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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 29, 2018 6:07:27 GMT
Today I watched an episode of BP Super Show from 1964. The episode features Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein giving a 27-minute recital in the TV studio of GTV-9 in Melbourne, Australia. I enjoyed it.
So, what was the last 1960s TV episode you watched?
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 29, 2018 14:16:42 GMT
Whispering Smith. S. 1, Ep. 13 “Cross Cut” July 31, 1961. One of the best episodes of this one-season western series staring Audie Murphy (his only TV series). Audrey Dalton appears as the duplicitous April Fanshaw, secretly the wife of notorious outlaw Dakota Jackson. She and her outlaw husband try to pull a double scam involving the murder of a passer-by in 19th century Denver. She fools everybody except Officer Tom Smith of the Denver Police who picks up on some small clues that had been overlooked by the husband and wife baddies. Directed by Christian Nyby (“The Thing From Another World”). Audrey Dalton 
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Post by geode on Apr 29, 2018 14:33:20 GMT
From September, 1965. A lot of location shooting in Hong Kong directed by Sheldon Leonard.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 29, 2018 16:07:22 GMT
The last episode I watched was the 31 August 1963 edition of Australian variety series "Brian Henderson's Bandstand" (1958-1972), featuring performers such as Laurel Lea, Lonnie Lee, The Delltones, and others. Also appearing is American singer Sue Raney, who sings five songs. The copy I viewed has the ads removed and runs for 53 minutes. Produced in Sydney by station TCN-9, and shown semi-nationally on the Nine Network.
Note: Sue Raney is asked which American TV series she has appeared on. Most of these she is not credited with on IMDb. In general, IMDb is woefully incomplete when it comes to variety show credits....
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Post by louise on May 1, 2018 20:56:13 GMT
THis evening I watched the first three episodes of Mrs Thursday, a programme I hadn't watched since it's original broadcast in 1967. A comedy-drama about a cockney char lady who inherits a vast fortune from her employer, it starred Kathleen Harrison and was staggeringly popular - watched by 20 million viewers. I still find it fairly entertaining, though I doubt such a gentle sort of show would draw a big audience these days.
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Post by geode on May 2, 2018 3:30:37 GMT
Good cast, good director, but not very good episode.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 2, 2018 8:05:56 GMT
The 27 November 1965 episode of "Brian Henderson's Bandstand" (1958-1972).
Most episodes of this series consisted of pop singers lip-syncing their songs in the TV studio. However, this episode features a live concert held at the Capitol Theatre in Perth, Western Australia. Additionally, the music in this episode is more "rock" than the usual pop presented on the show. The performers are Max Merritt and the Meteors, Lynne Randell, Jade Hurley, Ray Brown and the Whispers, Paul Wayne, Merv Benton, Bryan Davies, and Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. Billy Thorpe in particular was very popular in Australia, and Lynne Randell was our most popular female vocalist for a few years (Sadly, Randell committed suicide in 2007, and Thorpe also died in 2007).
The audience is very loud.....remember the Beatles at Shea stadium? It's not as bad as that, but still, it's sometimes hard to hear the performers over the audience.
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Post by telegonus on May 4, 2018 8:33:11 GMT
An excellent 7th season Hitchcock half-hour, The Faith Of Aaron Menefee, set in small towns of the midwest, it deals with such seemingly disparate topics as the arcana of car mechanics, faith healing; crime and desperate criminals; and the issues small town doctors face dealing with patients far less educated and sophisticated than themselves, and the often tragic consequences implicit therein. Well written, acted and directed by pros. Not a moment wasted.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 4, 2018 15:18:39 GMT
Just watched the 12 October 1963 edition of "Brian Henderson's Bandstand". The surviving copy is incomplete and in somewhat poor condition, and the production values are lower than usual. On the plus side, it was nice to see an Indigenous Australian (Jimmy Little) on a 1960s TV episode (lip-syncing his hit "Royal Telephone").
