Fireball XL5

George Lucas - Eat your heart out! I used to watch Fireball XL5 and Stingray as a kid. Yes, these are the shows that inspired the recent movie TEAM AMERICA!

COMBAT TV Show Intro

I loved this show as a kid.

the pussy indian

This is Iron Eyes Cody. I don't understand the iron eyes part because every time I saw him, he was cry'n like a baby. This was one Native American that got hold of his feminine side. A tear would appear every time a passing motorist would toss litter at his feet. "People start pollution, People can stop it." Actually, I think ol' Iron Eyes was crying because some drive-by litterer had tossed a sloppy half eaten Big Mac on his brand new moccasins. This was a very successful campaign for Keep America Beautiful through out the 70's. So successful that you'll still see it run from time to time. One thing you may not know about the late Iron Eyes Cody. His real name was Espera de Corti,and he was an Italian, both his parents were first generation Americans. After all those commercials, it made sense that the Indian wasn't and emotional Indian after all, but rather an emotional Italian. For some reason Espera was ashamed of his Italian heritage and claimed to be Cherokee/Cree. He and his wife Bertha (a Native American) adopted several children, all Native Americans. Even though Iron Eyes Cody wasn't born Indian, he lived lived his adult life as one. He was Iron Eyes before the Keep America Beautiful campaign. He was an actor that played in many westerns. You can check out his long list of roles at IMDB.

TV dad

We had some great TV dads back in the sixties. This is Fred MacMurray, you may recall him as Steven Douglas from the long running My Three Sons series. I also remember him from Disney movies. The first drive-in I recall ever seeing was The Absent Minded Professor. It was a double feature with the sequel Son Of Flubber at the Rainbow Drive-in. I remember it so clearly, all the Finlayson's (there were seven of us at that time) crammed into a station wagon while Professor Ned Brainerd seemed to fly around in the sky above us.
Fred seemed like a nice guy, and probably unlike most movie and television personalities, probably lived up to his swell guy image. Wikipedia write-up said that fame didn't seem to affect his frugal ways. He'd bring a brown sack lunch to work and it usually consisted of a boiled egg. William Demarest said that he'd be eating dry dyed eggs with him several months after Easter. A few months ago I bought a DVD of Jack Benny Shows. There's an episode where Fred shows up at Jack's house with his saxophone to jam with the guys. Fred started out as a musician - film worked better for him. I enjoyed his comedies and even played rolls in darker roles such as the Billy Wilder's film classic Double Indemnity. I don't know if many people recall men like Fred MacMurray. Maybe one day, when my time is up, I'll have Fred as a neighbor. I think he'd make a good one at that.

INDIAN RIFLE GUNS by MATTEL TOYS

You can tell it's Mattel -
it shoots fast plastic projectiles!