Let’s try to be normal for a little bit, shall we?
G’day, boys ‘n’ gulls! Byron the Quokka here, with some TV listings you surely would’ve missed if not for Quokka TV and me. Like these, for instance.
Saturday (Oops, missed these on the first go-round.)
4:30 p.m. Ch. 85 THE GREEN APHID–Adventures of a bug man
The hugely unpopular spinoff of The Green Hornet. This week: The Aphid (Chiang Mullbury) sneaks into Roskolnikoff’s garden and eats up all his snapdragons–but will it stop Roskolnikoff (Pat Buttram) from taking over the world?
8 p.m. Ch. 19 MOVIE–I MARRIED A GIANT SPIDER (Swedish, 1958)
Marjorie Main stars as a Stockholm bar maid whose arachnophobia gets the better of her. This was the very last movie directed by Sven “Bluebeard” Jokulssen. Special guest star: Pinky the Wolf Spider.
Sunday
2 p.m. Ch. 24 Sports–BEANBALL DERBY with Oskar Meyer
It’s getting harder and harder to find regular baseball games on TV; but there’s still Beanball Derby. This week: the Newark Walking Wounded vs. Hillsboro Tyrants–last man standing is the winner! Brought to you by Acme Wound Dressings.
Sorry, that’s all we’ve got time for today. Some of these shows take all day, though.
Byron the Quokka, signing off.
Oh, darn it, I wish I hadn’t missed the Green Aphid episode. But maybe there’ll be reruns. 😄
I always knew that Pat Buttram was headed for greatness. I saw a training film, once, narrated by Pat Buttram, which was quite entertaining. As narrator, he referred to his on screen persona as a man who had the “two things needed for success, a southern accent and a northern income”. 🙂 I never could understand why Green Acres, set in Wisconsin, had so many characters with southern accents. Having been born in the northern tier, I can confidently state that is not the way things are, at least the last time I checked.
I wonder how many of us remember him.
I sure do. I loved Green Acres. Good, simple, humor.