Has anybody seen this ep? Josh is hired by this milquetoast husband to find his wife's pet sheep. He almost gets hung asking a cattleman about the sheep, he becomes a laughingstock while looking, he even has a little bell that he rings to find the sheep whose name is Baa baa. My friend and I were watching this and were laughing our butts off, and telling each other, " THIS SHOW ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.
shareHaha I loved that episode cuz it was out of the ordinary. And some of Josh's facial expressions were so cute! haha
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Hey folks,
I liked the show quite a bit, and that was from when it was first shown in the late 1950s. However, I have to agree with LeroyKevin that this was not exactly one of my favorite episodes of the series. In my opinion, this series was like most other series: some of the shows were really very good, some were just OK but worth watching, and then some were really just lousy works. It always seemed to me that the bad shows were more the fault of bad scripts than bad acting.
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We have to remember that this was in 1958 to '61 and in Hollywood their opinion of the American public was we would watch ANYTHING. For the most part we did. This has changed as we have grown in sophistication. Steve gave them hell on the set every week because he would NOT co-operate if he did NOT think or feel it was credible. He drove the directors crazy every week. Some more than others!
shareI thought Baa Baa was great because it was different. I am a big fan if funny westerns. Check out Support Your Local Sherrif & Support Your Local Gunfighter if you like comedic westerns movies or shows.
I totally disagree with the last post. Tv today is mostly crap. It's all the same and crude and boring. Television shows of the past were imagitive and fresh and funny. Magnum P.I. is the best rounded show of all time. I mean by that, that it's got a little bit of everything to make it the greatest show in tv history.
That could be my favorite episode! I love the taunting song, and the encounters with the shepherd (a terrific character actor and a master of dialect) are hilarious. I loved every moment and had to take back my belief that Steve McQueen was the only one who thought he was funny.
By the way: I based that on "Soldier in the Rain", in which he appears to be competing with Jackie Gleason, who underplays the comic moments beautifully.
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I saw the episode on TV recently and really enjoyed it. While watching my cat Buddy was snoozing while on my lap. And when Josh walked into a bar to inquire about Baa Baa one of the guys started teasing him and talking about somebody's cat named "Meow Meow" LOL. I laughed so hard I woke Buddy up. I threatened to change Buddy's name to Meow Meow, but he didn't seem to care. But if I ever happen to have a sheep as a pet, I'll name him Baa Baa after this funny episode.
shareI'm watching 'Baa-Baa' right now on MeTV / Indianapolis. The gang in the saloon just gave him the 'Meow-Meow' razz. Definitely a different episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive, but it seems pretty good 10 minutes into it.
shareSteve McQueen was pretty good here as the straight man in what was pretty much a comedy episode of the series. I kind of wish they had done a few more episodes that were funny like this one.
shareI saw the episode on TV recently and really enjoyed it.
I laughed really, really hard when Steve McQueen runs away from the sheep at the very end of the episode. I found the comedic moments cute. I liked the episode.
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