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Today's Topics:
1. Mayberry Hockey (jkoontz)
2. Commercials (Kyle Cantrell)
3. Johnny Coons (Rod Sadler)
4. Danny Thomas (laverne defazio)
5. Johnny and Everett (Rod Sadler)
6. Hurricanes (Pearlman, Fred)
7. Howard (Michael Cooke)
8. Otis on TV (Michael Burch)
9. Pickups and Splashes from Floor and Pool (GRITTON, JOE A (AIT))
10. New Members (T Schott)
11. Otis in The Great Race (Dawn Biegelsen)
12. character appearances (Paul Mulik)
13. RE: Party Phone Lines (Jerry Kerkhove)
14. Thank you Dawn! (Ellen Kuber)
15. " I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
16. Ronny Howard (Laura Jerrell)
17. Danny Thomas (Suzanne Burgess)
18. Re: Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
19. It's Therapetic! (Michael Oliver)
20. Mayberry in the Midwest (chuck talley)
21. Blueprints for Andy's house? (Jeff Gainer)
22. interesting phone question (Mary Giesbrecht)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 05:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: jkoontz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mayberry Hockey
With the Carolina Hurricanes in hockey's Stanley Cup Finals, the Mayberry
references are getting pretty common.
Detroit newspaper headline - "Aunt Bee and Opie meet Hockeytown"
Raleigh newspaper subheading - "Boys from 'Mayberry' stun Red Wings in Game
1"
Barry Melrose's prediction on ESPN "If the Canes take the series to 5 games,
Barney Fife will be the next director of the FBI."
As long as it is in good fun, it is nice to live in an area that the hockey
community considers Mayberry!
Jeff
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Message: 2
From: "Kyle Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Commercials
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:30:14 -0500
>>> Has anyone ever thought about helping their poor, deprived fellow
Mayberrians out by making a compilation video of those TAGS commercials? It
sounds like several of you have them from different sources, and it sure
would be nice if someone with the appropriate know how could compile the
known existing ones onto a tape for the rest of us! > Flora
I second Flora's motion! I'll be glad to pay for the tape if anyone would
care to make a copy.
Kyle in Nashville
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Message: 3
From: "Rod Sadler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Johnny Coons
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:00:38 -0400
Hi all....
If you really want to figure out who Johnny Coons was on TAGS, you might want
to check out the old movie "Tell Them Willie Boy is Here". It starred Robert
Redford, Katherine Ross and Robert Blake.
According to the IMDB website, he played an "uncredited' part as a clerk. Now
an astute observer might be able to pick out that part and match a face to a
TAGS episode he was featured in. They don't mention TAGS on the IMDB website
though.
Hey Paul, do you feel up to it????
Rod Sadler
Mayberry Michigan Chapter, TAGSRWC
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:00:48 +0000
From: "laverne defazio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: "laverne defazio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Danny Thomas
Hey I don't know much about DT brother. However, Danny was the son
of Lebanese immigrants and therefore His name is not Hebrew.. I
believe his birth mane was Jahoob . He was known as" Jake" to
most.No matter he was a great performer and hummanitarian.
James Arness was James Aurness then it was changed to Arness. His
brother took the name Graves . I think that Graves is somehow
connected to the name Aurness.
Anyway I think that Andy , Matt, Barney & Festus woulda made a
great Team . Can you imagine Barn trying to talk to Doc.or Miss
Kitty??
Have a great day Laverne
" Its just a matter of taste"
--
laverne defazio
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Message: 5
From: "Rod Sadler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Johnny and Everett
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:15:05 -0400
Hi again....
Just a side note to the Johnny Coons investigation....He did the voice of Heap
O'Calorie on The Dick Tracy Show in 1961 with another Mayberry alumni.
Everett Sloane (aka Jubal Foster), who wrote the words to "The Fishin' Hole"
did the voice of Dick Tracy.
Another bit of trivia to file away....
Rod Sadler
Mayberry Michigan Chapter, TAGSRWC
"Jubal, Jubal, Jubaaaaaaaal."
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Message: 6
From: "Pearlman, Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Digest (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hurricanes
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:19:34 -0500
As someone who lives in North Carolina AND loves the Andy show, of course I
was interested in the headline in
the Detroit paper BEFORE the opening of the Red Wings-Hurricanes
championship series. The headline said,
"Aunt Bea and Opie, meet Hockey town." WELL, judging from the looks on the
fans' faces AFTER the Hurricanes
won Game 1, it looks like Barney locked up the entire city.
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Message: 7
From: "Michael Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Howard
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:19:30 -0400
I heard from another TAGS fan that Howard/Jack Dodson went on to become a
really good opera singer. He even sang opposite Beverly Sills in The Marriage
of Figaro (among other operas) and that he was also became a pro bowler. I,
also heard that Frances became a marriage counselor. Does anyone have any
knowledge of any of this stuff?
