until about five years ago. A friend sent me a YouTube link called 'Thunderbirds Greatest Machines.' Watching the clips of the Martian Space Probe, I was finally able to identify the scenes I remembered as being from the Thunderbirds episode Day of Disaster (which I have since purchased on DVD).
I remember watching a TV show where they killed some guy in an action scene. They end up running some sort of machine over the body which gradually vaporizes it. I want to say that was two?...it freaked me out and I can't for the life of me remember what I was watching.
I remember watching a program as a small child that was a sitcom. Its opening sequence had an escalator in the house that the family lived in.
I remember a TV movie in the late '70s that kept showing an outline of the state of Minnesota at every commercial break.
Also, I remember being horrified when my parents were watching some serious news-type program that showed a child dying. The reporter said the child "will never be seen again."
I remember a show later that had a montage of commercial parodies where people kept getting pies in the face.
Quote from: roadman65 on November 02, 2019, 11:18:25 PM
I remember watching a program as a small child that was a sitcom. Its opening sequence had an escalator in the house that the family lived in.
There was an early-80s sitcom called Silver Spoons, with a pre-teen boy living in a filthy-rich household. I don't remember an escalator, though. Perhaps that was an occasional establishing shot.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 04, 2019, 10:27:13 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 02, 2019, 11:18:25 PM
I remember watching a program as a small child that was a sitcom. Its opening sequence had an escalator in the house that the family lived in.
There was an early-80s sitcom called Silver Spoons, with a pre-teen boy living in a filthy-rich household. I don't remember an escalator, though. Perhaps that was an occasional establishing shot.
It might have been 'Webster'.
This one is super obscure:
I have this memory of a TV show on PBS where this guy is trying to get a magnetic tape recorder (reel-to-real) to work but the tape kept un-spooling.
I'm 90% sure its from an episode of Shining Time Station but in the episodes I've combed through I can't find a scene where this happens.
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on November 04, 2019, 07:58:23 PM
This one is super obscure:
I have this memory of a TV show on PBS where this guy is trying to get a magnetic tape recorder (reel-to-real) to work but the tape kept un-spooling.
I'm 90% sure its from an episode of Shining Time Station but in the episodes I've combed through I can't find a scene where this happens.
I have a memory of one of those 15-minute educational shows on PBS where some kid stepped on a toy dinosaur and broke it, and another kid got mad. I've never been able to find it though.
For years, I remembered one of those shows that featured a boy walking around in a city in Quebec and asking people, "Do you speak English?" I finally found it after 30 years when it appeared on YouTube.
There was some weird animated PBS thing once featuring a lady cleaning a bedroom or something, but the animation style was terrifying and scared me to tears.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 04, 2019, 10:27:13 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 02, 2019, 11:18:25 PM
I remember watching a program as a small child that was a sitcom. Its opening sequence had an escalator in the house that the family lived in.
There was an early-80s sitcom called Silver Spoons, with a pre-teen boy living in a filthy-rich household. I don't remember an escalator, though. Perhaps that was an occasional establishing shot.
Long before Silver Spoon. This was in the 60's that this was out. I was born in 65, so it had to be around the time I remembered bits and pieces. In fact when I was old enough to retain memories, Dick York left Bewiched and Dick Sergeant was already Darrin. In fact in syndication when I first saw Dick York as Darrin, I started to think "Who is this yoyo playing Darrin?" I actually thought Darrin 2 was Darrin 1 and probably the only one in the world who liked Darrin #2 over #1 all cause I saw the second first.
I remember 'The Price Is Right' used to use different number readouts where the 4 contestants bid on prizes. I've seen several websites that say the change happened in 1975, but I know it was later, because I remember the old readouts. I was only 2 in 1975. No way was it before 1976.
Quote from: bandit957 on November 03, 2019, 07:52:51 PM
I remember a show later that had a montage of commercial parodies where people kept getting pies in the face.
I
think that might have been a segment that Johnny Carson did once on
The Tonight Show.
Quote from: GenExpwy on November 05, 2019, 03:23:22 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on November 03, 2019, 07:52:51 PM
I remember a show later that had a montage of commercial parodies where people kept getting pies in the face.
I think that might have been a segment that Johnny Carson did once on The Tonight Show.
It was. I believe one clip even showed several out-takes of one of the
pie-in-the face sequence towards the end... the one where Carson's portraying & parodying Karl Malden's
American Express Traveler's Checks commercials.
"What WILL you Do?"
Quote from: GenExpwy on November 05, 2019, 03:23:22 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on November 03, 2019, 07:52:51 PM
I remember a show later that had a montage of commercial parodies where people kept getting pies in the face.
I think that might have been a segment that Johnny Carson did once on The Tonight Show.
There was one on Carson where a man comes on and says "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about diarrhea." He is promptly booed for bringing up such a perverse topic, and several pies are thrown in his face. This was a shout-out to an actual, infamous Pepto-Bismol commercial that began that way.
I have several, primarily from the early 1970s.
Cartoons:
Two young men are driving, probably at night, on some kind of mission. When they come to an intersection, they can't agree which way to turn. "Left - right - left - right." Cut to a view outside the car as it splits in half, with each car going opposite directions. But true to slapstick protocol, a scene right after showed the (whole again) car turning one direction.
A cartoon where a young man is looking for his brother. After going out the exit (spelled backwards as TIXE) he re-encounteres the "Hurricane roller coaster". He only rides one hill when he is stopped by a group of people that includes his brother.
A cartoon where someone invents a chemical that makes things disappear. A pinch of it is used to escape from some room where people are trapped in at a canrival or a circus, I think. Makes the entire wall vanish.
TV Movies (or more likely old B/W films):
A hapless man is somehow thrown into a cage. He then hears some roars approaching, as a lion marches through a tunnel. He manages to escape by climbing on some boxes in the cave. (P.S. Lions can climb better than people can)
A tornado is wrecking a village. A house is shown "exploding", and shortly after a bridge flies apart. In the calm after the storm, the people quickly set about reconstruction.
