Proclivities wrote:


To Quote from Isabeau:

'Yer freakin my synapsis here!!

 Proclivities wrote:


To Quote from Isabeau:

'Yer freakin my synapsis here!!

 Proclivities wrote:

I suppose they figured that they could make Tina Louise look as much like an idiot as possible, considering she wouldn’t join up with the team.

Out of all the Columbo shows, I remember one scene. 

• Columbo: In a fancy restaurant interviewing some crook about something. Waiter approaches and tells him he must order something or leave.
• Columbo: Ah, I'll have a bowl of chili and a Pepsi
• — interviews crook, gets ready to leave, waiter delivers the check
• Columbo: Ah, waiter, there must be a mistake: This check is for six dollars but I only had a bowl of chili and a pepsi.
• Waiter returns with corrected check
• Columbo: Ah, Six-Seventy-five, what?
• Waiter: I forgot the pepsi.
  

 Proclivities wrote:

I wondered what happened to Zelda after she kicked Dobie to the curb...

 kcar wrote:
There were other letters where the writer(s) threatened to go to his house and shoot him.  Somewhere in the links are links to FBI files and copies of the letters. (e.g. pages 29-32 of this PDF file) I think the Bob Ryan he is talking about was the actor Robert Ryan, who was a Marine in WWII.  In the late '50s, he and Steve Allen were founding members of a group called The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy.  He was a supporter of the ACLU and other "anti-HUAC" groups, so I assume some people lumped them together as commies back then.

 Proclivities wrote:

Just stumbled across this post. A threatening letter with standard layout, recipient's address, date and fairly advanced diction. How quaint and non-threatening! It almost makes me feel nostalgic. 

And the ideas! Steve Allen a Communist with Red-pseudo smell, keeping intellectual company with Linus Pauling and Dalton Trumbo. But who are Bob Ryan (the retired Boston sportswriter?!?) and Dore Schary? 

Kinda makes me miss the Cold War...

 Proclivities wrote:

My father and I watched this YS broadcast as my Mom was in the hospital for a hysterectomy. Talk about weird bonding.
Can't remember how old I was when I first saw the photo of the Heaviest Man....
Yer freakin my synapsis here!!

 black321 wrote:
Yeah, some of the entries mention Salt Lake City for alternate times.  Forgot about some of those shows:  Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home, Hec Ramsey, Room 222, UFO, etc....  And that ad... - "Robert Earl Hughes was not buried in an old piano case, as per an apocryphal story long published in the Guinness Book of World Records. Rather, the Embalming Burial Case Co. of Burlington, Iowa, built a custom casket: 85 inches long, 52 inches wide and 34 inches deep. It was made of heavy cypress, reinforced with steel."

 Proclivities wrote:

this must have been MST as prime time starts at 7, not 8.
I remember that pic from guinness book. 

In 1960, TV personality Steve Allen was the target of a person or persons sending threatening letters which were sent using forged names of senior citizens as the senders.  More here with pertinent links at the bottom.