I believe Johnny Tremaine was a feature film, and was divided into segments for television.
I remember a (Hardy Boys?) segment on the Mickey Mouse club about a lost treasure and miserly Mr. Applegate.
Song:
"Gold doubloons and pieces of eight
All belong to Applegate.
The chest is here, but WAIT!
WHERE are all those gold doubloons and pieces of eight?...
pieces of eight?...
pieces of eight?...
(maniacal laugh)"
The Texas John Slaughter theme song had one couplet I have never forgotten:
Texas John Slaughter
He done what he oughter
The rest, I don't remember...
Also burned into my memory is a fragment of the Swamp Fox song:
Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox
Tail on his hat
Nobody knows
Where the Swamp Fox's at
They don't write 'em like that any more.
Anybody know the name of the M*A*S*H* theme song?
Played and sung at the dentist's pseudo-funeral after he took the Black Capsule in the movie.
Biff Baker USA starred ...
Biff Baker USA [TV Series]
1952-USA-Glamorized Spy Film
PLOT DESCRIPTION
Dealing in imported goods, a businessman and his wife seem to continuously be the capable recipients of international trouble. The short-running series ran for 26 episodes during the 1952-1953 season.
Alan Hale, Jr. played Biff Baker.
That may be why Alan Hale Jr hid out on Gilligan's Island all those years...
This radio series aired in the early 50's. I don't believe it lasted more than a season or two. A western,it seems ripe for a TV adaptation (like Gunsmoke) but I don't believe one was ever made. It involved the adventures of J. B. Kendall, an Englishman and reporter for the London Times, filing dispatches from the Wild West. Kendall was a veteran of the British Indian campaigns, and a match for anything the American frontier had to offer. The series was gritty but not afraid of showing a lighter side.
Correct.
Do you know who played him?
It was John Dehner, with a very good British accent. Dehner also played Palladin in the radio version of Have Gun, Will Travel.
I always had ambivelant feelings about John Dehner. I think it's because he could play such a perfect bastard when he wanted to. He was highly talented and I recall him in dozens of TV and radio programs.
Speaking of radio westerns, do you know who played Tom Mix?
Artells Dickson, Jack Holden, Russell Thorson and Joe 'Curly' Bradley all played Tom Mix on the radio. ...
While researching Curly Bradley, I discovered he was only one of a series of Tom Mixes.
I thought Tom Mix was a real guy. Did he die before he could play himself on radio? Or was his voice bad?
He died in an auto accident before the shows, I believe. I read a biography on him, written by his widow, but can't recall for certain. I have read that no copies exist of his best movies. Also saw a film clip in which he was (according to the script) confronted by a wolf in a shack. The wolf was obviously terrified as Mix sought to struggle with him and just wanted out. Mix swung him by the tail, and, if I recall correctly, slung him out the window.
My Dad used to sing a Tom Mix ditty that went like this, to the best of my recollection:
Shave and a haircut
Two bits
Who's the barber?
Tom Mix
