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Nagging TV Show Mysteries

On "The Time Tunnel," how were Tony (James Darren) and
Doug (Robert Colbert) able to change back into the clothes
they were wearing when they entered the tunnel, when they
were being transported from one era to another? Didn't matter
if they had been wearing the clothes of the time and place where
they'd just been. (I know, stock footage to save costs, but still...)

And wasn't James Darren a little long in the tooth to play William
Shatner's "junior partner" on "T.J. Hooker"?
 
This may not qualify for a mention here, but I'll give it a go anyway. On an episode of TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes Ed McMahon and Dick Clark showed some old footage of a bar fight in a saloon in some cheesy B-western movie. All the while the footage was airing, Clark and McMahon were commenting (over the footage) that none of the guys in that fight ever lost a cowboy hat! No matter how physical and violent the fight got, everyone's hats stayed on! ;D They even made joking comments like "first one to lose a hat gets...." ;D :D
 
OK on Survivor they are supposedly without provisions but I don't exactly see any armpit or leg hair on the women
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Johnny Carson mentioned something along those lines in his last major interview, in Esquire magazine. Don't remember the exact quote, but it was something like, "They're in about as much danger as I am when I go out to dinner!"

On "The Time Tunnel," how were Tony (James Darren) and
Doug (Robert Colbert) able to change back into the clothes
they were wearing when they entered the tunnel, when they
were being transported from one era to another? Didn't matter
if they had been wearing the clothes of the time and place where
they'd just been. (I know, stock footage to save costs, but still...)
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Irwin Allen Magic...That's all you need to know.
 
gr8oldies said:
OK on Survivor they are supposedly without provisions but I don't exactly see any armpit or leg hair on the women
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You would if you had HDTV.

(The wifey notices all things female)
 
landtuna said:
gr8oldies said:
OK on Survivor they are supposedly without provisions but I don't exactly see any armpit or leg hair on the women
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You would if you had HDTV.

(The wifey notices all things female)
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I haven't watched Survivor since the very first edition and, unfortunately, one of the more memorable scenes from that first season was of Susan Hawk shaving her legs. I believe (and I COULD be wrong) that the contestants are/were allowed to bring a certain number of provisions with them such as books, bibles, pictures, whatever. I guess Susan chose a razor and shaving cream. ::)
 
-Another mystery:

Gage, DeSoto, Dr. Brackett, Dr Early and the lovely Dixie McCall did a crossover on Adam-12 as their Emergency characters which conflicts with an Emergency episode where all the guys in the firehouse watch an episode of Adam-12 on tv. ???
 
gr8oldies said:
The never seen Moss Steiger did overnights on WKRP but no one was ever mentioned for the other dayparts.
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I remember an episode where Johnny Fever leaves to take a gig in LA, and for whatever reason it didn't work out.
He returns with his tail between his legs, and because WKRP had hired a new morning guy (who turns out to be a cokehead and a payola sucker), they rehire him and put him on overnights.....as "Heavy Early"
 
biggguy said:
gr8oldies said:
The never seen Moss Steiger did overnights on WKRP but no one was ever mentioned for the other dayparts.
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I remember an episode where Johnny Fever leaves to take a gig in LA, and for whatever reason it didn't work out.
He returns with his tail between his legs, and because WKRP had hired a new morning guy (who turns out to be a cokehead and a payola sucker), they rehire him and put him on overnights.....as "Heavy Early"
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Actually, there is one episode where Johnny signs off and makes way for the midday man Rex Earhart "the airhead of the airwaves" as Johnny calls him, and lest we forget the "Ask Arlene" program where Jennifer fills in for the psychologist after she passes out on the air, that was middays as well, and then don't forget the ill-fated sports call-in show "Sparky's Bullpen" with Sparky Anderson who by that time was managing the Detroit Tigers, to Les's chagrin. That show bumped Venus off the air.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
A pretty funny question about Green Acres: How could Oliver afford a Lincoln Continental every year but he couldn't afford a new tractor and always fixing Mr. Haney's old tractor as rich as he was and Lisa could afford new clothes, furs, jewelry, etc.?
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Listing every Green Acres mystery would crash this website...Well, not exactly crash it...More like...No, it wouldn't do that either...Hoo boy!
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How true! You know you'll have to suspend all disbelief right from the opening credits when you see Oliver sitting on that tractor wearing a three-piece suit. I guess he couldn't afford overalls and a flannel shirt either.

A few other mysteries...

What did Marilyn Munster's parents look like?

Are those tentacles on the bottom of Morticia's gown?

Was there ever a song that won on that rate-a-record segment of American Bandstand that did not "have a good beat and was easy to dance to?"

