@SuperMoejoe21 Was the other way round in our house, nan would come to us, big bag of sweets in hand from the local corner shop, mom and dad had gone to the Pub, and I always ended up falling fast asleep on the floor in front of the fire like a dog, missing the end of Cannon every time. Ah! happy days...
My God, I haven't heard this in 30 years. I stopped the playback before it started, sang the melody and hit play - Christ alive I was even in the right key!!! {:o)
hi aw to the days that were rest in peace william conrad , nice series never seen mannix in this country though played by joe connors brother of the late chuck conners ish who presented thrill seekers in the 70's, also starred in murder she wrote .
They played Cannon's theme song at a University of Iowa football game on 9-24-11. Iowa played the University of Louisiana Monroe. I heard the crowd went nuts. Radio station KCJJ loves the Cannon show.
They played Cannon's theme song at a University of Iowa football game on 9-24-11. Iowa played University of Louisiana Monroe. I heard the crowd went nuts. Radio station KCJJ love the Cannon show.
Dont think I have ever seen a re-run of this show on english TV since it was first shown back in its day. I just wonder why, when so many other programs have been re-shown at some point over the years. I loved Cannon. :-)
There is a long list of great nighttime crime/drama programs that TVLand should be able to pick from. Every weeknight from nine to eleven there should be two straight hours of shows like this playing. There's easily enough titles to mix and match making every night of the week a real retro treat. If it's not some legal issue then what gives?
I liked William Conrad (the voice of Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke on radio) because he was the 1970's version of Broderick Crawford from Highway Patrol. He was one of the relatively few subscribers to the 1970's technology 'car phones'. These operated on VHF frequencies and covered the entire metopolitan area, unlike cell phones. Only the wealthy utilized this telephone service.
Don't forget, Conrad narrated the final episode of 'The Fugitive", also a QM production. I don't care what anyone says, they don't make shows like this anymore.
William Conrad, 09/27/1920 - 02/11/1994, played Detective Cannon on this great show. Conrad was an excellent actor with a fine voice who created the Marshall Matt Dillon role on the radio version of, "Gunsmoke."
He drove a 1974 Lincoln Mark IV with a 460CID Big Block V8. When tricked, this engine will run a Cigarette Speedboat over 80nmph, do the 1/4 in under 8 seconds.
How about some more Detroit Iron fast car product placement in US TV, producers? Love cars forever
I was born & raised in Germany and was introduced to Cannon, Mannix, The Streets of San Fransico & Bonanza in Germany ... and I always thought they sounded so funny after I came to live in the US .. until someone explained to me that's how they really sounded, and in Germany they used german actors to dub their voices ...
Whenever I see this I think of when David Letterman used to goof on the "CBS Late Movie" where they showed Cannon, Mcloud etc. Loved those shows but he was funny how he rip on them. He would always say "These aren't MOVIES! They are cheap lousy TV reruns" lol
@TrekToons YES! He wanted the role on TV, but the producers didn't think he was TALL enough to pull it off! He was, however, the narrator of the "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"!
@devtrev The reason for getting fat, crippled, dirty,very old, etc is that TV in the 60s and 70s was really liberal. Let me tell you something I would never change those times with new ones now when you feel a lack of intellectual substance in USA tv and all is a very stupid decadence with no original talent. Today, the establishment wants an arrogant tv and this is highly considered in order not to be copied by future foreign markets.
I loved tis back in th 70's as a kid because I was a fan of big U.S. cars. I loved Frank Cannon's Lincoln Continental MKIV [Mark 4 in non Roman Numerals]
Hammy 'tec was a big fave in our house back in the mid-70s.
Watching that lardbucket lumber out of and around his 18' long Detroit junkbucket to then deliver a single meaty chop to some improbably-slow-fleeing villain was always a laughable highlight.
Sorry folks, that's Quinn Martin prductions--I mixed him up with another 70's tv personality--they all had comforting nice names--like macaroni and cheese. Oh, for the old days before all these dreadful reality shows--REAL actors/entertainment
I LOVE these geriatric Wink Martindale detective shows from the 70's--reminds me of my childhood in WI---they were sort of fun and campy. You'd head for the rocking chair while watching an episode-but good acting, solid plots.
