Old Timers, Did you play Zorro as a kid.

Funny how all those shows that were so great as a kid are a little predictable and lame now :o

I think my favorites were:
Branded
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cheyenne
Zorro
The Untouchables
and
Superman (of course)
"Great Cesear's Ghost!"

I still stop and watch Pallidan when he's on. My favorite episode was when the taught the mild mannered guy to shoot and defend himself. The power goes to the student's head, he becomes a gunslinger and finally comes looking for Pallidan.
:D

(And I got in huge trouble for the Z in the back porch door screen. The screen creased and it wouldn't come out. Pop got made about that everday when he came home from work for most of a summer :eek: )
 
We picked up or TV signal direct out of Spokane and had one good channel, we are 130 miles away. Zorro was cool but DAVEY, DAVEY Crocket was the KING of the wild frontier.

We were in Yellowstone (no not jellystone) Park. Dad gave me a dollar and said whatever you do "don't buy another knife", so I came out of the gift shop with a four inch clip point Sargent Preston Bowie.

Davey killed him a bear when he was only 3; I was 4 I had a SP Bowie and a coonskin hat. I had a cub cornered and was poking my SP Bowie at this upset baby bear. I remember going unexpectantly airborn as my dad picked me up by the belt on the back of my pants. As dad was running for the cabin I could see the sow over his shoulder about thirty yards behind us. When we got safely to the cabin, my dad said what the hell were you doing? I said Davey killed him a bear when he was only 3, and well I'm 4. Dad and I had a talk about TV and reality. I told dad I wouldn't try it again,,,unless I had a gun...Ed
 
Jeff Clark said:
...Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat. No one knows where the Swamp Fox's at. Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, hiding in the glen. We'll run away to fight again."...
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I remember that one in Spanish:

"Zorros somos del pantanal, no puede nadie al zorro hallar. Zorros somos dice el Inglés, corre y se esconde y pelea a la vez..."

Luis
 
Don Luis, The meter seems to line up pretty well, do you think they used the same music for the Spanish version? The translation isn't very literal so I would guess they were trying to either come up with something that would lip-sync with the picture or they tried to match the music (or both).
 
Jeff Clark said:
Don Luis, The meter seems to line up pretty well, do you think they used the same music for the Spanish version? The translation isn't very literal so I would guess they were trying to either come up with something that would lip-sync with the picture or they tried to match the music (or both).
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Yes I believe it's the same tune, though I never heard it in English, it is very common when they translate TV series to use the same tune and make up new lyrics, sometimes it comes out just fine, sometimes.... well if you ever hear Barney in Spanish you'll understand.

Te quiero yo, me quieres tú, nuestra amistad es lo mejor, con un fuerte abrazo y un beso te diré, mi cariño yo te doy
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Luis
 
I was a big fan of the old newsgroup killbarneydiediedie Any Barney translation is a bad translation in my book.
 
Jeff Clark said:
I was a big fan of the old newsgroup killbarneydiediedie Any Barney translation is a bad translation in my book.
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He he, you'd get along fine with my sister, she studied child psychology for a while and wasn't particularly fond of Barney, I think she used to frequent that newsgroup too. I never liked Barny myself, kind of taking the phrase "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" to the extreme, like "deny all evil", I guess if Barney tells the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" it will be about the girl, grandma and the good wolf having cookies in a picnic.

Luis
 
How could I forget Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone :slapshead:

IIRC Daniel Boone and Batman did battle in the networks prime time war of the late 60's
;)
 
Men, I was busy trying to play as.......Thundercat & Heman! Their blade "grows":eek:

Yet, a light saber still the No.1 on my list. Have not yet found one that actually works.:(
 
I always thought Zorro acted too sissified. Who would pack a sword around when he could have a pair of Colt .45s. We always played Roy Rogers or Gene Autry, or just cowboys.

I got my love of knives from "The Iron Mistress." That and watching the Marines and thier Ka-Bars in the war movies.

