Best Classic Primetime TV Shows: Our Dream Weekly Lineup

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Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High, the cast that takes you back. Got another awesome one for you today. What we're gonna do is our ultimate seven-day prime time television lineup. And with that being said, I will definitely get a little more in depth with that in a moment. But of course, as always, I have the boys with me here today. Hello, Dungo. He what's up? And Kevin. Hello! And of course, Brother Matt Fantastic then! Met a boy. And as always, we love to get going right out of the gate. But of course, before we do so, Kevin has his shout-outs.

Well, we want to welcome our new friends in Royal Oak, Michigan, Woodbury, New Jersey, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and Montrechade, France. Right in the heart of the French country.

Nice. And some neighbors too in mass. Yes. All right. We have a name for them, but we won't use it.

We don't have to. We love you guys.

Sure. Oh too funny. Awesome. So just to explain this a little more in depth, we're going to go Sunday through Saturday, and we're each gonna pick the show we would like to watch on that particular night. There are millions of these, so I'm sure this can go really deep and uh have lots of episodes doing it. But uh it's gonna be fun because there's just so many incredible shows, and to hear the different opinions from everyone is gonna be great as well. So today, Kevin, you have the on hairs.

My word. So I will start on Sunday night, and kind of the genesis of this thought was my childhood as many out there, and many of us have talked about. Uh, my home was not the most fun place. We were we were not the Brady bunch. There was to win. But on Sunday night, I think all of the disagreements were kind of set aside for a little bit, and we would turn on the wonderful world of Disney. Oh, yeah. Yep. It was the wonderful world of Disney from 69 to 79. The show actually started under different names in 54 and ran till last year, and they're talking about bringing it back, I believe. Um, it was fun because you know, for Disney, they didn't have to really, they they rehashed some things, but they just took stuff out of their catalog and played them like streaming does now. But it was more fun back then because younger people don't know this. But uh, you saw a movie in the theater, if you missed it, you never saw it again. Exactly. It was it was gone. Um, so they weren't they weren't like you know, it wasn't Star Wars, but it was, you know, the computer war tennis sneakers or or Herbie the Love Bug.

Have you ever seen that car before? No. Oh, I have. Hey, he's a cute little fella.

There isn't a driver in the world who can get that speed out of a car like that. He's done something to it.

Yeah.

Or something like, you know, that 10 years earlier you would have gone to the theater to see. So you got to see like a Hollywood production movie on Sunday night, and then they did a lot with the cartoons and they did behind the scenes stuff, and you got to see stuff inside Disneyland or Disney World or whichever one was hopping at the time. And uh it was just really cool. And like I said, it was it was one of those moments for me that it was kind of like relaxed and family time in a home that didn't really have a whole bunch of that.

Right. Yeah, oh, that's awesome. I mean, it's so true too when you think about it. Like to watch a movie was such it was an event. Yeah, like you were so pumped about it. Like I I remember just falling asleep all the time. I used to hate myself because I'd friggin' fall asleep and miss it after waiting and waiting. But yeah, just that anticipation is huge. That's awesome.

I still remember, was it a like a fairy or something that ring or whatever? Tinkerbell.

She's still the Disney girl. Yeah.

Okay, well I just I remember that. Sunday nights.

Absolutely. Good times. Good pick. Awesome.

That's to you, brother. All right. Well, this is uh gonna sound very simple, but it has to had to be. It's Sunday night football on ESBN that uh I believe started in 1987. It finally went to NBC not until 2006.

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But it was without all the pomp and circumstance from back in the day, I mean, that we have now. And you had Mike Patrick, Joe Seisman, and Paul McGuire. Patrick was the play-by-play guy, and going into it, you'd had Tom Jackson and Chris Berman doing all the highlights of the day. Right. And it was to me, appointment viewing.

He might go off the way.

He could go all the way nice.

Yeah, so I mean, it was again, it was stripped down. It just wasn't with two-hour pregames. I like the announcers very much so. I thought Joe Theisman was great when he started. Um, Paul McGuire was it wasn't Chris Collinsworth being biased.

No, didn't break on you.

Yeah, Theisman was good. Mike Patrick was a good play-by-play guy. And so yeah, and it was just- I mean, the Patriots weren't great at the time, they were serviceable, if you will, you know, nine and seven type of years. Right. That kind of thing, but I just really enjoyed it. So in fact, I think that's what I watched the game against the Chargers that you went to, Donnie. I believe it was a 41-7 win or 45 to 7, whatever. You know, that might have been the time when you had the the whole thing with the Budweiser as your baby. That video which was the most glittering thing I've ever seen in my life.

No, I wish I still had that, but yeah.

I don't know if it maybe it wasn't a night game, but it's whatever. I had to bring that up.

So I was I was in San Diego. Uh that's when I was stationed in San Diego for a short time, and I was watching the games at like 11 in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, which was kind of hard to read. That's very weird. 10 in the morning, really, right? Yeah, it was I think it was 10. Yeah.

Three hours.

So awesome.

So yeah, I that's was appointment viewing for me on Sundays.

So do they move that one around, Mark, or was that always on Sundays?

Oh, you eye souls. Well, a lot of the shows that I picked did move around, but if they did air on the night that I wanted, I picked it. Did anyone mention that we're not supposed to pick any of the shows that we have picked from former episodes or prior episodes?

That way people aren't saying, I can't believe they didn't say this is true. Good point, brother. So yeah, we we're trying not to do repeats from the past because obviously, like you just said, Dongo, there's gonna be shows out there that people are gonna say that. What the fuck? How did they not take this? Well, because we already did and we spoke about it in the past. All right, so that's to me, and now I'm kind of screwed because I had two written down here, but knew for certain the first one would be picked already, and it wasn't. But I'm not taking it. I'm not, I'm going with my gut. I'm gonna go with a show that aired from 1979 to 1984 at eight o'clock on NBC, and it's called Real People.

Hello, America from Amherst, Massachusetts, and welcome to Real People.

Tonight, live from NBC in Bourbon, with videotape and film insert from practically every place else, NBC presents real people.

Now, I went with this because if you think about nowadays, this is the catalyst. It was just real people, you know, non-celebrities in unique occupations or hobbies, and it's like I said, a catalyst to what everyone is doing today on YouTube. Yes, or that as well, and TikTok. It people like you said with Disney Kevin, they couldn't just watch that any moment of the day. So you had one hour a week where you watch this panel of hosts show this shit and joke about it and have fun about it and just stupid shit like a squirrel waterskiing with a guy, you know, just stuff like that. Yeah, that squirrel can waterski.

His name is Nutty the Squirrel, and he's three years old. How about that? That squirrel can waterski.

But anyway, just and up next, yeah, a man that makes dildos out of used railroad ties, right?

Yeah, and uh evil can evil type of people jumping shit on motorcycles, and it was just a real fun show. And what's funny to me about it is how well I remember it as such a little kid. I loved that one. I will at the end of the show bring up my original if it doesn't come up again, but real people. Skip Stevenson, yeah, right?

And they had like a news desk, right, where they'd where they'd talk and do little bits and then go to the clips of the people. I want I looked for a clip of it because that was definitely on my short list. There was something that my family laughed about for years, and it was Fred Willard guested on the show once in a while, and he did this story about I can't even remember what what it was, but the gist of it was this Italian guy just saying, No problem, move in with us. No problem, move in with us, and it goes through this whole thing into like there's no room in the house or something. I can't remember the punchline, but we just laughed about that for years, and it just became like the sayings, you know what I mean? That you say with your buddies, but it was actually with with my family, we would that phrase would come up all the time, and it was from that show.

Oh great. That's awesome.

All right, Dongo, we're off to you. Cool, and I I tried to make it ones that I actually watched, um, because didn't really start watching you know primetime TV until probably 1980, I think it was-ish, you know, uh, maybe some 70s in there a little bit, but for the most part. Um, so I started with Ripley's Believe It or Not, which was a revival of a very you know classic because it had been going on for decades as far as like uh almost like a comic book series, yep. Um, very popular comic book. And uh the one that I remember was from 1982 to 1986 on ABC at 7 p.m. on Sunday, and it had the uh very unique, distinct character Jack Pallance, who has a wonderful voice, you know. The strange, the bizarre, the unexpected.

These are the kinds of subjects a man named Robert L. Ripley challenged us to believe it or not.

Yeah. He's got that voice that's believe it or not. Believe it or not. Classic voice, you know, traumatic. Yeah, and just cool, like, you know, kind of like X-Files type of things, like aliens and Sasquatch and weird shit, you know. Cool shit, unique stuff.

Yeah. Well, I mean, uh that I mean, Ripley's, believe it or not, must have been around for a long time because it was a three stooges episode where Mo gets on the phone and he goes, Get me Ripley. Yeah, believe it or not. Yeah, right.

That comic goes way back in the same vein as like uh Guinness Brooker World's Records kind of thing. Yeah. So anything that had been, you know, peculiar or you know, you know, like like Bigfoot and you know, stuff like that, you know.

Like the guy who stretched his earlobes around his toes. Fucked up stuff, really. Yeah, yeah. Supernatural, everything. Awesome, nice pick, Dongo. All right, back to you, Kev, for number uh for Monday night. For Monday night. I gotta remember that.

All right. Um, this ran from 67 to 78, and it was a variety kind of show, and definitely one of the best ones. Uh, the Carol Burnett show was just fantastic.

From television to Hollywood show from Harvard One.

I mean, she was amazing. They did so many takeoffs and spoofs on movies, TVs, commercials, little skits that were hilarious. The the biggest ones that you always see are are are her doing Gone with the Wind and she's got the the drapes for her dress, and every and everybody on the show is losing it. And Tim Conway, who was absolutely hilarious, would go off script and just bust everybody up. And there's so many clips that you can look up that are just absolutely fantastic. My favorite one, and I think a lot of people would agree with this, is where Harvey Corman, also known as Hedley Lamar and Count DeMoney, um that's Count the Money, uh, who was needed a dentist. So he gets he ends up getting Tim Conway. It's a weekend or something, he's like an apprentice dentist, and he goes to put the NovaCane in Harvey Cormann's mouth, and he gets his arm. And so he's he's flopping his arm around trying to do the remove the tooth, and then he ends up getting he he ends up numbing his whole body. He's on the floor.

