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Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« on: December 10, 2022, 04:24:41 AM »
There's another pre-DS appearance of Diana Millay this coming Monday on MeTV+, this time in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip from 1964.

If you have access to MeTV+, please note that the eps currently airing are in the show's 6th and final season when things got really weird.  All cast members were dropped save for Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and his office is completely different, yet the title of the show remains the same, which makes zero sense.  It also lost all its kookiness, not to mention Kookie (Edd Byrnes) himself.  The popular theme song is also gone.

"Alimony League" airs Monday, December 12 at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern.  If the show is available for streaming anywhere, it's news to me.
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2022, 05:55:22 PM »
Interesting - I didn't even know there is such a thing as MeTV+.

The Providence, RI version of MeTV ended several months back in favor of CHARGE! - and for some strange reason my cable dropped the Boston, MA version even though it still exists. If I want to watch MeTV, I have to either do so over the air with an antenna or download the MeTV app to my phone. I do the former.

But getting back to MeTV+, I just checked and my smart TV doesn't even have an app for it, nor does my phone...
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2022, 06:14:47 PM »
Yikes.  MetTV+ and Decades showed up recently on Spectrum in LA; I noticed only because they're on channels 6 and 8.  Didn't realize it's not in your area.

Anthony George shows up on this show too, but I won't post it if nobody else here has access to MeTV+.
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2022, 07:08:18 PM »
What's funny is that when I did a Google search yesterday for MeTV+ nothing came up. However, that may be because it's very new. Also, it's quite possible that it's something they're testing out in a limited area to see how well it goes over and then it might branch out...
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2022, 06:38:36 PM »
https://www.metv.com/metvplus
Select: where to watch MeTV+ (on our Where to Watch page)

I didn't find it for MB's zip, the Orlando area, or Pittsburgh [santa_sad], but did for Chicago (station WMEU) and various New York state areas (WZME, WJLP, and Comcast).  In LA it's on KHTV and Spectrum.

Lots of retro shows with DS actors!
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2022, 07:56:30 PM »
I didn't even think to look on MeTV's own Web site.  [6184]

And you know what's interesting about their Web site is that it indicates that while a Providence, RI version of MeTV isn't available on cable, it is available on DISH. I wonder if that means that after the original Providence station dropped MeTV some other station in the area picked it up? I've never bothered to rescan my stations...
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2022, 08:54:44 PM »
I'm pretty sure here (NYC area) MeTV is MeTv during the day and The CW at night. (I could be mistaken)
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2024, 08:35:15 PM »
This has nothing to do with Diana Millay and only a bit to do with original MeTV, but I just saw where The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends, one of my favorite cartoon series, will be on MeTv Toons starting at 11pm ET tonight, though imagine my disappointment after I checked their Web site only to discover no one is carrying MeTV Toons in my area - not even in Boston.

Back in the day I watched Rocky/Bullwinkle almost every day because it came on right after DS. The great thing about the show is it isn't just geared for kids - some of the jokes go right over their heads, but adults get them. But alas, I guess I'll have to wait until some station around here gets their act together and adds MeTV Toon...
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2024, 05:08:29 PM »
Hi MB,

Yes, Rocky & Bullwinkle was a very good show. Some months ago I started watching this very long (11 hours plus!) youtube upload of the first season. It was fascinating because back in the 1960s, by which time I think I was watching old reruns, I never got to see any of these in order. I was able to watch the arc of the Rocky & Bullwinkle segments here. The idea of an explosive recipe for chocolate pan dowdy is so hilarious, and it just gets more bizarre and surreal as it goes on. All the other segments are fun, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYNVCm48w6g

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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2024, 12:23:06 AM »
From what I studied and read about TV history, because of its obvious adult humor (meaning it was funny to adults because of various references in the series), Rocky and Bullwinkle was very popular among college students in the early '60's.  Of course, like many kids back then, I watched it because it was a cartoon, but so much of it went right over my head, even though my parents would laugh if they were also watching it.

As for 77 Sunset Strip and other early '60's shows, although I didn't watch them (my parents did), but I always remember the themes from the opening credits.  Other shows included Hawaiian Eye, Perry Mason. Route 66, The Untouchables, and don't forget the lighter fare such as Leave It to Beaver and The Donna Reed Show.  Those melodies - and many of the lyrics if there were any - have stuck to me to this day and I can still hum or sing them.

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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2024, 03:41:04 AM »
Hawaiian Eye seems as if it was a pretty cool show. I was really young (around 2 or 3 years old) when it ran originally, so had no memory of it, though my parents might have watched it back then. Frustratingly, some episodes were on youtube a couple of months ago, but then were abruptly deleted, even though there doesn't seem ever to have been an official home video release of this series. There are plenty of versions out there on the "gray market," of course.

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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2024, 03:55:50 AM »
I think that I was in the first grade when Hawaiian Eye first aired on TV. It was on past my scheduled bedtime but if I was on my best behavior, I was usually allowed to watch it. My interest in watching the show? Two words: Robert Conrad.  [easter_evil] [easter_wink] [easter_evil]
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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2024, 11:27:58 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Roger on June 29, 2024, 03:55:50 AM
My interest in watching the show? Two words: Robert Conrad.  [easter_evil] [easter_wink] [easter_evil]
Thank the stars for The Wild, Wild West.  When it aired here Friday night at 6:30 p.m., I was becoming older enough to - ahem - "appreciate" it.   [easter_wink]

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Re: Diana Millay on 77 Sunset Strip
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2024, 03:30:06 AM »
There is at least one,episode where Mr. Conrad experienced what we have come to call a wardrobe malfunction. During a fight scene, he accidentally (?) split his pants and flashed some tighty whites. The episode aired that way. I'm not sure which episode it happened in but a quick Google search for Robert Conrad split pants will bring it right up. So to speak. [easter_wink] [easter_wink]  [easter_wink]
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