Pluck Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!

[Chuck S.]

Anyone remember that line from 50's TV?? WARNING: You'll be pinpointing your age....:)

Visiting a rose bush in the backyard:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/756349595_f6a27f0429_o.jpg

[Tina_B]

I remember the line but can not remember what show it was from. Please tell us the name of the show, please.
What fun
Tina B

[JulieM]

No idea about the show but that is an amazing photo, Chuck!

[Wendy]

Chuck ...

Oh that is excellent !! :)

Wendy

[Daviskw]

HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz8fdbPpvns&mode=related&search=) is a link to a different era. Things were so innocent then. Although froggy was weird he was he was...:twisted:

Great picture Chuck

Butch

[Shari]

Chuck - your photography is AMAZING. I know you have a great camera but it does matter who is beind it. Is that a macro shot?
Shari

[Chuck S.]

I'm struggling with trying to color calibrate this Dell laptop, so if my colors are off on the images I'm posting, please forgive me. I gave up on Adobe Gamma, having no eye for the sliders in that app. I bought a Pantone Spyder with ColorPlus and am still trying to get it to play nice with the laptop. One of these days...

[Inspeqtor]

Chuck,

The colors look GREAT to me :) You did a fantastic job!!!!

[Ellen]

The color and the shot look great to me, nice shot indeed!

[Cmcburnett]

Wow, awesome photo:D

[Chuck S.]

Butch, thanks for the link back to my childhood! I had no idea that kinescopes of old TV shows were posted on YouTube! May have to dive in sometime....:)

[Cmcburnett]

Butch, I checked out the link you posted, it is too funny. I grew up in the 50s but I don't remember that one:rolleyes:

[Tina_B]

Ah, Yes, Froggy the Gremlin and Andy Devine. Thanks for the memeory and the wonderful photo of Froggy. Andy was a friend of my Aunt who lives in California she used to tell us about him all the time but I do remember some of the shows he had also.
Tina B

[Chuck S.]

Tina (and others), do you remember the TV western where Andy was the sidekick? His name in the show?? The sponsor???

I watched way too much TV as a child.....:o

[pixlbandit]

Tina (and others), do you remember the TV western where Andy was the sidekick? His name in the show?? The sponsor???

I watched way too much TV as a child.....:o

Roy Rogers, of course. I don't remember his name in the show, but wasn't he the chuckwagon cook? I watched all the westerns. Heck, I started listening to them on radio before they were on TV. Don't remember the sponsor, though. Guess I'm really giving away my age--what I do remember and what I no longer can....
Vicki

[Chuck S.]

Vicki, it wasn't Roy Rogers. His sidekicks included Gabby Hayes and Pat Brady. Someone a little more obscure...

EDIT: Vicki is right about Andy Devine being Roy Rogers' sidekick in the movies (but not on TV). A thousand pardons, Vicki, for dismissing your correct answer!!:o

[Daviskw]

Chuck he was also Jingles the depudy marshall in the Aventures of Wild Bill Hickok. Guy Madison played Wild Bill

Butch

[ladybug]

Sorry a little before my time but i do remember gumbie and pokey. The frog picture is simply magnificient. Love it.

[Chuck S.]

Butch, that's the one! Jingles Jones, sidekick to Wild Bill Hickok, sponsored by Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops ("Sugar Pops are Tops")

:D

[chas3stix]

Chuck and Butch,
Andy Devine was one of my favorite cowboy sidekicks. Did you know he was from Kingman,Arizona? That's my dog Tigh he lives in a shoe I'm Buster Brown look for me in there too.....:) Thanks for the memories
Chas

[photoshopsusieq]

Nice shot but, sorry, most of the 50s were BS (BS = before Susan :D) to me.

[Mack]

Yep I remember Jingles (a little) and it seems to me that all cowboy heroes of that era had a plump semi competent sidekick. Their dumb luck always saved the day though.

Happy Trails,
Don

[Daviskw]

Wow Chuck you got me remembering… those were the good days of TV…lets see;

Roy Rogers
Hopalong Cassidy
The Cisco Kid
The Lone Ranger
Wagon Train
Rawhide
Have Gun Will Travel
Sky King
The Adventures of Charlie Chan
The Virginian
The Rifleman
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Daniel Boone
Gun Smoke

Just some of my favorites.

[Chuck S.]

Butch, great list!

Seems to me someone moderately famous emerged from Rawhide....

:)

[chas3stix]

Chuck,
How about Clint Eastwood who played Rowdy Yates...if memory serves....
Chas

[Chuck S.]

Chuck,
How about Clint Eastwood who played Rowdy Yates...if memory serves....
Chas

Chas: Memory serves!! He's come a long way....!

[chas3stix]

Butch,
You left off the early sci-fi programs....
Tom Corbet Space Cadet
Captain Video
Commando Cody
Flash Gordon
just to name a few
Chas

[Chuck S.]

