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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 17, 2019 22:18:30 GMT
The original post and the Trackdown follow-up are striking me as being bizarrely funny and the original poster seems to have abandoned the thread so .. perhaps we could have some fun with it ? Annoying things in "early tv" : Not filming the western shows on location … CHEAPSKATES ! Were we really supposed to think that Gunsmoke was taking place in Kansas ?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 18, 2019 20:56:59 GMT
The Rifleman …
When Lucas and Mark ride into town... why is it not shown in real time ? How does his precious rifle keep functioning .. don't recall ever seeing him clean it !
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Post by telegonus on Apr 19, 2019 18:07:07 GMT
So many factors in the narration and introduction business of old-time television. I think that some of it was (maybe) good manners, as television was coming into Your Home, Your Living Room, and the networks wanted to be polite, come across as if they were friendly neighbors, with the viewer's best interests in mind (not always, needless to say, as in the case of The Untouchabes; yet even with Walter Winchell's strident intros the intention often seemed to be to give the viewer a history lesson, as if to say, "the show you are about to see may be violent as hell, but it's history all the same").
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 20, 2019 1:25:03 GMT
The use of TV announcers was probably a holdover from the era of old-time radio shows, for which the announcers had to provide names of the actors, the writers, the director, and often a voiceover to introduce the show's setting. Radio series were still being broadcast during the early years of TV, so audiences of the time found it a familiar device.
Another annoying thing about '50s TV--how come we never saw Lassie pooping on the show? Was all that whining just a result of the dog's chronic constipation?
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Post by snsurone on Apr 20, 2019 23:48:48 GMT
Well, we never saw Rin-Tin-Tin, Fury, or Flicka pooping on their shows, either. As a matter of fact, the first TV show to acknowledge the existence of a toilet was ALL IN THE FAMILY.
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 22, 2019 0:32:07 GMT
Beaver and Wally Cleaver kept their pet baby alligator in the toilet tank in an early episode of Leave it to Beaver. Those kids were rebels!
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Post by amyghost on Apr 22, 2019 16:00:29 GMT
Well, we never saw Rin-Tin-Tin, Fury, or Flicka pooping on their shows, either. As a matter of fact, the first TV show to acknowledge the existence of a toilet was ALL IN THE FAMILY. The first time that fabled 'terlet' flushed on air might just have produced one of the longest audience laughs ever.
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Post by PreachCaleb on May 2, 2019 22:53:10 GMT
Damn, god forbid someone who can't read the text know the actors' names.
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