TV Shows starring classic movie stars. (1 Viewer)

[Detour (1945)]

How about The Love Boat?

Good one!

 

[ScottRE]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea had the great Richard Basehart.

As far as guests, Irwin Allen employed a TON of old movie stars.

 

[jcroy]

More generally back in the day (ie. 20+ years ago), how common was it for aging and/or "has been" actors/actresses to appear on tv shows or b-movies for a steady income? (For example, such as somebody like a George Peppard).

 

[Rob_Ray]

From the dawn of television, that's what classic films stars approaching middle-age did:

Lucille Ball, Bob Cummings, Joan Davis, Ann Sothern, Loretta Young, and many others knew that their days as a viable movie star were numbered, so they shifted into television where their star power still counted for something. Years later, Rock Hudson, Jimmy Stewart and others did the same thing.

 

[HenryDuBrow]

The Richard Boone Show (1963-64).

 

[Ron1973]

More generally back in the day (ie. 20+ years ago), how common was it for aging and/or "has been" actors/actresses to appear on tv shows or b-movies for a steady income? (For example, such as somebody like a George Peppard).

Speaking of George Peppard, I saw some sort of documentary the other evening, about 20 minutes, about nuclear war. It had George in it, pre-Hannibal Smith, as a commander of sorts in an underground bunker who was in charge of nuking Russia. He really didn't have any speaking parts. Does anyone know if that was pruned from a movie, a TV show, or what?

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I'd add "The Smith Family" with Henry Fonda. Ron Howard played one of his sons.

Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? Sounds like something I might enjoy.

 

[Worth]

Speaking of George Peppard, I saw some sort of documentary the other evening, about 20 minutes, about nuclear war. It had George in it, pre-Hannibal Smith, as a commander of sorts in an underground bunker who was in charge of nuking Russia. He really didn't have any speaking parts. Does anyone know if that was pruned from a movie, a TV show, or what?

Sounds like Damnation Alley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_Alley_(film)

 

[Ron1973]

Sounds like Damnation Alley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_Alley_(film)

That sounds exactly like it. They apparently lifted parts of the film and called it a documentary. I'm going to have to see if the whole movie is on YouTube.

 

[Neil Brock]

Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? Sounds like something I might enjoy.

It is not.

 

[JohnHopper]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea had the great Richard Basehart.

As far as guests, Irwin Allen employed a TON of old movie stars.

John Cassavetes in the season 2 "The Peacemaker".
Robert Duvall in the season 1 "The Invaders".
Vincent Price in the season 4 “The Deadly Dolls".
George Sanders in the season 1 "The Traitor".

 

[JohnHopper]

Actor Boris Karloff appears in many sixties series as a guest:
Route 66
The Wild Wild West
The Girl from UNCLE
I Spy
The Name of the Game

 

[Mysto]

Does anyone know if this is available anywhere? Sounds like something I might enjoy.

There is a gray market disk out there with 5 episodes of the 39 televised. I can't speak to the quality or legality.

 

[Rick Thompson]

Count me in for Hawkins as well. One of my favorite Jimmy Stewart roles is the savvy defense attorney in Anatomy of a Murder, so I'd love to see this courtroom mystery series.

Hawkins was issued on Warner Archive. It was and is MOD, but it's still available from Warner Archive at $39.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

There is a gray market disk out there with 5 episodes of the 39 televised. I can't speak to the quality or legality.

Thanks! I no longer have any gray market connections (wish I did, I’d like to see this) but at least I have an answer now.

 

[Mysto]

Thanks! I no longer have any gray market connections (wish I did, I’d like to see this) but at least I have an answer now.

Just google the title /dvd. Very easy and open to find. Perhaps this has become pd.