TV Show Mash-Up

[GeorgeStGeorge]

"The Price is Right"?

George

[WordWolf]

"The Price is Right"?

George

That's it.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

The music used in the opening credits is Sousa'a "Liberty Bell" march.

George

[WordWolf]

It's.....

[Human without the bean]

Got to be Gomer Pyle USMC.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Got to be Gomer Pyle USMC.

No. It doesn't. As far as I know, the march used for Gomer Pyle USMC and the one for Hogan's Heroes, for that matter, were original compositions.

WordWolf's response is actually another clue. ;)

George

[WordWolf]

I was baffled when you posted the first clue, and wondered how we were supposed to get it.

Then I got some sleep, and my subconscious worked it out.

"Monty Python's Flying Circus."

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I was baffled when you posted the first clue, and wondered how we were supposed to get it.

Then I got some sleep, and my subconscious worked it out.

"Monty Python's Flying Circus."

Your subconscious was correct.

George

[WordWolf]

This syndicated show has aired in different countries.

When it aired (airs???) in Germany, the dubbing track has some added words.

To be specific, all the time, the characters apparently say

"The grass grows this high!"

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Obviously, some American idiom doesn't translate well into German. I just can't think of one which would be similar to grass growing high.

George

[WordWolf]

This syndicated show has aired in different countries.

When it aired (airs???) in Germany, the dubbing track has some added words.

To be specific, all the time, the characters apparently say

"The grass grows this high!"

Obviously, some American idiom doesn't translate well into German. I just can't think of one which would be similar to grass growing high.

George

Neither can I, but that's not what I said....

words were ADDED, words not in the script.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Well, then, since the phrase "the grass grows THIS high" is nothing the characters would even approximate saying, I have even less to go on.

George

[WordWolf]

Well, then, since the phrase "the grass grows THIS high" is nothing the characters would even approximate saying, I have even less to go on.

George

You actually have 2 things to go on, even though they're really small things.

It is possible to figure it out just from them, even if you've never heard

that piece of trivia.

[WordWolf]

This TVland-era syndicated show has aired in different countries.

When it aired (airs???) in Germany, the dubbing track has some added words.

To be specific, all the time, the characters apparently say

"The grass grows this high!"

A common saying at the time of the story was commonly ALTERED-

in Germany- and in English would have meant "medicinal herb",

which had absolutely no relevance to what the characters actually said.

(Why?)

Of the main characters of the show, one had previously been a bookkeeper

and the other the president of a toy company before the show and their

current "occupations."

2 characters once traveled to London, and several traveled to Paris.

The fake snow was sometimes white salt, but later it was all just white paint.

Nicknames for the "jolly jokers" included "Goldilocks", "Papa Bear", and

"Little Red Riding Hood", apparently all assigned arbitrarily because there seemed

to be no pattern to it.

"What is this man doing here????"

Actors who appeared during the series' run included Gavin Mac Leod,

William Christopher, Alice Ghostley, Hans Conried, Joe Tata, and

Harvey Keitel. Really.

[hiway29]

it took 'what is this man doing here ?' to convince me that Hogan's Heroes is the show.

[WordWolf]

it took 'what is this man doing here ?' to convince me that Hogan's Heroes is the show.

Glad you were convinced- that IS the show.

[hiway29]

Between being a rifleman,and being branded as a coward-and before he was running for his life-these 2 guys starred in a series that featured one in the first half, and the other in the second.

[WordWolf]

This TVland-era syndicated show has aired in different countries.

When it aired (airs???) in Germany, the dubbing track has some added words.

To be specific, all the time, the characters apparently say

"The grass grows this high!"

The words were added every time the Nazis did a Nazi salute.

Someone would make the Nazi salute with hand out,

and announce the grass grew that high.

They made a joke out of the Nazi salute.

A common saying at the time of the story was commonly ALTERED-

in Germany- and in English would have meant "medicinal herb",

which had absolutely no relevance to what the characters actually said.

(Why?)

Unaltered, it was "Heil Hitler." They swapped out the word "Hitler"

and made the phrase into the phrase "medicinal herb."

Of the main characters of the show, one had previously been a bookkeeper

and the other the president of a toy company before the show and their

current "occupations."

Klink and Schultz, respectively.

2 characters once traveled to London, and several traveled to Paris.

The fake snow was sometimes white salt, but later it was all just white paint.

Nicknames for the "jolly jokers" included "Goldilocks", "Papa Bear", and

"Little Red Riding Hood", apparently all assigned arbitrarily because there seemed

to be no pattern to it.

Making the place snow-bound for the entire series made it easier

to make stock footage.

"What is this man doing here????"

A repeated line.

Actors who appeared during the series' run included Gavin Mac Leod,

William Christopher, Alice Ghostley, Hans Conried, Joe Tata, and

Harvey Keitel. Really.

Really.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Between being a rifleman,and being branded as a coward-and before he was running for his life-these 2 guys starred in a series that featured one in the first half, and the other in the second.

Chuck Connors was "The Rifleman" and "Branded." I'm thinking David Janssen running for his life as "The Fugitive." I can't think of a show starring both. (The "first half, second half" part sounds like the way more current shows ("Law and Order") are patterned; but, again, it rings no OLD bells...)

George

[hiway29]

you're kind of on the right track with 'Law and Order', George-I suspect when you either think of it or find out, you'll remember since you were watching TV regularly at the time. It was on Sunday night I think-which may be one reason it didn't last, going up against Ed Sullivan or Bonanza

and not David Jannsen-maybe I should save the answer to the run for your life thing for a future challenge

[hiway29]

since I may not be tuning in for a day or so, and this seems to be going nowhere, I'm gonna reveal the answer. The show was 'Arrest and Trial'. The first half would be the arrest, starring Ben Gazzera as a cop, and the second half was the trial, with Chuck Connors as the lawyer. I might have reversed the actors roles, but they didn't ask my opinion.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I think that as a general rule of thumb, here, the older a show is, the more well-known it should be. In other words, recent and obscure is fine, but old and obscure, probably not.

George

[hiway29]

if a prime time series starring Chuck Connors , is considered too obscure to be included, then I probably shouldn't be involved with this game. It's only obscure if you don't know the answer. I watched the dang show every week.

Edited April 25, 2014 by hiway29

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I suspect you're a bit older than I am. Also, at that age, I wasn't the one determining what would be watched. Finally, you said yourself that the show didn't last, because it was on opposite Ed Sullivan (which I DID watch). A lot of older shows were rerun in syndication, and that may have made them better known. As we've seen from this thread, a stellar cast does not a well-known TV show make. One would think that a prime time series starring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, with frequent guests Steve Martin, Jeff Goldblum, Al Franken, and John Candy would be well-known. It wasn't. :)

There's nothing wrong with trying an old show you liked. I don't mind a challenge.

George

[hiway29]

I'm not clear what your point is then. I don't think I'm much older than anyone here. I thought the whole point of this game was to stir memories ,and realize-'oh yeah-I do remember that show !' I'm not trying to make it too hard. If I need to limit 60's TV to Bonanza and the Lucy Show, then I'm not interested. I admit I'm an old crank, but so called obscure shows from the 60's resonate more with me than most everything aired on network TV in the last 30 years. Those shows are REALLY hard to guess.