tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post8653715357658171433..comments2024-03-27T08:00:18.425-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Saturday Morning Fever! Volume OnePoseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-67114392479391619262016-08-03T11:06:34.678-04:002016-08-03T11:06:34.678-04:00Hi, Sonofabuck, and thanks for your comments! My s...Hi, Sonofabuck, and thanks for your comments! My step-sister and I were so fixated on the TV on Saturday mornings that one time I got up and began to walk into the kitchen for more food and stepped DIRECTLY into my her plate of syrup-drenched pancakes! LOL I can still fell them swishing up between my toes and recall trying to get to the sink without stepping back on the (probably shag) carpet! Union Terminal is closed for one year for extensive rehab, but if you're ever this way it bears a visit! And, yes, I do recall Cora and the Maxwell House ads. I did mention (passingly) in the post about "Wesley," a billing decision he later regretted and, in fact, changed by season three! Never worry about going on and on. Look who you're talking to!!! :-)<br /><br />Scooter, glad you liked this throwback post!<br /><br />Gingerguy, Union Terminal was just on the verge of being destroyed a couple of times, but people - in a rare display of positivity - rose up to prevent it. Inside the dome, on either side, are two water fountains and if you stand at one and speak softly, the person at the other one can "magically" hear you clearly! They say that there is no possible way it could be built today because the internal ironworking techniques are no longer taught and the cost would be incomprehensible. There was a bit of dispute about Billie Hayes' casting. One source said it was just she and Penny, but another said that The Kroffts saw 5000 actresses before picking Hayes. Seems like a lot! Hilarious about the kid in school being called Cha-Ka! Mean... but it happened to most of us! I have thus far avoided the "Land of the Lost" movie... maybe someday. I loved Count Chocula and even BooBerry! Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-50116420997557798952016-08-01T15:32:58.632-04:002016-08-01T15:32:58.632-04:00Oh how I loved Saturday mornings! There was an ele...Oh how I loved Saturday mornings! There was an elephant sound effect on one of those shows my Sister could mimic perfectly-it never got old! I was a big "Scooby Doo" fan and loved the mysteries and ghosts, but guest stars like Cher and Phyllis Diller were pretty groovy too. It seemed like Casey Kasem did all the voices. "Josie And The Pussycats" had the best songs. Cheryl Ladd did the vocals with two other singers and they had an album. For years I have tried to get the Rhino Records reissue cd, but the price is stratospheric. Bless you for the story about the paper dolls, I had Sisters so could always play with theirs (and the Barbie hair salon). That train station in Cincinatti is beautiful (a little Xanadu to me) and it's amazing it wasn't knocked down. My two biggest surprises from this post are that Paul Simon wrote "Feelin' Groovy" (that song must have been corny the day it came out-I have even heard a Frank Sinatra version) and the other is the Penny Marshall could have been Witchie Poo. Agreed on the scariness of the child catcher(more like molester)in "Chitty". The Bugaloos were super trippy, it seems to me that all those shows were made for stoners, not kids. I kind of loved Charles Nelson Reilly in "The Ghost and Mrs Muir" reruns, but not so much here. He did seem to make the most of it though. As a ginger child myself I noticed redheads on tv, and it seemed Johnny Whitaker was all over the place, including in the super scary "Something Evil" with Sandy Dennis. Lastly, there was a Scottish kid in 7th grade who had a really big head and looked just like Chaka from "Land Of The Lost" naturally everyone called him that. Unbelievably there was a movie version of that show with Will Ferrell which I happened to see. There's a running joke with a pterodactyl swallowing a tape player, which happens to be playing the cast recording of "A Chorus Line". Throughout the movie you kept hearing "I hope I get it". Anyhoo indeed, you really took me back to a time and place with this. I feel like a need a bowl of Count Chocula.Gingerguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989371210392669145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-10862411923117110362016-08-01T07:45:39.693-04:002016-08-01T07:45:39.693-04:00Great post! Thanks for the walk down memory lane ...Great post! Thanks for the walk down memory lane to simpler times!Scooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874254346853382934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-13703332799512414752016-08-01T03:02:17.876-04:002016-08-01T03:02:17.876-04:00Oh, Poseidon - one of the reasons I enjoy your pos...<br />Oh, Poseidon - one of the reasons I enjoy your posts so much is that I've assumed that we were close in age and temperament and responded similarly to lots of the pop culture around us in our youths. This post, however, has me thinking that surely we were separated at birth. My sisters and I were perched in front of the television each Saturday, too, and religiously watched every show you profiled here. Sad that kids don't have Saturday morning programming anymore, isn't it? Schoolhouse Rock alone got most of us passing grades in math, grammar, and social studies...<br /><br />"Meanwhile,...back at the Hall of Justice..." I never knew of the real-life inspiration for the Hall of Justice. And how fortunate that it has been preserved. It's beautiful and seems a perfect setting for museum exhibits and learning. <br /><br />God bless Sid & Marty Krofft, right? Their creatvity really changed things up. For us, the comedic nature of their villans (and others') didn't elicit much fear, and it helped that Margaret Hamilton, Billie Hayes, and Martha Raye would also pop up on variety shows, commercials - remember Miss Hamilton as Cora on the Maxwell House ads? - or any given incarnation of an Airport film. (But that child-catcher dude...Yech!) Those sleestaks, however, really creeped us out. When the dad left, we called it quits and turned the channel to "Valley of the Dinosaurs." (By the way, didn't Wesley Eure go by simply "Wesley" in the opening credits? My older sister said it was because he wasn't allowed to be on two shows at the same time - DOOL and LOTL - so he left off his surname on the latter to get away with it. I should mention that I was about 8 and she was 10, so there is a slight chance that we may have been a bit confused.)<br /><br />I could go on much longer, so suffice it to say that you provoked another smile and warm wave of nostalgia for this reader. Many thanks for another outstanding post. Can't wait for the follow-up!<br />SonofaBuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448549364380777514noreply@blogger.com