Variety show specials (lots of these in the '70s):
Had a skit of a parody of the game show To Tell the Truth, that was all about dental hygiene; it was titled "To Tell the Tooth". The panel had to determine which imposter had all 32 of his teeth, and had questions like how often do you bursh. When called to "Please stand up", the elderly man got up very slowly due to age.
A rather morbid 2-part skit, possibly separated by a commercial. For some reason, a man has to die in order for some other people to get money, inheritance or something. Even a cop agreed it was time for him to go. In the second part, the man is in a bed surrounded by people, one of whom is pointing a rifle right at his chest. I distinctly remember him saying "I shook the bullet right out of my heart!" (If only it were that simple.)
A man and woman are excited about driving a car out of garage. When they get started, a Keystone Cops-like sequence begins where they drive in some unlikely places, including right through a brick wall! They also plow through fence with a gate leading to a forest when the car finally stops (on its own).
From the mid to late '70s, a skit where a little girl refuses to eat her vegetables. At least 3 time montages pass depicting at least 10 years each, and after every one she's still sitting there, grown up but with the same girly clothes and hair ribbons -- and uneated veggies. In the last scene, where a will is being read (and the girl's share is contingent upon eating her vegetables), the lawyer asks why she can't eat the vegetables. "I don't have a fork!"
Game show:
A '68 or '69 show where the host occasionally yelled "10 points!" to applause. Less often he would yell "A hundred points!"
I remember a TV movie around 1980 where a man blows a giant bubble with bubble gum and floats into the sky to rescue some people.
All these from many years ago, when I was a wee lad:
* car drives past a "falling rocks" sign. Sure enough, rocks fall! The passengers get out of the dented car and there are snakes on the ground (no warning sign for those).
* British (I think) horror movie that ends in a meadow with everyone except main character turned to stone.
* cartoon with a swarm of mosquitoes tormenting a dog. Outside the house, they form a fist and knock on the door. The dog answers, and it's mosquitoes.
Quote from: bandit957 on November 04, 2019, 08:02:42 PM
I have a memory of one of those 15-minute educational shows on PBS where some kid stepped on a toy dinosaur and broke it, and another kid got mad. I've never been able to find it though.
I strongly suspect that it's from an episode of Inside-OUT.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLllZn0B_ivULC4zmD798Q1K3zFV51RNjh (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLllZn0B_ivULC4zmD798Q1K3zFV51RNjh)
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 05, 2019, 11:01:07 PMThere was one on Carson where a man comes on and says "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about diarrhea." He is promptly booed for bringing up such a perverse topic, and several pies are thrown in his face. This was a shout-out to an actual, infamous Pepto-Bismol commercial that began that way.
When I first saw that Carson clip, I was on the floor laughing... especially since I knew the actual commercial he was parodying as well.
Quote from: bandit957 on November 04, 2019, 08:02:42 PM
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on November 04, 2019, 07:58:23 PM
This one is super obscure:
I have this memory of a TV show on PBS where this guy is trying to get a magnetic tape recorder (reel-to-real) to work but the tape kept un-spooling.
I'm 90% sure its from an episode of Shining Time Station but in the episodes I've combed through I can't find a scene where this happens.
I have a memory of one of those 15-minute educational shows on PBS where some kid stepped on a toy dinosaur and broke it, and another kid got mad. I've never been able to find it though.
For years, I remembered one of those shows that featured a boy walking around in a city in Quebec and asking people, "Do you speak English?" I finally found it after 30 years when it appeared on YouTube.
I have some memories of these kinds of shows being shown on my two local PBS stations (KMOS-TV Ch. 6, Sedalia\Warrensburg, MO & KCPT-TV Ch. 19, Kansas City, MO.). Some of which I remember (All Fit with Slim Goodbody & Take A Look.), others of which I later found out what the names were (Read All About It, The Magic Library & The Write Channel.).
Some other shows like those that I remember vague details about include a show about kids who gathered together in what I think was supposed to be a wooden shed that they used as a clubhouse, I also remember that one of the kids was an alien from space that lived in the shed, who for some reason could not leave it. A couple of other shows like these that I vaguely remember were one that had a pink fairy with a talking teddy bear & another show that had a bunch of people in full size animal costumes (EDIT: I think this may have been a show called Amigos, because it's logo looks familiar & it does have one person in a full body animal costume.).
Most of these Instructional Television shows were produced by TVOntario, Mississippi ETV (Now Mississippi Public Broadcasting.) & the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT.).
Some other things that I remember seeing were some Made-for-TV disaster movies in the mid-90s' on ABC that were presented as live TV news reports, as well as some other Made-for-TV movies on on the old family network PAX TV, including one that had Richard Thomas & (I think.) Connie Sellecca as parents who find out that their teenage son has secretly been watching naughty videos & how they dealt with it (This may have been the movies B-plot.)., another one where a devastating storm attacks the fictional town of Rutland, MO every 100 years, & another movie that had Gerald McRaney as a stormchaser trying to alert a Oklahoma town about impending severe weather (EDIT: I just found out that this Made-for-TV movie is called "Tornado Warning" & that it aired on TV in 2002.).
I don't know if these Made-for-TV movies were PAX TV originals, or if they had aired somewhere else first.
Quote from: kurumi on November 05, 2019, 11:31:14 PM* cartoon with a swarm of mosquitoes tormenting a dog. Outside the house, they form a fist and knock on the door. The dog answers, and it's mosquitoes.
I believe such was from an old Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
Quote from: PHLBOS on November 07, 2019, 01:25:29 PM
Quote from: kurumi on November 05, 2019, 11:31:14 PM* cartoon with a swarm of mosquitoes tormenting a dog. Outside the house, they form a fist and knock on the door. The dog answers, and it's mosquitoes.
I believe such was from an old Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
I recall that the gag, with variations (usually substituting bees for mosquitos), appeared in some Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons as well.
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on November 07, 2019, 10:07:54 PM
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
Speed Racer, maybe?
