Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-24 Thread Dave Sikula
As I recall, that was the period where his appearances were limited to phone calls (always his forte) while he was on the road for a book tour. All of those segments, of course, could have been shot at the same time and edited in, like Fred MacMurray's later seasons on "My Three Sons." --Dave

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-24 Thread ko...@frontiernet.net
Bob Newhart’s Wikipedia page say that he missed several episodes in 1977 because of the birth of one of his children.   Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Sunday, March 24, 2024, 2:21 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: Hollywood, and whatever passed for popular culture at the time, tied sexiness to over

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-24 Thread Tom Wolper
Hollywood, and whatever passed for popular culture at the time, tied sexiness to over the top glamour. That led to weird binaries like Ginger/Mary Ann on Gilligans Island and Jennifer/Bailey on WKRP. By any other standard Dawn Wells and Jan Smithers were drop dead gorgeous. But we were told the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-24 Thread 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
As someone who was exactly the right age during the original run, I think the general consensus was that Emily was right up there with Laura Petrie, Samantha Stevens, and 99, and that Bob had married up. They were, at the time, one of the few sitcom couples who seemed to have a real attraction

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-23 Thread Kevin M.
Pleshette was a frequent guest on Carson’s Tonight Show back in the day. Between that and Newhart and Columbo, I always carried a torch for her. Kevin M. (RPCV) On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 9:26 PM jbelkin wrote: > So, I just finished watching the entire run of the Bob Newhart Show - the > 1970's

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-23 Thread jbelkin
So, I just finished watching the entire run of the Bob Newhart Show - the 1970's were before my time but I'm curious about one thing - how come the show doesn't seem to acknowledge that Suzanne PLeshette was gorgeous? Did everyone in the 1970's just feel she was not unattractive but some sort of