[STARMAN 352ND]

Well Leave it to Beaver was a little before my time but i did see the re-runs when i was a kid.
He was a good ole boy it seems....But i wish i had parents that acted like his parents did on that TV show.
It just seems parents are not like that now days at all.... above all the kids act way different now too since i was a kid.
Now Rat Patrol i remember that just a little...Because my father used to watch it all the time and it seemed ok.
Blazing across the North African deserts, an elite Allied commando team whose mission is to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps. Join four-man army Sgt. Sam Troy (Christopher George), Sgt. Jack Moffitt (Gary Raymond), Pvt. Mark Hitchcock (Lawrence Casey) and Pvt. Tully Pettigrew (Justin Tarr) as they wage war against Nazis, traitors and wild-eyed fanatics. You can buy the DVD set as well i think they only made like 58 shows that's about 2 season worth.
But knowing me i wanted to see aircrafts flying in shows more then anything else...Heck i only watched "I dream of Jeannie" with Larry Hagman & Barbara Eden
Because they had jets are there once in a while ...Not kidding they had some good USAF footage on there sometimes.
Then as a teenager the Blacksheep Sqn on NBC...I loved that show..
JP

[Alph]

Back during the days of Adam 12 and Emergency, They had a short showing of what was called Chopper 1. They took you on a Bell Jet ranger in Los angeles. I remember one episode where they got a kite caught in their main rotor and had to belly land in Compton very scary! I never spent a lot of time in front of the TV as we were always out exploring and watching F106's at Mcchord AFB in Tacoma WA.
Alph

[MoMo]

Dear Starman and Alph,

thanks for the intel on those shows and your recollections of them. I have a vague memory of a show that sounds very like The Rat Patrol. It was shown in the UK for a few episodes. The show featured Yanks and DAKs harearsing around the desert in matching Half-Tracks ( only the painted jobs differed! ). This show was pulled from Brit TV because so many old Desert Rats complained about how the show gave the audience the impression that the Brits were nowhere involved in this desert campaign. This is one one the only occasions that I can recall of a show from the States being pulled by public protest! The show may have been called by another title here, but if it was aired under a title with " RAT " in it the fur would have been flying!

I recall hearing quotes from Majors' letters to the Times which condemed it.

Well Leave it to Beaver was a little before my time but i did see the re-runs when i was a kid.
He was a good ole boy it seems....But i wish i had parents that acted like his parents did on that TV

EVERYONE wishes that they had had parents like the ones who they saw on TV! To kids growing up in post-war Britain where there was no money and everything was painted in the last paint-job which it had had in 1939, American TV shows and Movies seemed to offer a paradise which was populated by wonderful, kind, understanding parents with infinite patience. I mean, who didn't want Doris Day for a mother when you were seven and she seemed to know the solution to all problems?

To children, TV-Land tempted the souls of kiddies with shiny new bikes, pristine houses, bulging fridges, hordes of kids galloping across the vistas of Levittown lawns and enjoying endless adventures in a child-orientated wonderland where the worst that could happen to you was that you were sent to your room! I watched these movies, green with envy. " I wish someone would send me to my room!" I mused. " In fact, I wish I had a room for someone to send me to! " I appealed to the gods, while looking about me at the poverty of our run-down city which had seen better days.

Anyone who is under 50 can never understand how the children of the world gazed in wonder at a land where there was no poverty and where you could roam the range on your very own pet horse. To cap this, my parents would tell me how lucky I was. I had never seen the poverty of the 30s when they had been children. That was real poverty!

No wonder that glamorous shows like " 77 Sunset Strip " , " Maverick ", " Cheyenne " and " Perry Mason " appealed to us! In the golden days of TV formulaic shows like those promoted certainties about the system and culture which never quite made it to real life.

[Alph]

Hi MoMo,
I didn't have such a stable up bringing as we spent the majority of the Vietnam years moving from one AFB to the next. We almost settled in Kansas near Topeka, as my parents bought their first home. In 1968 a big Tornado destroyed that dream and our last duty station became Spokane WA. My mother was born and raised here in Spokane so it was truly our home. As a child I never had any one pacifier that is to say mom didn't use it to babysti me. I was encouraged to go see the sites and experience my surroundings. Even now I spend more time messing with tangable "things" rather than watching TV. News and occasional movie from 5 years ago may be a diversion sometimes.

