Tuesday, August 11, 2015

I Miss the Old Days

Retrospace: TV Guide #8: Feb 12-18, 1977

7 comments:

Elgin Bleecker said...

Wild Kingdom, Sunday at 1:30. Marlin Perkins. Today, he’d have his own cable channel.

mybillcrider said...

I hadn't thought about that show for a while. I think you're right. Or maybe there already is a channel like that but without Marlin Perkins.

Cap'n Bob said...

I watched it dang near every week. "While Jim wrestles the crocodile I'll retire to my tent for a small libation."

mybillcrider said...

We watched it all the time, too. I have no idea why. Maybe because of the crocodile wrestling.

Todd Mason said...

It helped for my childhood viewing that it was, I believe, on NBC for a while before syndication, so it was what was on before WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Sunday evenings. By 1977, I definitely wasn't watching it so much, so much as watching COUSTEAU and THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS.

Todd Mason said...

Here's some odd synchronicity...answering a librarian's question had me refreshing my memory of Allen W. Eckert's books...and it turns out he apparently scripted hundreds of episodes of WILD KINGDOM.

mybillcrider said...

Synchronicity and an interesting bit of trivia, too.