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I remember this show, and it was a favourite of mine at the time. A large (unfashionable even then) person who solved crimes. Just because he was heavy, didn't mean he was stupid. Fatty Arbuckle, another overweight actor (and comedian) much earlier, was said to have earned his first starring roles, by performing acrobatic feats that a man of his size wasn't considered capable of. We should also appreciate large women. A lot of them have a lot more muscle that we would expect.
@onebadmutha44 Yeah, now you get to watch 227 channels of shit instead of limiting yourself. I always did like the fact that Cannon weighed 312 pounds and no bad guy could outrun him.
@bellier20 Yeah, he never got out of breath and would walk away from a chase like a triathalon athlete. lol. Still, I loved the show. The stories were great and the writers had talent.
in todays world "Jake and the Fat Man" would have to be titled " Jake and the Hyper thyroidistically challenged male whos' weight scenario is a result of self esteem and societal acceptance issues"
@mccoobs fuckin hell mate thats genius ,you now owe me a wet wipe my laptops been sprayed with lager ,,the most ironic thing is we all remember cannon as a really fat man now he looks like an over 40 man
I WONDER WHY MR CONRAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY CREDIT FOR HIS VOICE OVERS ON THE FUGITIVE T.V SERIES HE GAVE THE SHOW ALOT OF CLASS HE WAS ALSO GREAT ON THE GUNSMOKE RADIO SERIES PLAYING MATT DILLION
@bobszvetics1 He was a Mensch! He goes waaaay back to when radio was really great with produced dramatic radio shows. He was the announcer and also voice talent on a "Escape." Great show. Came late in the game when the one-eyed, mindless monster called TV was grabbed by the equally mindless, fickle public. So "Escape" never had a sponsor, despite being an utterly fantastic radio show. And he was a working radio actor doing roles in many old time radio shows.
As a kid growing up during the 1960's Mr. Conrad's voice was known to us before his face. He did the narrations for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
Heavens to Murgatroid! This opening brings back so many fond memories. The week this show premeired on CBS was the year I started high school as a sophmore (I went to a 3 yr high school). Though the late great Bill Conrad wasn't traditionally handsome, he had a huge talent & a huge heart. And it's no wonder he was such a prolific radio & voice over actor...he had a truly MAGNIFICENT voice. THANK YOU for posting this thrilling series intro! You've MADE my day & my weekend! :)
I remember Cannon!! My daddy watched this and the Angie Dickinson show....what is that show...daddy loved him some Angie Dickinson....Police Woman! That's it.
My Uncle used to be close friends with William Conrad while Mr. Conrad was here in Hawaii filming "Jake and the Fat Man"....Mr. Conrad gave my uncle a bottle of expensive Cognac....One day my uncle came to me with that bottle of Cognac and poured me a shot...I said I didn't want it,but he said that he promised Mr. Conrad that he'd drink it only on a special occasion....When I asked my uncle what was the occasion,he said that William Conrad had just past away...That was good enough for me...!!!
@WhitePony93 You and your uncle seem to be freaking sociopaths for drinking to the death of a man who presented him with the bottle of drink in the first place. Sick fucks.
@minutemanIV Me and my uncle wasn't drinking to his death...We were drinking to his life that he lived....If that troubles you then you're the one with the problem...!!!
@WhitePony93 Oh, I see. Your comments were slightly misleading (your English is a bit iffy.) BTW, please send my regards to Thomas Magnum and King Kamehameha.
@WhitePony93 I lived in Hawaii at the same time they were filming jake and the fatman, I saw them filming one day in Hawaii kai. to bad the show didn't last long.
TV is too cold and shallowed today it does not have an experimental and sincere depth than yesterdays tv. 50s,60s, and 70s were progressive that is the reason for putting alive again Hawaii 50 with an australian actor, but the problem is here in USA the social trends in a cultural level are weak before China and Brazil growing as strong economics.
The answer for Marcia's interest that I was looking for was Harvey Klinger or Desi Arnaz Jr. I will think of my 5 fave songs and movies, and let you know what they are tomorrow. It's getting late, and I'm starting to doze. Hey, I've had a good time. This has been fun. Have a great night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow night! God Bless!
