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I don't know if this has been brought up recently, but there seems to be a new network on T.V. called American Life T.V. and they show classis shows from the good 'ol days.

Among the shows is 12 O'Clock High, Combat and The Rat Patrol.

They have a website up at http://www.goodtv.com/

All they need now is Black Sheep and life is complete!

my wife surprised me w/ that channel a few days ago. it also has time tunnel, lost in space & mission impossible if your from that era. ahhh.... tv waste land!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Is that channel available on DirecTV?

-Pat

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Looks like it may not (yet) be on DirecTV.

Got me hummin' the theme tunes. I got "Combat"s tune down. Remember the grainy dot-matrix looking explosions on the opener?
Who remembers "Battlefield" ? We saw it on Friday nights for a couple of years about 1964-66-ish.

Canso42

also voyage to the bottom of the sea!! yeah.... let's waste some 60's time!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Or Convoy

Lynn

Don't get Me started on Theme Songs...
Some folks collect Antique Cars, Fine Wine & Rare Stamps. ME?? I collect Old TV Show Theme Songs.
Hey!! They're Free...

Warning!! Some of these songs can be Dangerous!!

The 2 Songs I can never get outta' My Head once I hear them are the theme song from "S.W.A.T." & the theme from "KIMBA The White Lion" ...
I remember once back in 1973 I couldn't get that DARN "KIMBA" Song outta' My Head for almost a week. I almost had to go to a Doctor & have a hole drilled into My skull to let it out...

Here's some of My Favorite TV Show Theme Songs.
Again, Be Careful with "S.W.A.T." & "KIMBA" ... They may be habit forming....

S.W.A.T.
I finally got to drive a Blue SWAT Truck just like this one in the USAF. It was kinda boring though...
Just up & down the Flightline all day. I never got issued an M16 & never got to jump through any Glass Windows either. Why didn't He just use the Door??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUJu17fAnKU

KIMBA The White Lion
Did You ever notice KIMBA & His Pals always had bandages on after a big fight?? Ha! Ha! Who bandaged them up??
I always hated KIMBA & prayed it would die a horrible death:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5DE-lk1nqk

RAT PATROL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZcbifYqpGc

COMBAT!
Actor Rick Jason shot Himself in the Head...
I think it was the KIMBA Theme Song drove that Him crazy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qQGS4fXSY

Gomer Pyle - USMC
Sadly, Many of the Marines shown in these opening credits were killed shortly afterwards in Vietnam. (True)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAA2Unb0B4

Lost In Space

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_VOM3yBuMI

ADAM - 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUc1uQIoqc

Wonder Woman
It must've been tough being the Crew Chief on Her invisible jet plane.
How could You find the spare parts?? They're all invisible...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCnM-E5sl0

Get Smart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMj5LuT5hk

Astro Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZMwXNzdrs

TOP CAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEv29oPt ... re=related

Johnny Quest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIrEf-vn65w

Ernie Kovacs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTgJTRoJj24

Captain Kangaroo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58C ... re=related

Captain Combat
I actually saw this tragic incident happen, the morning it aired!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_wX-ApZPc

Digger

cripes..... johnny quest, now you really did it!! good old violent cartoons from the days when kiddies didn't get ideas. i saw the other you tube links, but if i hit them i'll be in middle aged waste land for hours!!! p.s. i saw the queefed quest version too, hilarious!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Whistlin' 'Combat" right now. Boom! Boom! Rick Jason-Rat Patrol??? Wasnt' he Lt. Hanley in Combat?
Johnny Quest rocked! I like the episode when they crash the weird airplane in the mountains somewhere and find an old German pilot with two WWI airlplanes and he b.s es Race Bannon into flying the SPAD, Nieuport or whatever into a dogfight.

Canso42

Check Out this Vintage "Johnny Quest" TV Commercial for PF Flyers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqqn54uQn0

I was a Converse Kid Myself... Dig

golly gee willickers that was cool & nostalgic!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Back in High School We would draw dirty XXX-Rated versions of "Johnny Quest" in Study Hall.
Usually, Mary Ann & Ginger suddenly joined the cast. Ha! Ha! One kid was an amazing artist & was dead on accurate.

They used to call them "Tijuana Bibles":

http://tijuanabibles.org/

Even Bandit the Dog got in on the action. I wish I still had a few!! I could probably make a fortune selling them on
E Bay... Digger

Sea Hunt was it man!

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Rat Patrol was cool. If you look at that clip you can see a few things, The guns in the scabbards on the Jeeps are NOT THompsons. I've watched a bunch of episodes and they eventually get Thompsons, but you look at them and don't have a clue what they are.

When they pull the muzzle cover off the 50s, you can see they were "blanked" so they will function with blanks since there is a LITTLE HOLE there instead of THE BIG HOLE hole.

Last, this wasn't one, but in the first few episodes, when they "fly" the jeeps over the sand dune, the gunner on the second jeep, flys up in the air, manages to hang onto the spades on the 50 and then takes it in the chest with the spades. Man I'll bet that really hurt.

Mark H

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