This is, of course, one of the seminal Brady Bunches.
And there's a football game on tonight, too!
And the rest of the weekend?
Truthfully, though, I don't even know why I'm looking this far ahead. Hoptown 1970 me is apparently going to be in Pennsylvania starting tomorrow (Aug. 29) 1970.
Maybe I'll take a good book to read in the hotel room.
And this week's Sports Illustrated.
Peter Carry's got a story in the new Sports Illustrated that suggests the rest of the American League should just give up--Baltimore is going to win the pennant this year, and the Orioles are so stocked that surely no other team could win, say, the 1972, '73 and '74 A.L. championships.
Also, it's a little dispiriting to learn that, just two years out from Munich 1972, the U.S. men's basketball team is losing to Soviets.
Pregame: Yes – Howard speaks with injured NY QB Fran Tarkenton
ReplyDeleteHalftime: Yes – A review of the season’s MNF schedule
Saturday morning, Aug. 29, 1970 ...
ReplyDelete7:30, WBRE NBC Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Channel 28, Davey and Goliath. "The Wild Goat." Davey and Goliath learn a lesson about kindness to animals."
I can never remember the names of hymns, but I love whatever song they used to close that Davey and Goliath.
DeleteI'd never heard of Here Comes the Grump. Peppy theme, for sure.
ReplyDeleteHere are 11 honestly exhilarating minutes of Hot Wheels commercials from 1970.
ReplyDeleteI probably won't spend a lot of time binge-watching Here Come the Grumps, but I could see myself getting into Casey Kasem's Hot Wheels cartoon if somebody ever posts all the episodes.
ReplyDeleteThe Hardy Boys didn't catch on like The Archie Show but not for lack of community-marketing efforts.
ReplyDelete12:00, WDAU-CBS Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Channel 22, The Monkees. Rose Marie guests as a matchmaking widow.
ReplyDeleteFeatures a perfect Carole King song I'd never heard, "Sometime in the Morning."
DeleteYouTube is so, so great.
I always look for Washington in the baseball standings.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I haven't been paying a lot of attention, but I imagine Ted Williams has had just about enough.
Delete1:30, WNEP-ABC Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Channel 16, Brady Bunch. Hailed for preventing an accident in a toy store, Peter is getting lots of attention--too much for the rest of the Bradys to take. ... Guest Cast ... Driscoll: Pitt Herbert. Mrs. Spencer: Dani Nolan. Delivery Man: Joe Conley. Earl: Dave Rorick. Steve: Randy Lane. Jason: Iler Rasmussen. Jennifer: Susan Joyce.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Hulu has gone all subscription for all of their stuff. I don't blame them. That site is a gold mine.
Hopkinsville's Kentucky New Era recently (in 1970) reported that, when the J.C. Penney moved from downtown Hopkinsville to the Pennyrile Mall, it would go from 15 to 100 employees. A 38-year-old former sales and merchandise manager from the Penney's in Huntsville, Alabama, was brought in to manage the new Hoptown store. He had also worked at the company's stores in Norfolk, Virginia; Decatur, Georgia, and New Orleans, the New Era reported.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet Is Amazing. I just learned that the public libraries in Benton, Hoptown and Russellville all appear to have a copy of 1970's Pro Frank Beard on the Pro Golf Tour, which was written about at the time as a kind of PGA version of Ball Four.
ReplyDeleteHere's Buddy Rich on Friday 1970's Mike Douglas Show. I love how crazy the hard-core drum people go for the Buddy Rich clips.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Elvis ...
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe I ended up watching all 25 minutes and 38 seconds of this film on ham radio that featured Dick Van Dyke, Barry Goldwater, Arthur Godfrey and the king of Jordan and aired on Sunday, Aug. 30, 1970, on NBC.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet this Today clip is almost exactly the moment when hunting quit being something depicted as a mainstream activity of men on U.S. sitcoms.
ReplyDeleteThere's hardly a more dependably interesting and entertaining 30 minutes in TV than To Tell the Truth.
ReplyDeleteAugust 17, 1970, Sports Illustrated: "SEESAWING—STEVE COOPER and GARY TURPEN, both 17, of Castro Valley, Calif., teetered and tottered to a world record for continuous seesawing, going 124 nonstop hours to surpass the former record of 115 hours, 33 minutes set last spring in Yorkshire, England."
ReplyDeleteThis must be where the Brady Bunch got the idea.
Breakfast with The Galloping Gourmet ...
ReplyDeleteWell, the story of "The Galloping Gourmet" is pretty darned interesting. (Thank you, Wikipedia.)
DeleteI mean, "The Former Galloping Gourmet" ...
DeleteI don't remember ever seeing Mrs. McFeely.
ReplyDeleteAnd I had never seen Jaye P. Morgan in anything but The Gong Show and other '70s game shows.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm ready to declare To Tell the Truth as my favorite 1970 game show, unless something from the new season catches my fancy. The new TV season starts Sept. 15, by the way.
ReplyDeleteGame respects game, and Bobby Darin and Little Richard obviously are having a good time together in this Mike Douglas clip.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen it, but Where's Huddles? would've absolutely been up my Saturday-morning alley. That's exactly the type of show I was looking for.
ReplyDeleteThe Everlys are having a strong 1970.
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