@elli1897 - Yes he did. But that's what I liked about the 1970's, you turned on the TV and every human imaginable had a Police or Detective show: The Woman, The Blind, The Fat, The Old-Enough For The Old Folks Home, The Black, The Hispanic, The Asian, The Italian, The Greek, The Bald, The Hip, The Teens..and people watched it! You folks got a lot to learn about your fellow human beings and what people really want to watch!
@campbellc unbelievable. A truly nice warm human being. He a Mercedes at the time with the vanity plat "Darnoc" Conrad speeles backwards. He was great, let me take photos, the whole 9
I never watched this show, but I always liked William Conrad. Early in his career he played the bad guy in several movies. Still, I grew to like him from his voiceovers on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
no show today could touch the 70's.cannon,barnaby jones,streets of san francisco,hawaii 5.0,mccloud,the rifle man, ect.. damn i miss the greatest era of t.v. shows and music ever.
@str8outtatexas1 i agree with you 100!! and also with fivebearrugs...why doesnt tvland show this stuff? they used to...and this was tv and music back then...now its nothing...so sad!
Frank Cannon - once he'd heaved his bulk out of the car and lumbered around the endless hood and caught up with the running-on-the-spot villains and felled them with one chop of his flabby arm - he was the king. No-one could escape the speedy king of crime-solving.
Big time voice over for many shows. Big and strong guy. Major TV producer as well.
1ambrose100 1 week ago in playlist Three
great show frank,,,loved it,,
robharding1957 2 weeks ago
Saturday Nights at Grans, go Frank go.
SuperMoejoe21 3 weeks ago
@SuperMoejoe21 Was the other way round in our house, nan would come to us, big bag of sweets in hand from the local corner shop, mom and dad had gone to the Pub, and I always ended up falling fast asleep on the floor in front of the fire like a dog, missing the end of Cannon every time. Ah! happy days...
Bevoin1970 3 weeks ago
I love you cannon
27jengirl 1 month ago
My God, I haven't heard this in 30 years. I stopped the playback before it started, sang the melody and hit play - Christ alive I was even in the right key!!! {:o)
3Deity 1 month ago
"Cannon, or as he's sometimes known, The Amazing Bulk". Denis Norden's words.
Cool2BCeltic 1 month ago
cannon diet vid is pretty cool as well
sirpico123 1 month ago
coolest fat guy ever
easyscore 2 months ago
hi aw to the days that were rest in peace william conrad , nice series never seen mannix in this country though played by joe connors brother of the late chuck conners ish who presented thrill seekers in the 70's, also starred in murder she wrote .
castlebar67 2 months ago
The 1970's dectective shows go on & on, and I love all of them.
kennethamoultry 2 months ago
@kennethamoultry Me, too!
Lisica2008 2 months ago
What a great show! I hope they release it on DVD soon.
SonofThor73 2 months ago
rip all have some respect
castlebar67 2 months ago
Fat - yes - did it stop he being a smart guy - NO!
And he could cook
Thanks for posting
mikeismad61 3 months ago
Cannon!
With special guest Tom Skerrit,
Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt...
Tonight's Episode: "The LV-426 Chest Burster"
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They played Cannon's theme song at a University of Iowa football game on 9-24-11. Iowa played the University of Louisiana Monroe. I heard the crowd went nuts. Radio station KCJJ loves the Cannon show.
jayberwanger 4 months ago
They played Cannon's theme song at a University of Iowa football game on 9-24-11. Iowa played University of Louisiana Monroe. I heard the crowd went nuts. Radio station KCJJ love the Cannon show.
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what a fat fuck
melissacarterTS 4 months ago
Any idea why Cannon was never repeated?
Derryhillagh 4 months ago
cannon! cannons!
MsKeith1969 4 months ago
Dont think I have ever seen a re-run of this show on english TV since it was first shown back in its day. I just wonder why, when so many other programs have been re-shown at some point over the years. I loved Cannon. :-)
Bevoin1970 4 months ago
@Bevoin1970 It was repeated on TV land several years back.
leonbrain68 2 months ago
@Bevoin1970 I remember it airing Friday nites in the beeb back in the day
bigtd0ck 2 months ago
'The fat man'. Scared of no one.