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Message: 8
From: "Michael Burch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Otis on TV
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:39:15 -0400
I saw OTIS (Hal Smith) as a news reporter on Hazel yesterday on TVLAND. Pretty
cool I thought. Probably old news to ya'll, but I love spoting the cast
members, they're everywhere!!
"You know they don't speak a word of South American!"
Michael 'Ed Crumpacker' Burch
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Message: 9
From: "GRITTON, JOE A (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pickups and Splashes from Floor and Pool
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:59:23 -0400
>>>Well, remember when Mr. Tucker wanted to use the phone but the two
sisters had the line tied up all day. How can that be? Did that mean that
NOBODY in town could use the phone. That would be like a party line to
everyone. Maybe I don't know much about the phone lines back then. Is
there something I don't know?<<<
Hey Susan. I work for a phone company, but that was before my era. Here is
my theory. It's conceivable that the Mayberry switchboard only had one line
to the world outside of Mayberry. So theoretically, folks could still make
local calls while that one Long Distance line was tied up. Mr. Tucker
obviously would have wanted to make a Long Distance Call. Assuming that one
of the sisters lived in Mayberry..and the other elsewhere, so they would tie
up that "outside" line...To make it a better story though...the Party Line
effect was employed so Mr. Tucker could hear that they were talking about
feet falling asleep.
I think its also interesting that most of the time when someone is
on the phone..you just hear one side of the conversation, and do not hear
the other voice. One exception I can think of off-hand is when Barney is a
Realtor. At the end of the show when Andy puts the receiver down, you can
hear Barney's voice continue to talk. Occasionally they show both sides
alternately as in "Andy, this is Aunt Bee calling from Mount Pilot" and
when Andy calls another Sheriff about the free-loading drifter, Mr. Wheeler.
There are many more that use this technique..but many that just show one
side.
>>>As far as I know, nobody has been able to figure out who is being
referenced
in the credits by Johnny Coons.<<<
For newcomers, the credits for "Goober takes a car apart" lists Johnny Coons
as "man #2" For a long time, we confused that name with Tom Jacobs,
character actor. Tom (Danny Thomas' brother) is the one who says "How'd he
do it Sheriff?"
Checking the internet there are a couple of other Johnny Coons references.
One is a Chicago area Local Cartoon show host from the 50's actually known
as Uncle Johnny Coons. There is also a Johnny Coons in the Movie "Tell Them
Willie Boy is Here" playing the role of "clerk" (that could be our Johnny
with such a vague reference??)
If you can figure out who Johnny is...you should take on the Schwamp case
(Becker case is already solved) Who is the actor who played Mr.
Scwamp??..seen in several episodes with a bad hair piece.
I've got a brown suit that's real plain
The Untrained Voice
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: T Schott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Members
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In reading the comments from the new TAGS members, I
noted the positive outlook received from TAGS. I have
to wonder how many TAGS fan's are out there un-
enlisted. I'd bet the Club would be absolutely
inundated with emails. Poor Allan, et. al., would be
covered up monitoring the email contributions. We'd
have 15 pages of digest every day! LOL
TED
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Message: 11
From: Dawn Biegelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Otis in The Great Race
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:27:48 -0500
I had to laugh when someone mentioned Otis (Hal Smith) as the Mayor of
Boracho in the movie "The Great Race...." "borracho" is the Spanish word for
"drunk!!"
Dawn in Kansas City ("Your education was worth every penny.")
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:04:21 -0500
From: Paul Mulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: character appearances
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>I wonder how many episodes the Darlings were in and when was the last
episode Otis was
in........
Mike in Wichita.................STANDBY CYMBALIST
>>>
The Darling family appears in six episodes:
The Darlings are Coming
Mountain Wedding
Divorce Mountain Style
Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee
The Darling Baby
The Darling Fortune
Every one of these stories concerns the wedding plans of one or more members
of the Darling family, so after six episodes the plots more or less dried
up. Same goes for Ernest T. Bass -- every one of his episodes has something
to do with his wanting to attract a mate.
Otis appears in only two color episodes: "Otis the Artist" and "Otis the
Deputy." At that time (the sixth season) the producers were forced to
eliminate the character, because one of the "big wigs" at GF was an
alcoholic who didn't want to a see a drunk on TV, no matter how harmless and
lovable the character was. This was a real shame. It seems to me it would
have made much more sense to write an episode in which Otis quits drinking
for good; then they could have kept Hal Smith on as a regular cast member.
--Paul
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Message: 13
From: "Jerry Kerkhove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TAGS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Party Phone Lines
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:55:51 -0600
We had a local switchboard in the town where I grew up. In reply to Susan's
question about the sisters tying up all the phones in Mayberry on Sunday
afternoon: that wouldn't happen. Phone customers could either have private
lines, 2-party lines, 3-party lines, etc. A private line cost the most and
is like today's phone lines where only one person has access to that line.
