Fab Friday evening

[vanillafluffy]

I may have grumped about J from time to time, but I hereby take it all back. When I came over this evening, she had a surprise for me.

Now, she's been hinting for the last couple weeks that Something Was Coming, and that I would never, ever guess what it was.

Well, she was right.

I squeed like mad when she produced Season One of Adam-12. OMG, TALK about a blast from the past! Growing up, my standard Saturday night viewing was Adam-12, Emergency!, Mission: Impossible and Mannix.

We watched the first two eps tonight---a very young Cloris Leachman was in one ep, and Melody Patterson also showed up. (Oh, this is going to be fun!) I'd forgotten how baby-faced Kent McCord was...mmm-mmmm! And I think it's amusing how men's grooming has finally come full-circle to clean-cut once again....

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[ladyjane]

*hugs the stuffings out of J*

I think we had the same childhood! IIRC, Sunday was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and World of Disney. (And Dad always watched 60 Minutes.)

Have fun. I can't wait to hear who else turns up!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Ditto those Sunday nights! Marlin Perkins and the Mouse.

Of course, it all started with Friday eves, which was The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family and Here Come the Brides. (I had *such* a crush on Bobby Sherman!)

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[ladyjane]

*squees to infinity*

OMG! Those were my shows, too. (Except it was my sister who crushed on Jeremy. I drooled over Joshua (David Soul) -- but Jason was the type I wanted to marry. Did you ever read the Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover? It was one of the authorized paperback novels, and was very well done.

Naturally I 'wrote' a sequel (in my head, this was long before I got into fanfic) about a young woman in the same predicament Spock was in -- except I, erm... she didn't lose her memory.

EEEEEEEE!!!
I found an entry for it on the Star Trek website: Ishmael

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read the Star Trek/Here Come the Brides crossover?

My mind just boggled.

Gotta go check that out....

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

I remember Adam 12 being on, but never watched it (don't know why). LOVED Emergency and Mission: Impossible though. And I had two of those Bobby Sherman records that you CUT OUT OF THE BACK OF A WHEATIES BOX. Remember those? They actually played too.... sort of. *hee*

On another blast-from-the-past note: I caught 3 episodes of Starsky & Hutch last week on RetroTV and couldn't stop giggling. Funny, I don't remember it being quite so cheesy. Heh!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I somehow missed the cereal-box records, alas. What a shame!

I know what you mean about cheesy. J has very limited cable and tends to gravitate toward a local channel that leans toward reruns of The Brady Bunch, and I can't stop snickering about the 70s fashions.

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

*snickers along with you*

Here's one of Bobby's cereal box records (on Cinnamon Raisin Bran - don't remember THAT flavor):

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Kent McCord & Martin Milner...do they come across as slashy now or was Jack Webb to straight-laced to even let anything slip through inadvertantly.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Not in the first couple eps, anyway, but I'll keep you posted as to whether my slasher-sense activates.


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