Victory at sea,do you remember? [Archive]

owner20071963

04-15-09, 07:01 AM

Its a Classic series,
would it not be great in Colour,
There is another Series out there,
I bought in a store called
CRUSADE IN THE PACIFIC,
Its a special 8 DVD Collector's Edition
All real Footage,
well worth a look

old_tex

04-15-09, 10:50 AM

If you liked Victory At Sea, maybe you'll like this for your "spash" screen for Silent Hunter. :yeah: Old_tex
http://files.filefront.com/13603926 (http://files.filefront.com/13603926)

Sailor Steve

04-15-09, 12:17 PM

Parents?

I remember viewing it.

JCC
Same here. I also bought it at Wal-Mart for $5. Watched the 'Guadalcanal' episode just last night.

owner20071963

04-15-09, 12:54 PM

Thanks old tex,
I'll check it out,
Anyone got any Idea where I can buy
this Collection?
Victory At Sea? :salute:

Armistead

04-15-09, 02:44 PM

Have the whole series...same, got it at walmart cheap.

old_tex

04-15-09, 04:01 PM

Look at the Five Dollar collection at Walmart. That's where I got it. :up: Old_tex

John Channing

04-15-09, 05:12 PM

Same here. I also bought it at Wal-Mart for $5. Watched the 'Guadalcanal' episode just last night.

I can still hear the announcer's booming voice...

"And now... Full Fathom Five".

JCC

mike_espo

04-15-09, 05:26 PM

It was great. Amazing now how political correctness was ignored back then. :D

Kapt Z

04-15-09, 06:20 PM

I have the VHS collection in the basement.

A little dated by today's standards perhaps, but if you can look past some of the 'propaganda' it's still a great series. The music is timeless.

My dad played his LPs of that series so much when I was a little kid that sometimes I feel like it was the soundtrack to my childhood.

I'm sure it drove Mom and my sister nuts, but Dad and I loved it.:DL

MonTana_Prussian

04-15-09, 08:20 PM

I can still hear the announcer's booming voice...

"And now... Full Fathom Five".

JCC

Yeah,that guy had a great narrator voice!

owner20071963

04-15-09, 09:04 PM

I really never knew how popular
it still is,
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old_tex

04-17-09, 09:22 AM

If you don't have a world clock and would like to join in or just listen to the conversation concerning modifications, etc., the following world time link might help :yeah: Old_tex

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html

PappyCain

04-19-09, 08:31 PM

I recall watching ... when Tv was great with Amos and Andy, Life of Riley, Texaco Theater, Jack Benny, and on and on. We had a Zenith TV and I used to wait for the Network to start the day with Victory at Sea. If you remember test patterns you will be my age or older.

:salute:

old_tex

04-19-09, 08:45 PM

Crusader Rabbit came on at 4:55 PM when TV broadcasting started. It was live until 11:00PM when the National Anthem was played, the test pattern, and then snow. Kent, with the Micronite Filter presents "The Web." Milton Berle was live, too. Now that's old! :yep: Old_Tex

magic452

04-20-09, 01:58 AM

I loved Crusader Rabbit but it came on about noon on a local station.
Also Stan Freeburg's " Time for Bennie" puppet show.
And for all you SiFi fans there was Commander Buzz Cory and the Space Patrol.
Also remember too many test patterns, many times right in the middle of a program.
First time I saw TV it was a big console with a 6" screen and a big bubble magnifying glass in front of it. Showed all those corny B&W westerns.
Got Victory at Sea on tape but I think I'll go to Wally World and get the DVDs

Magic

Munchausen

04-20-09, 02:44 PM

We had a Zenith TV....

Ours was an Admiral. Console. Combo radio and record player on the right (record storage space below), TV on the left (speaker below). Door closed so you couldn't tell it was a TV.

Friday night fights were the worst. Groucho was the best ... but came on too late at night. For the longest time, I thought Tom Corbett was real ... 'cause, in one episode, they made mention of an earlier episode (that kind of thing only happens in real life, right?).

Later, lots of good programs on during the daytime ... My Little Margie, Meet Mister McNulty, I Married Joan ... something with Peter Lawford. And, of course, Saturday morning westerns.

eljeffo41

04-20-09, 04:48 PM

Actually political correctness wasn't so much ignored,it simply hadn't been invented yet! People were so much more sensible back then.:know:

old_tex

04-20-09, 06:08 PM

Our first TV was a Philco 17" (Eat your hearts out) Our neighbor had a 21" RCA (round tube). My little brother used to watch Winky Dink on Saturday morning. There was a plastic sheet that stayed on the TV screen via static electricity. He would wipe it with a rag that generated static electicity and stick it on the screen. Then, using a grease pencil, he would draw the various shapes on the screen when instructed to and the cartoon would run through that "world." We only got two channels, both UHF. How things have changed. :salute: Old_tex

Vorkapitan

04-20-09, 07:33 PM

I watched quite a bit....really enjoyed it.

Jp

Tony845

04-21-09, 09:13 AM

The tv repairman knew all our names. Always had a case full of tubes with him. Amazed us how he could replace one of those things and the old b&w would come back to life. Combat! Popeye! The 20 Century with Walter Cronkite! Making me feel young again.:DL

old_tex

04-21-09, 10:23 AM

Cheyenne bodie, Bronco Lane, Maverick (Bret and Bart) and Sugarfoot. Now, I will return the Horizonal and Vertical to you. :03: Old_tex

AVGWarhawk

04-21-09, 10:35 AM

F-Troop and McKales Navy:D Rat Patrol!