Quote from: RobbieL2415 on November 12, 2019, 04:25:30 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on November 07, 2019, 10:07:54 PM
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
Speed Racer, maybe?
Speed Racer first ran circa 1967-1968 & ErmineNotyours didn't mention that such was a cartoon.
There was a commercial I saw on the AFN network while living in Germany (I was six or seven). Later on, I only remembered three things about it: it was an Air Force commercial, there was a tanker-size jet landing vertically on something, and the VTOL jet turned into a current Air Force plane at the end. This memory assisted in my creation of a superhero fantasy with VTOL cargo jets, laser guns, infinite dimensions, giant space battleships, etc. all with me as the "superhero." (It's kind of like Iron Man though- without the technology, I'm just a normal person.) Eight years after leaving Germany, Youtube randomly threw the full commercial video in my recommended after a few Google searches of "VTOL cargo jet."
The movie that ended with the Eifel Tower collapsing from a dim wit who accidentally fired a bazooka that was positioned under it. It was meant to be fired away from the tower, but it got aimed up into it like a Coyote mistake in the road runner cartoon. Do not know what movie that was but NBC aired it many times when I was very young.
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on November 07, 2019, 10:07:54 PM
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
Knight Rider? Though that was early '80s.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 12, 2019, 10:13:04 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on November 07, 2019, 10:07:54 PM
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
Knight Rider? Though that was early '80s.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083437/
Quote from: Route66Fan on November 07, 2019, 05:51:41 AM
another show that had a bunch of people in full size animal costumes (EDIT: I think this may have been a show called Amigos, because it's logo looks familiar & it does have one person in a full body animal costume.).
The New Zoo Revue? The 3 animals were a hippo, a frog, and an owl.
Quote from: Route66Fan on November 07, 2019, 05:51:41 AM
Some other things that I remember seeing were some Made-for-TV disaster movies in the mid-90s' on ABC that were presented as live TV news reports,
One famous example was titled "Special Bulletin" from 1983, which had a news crew interviewing a terrorist in Charleston, SC. The show was videotaped in the same manner as TV news. Worried people called into the TV stations when it aired, despite it being a fictitious news network (RBS), and at least one disclaimer with a commercial.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 12, 2019, 10:19:18 PM
Quote from: Route66Fan on November 07, 2019, 05:51:41 AM
another show that had a bunch of people in full size animal costumes (EDIT: I think this may have been a show called Amigos, because it's logo looks familiar & it does have one person in a full body animal costume.).
The New Zoo Revue? The 3 animals were a hippo, a frog, and an owl.
Quote from: Route66Fan on November 07, 2019, 05:51:41 AM
Some other things that I remember seeing were some Made-for-TV disaster movies in the mid-90s' on ABC that were presented as live TV news reports,
One famous example was titled "Special Bulletin" from 1983, which had a news crew interviewing a terrorist in Charleston, SC. The show was videotaped in the same manner as TV news. Worried people called into the TV stations when it aired, despite it being a fictitious news network (RBS), and at least one disclaimer with a commercial.
There was also that miniseries that ABC aired about a widespread ICBM attack.
Quote from: roadman65 on November 12, 2019, 09:27:48 PM
The movie that ended with the Eifel Tower collapsing from a dim wit who accidentally fired a bazooka that was positioned under it. It was meant to be fired away from the tower, but it got aimed up into it like a Coyote mistake in the road runner cartoon. Do not know what movie that was but NBC aired it many times when I was very young.
The Great Race, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The cannon misfiring and causing a structure to collapse was a running gag throughout the movie.
Quote from: roadman on November 13, 2019, 11:10:05 AM
The Great Race, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The cannon misfiring and causing a structure to collapse was a running gag throughout the movie.
This is the movie that had a huge pie fight that took days to film, causing the pies to spoil and stink up the whole room.
Quote from: bandit957 on November 13, 2019, 11:12:11 AM
Quote from: roadman on November 13, 2019, 11:10:05 AM
The Great Race, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood. The cannon misfiring and causing a structure to collapse was a running gag throughout the movie.
This is the movie that had a huge pie fight that took days to film, causing the pies to spoil and stink up the whole room.
It also had what in my opinion was one of the best Western saloon fight scenes ever filmed.
I know I mentioned this before, but I remember back around 1983 when I was about 10, I saw a movie on cable that had a hilarious scene, but I can't identify the movie. I think it was a "horror comedy", but I don't think it was 'Creepshow'. In this movie, a family's house burned down, so they went to a hotel. We see them eating at the hotel restaurant, and the kid puts a piece of food into his mouth and lets it drop out of his mouth onto his plate.
I burst out laughing when I saw this, but I have no idea what movie this was.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 05, 2019, 11:01:07 PMThere was one on Carson where a man comes on and says "Hi, I'd like to talk to you about diarrhea." He is promptly booed for bringing up such a perverse topic, and several pies are thrown in his face. This was a shout-out to an actual, infamous Pepto-Bismol commercial that began that way.
Found a video clip for that one while replying on another thread.
Pardon the grainy quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRSLRn0MHAU
I remember something else weird I saw on TV in the early '80s. There was a segment where people did the "hot fork trick." They were at a diner, and they heated the forks with a flame, so customers burned themselves when they used them.
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on November 07, 2019, 10:07:54 PM
There was a 1970s drama, slightly futuristic, that showed a car with a dash-mounted screen with an artificial map and the current location on it. I knew this was just a TV show, but as soon as they come out, I WANT ONE!
It could be "Automan", but that was late 83 into 1984.
Quote from: roadman on November 07, 2019, 09:32:34 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on November 07, 2019, 01:25:29 PM
Quote from: kurumi on November 05, 2019, 11:31:14 PM* cartoon with a swarm of mosquitoes tormenting a dog. Outside the house, they form a fist and knock on the door. The dog answers, and it's mosquitoes.
I believe such was from an old Huckleberry Hound cartoon.
I recall that the gag, with variations (usually substituting bees for mosquitos), appeared in some Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons as well.