Boy, this is gonna hurt. Doctor, if it's gonna hurt, please give me something to kill the pain. Yeah. Okay, well, that's a no a cane right here. And uh hold on that now. Let's see how this works here. Okay, no cane. Take a firm hold of the hypodermic needle. Right. There'll be a little bit of pain and then numbness of setting.

The problem was just so friggin' hilarious. And it was even more hilarious because you knew when you were watching it that it was only going to be a matter of time before he would break everybody else up on the on the cell phone. Yeah. And it just was so good.

Sorry, I didn't uh well now that'll be $20. So good.

Parents watched that. We I well, I watched it with my mom and dad all the time.

Yeah, it's one of those ones that I remember as a child watching. You know, me too. Loving it.

Yeah, even the humor is a kid, you know, clipped.

And what a trio. Good, good dude, you know.

He had a he had a license plate that was 13 weeks because that's as long that was the first season that they'd sign on because he did that many. He was so funny they kept giving him shows to do, but they'd cancel him after 13 weeks because he couldn't get any traction with him. He just for some reason they and and there's one where he's a private detective, and you can watch him now, and he still has sparks where he's funny, but they just didn't carry through as as shows. You can see why they never got renewed.

Right. Wow. One of the best trios in comedy ever, though. Yeah, friggin' hilarious.

Vicky Lawrence and uh Lyle Wagner. Right. Um, yeah, great cast.

Unbelievable. They were just so spectacular. Awesome pick. That was on my short list, Kev. Sweet. All right, Mark, to you.

Okay, Monday night on USA Network from 1985 to 1993. It is WWF Primetime Wrestling. Yes, um. It started off with, I believe it was Jack Reynolds with Jesse Ventura, and then Monsoon, Gorilla Monsoon, joined Jesse. And then finally, Bobby the Brain Heen came on.

I'm Gorilla Monsoon. I'm your host, Bobby the Brain Heenan. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first edition of Primetime Wrestling for 1988. Brain, this has got to be better for you than 1987. 1987 was disastrous. Wasn't a great year, no. Still got that horse collar on and you're still grilling me about a dog? No. Stay off that subject.

It was comedy banter gold. Every friggin' episode. I mean, I didn't watch for the for the matches. I watched for the the fun in between, you know what I mean? And I mean, they went at each other big time. They were putting on the facade that they couldn't stand each other. In real life, they were just really close friends, and you could tell they were just having the time of their lives, you know? It was spectacular. And he they would go to places like Toronto or whatever, they're just showing the whole card, and they were like mid-matches, nothing incredible. They did finally in 1993, what replaced it was Monday Night Raw, back when they said Ra is war. But again, comedy gold. I enjoyed it so immensely, and I still do to this day. In fact, I want to bring up one little part where Bobby Heen brings in his doctor because he's they they they're claiming he's gold bricking, which means faking an injury. And he brings in this guy, Dr. Von Bradenberg from Düsseldorf, Germany. And yeah, he says it's okay. Your neck, it's not broken, it's only fractured. And so, I mean, as that is the same thing, right? At least that's what Monsoon was trying to tell him. Broken means fractured, or fractured means broken. And he ended up leaving, he came out with a dos sound.

Please don't draw me no diaphragms, huh? What's the name of the dog?

Yeah. You know, he got Monsoon says, You come out with a Dachshund, you're talking to a gorilla, and you're treating a weasel. What are you, a veterinarian? Do I have to put up with this? No, you don't, Doctor. It was just so funny.

Oh, they were gold together for sure. And you brought this up, I think, in the past, Mark, but when they did uh, I think it was gorilla's induction. I I don't know if it was the induction of the Hall and Fame.

It was Heenan's induction. And he said, It was Heenan's, okay. Yeah, I just wish Monsoon was here. I mean, he was tearing up.

Yeah, it's just an honor. And it's a real privilege to be here in front of all you people and in New York City.

And only one thing's missing. I wish Monsoon was here.

How would I know monsoon? Exactly.

Oh, that was Jesse, but uh how would I know? Awesome. All right, well, sorry, Dongo. Um, to me on Monday night. We have discussed this in the past, but it has not yet been picked. This is a series that ran on NBC from 1974 to 1983 at 8 p.m., an hour long, and that is Little House on the Prairie. This show to me, I picked it in the past as you know, Charles Ingalls as my favorite dad, but it's just such a heartfelt show to me. Part of my love for it is how that's kind of how I think I'd like to live at times. Just fishing in the crick. The crick. Just old school, you know, farm life. And I mean, it was a struggle a lot of the time, but they just had good people on the show. Edwards was always my favorite. It's just it's really Really wholesome. Wholesome as can be, and just a great family. And I love the show. I hate the Fargan Olsons, but that was just gonna say I love the Olsons.

Like there was really um it was only one, it was the Harriet, whatever her name was. The mother. Yeah. Oh, she I would say that she's probably Nels was amazing. He was such a nice man. Oh, he was awesome. And Nelly turned into a nice person. Like Nellie matured. She was a miserable child. Yes. Oh, she was. But she did she did mature and she grew out of it. Quite nice. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Well, I I you can add, you know, I have the the Moolah, fabulous Moolah. I have Wichie Pooh. You can add Mrs. Olsen to my list of the most attractive women out there. Or trunch bald. You can put him in there, her in there, too.

Oh Victor French was amazing. I think that's his. Oh, it is. Yes. Edwards just unbelievable. Because you watched the new one, and there's no there's no replacing that character. No. Like if they were gonna make him that he was so charismatic and just you know looked awesome, sounded awesome. Yeah, you know, fried in the pan in a wagon.

Yeah, he was awesome. He loved half pint, too. Yeah.

Oh Dan Tucker's fine, old man, walks his face in a frying pan. Oh meet her with the wagon wheel. Time with a two big and easy wheel.

But yeah, such a wholesome show. Love it. Hate the new one. I'll leave it at that and go to you, Dongo.

All right. So I had a bunch that uh I thought were gonna be snagged up, so now I gotta kind of like I know. And I think I'm gonna go with another kind of reality type of TV show that was on NBC in 1984, and it's TV bloopers and practical jokes with Ed McMahon and Dick Clark.

Today's question of the day is what's the most important thing a pervert can give their children, a parent can give their children?

Welcome to TV's bloopers and practical jokes.

It's on at 8 p.m. on Monday night. And uh, you know, nowadays, like anybody north of, you know, born north of 1995, uh, you know, lives in the era of the internet and and YouTube, and you can catch bloopers and practical jokes and all kinds of stuff on scrolling on your phone, you know, TikTok and all that stuff. It's all kind of based off of this kind of stuff. But back then, before the internet, it was funny to see outtakes and and funny things and people getting you know cranked and those kinds of things. Uh it's so common nowadays, but back then it was pretty amazing. And it it was uh you know, much watch TV for me back then.

Absolutely, yeah, and not only that, Dongo, but back then the hosts were great. Yeah, you know, it nowadays they get so corny, like on America's funniest home videos and stuff, they just get they try to be funny and they're not. Back then it was funny, yeah. Yeah, awesome pick. All right, Kev, let's go to Tuesday night.

Tuesday night. Now, I'm gonna take this 76 to 83, a spin-off. My love for this show, although the two starring actresses were great, but that's not why I love the show. I love the supporting cast. I'm talking about Laverne and Shirley. Oh, yeah, who were amazing. They really did. They had great chemistry, they were great, but to me, I absolutely loved Lenny and Squiggy. Yeah, they were the most hilarious because they'd always walk in, they'd say something, and they'd walk in at the you know, hello. How and you know, the the band that they had, Lenny and the Squig Tones, um, literally evolved into Spinal Taps. Yes. Michael McKean took that and and moved on to uh I don't know why they didn't bring David Landers in on that, but uh Christopher Guest was actually playing guitar with them when they were Lenny and the Squigtones. So that's yeah, yeah, that later more and they were on American bandstand as Lenny and the Squigtones.

Squiggy, it's indeed an honor to have you here.

It's indeed an honor to be had here. Thank you very much. Lenny, nice to see you.

Do you think you think I'm gonna be in trouble because I said forget your co-stars? I mean, we all know it's really your show.

Nobody's gonna forget him for a minute.

We should make it clear. We are Lenny and Squiggy, we are real. But LaBerne and Shirley are not real people. They're nice people, but they're actress people. They're Penny Marshalls and Cindy Williams.

And there was the the writing was hilarious. The the songwriting was just would crack you up. But they were just so amazing on that show. They were they were secondary characters that really took over the show at points. Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah.

But the whole show was solid, and you know, from Carmine Ragusa to uh Frank, um Laverne's dad that had the pizza place and all that. They were just it was just memorable characters and and they were fun, at least until they moved from uh New York to LA. It was kind of like ridiculous. I thought they were in Milwaukee. Oh, Milwaukee, you're right. I'm sorry, it was Milwaukee. To LA, yeah. Yes, but yeah, they moved out to the West Coast, and it it was kind of like kind of like happy days. Yeah, it was kind of like happy days jumping the shark. It was like yeah, we're we're done here, but we're gonna try to keep resuscitating.

And they failed, you're right. Right.

And I won't sing it, but probably one of the most memorable themes.

Exactly.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, schlameal.

Was it Schlitz?

What what was the company? Shots. It was a it was a take on thing. I don't because they didn't have people didn't do marketing deals back then like they would have. So they goofed on Schlitz with shots.

I can just see her putting a glove on the bottle.

Yes, right? I mean, iconic.

Awesome pick. Oh, I love that show. Yes. All right, brother. That's Tuesday to you.

Tuesday night. Okay, this is one of those shows that famously moved around a lot. It ran from March of 1997 all the way to November of 03. A show based on a magazine called Flush Magazine. It's just shoot me. And this show was fucking hilarious. You had David Spade, he was kind of a geeky, like, I don't know. Um Wendy Malik, who was Nina. She kind of had something, you know, like a friggin' stick-up her ass a little bit. Maya and George Siegel played Maya's father, Jack. Maya came in through Jack, and it was just great fun. You know, they would keep showing the the magazine with the covers. It was you know, like a cosmopolitan, one of those things, one of those things that would make us dumber if we read it. But just h hilarious, and every time I watch it, I laugh. So that's a good one.

