Any Fans Of "Fireball XL-5"?

[The Blowhard]

Another old show with a really cool theme song. Steve Zodiac rocked. There was nothing like those "puppetshows", like "Supercar", "Captain Scarlett" and the rest.

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"I don't wanna be a pinhead no more, I just met a Nurse that I could go for".

[Ralphy Ramone]

Of course I was a fan of those shows.Wasn't there also a monkey on fireball XL-5?I played Super Car in the tub all the time!Sssuuu...Super Car!!!

Here are some more old favs to "chew" on.

Colonel Bleep
Crusader Rabbit
Diver Dan
Beany and Cecil
Hersey's Adventures of
Tin Tin(with the Thompson Twins)
The Sandy Becker Show
Wonderama featuring
Sonny Fox
...and let us not forget
watching the great
Chuck Mc Cann reading the funnies with Alka Seltzers in his eyes or standing in a garbage can with crutches!

***Gabba Geeba***




Please let us Old Farts reminise in peace.It is all we have left.

"Float like a butterfly,sting like a bee,watch Al Dukes slip on his very own pee"

[ThePointer]

and don't forget Officer Joe Bolton or Captn Jack McCarthy

bringing those innate points out for sunlight

[Ralphy Ramone]

"8 bells and all is well"...sometimes.I saw Capt Jack in a store once.He must have been waiting for his wife or something,he was just standing there .I saw him and I guess my eyes widened up as I walked in the store.The jerk turned around,put his back towards me.
I would imagine he's dead,but I think if I ever saw him again,I would shove that bell right up his ass.


What a Wonderful World!

[The Blowhard]

Chuck Mc Cann reading the funnies with Alka Seltzers in his eyes

If I remember correctly, he was reading "Little Orphan Annie" LOL!
Chuck was one of my childhood heroes, along with Beachcomber Bill, The Merry Mailman, Officer Joe Bolton, Captain Jack McCarthy, Soupy Sales and Paul Winchell. Remember "Mack and Meyer"?

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

[Ralphy Ramone]

Mack and Meyer? Any relation to Black Tooth or White Fang?Please refresh my old 256 K core memory.

[The Blowhard]

"Mack and Myer" were a comedy team and they had a series on Channel 11 I guess in the mid 60's. I have to research this further. LOL!

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

[The Blowhard]

Oh yeah, never forget "Doodles Weaver"!

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

[Ralphy Ramone]

Didn't Doodles do(wow) a silent skit type feature?I always mixed him up with Jack Warner(??).He was the guy in the old commercial who sold Cracker Jacks to that kid who didn't have enough $$ in his pocket.


One of the original "Good Guys"

[The Blowhard]

The "Crackerjacks guy" was Jack Gilford.
Remember the dance contests on "Wonderama"?
The black kids ALWAYS won! LOL!

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

[Ralphy Ramone]

I found the"finding the right key for the treasure chest"game very stressful as a kid.


One of the original "Good Guys"

[Tall_James]

"Clutch Cargo" with the scary human lips on the cartoon heads was especially creepy.

Me, I just loved watching the Cap'n introducing Little Rascal cartoons.

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I'm looking down your blouse right now and you don't even know it.

[The Blowhard]

Remember "Diver Dan"?

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"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

[Frank Black]

loved that show!

BELIEVE

[Roadgirl3]

OhmyGod - finally - you mentioned almost every favorite show I ever watched - are you my long lost twin? What about the Merry Mailman & Officer Joe Bolton? Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog? I loved Colonel Bleep - he was cool...Thanks for a little nostalgia...

Go tell someone who cares...

[high fly]

Loved the Diver Dan, though I only recall one plot.
Diver Dan would go down and get stuck in some shipwreck and almost run out of air before he got out of the jam.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[high fly]

Also dug:
Deputy Dawg
Hecules
Crusader Rabbit
Quickdraw McGraw
Top Cat-- he was my favorite cartoon character after Popeye

" and they ask me why I drink"

[INFOSTUD]

Fireball XL-5 was a great show. It was Gerry Anderson's first venture into Supermarionation. The Thunderbirds was even better. All his shows had the coolest opening theme [songs]. There's an Orbitz commercial that uses Supermatrionation.

All the Tracy brothers were named after the first astronauts.

Supercar, Stingray and Captain Scarlet were good too. I got all theme songs on a CD that I play in my car.

There was a time when actual effort was put into the production of shows for television.

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[Ralphy Ramone]

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Try this link.It always puts a smile on my face.

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It

[Bill From Yorktown]

preferred Thunderbirds

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[WA2UCH]

<font style="font-size: 9px" face="Verdana">quote: </font>&quot;8 bells and all is well&quot;...sometimes.I saw Capt Jack in a store once.He must have been waiting for his wife or something,he was just standing there .I saw him and I guess my eyes widened up as I walked in the store.The jerk turned around,put his back towards me. I would imagine he's dead,but I think if I ever saw him again,I would shove that bell right up his ass. What a Wonderful World! <p><br /><font size="3">I know where you are coming from.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was back in 1969 or 70 when I was part of the &quot;Fun and Games Day Special&quot; on WPIX.&nbsp; Joe Bolton (sweet man) and Captain Jack were the hosts.&nbsp; I went to Jack to ask for his autograph during a break.&nbsp; He told me &quot;go away kid&quot;.&nbsp; What a jerk.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="3">I would love to help you shove that bell up his ass but he died in the mid 1990's.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p>