Usually businesses bought private lines. 2-party lines were available to
two customers at the same time. So they had to share that line. If one
customer was using the line and the other customer picked up the phone, he
could hear the first person talking. This was called "rubbering". Now it's
called eavesdropping. 3-party lines were for three customers.
So the sisters in the "Man In A Hurry" episode were on the same party line
as the Taylors. Those on other party lines could still make calls.
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:56:25 -0500 (CDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ellen Kuber)
Subject: Thank you Dawn!
Now isn't that just what you would expect in cyber-Mayberry?! Someone went
to the trouble to research my question and came up with the answer! Thank
you, "Dawn in Kansas" for finding out that $50.00 in 1964 would be $278.26
in 2001! When Opie found that $50 in cash in a "man's purse" at the side of
the road, he INDEED found enough to buy himself a whole slew of things -- a
second Christmas!
Now we can understand why he came running into the Sheriff's office all out
of breath in excitement about his "find!"
Aren't cha kind, Dawn, aren't cha kind!
Now maybe I can be a little "pushy" by re-asking my second question: In
which B&W episode's epilog did Barney sing "Oh My Barney?" (Andy chimed in
with a couplet at the end that made Barney steam.)
I KNOW a bunch of you out there know the answer to this. Come on and BE
somebody.
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Message: 15
Subject: " I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:39:42 -0600
Hey to the Goober Gang
!!
I have a
copy of the "I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY" CD.
My CD, has Andy on the
cover, leaning on a fence in a rustic scene,
and on the back is a
black and white picture of him going down a
a path.
When you
first open the CD, on the left is a photo of Andy walking
or standing beside a
lady, who is leaning toward him. Can anybody identify
her for me?
Also,
can someone tell me if there are any biographies of Andy or
if he ever wrote a
autobiography ??Thanks for any help. Hey to Goober !!
- Leamond
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Message: 16
From: "Laura Jerrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ronny Howard
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:58:18 -0700
I watched an episode of the old "Dennis the Menace". Dennis and his pal Joey
were in Mr. Wilson's basement "clubhouse" and next to Joey was this little
tiny boy that looked like Ronny Howard. Sure enough, when the credits rolled,
it WAS Ronny Howard. I loved it!
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Message: 17
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suzanne Burgess)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:31:20 -0400 (EDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Danny Thomas
Yes, Danny Thomas was Lebanese. Yiddish is a language which developed
from a dialect of Middle High German but contains many Hebrew and Slavic
words and is written in Hebrew characters. Yiddish is spoken mainly by
Jews of Russia and central Europe. This is Miss Crumps language lesson
for the day. There will be a written test tomorrow. Mary Grace
in Georgia
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Message: 18
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:18:57 EDT
Subject: Re: Howard
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I heard from another TAGS fan that Howard/Jack Dodson went on to become a
> really good opera singer. He even sang opposite Beverly Sills in The
> Marriage
> of Figaro (among other operas) and that he was also became a pro bowler.
> I,
> also heard that Frances became a marriage counselor. Does anyone have any
> knowledge of any of this stuff?
Boy...do you believe that men will ever go to the moon?......You're already
there.....
--Allan
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Message: 19
From: "Michael Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: It's Therapetic!
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:41:14 -0500
Hi All,
Amen to Charles!!
That is a great thing to hear and refreshing!!
The Lord works in mysterious ways!!
God Bless
Michael
"Now if they's giraffes"
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Message: 20
Reply-To: "chuck talley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "chuck talley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mayberry in the Midwest
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 20:34:00 -0400
I am trying, unsuccessfully so far, to locate two tickets for Friday night at
Mayberry in the Midwest, July 19. I have tickets for Saturday and would like
to make it a weekend. I'll buy them if anyone has tickets they won't be using.
Thanks - Chuck
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Message: 21
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jeff Gainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blueprints for Andy's house?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:52:40 -0600
A few years ago I recall some discussion here of a book composed of
"blueprints" of houses from some classic TV shows: the Cleavers, the
Clampetts, and of course, the Taylor residence. Can anyone recall the name
and/or author of the book? I'd like to try to find a copy, but I'm a little
lost without knowing the author or the title!
Jeff Gainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jeffgainer.com
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Message: 22
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:17:15 -0700
Subject: interesting phone question
From: Mary Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Folks,
That is an interesting phone question that Susan brought up. That means that
anyone could have listened in on Barney and Juanita... "cock-a-doodle-doo".
It would have made for an interesting plot too - Barney listening in on
someone's conversation, only getting part of it, and then making a big
moulage out of the situation. Was there any other episode where someone
heard someone else's phone conversation??
Mary in Canada
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