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Post by jrdmln on Jul 28, 2018 22:31:28 GMT
The last 1960s Tv Episode I watched was a Season 4 Episode of Bewitched called If They Never Met. I watched it on Thursday July 19 last week
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Post by louise on Aug 6, 2018 15:26:10 GMT
Watched several episodes of The Avengers, series 3. This was when Honor Blackman was in it, I like it much better than the later seasons with Dianna Rigg.
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Post by telegonus on Nov 29, 2018 8:24:19 GMT
The Untouchables, on MeTV, late Sunday-Monday: Jigsaw, way above average entry with a shifty James Gregory coming out of semi-retirement to work for Frank Nitti. As things turn out, Gregory has plans to take over Nitti's operation altogether.
It seems at times like damn near every or every other episode of this series features a megalomaniac who wants it all. Boundaries are not respected by the mobsters featured on this show, and it proves their undoing.
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Post by ant-mac on Nov 29, 2018 13:44:05 GMT
HOMOCIDE - an Australian police procedural TV show that ran from 1964 to 1977.
I saw a couple of the early black and white episodes.
Much better than what's on now.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 29, 2018 16:39:33 GMT
I watch 1960's TV all the time. Yesterday I watched a season 2 episode of Batman. In recent days I have watched Star Trek, The Avengers, Branded, Tarzan, and Lost in Space just off the top of my head.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 2, 2018 6:09:33 GMT
We miss you and some damned fool is telling the boards that you are dead … say it isn't so … STAT ! |
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Post by gspdude on Dec 9, 2018 14:49:37 GMT
Gunsmoke "The Prisoner"
A charmer escapes from federal prison to Dodge and finds himself caught up in the drama among two brothers, the wife of one of them, and their domineering father.
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Post by ellynmacg on Dec 9, 2018 17:51:00 GMT
Recently, I discovered that a local library has a collection of DVDs of Dr. Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey. Boy, those were the days: thought-provoking scripts, incisive direction, spot-on acting from both regulars and guests, and a general feeling of cast and crew collaborating to create something truly excellent. And I can't forget to mention the sometimes gripping, sometimes poignant, always wonderful music of Jerry (then billed as "Jerrald") Goldsmith. (Of course, the boyishly earnest beauty of RC and the authoritative, reassuring presence of RM were definite pluses. Not to mention that those two actors' speaking voices were Just. So. Perfect.)
Anyway {{wiping drool off chin}}, so far I've watched only the first set of 4 discs (out of 9), for a total of 34 episodes--the 9th disc has only two selections on it. Struggling to get back on topic here, I will mention the last of the four episodes I've seen: "Winter Harvest", guest-starring Charles Bickford as Dr. Charles Dubro, a surgeon much revered over a long, distinguished career, but now slowing down drastically while operating, to the point of endangering his patients' lives. This episode was the first of the four I've watched to relegate "young Jimmy Kildare" to a supporting role; after reporting Dr. Dubro's problem to Gillespie (Dubro's lifelong friend), Kildare gets saddled with a bored, wealthy hypochondriac (amusingly played by a startlingly youthful Gavin MacLeod). But this subplot, besides giving the episode some much-needed levity, also gave RC a chance to show off his lighter side. (Love it when he flashes those blindingly white choppers--what a smile!)
Side Note: one of the many joys of watching Dr. Kildare is playing Spot the (Past, Present, and Future*) Stars. In just the four episodes I have spotted--among others--Beverly Garland, Jack Weston, Ken Berry, a very young and lovely Suzanne Pleshette, Edward Andrews, and Harvey Korman (!). And in the episode under discussion ("Winter Harvest"), besides the aforementioned Charles Bickford, I was delighted to see one of my favorite supporting players, the often (unjustly) overlooked Herschel Bernardi.
*As of the early Sixties
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Post by louise on Dec 29, 2018 7:39:04 GMT
The first two seasons of Dad's Army - never get tired of them.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 7, 2019 17:37:00 GMT
The Avengers "Fog" season 7 episode 24. Only 9 episodes left in my rewatch of the entire series.
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Post by wmcclain on Jan 28, 2019 1:24:25 GMT
An early sexbot themed series:  |
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