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Weird Stuff In Black and White TV Shows

The first "main stream popular" show to have the principles sleep together was the Flintstones, though Wilma and Fred slept in twin beds as well. But that doesn't really count does it?

So then you have to wait till you get to Herman and Lilly Munster, but they weren't "real" so that doesn't count right?

Then you move on to Oliver and Lisa Douglas, but they were "old" so that doesn't count right?

Various real life married couples shared a bed like Lucy and Ricky and Ozzie and Harriett but they also had twin beds on occasion too.

Mary Kay and Johnny was a 15 minute sitcom in the late 40s and that is credited as the first show with the principles sharing a bed, but again they were married in real life. They also had a baby on the show like Lucy.

I do recall an episode of Beaver allowing a bum to take a shower in Ward and June's bathroom. I can't recall if that bedroom had a double or twin bed. Of course you never saw the parent Clevers in said bed(s).
 
Markxxx said:
Mary Kay and Johnny was a 15 minute sitcom in the late 40s and that is credited as the first show with the principles sharing a bed, but again they were married in real life.
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Sort of gives new meaning to the phrase, "Come on down!"

When "Green Acres" premiered, Eddie Albert was 59. Eva Gabor was 46, on her fourth of five husbands and still able to get "gifts" from rich guys.
 
Oscar Madison said:
When "Green Acres" premiered, Eddie Albert was 59.
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Albert was sporting a head of grey hair when GA premiered, but interestingly in his 1940's and 50's movies he looked considerably younger than his actual age. For instance, in 1953's Roman Holiday his Irving Radovich character doesn't look anything near 47.

Eva Gabor was 46, on her fourth of five husbands
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Of the three Gabor sisters, Eva actually had the fewest husbands. Eldest sister Magda had six husbands, and middle sister Zsa Zsa famously had nine.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Albert was sporting a head of grey hair when GA premiered, but interestingly in his 1940's and 50's movies he looked considerably younger than his actual age. For instance, in 1953's Roman Holiday his Irving Radovich character doesn't look anything near 47.



Of the three Gabor sisters, Eva actually had the fewest husbands. Eldest sister Magda had six husbands, and middle sister Zsa Zsa famously had nine.
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Has had nine! That's been explained: She's a very moral person and doesn't sleep with anyone without marrying them first.
 
Oscar Madison said:
Just sleeping with them doesn't have the same financial benefit as marriage and divorce.
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I get the feeling that she was always rich and didn't need to marry for money. I would however like to retract my previous statement regarding her alleged morality. To the question, "How many husbands have you had?", she once replied, "You mean other than my own?".
 
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Zsa Zsa is not necessarily a courtesan but she is certainly a gold digger (and a successful one!).
 
The Gabors were European (Hungarian), not American. Courtesan has a somewhat different meaning and tradition in European high society before World War II. While some may now equate the term with prostitute, it is probably closer to geisha. Gigi is a play/movie/musical about a girl being trained by her family to be a courtesan - to entice, please and be an asset to wealthy and powerful men. From the biography, "The Hiltons," the Gabors' mother raised and trained them in much the same way.
 
Zsa Zsa clings to life today for the past several years.

She was a guest star in a lot of 60s sitcoms, except...."Oliver, you knew when you married me all I could do was speak Hungarian and do impersonations of Zsa Zsa Gabor."
 
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Nobody bled, even when shot point-blank.
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And no bullet holes appeared in their clothing.

How about rotary dial telephones? In real life, telephone numbers have been 7 digits (not counting area codes) in most places since the early 1950s. But TV shows often showed actors dialing just 4 of 5 digits...I assume because it took too long to dial all 7.
 
....and speaking of movie telephones......whyizzat that in virtually every old Quinn-Martin show every phone rang with the same exact tone?

Did the lucky phone have a successful audition?
 
LKellerIII said:
How about rotary dial telephones? In real life, telephone numbers have been 7 digits (not counting area codes) in most places since the early 1950s. But TV shows often showed actors dialing just 4 of 5 digits...I assume because it took too long to dial all 7.
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In the '50s, most of the country outside the urban areas had 3, 4, or 5 digits -- if they had dial service, and a lot of small towns still didn't. Most cities had two letters and 4 digits, such as ADams 1234, which of course required 6 dial pulls.

NY, Chicago, Philly, and Boston had 7 digits beginning in the 1920s, but they were 3 letters and 4 digits, such as DEArborn 2345, until the late '40s (1930 in NYC) when those cities went 2L-5N. Other cities changed from 2L-4N to 2L-5N during the '50s.

The conversion to 7-digit numbers (and dial service!) wasn't completed until the early '70s nationwide. I remember my uncle's phone number in Eagle River WI as 645R. IIRC, they got dial service and a 7-digit number in 1969.
 
KeithE4 said:
In the '50s, most of the country outside the urban areas had 3, 4, or 5 digits -- if they had dial service, and a lot of small towns still didn't. Most cities had two letters and 4 digits, such as ADams 1234, which of course required 6 dial pulls.

NY, Chicago, Philly, and Boston had 7 digits beginning in the 1920s, but they were 3 letters and 4 digits, such as DEArborn 2345, until the late '40s (1930 in NYC) when those cities went 2L-5N. Other cities changed from 2L-4N to 2L-5N during the '50s.

The conversion to 7-digit numbers (and dial service!) wasn't completed until the early '70s nationwide. I remember my uncle's phone number in Eagle River WI as 645R. IIRC, they got dial service and a 7-digit number in 1969.
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Right through the mid-'60s, all you needed to dial in my single-exchange hometown in suburban Boston was 4-xxxx. The exchange was SUnset 4, but within the exchange the 78 was dropped. To dial out-of-town numbers, you dialed 1-xxx-xxxx and an operator would intercept and ask for your number.
 
I lived in the South Suburbs of Chicago as a kid and we could dial just the last four digits of a phone number when calling from the same exchange. For example if you lived in 312-481-XXXX you could call any other 312-481-XXXX number by just dialing the last four numbers.

I recall being in first grade when they changed it as my mother had to teach me to dial all seven digits to call. So that would've been like 1969 when it changed over.
 
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