That's a good one. That's one of one of my one of my favorite episodes of that. If I'm not walking on your mark. No, go ahead. These two models, because Spade was always trying to get with the models. Oh, yeah. And these two models promised they'd have a menage a toit with him if he did their to-do list, like picking up their picking up their dry cleaning, this, that, and the other thing. So they do this montage with no audio, just him walking around, and you see him like asking a cop for something he needed, and the cop's like, get out of here. And he's like, No, these, you know, you can see he's like, These two models are gonna have a three-way with me if I get this. So all the guys help him to get him to that point, which is right with bro code, right? If your brother's on the way to a three-way, you're gonna help him out. And that was just one of the most hilarious scenes.

Go do it! Give me those keys! How are you gonna get all that done? I'm a frustrated male secretary, God owes me. Sorry, sorry, please, sorry. Sorry, I need this renewed right away.

This is not your passport, sir.

Yes, it is.

You look nothing like the uh woman in this picture, ma'am.

Well, thanks for the dig. But if you could just snappy snappy.

Sir, only the holder of a passport can have it renewed. It's a strict policy.

Please, you have no idea how important this is.

If you were the president of the United States and it was a matter of national security, I still couldn't help you.

Sir, if I get this passport renewed, I have a chance to make every man's dream come true. Two women?

Give me the paper, sir. Get this man through.

From that show. I loved it. I loved it. That's awesome.

Great show. All right, so that's Tuesday to me. And wow, this one had a big bouncing night, and I have three shows on my board. Uh, and I'm struggling. I'm gonna mention one because I know nobody's bringing it up now. But Mark, I had Tuesday night titans on there. Oh, you did with Lord Alfred Hayes.

Oh, that show was that was great, but I didn't want to pick two wrestling ones in a row.

Yeah, but that was I'm gonna go with an the one I originally planned on because the other one might come up again. I'm going with Fred Savage in the Wonder Years. Oh, yeah.

What would you do if I sang out of tune? Will you stand up and walk out on me? Let me all ears, and I'll sing you a song. I will try not to sing out of king.

This is nineteen eighty-eight to nineteen ninety-three and just incredible. It's such a coming-of-age show with just great family matters in it, and funny as hell, but really deep. It got really deep, and I I I forget the age that it started and ended at, but you know, elementary in the middle, and just so much fun and so deep. One of my favorite episodes is when uh Kevin and Paul went camping with this kind of bully kid, you know, rough around the edges, and they were drinking beer, and it just made me think of my childhood a lot. But this show was so important because the narration of it was perfect. And the dad, I forget his friggin' name right now, but the dad was spectacular. Yeah, yes, he was such a ball breaker.

The brunette chick, I mean, you she was really young, but she you know Winnie Cooper. Winnie Cooper, yeah. So I'm gonna play Dave Latour for a minute. Remember how he did the uh Ferris Bueller's day off thing with the Detroit Red Wing shirt that only well half of us got right, and uh um I won't say who got it wrong. But anyway, what jacket did uh Savage always wear?

Was it a Dodgers one? No, it was blue, it was blue.

It was the New York Jets.

All right, fuck you then.

You picked the show, I think.

I know, but I didn't watch it recently. Still the 1980s.

What was that? Something prompting. Yeah, because that was during the 80s, but I think it was AJ, it was based in the late 60s.

Oh, yeah. It was just fun and the dead. Because that was the last time that the Jets won anything. Yes, exactly.

And then it'll be the last time they ever do.

The dad just had such a good heart, but at the same time, he was also really rough around the edges. I'm coming home from work, don't fucking bother me.

Time for a meaningful father-son exchange here. A thoughtful summing up.

I get up at five in the morning, I fight traffic, I bust my hump all day, I fight traffic again, and I come home. Then I pay my taxes.

In a way, it kind of made you feel like you knew the guy.

I love the show, so I went with it. And I'll go to you, Dongo.

Cool, man. Uh, so this kind of ties in with my pick from a couple weeks ago where I got uh some complaints, people's not complaints, but uh people were disappointed that I said that I was I regretted becoming a paramedic, which I did not You didn't say I I I'm glad I was a paramedic. Uh and but I would do things differently if I were to do it all over again, but that's that. But anyways, this also ties it in with like gotta tie it to track. Scotty, beat me up. Uh with the Shat, you know, Bill Shatner. Love him, and I loved him on Rescue 911.

Yeah. Sometimes a decision made in an instant can drastically affect the lives of those around us. I'm William Shatner. Tonight, true stories of caring people who make a difference on Rescue 911.

It was an awesome show. It was on CBS, started 1989, went to August 1996. It was 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, and just showed, like, you know, real life. Some of it was real, you know, recordings were real. They had interviews with the real dispatchers and stuff. Because dispatch is is, you know, they don't get a credit. Um, they do God's work, and sometimes they have they go through the same PTSD and all that stuff that a lot of first responders go through. People don't realize that because they hear the tragedies on the phone, and oftentimes they don't they don't get follow-up on any of it. Like sometimes in EMS, we we could get follow-up through the hospital and doctors and find out hey, how'd that guy do and how'd the kid do? And all that kind of stuff. And that makes a big difference. But sometimes if you're left not knowing, that can leave a big hole in your heart. But, anyways, it was an awesome show. It it it educated people, like they said, a lot of people learned simple first aid from that show, which was awesome. Um, and just the simplicity of hammering home 911 because who is gonna remember their local police department, fire department number? Yeah, right. You call 911 in an emergency. You know, you might people probably ended up doing operator in the old days, and the operator would get them to where they needed to go. But I mean, just having that quick 911 get you to a trained dispatcher who could get people wheels rolling in a timely fashion was awesome. It was a great show.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Donnie. That was that was narrated by William Shatner, right? And it was it was real life um yes incidents that happened.

Yes, and sometimes some of the incidents they would, you know, maybe reenactments stage, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Incredible show. Yeah, cool show.

I wonder, I wonder if that was the one we used to joke about a clip of a guy calling 911, and he's like, and my tongue is talking with me then.

And the guy's like, Diane, have you been beaten badly? On the evening of August 16th, 1991, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Dwayne Della was babysitting his two-year-old niece, Melissa.

Hey, Mosa were watching TV, and then um, I walked into the kitchen to get some ice cream. I opened the freezer door. I reached into the back, then like I sort of stuck my tongue out and it got stuck by accident. And then I called 911.

911 emergency.

They were in serious trouble. I thought Jafima was being beat up or be stabbed, or even worse, my first inclination was to get to call Trey so can help to the person.

He was going for an ice cream bar in the freezer and had his tongue out and stuck into the frozen metal. So he's on 911. And my tongue and tongue in the Diane, is your husband still in the house?

Awesome. Before I go to you, Kev, I want to bring one more thing up, Dongo. I always give props to Eddie Trunk, but he mentioned, I believe, yesterday on his show that William Shatner is 95 years old, I think he says. I saw that. All right. Yeah. And I'm actually looking really forward to hearing it. Because how kick ass is that? But he's still into that. That age. I mean, think about it. All I can think of every time I say that age is you, Kev, with the life's too long or whatever you say.

I was like, taking too damn long.

You know, but this guy is just still thriving and loving it.

What was the big hit he had the remake he had back in the day, Dawn? It was huge because he did it as William Shatner. We'll we'll plug it in, yeah. Yeah, yeah, plugged out because it's great. So it's it's the long-awaited follow-up to that. Whatever.

I almost went because like in the end of June, that just past June, he was at the Ticonderoga, this the Star Trek set. I almost went because he was doing a doing an in-person thing there. Um, because it's not going to be too many more of those, you know, at 95. He's still kicking and doing well, but he's probably healthier than I am, right?

There's some guys I know that that went to that a couple times, and they actually got to eat dinner with Chekhov. He was coming back to the table with with his plate, and they were like, Oh, can we just say hi to you for me? And sat down and ate with him. He's I don't like those people. I didn't want to sit with the rest of the cast.

Too funny. It's awesome. Awesome. All right, we are to Wednesday, Kevin.

Wednesday. All right. This is a I think this is the latest one for me. Um, ran from 89 to 97. Uh Craig T. Nelson as coach. Um, yes. Figureback, whatever, however you say his name. It was, you know, I mean, obviously his most famous role is Patrick on uh SpongeBob. Dauber, yeah. Yeah, Dauber. Uh, and and oh my god, really, I I think that Jerry Van Dyke was the center of that. Dauber was great, but Luther was just, he was so dumb.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner tonight in our guest score winner state contest. Correct me predicting today's score of Iowa 44 and Minnesota State 3 was Luther Van D.

I've never won anything in my life.

And it was so wonderful. It was like almost like Coach on Cheers back in the back in the day.

That's a good analogy.

Kind of that same character that was just a little punch drunk, maybe took one too many hits in the head or something. But um just it was one of those ones that was still kind of had that warmth and and greatness of of the early 80s uh sitcoms, and and that one just it still it was like it captured that like a lot of the ones after didn't. And again, one of my absolute favorite ones is the the college that they're teaching at gets a new dean or president of the college, and it turns out to be somebody that coach had had a one-night stand with. It was a woman, and he had a one night stand with her like 20 years earlier. So he goes, Yeah, he's goes, he's telling he's like he's scared of what's gonna happen. So he's telling probably Dauber and Luther. So we we hooked up in a in a motel room, and I got up in the morning and I just wanted to get out of there. So I told her I was going to get a bucket of ice down at the you know at the concessions at the at the ice machine. And he's like, I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have to sit down and talk to her. So when he finally has to go into her office and meet with her, he walks in with like a hotel bucket of ice.

Oh no.

Yes, Randall.

Uh Dr. Teeksbury, Coach Fox, is here to see you.

Thank you, Randall. Send him in.

Oh, there you are. Machine is further than the home.

Well, that's good, Hayden. So you do remember.

Yeah, well, I'm just trying to think of something to keep this light, you know.

And he's like, man, those lines are long on Sunday. 20 years later. It's just friggin' hilarious.

Awesome. That's great. Craig T. Nelson was just such a man's man. Yeah. Even on uh even on Sheldon, like the new Young Sheldon. Young Sheldon. Yeah. He owns a sporting goods store. He's still cool at his older age, just a man's man. And he sure was in that show. And what a great guest.

Yeah, that was that was uh Nemois's boyfriend.

Please don't draw me no diaphragms, huh?

So but great pick. That's an awesome, awesome show. All right, Mark, Wednesday to you.