Butch,
You left off the early sci-fi programs....
Tom Corbet Space Cadet
Captain Video
Commando Cody
Flash Gordon
just to name a few
Chas

And....Captain Midnight!!

[chas3stix]

Chuck,
How could I have forgotten Captain Midnight and the magic decoder rings......
Sponsored by Ovaltine.
Chas

[Daviskw]

Oh yes Chas

I had fantasies about Dale Arden... For a 7 year old anyway…:D But mostly I was a cowboy first then a Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob fan. Not too keen on Clairabelle though.

WOW how could we forget Superman

Faster than a seeding bullet… more powerful than a locomotive… … LOOK up in the sky… it’s a bird…it’s a plane…. its SUPERMAN.

Yes, it's Superman - strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!

No one has ever come up with a leadin better than that!!!

Butch

[Mack]

How about Captain Video and his Video Rangers? My Dad would mockingly call out Captain Video and his Plywood Spaceship. This link is a real hoot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KTyWvyuoGk

Don

[NYBOB1]

Butch,you forgot Wanted Dead or Alive,with Steve McQueen.


Bob

[Daviskw]

Great memories with that clip Don…and Bob yes … Wanted Dead or Alive was a good one too… I think I also forgot Maverick

Butch

[snidely]

Hi people,
Yup, me too:)

Thanks, Chuck, for Froggy T. Gremlin. Let's not forget Midnight the Cat, who said either "nice" or "mice", depending on who you believe.

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Space Patrol (I got the glow-in-the-dark belt and buckle by sending in Wheat Chex boxtops and $.50 or so).

Yancey Derringer and Range Rider, both starring Jock Mahoney

Kit Carson with Bill Williams

There are so many good memories. This thread could last forever.:)

Many of the shows mentioned in this thread are available on DVD from Netflix and Blockbuster.

Gunsmoke (especially the earliest episodes) and Have Gun Will Travel have stood the test of time. They're head-and-shoulders above the current load of *%^# that's "on the air".

Harrumph!
Steve

[nkeevers]

That is just a super picture! What a great shot you took and the colors to me look perfect!

(I won't date myself by saying anything about the show.:eek:)

[bwolford]

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie although the spelling may not be correct the idea's the same. Maybe they were a 60's team and I'm just a little late.

Brice

[John L Gray]

Chuck,

Excellent Photo.

"Pluck Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!" was from a show called I think the "The Buster Brown Hour". The show was first on the radio for years in the hey day of Buster Brown shoes.

I guess that show my age.:eek:


John

[snidely]

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie although the spelling may not be correct the idea's the same. Maybe they were a 60's team and I'm just a little late.

Was KF&O widely broadcast? I remember seeing it when we'd visit my dad's family in Chicagoland during the late 1950s, but nowhere else.

Older, but, happily, no wiser,
Steve

[Daviskw]

Kukla, Fran and Ollie was on in St Louis in the early to mid 50's... Imagine what would happen today if Kukla beat the heck out of Ollie with a baseball bat like he always did on the show.

Butch

[msbrad]

Chuck, not a phrase I recall hearing, but I sure like the frog photo.
m

[westiemom]

Chuck, outstanding photo. Absolutely stunning. And fortunately( or rather unfortunately) I remember most of those TV shows.

Anita

[John L Gray]

Chuck,

Check out this site about Froggy,

http://michelesworld.net/dmm/frog/gremlin/ed.htm

It brought back memories....:D


John

[jazzfisher]

I also remember Kula, Fran & Ollie from living in St. Louis---also Romper Room & of course Captain Kangaroo
Daniel Boone & Davy Crockett (Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the Wild Froniter) My Friend Flicka

[chas3stix]

Get yer memory caps on......
Soldiers of Fortune starring John Russell and Chick Chandler
Terry and the Pirates based on the old comic strip (starring????)(circa 1952)
There was a series based on life in the French Foreign Legion starring Buster Crabbe and Fuzzy Knight,Captain Gallant,I believe.
Chas

[chas3stix]

A little video trivia for snidely......
Rocky Jones had a very distinguished actor play in three episodes....Who,you ask? None other than Sargent Schultz, himself (John Banner) of Hogan's Heroes fame.
Chas

[snidely]

Hi Chas3stix,
I've got a few episodes of Rocky J on DVD, but I haven't come to John Banner yet. Rocky was my favorite space guy.

Soldier of Fortune:) Wow, I'd forgotten that one.

How's about
I Led Three Lives with Richard Carlson

The 77th Bengal Lancers with Phil Carey and Warren Stevens. They had great helmets and there was a lot of Sahib-ing around while they fought Afridis or Ferengis or somebody. I may have those names wrong:D

The Gray Ghost featuring nobody I can remember.

And the beat goes on...
Steve

[Daviskw]

Heh I just remembered Topper...I loved that show...and the Millionaire, not as much today as then.

Butch

[jazzfisher]

I remember Topper & Millionare too--two of my favorites