I have the VHS tape and my wife found it on DVD a couple years ago so we should be good for years to come.
I have a Mr. Magoo album called "Mister Magoo in Hi Fi" released by RCA Victor in the early 60s as a promotion for high fidelity sound.
The music is by Dennis Farnon and his Orchestra and was based on the same theme used in the cartoons. Maybe Farnon also did the Christmas TV Special... the credits will show.
I used parts of the Magoo record on the very first Blare OnAir Lite shows, which are no longer posted.
I seem to remember on Saturday nights
around 1965 somewhere that Gilligan's
Island (With Jim Backus) on CBS was in
the exact same time slot as The Mr. McGoo
Show (I don't remember the exact title)
(With Jim Backus) on NBC(?).
My brother has a book that has all TV show
listings on the major networks from about
1947 through 1979. He can check it. The book
is called, "Total Television," if I remember
correctly.
The nighttime network Mr. McGoo show had adaptations
from stories, such as Frankenstein,
Hamlet - that sort of thing. It was different from
the cartoons. It was very serious and frightening,
I thought at the time. One episode had "Dick Tracy"
in it with all of his "bad guy" characters. But the
main character was always acted out by Mr. McGoo,
as if he was just another actor in a play.
I think it only ran for one season. It had a
great catchy instermental theme song. I
don't know what came first - the Christmas
special or the nighttime show.
The "daytime" cartoon was a different deal, of course.
It seemed our local channel that carried
the cartoon only had about 4 or 5 episodes.
I kept seeing the same ones over and over.
I got tired of the same joke of him bumping
into things all over the place. But I do remember
one thing.
He was sitting in front of a heater or air conditioner.
He thought he was watching TV and said
the "jail movies" were very boring.
Maybe you guys remember that one.
Great memories, anyway.
Bruce
In radio communication QSY refers to frequency drift and here it refers to how did we get from FCC enforcement to Mr. Magoo?
There is no real harm in this and it can be fun but the situation is that off topic posts detract from the original thread topic making it hard for someone interested in the topic to find all relevant posts. The other problem is that as a thread drifts readers may lose interest and the later posts may not be seen seen (such as this one).
Feel free to post what you want but please keep in mind that keeping the posts on topic makes for more tidy threads.
Neil
The "drift" problem regarding adhesion to a thread topic results from the difference between formality and informality.
Neil and Carl, I agree with both of
you. But I was going to post Neil's
question myself. And I came so close
to doing it yesterday.
FCC enforcement doesn't have anything
to do with Mr. McGoo. (I'm laughing now.)
I had started some threads for topics that
are fun to talk about, but have nothing to
do with Part 15. Several months later, I can't quite remember what they all are.
One thread, "Your Weather My Weather
Anybody's Weather" has gotten used here
and there. And I think that's cool. But maybe
it should just be called, "The Weather Thread."
Then I had started some threads with some
other subjects. Maybe they should be called:
The Radio History Thread and
The DX Thread
Then we started "Rocket Talk," I
think. Maybe it should just be the
"Rocket" or "Space" Thread.
And then, every once in a while, we
go crazy over old TV shows.
Maybe we should call that the "Old TV
Thread" or the "Old TV/Movie Thread."
Many of us have a lot in common with
regard to these subjects because many
of us are roughly the same age.
Maybe I should have started a thread to
discuss this. I'm serious about that, but
I really don't know if I'm right or I'm wrong.
Another thread about a tracking transmitter
turned into a discussion about space travel.
That was mainly my doing! You start to mention
something that you think will be a small point
that won't continue. All of a sudden it's got 5
or 10 comments following it.
Also, it's easier to find a thread
if it has a simpler name. You can
just Google Part 15.US and then the
name of the thread.
So I'm throwing this out.
What do you guys think?
When you are in one thread,
it's not always easy to go over
to another one, buy maybe it
would be a little easier if the
names of the threads were
not as hard to remember.
Best Wishes,
Bruce
Very in depth thoughts from Bruce.
Allow me to heal all these thread shreds...
Think of how many threads FCC enforcers have to deal with!
Have you ever looked through Part 15 of the Rules?
And we think we have it bad.
Anyway, I actually do try to find "relevant threads" sometimes, and I find a few but can't find others.
Imagine Mister Magoo as an FCC inspector.
Just updated the Enforcement Action Database and the signs are pretty clear: unlicensed broadcasting has slipped down the priority-list for FCC field agents. Actions against AM/FM and shortwave pirate stations last year were at their lowest level since 2005.
-John Anderson, DIYmedia.net
Still busy in Florida