Hiate we must, for a better tomorrow. But you know my vow: I will never hang a CLOSED sign on the door and flounce off for a week. There will always be "content." There must always be "content." Without "content" we become restless and irritable.
Yes, I've realized that the Hiatal offerings have become stylized. That will change next year. But not today! TV Guide time. I got this one from the Internet Archive - I think. I haven’t had the time to go to Hunt and Gather and see if more have shown up (or some from the original batch remain unsold.) It’s from MA.
Those wacky lads:
I’ve always had an ambivalent attitude towards these guys. On one hand, pre-fab, forced, laff-track, zany hi jinx. On the other hand, actual talent.
This ad is notable for one thing, and one thing only: proof that eye shadow colors of the age have not returned to style. For which we may be grateful.
I am not ambivalent about this style of ad. I don’t like it. The reasons are unknown to me, except that it either annoyed me at the time - unlikely - or I associate it with peculiar nostalgic revival of long-dead cliches and typefaces for a “Good Ol’ Great America” vibe.
Why is it a robbery?
And yes, we saw this artist in the Cookie Houdini booklet, or whatever that was called.
The soon-to-be-ubiquitous future convenience is here - for a steep cost, and only for hobbyists and the well-off. But it’s here.
Likewise, Likewise, the tech of our time was already invented. Right? Fiber-optic cable.
Global 3-D TV. Not so much.
Some listings. If you are a regular and faithful patron of the Bleat, you’ve seen this one!
It’s a serial. We watched it a few years ago.
I’ve never heard of Hennesey.
Hennesey is an American military comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962, starring Jackie Cooper and Abby Dalton.
Cooper played a United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles W. "Chick" Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. In the story line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California.
Also starred Frank Gorshin and Arte Johnson. Wonder if the opening is anywhere on YouTube . . .
Of course.
Interesting how they assumed the audience knew what M/Sgt. meant.
And yeah, this synopsis certainly takes an unexpected turn.
Don’t be fooled, America! Copland wrote the CBS Playhouse theme, not the score for this episode.
I think Aaron was working out some issues here.
The music for the ep was written by David Shire, who’s done some fine work. Ribman is still alive, as if this writing, and his wikipedia bio appears to be the work of a close associate, at the very least.
In Peyton Place, Parkins received lead billing for her role as small-town bad girl Betty Anderson. The character was scripted to die in a car crash six weeks into the season, but audience reaction to Parkins was overwhelmingly favorable and her character was kept in the story line. In a late-1965 interview, the actress said she was lucky to have the role of Anderson, calling her character the "salt and pepper in the stew”.
Trivia: "Was maid of honor for Sharon Tate at her marriage to director Roman Polanski in London, England on January 20, 1968.”
A year after this magazine was published.
Big frustration this week: the embeds I use for the Duke University AdViews are on archive.org. And it got nuked. Temporarily, anyway. I've tried to reconstruct the pages from the Duke U archives, but they're incomplete, compared to the archive.org page. I can only hope the archive is back up by Monday. I've restored Wed - Fri, but today and tomorrow are a MESS. Naught I can do at the moment, so fingers crossed.
Two things to love about this, right from the start: the engaging animation, and the mid-century Chorus of Nice People. The sound of happy America.
The one I'd selected before the archive crashed told people they could write away to Grand Central Station and get a book of mayo recipes. It's like telling people today to email the airport.
The animation style looks familiar. It’s not Fleischer; they were out of business by this point. Perhaps one of their artists. It’s certainly not typical for the era - it’s a few decades out of date.
H-O would soon modernize:
We’ve discussed Linus here before. He went on to get his own TV show. If he sounds like Sheldon Leonard, it’s because he was Sheldon Leonard.
As long as we're on cereal: boys, cereal gives you muscles!
Apparently there were at least two in the Christopher Wheat section. Kid wanders around just eating the stuff out of a box.
I love the little glimpse of a modern house in the back. Thin brick, painted white.
