Retr•TV, Classic shows of the '50s-'60s and maybe the '70s Options

[movie@noid]

By request, I'd like to create this space for old farts and their grandkids to reminisce about the shows on the boobtube in the days of rabbitears and dials. Feel free to rattle on, make requests, ask questions, whatever.

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[movie@noid]

For all of you who keep requesting old Westerns, I posted

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but through some glitch it didn't get posted in my upload list.

[oxforddickie]

Hi

Have loved your posts, and think this is a great idea. You open to possible requests? Would love to see these again:

Cannonball
Whirlybirds
Jesse James
Whiplash

Amongst others.

Richard

[yeoldrocker]

Just going through your list
Amazing stuff !!

Thanks a lot mate

(another old fart...)

[The Executive]

Some of us younger farts (I'm 39) enjoy the old shows. I've been watching classic TV since my folks got cable TV in April 1981.
After all....some of us still have a lot of catching up to do on shows that we weren't able to see when they first aired.

[movie@noid]

Lots of catching up to do, huh. Any requests? Like I said, grandkids of old farts are welcome too.

[The Executive]

A few days ago I asked in an earlier topic that I started if somebody would get back to uploading Cheyenne, the western series starring Clint Walker. They left off with the 13th episode of the first season and that was almost 3 weeks ago.

They were copied from the first season DVD release. There are 15 from that first year. How about the remaining 2?

Cheyenne is far from my favorite series, but I like the show.

My top request would be The Jack Benny Program. I have plenty of Jack's radio shows in Mp3 form spanning many of those 23 years, but 15 seasons of his TV show seem to be rare these days. Public domain copies are sold on DVD, but several are in bad need of remastering. The episodes from 1960 and 61 seem to be the easiest to find and are in good condition, but those from the 1950s seem to have had the opening theme music changed perhaps due to copyright issues with the musician's union. But then it could be because in the early years, Benny's sponsor was Lucky Strike cigarettes on both radio and TV. Funny thing, because the original end theme on even those is intact! I've also run across copies with the original Lucky Strike commercials but I didn't save those because they are only 16 mm prints.

The Jack Benny TV shows I've downloaded recently have been from both Archive.org and GUBA websites, both of which have so few.
I have yet to see any in torrent form. At least the non-torrent site downloads are usually much faster.

[movie@noid]

Here you go. 4 Jack Benny from the '50s... including the one with Marilyn Monroe and the one with Bogey.

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Let me know if the seed is fast enough. I have a few others as well.

More Cheyenne coming up, sir. It hasn't been 3 weeks but... we aim to please the discerning young farts.

[Sanshin]

This forum is a great idea. Your list of shows is fantastic! Something I'd like to see again, but can't find anywhere, is the New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that were seen on the Banana Splits Show in the late 60's. It combined animation with real actors added into the cartoon. Apparently there were only 20 episodes.

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[movie@noid]

Hi Sanshin. Glad to see you found your way here. There are several New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on YouTube. They're split into segments but are complete episodes.

[Sanshin]

Thanks movie. I'll check that out. Not the same quality as your files, but it will be neat to see these again and bring back some childhood memories.

[The Executive]

Here you go. 4 Jack Benny from the '50s... including the one with Marilyn Monroe and the one with Bogey.

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Those 2 are public domain episodes and already on the non-torrent sites and I've seen the Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Borgart shows, but I checked them out. Sure enough they are the same copies I saw before along with the other two. The opening theme music was altered on all of them.

Let me know if the seed is fast enough. I have a few others as well.

What are the other ones you have?

More Cheyenne coming up, sir. It hasn't been 3 weeks but... we aim to please the discerning young farts.

This young fart thanks you in advance.

[movie@noid]

The next Jack Benny Program torrent - should it meet your approval - will be:
JACK BENNY (1950) 407.410.413 [retr•tv]

4x07. Liberace Show 1/17/1954
Jack visits the home of Liberace, but even he isn't ready for the outrageous extravagance he sees there. The two play 'September song' together, Jack on his violin.
Guest star: Bea Benaderet (Gertrude Gearshift), Lois Corbet, Rolfe Sedan , Liberace (Himself), Shirley Mitchell (Mabel Flapsaddle), Rex Evans

4x10 Goldie, Fields and Glide 3/21/1954
Jack tells Don about the time his vaudeville act with Burns and Crosby played Scranton, Pennsylvania; the name of their act was Goldie, Fields and Glide. Benny tries to convince Crosby to appear on his program with Burns to do their old act, but Crosby wants more money than Benny is willing to pay. Cameo by Bob Hope. Crosby sings 'Gypsy In My Soul.'
Guest star: George Burns (Himself), Bob Hope (Himself) , Bing Crosby (Himself), Jay Novello (Fruit Peddler)