Well, Wednesday, that is the night that my now wife Valerie would come over back in the beginning, and she continued to until I moved out here. And as I have found out, she hated this show, apparently. I thought it was so hilarious. It only ran from uh September of 96 to 12 of 97. It was based on a British TV show, and it was called Men Behaving Badly. And it was so friggin' funny. You had Jamie, who was played by Rob Schneider. He was just shameless, basically. Then you had uh his roommate named Kevin played by Ron Eldard, and he was he was pretty pathetic himself, but compared to Jamie, he was a genius. He actually had a he was a boss in some kind of office. Then you had uh Sarah played by Justine Bateman, who from Family Ties fame, and Cherry played by Julia Campbell. And my favorite episode is the one where Cherry is is quite sexy, and obviously Jamie wants to be with her, and he wants to get a date, and she comes in, she's upset with you know her mother's sick, and he's like, Well, my mother's sick too. And then she well, she actually she's dead, and he asks her to you know go on a romantic date to spread the ashes, and oh dear god, so he takes all the ashes out of a grill, and there's like chicken bones in it. So they're in this romantic spot, and she's like, This seems like a makeup spot, and cats start coming up. Oh my god. She opens it up and she pulls out a chicken wing. Really, dreamy. That's a pretty good move. Yeah, he faked it just to get in her pants. And it I never saw the the British version of it, but I just remember this show just rip roaring, laughing. And I mean, it was really stupid. I mean, this guy was pathetic, but in such a funny way, and I'm a big Rob Schneider fan anyway, so yeah, it was a lot of fun.

Absolutely, it's amazing how many American shows are based on British sitcoms.

Yeah. All right, so that's Wednesday to me. This is the one I don't have an Audible for, and it does fit our time frame. This ran from 1962 through 1971, so I was just born. It was on CBS at nine o'clock originally, but I also saw this in syndication on primetime quite quite often. And it's a show called The Beverly Hillbillies.

Oh, Jesus.

This show was so fucking funny to me. Just these hicks striking oil, everyone knows the song.

I listened to a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. And then one day he was shooting at some food and up through the ground come a bumper. Oh, that is Black Gold, Texas tea. Well, the first thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire. The kin folks said, Jed, move away from there.

Said California is a place you're just coming to Beverly Hills and not knowing exactly what's going on and having all this money. Everything about it, just Uncle Jed, Granny, Jethro, uh Ellie May, Mr. Drysdale, and I think it's Miss Jane running the bank, and they just want his money so bad there. And he's actually Mr. Drysdale. Yeah, Jane, Miss Jane. Uh Jane Hathaway. Oh, he drove me nuts. I couldn't stand it. Yeah.

Mr. Drysdale. But I have typed out explicit directions. I've even drawn a map showing the exact location of the hotel. They have a lovely pool and Jethro.

Uh uh, yes, ma'am.

I'm taking a bikini to Palm Springs.

Is that faster than a train?

Jethro, you didn't boy. We shall see when we go swimming. I'm Jethro Bondy.

Man, the show, the cement pond.

Is this place got a pond? Has it got a pond? Uncle Jenny, it's the fanciest thing you ever did see. Oh, cement. Yes. So is a cattle can walk right down here.

When Jethro is fishing in it, trying to catch fish, friggin' moron. But just everything about the show. I mean, Granny was amazing too, but just everything about it. Just take him out to the woodshed and you know, get the switch. And they just had this beautiful, beautiful home and just didn't know what the fuck to do with it. Right. She granny still had the still out back, but I mean, think about it. Uh how many shows you could name that, but Beverly Hillbillies. You could add something on to almost every show out there in America and just do it right. But this one was done right, and it was spectacular. I'll leave it at that. Dungo.

All right. So interestingly, that will tie into mine, but I I also have a tie into your when you said real people, I had that for Wednesdays. Um, and I loved real people for solely for Fred Willard. I love Fred Willard, like that guy is amazing. And I just go back to him on uh best in show. Like he his interactions in that movie are hilarious, you know, like shihtsu.

I think the shitsu is a terrific. What's that one? The shitsu. The shih tzu.

That's one you don't uh you don't play around with that name, do you? It doesn't come tripping me off the tongue. Stuart is can I take a shih tzu on my carry-on, or does it have to be stowed?

Yes, that's that a shihtsu in the room.

There's a name you can't say very easily. When the the lady's like grabbing the dog's balls.

Really giving them a thorough going over. Are all judges that thorough? I mean, she looks at the teeth.

It's very important that all the attributes are examined. Uh teeth, eyes, rugs, ears, oh, am I seeing right? Where's she putting her hands now? Uh just checking out the dog's uh testicular area to make sure to make sure that uh that everything is intact.

Hate to go out on a date with Judge uh Edie Franklin, have her judge me. That'd be no fun.

He's like, What what's he doing there? That looks uncomfortable. Yeah. You know, I wouldn't want her, I wouldn't want her going out with me on a Friday night or whatever.

But anyway, shame that in some countries they eat those dogs. Yeah.

Yeah, he's classic. Him and Fred uh Byron Allen on that show were awesome. Yeah, yeah. But uh going back to the Beverly Hillbillies, uh for my next pick, uh originally started on Thursday nights on Fox, and then it did two seasons on Thursday nights at nine, and then switched to Wednesday at eight. And it's a cheesy ass show. I mean, you know I love the cheese. I have to go with it, but it's Beverly Hills 90210. Oh, and it's a horrible awful, but when I was 20 years old at Berkeley in Boston, that's what we watched because we like the chicks, you know. We like Tory spelling and we liked uh Jenny Garth and and uh Shannon Shannon Doherty. Yeah, we love the girls, you know. Uh, you know, it had uh so Brian Austin Green. I mean, that guy was such a dork and he landed uh Megan Fox. I mean, how does that guy land Megan Fox? He's ripped, you know. Uh, but I mean it was a dumbass show. Luke Perry was in it, uh Jason Priestley. Um dumb. It was dumb.

Well, Luke Perry.

But I watched it because they were hot chicks on it, and uh, you know, that was that was you know a memory of mine when I was in my early 20s. Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I saw Mark's face when you picked it, Dongo. I'm like, oh no, here we go. He's disgusted.

Well, they were very mature. It's like what I watched.

It's what I watched, and it was like stupid soap opera. Just watched it for the girls, man. Yeah, can't blame you for that.

I honestly can say I do not think I've ever seen an episode of it. Nor have I been aware of it. Obviously, aware of you know, you couldn't get away from the people that started it, and yeah, they were some fine, fine ladies.

Yeah, but my other was real people, so AJ took took it. I had real people was on Wednesday in my breakfast.

I had it on Wednesdays too, Don. I just had to jog it.

Yeah.

More conmittee. Which we've picked up. So yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh dear lord. But anywho, uh I will say that I um I think I have seen one episode of it because they talked about it on a podcast where one of the guest stars was on and they introduced drugs into the show.

Right. I knew it the minute he came in the door.

Drugs, drugs, drugs, and someone someone OD'd and everything. So I had to go back and re-air, like re-watch that. Or not re-watch, watch.

And I think, you know, tying into the uh Laverne and Shirley, I think the characters moved to Beverly Hills from I think it was Wisconsin. I you know, somewhere Milwaukee, maybe Minnesota. It was somewhere in the you know, upper Midwest. Um that they moved to which we said the Laverne and Shirley did the move too, right? Yeah, yeah.

So all right. Well done, Dongo. Not one of my shows, but hey, we have our love, right?

What we watched, and we have to do what we liked, right?

All right, Kevin. Here we go to Thursday.

Am I correct? It is Thursday, and Donnie just made me aware that I have made a mistake, so I have to scramble here for a second. Oh dear. Well, no, no, it's it's absolutely my fault. I don't know why I checked Mork and Mindy and thought that it hadn't been a pick, but it was. So that is definitely verboten.

Uh oh, you're out, yeah. You're out. Skip your turn, you're up, Mark. Okay, right.

So I yeah. Uh shit. So I just checked here and uh not actually the show. We talked about one of the actresses. So for Thursday night. No, for Thursday night, I'm gonna go with Buck Rogers because that was one of the shows that was just hot women, it was Spage, it was tweaky, and uh what was the someone isn't gonna like that. And what was the what was the clock? The cause that always who was the rapper Theo Theo.

You're Captain Buck Rogers, and according to your ship's log, you left Earth in 1987.

That much I know. Tell me what I don't know.

Well, if preliminary data holds up, it appears you have returned to Earth 504 years later. You are now in the twenty-fifth century.

Yes, Dr. Dr. Theo. Yeah, yeah. So when when Flavor Flav became popular, and he always wore the big like wall clock as as a it always made me think of Tweaky.

Yeah boy! Dr. Theo.

So that's a tie-in there. But um, so yeah, Buck Rogers was just one of the great ones from that era. Uh Gil Gerard, I believe, was the actor. And it was just fun, a little bit cheesy, but it had a little bit of the you know, the time travel, the sci-fi kind of stuff. And based on I think it was a comic book from like oh yeah, that went early story, right? Yeah, that was a long running story, and the serials and the theaters and and all that. So, yeah, that was definitely definitely a great show from that era. What years did that run, Kevin? How the fuck do I know? I just had to pull it on my ass.

1979, and it did two seasons. And the reason why I know that is because that was going to be my picture. Oh shit. But I ruined your Morgan Mindy. So no, you didn't ruin it, I ruined it because I fucked up. That's funny to me. But yes, I loved Aaron Gray, oh Wilma, Wilma Deering, and of course, Queen Armadala. Yes, Pamela Hensley. That's that's who we mentioned. Yeah, she was your girl. Yeah, Queen Mar Armadala. She was your girl. But Wilma's prettier than Queen Armadala, I believe. Yeah.

Was one of them in Silver Spoons? Oh, wasn't she? I think the brunette Aaron Gray might have been.

Yeah, I think it was.

Yeah. I and here's the funny thing that you both had this as one of your picks, and I must admit this. Never once have I seen an episode of said show. What? What? Oh, you gotta watch it. Um you know what's funny? I'm a sci-fi guy with Star Wars. Don't dig it in any other way, other than like the stars themselves. Like the actual stars in the sky, not the actors.

Yeah, just a thing. Yes, Aaron Gray was on so much.

He was the the love interest or the wife. She wasn't not the wife, but she was hot.

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That's to you, brother Mark. Okay, I'm going with a TV show. It was about a small air airport with planes, small planes. The name of the show was Wings on NBC. Ran from 490 to 597. It had some great actors on it. You had the Hackett brothers. You know, they were the pilots, I believe. You know, you had Tony Shaloub, he of monk fame, also being Lebanese, as AJ and I are.