I was going to mention "The Pink Tail Fly" a William Lava (also known as Bill Lava) theatrical animated short film of Pink Panther.
It is not a swarm of mosquitoes. It is only one Mosquito. However, one scene had Pink ignoring the knocks on the door. The mosquito (again only the one mosquito) threw a brick through the window.
Quote from: bandit957 on November 05, 2019, 11:14:40 PM
I remember a TV movie around 1980 where a man blows a giant bubble with bubble gum and floats into the sky to rescue some people.
After all these years, I just found out the name of this movie today. It was called 'Super Fuzz'.
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 05, 2019, 11:09:02 PM
I have several, primarily from the early 1970s.
From the mid to late '70s, a skit where a little girl refuses to eat her vegetables. At least 3 time montages pass depicting at least 10 years each, and after every one she's still sitting there, grown up but with the same girly clothes and hair ribbons -- and uneated veggies. In the last scene, where a will is being read (and the girl's share is contingent upon eating her vegetables), the lawyer asks why she can't eat the vegetables. "I don't have a fork!"
I think this either was on Saturday Night Live (with the original 1975-80 cast, Most likely) or a skit from the first 78 Episodes of Big Blue Marble (not as likely). I do remember in the first 78 shows of Big Blue Marble (74-77) had skits of kids playing and something funny or weird happening to them. Anyone have memories of watching one skit with a boy (about 9 or 10) set in a bowling alley and the when the boy goes to release his ball at the line, he is pulled over the line by his ball and goes down to the pins for a strike? Or a skit with a girl who when she goes to blow some bubble gum, she blows some bubbles out of her ears?
In the late '70s/early '80s, there were segments on TV shows about bubble gum all the time.
There was a movie shown one afternoon where they have a man tied to a chair, and they threaten to play at him rock music, the same songs over and over again. The man says, "I like hearing the same songs over and over again," so they lower something over his head and they play typical fake Hollywood "rock and roll" made by movie's composer because they don't care enough to license real songs or make new ones that sound remotely like real rock music.
At the time, my dad was a janitor at a grade school, and he would take home 16mm film catalogs that distributors would send to the school to get them to order films for events. In that pre-internet time, this was a handy resource for finding out more about movies on TV. This movie was listed as being in black & white, but it clearly seemed to be in color. Only now that I looked closer, it had a strong blue cast to it. You could still see flesh tones and other colors, but it was not well balanced. I later figured it was intended to be printed in black and white for theatrical distribution, but future-proofed in color for television. They didn't particularly care if it was properly timed, and so it wasn't. Now I want to know more about this movie.
I remember around 1980 when I was in elementary school, they showed us a film about safety around railroads. It looked like a fairly recent (maybe 1970s) film. At the end, there was a terrifying scene where a motorist (a young man, if I recall correctly) plowed his car into a moving train. Apparently, he was killed. The scene faded into a weird visual effect.
I'd love to be able to find this film on YouTube.
Quote from: bandit957 on December 27, 2019, 10:20:28 PM
In the late '70s/early '80s, there were segments on TV shows about bubble gum all the time.
I don't remember seeing a lot of the bubblegum skits. Maybe the one with the bubbles coming out of the girl's ears was the one that stood out for me. Other than the one skit with the boy who gets pulled by his bowling ball while bowling and at the end appears to awaiting to be sent into the pinsetter (that i remember and wanted to be the boy from the skit whenever i went bowling), I don't remember if there was other skits with kids at the bowling alley.
Quote from: Route66Fan on November 07, 2019, 05:51:41 AM
Some other things that I remember seeing were some Made-for-TV disaster movies in the mid-90s' on ABC that were presented as live TV news reports,
One famous example was titled "Special Bulletin" from 1983, which had a news crew interviewing a terrorist in Charleston, SC. The show was videotaped in the same manner as TV news. Worried people called into the TV stations when it aired, despite it being a fictitious news network (RBS), and at least one disclaimer with a commercial.
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There was also that miniseries that ABC aired about a widespread ICBM attack.
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That miniseries was called "The Day After", & was filmed on location in Missouri & Kansas, In fact in one scene where you see Steve Guttenburg's character walking towards the town of Harrisonville, MO, you can actually see a real North MO 7 sign assembly behind him.
There was a show on CBS running up against Sanford and Son on CBS with a theme song about working to be a family isn't easy. It did not last a full season, but it was on the 74 season lineup on Fridays.
Quote from: roadman65 on December 31, 2019, 12:28:12 AM
There was a show on CBS running up against Sanford and Son on CBS with a theme song about working to be a family isn't easy. It did not last a full season, but it was on the 74 season lineup on Fridays.
I found Calucci's Department (fall of the 1973 season) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069571/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0, Dirty Sally (mid season winter/spring replacement in 1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070983/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4 and Planet of the Apes (fall of the 1974 season) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071033/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_9. Calucci's Department may be the show you're thinking of.
Found through http://www.tvtango.com/ > On TV > TV Listings: Past and Present
I was 3 at the time, but I think Sanford And Son was on NBC, not CBS.
One night I was staying at my grandmother's. When I stayed at her place back then I slept on a pull-out sofa bed. Anyway we were watching TV on an old console TV and just before it was time to go to bed she turned it off and there was some show coming on that was color but looked really old even back then (early 90s). I think it was probably Barney Miller, although I never discovered that show until recent years. It looked like some tall buildings and an ocean with funky theme playing which fits the intro of that show.
Oh, also on a PBS channel I used to watch when I was growing up (WUSF which is now defunct), they used to show an animated segment between shows sometimes. There was one about this house that had a robotic dog, and another about a dishwasher. Probably just some things the graphic design department at USF came up with.
It wasn't animated, but I remember the PBS "Stay Curious" blurb where someone put a running HDD recorder in a plastic bag, put it in a dishwasher, and turned the dishwasher on. They then showed the recorded footage of the dishwasher operating.
