On the Roku player I enjoy watching old TV shows, particularly from the late 1950’s. But Netflix is again yanking a favorite from Watch Instantly, forcing me to rush through as many episodes as I can in a few days. First, it was “Alfred Hitchcock Presents“, and now the latest victim is my beloved “Leave It To Beaver“.
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My favorite TV show way back in the first grade was “Have Gun, Will Travel”, which was one of the last network series that also ran on radio. I even had a “Have Gun, Will Travel” lunchbox. (We don’t talk about that unfortunate incident with the chicken noodle soup in the thermos.)
Fortunately, the adventures of the gunslinger-for-hire, Paladin, don’t have an expiration date on Netflix yet. Watching the series now, I can see why I liked it so much. Being a half-hour show, the stories aren’t slow and dragged out, the way they were on other westerns, especially “Gunsmoke”. It shouldn’t take too long to recognize the very young actress in this clip from 1958.
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Yes! Even in the age of Elvis, teenagers wanted to look grown-up as soon as possible. The Beatles and the 60’s changed everything.
50’s look made girls look older
Boone wasn’t a conventionally handsome man, but he had a good voice and a lot of presence.
i had a palladin lunchbox too, but i was too young to had ever seen the show. my mother had a thing for mr. boone.
Nope, no Life of Riley, except for a DVD with two episodes, along with a two of Our Miss Brooks. Same thing for Lassie — a DVD with some Jeff’s Collie installments, and that’s it.
I was in Wisconsin for the first grade, and with the power of the dairy industry, not buying milk at school was practically a crime — plain was a penny, and chocolate milk was two cents. The soup incident involved a cap that wasn’t sealed tight enough. What a mess….
I know you don’t want to explain the “chicken soup in the thermos” incident…but I’m assuming it was like my “milk” in the thermos episode…I took a big drink and the milk was filled with broken glass!
Does Netflix have (my favorite vintage TV comedy) Life of Riley?