Ed Ames also demonstrated some scary talent with a tomahawk on the Tonight Show.
I remember that. He really was good.
Me too. That was a riot. Johnny Carson got a lot of mileage out of that one, for years!
I've found a list of the most popular tv shows, starting with Oct 1950 - Apr 1951. How many do you recognize?
1 Texaco Star Theater
2 Fireside Theater
3 Philco TV Playhouse
4 Your Show of Shows
5 The Colgate Comedy Hour
6 Gillette Calvalcade of Sports
7 The Lone Ranger
8 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9 Hopalong Cassidy
10 Mama
Further down the list are The Aldrich Family, You Bet Your Life and Arthur Godfrey and His Friends.
I am certain I would have a better remembrance except I never saw a television set before 1952 or 1953.
I can just see those guys in the service station uniforms (complete with bow ties) singing:
We're the men of Texaco
We work from Maine to Mexico
There's nothing like this Texaco of ours!
edgarblythe- I remember ALL of them. My grandmother got her first 10" TV in 1948. We got ours (16") 1949. It was a mahogany box with doors and Queen Anne legs. Later on, we had the set converted to a 21"!
Hey George.......Wanna do a duet? I remember the tune to that!
The Lone Wolf TV series was also known as:
Lee Marvin's television series was titled:
M Squad, about a Chicago plain clothes detective. From somewhere around 1957.
edgarblythe- Doesn't even ring a bell!
When that show would begin he would point his gun close range to the screen and it would blast fire and smoke. "Dynamite," my brother would yell.
I don't recall the music. One show that had music to outlive the series was Peter Gunn. I don't suppose you recall who supplied it do you? In one episode there was absolutely no dialog. We listened to this cool music while the hero, played by Craig Stevens, tangled with a crook on a lonely stretch of road.
But who recorded the "hit" version of the theme?
I owned the original vinyl Peter Gunn and More From Peter Gunn. Also Mancini's Mr Lucky album, from another series of the time.
Yep. Same guy with Dragnet hit.