Quote from: crt08 on January 12, 2020, 07:59:30 PM
One night I was staying at my grandmother's. When I stayed at her place back then I slept on a pull-out sofa bed. Anyway we were watching TV on an old console TV and just before it was time to go to bed she turned it off and there was some show coming on that was color but looked really old even back then (early 90s). I think it was probably Barney Miller, although I never discovered that show until recent years. It looked like some tall buildings and an ocean with funky theme playing which fits the intro of that show.
Oh, also on a PBS channel I used to watch when I was growing up (WUSF which is now defunct), they used to show an animated segment between shows sometimes. There was one about this house that had a robotic dog, and another about a dishwasher. Probably just some things the graphic design department at USF came up with.
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used. The music is by Jack Elliott and Allyn Ferguson. They also did music for The Rookies and Charlies Angels. Both of these programmes have much higher budget and better cameras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II71tmVsKrE
Quote from: roadman on January 14, 2020, 09:23:03 AM
It wasn't animated, but I remember the PBS "Stay Curious" blurb where someone put a running HDD recorder in a plastic bag, put it in a dishwasher, and turned the dishwasher on. They then showed the recorded footage of the dishwasher operating.
Of course. I remember it also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3Zx4mUZAk
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
'Emergency', on the other hand. A few years ago, one of the rerun networks on one of the digital subchannels had 'Emergency', and each episode looked like the film was ripped to shreds. Did this show really look this bad when it first aired? I was too young to remember seeing it when it was new.
The Archie's TV Funnies on Saturday Morning Cartoons I think had a Dick Tracy Cartoon as part of it.
I could have sworn there was a Saturday morning cartoon in the '70s that featured Johnny Appleseed as a character. For years, I thought Johnny Appleseed was just a cartoon character.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 18, 2020, 12:01:49 PM
The Archie's TV Funnies on Saturday Morning Cartoons I think had a Dick Tracy Cartoon as part of it.
Never saw the cartoon but the writeup says the gang did variations of comic strips. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066629/
During the non-news commercial breaks when I was a kid, what used to be called WTVT "Eyewitness News" (in 1997 they became a FOX affiliate so are now FOX 13 news) used to show the radar for a few seconds with a voiceover "here's a current view of Skytower Doppler Radar." Remember when stations used to do that? Anyway there would be a little image of the Skytower building at the bottom, and I couldn't read at the time but I knew it looked like a lowercase "i" which I never understood the purpose of. For some reason I remember thinking it must have had something to do with Howard Shapiro who was a meteorologist at that station. For some reason the little "i" also used to scare me during those segments. Recently I saw YouTube clips of that segment and now I finally realized what it was after all these years.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
The show first came out in early 1975. I believe a couple early episodes featured a
1974 copyright date (corresponding to when such was filmed). The imagery during its first season, which was actually a half-season*, did appear a bit grainy even when it originally aired.
*This half-season's credits featured the NYC skyline w/the Empire State Building (opening only) with a darker blue background.
Quote from: Terry on January 18, 2020, 12:13:52 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 18, 2020, 12:01:49 PM
The Archie's TV Funnies on Saturday Morning Cartoons I think had a Dick Tracy Cartoon as part of it.
Never saw the cartoon but the writeup says the gang did variations of comic strips. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066629/
I remember that show very well. Such usually aired later on Saturday mornings. Many of the comic strips the show presented were indeed still in the Sunday newspapers at the show's original airings.
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 02:56:22 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
The show first came out in early 1975. I believe a couple early episodes featured a 1974 copyright date (corresponding to when such was filmed). The imagery during its first season, which was actually a half-season*, did appear a bit grainy even when it originally aired.
*This half-season's credits featured the NYC skyline w/the Empire State Building (opening only) with a darker blue background.
Quote from: Terry on January 18, 2020, 12:13:52 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 18, 2020, 12:01:49 PM
The Archie's TV Funnies on Saturday Morning Cartoons I think had a Dick Tracy Cartoon as part of it.
Never saw the cartoon but the writeup says the gang did variations of comic strips. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066629/
I remember that show very well. Such usually aired later on Saturday mornings. Many of the comic strips the show presented were indeed still in the Sunday newspapers at the show's original airings.
That is be cause Barney Miller did not use Film. They used Magnetic Tape. Just look at the difference from Taxi. It was filmed, but the opening and closing is other wise not that different from Barney Miller's opening and closing. They shot them outdoors, both in New York City, and Taxi's usual opening segment is looped.
I notice that music videos seemed to have switched from one kind of filming to another sometime in 1982.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 21, 2020, 03:21:29 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 02:56:22 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
The show first came out in early 1975. I believe a couple early episodes featured a 1974 copyright date (corresponding to when such was filmed). The imagery during its first season, which was actually a half-season*, did appear a bit grainy even when it originally aired.
*This half-season's credits featured the NYC skyline w/the Empire State Building (opening only) with a darker blue background.
...
That is be cause Barney Miller did not use Film. They used Magnetic Tape. Just look at the difference from Taxi. It was filmed, but the opening and closing is other wise not that different from Barney Miller's opening and closing. They shot them outdoors, both in New York City, and Taxi's usual opening segment is looped.
The first season of the
Newhart series was videotaped whereas the 2nd and subsequent seasons of the show were filmed. One can clearly see the difference between the two mediums with that show.
That's why really old black and white movies and TV shows come over in full modern high-def - the film itself is high-def.
:popcorn:
Those shows really did lose a lot when they started recording them on old style low-def NTSC videotape.
:no:
Mike
Anyone remember the "CBS Special Presentation" logo that swirled around and had this "clankity-clank" music?
In 1974 on CBS on Fridays a family sitcom aired. Do not remember the name, but the theme song was sung by a kid and an older man. I remember some of the lines were "Working together to be a family isn't easy." and it was on up against Sanford and Son at the time.
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 04:02:06 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 21, 2020, 03:21:29 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 02:56:22 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
The show first came out in early 1975. I believe a couple early episodes featured a 1974 copyright date (corresponding to when such was filmed). The imagery during its first season, which was actually a half-season*, did appear a bit grainy even when it originally aired.