Sailor Steve

04-21-09, 10:56 AM

Wanted, Dead or Alive! Have Gun, Will Travel. Dragnet (the original, not the 1968 sequel). Rawhide. And of course, Gunsmoke. Robin Hood. Tombstone Territory. Sherrif of Cochise. Branded. Disneyland (before it was Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color). The Rebel (Johnny Yuma). "From out of the blue of the western sky comes...Sky King!" Adventures in Paradise. Hawaiian Eye. 77 Sunset Strip (snap snap). Peter Gunn. And of course Perry Mason.

The list goes on, and that's just off the top of my head.

MonTana_Prussian

04-21-09, 04:54 PM

Bonanza,Wagon Train....

Sniper31

04-21-09, 04:56 PM

F-Troop and McKales Navy:D Rat Patrol!

I LOVED Rat Patrol! :rock:

MonTana_Prussian

04-21-09, 04:58 PM

Oh ,and can't forget Combat..with Vic Morrow...:salute:

Platapus

04-21-09, 07:03 PM

If you remember test patterns you will be my age or older.

:salute:

I never thought about that, but yeah, I imagine there is an entire generation (or two?) that have never seen a test pattern/tone.

How about station sign-ons and sign-offs?

Crikey we are old. :dead:

Platapus

04-21-09, 07:07 PM

Ok since we have some old guys/gals here, lemme ask a question.

Does anyone, who lived in the North East in the mid 60's remember a Kid's tv show that come on very early on Sunday. It was called the "Shhh" show because the first thing the announcer told you was to turn the volume down so as not to wake up your parents.

The show had cartoons and live action stuff for kids.

Anyone else remember this show? We were near Rochester New York.

The Frau does not believe this and thinks I am insane. :doh:

I need supporting evidence that this show did exist (I will address the insanity at a later date)

Munchausen

04-21-09, 09:38 PM

If you remember the name of the show, you probably can find a link to it on Wikipedia. I've found everything from Captain Z-Ro to Captain Satellite ... both were local SF Bay Area kids programs.

And, about Winky Dink, some of us couldn't afford the plastic screen overlay and had to use Saran Wrap instead. Trust me, it didn't work. Neither did trying to copy the secret messages on paper.

owner20071963

04-21-09, 09:42 PM

WOW never knew,
It was so Popular :salute:
Did I bring up Memorys here? :salute:

old_tex

04-22-09, 08:57 AM

In Albuquerque, KOB TV had a kids show called K Circle B, hosted by Dick Bills. It had cartoons, etc. and a "peanut gallery", too. There was a little-known guitar player who was Dick's cousin from Delight, Arkansas by the name of Glenn Campbell. :salute: Old_tex

MonTana_Prussian

04-22-09, 02:06 PM

PappyCain

04-22-09, 04:01 PM

How about Kukla, Fran And Ollie, Howdy Doody, Lassie, Annie Oakley, Flash Gordon, Time for Beany, The Paul Winchell Show, The Roy Rogers Show, The Rootie Kazootie Club, Winky Dink And You, Super Circus, Andy’s Gang, The Cisco Kid, Sky King, The Magic Clown, Kids And Company, Junvenile Jury, The Pinky Lee Show, The Sandy Becker Hour, Officer Joe Bolton.

When TV was live I watched a tough Kid from the Bronx slug down a glass of Ovaltine during a live TV commercial and rear his head back and the entire glass of Ovaltine shot out his nose all over Sandy Becker and then the peanut gallery - they shut the picture and left the sound and ol' Sandy was screamin swear' words so they shut the sound and the picture came on and the peanut gallery was all over the place running and the kid was vomiting. I never laughed so much in my life!!

:salute:

Munchausen

04-22-09, 06:34 PM

When TV was live I watched a tough Kid from the Bronx slug down a glass of Ovaltine during a live TV commercial and rear his head back and the entire glass of Ovaltine shot out his nose all over Sandy Becker and then the peanut gallery -

Fireman Frank (San Francisco) let a member of his "peanut gallery" sing the "kid's version" of the Bosco song. That was the last time we saw Fireman Frank (or Karl the Carrot) on TV.

Btw, you might be surprised how many of these programs can be viewed on YouTube (got a whole day to kill?) ... even a few commercials for Ovaltine ... attached to a few episodes of Captain Midnight (including one I actually remember watching).

owner20071963

04-22-09, 07:55 PM

Fireman Frank (San Francisco) let a member of his "peanut gallery" sing the "kid's version" of the Bosco song. That was the last time we saw Fireman Frank (or Karl the Carrot) on TV.

Btw, you might be surprised how many of these programs can be viewed on YouTube (got a whole day to kill?) ... even a few commercials for Ovaltine ... attached to a few episodes of Captain Midnight (including one I actually remember watching).

Very much true YouTube is the Future,
for Promoting,Videos,Websites,
Old shows like this,
Thanks to Paul for giving Us the Link,
Remembering his Father sitting with him
watching this Great TV Series,
I'm sure it brings up memories for all,
Lets not forget those who Died R.I.P,
I hope my Kids in 15 years time,
Watch this Series,Plus more linked to it,
Prevention of War,
Is better than the Casualty of War :salute: