Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for April 16, 2011

Watch out for the nosy neighbors and the suspicious detective!

Good Morning, Fellow Birdbrains!

Being far too young to remember that piece of television excellence, I’ll rent it from Netflix right after I finish “The Buick Berle Show”, another broadcasting wonder from 1953. Funny, my mother hated Uncle Miltie and so does SHE. Can’t account for taste in women.

My first introduction to quality television was The Avengers & The Saint Uncle Milte and My Favorite Martian were about a decade before my time.

The 60’s were the time for television westerns though, but I didn’t and don’t generally watch westerns unless they star the Duke. Chuck looks nothing like the Duke.

^Probably started watching in ‘67. I do remember My Favorite Martian and The Avengers - but I can’t place The Saint. Guess I’ll have to look it up.

JohnnyDiego, I stand corrected on My Favorite Martian. Either my parents never watched or it wasn’t on Canadian Television, but The Avengers were on Canadian Television in ‘63-‘64, I guarentee you. Honor Blackman, I believe, starred along side Patrick MacNee. Diana Rigg took over in the ‘65-‘66 season. At that time we picked up more British shows than American ones.

Mmmmmrs Peel… . . .

(getting ready for running club, no time to look for stuff)

Those were SHOWS. We didn’t need sex to get us to watch! AND they could tell a story in half to one hour and not drrrrraaaaaaaggggggggg it on and on and on and…………..

I was one of those lucky people who actually got on as a contestant in a game show (called PDQ). My game partner was Bill Bixby.

I remember My Favorite Martian. I was a kid.

So tell me, Montana Lady, what was Bill Bixby like?

Hilarious today! At least they didn’t get the other Bill Bixby special - The Inedible Hulk

Anybody got the recipe?

Fellow Baby, do you see the martian faces in the windows?

Montana Lady…I remember that show! When I was a kid, our Brownie Troop went on the Sonny Fox show. It was the Blue Team against the Red Team…so much fun! After the show they gave each kid TONS of toys and games…it was very memorable.

Dry……..from what little I remember about the show, Bill Bixby was very nice, a real gentleman. He didn’t show off or act like a “star”. I was extremely nervous, but managed to win a bunch of prizes. I remember a very good carpet for one of our bedrooms, and some sunglasses, and oh yes, a years supply of canned peaches! Woo Hoo!

No wonder we have not been overrun. They ate them out there in cactus country… Arizona… huh? Where the tradition still lives on…. eat those aliens… there gooooddd…

No wonder we have not been overrun yet… they kept getting ate out in the wild wild west.

Are they saving the best part–the antennas–for breakfast?

Doctor Toon, you mean the elephant trunk?

Fellow Baby, I’ll have some of what you’re having! :-D

Montana Lady that’s good to hear, I always liked him. I guess he passed away some years ago at a young age did he not?

Dry…….I think he passed away from prostate cancer in his late 50’s. A bleeep shame!

That’s some interesting trivia, Eldo. A very popular actor in his time.

Sandiego Thanks for supplying Ray Walston’s name. I couldn’t remember who played in My Favorite Martian but I loved that show.

However, I am sad to see such a fate befall a Martian. Good drawing though! I like the mountain faces.

I miss Bill Bixby. After MFM he was Mr. Eddie’s Father and then the Magician. And also the protagonist in the classic PBS production of Steambath. They didn’t even cut out the part where Valerie Perrine showed her ta ta’s!

Cowboys and Aliens. Which one’s Daniel Craig?