Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Car 54, Where Are You?

Casts:

  • Charlotte Rae as Sylvia Schnauser
  • Bruce Kirby as Off. Kissel
  • Fred Gwynne as Officer Francis Muldoon
  • Al Lewis as Officer Leo Schnauser
  • Joe E. Ross as Officer Gunther Toody
  • Paul Reed as Captain Martin Block
  • Bea Pons as Lucille Toody
  • Albert Henderson as Officer O'Hara
  • Hank Garrett as Officer Ed Nicholson
  • Jerome Guardino s Officer Antonnucci

"Car 54, Where Are You?" is a classic Emmy award-winning comedy TV series on 1960's. A series featuring an unforgettable pair of hilarious police officers who are characterized extremely different but in every episode, never failed to make the viewers laugh no matter how bad they feel.


The misadventures of short, noisy dim-witted but friendly Officer Gunther Toody partnered with tall stiff, quite-shy but smart Officer Francis Muldoon of the fictional NYPD 53rd precinct with their patrol vehicle Car 54. Together they fight crimes in New York with all their best and dealing at the same time with their personal lives like their overbearing wives and officious boss, Captain Anderson. The partners were specially assigned to protect an important witness who will testify against crime lords and mafias, but their adventures turn into comedy with their errors and predicaments they got involved. The excitement is there as the audience never know what will happen next, seemed like they encounter more comedy than crime and making the viewers keep on laughing.


The successful comedy duo in Car 54, Where Are You completed 3 seasons with total of 60 episodes, aired from 1961 to 1963 on NBC.


There's a holdup in the Bronx!
Brooklyn's broken out in fights!
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights!
There's a scout troop short a child!
Krushchev's due at Idlewild!
Car 54, where are you?!


Car 54, Where Are You? DVD


Saturday, July 7, 2007

The Paper Chase Law Drama Series

70s Award winning drama series The Paper Chase based from novel with the same name written by John Jay Osborn, Jr. in 1970, which also produced in film released in 1973 about a brilliant but naïve Harvard Law student struggling in hands of his idol but also intimidating professor.

Storyline started on experiences of first-year law student James T. Hart with his friends Franklin Ford II, Willis Bell and others, all his efforts and everyday life making through the law school under the stern but fair world's leader authority on contract law professor, Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. who James idolizes. They were determined to face fears, study hard and eventually get their diploma, James also has to survive being a working student, his love interest and his career.


The Paper Chase completed 4 seasons with 58 hour-long episodes aired from September 1978 to August 1986.


The Paper Chase DVD



Casts:
  • Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr.: John Houseman
  • James T. Hart: James Stephens
  • Franklin Ford III: Tom Fitzsimmons
  • Thomas Craig Anderson: Robert Ginty
  • Willis Bell: James Keane
  • Jonathan Brooks: Jonathan Segal
  • Elizabeth Logan: Francine Tacker
  • Asheley Brooks: Deka Beaudine
  • Ernie: Charles Hallahan
  • Carol: Carole Goldman
  • Mrs. Nottingham: Betty Harford
  • Dean Rutherford: Jack Manning
  • Mallison: Jessica Salem
  • Gagarian: Stanley DeSantis
  • Connie Lehman: Jane Kaczmarek
  • Gerald Golden: Michael Tucci
  • Rita Harriman: Clare Kirkconnell
  • Laura: Andra Millian
  • Vivian: Penny Johnson
  • Rose Samuels: Lainie Kazan
  • Tom Ford: Peter Nelson
  • Professor Tyler: Diana Douglas

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Perry Mason TV Series

Major Casts:

  • Raymond Burr as Perry Mason
  • William Hopper as Paul Drake
  • Barbara Hale as Della Street
  • William Talman as Hamilton Burger
  • Ray Collins as Lt. Arthur Tragg


Award winning law detective series Perry Mason created by mystery writer Erle Stanly, about a fictional defense attorney works in difficult criminal cases and free his client by digging deep to the case revealing the truth and unmasking the actual murderer in courtroom showdown.

Perry was a brilliant lawyer who often make traps and tricks resulting the true criminal to admit guilt. He was teamed with two talented and ever faithful assistants, beautiful and trusty secretary Della Street and suave boyish private detective Paul Drake. The very popular classic mystery tv series Perry Mason starred by Raymond Burr on Erle Stanley Gardner's writing credit on her novels.

A real tv show that will exercise viewer's mind, completed 12 seasons with total of 271 episodes aired from September 1957 to September 1966 on CBS.


Perry Mason DVD

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C.

Casts:

  • Private Gomer Pyle: Jim Nabors
  • Sgt. Vince Carter: Frank Sutton
  • Duke Slater: Ronnie Schell
  • Pvt. Frankie Lombardi: Ted Bessell
  • Bunny, Carter's girlfriend: Barbara Stuart
  • Sgt. Charles Hacker: Allan Melvin
  • Lou Anne Poovie: Elizabeth MacRae
  • Corporal Charles Boyle: Roy Stuart
  • Colonel Edward Gray: Forrest Compton
  • Pvt. Lester Hummel: William Christopher
  • Cpl. Nick Cuccinello: Tommy Leonetti
  • Larry: Larry Hovis
  • Anderson: Craig Huebing

60s classic sitcom Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. series spin-off from The Andy Griffith Show, about bumbling US Marine Corps named Gomer Pyle and his misadventures as simple-minded, good-natured but naïve Marine often involved in humors of troubles.

Wide-eyed, slack-jawed and childlike with his hick accent Gomer Pyle living in fictional Mayberry, North Carolina working at Wally's Filling Station. Being sweet as pie but dense as a stump, Gomer provide comic relief because of his innocence, naivete and low-key demeanor brought him in trouble while his loud-mouthed boss Sgt. Carter along with his pals Duke, Frankie, Lester and Larry in Camp Henderson. No matter how dimwit and annoying Gomer was, Sgt. Carter and others still develop special friendships with him.


Gomer Pyle: USMC completed 5 seasons with 150 episodes aired from September 1964 to September 1969 on CBS.


Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. DVD