*This half-season's credits featured the NYC skyline w/the Empire State Building (opening only) with a darker blue background.
...
That is be cause Barney Miller did not use Film. They used Magnetic Tape. Just look at the difference from Taxi. It was filmed, but the opening and closing is other wise not that different from Barney Miller's opening and closing. They shot them outdoors, both in New York City, and Taxi's usual opening segment is looped.
The first season of the Newhart series was videotaped whereas the 2nd and subsequent seasons of the show were filmed. One can clearly see the difference between the two mediums with that show.
Even more jarring is
Doctor Who (and other British shows) from the 1960s and '70s. Outdoor scenes were always on film, while videotape was always used in the studio, so it would go back and forth in a single scene.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 21, 2020, 11:32:39 PM
In 1974 on CBS on Fridays a family sitcom aired. Do not remember the name, but the theme song was sung by a kid and an older man. I remember some of the lines were "Working together to be a family isn't easy." and it was on up against Sanford and Son at the time.
It was called
We'll Get By (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Get_By), and the line you're thinking of from
the theme song (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/wellgetby.wav) is actually "learning to be a family isn't easy". It only lasted one season and aired immediately after Sanford and Son. During the 1974-5 TV season, Sanford and Son aired on NBC from 8:00 to 8:30 on Fridays, and We'll Get By aired on CBS from 8:30 PM to 9:00 PM on Fridays.
People on the Internet say the NBC affiliate in Des Moines always delayed 'Sanford & Son' to some ungodly hour by using a tape delay. Most of the time, the tape would break, and they'd end up showing 'Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom' anyway.
Quote from: bandit957 on January 21, 2020, 11:23:58 PM
Anyone remember the "CBS Special Presentation" logo that swirled around and had this "clankity-clank" music?
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4_d_6A8nE0
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:40:57 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 21, 2020, 11:32:39 PM
In 1974 on CBS on Fridays a family sitcom aired. Do not remember the name, but the theme song was sung by a kid and an older man. I remember some of the lines were "Working together to be a family isn't easy." and it was on up against Sanford and Son at the time.
It was called We'll Get By (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Get_By), and the line you're thinking of from the theme song (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/wellgetby.wav) is actually "learning to be a family isn't easy". It only lasted one season and aired immediately after Sanford and Son. During the 1974-5 TV season, Sanford and Son aired on NBC from 8:00 to 8:30 on Fridays, and We'll Get By aired on CBS from 8:30 PM to 9:00 PM on Fridays.
I do somewhat remember watching that show as a kid when it aired. I didn't realize that it was created by Alan Alda.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 03:21:11 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 21, 2020, 11:23:58 PM
Anyone remember the "CBS Special Presentation" logo that swirled around and had this "clankity-clank" music?
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4_d_6A8nE0
And the theme came from the 1968 Hawaii Five-0 soundtrack (this is the full track "Call to Danger")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-zi3texPEE
Quote from: GenExpwy on January 22, 2020, 03:53:46 AM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 04:02:06 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 21, 2020, 03:21:29 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on January 21, 2020, 02:56:22 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 14, 2020, 10:54:24 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 14, 2020, 10:50:46 PM
The reason why Barney Miller looks very old is be cause of the very low quality cameras that they used.
Every time I stumble upon 'Barney Miller' on YouTube, I always think it was filmed just yesterday. It seems like the filming techniques had pretty good quality.
I was shocked to discover that an episode I found was from 1976!
The show first came out in early 1975. I believe a couple early episodes featured a 1974 copyright date (corresponding to when such was filmed). The imagery during its first season, which was actually a half-season*, did appear a bit grainy even when it originally aired.
*This half-season's credits featured the NYC skyline w/the Empire State Building (opening only) with a darker blue background.
...
That is be cause Barney Miller did not use Film. They used Magnetic Tape. Just look at the difference from Taxi. It was filmed, but the opening and closing is other wise not that different from Barney Miller's opening and closing. They shot them outdoors, both in New York City, and Taxi's usual opening segment is looped.
The first season of the Newhart series was videotaped whereas the 2nd and subsequent seasons of the show were filmed. One can clearly see the difference between the two mediums with that show.
Even more jarring is Doctor Who (and other British shows) from the 1960s and '70s. Outdoor scenes were always on film, while videotape was always used in the studio, so it would go back and forth in a single scene.
Several of 'Allo 'Allo! credits have a Film Editor and a Video Tape Editor in the same episode.
Most of the time Keeping Up Appearances, not much newer than 'Allo 'Allo! was Magnetic Taped.
They Filmed Missing Persons and also Filmed Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:40:57 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 21, 2020, 11:32:39 PM
In 1974 on CBS on Fridays a family sitcom aired. Do not remember the name, but the theme song was sung by a kid and an older man. I remember some of the lines were "Working together to be a family isn't easy." and it was on up against Sanford and Son at the time.
It was called We'll Get By (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ll_Get_By), and the line you're thinking of from the theme song (https://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/wellgetby.wav) is actually "learning to be a family isn't easy". It only lasted one season and aired immediately after Sanford and Son. During the 1974-5 TV season, Sanford and Son aired on NBC from 8:00 to 8:30 on Fridays, and We'll Get By aired on CBS from 8:30 PM to 9:00 PM on Fridays.
Thanks. And did not realize Paul Sorvino was the star of the show. Yes, I remember it ran for one season only. There were many over time that did and CBS had its share like with Doc starring Bernard Hughes, which could have lasted longer if CBS let the producers do their jobs as the production staff was asked by the network to fire the supporting cast of the show and hire a new support. That proved bad and loyal viewers did not adapt to the program and it lasted only a few episodes beyond the first season.
Then Joe & Sons (another NJ family) was another one season show, but had two actors that lasted in their careers. Florence Stanley, who went on to be Berniece on Barney Miller, and the Judge on My Two Dads; and Jerry Stiller who made many supporting roles and a bunch of different sitcoms since leading up to Seinfeld and King of Queens. Richard Costalano, was famous from the Godfather, but do not remember any other roles that he had anywhere else.
