I don't know if anyone else here grew up going to black barbershops, but I spent a lot of time as a kid sitting quietly in cheap waiting room chairs reading through Jet magazine. On their back page they would have a list of black people appearing on TV that week (an index of how things have changed - I have not read Jet in a long time [is it still published?], they would probably need a third of the issue to do that today, as they would list supporting actors (they were of course almost all supporting actors then) and guest starts. Barney and Peggy were two of the mainstays of that page.
I am aware that Joe used to not work for himself, but I don't have any memory of those episodes - must have been when I was too young to either watch or remember. I should try to find that season. I can check this myself - but what year did MTM start? I am going to have to guess that last year that Mannix was on Saturday night, or else I am mis-remembering, which is certainly possible or even likely. My family used to gather in our "TV Room" Saturday night around 7:30, make popcorn, sit on the couch or floor, and watch CBS all evening (Oh the days when the whole family watched tv together). I actually think Mission:Impossible was for a time also on that night - or maybe my local CBS station would air older re-runs after the 11:00 news? When I got a little older I remember also staying up late by myself, or sometimes with my sister, to watch the Late Movie on CBS - and maybe sometimes they reran "The Name of the Game"? On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:47 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was a huge Mannix fan as a kid. I don't remember being drawn to his > > emotional involvement, but I do remember how striking it was to have an > > African American actress in a pretty important role, and for the most > part > > how matter of factly they treated it. > > Mission:Impossible, which was also produced by Bruce Geller, was equally > matter-of-fact about the greatest engineer in the history of fiction being > black. (Barney Collier, played by Greg Morris.) I was particularly > impressed by how they were willing to have him portray a soldier in an > Eastern European country without anybody batting an eye. > > > A few years ago I caught a few episodes - yikes! The show does not age > > well -a lot of really cheap looking backlot exteriors, and clunky > writing, acting > > and editing. > > MeTV currently shows it overnight. Your description is accurate. (Right > now, they're still in the first season, when Mannix worked in a > computerized agency run by Joe Campanella. It wasn't until season 2 that he > went out on his own and hired Peggy.) > > > The death of MTM had many of us thinking of those classic CBS Saturday > > night schedules (when Saturday night was a prime night for network TV) > and > > I want to say that Mannix was the 10:00 pm closer in the early years of > > those great CBS Comedies, though at some point I think it became Carol > > Burnett. > > According to Wiki, Mannix was on at 10:00 Saturdays from when it went on > the air in 1967 until 1971. It moved to Wednesdays at 10 in '71-72, and > then to Sundays for the rest of its run. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