Joe, would you please explain to the nice man with the gun that I am not a Libyan terrorist?

What are you doing on my property? We had some engine trouble. We had to make an emergency landing. We'll pay for any damage we did to your crops. Keep them up there, Momar.

And he played Antonio. Here we go. And he played Antonio Scaparchi. And you had Thomas Hayden.

He was uh Thomas Hayden Church Church.

Thomas Hayden Church, yes. He played uh Lowell Mathis.

No, Lowell. Um, this is about a friend of yours, an old friend. I know this isn't gonna be easy for you, but we found out this morning that Weeb Gilroy passed away.

No, he didn't. Yeah, Lowelly did. No, Weeb Gilroy's not dead. Now you probably just saw him with his teeth out.

Weeb Gilroy dead. Well, that's a that's a pretty good one, huh? I'll see you guys later.

No, that went well.

Well, it's obvious he's in denial.

Yeah, that's right, denial. Uh remember that from college. It's one of the five stages people go through when they're coping with grief. Over the next few months, he'll probably go through anger, bargaining, depression, and then uh finally acceptance.

Amangry pillet weave for dying. But I can trade anything to get him back. What's the use? The top place is gone. What are you gonna do? Life goes on.

Some people go through it faster than others.

Just a friggin' riot, you know, probably not the smartest, uh the sharpest tool in the shed, but and he was the mechanic. Yes. Well, he was a mechanic. Mechanics aren't stupid, but you said tools. Sharpest mechanic in the shed. Okay. But I mean, I don't I used to watch this all the time, and I absolutely loved the show, and I didn't actually realize that Monk was in it until the other night. But it was just it was constant humor.

Yeah. Uh incredible show for sure. And Thomas Hayden Church, another tie into that, as we were talking about William Shatner, is a huge, huge rock and metal fan. He's fun to listen to talk when he talks about music. Big time.

What show has he been on? Has he been on? He's always on Eddie Trunk.

Well, he's been on Eddie Trunk quite a bit.

Yep.

But big time rock fan. It's fun to hear them talk that shit. Especially someone like Thomas Hayden Church and that who played kind of the dummy, but he's been in some other amazing shit too. Great actor.

And he also had the older woman there. What was her name, Kevin? The one that was really kind of obsessed with sex and everything. She Faye. Faye.

Faye, and she was a really humorous character. Oh, they they were all humorous. Oh yeah.

It was actually the B, you know, the not so much the Hackett brothers or the his future wife, uh, you know, Helen Chapel Hackett. It was the Bat Eyes. It was Shaloub in uh church. And that uh that older lady there. So hey. They're the ones that really provided the comic relief as far as I'm concerned.

Awesome. That's an awesome show. Loved it. Yeah, I love that show. All right. Thursday to me. This is on the USA Network from 1983 to 1986. And I could have picked any weeknight for this one because it was Monday through Friday, but I went with Thursday just because I had something for everything else. And it's Radio 1999. Two female hosts, Lisa Robinson and Catherine Kinley. It was just a lot of obviously music videos. It was kind of a companion, actually, the night flight. More interviews than videos on it. And they'd always have guest stars on it. And here's my first one, but gotta tie it to KISS. Paul Stanley had been a guest star on it. Eric Carr was on it. One of my favorite episodes, God rest his beautiful soul.

Today I'm Catherine Kinley, and this is my special co-host today, Eric Carr of KISS. Welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks, Catherine. Let me tell you, I have to tell you something. This girl is so pretty. I don't know if I'm going to be able to keep my mind on what's going on today, but I'll try.

Let me tell you, I like this guy. I'm going to keep in the rest of the week. But today, we've got video music from April Wine Heaven Girl School and a band that Eric pounds the skins for, KISS.

Plus, we'll have a sneak preview peek of KISS' new video, Tears of Falling. It's a great video, you have to see it. From our brand new album, Asylum. But to start the metal ringing, today we've got some vintage Kiss with Heavens on Fire.

Frank Zappa was a host, Kev. And many, many more.

Welcome to Heavy Metal Wednesday on Radio 1990. I'm Catherine Kinley, and this is my co-host, Frank Zappa.

That's right, I certainly am. Let's play Hit the Fish.

No! Frank and I are gonna be rocking your house today with video music from Loverboy and Black and Blue, which are gonna be at the end of this week.

And my heavy metal favorite, Twisted Sister, Kiss starts the metal mania with tears are falling. Their first single off their new LP, Asylum.

Frank, more than half of the songs cited as the quote, filthy 15 by the Parents Music Resource Center, the PMRC as it's called, uh, are heavy metal songs. Now, why do you think that is?

Gee, I don't know. I have been a fan of your music, believe it or not, and I I uh respect you as a true original and and a tremendously talented uh musician. The statement that I want to get from you is on whether or not you feel that the concern is is legitimate because occasionally you you feel very strongly about your position. I understand that. Very articulate and forceful, but occasionally you give the impression that you think parents are just silly to be concerned at all that they're that's not an accurate impression of the city. Okay, well, please clarify it.

First of all, I think it is the parents' concern, it is not the government's concern.

Yeah, they agree with you on that.

Well, that doesn't come across in the way they have been speaking. The whole drift that I've gotten based on the media blitz that has attended the PMRC and its rise to uh infamy is that they have a special plan and it has smelled like legislation up until now. There are too many things that look like hidden agendas involved with this. And I am a parent, I've got four children, two of them are here. I want them to grow up in a country where they can think what they want to think and be what they want to be, and not what somebody's wife or somebody uh in government makes them be. I don't want I don't want to have that, and I don't think you do either.

Back then, it's when I was looking for mostly KISS, of course, but bands I loved on videos, and this was it's funny because this was a bit before MTV was as mainstream, like there were they weren't playing uh the music I liked as much. It was more pop and new wave, and and this gave me a chance to see a lot of a lot more rock and roll, but it was just fun to me. I'd make sure I wouldn't miss it. It was on at seven o'clock, only a half hour, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. I loved it, and I know Thursday night is a massive lineup night, but to me, it wasn't. I mean, I'm throwing this out there because we've all all picked it already. We all had Seinfeld in a previous episode. I would have gone with that for Thursday nights, but all the other ones that everyone loved, I don't know. I wouldn't take it over radio 1990.

1990 is sooner than you think. Al Stanley had that little blurpy, but yeah, you know, you and you bring up USA Network that this show was on, and all the wrestling shows, but they would have like out of market basketball games, all kinds of good stuff. It was a fan, it was terrific. And that was channel two.

Remember, because it was C SPAN for a while, and then USA Network, and when that came along, it was a lot of fun. It was certainly more fun than C-SPAN. And and they would, yeah, don't kid.

Nothing's more fun than CPAN C SPAN, AJ. Come on.

Our next call is from Fall River, Massachusetts, our line for Republicans. Good morning.

Hi, uh, one comment on C SPAN programming before I answer the question. Um, I would really love to see more coverage of the uh candidates' wives. The only uh thing I've seen C-SPAN cover so far was uh the Teresa Hines uh carry speech where she uh spoke about her plight with vaginosis and how the smell of tuna next call is from Farmington, Minnesota.

We apologize for that. Once in a while, some unsolicited type callers get through. Farmington, Minnesota. Good morning.

And they would show like whole wrestling cards from Madison Square Garden. Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah.

They were they were ahead of the curve there. So damn straight.

All right, Dongo, wrap Thursday up. Oh, so I had to scramble because I thought Buck Rogers would be for Virgin. Um, and then I you you guys will have to be the judges. Um was was Magnum PI picked in a previous cast? I don't believe so. I don't believe so. No, I know it has been spoken of. We mentioned it sometimes, but I loved Magnum P. I I didn't pick that because I thought it was mentioned, but maybe not. But I gotta go with it. I gotta go with it. I loved I I don't know the uh actor's name, but I love the character of Higgins. Yeah, he's like the British guy, you know, he's all proper and he's oh my god!

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god.

He would always get like so angry at Magnum because Magnum was kind of like, you know, hey, whatever, you know, he's laid back, he's ex-special forces, does private investigating, gets into all kinds of cool stuff. But like Higgins like was like the caretaker of the property, and the the owner of the property was uh what was that guy's name? Mr. Masters or something like that. It kind of reminded Robin Mastery, it kind of reminded me of Charlie's Angels, where they always had the the owner was uh through a like a voice box or whatever, like you never met them, you never saw them.

Good morning, angels. Good morning, Charlie. Are we ready, Bosley?

You just heard them, and I think they use the same voice too for Robin Masters and uh and Charlie. And and and part of me was like, Higgins is Robin Masters, he's just pretending to be the caretaker of the right.

Yeah. The voice of the mysterious Robin Masters was provided by the legendary Orson Wells. He voiced the character until his death in 1985. Afterward, the show leaned into the fan theory that Higgins was actually Robin Masters all along, a question never definitively answered.

But that was a great show. I love I love that show. So that was a good number two that I had to pull out of my you know what. Your ass.

You can say ass on here, don't go. Okay, can I just bring up a couple of things?

That'll be to add on a little bit. Um we have another quiz. What baseball team's hat did he wear? Detroit Tigers. Yes, and did you know that he actually headed at bat for the Detroit Tigers in a preseason game or exhibition game?

Tom Selleck did. He's very athletic. Yeah, wicked athletic.

Yeah, he did a few foul balls and everything. He ended up striking out.

Yeah. But nice, good, good quiz, good throw-in.

Oh, also, but I I can't let this go. He did he reminded me of uh Dwight Evans.

He did, very much so. Yeah, yeah. He had a great mustache, you know, and the annals of mustaches, the Tom Sellick Magnum PI mustache is is an epic.

Yeah, and he's he's one of the only people, A, that can pull the stash off, but B doesn't look but B does not look correct without a mustache because his upper lip's about four inches wide.

White Evans never did either.

He looked fucked up without a mustache.

All right, see somebody that's always worn glasses, yeah, and then you see him without them, it's like it's weird looking. What is your face doesn't look like that?

So true. All right, we're moving on to Friday, Kevin.

Friday night was actually it was based on a Cheech and Chong skit. The writer of the show followed Cheech and Chong around from their Pedro and the Man skit and came up with Chico and the Man. Yes. And that was one of my favorites as a kid. I mean, it was in a garage, they were working on cars, but it was Freddie Prince J Sr. Uh and and uh Albertson from uh the grandfather in Willy Wonka.

