Old TV Shows

   That actor did a lot of television in the U.K.                                                                

  Bronco Lane aired for 4 yrs on this side of the pond....from 1958--1962.  I'm pretty sure Clint Eastwood stared in a couple of episodes. 

   ---   Thanks for the posts. Yup, Andy had a nice show.

  Recently I've been watching the "X-Files". Haven't seen them since the 90's. I'm getting them by accident from an app called "freevee". I have no idea why there are apps on my T.V......in my day there were "Channels" on my T.V

Never got into the X-Files, I always heard it was good. I get more into the pi and cop shows. Recently been watching Rockford, he has a cool car in that show. I believe it's a Pontiac Firebird.

Also started watching the Dick Van Dyke show. Funny stuff lol

   ---   Yup that was a good series.

Loved the Dick Van Dyke show, starting when I was in college.  I think the best episodes were the ones that featured his amazing agility doing physical comedy:  e.g., after a fall on the ski slope, trying to hide his "sprained body" from Laura. 

   Nothing personal, but whenever I see you post, this tune comes to mind....1961                                    

Just came across a book that I got in 1998, lots of good info. One show they mention is " The  Mary Tyler Moore Show " which was quite good.

    A very good tune, lol.

   I thought I read back in the 90's that there was a college offering a course on "The Mary Tyler Moore" show..                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        This paper explores the use of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as a teaching tool used with a group of final-year undergraduate students who gathered together last academic year (2007-8) to explore Women in Leadership, as part of a Communications course. The research focus was: How can the use of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (a 1970-7 American situation-comedy) serve as teaching tool concerning an understanding of Second Wave feminism and women in the emerging role for women in the workplace? The particular connection with televisual texts suggests that the use of popular culture can connect today's college students with the often distant issues of Second Wave feminism.

Translating post 1286. Spitting Image was funny but Harry Secombe wasn't in it, he was in the Goon Show. And Ronnie Barker was in Porridge. Spiting Images may have been a TV show though it'd have been different.

Thanks for the Posts.

The book also mentions " All In The Family " ( back in the 1970's ).

Take the high road

     Check out the original B&W 1950s episodes. Some show police breaking into suspects' residences without a warrant (then making a legal search once they know evidence is present), grilling suspects for many hours without food, water, or bathroom breaks, and similar tactics. Of course there's no "you have the right to remain silent" or "you have a right to an attorney" warnings. As "the story you are about to see is true", you can see what  American law-enforcement was like before the famous "Warren court" decisions.

     Miranda is the most famous of the US Supreme Court decisions concerning suspects' rights when Earl Warren was Chief Justice. There were also landmark civil rights decisions. Warren was extremely unpopular with arch-conservatives; in Newport Beach, CA (in notoriously conservative Orange County--known later as "Reagan country") where I grew up there was a billboard on the coast highway at the city limits urging "Impeach Earl Warren" put up by the John Birch Society, paid for by John Wayne.