Does MTV still mean Music Television?

How would you know if there really was something wrong with your TV when the Control Voice on The Outer Limits came on and said, "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture?"
 
Otto Maddock said:
Was there ever a song that won on that rate-a-record segment of American Bandstand that did not "have a good beat and was easy to dance to?"
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The Beatles' early release of She Loves You in the fall of 1963 didn't do well on Rate-a-Record.

Of course, if Dick Clark hadn't been a part-owner of Swan Records (the Philly-based label was one of two that released Beatle records that year), it probably would have never been played on American Bandstand in the first place. She Loves You was released on Swan, while other early Beatle singles were released on Chicago-based Vee-Jay.
 
KeithE4 said:
Of course, if Dick Clark hadn't been a part-owner of Swan Records (the Philly-based label was one of two that released Beatle records that year), it probably would have never been played on American Bandstand in the first place. She Loves You was released on Swan, while other early Beatle singles were released on Chicago-based Vee-Jay.
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Actually, by 1963 Mr. Clark had officially divested of his part-ownership of Swan, as a result of the 1959-60 payola scandals; he largely remained untouched by the scandal, whereas Alan Freed was totally destroyed. But that's another story.
 
KeithE4 said:
Otto Maddock said:
Was there ever a song that won on that rate-a-record segment of American Bandstand that did not "have a good beat and was easy to dance to?"
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The Beatles' early release of She Loves You in the fall of 1963 didn't do well on Rate-a-Record.
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I believe in his book "Rock, Roll, and Remember", clark made a claim that the record that bombed the most at "rate-a-record" was a David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian ( Alvin & The Chimpmunks ) tune. I would say it was "Witch Doctor" but it could had been "The Chimpmunk Song".

Years ago my dad claimed that Billy Swan's "I Can Help" did so bad at rate-a-record he remembers the kids in the audience just looking at each other and didn't know what to do.
 
Of course, if Dick Clark hadn't been a part-owner of Swan Records (the Philly-based label was one of two that released Beatle records that year), it probably would have never been played on American Bandstand in the first place. She Loves You was released on Swan, while other early Beatle singles were released on Chicago-based Vee-Jay.
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That's why the Beatles were able to dominate the charts like they did in early '64; All the Vee-Jay, Swan, and Tollie singles that had stiffed in early-mid '63 suddenly charted when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (Capitol) caught fire.

As far as the Chipmunks, I think it was "The Chipmunk Song" that got the all time low score on Rate-A-Record.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
That's why the Beatles were able to dominate the charts like they did in early '64; All the Vee-Jay, Swan, and Tollie singles that had stiffed in early-mid '63 suddenly charted when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (Capitol) caught fire.
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Tollie Records was a secondary label owned by Vee-Jay from Februrary 1964 to May 1965. It was formed to release pop records (as opposed to Vee-Jay's mostly R&B/gospel catalog) when the company moved from Chicago to LA. There were no Beatle records on Tollie in '63 as the label didn't exist yet.

Twist & Shout/There's a Place and Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You were the only Beatle records released by Vee-Jay on the Tollie label. Both were million-sellers, but by then it was the end of the line for Vee-Jay, the first major Black-owned record company in the U.S.

Link: Wikipedia
Link: Both Sides Now: Tollie Records
 
KeithE4's mention of "She Loves You" made me stop and think that there probably aren't too many good danceable Beatles songs to begin with, but this reference to "Love Me Do" changed my mind. I could see that as a rather snappy number you could dance to. After all, there was different style of dancing in 1964 compared to today's soft-porn gestures.

On that Chipmunk song... Whether it was "Witch Doctor" or "The Chipmunk Song," I'm surprised novelty songs like that were even featured on AB's rate-a-record. Did they show the kids in the audience actually trying to dance to that? No wonder it bombed.
 
landtuna said:
I remember seeing Howard Hesseman on stage at the Improv in S.F. circa 1968. One of his funniest routines was as the driver of a car (smoking those funny little cigarettes with no brand names ala Cheech & Chong) who gets pulled over by a cop. I'm not sure I could laugh like that again without dying.
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...I think that actually stemmed from a bit he did with another member of The Committee (Peter Bonerz, perhaps?) in the kinescoped theatrical film of that name; it turned out that the tokers were actually police officers in their squad car and the punchline is that they pull someone else over for drinking a beer while driving ;-) ...
 
How much did Mr. Belvedere get paid by that middle-class family?

How did Mel's Diner keep getting rebuilt?

Why did Carla on Cheers never get her lights punched out?

Since Laura and Rob Petrie slept in different beds, where did Richie come from?
 
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