Spanky and "Our Gang"

[Packo]

Steve! Ovaltine was Capt. Midnight's sponser.

Bill, I was also a Hoppalong fan but he was not sponsered by Ovaltine. Sorry. I did have a Hoppalong watch though.

Pack

[82Rigger]

Bill,

I had a Hopalong Cassidy lunch box. It had a Thermos bottle in it.
Hoppy was in the Christmas parade in Charlotte, NC in 1950 when I was 4 years old. I remember seeing him riding on Topper and waving to everybody.

[Seascamp]

Not much of a contest actually, it was shredded wheat or gaud-rotting poached eggs and milk toast. Poached eggs-a blight on ‘kidkind’ at the time.

Lucky for me there was no pop quiz after the Sheen deal; I‘d have been in real tough shape with all the sack cloth, ashes and penance stuff. I could get as far as the scribble angel in the upper corner of the blackboard and the rest was just a ‘sigh‘, and a kid ‘WTF’ kind of thought. I mean Saturday catechism encroachment was bad enough, then adding Sheen as part of the deal would have been a bridge too far-to the barricades, revolution time.

Scamp

[covan]

I do remember Bishop Sheen. We didn't have a TV at the time so I wasn't forced to watch it. I do remember going next door with my family to see some of the old shows on the neighbor's TV, including that one.

Went to Catholic school and few of my classmates had TV either so the nuns didn't have any expectation of a report on the previous evening's show.

Hopalong Cassidy was one of my favorites, but I liked all of the cowboy shows.

[82Rigger]

Classic TV trivia question:

Richard Boone starred in "HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL" from 1957 - 1963.

What was Paladin's horse's name?




When I was growing up, one of the kids in my neighborhood wasn't real bright.
He thought Paladin's first name was "Wire".

[revwardoc]

The horse's name was Rafter.

[Seascamp]

Scariest bad guys, the ones ya lost sleep over.

Of course Ming was always troublesome. But Flash seemed to have his number and save the pretty girl, but the critters and creatures along the way got problematic from episode-to-episode. Aarrgg, the “rock men” were some mighty bad dudes.

Vincent Price in “The House of Wax”. I had to keep an eye on the bedroom closet door all night long after that movie. I just knew that ugly, mean SOB was in there.

“War of the Worlds”. The three fingered critter that put his hand on the shoulder of the pretty girl. Zow, no doubt about it, consummate evil, and most likely lurking in the crawl space under the house and kept an eye open all night long.

Scamp

[82Rigger]

Scamp,

Yep! Slept with the light on many a night!

Remember the movies where the music would build up the suspense and then something would suddenly happen and scare the bejesus out of every kid in the theater?

Like in the "Psycho" shower scene when Tony Perkins suddeny flings open the shower curtain.

Or in "The Tingler" when the arm and hand come up out of the bathtub full of blood.

Those were great!

[Seascamp]

Sure Steve, the wizz your knickers ‘surprise’ deal was standard Hollywood fare. I thought I was hardened to that kind thing, but that scoundrel Mel Gibson made me jump in his production, “Apacalypto”. Opening scene, cam moves in on jungle foliage, just insect sounds, then crash, out boils a taper right at ya; get out the way. Great production, but Mel just had to get his digs in to get things going.


Scamp

[MORTARDUDE]

My Mom dropped a good friend of mine and I at the movies one time to see "The Blob". I guess I was 8 or 9. We had worked ourselves up about how scary this was going to be, and when the blob came thru the vents on the screen at a theatre, we were out of there !!!! LOL

Two movies that I watched on TV that scared me were the originals of "The Thing From Another World" ( 1951 ) ( you gotta love James Arness !! ) and "Invasion of The Body Snatchers" ( 1956 )....I liked the remake of "The Thing" with Kurt Russell, but not the re makes of "The Body Snatchers".

Larry