Cliffhanger
Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:33 pm
For those old enough to remember, during the late 1950s there were adventure TV serials / cliffhangers broadcast on many stations.
One of my favorites was Bruce Gentry, always with cool airplabes.
Today after more than 60 tears (!!!) I found Bruce Gentry again, in Youtube:
https://youtu.be/l3VdG7PzEnI
Saludos!
Tulio
Not as young as I used to be
One of my favorites was Bruce Gentry, always with cool airplabes.
Today after more than 60 tears (!!!) I found Bruce Gentry again, in Youtube:
https://youtu.be/l3VdG7PzEnI
Saludos!
Tulio
Not as young as I used to be
Re: Cliffhanger
Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:33 am
Wow, that AT-11 sure had a big cabin, plenty of room to stand up in!
This is a new one to me, I always equated movie serials with the '30s, but this is clearly post war. Probably made by a smaller studio to go along with their "B" westerns, and like those westerns, found a second life on TV.
And speaking of '50s TV...
I'm currently watching Sky King on DVD, lots of T-50/UC-78 and 310 shots...not many "guest" airplanes, but there have been some interesting ones, early Bonanzas, a Lockheed 12 bomber prototype (N60775...modified by Lockheed for a potential Dutch order from an existing airline 12, owned after the war by Paul Mantz) with a faired-over turret, early Cessna 170, a very early Bell 47 with wheels...and I haven't gotten to the later one where he flies a Navy jet fighter.
I keep hoping for CBS to release Whirlybirds...
This is a new one to me, I always equated movie serials with the '30s, but this is clearly post war. Probably made by a smaller studio to go along with their "B" westerns, and like those westerns, found a second life on TV.
And speaking of '50s TV...
I'm currently watching Sky King on DVD, lots of T-50/UC-78 and 310 shots...not many "guest" airplanes, but there have been some interesting ones, early Bonanzas, a Lockheed 12 bomber prototype (N60775...modified by Lockheed for a potential Dutch order from an existing airline 12, owned after the war by Paul Mantz) with a faired-over turret, early Cessna 170, a very early Bell 47 with wheels...and I haven't gotten to the later one where he flies a Navy jet fighter.
I keep hoping for CBS to release Whirlybirds...
Re: Cliffhanger
Tue Aug 04, 2020 1:09 pm
John,
After posting the cliffhanger message last night, I went back to Youtube and found episodes of "Winslow of the Navy" and had nice shots of biplanes being shot from battleship's catapults. Curtiss Seagull??
There was a Bruce Gentry episode that I remember, where they used a scale model of a bomber (AT-11??) That, on the episode, dropped "real" exploding bombs.
As for Whirlybirds, have you tried Acorn media? They sell DVDs of old serials and TV shows.
https://www.acornonline.com/?websource= ... gIWL_D_BwE
Saludos,
Tulio
After posting the cliffhanger message last night, I went back to Youtube and found episodes of "Winslow of the Navy" and had nice shots of biplanes being shot from battleship's catapults. Curtiss Seagull??
There was a Bruce Gentry episode that I remember, where they used a scale model of a bomber (AT-11??) That, on the episode, dropped "real" exploding bombs.
As for Whirlybirds, have you tried Acorn media? They sell DVDs of old serials and TV shows.
https://www.acornonline.com/?websource= ... gIWL_D_BwE
Saludos,
Tulio