More TV artillery

[GGaskill]

I'll have to bring a one size fits all remote control in and change the channel.   

[Cannoneer]

There was something tickling my memory about another old show that had a cannon in it, but I couldn't quite draw it out, that is until yesterday when it finaly all came back; that great classic comedy show "F Troop." I don't mean this to offend anyone that actually thought this show was funny (after all, one man's junk is another man's treasure), but even as a kid I thought thiis show was a bomb, and a stink bomb at that; but for some reason I always loved to watch the opening segment of the show ( cannons  ). A local tv channel where I grew up used to show reruns incessantly, and this was one of them, so I would listen to the opening theme song, while watching Larry Storch kick the cannon with a hang fire, which of course made the wheel come off, and then as the cannon fell it fired, knocking the guard tower over. Once the tower hit the ground I would quickly change the channel, so as not to have to suffer watching any other portion of this wretched program.

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[Victor3]

"I don't mean this to offend anyone that actually thought this show was funny (after all, one man's junk is another man's treasure), but even as a kid I thought thiis show was a bomb, and a stink bomb at that..."

 I hear you, but The Beverly Hillbillies now.... Please don't tell me that you think that show wasn't funny. I may just have to set my preferences to ignore your posts if that's the case I seem to remember a cannon fired by Granny somewhere on that show(?)

 Larry Storch (Cpl. Agarn in F Troop) was a funny guy in my opinion, and probably saved the show from an early demise. Not to mention that he was a lifelong friend of Don Adams, one of my all-time favorites for his character in Get Smart

[Cat Whisperer]

Some people like cats, other dogs.

I understand that.

Some folks like one TV  program, others don't even watch TV.

I understand the former and am one of the latter.

Some people LOVE cannons, others don't.

That I don't understand!

[Cannoneer]

I hear you, but The Beverly Hillbillies now.... Please don't tell me that you think that show wasn't funny. I may just have to set my preferences to ignore your posts if that's the case I seem to remember a cannon fired by Granny somewhere on that show(?)

While I'll readily admit that it would hurt if you hit the "dreaded ignore button" on me , I'm going to have to remain honest on this, so: If the situation ever arose, that someone offered me a million dollars, if I could sit through a whole episode of the absolutely repugnant, utterly useless, Beverly Hillbillies Show, while holding a loaded gun in my hand, I seriously think I might blow the chance at the million, and pull an "Elvis" on the idiot box. Now, if there is an episode where Granny fired a cannon, it could be very watchable indeed; if it happened to be the Russian Tzar Cannon, and every other cast member. writer, director, producer, etc., was inside the tube when she fired it.

BTW, I also think Larry Storch was a funny man, and I used to love watching Mel Brooks' "Get Smart." This should at least make you stop your finger from clicking the mouse on that nasty button.


Cat, I agree with you a hundred percent, we should at least try to tolerate others (legal) personal preferences, excepting those that dislike ordnance, and those that like "The Beverly Hillbillies."
 

[Victor3]

 I'll give you just one more chance Boom J......................................

 Gilligan's Island?

 DOH!

[Cannoneer]

I'll give you just one more chance Boom J......................................

 Gilligan's Island?

 DOH!

Well, on this one I'll have to admit that I've always thought that the actresses that played Ginger & Mary Ann were highly underated.
BTW, didn't the professor build a wooden BP muzzleloading cannon in one of the episodes?

[Victor3]

"BTW, didn't the professor build a wooden BP muzzleloading cannon in one of the episodes?"

 He must have; he built everything else. I don't understand how he could make a radio from a bananna but couldn't fix the hole in their boat though.

 I seem to remember that Bob Denver's story behind the pic you show explains why he has his hands in that odd position and why he looks like he's about to bust out laughing. IIRC, it had something to do with those two beautiful girls there...

[Cannoneer]

Uh-huh, it does seem like Denver has a wooden pose, but speaking of hands, maybe we should change course here before we get ours slapped.

[Ex 49'er]

Wuz there ever any cannons on "The Addams Family"?

[no guns here]

Ginger was HOT but Mary Ann was the one to bring home to mama...

Elly May rocked our world back then huh?

I remember the ones where they were shooting on their front lawn but I don't remember any cannons.


NGH

[Hodr]

Sorry to disappoint but the first version of this I remember in science fiction was a shorrt story titled Blue World, No lizard, no gunpowder, no cannon, and no Kirk.  Yeah we won but then again we wrote it.  I think alien was a round ball that shot out tentacles.

blindhari

[Double D]

Cannons  in old TV shows Fellows not old TV Shows.

[KABAR2]

Wuz there ever any cannons on "The Addams Family"?

I don't remember any cannons used in Addams Family episodes just dynamite........ On the Munsters I do remember at least one
episode where Ganpa was defending the homestead with a cannon on a naval carriage. wearing a very Napolionanic hat.

[Cannoneer]

<      • Sorry! Victor made me do it.

[thelionspaw]

Robert Conrad. The voice of Matt Dillon on radio's Gun Smoke. Was the gun a cannon? I hope it was or someone is going to pull the plug on this.

[Cannoneer]

Rich, very close but no ceegar, your description is right on, but you have the first name wrong, the rotund fellow pictured above your post is William Conrad. Robert Conrad, whose real given name was Konrad Robert Falkowski, hailed from Chicago, and he was most famous for playing James West on the TV show "The Wild Wild West."
BTW, if you want to hear William Conrad's famous baritone voice, open the F Troop YouTube clip I posted, the narrator is none other than he.

Now, I do definitely remember a WWW episode that had a cannon in it; the villain was played by none other than Robert Duvall, and the cannon was shaped like a huge falcon, (that's right folks, a huge falcon) and the projectile it fired was powerful enough to destroy a large city.

[thelionspaw]

Hah! I knew the name was wrong. I only tried to draw you out with that. Now how about a film clip of the falcon? That would be great. Even a still would be helpful.

[Cannoneer]

Hah! I knew the name was wrong. I only tried to draw you out with that. Now how about a film clip of the falcon? That would be great. Even a still would be helpful.

Aah Haah, the old Socratic feigned error ploy, I should have seen it coming, very good RC.   I did look for a still pic, or clip when I made the post, but no luck.
This quote is taken from "The Internet Movie Database;" "Wild Wild West," (Season 3, Episode 10) "The Night of the Falcon."
"Few moments in the history of "Wild, Wild West" can match the impact of the scene in which the enormous cannon (beautifully designed in the shape of a giant falcon) trundles out from behind massive doors as assembled characters, quite appropriately, stand in awe of it's grandeur. Of all the props ever built for "Wild, Wild West", the falcon cannon is surely the most impressive."