I was raised in the country. I mean out in the woods. When I was about 12 years old I would go to my grandmothers in town and stay with her and a couple of my cousins she was raising. I went to the Western Auto and for a couple of dollars I bought a neat little fixed blade hunting knife with a sheath and leather ring grip. When we walked downtown to the movie theatre and back at night I felt 10 feet tall wearing that little old knife. Wish I still had it.
 
I have a DVD with 3 episodes of the Jim Bowie TV shows on it. It is not a show that aged well. A lot of talk and very little action. There was one scene that was a real hoot. A couple toughs jump ol' Jim and at a certain point he pulls out his knife. All eyes focus on the knife and they actually played a sort of heavenly choir in the background at the glory of this blade. You don't usually get that sort of sound effect for a knife these days.

The plots actually had some potential and really stuck with the historical Jim Bowie as a trader. In one he bought up all the sulfur he could find because Simon Bolivar supporters were in the market for black powder. A very promising plot element that I wouldn't have expected.
 
Yes, and used to see the series at Saturday morning cinema. It used to cost a shilling to get in unless your mates let you in through the fire exit.

About 12 months before the Antonio Banderas film came out I had a really nice guy stay at my Inn called Bob Anderson. He told me he worked in the film industry and there might be a fax for him. I left the computer on to capture the fax rather than using the old thermal fax as he said it might be long and was rewarded with two prototype designs for the hilts of Antonio's and Catherine Zeta Jones swords. When the film came out, I was interested in seeing the sword and noticed in the credits it said 'Sword Master - Bob Anderson'.

I still have the fax in Windows Messaging but you can't load it on Win XP. I'll have to load Win 98 on a box and extract it. I was going to write and ask 'how much for the Sword of Zorro'? That would be neat wouldn't it! The sword was actually made by a design lab belonging to a car manufacturer.
 
Thanks for the memories of that sword and outfit, I got mine in 1959.
My dad also took me to see Guy Williams doing a personal appearance as Zorro. He came on stage in costume, and did a little fencing demonstration with a partner. I can still vividly recall one high slash at the partner and can still hear Zorro's voice saying "Watch your head, my friend!" as the man ducked under it. I loved the whole stage appearance, and I'm still tempted every now & then to give my mother a harsh word over her throwing the autographed photo of Zorro away sometime later.
The plastic sword broke early on, I salvaged the guard and it happened to fit perfectly on a three-foot section of wooden dowel I found somewhere. THAT sword lasted a lot longer! :D
Denis
 
I'm far from old (22) but my childhood sword wielder was SNAKE-EYES.I was a big GI.JOE kinda kid and always loved the blades that snake-eyes came with.:thumbup: :cool:
 
Andrew Taylor said:
About 12 months before the Antonio Banderas film came out I had a really nice guy stay at my Inn called Bob Anderson.
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since you mention it, there are a few nice knives in the new Zorro
 
Stomper said:
Yancy Derringer`s Indian sidekick was named Pahoo.

John
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From http://www.fiftiesweb.net/dcforum/DCForumID3/15.html

"PAHOO-KA-TA-WAH
(Yancy Derringer)
New Orleans, LA (late 1800s)
Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, is a silent Pawnee American Indian sidekick of gambler and adventurer Yancy Derringer who operated out of the city of New Orleans in the 1800's. Pa-hoo-Ka-Ta-Wah is Pawnee for "Wolf who stands in water." Although Pahoo was short on talk, he was long on action. Beneath a blanket wrapped about his body, he carried a shot-gun which he used in emergencies. Most of the time however, he used a throwing knife sheathed in his headdress."

PS...
Wasn't the line "those thrilling days of yesteryear" from the intro for the "Lone Ranger"??????.......
 
Liked zorro, liked the adventures of jim bowie, nothing to do with knives really but loved sea hunt and the man from u.n.c.l.e., superman, davy crockett, hogans heroes, andy griffith, the munsters, walt disneys daniel boone, 60's batman, all the john wayne movies, goes on and on but most of all-THE RIFLEMAN! hey Jack142, i do remember Fess Parker using his knife here and there. i also read somewhere that the real Boone family were experienced knife-makers back in England.
 
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