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Pufnstuf.... and Other Stuff (backdated)
Ok, so, I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. Am I the only one that recalls:
H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, and other Sid and Marty Kroft kid shows?
That Happy Days got its start on Love, American Style and not from American Graffiti as some think?
By the way, IMDB.com and other sources are not quite correct as the original vignette about the Cunningham family was Love and the Television Set. Some sources record it as Love and the Happy Days, but I think that's a trick of editing, I watched the original.
That Marlo Thomas starred in That Girl in ABC's Friday night comedy line up as a character named Ann Marie?
And that unlike actress Angelina Jolie, who uses her middle name as a last name, that character's last name actually was Marie, never heard that name as a last name since, maybe it's me.
Bewitched had a spin off, years after the show went off the air, called Tabitha?
That the star of the Bewitched TV series, the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery, once portrayed one of the best known suspected murderesses of the 19th century, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Borden?
One of my favorite performances by her is as Sayward Luckett in a mini-series called The Awakening Land. One of these days, I'm going to have to look up those books.
That the TV series of Zorro starred Guy Williams, who later went on to play the father in the TV series Lost in Space?
That early in his career Sean Connery starred in a Disney flick called Darby O'Gill and the Little People?
That one of Pierce Brosnan's earliest film roles was a bit part in The Mirror Cracked that many young actors would probably have loved to do??!!
He was in the film for one minute or less (so short a time they forget to add him to the credits) playing an actor that gets hugged against the bosom of one of Hollywood's most celebrated beauties, Elizabeth Taylor.
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Guy Williams was so well loved in South America for his roll as Zorro that he remained living there.
Do you remember Marlo Thomas's dad, Danny in his tv show?
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Danny and his TV daughter, Kathy, were having a discussion about her getting married. He said something about a man's daughter getting married to a man who is not good enough for her to give her father granddchildren that are better than everyone.
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And he didn't have the accent, either.
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her sparkling eyes so full of fun
No other, no other, could match the likes of her
Hell, even I get ga-ga for Connery in Darby! Of course, I still carry a torch for Janet Munro. My mother and I were both thrilled when they finally released Darby on DVD. I'd still like to get a book of the original Darby stories. Interestingly enough, my brother's mother-in-law bears a creepy resemblance to the Widow Sugrue. Eeeyugh! I can always imagine her quivering, "Oh, Pony, me boy."
I never got into the Sid & Marty Kroft shows. I guess I started getting into TV just as they were on their way out. I do remember the Land of the Lost being on TV but never watching it.