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 10:31:55 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
Emphasis added to reinforce what I found doubtful.
Quote from: roadman65 on January 22, 2020, 09:10:11 PMThen Joe & Sons (another NJ family) was another one season show, but had two actors that lasted in their careers. Florence Stanley, who went on to be Berniece on Barney Miller, and the Judge on My Two Dads; and Jerry Stiller who made many supporting roles and a bunch of different sitcoms since leading up to Seinfeld and King of Queens. Richard Costalano, was famous from the Godfather, but do not remember any other roles that he had anywhere else.
I watched & remember that show as well. The actors that played the kids, Barry Miller & Jimmy Baio, would later appear in other subsequent TV shows and even movies (
Saturday Night Fever for Miller). I actually liked that show and was a bit surprised when the series was cancelled. It was replaced with another short-lived show called
Popi, a spin-off of the 1969 movie baring the same title.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 10:31:55 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
When it comes to breakage potential during use, movie film is less durable than magnetic tape.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 05:05:02 PM
Several of 'Allo 'Allo! credits have a Film Editor and a Video Tape Editor in the same episode.
Most of the time Keeping Up Appearances, not much newer than 'Allo 'Allo! was Magnetic Taped.
They Filmed Missing Persons and also Filmed Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
It always seemed to me the final season or so (about 1994-95) of Keeping Up Appearances must have been filmed differently, because the scenes seem brighter and have more vibrant colors than earlier ones.
Quote from: roadman on January 23, 2020, 04:45:53 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 10:31:55 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
When it comes to breakage potential during use, movie film is less durable than magnetic tape.
It is magnetic tape. It will malfunction in many other ways, not just breakage.
Quote from: In_Correct on January 23, 2020, 08:36:05 PM
Quote from: roadman on January 23, 2020, 04:45:53 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 10:31:55 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
When it comes to breakage potential during use, movie film is less durable than magnetic tape.
It is magnetic tape. It will malfunction in many other ways, not just breakage.
But not "most of the time" "the NBC affiliate in Des Moines" aired the show.
I swear there was a commercial in the early '80s where a woman thanks Phillips Petroleum for preventing her face from falling off. I've never been able to find it on YouTube.
Quote from: kphoger on January 24, 2020, 01:21:29 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 23, 2020, 08:36:05 PM
Quote from: roadman on January 23, 2020, 04:45:53 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on January 22, 2020, 10:31:55 PM
Quote from: kphoger on January 22, 2020, 09:55:35 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on January 22, 2020, 09:46:13 AM
Most of the time, the tape would break
highly doubtful
I find it highly likely. It is Magnetic Tape after all. Hopefully they had a backup copy.
When it comes to breakage potential during use, movie film is less durable than magnetic tape.
It is magnetic tape. It will malfunction in many other ways, not just breakage.
But not "most of the time" "the NBC affiliate in Des Moines" aired the show.
In high school in Kent, Washington, I had a teacher who previously lived in Utah. He said he could be watching a TV show and there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States. Later I heard about KSL, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, owned by Bonneville International, owned by the Mormon Church. They completely ban some shows, such as Saturday Night Live, and it's possible they edit other shows. They're in the Mountain Time Zone, so they have to record off the Eastern feed and tape (now digital) delay the shows themselves to start network prime time at seven. That gives management time to preview the shows for editing. Bonneville used to own the CBS affiliate in Seattle, but I don't recall such practices here, though they did have a very conservative commentator, Lloyd Cooney.
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on January 28, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
In high school in Kent, Washington, I had a teacher who previously lived in Utah. He said he could be watching a TV show and there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States.
I believe it, after seeing Cincinnati stations and even our local cable company do the same thing.
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on January 28, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States.
Sounds exactly like what happens several times in most every Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon I've seen.
In the early 1970s, WBAY was owned by the Catholic Diocese. It made a controversial decision not to show Maude's abortion episode. Episode in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmInvlWbmqI
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Quote from: ErmineNotyours on January 28, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States.
Sounds exactly like what happens several times in most every Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon I've seen.
and There was also a scene in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where they cut out the scene where Bugs and Sam was about to play Russian Roulette that was cut (Ballot Box Bunny). I remember seeing that scene once when WKBD-Detroit aired some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons in the mid-70s. I don't know if it slipped out or they was using film at the time and didn't cut the film at the end (the scene was at the end of the cartoon).
https://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2013/06/saturday_night_live_will_be_ai.html
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Quote from: roadman on January 28, 2020, 03:45:56 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on January 28, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States.
Sounds exactly like what happens several times in most every Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon I've seen.
and There was also a scene in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where they cut out the scene where Bugs and Sam was about to play Russian Roulette that was cut (Ballot Box Bunny). I remember seeing that scene once when WKBD-Detroit aired some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons in the mid-70s. I don't know if it slipped out or they was using film at the time and didn't cut the film at the end (the scene was at the end of the cartoon).
In the original cartoon, the scene was blacked out as Sam pulled the trigger. It then reappeared to show that Sam had missed.
Quote from: roadman on January 29, 2020, 10:35:52 AM
Quote from: cwf1701 on January 28, 2020, 09:42:27 PM
Quote from: roadman on January 28, 2020, 03:45:56 PM
Quote from: ErmineNotyours on January 28, 2020, 02:48:21 PM
there would be an action scene that kept getting more and more intense, and then the screen would just go black. I highly doubted that would happen in the United States.
Sounds exactly like what happens several times in most every Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon I've seen.
and There was also a scene in a Bugs Bunny cartoon where they cut out the scene where Bugs and Sam was about to play Russian Roulette that was cut (Ballot Box Bunny). I remember seeing that scene once when WKBD-Detroit aired some of the Bugs Bunny cartoons in the mid-70s. I don't know if it slipped out or they was using film at the time and didn't cut the film at the end (the scene was at the end of the cartoon).
