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Post by jamesjazzguitar on May 11, 2023 19:21:15 GMT
Last night's Gunsmoke episode "the Killer" featured CHARLES BRONSON as a kill crazy gunman named Crego. But it wasn't Bronson's only appearance on the show. In another episode he played a mild mannered rancher who befriends a young teen boy to the chagrin of the boy's abusive father. Sepiatone I've recently seen both of those Bronson \ Gunsmoke episodes and, as you note, Bronson is a very different character in each of them. In the one with the young teen boy, the abusive man was his stepfather. I was glad to find that out since it helped me put into context what was going on (because I was yelling at the TV saying to myself "how can you treat your own child like that!" until I found that out). |
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Post by sepiatone on May 12, 2023 16:33:37 GMT
I've recently seen both of those Bronson \ Gunsmoke episodes and, as you note, Bronson is a very different character in each of them. In the one with the young teen boy, the abusive man was his stepfather. I was glad to find that out since it helped me put into context what was going on (because I was yelling at the TV saying to myself "how can you treat your own child like that!" until I found that out). Yeah, but sadly, it's never been only a TV thing. Too many actual Fathers treated their own children like that and worse. But when my Mom remarried I had a stepfather from the age of 7 until he died when I was 29. And in my case I always viewed the legend of the abusive stepfather as a myth. Never experienced any mean treatment I didn't clearly ask for.  Sepiatone |
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Post by Mayo on May 14, 2023 23:18:48 GMT
Julia Duffy (Newhart, Designing Women) played a date of Tommy (Willie Ames) on Eight is Enough (1979). They are at a drive-in movie in his VW van. Tommy's putting the moves on her when stow-away Nicholas pops up. Nicholas, not Tommy, is the one who gets a kiss at the end of the night.
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Post by sepiatone on May 16, 2023 16:14:01 GMT
Last evening on an episode of CHEYENNE from 1961, I noticed what was a familiar face, but to make sure I was seeing right waited for the end credits to see if the familiar name I attached to that face showed up. It did.
It was DAWN WELLS, Mary Ann of "Gilligan's Island" three years before she became a castaway. It was so far the only "pre-Gilligan" role I've ever seen her in.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on May 17, 2023 1:27:32 GMT
Last evening on an episode of CHEYENNE from 1961, I noticed what was a familiar face, but to make sure I was seeing right waited for the end credits to see if the familiar name I attached to that face showed up. It did. It was DAWN WELLS, Mary Ann of "Gilligan's Island" three years before she became a castaway. It was so far the only "pre-Gilligan" role I've ever seen her in. Sepiatone Keep watching those 60s western TV shows and you will see Wells; Maverick, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Tells of Wells Fargo, Laramie, as well as some of the crime shows like Burke's Law, Hawaiian Eye, and 77 Sunset Strip. |
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Post by sepiatone on May 17, 2023 15:53:47 GMT
I wouldn't gripe if some retro channel put BURKE'S LAW back on their schedule. Sepiatone |
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Post by intrepid37 on May 25, 2023 17:29:34 GMT
I remember an episode of 'Kung Fu' in which a young Don Johnson played a half-naked young Indian brave. He jumps in a river and wrestles a huge fish in his arms, pulls it out of the water and deposits on the ground. He looks at Caine boastfully, bragging about how he was able to do it and asks Caine if he could do the same - to which Caine responds, somewhat judgmentally, "I could not do such a thing".
Don Johnson, who was really cool in everything else he'd appeared in up til then, looks absolutely ridiculous in the role.
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Post by sepiatone on May 26, 2023 16:39:31 GMT
It sounds as if you're describing the episode "The Vanishing Image"(from 1974) in which Lew Ayres also guest stars as a dying photographer the young Indian wants to kill for taking his picture and stealing his soul.
But the Indian was played by actor Tom Nardidi, not Don Johnson.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on May 26, 2023 20:42:49 GMT
It sounds as if you're describing the episode "The Vanishing Image"(from 1974) in which Lew Ayres also guest stars as a dying photographer the young Indian wants to kill for taking his picture and stealing his soul. But the Indian was played by actor Tom Nardidi, not Don Johnson. Sepiatone The Kung Fu episode with Lew Ayres was in 1974 as you note (and Aryes was nominated for an Emmy for this), but the Kung Fu episode with Don Johnson was in 1973 called The Spirit-Helper. Either way, what confuses me is the comment that Johnson "was really cool in everything else he'd appeared in up till then". Johnson was just getting started as an actor in the early 70s so he hadn't done much when that 1973 episode was made. |
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Post by sepiatone on May 27, 2023 15:27:02 GMT
Yeah, 1973 was the year he was REALLY seen in "The Harrad Experiment" Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 6, 2023 0:13:12 GMT
Last evening on an episode of CHEYENNE from 1961, I noticed what was a familiar face, but to make sure I was seeing right waited for the end credits to see if the familiar name I attached to that face showed up. It did. It was DAWN WELLS, Mary Ann of "Gilligan's Island" three years before she became a castaway. It was so far the only "pre-Gilligan" role I've ever seen her in. Sepiatone Dawn Wells is on Tales of Wells Fargo, looking great in color, on INSP right now! PS: Dawn's character learns life as a saloon girl isn't all that it is cut out to be and heads back home to the big-city (St. Louis in those days was THE big city of the mid-west in those days). |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jun 8, 2023 0:37:33 GMT
Well today Tina Louise is the guest actress on Tales of Wells Fargo.
Therefore, on Monday it was Mary Ann and now on Wednesday, Ginger.
Talk about familiar faces! Note that both episodes were in 1961, thus 3 years before they were both castaways.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 8, 2023 15:30:30 GMT
It appears that the only Gilligan's Island cast members who DIDN'T appear on "Wells Fargo" were Jim Backus(Thurston Howell III) Natalie Schafer(Lovey) and Bob Denver. Although briefly after "Dobie Gillis" and before "Gilligan's Island" Denver did show up in an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" as a suitor of the Darling girl(Maggie Peterson).
Tina Louise appeared in the "Wells Fargo" episode just three years after being in GOD'S LITTLE ACRE('58).
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Post by kims on Jun 17, 2023 17:47:02 GMT
saw Richard Dreyfus on THE BIG VALLEY episode "Boy to Man"
I used to hear often that if actors did tv they'd never make it in film. As I watch these old tv shows, I've decided success in film after doing tv was the same for any actor-luck of the script/production.
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Post by sepiatone on Jun 18, 2023 15:15:42 GMT
They used to say that about actors working in soap operas. But turned out to be a falsehood.
Just ask Tommy Lee Jones, Christopher Reeve, Meg Ryan, Tom Berenger and countless others.
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