I've never watched this show but in the early seventies, I watched reruns of the old Mickey Mouse Club and what I believe is this show was integrated into it and strangely enough in the early episodes a group of modern day children were part of the cast visitng Fort Apache. Is my mind going or was this the case? And what was with the modern day kids? Can't find a reference to this on the net.
shareYes, this was a 1970s thing they did to bring the show "up to date." They never explained how the modern kids got back to the past to meet Rip Masters.
sharePossibly the modern day kids were supposed to be meeting Lt. Rip Masters in the present. perhaps many young kids of the 1970s would not have any problem believing that some of the adults they met were so old they had been adults away back in the time this show was set, approximately 100 years earlier.
share1) Statistically it is very likely you are total mixed up and not one of the very few who are not.
2) This is not one of the many things you may be mixed up about. Your memory is reasonably correct about seeing the show in the early seventies with modern day introductions. The websites you searched had incomplete data.
I suppose that young kids in the audience would simply assume that Fort Apache had been preserved unchanged and that Lieutenant Masters had not seemed to age much in the twenty five years or fifty years or one hundred years or one thousand years since the stories he told had happened. Kids who are young enough will not have much of a sense of history and will be willing to believe that adults are infinitely old.
Thanks guys. You answers are as good as any I guess. I just remember it being strange; modern kids in modern clothing making references to modern objects (in one scene one of the little girls told a man he was handsome enough to be a movie star and he said he didn't know what a movie star was but thanks!) running around what was supposed to be a fort in the old west. Incidentally they disappeared after a couple of episodes.
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Thanks guys. You answers are as good as any I guess. I just remember it being strange; modern kids in modern clothing making references to modern objects (in one scene one of the little girls told a man he was handsome enough to be a movie star and he said he didn't know what a movie star was but thanks!) running around what was supposed to be a fort in the old west. Incidentally they disappeared after a couple of episodes.
Technically an officer who graduated from West Point in June 1900 (the last year of the 19th century, would probably have been born in 1877-78) and so be about 98 to 99 in 1976, a very unlikely but possible age for someone who was born about the latest that a 19th century US cavalry officer could have been born.
shareI do recall the modern-day kids, but that was during the mid-'70s and had nothing to do with The Mickey Mose Club. I remember watching it on WNEW weekday mornings before I went to school and was my introduction to Rinnie, though I knew of him from my father (a huge fan of the show when he was a kid during the '50s).
As for James Brown, was he playing Rip Masters or himself in those segments? It's so many years ago that I can't remember now.
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