Mr. Brown, run a peace offering.

If that's the dirt from the hole you just dug in the alley, you can put it back in the goosebumps.

Um Ms. Rogers, can I present Louie Wilson, your local sanitary engineer?

Oh come on, he's a garbage collector. Why can't you call us maybe this many?

Ms.

Rogers, I'll accept that explanation, and I'm pleased to meet you, Mr. Wilson.

And I might say that the quality of garbage in this neighborhood will rise 1,000%. And it will really be an honor for me to service your candy.

That was him, you're right.

I love that guy.

I never put one and one together.

There you go. See, you learn something new every day. Usually from you, Kevin. Yeah, Jack Albertson. Um, it was just, you know, it was kind of a I think they were trying to like work on um the early days of social engineering and people, you know, uh not being prejudiced because Albertson's character was a grumpy old man, and and uh Freddie Prinz was uh, you know, a Chicano.

You people came here to solve a problem, and all you do is argue, and not even in the right language. And where are you going? I'm going home. And as a minority, I suggest you people do the same, even with me swimming the real brand.

And the smart ass.

Yeah. And so they ended up, you know, there was trouble in the first episodes, but they ended up working together and and uh and becoming kind of like a little family. And it was just it's one of those shows from that era 74 to 78, that I was just young enough to not question the shows and just take them for what they were, and they were kind of heartfelt and entertaining.

Very, very that always made me think of Sanford and Son, too. Exactly.

Yeah, I was gonna make that same exact point. It was like at the same time, they were like sister shows, if you will.

And that was on my short list, but I swore we had picked it before I took it off. No, that we had not. Nope. Discussion perhaps. But he was yeah, he was the he was a lot like Fred Samford, where he would kind of boss the kid around and make him do shit for him.

Absolutely, yeah, but no nowhere near as brutal as as Fred was to Lamont.

Lamont.

Lamont, you big dummy!

You big dummy.

That's an awesome pick, though, Kev. I love that show. Indeed. All right, Mark, Friday to you.

Okay, well, this is you you might at first think it's a repeat, but it is not. It is the TV series Planet of the Apes. Yes. And if you don't remember, it only ran from September 13th, 1974, to December 20th of 1974. Wow. And uh Roddy McDowell played the ape Galen, who befriended a couple of yeomans and yeoman! Yeah, Alan. Yeah, you know, you had uh Alan and Peter, they were astronauts, of course, and in general General Urko played by Mark Leonard. But this show was great fun, and one of the things what one of my favorite episodes, and I can actually do a skit perbatum, verbatim, and Valerie couldn't believe it when we saw this the other night. Well, it's an episode where um mosquitoes are causing malaria. They do cause malaria. I know they do, but the apes, the council couldn't believe it. They broke down laughing when one of the astronauts told them what was going on because Theseus died from it, and they did they were like, okay, I'll just come out and say it right now.

I want guards at that end of the road, and I want more guards at that end of the road.

Watch closely.

If anyone tries to escape the village, shoot them!

Well, it was closely, but that that was the word I was trying to spit out and messed up. But uh, yeah, he says the ape who learned it from the human says, I believe it is from mosquitoes.

I made a discovery of a rare disease called malaria, obviously fatal to apes and to humans, and obviously not transmitted through bodily contact. And how is that? I have reason to believe that the disease grows in stagnant pools of water and is introduced into the bloodstream by the bite of mosquito.

And they broke down laughing, you know, this tiny little thing.

Are you aware of what you're asking us to believe? He's got the fever such falls of stagnant water in Crayon, and humans and your soldiers were exposed to it. And what do you propose we do now? Well, I need several hours to further reappraise the situation, JS. I will not black down to a mosquito.

It it was fun. Roddy McDowell, that that was his actual absolute favorite part. I mean, he played Cornelius, he played Caesar in the movies, but when he played Galen, it was great, and he didn't have the wife nagging him all the time and everything. And and did you guys know that this episode this show existed? Hell yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, you did. I mean, 1974. I was 10. You guys they syndicated it sometimes too.

They syndicated it for sure. And um, mosquitoes are the biggest spreader of disease pretty much on the planet. Yeah, in the world. Yeah, they kill people, but yeah, yeah.

Well, you know what's funny is but the apes, didn't they understand? Go ahead, Kev.

Oh, I was just gonna say the funny part is that that you know Bill Gates and his malaria mosquitoes are gonna lead us to um Planet of the Apes anyway, where we all die off and the Ape Apes take over, probably take over. Yeah.

But the humans could talk on this show, by the way. I know that's weird. You know, they were civilized. I mean, they probably didn't have the best life. I mean, they were kind of slaves and everything, but but yeah, it was on Friday night, and I looked forward to it when I was 10 years old, like you wouldn't believe. Interestingly enough, and nobody can pick this show because it was a morning cartoon, but they had a a show called Return to the Planet of the Apes, which was a cartoon.

So but yeah, just I knew for certain you'd have that one without any questions. All right, so Friday to me then. All right, Friday. I think this is our first cable TV show, or you know, pay cable. This ran from 1989 to 1996. First at 10 p.m., then it went to 11 because I got nervous because 11 p.m. was out of our range, wasn't it? But this is called, and it ran on HBO, I should say that.

Parental discretion is devised in the crypt.

And I loved this show. It had, I mean, I'm not gonna pull names out, but there were so many guest stars on this show, and I I loved the Crypt Keeper. He was funny as hell. Like, just not someone you'd think to be funny, but he was. He just he always had the great jokes and you know the one-liners.

Not a great one, but look at what reminds me of a good green. I hope you brought your real glory in the light about a nice young couple who fund the restaurant business a little hard to follow. I call this adventure and fine dying. What's cooking?

Uh, I did want to bring one episode up, and I wish I wrote the actors' names down. One of the guys was the idiot from uh Roxanne, the Chris, the firefighter. But this episode is called The Switch. And it it was this old dude that was like a m multimillionaire with this hot young girl, and this young guy who was I don't know if he was like his gardener or something, I'd have to go back and re-watch it. But David and I used to talk about this all the time, Mark, our dearly beautiful brother David. Cause I'd always go and he would repeat it. What is it now, Linda?

What's wrong?

It's your legs. They're so scrawny and old. Look at the sagging skin and the veins.

Oh, for God's sakes, Linda, what more do you want? Won't you ever be satisfied?

I know what I want, Carlton, and you just don't have it.

What more can you ask? Uh, this old dude from this old dude loved this young girl. She was hotter than Hades. And um this young guy who was, like I said, gardener, something like that. Don't quote me on that for sure. But the guy the old guy started paying this uh surgeon to uh change body parts with the young guy. And basically at the end of the show, spoilers uh at the end of the show, the old guy who still had the same voice as as that old man, which was hilarious. But was perfect looking and the young guy was now rich and and the old guy, you know, looked like the old guy. And she realized that all she really wanted was to live a wealthy life and went with the young guy who looked old and the young dude got fucked over anyway. So but it was just such a fun show, always twisted, always had a great twist at the end of it, and the Crypt Keeper is fun as hell. One of my favorite characters.

Was that the same voice of uh Skeletor in Masters of the Universe? Or is it just the same voice in my head?

It's gotta be in your head because this dude. What is it now, Linda? No, no, no, the Crypt Keeper. Oh, oh I don't know.

I don't know, but it's yeah, exactly.

Maybe it might have been, but David would answer the phone sometimes.

What is it now, Linda?

I loved it. Uh we had a lot of fun with that. All right, dungo, Friday.

Friday. All right, so I had I it was going back and forth between two, and I went with one that is more of a nostalgic pick because this is one that I remember watching, like sitting down with the folks watching probably one of my earliest memories of television, and it's again another cheese ass show. It has my namesake, it's Donnie and Marie. Yeah, A B A B C, you know, H E M 1976 to 79, just a you know, a variety show, two you know, beautiful young actor, actresses, singers, Donnie and Marie. Siblings. Um, and they they were the cheese even full of cheese, you know, like that was back then. They were kind of like they were a little past their time, like that was more like the 1940s, 50s, you know, variety show type stuff. It was popular, and then they started to kind of lose popularity with that stuff because people were realizing, like, this is kind of lame, you know. Um, it was fun. So, interesting thing about Donnie Marie is that you know, they one of their famous bits was a little bit of country, a little bit of rock and roll. Yeah, where yeah, she was the country, he was the rock and roll.

I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock and roll. I'm a little bit of the back with a little bit of a little town in my soul. I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't want it so I'm a little bit country, and I'm a little bit rockin'.

They started to lose popularity when the girls found out that Donnie was getting married because he was like a teen heartthrob kind of thing.

Oh, yeah, he was all over 16 magazine and Tiger and all that stuff.

They rejected the movie Grease, which was probably a bad rejection on their part. They put out a disco album called Steppin' Out, and that was a flop, you know, so they kind of like just torpedoed, you know. But uh, you know, just fond memories of as a child listening to them uh was was fun, you know.

I uh I have to agree with you on that one, Donnie.

Yeah, yeah, as cheesy as could be, but I love that show. And what was there's a thing about his purple socks, wasn't there? Didn't they continue to joke about Donnie's purple socks or something along those lines? Yeah, and I still I mean that that's as soon as you said Donnie Marie, I started singing little bit country, little bit rock and roll.

Yeah, that's serious. Yeah, they should have swapped it. I felt like she was more rock and roll than him.

Yeah, some I'm guessing they were probably shying away from a young lady saying she was a little bit rock and roll.

Right, right. Right again, they were they were trying to be too classic where they should have been pushing the boundaries and being like, hey, this is a modern girl, let her let her spread her wings a little bit.

Yeah, but even at that time, you're right, it was kind of the end of the variety shows, but they were I wish they'd bring them back. They were sowing it. Because it you know, you had all the little skits and then a little bit of dancing and a little bit of this, a little bit of that. They were kind of fun. It was it was a lot of entertainment packed into Flip Wilson. Had a good Flip Wilson, yeah, absolutely.

Yep, and then one thing I will always say is when I just from memory, I remember thinking they were a couple at first, and then thinking how weird it was when I found out they were brother and sister.

Right, yeah, sometimes they sang duets that like kind of like cross the line, like Luke Leia. Yeah, you shouldn't be singing that to your sister, right?

Right, right, the Luke Leah thing. Yeah, exactly. Oh god, yeah. Luke and Leia were worse. Yeah, but they didn't know there's a difference.