Puzzoozoo 4 months ago
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TheMetalVagabond 5 months ago
CANNON! The Churchill dog...early years.
PetulantFilth 5 months ago
Conrad's homosexuality was a surprise
MickeyLove01 5 months ago
There is a long list of great nighttime crime/drama programs that TVLand should be able to pick from. Every weeknight from nine to eleven there should be two straight hours of shows like this playing. There's easily enough titles to mix and match making every night of the week a real retro treat. If it's not some legal issue then what gives?
libertatus 5 months ago
I liked William Conrad (the voice of Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke on radio) because he was the 1970's version of Broderick Crawford from Highway Patrol. He was one of the relatively few subscribers to the 1970's technology 'car phones'. These operated on VHF frequencies and covered the entire metopolitan area, unlike cell phones. Only the wealthy utilized this telephone service.
jnuznoff 5 months ago
Well loved in my family we all watched this together. Childhood memories.
niceone1100 5 months ago
@niceone1100
Ditto,use to love the theme tune..so 70s American,it kind of said.."Get ready,theres gunna be some action"
So exciting to a 12 yr old little boy..at least,back then it was.
Dont know whether to smile or cry.
YORKIESCHANNEL 5 months ago
these were tha days of real TV
ImBinWatch3D 6 months ago 2
the fattest PI ever !!!!!
indyfan22k 6 months ago
i love it
MrSebmovie 6 months ago
Cannon is the fat man's, fat man...all time favorite P.I.
morleygrey 6 months ago
Cannon is now being broadcast weekdays on Me-TV.
MegaMusic1964 6 months ago
Cannon didn't give a fugg. His philosophy was i'm going to have my bitches and cake and eat both of them too.
RightWingHunter666 6 months ago
Don't forget, Conrad narrated the final episode of 'The Fugitive", also a QM production. I don't care what anyone says, they don't make shows like this anymore.
50marioD 7 months ago
@mccoobs: well done; lol
William Conrad, 09/27/1920 - 02/11/1994, played Detective Cannon on this great show. Conrad was an excellent actor with a fine voice who created the Marshall Matt Dillon role on the radio version of, "Gunsmoke."
He drove a 1974 Lincoln Mark IV with a 460CID Big Block V8. When tricked, this engine will run a Cigarette Speedboat over 80nmph, do the 1/4 in under 8 seconds.
How about some more Detroit Iron fast car product placement in US TV, producers? Love cars forever
torque302 7 months ago
on dirait mon ancien conseillier de banque!
le meilleur que j'ai eu !
aziz5 7 months ago
"Tonight's episode". It seems to me that from the1950s to the 1970s US television had something of a word obsession with the word "tonight".
Cool2BCeltic 7 months ago
I was born & raised in Germany and was introduced to Cannon, Mannix, The Streets of San Fransico & Bonanza in Germany ... and I always thought they sounded so funny after I came to live in the US .. until someone explained to me that's how they really sounded, and in Germany they used german actors to dub their voices ...
61detlef 7 months ago
Whenever I see this I think of when David Letterman used to goof on the "CBS Late Movie" where they showed Cannon, Mcloud etc. Loved those shows but he was funny how he rip on them. He would always say "These aren't MOVIES! They are cheap lousy TV reruns" lol
aitraining 8 months ago
that Lincoln he drove kicked ass ! ha lol
Rick123691 8 months ago
William Conrad, AKA Marshall Matt Dillon on the radio version of "Gunsmoke."
TrekToons 8 months ago
@TrekToons YES! He wanted the role on TV, but the producers didn't think he was TALL enough to pull it off! He was, however, the narrator of the "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle"!
Actionguy1 8 months ago
nice.
javoman13 8 months ago
i used to think william conrad was really overweight, but by today's standards he really doesn't look so large.
wallofvideo 8 months ago
Good show, bad intro.
madtownband 8 months ago
Love it!
farnumbp 8 months ago
Now I want to watch The Salinas Jackpot. I bet it was good too. Nothing but crap on tv today :(
farnumbp 8 months ago
The Salinas Jackpot was first telecast September 14, 1971.
gladasya10 8 months ago
An diese Serie kann ich mich auch noch erinnern, auch wenn ich damals höchstens reingezappt habe.
hendry79 8 months ago
Was it a happing ending. I fell asleep.
LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 9 months ago
As awful as these shows were, they STILL beat what's on now...
terrryc 9 months ago
@terrryc you're right on there!!
windstorm1000 9 months ago
From one episode something like this...
Bad guy: 'Ok, if you let me go I'll give you 50% of the money."
Cannon: "No"
Bad guy: "60% or 70%?"
Cannon: "I don't deal with thiefs."
Bad guy: "Your'e a hard man Cannon."
Cannon: "Bet I am, bet I am."
petereuropa 10 months ago
i wish they would get a move on with season 3 vol. 1 of cannon
morgan8757 10 months ago
that guy could catch usain bolt.
MrLawman10 10 months ago
Why were all the cops on seventies TV fat (Cannon), crippled (Ironside), geriatric (Barnaby Jones), or homosexual (McMillan and Wife)?
devtrev 10 months ago
@devtrev The reason for getting fat, crippled, dirty,very old, etc is that TV in the 60s and 70s was really liberal. Let me tell you something I would never change those times with new ones now when you feel a lack of intellectual substance in USA tv and all is a very stupid decadence with no original talent. Today, the establishment wants an arrogant tv and this is highly considered in order not to be copied by future foreign markets.
juanunderground 10 months ago
like , who did the opening narration there. he did the streets of san fran and others does any body knows great series that quinn martin did !!
teddbear52 10 months ago
Cannon was affable, I said that he was like Uncle John, b/c they were big gutted. William Conrad visited Australia, he was well-regarded.
weskittun 10 months ago
"Cannon! A Quinn Martin production!" CLASSIC!!!
XMChipXM 10 months ago
thats when t v was great..
vidaloca07 10 months ago
@vidaloca07 I agree!
weskittun 10 months ago
thats so true lol
sexyfm1 10 months ago
@StinkingHobo LOL!!!!! Oh if only they could just say that stuff eh???
jasong19711 11 months ago
Tom skeritt without the mus stache LOL
JEEminn3000 11 months ago
Woo-hoo. You speak my language-Bigwordspeak.
Juliaflo 11 months ago
é umaprodução russo-japonesa ??
produzida quando, em 1910 ??
TheAvaliador01 11 months ago
Every episode I think had Cannon flinging the Mark IV around on a dirt road somewhere.
joninpgh 11 months ago
@joninpgh Yes and the hub cap popped off.
WhiteBoy41 11 months ago 3
@WhiteBoy41 Every time. LOL.
joninpgh 8 months ago
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@WhiteBoy41 EVERY time. LOL.
joninpgh 8 months ago
GOOD TIMES!
mofiziul 11 months ago
I loved tis back in th 70's as a kid because I was a fan of big U.S. cars. I loved Frank Cannon's Lincoln Continental MKIV [Mark 4 in non Roman Numerals]
rockall66 11 months ago
Hammy 'tec was a big fave in our house back in the mid-70s.
Watching that lardbucket lumber out of and around his 18' long Detroit junkbucket to then deliver a single meaty chop to some improbably-slow-fleeing villain was always a laughable highlight.
krakenwave 1 year ago
that was my show when I was a kid!
grenadian11 1 year ago
Sorry folks, that's Quinn Martin prductions--I mixed him up with another 70's tv personality--they all had comforting nice names--like macaroni and cheese. Oh, for the old days before all these dreadful reality shows--REAL actors/entertainment
windstorm1000 1 year ago
I LOVE these geriatric Wink Martindale detective shows from the 70's--reminds me of my childhood in WI---they were sort of fun and campy. You'd head for the rocking chair while watching an episode-but good acting, solid plots.
windstorm1000 1 year ago
vince van patten......what an appropriate title for this episode...........the salinas jackpot.....suffle up and deal
northshore7x 1 year ago
A real early 70s cop show theme.
