More of those cozy couch memories await you this day in The Projection Room, curated by your proprietress the Projectionist.
Now this one is just out of this world - it's My Favorite Martian, loving the uncle alien and whistling Bixby.
Open All Hours : With just one Ronnie - the Barker one - but sometimes that's all you need innit, and you thought all you needed was love, silly wabbit.
Bloomers - just your garden variety Britcom about ...well gardening - from 1979 a la the Beeb. This would be Richard Beckinsale's (Ronnie Barker's cell chum in Porridge and papa of actress Kate) -last series before his untimely death.
Patrick McGoohan is John Drake, Danger Man at your service. A mite of shapes to things to come for the elusively wonderful actor who was born in Astoria, New York before his family shuffled him off to Ireland and later to that wiley windy moors joint
Going 180 in the gamut with Beeb's beebalicious The Frost Report, the infamous series that catapulted the careers of each of the respective Ronnies of the Two Ronnies and John Cleese
Too school for cool, USA - Square Pegs
If I am to be completely honest, I will say that there were certainly not many moments of the 1980's that are worth recounting. In fact, if it came down to a choice of any decade that television could have lived without, in my opinion the eighties should have been handed their walking papers. And to keep firm the belief in every rule having its own exception, this would be no different. And now is the time to stop going round the houses and tell youse that I am talking about Square Pegs (Square Pegs, Square, Square Pegs, I'd like it if they like us, but I don't think they like us). But seriously how could that be so, and given that (ironically another likable aspect of the 80s was this band) the Waitresses who chirped out these very theme lyrics, did know how to get the boys in their wiles - they must have known we really really liked them, and like totally, like totally!
The School is Cool thematic continues with an episode of the acclaimed Room 222 - the series was aired on the ABC network betwixt 1969 and 1974 replete with socio-political topics, there was always a thought or two provoked with this James L Brooks concocted series.
Part Two of director Joe Saltzman's direct cinema opus; The Junior High School.
Stagecoach West a one season pony oater that featured main character - Luke Perry (no relation to BH91210) played by the future Trapper man - Wayne Rogers, part of the ABC fall lineup of 1960
And now Mr 39 himself, Jack Benny, pinching a penny a saving a sachet or six-hundred.
There were a whopping fifteen seasons that were produced of the Jack Benny Program on television, an offshoot of his radio series that commenced in 1932. Starring right-hand man and dearest friend for life Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson.
Bless This House - This Powell and Driver Thames Television series boasted a six season run between 1971 and 1976. Starring the singular swellster Sid James
And now some British Broadcasting C.O.U.C.H. action - it's The Gaffer, once on the ITV itinerary, starring Bill Maynard as the, well as the gaffer from, this series that was a three-season affair (1981-1983). He's the gaffer...
Bingo At Home (1958) In 1958 this would originally air locally on New York stations. A General Foods sponsored game-show hosted by a young(ish) Monty Hall.
The Houndcats (1972-3,NBC)
A DePatie-Freleng animated love song to the former Mission Impossible series