That's just the way I grew up nothing against anyone who watches TV. Shoot I remember our first color TV and remote too. But the constant moving for the so called freedom that was procured during the civil war. Even today I cant watch TV much as I can't deal with listening to some old grey congressman telling us that we're in IRAQ to defend our FREEDOM. "NO" Defending our freedom is part of this homeland security plan that does NOT include being IED'ed on some nasty street in Bagdad. I feel the home land Security need to be on our own shores and borders. If an insurgent wants to voilate these borders and try to harm our intrests then we build camps and put them in and feed them dog food until their liver fails. I cant stand seeing colition forces being mamed for a freedom taken for granted by so many. No I don't appreciate a 21 year old kid getting his face blown off. Freedom was won in 1776 tell me what we're really sending these kids to Iraq for? "Sorry" TV only gives me half the picture. Alph

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by Alph

I didn't have such a stable up bringing as we spent the majority of the Vietnam years moving from one AFB to the next.

I went through the same thing except my father was in the USMC.
As a kid i really hated going to different schools all the time and i missed my friends i made on all the bases i went.
At least i had my bro with me all the time to keep me sane...lol
My mother was the one who really tried to make our lives normal while my father was away flying somewhere.
All in all i think thats why i wished i had the Parents that were on TV in those days.....
I just missed my father alot and that was no fun...But when i did see him he was the greatest father in the whole world
and i loved it when i got to fly with him and my grandfather too.
Watching TV in those days really kept me in check.
One of my favorite USMC movies is "The Great Santini" 1979 with Robert Duvall...My father was strict but not as bad as Duvall was.
JP

[jim]

My first memory of an American TV show was something called Hi jeanie or Hey Jeanie ,not sure which. i cannot remember what it was about. i must have been about 5 or 6 . That would make it about 1952/3.

Hey Mo ,do you remember the Lone Ranger. (I think the music at the begining of the show was the Willam tell overture? Perhaps, maybe)?.

[jim]

Originally Posted by Alph

Hi MoMo,
I didn't have such a stable up bringing as we spent the majority of the Vietnam years moving from one AFB to the next. We almost settled in Kansas near Topeka, as my parents bought their first home. In 1968 a big Tornado destroyed that dream and our last duty station became Spokane WA. My mother was born and raised here in Spokane so it was truly our home. As a child I never had any one pacifier that is to say mom didn't use it to babysti me. I was encouraged to go see the sites and experience my surroundings. Even now I spend more time messing with tangable "things" rather than watching TV. News and occasional movie from 5 years ago may be a diversion sometimes.

That's just the way I grew up nothing against anyone who watches TV. Shoot I remember our first color TV and remote too. But the constant moving for the so called freedom that was procured during the civil war. Even today I cant watch TV much as I can't deal with listening to some old grey congressman telling us that we're in IRAQ to defend our FREEDOM. "NO" Defending our freedom is part of this homeland security plan that does NOT include being IED'ed on some nasty street in Bagdad. I feel the home land Security need to be on our own shores and borders. If an insurgent wants to voilate these borders and try to harm our intrests then we build camps and put them in and feed them dog food until their liver fails. I cant stand seeing colition forces being mamed for a freedom taken for granted by so many. No I don't appreciate a 21 year old kid getting his face blown off. Freedom was won in 1776 tell me what we're really sending these kids to Iraq for? "Sorry" TV only gives me half the picture. Alph

I read and understand Alph.

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by jim

Laramie and Rawhide spring to mind. Bonanza was great, Hoss was my favourite of the four sons.

Just curious,jim-o; were those shows dubbed into British so you guys could understand?......or did they go with sub-titles?

[STARMAN 352ND]

Originally Posted by jim

Laramie and Rawhide spring to mind. Bonanza was great, Hoss was my favourite of the four sons.

Rawhide now that was a western show.....Jim you bring shows up i forgot all about....
I just now remembered the other called "Big Valley"
JP

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Originally Posted by jim

Rawhide now that was a western show.....

Anything featuring Clint is Aces in my book!