Quote from: Solar on December 13, 2010, 07:06:06 PM
So you recorded them in the 50s? ;D
I downloaded them before they aired in the 50s and burned a copy, cause I knew Hollywood would never make Conservative stuff again. ::)

Want to borrow my "Way Back Machine"? ;)

I don't do TV per-say but I will sit down with the good wife about once every 3 or 4 months and see a move on VHS or DVD if she will skip the adds.   ;D

Quote from: walkstall on December 13, 2010, 07:21:33 PM
I don't do TV per-say but I will sit down with the good wife about once every 3 or 4 months and see a move on VHS or DVD if she will skip the adds.   ;D

We don't do TV either, but ya know, I would like it if some of those old shows you buy on DVD would include the original commercials.
I bought one series by Boris Karloff, and it did have the original commercials, it was really neat seeing all that stuff again.

Quote from: Solar on December 13, 2010, 07:25:28 PM
We don't do TV either, but ya know, I would like it if some of those old shows you buy on DVD would include the original commercials.
I bought one series by Boris Karloff, and it did have the original commercials, it was really neat seeing all that stuff again.

I just look in the mirror for old.   ;)

I've got a bunch of old Adventures of Robin Hood shows with Richard Greene, featuring original Wildroot Cream Oil for Men as the sponsor. (Back in the days when everyone looked like Mitt Romney with glistening oiled hair).

When you think of it, convincing a kid he needed hair oil was just about as bright as Warner Bras being a sponsor for the syndicated Lone Ranger program (in at least one area).

Another difference between now and then was that villains in Ye Olde Days of TV and radio (and pulps and movies too) were in fact often foreign and of other races. (The Max Rohmer series of Fu Manchu tales, and dang near anything starring Anna Mae Wong.)

Turned around, there were wily Asian detectives, but only whites in starring roles --- Peter Lorre and others.

Monsters were still monsters. But back then we could see the zippers up the back. Today we see the monster's innards and everything else. Some progress!

Weird trivia about the original Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, he was afraid of heights, and the scene where he is up in an oak tree holding a vine rope, was filmed in Bidwell park Chico Ca.
The tree limb he was standing on, was only 18 inches off the ground, they dug a trench in the ground for the cameraman, so he could shoot up, making it appear that he was way up in the tree.
The hole was still there when I saw it in the early 70s.

Too bad Flynn didn't have a little more fear of teenaged girls!  ;D

Quote from: quiller on December 13, 2010, 07:52:19 PM
Too bad Flynn didn't have a little more fear of teenaged girls!  ;D

He couldn't tell, any female over 13 was taller than he was. :D

A Little OT Maybe but I was thinking about our 54 Chevy those things were man caves No seat belts and metal dash boards with a rear window you could sleep in, They just to make cars like that anymore :)

Just turn on "TV Land", and you can watch all of the old TV shows you want.  You can also get a lot of the old TV shows at Wal Mart for decent prices.

They wouldn't dare have a western TV series in today's anti-gun climate.  Can you imagine Ben and Hoss and Little Joe pulling slingshots or tasers from their holsters? 

What is glaring about today's TV shows are the way they portray MEN.  Men are weak and stupid and dishonest and pussy-whipped and incapable of making decisions and more feminine than masculine. 

Quote from: REDWHITEBLUE2 on December 13, 2010, 08:01:47 PM
A Little OT Maybe but I was thinking about our 54 Chevy those things were man caves No seat belts and metal dash boards with a rear window you could sleep in, They just to make cars like that anymore :)

We had an old tuna boat from the 50s, don't remember what it was, but my dad got a good deal on it because the metal dash had the imprint of a set of dentures in it.
The guy hit an Elk and his passenger bit the dash.
I'll never lose that image, no matter how old I get. :o ;D
Strangely enough, there really wasn't that much damage to the front, but that dash.... :))

Another glaring difference. When it first aired, Rocky & Bullwinkle was advertisor-supported (or "free" in the minds of us Wayback Kidz). Now the entire series (including Season 5 for the first time) costs $74 at CDBaby....

Quote from: Solar on December 13, 2010, 08:00:24 PM
He couldn't tell, any female over 13 was taller than he was. :D

Ya know, you just might have something, there!

Quote from: Cryptic Bert on December 13, 2010, 05:10:17 PM
Today the writers think the audience is stupid.

It's been a long time ago, but I remember a big shot at ABC admitting in a nationally-broadcast interview that prime time programming on his network was designed to be understood -- and appreciated -- by a 12-year-old kid. The idea being, of course, "If we got the 12-year-olds, we got everybody else."

Quote from: offgridbob on December 13, 2010, 06:45:15 PM
I miss a good western, heck they don't even have westerns any more :))

Ted Turner owns them.  I'm sure if you join his cult of Global Warmists, they show al of the old movies at their meetings....

(actually, they are reairing the old classics; everything from "It's a wonderful life" to "From here to Eternity"; if you can get your kids and/or grandkids to unhook the xbox from the tv in the livingroom)
(I watch them in my bedroom; nobody else much cares to give black & white a chance)

   Today as a show grows in popularity so does the political statements embedded in the show...today TV shows are used as a vehicle by the left to push their agenda..I long ago stopped watching law and order because the producer Dick Wolfe is a left wing scumbag and every one of their shows has a lib message in it.

    The old shows had one purpose..to entertain us.