Well, I mean, it was like a tie. He was kissing his sister, wasn't he?

He didn't know though at the time. Yeah, he didn't know. Mark's not a Star Wars fan out there, everyone. Because in the first one, he was like, Yeah, let's go save the princess. I love her, she's pretty beautiful, blah, blah, blah. And then they then they pulled that beaten switch or whatever you want to say.

Yeah, but let's face it, it was never gonna work out because what's the first thing she says to him? She's a little short for a stormtrooper.

She's a little short for a stormtrooper. Huh? Oh, the uniform.

I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you. I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2 unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi.

Ben Kenobi, where is he? Come on.

He talked over then. Oh god. See, she lied to him too, Mark. Okay. I apologize.

All right.

Nice Dongo. All right, Kevin. We are on to Saturday night, the last night of the said week.

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y. Saturday night. I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm gonna walk on you here, Don, because uh uh this is a huge pile of cheese. This is a a mountain of cheese.

If you steal my pick, I'm gonna be mad.

The cheesiest of the cheese that can possibly be. And I don't know because there's lots of options on this mic, but I could not not pick this because it was iconic. For that era, the love vote. Oh, there goes that was on my list. It was on my list.

I'm like, oh crap. It was on my list, and it's probably number two on my list.

Exciting number four.

Right. Okay, so I'm I'm glad that I didn't step on you again. Seventy-seven to eighty-six. It was it was drivel. It was absolute drivel. It was I loved it. Guest stars every week, and that was the most fun part was watching the faces pop up in the in the uh little circle thingy there, square. What do you call it? The the Jesus.

Where the deaf girl did sign language.

No, but it was it was the it was the uh Oh what do you call it? The lifeline, the the circle the uh what are they called?

Oh the bull the little uh light jackets the little circle.

There's a name for it, I think, is what Kevin is looking for.

Yeah, well, whatever was the faces coming up, and you get to see who the stars were that week. And of course, I was kind of I probably would have done better with Vicky, um, but I certainly had a crush on on Julie as the cruise director. A little bit of Vicky too, because I knew she was more age appropriate. Um Gopher, who who ended up in Congress, which shows a lot about our government. But you can play gopher on television and then be a congressman.

I did not know.

Um, I always thought that it was weird that Doc was a ladies' man because Bernie Copel did not really look like a ladies' man. I thought they were kind of pushing it on that one. But of course, all my years behind the bar, some of them spent being nicknamed Isaac. Ted Lang. Isaac, I mean, he was it for me on that. He was and the thing was is they'd go, they'd go into they'd be on the promenade deck, and who was behind the bar? Isaac.

Yeah.

Two minutes later, they're in Pirates Cove. Who's making the drinks? Isaac.

That's all right, but Isaac the distinct Southeastern influence in that particular in this back home in Oakland. We have our own. Yo man. I am old.

He he must have had like secret tunnels or something.

He knew exactly passageway.

He knew it was going down, and he could get one side of that cruise ship to the other in two seconds flat and already be mixing a cocktail when he got to the pirates. Right.

I was kind of discovering girls at this point. It's like, wow, they don't look so icky anymore.

Awesome. I I obviously knew that one was gonna come up for certain. But uh Dave Latour, if you're listening, that's for you from Kevin. Right. But I never actually really watched that show. I can't believe it. Oh, I watched it. I gotta go back and check it out more.

Epstein was on it, Marsha was on it.

I just did. I remember loving Isaac for some reason. It's weird. Maybe I knew that I was gonna be a bar fly at that point. I don't know. Maybe. Awesome. All right, Mark.

That's Saturday to you. Okay, well, I'm um this one I'm picking because it did air on Saturday night on syndication on WLVI channel 56. This show is about a gentle giant who was wrongly accused of murder, who was framed by the rancher, and he had to go into the wilderness. His name, the name of the show is The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.

The story of Grizzly Adams is big, powerful, beautiful. They call me Mad Jack. And he and my burrow number seven have been trapes in these slopes and valleys for a long spell. So I know the story from the beginning. My friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit. So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he ever knew. Yes.

So a way with animals that is just unbelievable. Obviously, he was played by Dan Haggerty, and you had Ben the Grizzly bear.

Yeah. Yeah. He they had a great buddies. They were buddies. They were pals. It was a buddy show.

Animals treated him like they were all domesticated every time they went up to him.

Now that cub took to Adams right off. And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals. They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness. But that bear cub, he was extra special. As he growed, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together they became a legend.

Then you had Mad Jack, who made the tastiest flapjacks out there.

I love Mad Jack. Great character. Very reminiscent of the, you know, I, you know, the French character in Little House. Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Then you had the Native American played by Don Shanks. His name was Nakoma. It's funny because he would speak in his native tongue, yet Grizzly Adams always understood, uh, understood everything he said and just repeated it in English. And once in a while, Nakoma would speak in English. It was just a warm and fuzzy show that always made me feel really good when I watched it. Yeah, it was a crazy show. Awesome show. Birds would land on his shoulder and little critters, raccoons, whatever.

One with nature out. Yeah.

Well, with one small problem, Donnie. He had bounty hunters after him. Yeah, yeah. He never went to trial. He was he was accused of it, and he said, you know what? I'm getting framed. I'm getting rare on it. I'm out. I'm out. Yeah. And he they actually had a movie that we all went down for 75 cents down at the Jackson Jr. uh cinemas in uh Littleton, New Hampshire. And yeah, it was based off that. And it it ran from 70 um 77 to 78. It only ran for two seasons, but then they had it on syndication a lot. So I mean I I loved it. It just made me feel good to watch it. It made me feel good about human nature, believe it or not.

Couldn't happen today. He wouldn't live that long on the land with all the flock cameras. He'd get picked up. Also the drone. Mad Jack. What was his other big role? You remember? He was oh was it damn it!

Uncle Jesse! Oh yes! Uncle Jesse on the Dukes. Oh, the Dukes? Oh yes, the Duke the Hazard. I did see that. Yeah, he would he he'd hit a lot of roles out there, you know.

He was a good character actor for sure.

But you you always felt better about life when you finished this TV show.

Absolutely. What a great show, Mark. That's an incredible. I'm so glad you took that one.

Yeah, I'm I'm very happy I did too.

All right, Saturday to me. Kevin, thank you for taking your Sunday night pick because my Saturday night pick I was questioning, but I'm going with it. This ran from technically it ran a few different times, and they came out with it over and over, but the original was 1961 to 1978, and I'm gonna lead into something I find quite funny here, but that would be the NBC Saturday night at the movies. Okay, 9 to 11. That was good. Um and obviously, I mean they they had several movies on this, and like Kevin said on his Disney night, just to be able to sit and watch a movie at home. Uh most of this episode these uh movies were made for TV, but they did show some random movies. Uh Titanic, the original. Uh, what's the other one? The Day the Earth Sod Still was on there. The original one, yeah. But we all know why I'm taking this, and that would be in 1978. Oh no. Kiss meets the phantom of the park. Gotta tie it to Kiss.

We've got to get out of here.

And now on MDZ Saturday night at the movies, Kiss meets the venom.

Greatest film ever made.

All right, one of the greatest movies ever made. With uh, I mean, I can't even count the Oscars and awards that were given out for you.

It wasn't a movie, it was a film. When you when you reach that level, you refer to it as film.

I mean But I just I just remember this coming on for I mean months, I think it was advertised. So as a kid and a KISS fan that I am, like just waiting this out was like Christmas morning. Like, I cannot fucking wait to see this. And I gotta say this, as a child, it did not disappoint.

So that's interesting. That was a good unwrapping. Like you you you were anticipating and it and it delivered, so that's good.

Delivered as a child.

We'll get well get there in a minute. But unlike the four of us that watched the Star Wars episode one coming out, uh, all anticipating, and then it was unboxed, and we were all like oh dear misery.

This sucks. So I don't give a rat fuck about the Senate. All right, but anyway, just to let me continue on my pick and then we'll get deeper later. All right. But Abner Devereaux, what a great villain he was. All right. You had Sneed, the cop. You had Chopper and Slime, the, you know, just and the robots and the wolf men and everyone. And KISS came in to take over the park and play a few nights there. And it was uh Magic Mountain, to be precise, if I may, in California. But incredible live footage during this from KISS, including, yes, Mark, Rip and Destroy. Rip and Rip Rip. Rip Rip and Destroy.

Rip and Destroy. You know the hour.

You know the hours getting late. Anyway, an incredible fun movie to me that over the years as a huge KISS fan, we all know, is the worst movie ever made. But it was just fun to me as a child. Like to be such a huge KISS fan and to be, like we said, anticipating that. It was just super important, so fun. Uh, they were all superheroes to me as a kid. Still Ace still is. I still love him and Peter. The other two, not so much. They can fuck off. But anyway, it was a lot of fun to me, and I could not find a way to shoehorn that. So there it is, boy.

What was that part where who was the guy? He don't hurt anyone unless he wants to Chopper and Slime. Brought him up. Yeah.

Chopper and slime don't hurt anybody unless they want to. Yep.

As a as a little kid, I get I was the same. I was I was thrilled. I wasn't waiting for it forever quite like you were. Um, but I was excited to watch it. But even as a kid, I remember going, Wow, Peter Chris sounds a lot like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. It wasn't his voice at all. Uh Derek Mark, no case. Didn't they have to dub Casey Caseom's voice? Yeah.

I did not know that. Looks like we took the wrong turn. There doesn't appear to be any right ones. But that's P Yeah, that's Casey Caseum.

I don't think it was Casey Kaesum, but it was welcome back to a very special episode of Microphone Monday. I'm your host, professional voiceover artist John Bailey, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing Michael Bell. He is a legend in the voiceover business. He's done everything from Smurfs Transformers to G.I. Joe to Superfriends, and on and on. I could go. He's done scores of voices for cartoon, commercials, video. Video games. He's even been an on-camera actor as well as a voice director. He was on the board of directors for the Screen Actors Guild, an animal rights activist. He's the godfather of Steve Gutenberg and just an all-around great guy. And he was very, very gracious with his time, so I decided to make this a two-part interview. So I hope you enjoy part one of my interview with Michael Bell.

It was one of those Scooby voiceovers, but the first thing I thought of when I heard Peter Chris talking. And it was because Peter Chris, his Brooklyn accent was so brutal that they had to replace it. Yeah.

