I wonder what happened to that car... Hah, I had the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" car too. Being the lifelong aviation nut, I imagine mine was destroyed in a flying accident. One of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid, too. Also remember hiding in the back floorboard at the drive-in ...

A wild stab just from the TV detective series clue: Roscoe Karns? Re:M*A*S*H, I would agree that they wore the bad hair for that reason in the movie version (still wouldn't fly with the Army!), but I'd argue that the TV show was just out of vanity and laziness. The gung ho series "Baa Baa Black...

I never could get into that show. I think it was their hair... I always wondered about their hair. In the 1960's and 1970's, movie and TV studios decided that it was OK to incorporate modern hairstyles and makeup into period pieces. The one that really bothered me: "M*A*S*H"! Both the mov...

Ellen Corby! The "long-time wife of a wise and rather amorous husband in a popular and long-running family drama" was the giveaway. I was a huge "Waltons" fan. She's one of my favorites.

Sorry I missed it, Hollis. I was out of town, and have also been watching the Women's College World Series religiously. I've always been firmly against the death penalty. I equate it with revenge, not justice, not punishment. If I were to catch someone in the act of murder, rape, injury to a child, ...

Over the years, I think I've seen all but "Too Bad She's Bad", "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", and "A Breath of Scandal". I haven't watched most of them in many years, though. I'm really looking forward to "Heller in Pink Tights" for the obvious reason that ...

We just use shade. Wink

Laugh it up, my native Texas clay soil is so hard I needed a hammer and chisel to help dig my original pond. Destroyed both knees, too. I need to prepare the soil just to grow weeds.

I love the concept of Memorial Day, but its evolution into an excuse for big sales and beer-guzzling barbecues irks me no end. Ask most Americans under forty what the poppy signifies, and you'll often get a blank stare. TCM's lineup of 1960's and 1970's movies today "honoring" our dead lea...

Does anything taste better than fresh picked tomatoes from your own garden? I think not! Apparently not. I finally planted some tomatoes again last year, had some nice ones, but a mysterious unseen bird kept eating holes in each and every one, even through netting. Hosta -- my, my, the gardening id...

I love gardening. I rebuilt my pond last fall, and have been concentrating on getting it running properly, but I have planted a little. A new pin oak to replace two trees I lost in a wind storm last summer. Lots of potted geraniums and asparagus ferns all over my patio. All the flower and herb beds ...

Nice avatar! I had already visited the Wiki page about the show to check the spelling of WABAC for my earlier post. I don't remember "Commander McBragg" at all for some reason, even after reading its Wiki page? Old age, I guess. Mr. Peabody was by far my favorite.

1. Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O'Brien - "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" 2. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Phillip Alford - "To Kill a Mockingbird" 3. Thomas Mitchell and Margaret O'Brien - "Three Wise Fools" 4. Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke - "The Miracle Worker...

Lee Van Cleef worked as a time study analyst...

Well, sort of engineer-like...do I get half a gold star?

I'll leave it up to someone else to come up with some new ones, as I proved my ignorance with this list.

I'm glad you told me that, or I'd have dragged out a map of New York to see if 33rd did in fact go through Bushwick. Terlet, I remember, was the same pronunciation used by Archie and Edith Bunker, supposedly hailing from Queens.

Lots of good ones listed. I'd add the "Mexican Hat Dance" routine with Gene Kelly and Sharon McManus in "Anchors Aweigh", just too cute to forget. For some bizarre reason, I also love "Hoedown" from Berkeley's "Babes on Broadway". I don't really like the song,...