Good morning, Kittens and Dawgs! It’s fabulous to see you! How was your weekend? Ours was nice. Did y’all have a nice Father’s Day? I made DH his favorite dessert for Father’s Day, a Cherry Delight, and I ordered our favorites from Pizza Hut, a stuffed crust Cathy’s Supreme (minus the mushroom, beef, bacon, add cherry peppers, extra Italian sausage, pepperoni, and added pizza sauce) and a stuffed crust Cathy’s Meaty Pizza (no beef or bacon, add back extra Italian sausage & pepperoni with extra pizza sauce). We got a chance to see, THE LAST MOVIE STAR (watch trailer) with Burt Reynolds on Amazon Prime. You may recall Dog Year Productions filmed this movie in Knoxville a few years ago. We even got a chance to see one of the scenes being made on Market Square. The first half was a bit slow but we hung in there and I’m glad we did because it got better. It was a tender tale of an old has-been actor who travels to Nashville to receive a lifetime achievement award and winds up taking a trip down memory lane. It was quite tender and I believe my eyes began to leak. What a sap I am! 🙂 The only thing that would’ve made this movie better is IF I had gotten to be an extra in the film. lol
Alright, enough yammering. Are you ready to groove to some mewsic? This week’s theme is “Favorite Childhood TV & Movie Theme Songs“. Growing up in rural West Virginia it was not easy, not to mention in my family’s budget for us to go to the movies but TV viewing was accessible and didn’t cost us anything extra, so it was the biggest source of home entertainment for most families in my small coal mining community in the late 60s and 70s. Here are 7 childhood favorites of mine!
- The Addams Family 1960s TV series (starring John Astin and Carolyn Jones) inspired by cartoonist Charles Addams’ single panel series featured in The New Yorker as early as 1938.
- The Munsters (1964-1966) depicts a family of monsters who saw themselves as no different from an average American family with Herman (Fred Gwynne), Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo), Grandpa (Al Lewis), & Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick) along with their niece Marilyn (Pat Priest) the only non-monster family member.
- Welcome Back, Kotter debuted in 1975 in front of a live TV audience of a high school remedial teacher, Mr. Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) to a mix of racial and ethnical group of kids considered to be the slackers known as the “Sweathogs”.
- Sanford & Son is another 70s sitcom starring Redd Foxx who plays a widower, junk yard dealer. The shows edgy racial humor, running gags, & catchphrases is what made this show a huge success. You’ll not find this sort of comedy in today’s viewing for fear of offending someone. Boy, were those the days for television watching!
- I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970) is a fantasy sitcom of a 2000 genie (Barbara Eden) and a handsome astronaut (Larry Hagman) who releases her from her bottle. They eventually fall in-love and get married. A thrill I experience in 2015 was meeting Barbara Eden at the Mayberry Days event in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
- Bewitched (1964-1972) is another fantasy sitcom of modern-day witch (Elizabeth Montgomery) who marries an ordinary human husband (Dick York) and vows to not practice magic. She has the best intentions of not practicing anyhow but then where would the fun be if she didn’t break her word occasionally. 😉
- Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980) was a prime time show and one of the first police dramas I recall watching starring Jack Lord as Detective Captain Steve McGarrett.
Now, join my fellow co-hosts: XmasDolly (Party Coordinator), Stacy, Alana & Colette (who’s taking semi-blog hiatus because of eye problems) on the dance floor (ONLY link mewsic posts) below.
Keep those tunes playing and your body swaying, I’ll see ya around the cyber block!
X💋X 💋, Cathy