4x13. Bob Hope Show 5/23/1954
Bob steals Jack's pants in order to precede him onstage. Jack wears Don's pants, and Bob gives Jack's pants to Don. The sketch is entitled 'On the road to Nairobi.' The Sportsmen Quartet, in African costume, sings the Lucky commercial to the tune of 'Digga digga doo.' Jack and Bob enter and are eventually placed in a pot by natives, who have trouble lighting the fire. Martin and Lewis, in the audience, offer to supply a match.
Guest star: Bob Hope (Himself) , Dean Martin (Himself), Jerry Lewis (Himself)

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And the one after that:
5x03 How Jack Met Mary (1954)
11x04 Hong Kong Suit (1960)
11x08 Jack Goes To A Concert (1960)
13x05 Lawrence Welk (1962)

[The Executive]

I've seen all of those before, and downloading from Internet Archive some of them (including "How Jack Met Mary" -- itself a TV remake of a radio episode) have an altered theme too.

Jack Goes to a Concert, Lawrence Welk, and Hong Kong Suit are as they should be and I got those the other night.

This is a longshot, but do you have the Phil Harris episode from 1958, Milton Berle from 1960, or the episodes with Lucille Ball and The Smothers Brothers from 1964-1965?

[movie@noid]

This is a longshot, but do you have the Phil Harris episode from 1958, Milton Berle from 1960, or the episodes with Lucille Ball and The Smothers Brothers from 1964-1965?

Sorry I can't help you then. Since they are public domain, I'd think they'd be out on cheap dvd at some bargain barn in the US.

And as promised...

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[Sanshin]

Hi movie. Would you happen to have the second season of Rat Patrol? The first season was found on Demonoid a while back by a couple different sources and I believe might still be posted on some sites. But I never did see season 2 show up anywhere at any point. This was another great war show of the 60's.

[movie@noid]

Sorry, Sanshin. That's not a show I collect, but OTRMAN has released s1-2 on Usenet. His stuff is often picked up by GUBA so check there for the easiest direct download.

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Nope, GUBA only had s.1 so your best bet is to learn to use Usenet yourself.

The oldest s.2 file is 16 days old so you might be able to get them using your ISP's free news server. You'll need a newsreader application and Par reconstructing app since free servers often have missing pieces and don't retain files for very long. (Whatever you do, don't join UseNext. There are better pay servers that give you several gig free trials.)

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first. They'll give you links to the apps you'll need.

Once you have a newsreader, enter the url of your ISP's news server. You'll find that on your provider's homepage.

Then use your browser and search on

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going back about a month. Put a check in the box next to the files you want than go to the top or bottom of the page and create and download the NZB file. Double clicking the NZB will start your newsreader downloading those files as a rar (archive) format and their pars (for reconstructing incomplete rars).

If you get too many missing pieces that can't be saved with the par files, you'll have to go with a good pay server. I recommend Giganews but others also offer free trials that may be all you need to get those season 2s you want.

Good luck! Don't get discouraged. Usenet it a wonderful resource and definitely worth the time to learn.

[movie@noid]

Just for you Sanshin! A taste of the quality of the file.

If you like it and want more, you'll have to learn Usenet!

And once you learn Usenet, you can become The King of Rat Patrol Uploaders.

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Honestly, it only took 20 seconds to download off Usenet. Probably take me about an hour to upload as a torrent...

[The Executive]

Thanks for that info, Movie...but I have a Macintosh and I tried using Usenet a while back and those files wouldn't download.

Any suggestions for Mac users who refuse to go back to the insecure world of PCs?

[movie@noid]

Absolutely, I'M A MAC USER!

Get Unison for your reader.
MacParDelux for recovery with parity files (worth making a donation!)
Unarchiver and UnRarX for rar archives
AND as many Terabytes of storage space as you can afford! It piles up faster than you can burn them to discs.
Also be sure to open up the port number you use for your server in your firewall.


Try your ISP's news server first, but if you're really serious, you'll want a paid server. It doesn't cost that much. For what I used to pay for lousy satellite tv, I can get every up to the minute tv show, movie, even things not in the theaters or on tv yet - How do you suppose scene releases first get distributed? - plus everything else you can find and can't find in torrents. You find good things on GUBA, right? GUBA gets them from Usenet.

Take advantage of all the free trials from various servers. You can always switch. The main thing is that the server has long retention and good completion. It's a bummer to find files you want that were posted 100 days ago but your server no longer stores them or only has 80% of the complete file. I've never had that with Giganews - 100% as far back as 200 days.

After that your download is whatever your pipe can handle. I almost never download anything with torrents anymore. I download fast on Usenet and use my upload speed to spread the bounty with torrents.

As you find what you want on Binsearch, you'll begin to know which newsgroups carry the stuff you like. Usenet is all email basically, so start chatting with the posters you like. If your interests are similar, they're bound to have all those special things your young fart heart desires.