Today in Movie & TV History (3 Viewers)

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I do the same with Rockford files. Never watched it when it aired. But if it happens to be on GET channel on YouTube TV I'm watching it. James Garner has an interesting story. Dropped out of high school and became a merchant marine. Then came home and joined the Marines and fought in Korea. Movies and TV was his third act?

I enjoy Rockford Files as well.. started watching the reruns probably 17 or 18 yrs ago when i lived in So California and it was fascinating to see the locations they used and how much, or how little, they’d changed in the intervening 25 or 30 yrs.. also i feel like the acting and writing on Rockford were far superior to Magnum .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

also i feel like the acting and writing on Rockford were far superior to Magnum .

Can’t imagine there are many who would argue otherwise

 

[faceman]

I do the same with Rockford files. Never watched it when it aired. But if it happens to be on GET channel on YouTube TV I'm watching it. James Garner has an interesting story. Dropped out of high school and became a merchant marine. Then came home and joined the Marines and fought in Korea. Movies and TV was his third act?

Support your local sheriff and Support your local gunfighter were pretty good movies starring
Garner imho.

He also had a sharp wit and Johnny Carson had him as a frequent guest on the tonight show.
He had Carson rolling on the floor with laughter a few times.

 

[Semper]

I wore this thing out. Loved it.

 

[Merl]

I had one. It was quite easy to figure out the pattern and beat it.

 

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[guidomerkinsrules]

^ good movie
But it’s like Fight Club where the satirized think it’s a paean to them

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

^ good movie
But it’s like Fight Club where the satirized think it’s a paean to them

Or All in the Family, where growing up my grandpa thought Archie made a ton of sense .

 

[BooBirdSaint]

I wore this thing out. Loved it.

Awesome! Had the knockoff brand. My brother and I called it slap ball. You'd be play head-to-head and ultimately one would move the controller and mess up the other player which resulted in a slap across the head. I likely would have been in concussion protocol my entire time in Jr High School if there was such a thing for digital football. I think this is the second unit my parents bought us? The first unit got thrown onto the next-door Nabors 2nd story roof in a particularly brutal round in the mid 1980's. Good times.

 

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[bigdaddysaints]

i never got around to watching this movie..

 

[Booker]

This is the one we had…

 

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This is the one we had…

Fancy…

 

[Eeyore]

I wore this thing out. Loved it.

It was my favorite toy of childhood