Peter was having a big problem saying the word talisman. You know, those things that were in the red box. It got to the point where he couldn't say it. And I would crack up. We did 25 takes. Finally, the producer said, Ace, you take the line. And I did it. Wasn't his voice dubbed by another actor? They realized the problem he had with that one line, it was more imperfections. It was the production call. We have nothing to do with it. They actually replaced Peter's voice in the whole film. I would have been really pissed off if it was me. But I know how to speak.

Was he upset when You know I never really talked to him about it.

I'm sure he was. To be honest with you. You know, Peter at the time was as loaded as me, if not more. And uh he may not even have known for a while.

Interesting.

If you ever want to see a musical movie that is on par with that, it was came out in 74, was Paul Williams in The Phantom of the Paradise. And it is equally as like, what the fuck are they doing?

Unwatchable? Almost. Almost. What did they call it, Mark? They said a hard day's night meets what?

It was what's the other Hard Days Night, oh god, meets Sarge. I think.

No, it was West Side Story or something. I can't remember. It was like Star Wars. I think it was a hard day's night meets Star Wars. Oh yeah. And it certainly was I remember the hype.

It was like summertime. It was like July, August, you know, East time. Yeah.

I mean the concert footage was the concert footage was rip and destroyed concert footage. Yeah.

Amazing. Incredible. But before Ace's stunt double was a black guy in the Ace makeup, and it was so obvious it's it's fucking comical. Like you could not find someone who looked less like Ace than that. But just to wrap my pick up, this is where I was going because I told you guys this this series or movie series ran from 1961 to 1978, this Saturday night movie series. I find it very comical that uh Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park came out in 1978. So was this movie its demise? That's all I want to know. Was it the last movie they ever did? Because they're like, oh, you just ruined everything. They ruined the franchise. But I'll leave it at that. And Dongo, Saturday night to you to wrap it up. Woo!

All right. After that, it was so I was very worried that Kev was gonna go here when he was saying cheese. And I was actually worried that you were gonna go there and Mark when you were saying Mark was saying syndication, and you were you were saying things. So mine this was direct to syndication. So that means it it didn't go, you know, to the big networks. It went to the it went out to you know the little lower ones. And I saw it on WSBK TV Channel 38, as Dana Hersey would say. And it was on 7 p.m. on Saturday, and it was solid gold. Yeah, yeah, that's already I had it. A wrap-up of the week of the top ten hits of the week, you know, hosted by Dion Warwick. Lovely lady with a magnificent voice, and the who can forget the solid gold dancers. Yeah, so amazing. You know, like I would just watch it. It was fun, it was a fun show that had music and dancing, and it was awesome, you know. And I watched it on channel 38, Boston. Nice.

I think that was on the network for a while though.

I saw that on a lot of channels.

Yeah, uh, yeah, I'd have to look it up. I mean, when I was searching for it, it it said direct the syndication, and uh you know, I watched it on WSBK TV, channel 38, boss out of Boston. I don't know when New Hampshire, what was what were you guys watching 38 on in New Hampshire?

Uh WSBK TV 38, Boston, it was channel 12 for us, but right we up we also watched it in Hinsdale, which we didn't have good cable, if you recall. That's why it was gonna move to Melrose to get to get cable, but yeah, that was a great pick, Donnie, and I loved it. And one thing that I I used to love about or I love to talk about now with solid gold, is how it was just one of those shows where when the bands came on, you didn't get mad at them for not playing live. You knew they were playing the album behind them. Yeah, but it one of the funniest things to me about the show is when the bands would come out, they would literally, instead of cutting it properly, they would fade out the album like it normally would, but the band would still be up there singing the lyrics as like there's no noise coming out, right?

Right, right. You can't do a fade live.

Yeah, no, I think Dan Stan did the same thing, didn't they? Oh, wicked. Oh, yeah.

All those shows did. Yeah.

I d I don't know. I thought that uh Molly Hatchet played um live on that when they did. But no, I was gonna say, AJ, didn't isn't that what Andy Gibb introduced uh KISS to play I and they came out as a trio?

Uh honestly, I don't remember that. I thought they only played I on uh I thought it was Fridays. That's the only time they're gonna be on the play.

No, that's they played that's they actually played that live, but they did their solid gold hit. Of course it was solid gold, because they said their solid gold hit I.

Uh yeah. The only time it's ever bitten performers in the ass is Saturday Night Live. Where Ashley Simpson? You're right, and you're supposed to play it live, and Ashley Simpson didn't, yeah, and then she danced around it, lied, tried to lie her way out of it, you know. So it's one thing if you're like you're doing it like if you're doing the Thanksgiving Day parade, obviously you're gonna do it to a right click track and you're not gonna do it live. Um, but if you're doing Saturday Night Live, yeah, you're probably gonna try to do it live. Hence the name of said show. Right, do it raw. And if you don't do it, you're gonna get bit in the ass. So it bit her in the ass for sure.

Oh, and that's come up a million times now through our cast Donnie because the whole point is how she was burned at the stake and it ruined her career. Yeah, but now today it goes without notice, no big deal. Right. So, what if the singer Dua Leepa dropped your microphone for fucking 20 minutes and the crowd found it on the floor and handed it back to her? And when she held it up in the air, they applauded her. We've talked about this over and over, and it's infuriating. And I'm so happy you posted that, by the way, Kevin. Yeah, I still like the rapture.

Yeah, that was great. What you should put on that's still like the rapper that fell off the stage, and as he fell, it was still in auto-tune. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Was it even worth going to concerts these days? That was the nicest fall I've ever seen.

It's all fake everywhere. You know, what are you there? What are you paying for? Are you there to just see a video a music video?

You're there to listen to a fucking laptop, Donnie.

Yeah.

Watching people bag groceries and then clapping when they're done. Exactly. Like Marvin said. Right, right. I did post that, I believe, on the you did.

That's what I was just saying, Kev. I'm so happy you posted that.

Yeah, but that's but but that's why I like I I see shows at the Colonial Theater in Laconia, or the Capitol Center for Performing Arts in Concord, or the State Theater in in uh Portland, Maine. Um you gotta look for those smaller venues because those are the artists that are playing music. Those are I see people, and again, it's where my passion is nowadays, but I just love to see people that play music and not mouth to a recorder. I saw what did we see at Capitol Center? We saw um Grand Funk Railroad. Okay. I mean, those guys, John Brewer is like a hundred thousand years old and he's still banging the drums. He's amazing. And it was live, it was a real, a real show. It wasn't synced up with anything, it wasn't like you say, a video production with somebody miming on stage. It was real performances. So they're out there, they're just not the people that have recording contracts.

I'd rather see you fucking live and sound like shit than see you fake it and sound good. And it's happening on that level too, unfortunately, Kev, with a lot of these bands now. The fucking clubs and it's disgusting. It all right, let's get off that rant because we'll show you. That's a repeat. Right. That is a repeat for certain. Awesome. Great, great pick, Dongo. Well, boys, that was so much fun. I mean, hell, how many fucking shows can we do of this? I mean, I know I don't know about you guys, but I can do at least 10 more, 2030. Like I had, like I said, a hundred shows written down for every night. And I went through 30 years, so that's 210. Well, whatever it was. You know, almost I literally went through 1971 to 1999, Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And it's endless. So you're right though, Kev. I mean, there's some shows that ran for like five years, but it's incredible. Uh speaking of which, that's incredible was one of the ones that I did not.

And and Donnie just mentioned solid gold that made me think of what was the who was the guy that taught Travolta how to dance. Um, Mark White. That's right. What was the they would bring they would bring people out, and the judges would be like, uh it was they always say it had a good beat, it was easy to dance to. I give it an 86. That was like every show was that. Why can't I think of his name? He was he was everywhere for a while. Um Dance Fever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that was so kind of on par with solid gold. It was like, you know, same idea, same, same kind of genre. Oh but yeah, I just I just love that these shows literally take you back to when life was easier, when you were a kid, and it's funny because I I did have a couple of them that were syndication, but I tried to stick because like by 83 I was working a full-time job. Right. You know what I mean? I was out of the house and and I literally remember it's funny, I remember Dukes of Hazard, like at 13 years old, going, I can go to this party, but I'm gonna miss Dukes of Hazard. And then I thought of some girls' tits, and I was like, No, I'm going to the party.

Those tits would have been there at 11, too, though.

I'm I'm sure somebody will invent a streaming service when I'm older and I can watch all the old.

Oh shit. That's the beauty of this show, though, is that exactly we didn't have that option. It was see or you're done until they aired again, you know, five, ten years later.

So the first time they played Star Wars and New Hope on television.

Oh, yeah.

Was like the most amazing. You get to see it for free.

Yeah. Right.

In your own living room. Right. This was like because you couldn't even go to a theater and pay to see it when it was out of circulation.

You know, what a huge I'll never forget that, actually, Kevin, because I was at Chris De Gange's house, and just like I spoke of earlier, it was on HBO for the first time, and I fucking fell asleep before it started.

I'll never forget falling asleep before it started.

You know what I get a kick out of is people requesting songs to radio stations, and all they got to do is go onto their phone, play Volbeat. Well, maybe they're sending it out to someone. I know, but that's my point, but they still request songs on the radio.

Yeah, that's kind of nostalgia in a way, making it people just want they don't want to move forward.

Well, it's not sharing, you know what I mean? You want other people to hear that song at this, and again, we've talked about this quite a bit. Is that we've lost that, you know, the water cooler talk the next day of us driving a school hearing the same shit. Right, exactly. There was that feeling community. You pulled up to a stoplight, and the car next to you was listening to the same radio station.

Virtually impossible today.

There's no way that somebody is streaming the same song at the same time that you are. The odds are just astronomical. Yeah, so there's that shared experience that is good. I get it. Right. Everything's gone.

Yeah, yeah. In some ways, if someone's doing a request now, it's it's almost just to get their name dropped. Yeah, right.

Oh god, yeah. And in this area, that little shot of dopamine or whatever it is.

Yeah, and in the area, only a few stations were listenable. You know what I mean? So everyone heard it. Awesome boys. Well, that was so fun. I mean, that we're gonna we're gonna be able to do this so many times. Great show, great lineup. Kevin, thank you so much for coming up with this one. I thought it was awesome.

All right, cool.

Brother Mark, I thank you. And how you're welcome. Icehole Dungo. Eat man, and everyone out there, thank you so much for listening. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. So much fun, and we can't appreciate it more. So thank you. And we are out.

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