great ep.- moves galore!
ozzie & harriet "the game room" (1966)
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After 14 years and 434 episodes Ozzy's game room was a very last episode of the show.
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Unfortunately, it is a terrible episode even by O&H standards. The show had just outlived it appeal. One of the things I always hated about those shows, My Three sons, I love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke all of them.
Every story line always consisted of someone lying or deceiving someone else. Even cheating each other. The Honeymooners may have been one of the worst. Ralph Kramden was pretty much a despicable person, as was Lucy.
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I like to watch those old shows. You can find a lot of them on youtube. I use Roku so I can watch youtube on the big screen. For older people for a few minutes it is like time travel. I remember sitting on the floor with my dad watching our DuMont tv. And to think all these years later im still here able to watch the same old shows is a little crazy. My favorites are shows like, Whats My Line.
They have them all on youtube and they are as entertaining as they were almost 70 years ago. My wife and I lay in bed and I laugh out loud at a shows from so long ago.The humor still holds up. Recently saw an eposode with Minnesota Fats On Whats My Line.
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Fun piece of nostalgia. Most sitcoms followed that formula all the way to today. Threes Company, WKRP, Welcome Back Kotter, Odd Couple, etc. same as today with Friends, Scrubs, Frasier, Cheers, Big Bang... People doing stupid things so we can laugh at them.
At least Ozzie could play well enough to not have edits on every shot. Even on a not so level table.
At least Ozzie could play well enough to not have edits on every shot. Even on a not so level table.
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Ozzie and Harriet was character driven. Basically you like them all, even the most peripheral characters. Each show just put them in different situations and you laughed at how they delt with it. Skip Young (Wally) I think today would have had a spin off. He was very popular and one of the funniest on the show. I liked the show in general. It was the kind of mindless stuff we watched back then. Father Knows best was a little preachy but I still liked it. However Betty was a stuck up Bit$h.
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I think that is why we tend to look back on the older shows more fondly. It was mostly mindless entertainment we could escape to. Even if they were a little "preachy" they didn't beat you over the head with it.
wow, hadn't realized that. 400 episodes sounds like a lot, especially by today's standards, tho tv today is probably more sophisticated, in ways.
I'm not even close to being alive when this came out, but I like a lot of the old stuff. I thought the ep. was fun, so I posted it- cheers!
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Back then a season was usually 32 episodes. Then they went to summer reruns. When a show ended it just ended. There was no final episode. They just were not renewed.
Leave it to Beaver was maybe the tv first show to have a final episode bringing it to an end. They knew when they wanted the show to end.
The kids were grown up and there was no more stories to tell. The final episode is almost all flashbacks from when it started as they look through scrapbooks reminiscing.
Also Leave it to beaver was the first tv show to show a toilet in the bathroom.
I remember showing my then 14 year old daughter the cover of an old LP vinyl I had...Rick Nelson hits thing...a close up of who was then Rickey, late teens, I'd guess. She groaned and whimpered...yep, Ricky made the young girls squeal....even 40 years later.
he was some talent, RIP. I actually found this vid while digging into ricky's career. I knew some of his songs, but wasn't really aware of his acting prowess.
ricky evidently didn't show his face in this ozzie and harriet ep., but he was good in rio bravo.
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Most people remember him for Rio bravo.
He made another movie starring alongside Jack lemmon called "The Wackyist Ship in the Army".
Funny I went to visit my dad at his assisted living room. He was in the recliner watching a Mayberry episode. One ended and the next began. The episode where Gomer enlists in the corp. We were both laughing hard at Pyle and Sarge. Dad was having a good time , and it was nice to be there with him.
sounds like a nice thing. andy's a great show...hmm, wonder if they ever did a pool-related ep.?
Billiards a Go Go.
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