Fun Finds: TV Radio Mirror, October 1975

This Fun Find is almost a Poseidon Quickie because, as I went to scan it, I found that the original owner had torn out some of the color pages (pinups!) and cut out coupons, etc...! But I went ahead with what was left in the interest of sharing the occasional bit of pop culture within its pages. The cover of this magazine was to me rather startling for a 1975 grocery store rag. Adrienne Barbeau looks like she's posing for the cover of Penthouse Pet or something! The owner of this mag must have rolled it up and beat the family house cat with it, it was so damaged (or who knows what he was beating! LOL), but I tried to clean it up a little. I also removed as much of the mailing label as I could so that we could see Sally Struthers' face a teensy bit better in her two-piece getup. Ahhh, the problems we face... Now on we go!

Lord, the whole Sonny & Cher breakup and their subsequent relationships, marriages, etc... were big tabloid fodder back in the day. Then there was the severing of their TV show partnership, with individual series to follow, then back together again, rather uneasily!

Sadly, one of the pages removed must have been a large pic of Cher.

Hands up if you know who Diana Trask is... I had never heard of her in my life! The Australian jazz vocalist-turned-country singer had already at the time of this magazine seen her last Top 40 country hits. Returning to her homeland in the late-'70s, she was caretaker to her husband who'd suffered a stroke. There were married close to 50 years until his death. She's still alive today at 81.

The gal in-between David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser is actress Lynne Marta, who appeared on Starsky & Hutch three times. She and Soul had an "open relationship." An unfortunate footnote with regards to her is that she is the person who heard the shots and called the police when fellow actress and apartment neighbor Rebecca Schaeffer was killed by an obsessed fan. Rock Hudson's "nude" scene was very dimly lit, from the rear and brief. And I'm sorry, but from what I've seen recently of Telly Savalas' singing, those patrons had one looonnng night ahead of them!

Nancy Marchand had to wait until Lou Grant to make a real name for herself. Tony Curtis was not able to make McCoy a success. But he did later pop up on several Vega$ installments. And Lee Grant's concerns over Fay only grew worse! Barry Manilow and vague lookalike Wesley Eure hangin' out... Someone tell!

Randolph Mantooth didn't marry until 1978. Helen Reddy neither had, nor adopted, any more children. Bruce Fairbairn spent two seasons on The Rookies, followed by a healthy amount of guest roles on other series up through the early-'90s, yet doesn't have a single photo - even a profile one! - on imdb.com. I don't know how, but I had no clue that Clifton Davis wrote the oft-recorded "Never Can Say Goodbye." In 1979, Beau and Lloyd Bridges would appear together in the negligible The Fifth Musketeer.

Check out Loretta Swit's "Hot Lips!" Here, we get a decent glimpse of Sally Struthers in her outfit.

I had to chuckle at the "Unsuspecting Viewer" suddenly being turned on by these "bad girls" of the small screen... I can only guess what the people who objected to these ladies would make of today's television landscape...!

You know, I still have yet to see Upstairs, Downstairs (or Downton Abbey for that matter!) But I've always liked Jean Marsh, who's still with us today at 87.

For the record, Bill Hudson married Goldie Hawn in 1976 (and is Kate Hudson's dad), which lasted until 1980. Once the divorce was final, he wed Cindy Williams in 1982, divorcing in 2000. Brett married only once, in 1992, and it's still going. Mark was married once, from 1979-1985. The "zany" singer-comedians were nephews (by marriage) of actor Keenan Wynn, who wed their paternal aunt in 1954.

Mr. Beradino lived 21 years past this article, so he did at least get to see these two children grown. (Two prior girls had been born earlier during his first marriage. Despite what this article says, they divorced. It was a second wife who died! Marjorie was his third.)

Say what you will about the way it went down, but at least the Peter Simon/Courtney Sherman union is still going even today! Ryan's Hope was noted for the quality of its acting when it was in its hey-day. Wesley Eure made no movies at all until 1978. I'm not so sure that Peg Murray was "starring opposite" Burt Reynolds in W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)! She had a role in it...

Get a load of George Reinholt's open shirt. Long live 1975! Ha ha!

"No man can replace Jeff Hunter"...God, I should think not! I just love him. And I really could never quite picture him with Nurse Jessie. Hunter died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage only months after he and Emily McLaughlin wed. He'd been injured by a stunt gone wrong while filming a movie in Europe (and had also suffered another head injury just after!) A tendency toward drinking in those last years didn't help matters.

Just as trivia, the reporter who penned this story is pictured with Jamie Lyn Bauer three photos back. Jeanne Cooper played all sorts of roles in movies and on TV before becoming a daytime TV icon as Kay Chancellor on The Young and the Restless (a role that only came to a halt upon her death in 2013 at 84.)

Readers of a certain age could never forget her son Corbin Bersen, who made a huge splash on L.A. Law. He's the one in the t-shirt that says "FUN" on it.

Band leader and pioneering TV icon Ozzie Nelson died on June 3, 1975. He and his wife of 40 years were the stars of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and their two sons, David and Ricky emerged as stars in their own right.

Ozzie was, as opposed to his laid-back image, a rather controlling workaholic. He was busy up to 1973 when malignant liver tumors plagued him.

Ricky acted and enjoyed a considerable career in music. David acted, but did more directing and producing than Ricky.

The family legacy continued on with actress Tracy Nelson and the music duo Nelson.

You really have to hand it to Ron Howard and his wife. I mean, he was raised in crazy Tinseltown and yet his one marriage (to his high school sweetheart) has lasted from 1975 to this day. Many other men who went on to the sort of considerable success he's had, primarily as a director, have later offloaded their initial spouse for another model!

Neat that Howard's old costars from The Andy Griffith Show, Don Knotts and Mr. Griffith, could be there on the big day.

"Who loves ya, baby?"

George Savalas appeared in all but 3 episodes of his older brother's show Kojak. He died of leukemia in 1985 at age 60. Telly passed away in 1994 at age 72 of bladder cancer, the same disease that took their father.

Sally Struthers married only once. In 1977 she wed psychiatrist William Rader, with whom she had a daughter, but it was kaput by 1983.

I never mention it, but I happen to really love The Drowning Pool! It's considered by many to be inferior to its predecessor Harper (1966), but I have trouble turning it off if I come across it. And even though I wish it were a little raunchier (after all, the poster shows two nude lovers on it!), I adore the deliciously bad Once is Not Enough!

I close with this PERTinent information. God only knows who all sent in $10.00 to get a rack like this gal...

::::Bonus Pics::::

There can NEVER be enough Jeffrey Hunter. I think he is such a seriously underrated actor and example of male beauty. Those eyes! He had a pretty considerable movie career, but nonetheless is mostly remembered for playing Jesus in King of Kings (1961) and for being the initial starship captain in Star Trek's first pilot. But I nearly always enjoy seeing him in virtually anything he did. Since this Fun Find was relatively short, I'll fill out the post with some portraits of Mr. H.

Gussied up in costume for Princess of the Nile (1954.) (No, he was PRINCE Haidi!)

Hunter wanted badly to play Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch, but Sherwood Schwartz didn't think an architect would be that handsome...! (After all the battles with Robert Reed, I wonder if he ever reconsidered his position.)

Even dirty, those eyes stood out.

No Man is an Island (1962) - Hey, I'd have gone to one with him.

At, perhaps, his peak of beauty.