Old TV series quiz

Reece · 08-16-11, 03:38 AM

Who can guess what series this was taken?
I used to watch it when I was a boy, so it's old:

Onkel Neal · 08-16-11, 09:24 AM

F Troop

Osmium Steele · 08-16-11, 09:28 AM

Lol, F-Troop was my first impression as well, but the insignia is all wrong.

Looks like a "futuristic" space show. Not sure I've ever watched it. Don't think it is american.

Come to think of it, the lightning bolt could make it a later Space Patrol episode?

Edit: NVM, it is Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Before even my time.

nikimcbee · 08-16-11, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

F Troop

So in other words, what you're saying is; "you're old?"

Sailor Steve · 08-16-11, 11:52 AM

Funny, I don't remember Rocky Jones, but I do remember Commando Cody.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045382/

Buddahaid · 08-16-11, 11:54 AM

It's American and I think it was 'Space Patrol'. It ran in the years just before I was born.

Jimbuna · 08-16-11, 12:05 PM

Never saw it...does that mean I was lucky?

Sailor Steve · 08-16-11, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Never saw it...does that mean I was lucky?

I don't know. I just wrote a couple of glowing reviews at Amazon for the 1943 Batman and 1948 Superman serials. Tacky? Yes. Cheesy? Without a doubt. That said, there was a simple earnestness about them that just tickles me. So innocent, yet so willing to try to be serious with what little they had to work with. I love 'em.

Jimbuna · 08-16-11, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I don't know. I just wrote a couple of glowing reviews at Amazon for the 1943 Batman and 1948 Superman serials. Tacky? Yes. Cheesy? Without a doubt. That said, there was a simple earnestness about them that just tickles me. So innocent, yet so willing to try to be serious with what little they had to work with. I love 'em.

The earliest my memory allows me to go back was the cinema on a Saturday morning watching the Flash Gordon episodes....black and white of course

Sailor Steve · 08-16-11, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

The earliest my memory allows me to go back was the cinema on a Saturday morning watching the Flash Gordon episodes....black and white of course

Of course. Are you memories good ones?

nikimcbee · 08-16-11, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Never saw it...does that mean I was lucky?

McBee interperation: Before your time= You are young.

Jimbuna · 08-16-11, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Of course. Are you memories good ones?

Oh most definitely...I remember the space ships depicted 'inflight' travelling along a horizontal wire that was clearly visible and with what looked like sparkler fireworks emitting supposed tail pipe 'flames'

FIREWALL · 08-16-11, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Oh most definitely...I remember the space ships depicted 'inflight' travelling along a horizontal wire that was clearly visible and with what looked like sparkler fireworks emitting supposed tail pipe 'flames'

Weren't the special effects Amazeing in those days. They threw budget costs to the wind.

Jimbuna · 08-16-11, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Weren't the special effects Amazeing in those days. They threw budget costs to the wind.

What is most worrying today is that you believed it was pretty close to real at the first time of viewing

vienna · 08-16-11, 02:27 PM

My, my...

By the above criteria of age, I must be fully ancient...

I remember watching television in my Irish grandparent's home in San Francisco. My family didn't yet have a set so l would watch my grandparent's set which had a black and white picture. The set was in a cabinet that stood about waist high and the screen was flat on the top and bottom and rounded on the left and right edge. I remember watching the "Mickey Mouse Club", "Crusader Rabbit", the original Jack LaLanne exercise shows, short 15 minute programs with performers like gospel singer Mahailia Jackson, and, on Friday nights, the Gillete boxing matches ("Look Sharp!, Feel Sharp!, Be Sharp!"). The above picture reminds me of a serial that ran on TV in the 1950's titled "Captain Midnight". Does aayone remember that show. Jet Jackson had a sidekick who would always say "The name's Mudd, Ichabod Mudd, two 'D's'"...

EDIT:

"Captain Midnight" also went by the title "Jet Jackson"...

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	My, my... By the above criteria of age, I must be fully ancient... I remember watching television in my Irish grandparent's home in San Francisco. My family didn't yet have a set so l would watch my grandparent's set which had a black and white picture. The set was in a cabinet that stood about waist high and the screen was flat on the top and bottom and rounded on the left and right edge. I remember watching the "Mickey Mouse Club", "Crusader Rabbit", the original Jack LaLanne exercise shows, short 15 minute programs with performers like gospel singer Mahailia Jackson, and, on Friday nights, the Gillete boxing matches ("Look Sharp!, Feel Sharp!, Be Sharp!"). The above picture reminds me of a serial that ran on TV in the 1950's titled "Captain Midnight". Does aayone remember that show. Jet Jackson had a sidekick who would always say "The name's Mudd, Ichabod Mudd, two 'D's'"... EDIT: "Captain Midnight" also went by the title "Jet Jackson"...