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I don't have one yet db. As I watch these again I'm sure I will have some.
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Amzie Strickland was in a recent episode I watched.
She played 4 different characters in this series.
Jack Mann who played Tracy Crawford. He is the man Barney arrested in Andy the Matchmaker also starred with
Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in No Time For Sergeants.
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I have it on my DVR. Just waiting. I think it was on TCM not to long ago.
I haven't seen it in awhile either.
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I swear 90% of everything I watch is from TCM.
They still show movies that I haven't seen. Every day I'm recording something.
One of the funniest movies ever. So perfectly cast . I can't imagine anyone but Andy Griffith playing Will Stockdale. I really enjoyed the novel too.
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I had no idea it was a book. Is it a good adaptation or is the book funnier ?
Oh I read the book many,many years ago. I found it in a box of books in the attic. I think it was my dad's book.
I just remember that it was very funny and the movie pretty much followed the book. Sometimes that doesn't happen. Some movies bear little resemblance to the novels they are adapted from.
All this talk makes me want to go and check the book out of the library (if they have a copy).
I looked this up. It seems it was also a TV show in the mid to late 60's.
Griffith and Knotts were already in Mayberry so they were unavailable.
It seems it might have only been shown in the UK but it did last 5 seasons
I will have to look into this. This is news to me.
Oh yes, I watched the show when I was a little kid! I thought it was funny but it was only on for one season.
Later when I heard that it was a movie, I thought that they made a movie based on the TV show. I got it backwards to say the least.
I really need look at this. I read on Wikipedia (I know) this lasted for 5 seasons.
It said the Stockdale character was a little different than the book .
They didn't portray him as naive as they did in the movie.
I know that "Sergeants" had several adaptations. It was a Broadway play for example.
But the TV series (on ABC ) was only one season. I remember being disappointed because I liked it.
100% correct pj. It was a series for only 1 season 34 episodes. Remember when seasons
were that many episodes.
There was a TV adaption done before the film. It was only an hour long.
It was also on Broadway and the TV show you remember.
It was also a comic book.
It looks like it only lasted one season here but was shown in the UK for 5 seasons.
They must have kept showing the same shows.
Funny thing, this show was on opposite of the Andy Griffith Show. So it failed.
That wasn't the most genius move by the network.
I never realized it was as popular as it was.
Oh boy! TV shows used to have more than thirty episodes in a season. I remember those days!
I bought the first two seasons of Bewitched as one set. I was shocked at how many episodes there were. There were 36 episodes in the first season and 38 in the second. Well actually they reran the first season Christmas episode in season two.
But still, that makes 73 episodes! That's more than three seasons worth of episodes today. And Elizabeth Montgomery was pregnant in season two.
When we were kids we just took it for granted that the new fall TV season started when we went back to school and ended right before summer vacation. The only time a show would be pre-empted was for a holiday special or two around Christmas and Easter.
Didn't realize that "Sargeants' was opposite Andy Griffith. Since when are network programmers "geniuses"? lol
"But still, that makes 73 episodes"
I never realized this when I was younger. Even MASH for instance was always around
25 episodes for a season. Even Bewitched by the end was down to 26 episodes.
This seems to have lasted for awhile. I have no idea how long they are now days.
I really don't watch any network shows.
I'm sure salaries and production costs had everything to do with it.
Money always seems to be at the root of entertainment.
Absolutely. We never had a "mid season finale" . Or had to wait 2 months for the
show to continue.
I haven't watched any TV all summer except for some religious programming and one movie. The few shows I do like went on summer hiatus around the first week in May.
I don't even watch TVLand any more. Years ago they actually aired real classic shows. But for years their lineup seems to be 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'The King of Queens'. Those shows only went off the air a few years ago so they hardly qualify for "classic" status.
I have a lot of the real classics on DVD like Bewitched, Dick van Dyke and I Love Lucy. I have some of the more current shows too and I 'd rather watch the DVDs than be annoyed with endless commercials.
TvLand shows Andy Griffith, but they edit it and cut out so much. I have a few DVDs with a couple episodes each. I never bought the show by season. But if I want to watch episodes that I don't have, there's always youtube!
Youtube is also great for movies, news, other old classic shows, etc.
Yeah I think it's salaries and production costs. But I don't feel like sitting through ten minutes of commercials during a thirty minute sitcom just so some marginally talented actor can make half a million per episode!
I wouldn't mind endless commercials if I didn't have to PAY for TV!! Our local cable costs keep going up. People complain. I have Direct TV and I am "thisclose" to just cancelling it. I get tired of paying to watch non-stop advertising.
It would be so nice if we could order our channels a la carte. I'd be willing to pay for the four or five channels that I do watch. I don't need ESPN and all the sports channels or most of the other channels either.
The series I do watch are spread out throughout the year. When starts the
other is almost over. So it works out well. I don't remember the last time
I watched TVLand for that very reason.
I meant to ask somebody about this regarding the DVD. Are the DVD's edited in
any way ? I really dislike when your watching an episode and you know there's more
but it is edited out. Sometimes it's a very funny part.
I have Dish and pay an embarrassing amount for TV. My internet is also an
obscene amount. I don't have much choice as I live in the boonies.
I very rarely watch live TV. I always record so I don't have to watch commercials.
Some shows on Dish will automatically FF during the commercials. You don't even
have to lift a finger.
Dish does have a package of maybe 30 or 35 channels available. $35 I think.
They are the most popular channels. Then different packages you can add.
This is my next step. They carry all the channels I usually watch.
There are also some online options that only carry some of the popular channels.
I seem to watch TCM more than any other channel.
Speaking about the DVDs that I own, no, I don't think they are edited. Aside from the shows I mentioned, I have the first three seasons of The Big bang Theory and it is a pleasure to watch them straight through without commercial interruptions.
I have several season of older shows like Hogan's Heroes and The Munsters, etc.
I have some older dramas. I have the Columbo series. It's not edited.
One thing I love about the DVDs are the extras. Some shows like 'I Love Lucy' have included tons of extras. Other shows have no extras included.
I don't have an extensive movie collection. But I do prefer the DVDs. No commercial interruptions! I also borrow DVDs from the library.
I have not started watching any new hour shows lately. They always seem to get cancelled after one season! That's another peeve of mine! They don't give audiences a chance to find the show. I'm afraid to take a chance on a show because they seem to get cancelled.
One example, a few years ago an excellent (I thought) drama came on called 'Forever'. It ended on a cliffhanger and got cancelled. A few years earlier, I was enjoying 'No Ordinary Family', cancelled on a cliffhanger. The reboot of "V", cliffhanger ending, cancelled!
I'm starting to think I'm the kiss of death for drama... I start to watch a show and it gets yanked off the air. I'm surprised that Hawaii Five-O and Scorpion are still on. They're the only two dramas I watch.
The Dish package you cited sounds like a good deal. 36 is a lot more channels than I need, but it's far fewer than all the ones I get with DirectTV and don't watch.
A far cry from the 1960's. My grandmother used to complain about how expensive cable was. But if you paid your whole bill for the year in ONE payment, you got a month free. I think when she made her yearly payment it was about fifty dollars! Of course that was for about a dozen channels, but you really didn't need more. There was always something to watch.
"I'm starting to think I'm the kiss of death for drama"
Not only you. This is another reason I don't watch network TV.
At least the cable series it has a better chance to survive more than one season.
You are correct you don't need more than a dozen.
I don't think I watch more 10 channels but I pay for a couple hundred.
So ridiculous. I also have Netflix, Prime and a couple streaming memberships.
I know it's too much but I do like being able to have the ability to
watch whatever I want when I want.
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I hated the contract too. When I first got it I called them and told
them Direct TV had offered me 1 yr. Which wasn't true.
I talked to somebody and was able to get a 1 year contract.
It didn't matter I've had it for over 10 years now.
I figure you're going to pay for something.
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Ha!
They are a bunch of greedy bastards aren't they.
Howard Sprague smokes Newport cigarettes. At one point, during the first few minutes of the episode "Howard's New Life" a pack of Newport cigarettes can clearly be seen in Howards left shirt pocket.
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Ellie for Council- Elinor Donahue wasn't give a credit. -again
Clara was back in this episode. Opie's original nanny. Not acknowledged for this.
I finally noticed man with a hat who was in 64 episodes.
Mayberry Goes Hollywood.
After looking into this the tree that they were going to cut down was only in this episode.
It was specifically used as a plot point never to be seen again.
Floyd's name in this episode is Floyd Colby.
Another continuity error.
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I remember that one.
It seems this was a recurring theme over the entire series or maybe it was just first 6 years or so.
Even though this episode didn't involve Sheriff Without a Gun it was about a film crew coming to Mayberry.
I wonder when the writers were sitting around and had no new ideas if somebody said 'Well, we could the
movie thing again." Interesting they went to the well so often of this particular subject.
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Seems Mayberry was quite the hot spot for talent and entertainment.
They had all this plus the guitar player and wasn't there a later episode where
Barney comes back for a reunion at the same time as some famous actress that used to live
there. He thought all the fuss was for him when in fact it was for her.
Not to mention all the criminals that found their way there.
That's a lot going on in such a quiet little town.