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Here ya go - a cover version!
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Isnât that transformer constructicons?
There was one like voltron but had kind of a lion theme⌠or maybe that was voltron.
Oh myâŚ
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Used to watch The Beatles cartoon show religiously.
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Standard Saturday morning fare.
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Some of my favourites: Itâs A Knockout, The Early Bird Show, He-Man, Scooby Doo, and this after school classicâŚPugwall.
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Is TV better than it used to be?
If you count those bullshit talent and reality shows as TV, then absolutely not.
If you donât count them, then absolutely not.
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Still one of the very best TV series ever made in England.
Itâs a knock out was fantastic, whole family had a team, four of us, NSW,VIC,WAQLD
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Called Captain Midnight in the US l knew it as Jet Jackson, aka SQ1. Jackson was one of those granite jawed heroes, with a sawn off sidekick Ichabod Mudd (With 2 dâs he would tell the villains whenever they asked), aka SQ2. Jacksonâs most well used line was, âWarm up the Silver Dart Ikky,â in reference to his plane. He was also backed up by a nerd in lab coat who was only ever known as SQ3. Years later at high school we watched a chem teacher crossing the school grounds to the lab, and someone called him SQ3. I cracked up over that one and ever since, whenever l see a nerdy looking guy in a lab coat, l silently call them SQ3.
66 years ago today, September 22, 1957, Maverick premiered. It is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962 on ABC.
Maverick initially starred James Garner as poker player Bret Maverick. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and for the remainder of the first three seasons, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Maverick brothers were both poker players from Texas who traveled the American Old West by horseback and stagecoach, and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. Though the Mavericks were quick to claim they were motivated by money, and made a point of humorously emphasizing their supposed belief in cowardice and avoiding hard work, in many episodes they would find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. Their consciences always trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intrinsically ethical, although they were not above trying to fleece someone who had clearly proven themselves to be fundamentally dishonest or corrupt.
When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, after which he enjoyed a successful film career, Roger Moore was added to the cast as cousin Beau Maverick. As before, the two starring Mavericks would generally alternate as series leads, with an occasional âteam-upâ episode. Partway through the fourth season, Garner look-alike Robert Colbert replaced Moore and played a third Maverick brother, Brent. No more than two series leads (of the four total for the run of the series) ever appeared together in the same episode, and most episodes featured only one. All two-Maverick episodes included Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick. For the fifth and final season, the show returned to a âsingle Maverickâ format as it had been originally in the first seven episodes, with all the remaining new episodes starring Kelly as Bart. The new episodes, however, alternated with reruns from earlier seasons starring Garner as Bret.
Budd Boetticher directed the first three episodes of the first season until sharply disagreeing with Huggins about Maverickâs philosophy, which resulted in Boetticher assigning Bret Maverickâs scripted lines to supporting characters and filming the result, thereby attempting to change the whole series by making Maverick into a more conventional Western hero as found in the earlier Boetticher-directed series of classic Western theatrical films starring Randolph Scott.
Robert Altman wrote and directed the fourth season episode titled âBolt from the Blueâ starring Roger Moore as Beau Maverick.
The show was part of the Warner Bros. array of TV Westerns, which included Cheyenne with Clint Walker, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, Lawman with John Russell, Bronco with Ty Hardin, The Alaskans with Roger Moore, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins.
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Apologies if this has been posted.
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and this
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