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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 01, 2008, 10:57 PM:

This is way off my usual cine wanderings, but I recently bought the first season of "The Waltons" (hey, it was marked down season one for only five bucks, what the heck!) a show which I only rarely watched as a kid, and I have been impressed with how much I like it now. "Little Louse of the Prairie" (yes, mis-spelling is on purpose!) and this show are a very good companion together.

I am forever wrapped in Nolstalgia. Yeah, I know, times were in reality, tough during all periods, but i would have liked growing up back then. Even with all of our modern fancy stuff, I would love to have lived during that simpler time and, in the case of the Waltons, I would have grown up in the infancy of home movie collecting ... hah!

Posted by Graham Sinden (Member # 431) on October 02, 2008, 04:41 PM:

What struck me a bit about the Walton's is that they were a bit poor and struggling to get by with food, clothing ect. But wait didnt they OWN waltons mountain. Now if I owned a mountain id be stinking rich and rolling in it. I know in a much later episode Jon Boy actually sold off some land but couldnt they have done that much sooner.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 02, 2008, 05:06 PM:

Three rules of real estate: 1) location 2) location 3) location

First rules of comedy, romance and business: Timing

They were in a place where land was plentiful and cheap at a time when nobody could afford to buy it anyway.

If they owned a mountain in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, now we're talking!

Posted by Mal Brake (Member # 14) on October 02, 2008, 05:50 PM:

By the time they had finished saying 'goodnight' to each other it was time to get up again [Smile]

Mal

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on October 04, 2008, 07:06 AM:

Osi,

If you like the good old nostalgic shows, there was a really good 30 minute cartoon series that came on in the 70's. It was called "Those Were The Days", or something similar, and was alot like "The Waltons". It only lasted about one or two seasons, and you won't find too many people who remember it I don't think. The animation was similar to that of the original "Charlottes Web" movie.

I don't think its on video or DVD, but I'm sure there are 16mm prints out there somewhere, since it was on T.V. in the 70's.

James.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 04, 2008, 09:24 AM:

I don't remember that one, but for some reason, I remember a cartoon show called, "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home", mostly because of the theme song.

Most of my memories of Kids shows back then are a little spotty, but I do remember "HR Puff n Stuff" , The Banana Splits (Live action and animation) and of course "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"

I know everybody has thier opinion on this, but I really do feel that, as a 70's kid, I had a very privileged time for Saturday Morning cartoons! There were a lot of really good cartoons! My wife and I usually turn on the TV on Saturday morning, and either the networks aren't carrying any cartoons period (every network had at least four hours of cartoons back in the 70's), or the cartoons are all "Yu gi Oh" or magic and scorcery. There's very few just sweet kids cartoons anymore. They all seem to have an agenda.

I think part of that is because the people who made the cartoons all the way until the early 80. were veterans of the theatrical cartoon market of the 1930's on up until the end (late 60's).

A side note : Did you know that the man who animated the lovely sexy fairy in Ralph Bashki's "Wizards" (1977) was Irv Spencer, the very same guy who animated Jerry mouse in the Tom and Jerry cartoons for twenty five years? Fascinating!

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on October 04, 2008, 01:22 PM:

Yes, I also remember "Wait Til Your Father Gets Home" and the theme song.

In Ireland we had this on twice a week just after 6pm back in the 70's.

-Mike

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