In the original cartoon, the scene was blacked out as Sam pulled the trigger. It then reappeared to show that Sam had missed.
I think i do remember some airings in the 1980s of this cartoon, the cartoon ended on some broadcasts before the scene where Bugs and Sam goes to play Russian Roulette (the scene where the town has a parade which a horse was paraded as being "Our New Mayre").
"New Mayre?"
"Dark Horse?" (the horse was black)
I have a funny TV memory, but I know what show it was.
Once when I was about 8, we were at my grandparents' house, and they were watching '60 Minutes'. The show had a feature where they read letters from viewers over the air. One of the correspondents read one of the letters that said something about "damn dumb football games."
I burst out laughing!
Also, anyone remember a weird, creepy commercial that always aired during '60 Minutes', probably in the mid-'90s? It consisted of people talking to a man at a desk, but the desk was in an elevator. An elevator door kept opening and closing in front of the desk. Remember this creepy ad?
Another early TV memory. I think this one is '60 Minutes' or some other show like that.
Once when I was about 4, I was in the living room when my dad was watching some news-style program on TV. They did some scary segment that showed some little kid dying. It showed someone putting a blanket or sheet over the kid when they died.
It was terrifying!
Another scary thing is when hosts of game shows or performance shows said to viewers right before a commercial break, "Don't go away." That scared me because I was afraid people might "go away" and not come back.
Here is one that seems to be universally lost to time. I remember watching a movie on some random cable channel back in the 80s about a kid who gets abducted by aliens after playing and mastering a Simon style game. Nobody seems to have a copy or even know what the name of the movie or series was.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139739/1980s-tv-episode-about-a-simon-says-game-leading-to-alien-abduction
Other memories were mostly of early Nickelodeon airing Pinwheel which aired shorts from various international children's programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_(TV_series)
I thought of a funny one where I can't identify the show.
Back around 1983 or 1984, there was a sitcom where a man complained that an item got "lost in the damn Christmas mail." For the life of me, I can't identify the show.
I remember a couple more weird things.
Back around 1986, there was a commercial for a wristwatch. It might have been one of those disposable wristwatches they advertised back then. The commercial featured a reggae jingle where a guy kept yelling out something that sounded like "Oom rallo!" I know it sounds vaguely like the Spanish term for "a watch", but not quite.
I also remember a commersh back when I was about 4 for some baby wipes or something. It was a cartoon of a talking baby who kept pulling the wipes out of the canister and talking about lanolin. It's one of very few places I've ever heard lanolin ever mentioned anywhere.
Also, does anyone remember the Pizza Hut commercials in the early '80s where the voiceover man sounded like Waylon Jennings's speaking voice?
I still am still wondering still about the P.B.S. programme with the opening and closing segments of an early computer simulation (most likely a grid, with geometric shapes flying towards you, and then the same thing happening with each end credit.) with equally mystical computer-ish synth music. Is there a long list of every programme ever aired for P.B.S.? I watched in the mid 1990s, a mid day programme, most likely rebroadcast. (It might have been produced a few years earlier.)
I remembered this commercial, "Take The Fork In The Road.". I was also going to ask this question, but I found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koYyJlvTiLg
Honda would have been my next guess. A perfect slogan, but a very badly made commercial. You can not see that much of the new car. Also, it is quite dangerous to pick up a fork in the middle of a very narrow road.
Another commercial, made around the same time period, is probably some restaurant. It is a very spooky commercial but it is meant to be funny. It is about an empty drive thru with an unseen worker calling through the menu's speakers. It is probably some thing like "Where is everybody?" with the restaurant being some unnamed rival restaurant. Possibly a 1980s or 1990s Arby's commercial but I can not find it.
I thought of a movie I saw on TV that I can't identify.
When I was growing up, around 1982, I saw some TV movie about a little girl who started attending some new school or camp. I think she had behavior problems or came from a broken home or something. In one scene, she sang, "The bear went over the mountain...To find a spot to pee!" And her teacher and all the kids burst out laughing!
Anyone else remember this?
Quote from: lepidopteran on November 12, 2019, 10:19:18 PM
One famous example was titled "Special Bulletin" from 1983, which had a news crew interviewing a terrorist in Charleston, SC. The show was videotaped in the same manner as TV news. Worried people called into the TV stations when it aired, despite it being a fictitious news network (RBS), and at least one disclaimer with a commercial.
I remember that. The terrorists were a group of left-wing radicals who started out by protesting the Vietnam War. They even had real life footage of the accidental 1970 Weather Underground bombing in Greenwich Village that was next door to Dustin Hoffman's place.
One that I saw when I was a teenager was an old British movie about some abusive drunk, drug-addicted bigamist who married four women in England, Scotland, Wales, and British-occupied Ulster, who often goes out by himself to burn trash in a burn barrel on a beach. The guy is frequently visited by a cop that he befriends and at the end of this movie he and his fellow bobbies find that one piece of "trash" that he burns was a baby from one of his wives.
All these years I still can't find the title of the thing.
Anyone remember a commercial where someone pops a balloon and money comes out? It seems like this was around 1977.
Anyone remember an old movie about auto racing? About 25 years ago, I stumbled upon a small local TV station airing this movie. The movie was clearly old - maybe 1940s or 1950s - but it was in color. It took place in Europe or somewhere. I remember it had both men and women as race car drivers.
Also, I remember a play (not a movie) being shown on PBS in the early '80s. It took place around 1910, and the thing I remember is that the kid in the play peed his pants.
I thought of another one. In the early 1980s, there was some variety show or something where a woman was standing on a ledge and kept saying, "Do something, do something." For the life of me, I can't identify the show.
I thought of another good one. Around 1978-79, I remember seeing some show with a weird musical performance. It had a man singing, surrounded by all these weird creatures that looked like they might have been identical cardboard cutouts. It looked like something from the Lawrence Welk Show, only more humorous. I think it might have been a special for Johnny Carson or some other celebrity.