flashback42 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 It _was_ fun. I'm still picking up ways to research on the Net. Next up: Mid-1960s. A drama series that used the sponsor's name in the title. Hour-long stories. An actor with an impressive resume` of youngster roles had what could be considered his first adult role. A story based in conditions that were in force at that time. A young German man (the star) meets an American tourist, a young blonde, attractive woman. Starts chatting her up in a way that seems sinister and insistant to the viewer. Talks too quickly about romantic possibilities. At his insistance, she goes with him into East Berlin, which involves going through a checkpoint in the Berlin Wall. On his _second_ attempt, he slips her passport out of her purse, then excuses himself and leaves her sitting in a cafe and ducks out -- she's left behind. His purpose all along has been to get her east of the Wall, obtain her papers, and return to the West with his young wife, using the American's papers. His wife answers her description as to age and appearance, and even the photograph on the passport could stand up to being checked by a busy border guard. The Berlin Wall had been in existance for about two years at the time this episode was aired. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 He bailed out over Normandy, and then lost the whole damn 82nd Airborn when he got to the ground. The movie was a long one, filled with stars and ensemble storytelling. But he had the curtain line when they got to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 He once met a girl named Maria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 While a Harvard student, home for the summer, he cautioned his sister's tutor against getting too close to his family: "We're cannibals. "We eat each other." The American tourist is, in fact, one actress in a double role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 ♫There's a place for us...♪ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Ok, Flash, you can stop giving hints now...It's the "Kraft Suspense Theater" with the 1965 episode "The Easter Breach" starring Richard Beymer and a TV actress named Katherine Crawford in a dual role...(....Say, did Richard Beymer really lived in the desert for awhile just like John Drew Barrymore...?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 correct. .(....Say, did Richard Beymer really lived in the desert for awhile just like John Drew Barrymore...?) Don't know about that part. I do remember that he hid out in Holland with diarist Anne Frank, and he got cougared by Joanne Woodward in *The Stripper* 'skipper's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 One of this TV series' classic episode involves a single actress and NO dialogue... Series? Episode? Actress?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 I don't know the name of the episode, but it sounds like Agnes Moorehead in an episode of Twilight Zone. Terrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Good enough...The episode was "The Invaders"...about a lone woman fighting off little aliens... your thread, Terrence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Thanks for bending the rules a little bit, Mudskipper. OK. Here's one from one of my favorite TV shows: Namer the Oscar-winning actress who played a nun in an episode of The Big Valley. (She was a former love interest of Heath Barkley, played by Lee Majors.) Terrence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Ellen Burstyn in the episode "Days Of Grace" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 You got it right, Mudskipper. She even went under another name (Ellen McCrea) at the time. It's yours now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 In 1960, this anthology TV series, which has the name of the sponsor and the host, aired a critically acclaimed episode featuring a well-known comedian in a dramatic role as a deaf-mute employed as a dummy in a store window who witnesses a murder...The murderers at first think he is a mannequin, but then realize later that he is a real person... Name the show, the host, the episode, and the superb guest star..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 In 1960, this anthology TV series, which has the name of the sponsor and the host, aired a critically acclaimed episode featuring a well-known comedian in a dramatic role as a deaf-mute employed as a dummy in a store window who witnesses a murder...The murderers at first think he is a mannequin, but then realize later that he is a real person... Name the show, the host, the episode, and the superb guest star..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Clue:...Comedian perfect for the role, in more ways than one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Good one, and not easy to trace. *The DuPont Show with June Allyson* . 22 Dec. 1960. Harpo Marx in his last performance, entitled Silent Panic . (I never had a chance to see this one. I was shipped off to a Dorm/No TV environment, and the show didn't last long enough to generate reruns.) ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 I wish they'd put at least this episode on DVD...Harpo is probably the best and most underrated of the Marx Bros, although that's only my opinion...Your turn, Flash.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Thanks, 'skipper. Similar, in part, to the last entry. Early 1960s. Host and sponsor named in the anthology title. A name comic stars in a story he adopted from a script he wrote in the 1940s. A man who runs an appliance store in a small town decides to retire. Moves to Florida in hopes of spending more time with his wife. Things go wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 The aging couple get on each other's nerves when they spend too much time together. Golf: He spends a lot of time in sand traps, and ends up tossing them out after too many failures. A young and sexy woman starts flirting with him at the golf club. / His wife gets acquainted with a young and sexy woman at the club who amuses her with accounts of the "old goat" shes hitting up. Then the wife finds out who the "old goat" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 The star's wife is portrayed by an age-appropriate actress. The bimbo working the "old goat" is played by the star's real-life wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Desperate and bored, the husband tries to go back into business. With a partner, and in the partner's name, he gets in touch withe the Snowdrift company -- the washing-machine manufacturer he once sold for. Anything to normalize his life again. Edited by: flashback42 on May 8, 2011 11:29 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 The writer/star: Snappy one-liners. horn-rim glasses, a cigar. This performance came when the big part of his career was behind him. In his last years, he was often under the care of a younger woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 And, as mentioned, this one has connections to the last poser entered in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Correct. Marx was not completely Groucho in this outing. -- He made a pretty good Babbet. Ulcer man, applience salesman. He did well. Your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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