Selinor578 1 year ago
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WatchOutBR 1 year ago
I remember this show, and it was a favourite of mine at the time. A large (unfashionable even then) person who solved crimes. Just because he was heavy, didn't mean he was stupid. Fatty Arbuckle, another overweight actor (and comedian) much earlier, was said to have earned his first starring roles, by performing acrobatic feats that a man of his size wasn't considered capable of. We should also appreciate large women. A lot of them have a lot more muscle that we would expect.
mephitidae 1 year ago
William Conrad was a great actor in so many ways. He was truly one of the great men who ever lived ... and he was the original Matt Dillon.
bruinsfleetcommander 1 year ago
His pall bearers must have had a hard time.
whydoesmypussysmell 1 year ago
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@whydoesmypussysmell Actually, they had to use a Forklift.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
@whydoesmypussysmell LMAO!!!!!!!!
burtonrules123 1 year ago
MAN !, the shit i was FORCED to look at when i was young on only three networks, THANK GOD FOR CABLE !
onebadmutha44 1 year ago
@onebadmutha44 Yeah, now you get to watch 227 channels of shit instead of limiting yourself. I always did like the fact that Cannon weighed 312 pounds and no bad guy could outrun him.
bellier20 1 year ago
@bellier20 Lol !
onebadmutha44 1 year ago
@bellier20 Yeah, he never got out of breath and would walk away from a chase like a triathalon athlete. lol. Still, I loved the show. The stories were great and the writers had talent.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
@bellier20 i am about to just get rid of cable and order stuff like this! cannon is the man!
honeyloveman 1 year ago
Is it just me or does the dude at 0:24 look a dead ringer for Tom Cruise?!
srvgtr 1 year ago
This intro reminds me of how great "Police Squad! (In Color)" was. RIP Leslie Nielsen.
paktype 1 year ago
My favorite Tom Skerrit line: "Smoke, you want some smoke, I'll get you some smoke". Golden.
StevenVerd 1 year ago
A most unlikely cult. (and just try saying that with your teeth out!).
intermender 1 year ago
in todays world "Jake and the Fat Man" would have to be titled " Jake and the Hyper thyroidistically challenged male whos' weight scenario is a result of self esteem and societal acceptance issues"
mccoobs 1 year ago 59
@mccoobs Hey, actually they'd still call it Jake and the Fat man because people still have no class
TheMidnightBell07 1 year ago
@mccoobs Too true!!
ryanspeed 1 year ago
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Juliaflo 11 months ago
@mccoobs Sorry that the world is not simplistic enough for you anymore.
pardyhardly 6 months ago
@mccoobs ha ha haaaaa...damn modern times!
TheSRalston 4 months ago
@mccoobs fuckin hell mate thats genius ,you now owe me a wet wipe my laptops been sprayed with lager ,,the most ironic thing is we all remember cannon as a really fat man now he looks like an over 40 man
kirkbyla 4 months ago
I WONDER WHY MR CONRAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY CREDIT FOR HIS VOICE OVERS ON THE FUGITIVE T.V SERIES HE GAVE THE SHOW ALOT OF CLASS HE WAS ALSO GREAT ON THE GUNSMOKE RADIO SERIES PLAYING MATT DILLION
bobszvetics1 1 year ago
@bobszvetics1 He was a Mensch! He goes waaaay back to when radio was really great with produced dramatic radio shows. He was the announcer and also voice talent on a "Escape." Great show. Came late in the game when the one-eyed, mindless monster called TV was grabbed by the equally mindless, fickle public. So "Escape" never had a sponsor, despite being an utterly fantastic radio show. And he was a working radio actor doing roles in many old time radio shows.
Glinkaism1 1 year ago
@Glinkaism1 thanks for your feedback
bobszvetics1 1 year ago
Cannon - wow, what a sexy dude....
b1iidc65 1 year ago
New Casting
Kevin James is Frank Cannon
Gerogiancounty 1 year ago
IS HE DEAD NOW !! HE LOOKS DEAD ALREDY
jrjr143 1 year ago
Cannon had a shooting range in his apartment!
bigassclown1 1 year ago
i liked it when he used his belly as a weapon.
79goldmaster1 1 year ago
@79goldmaster1 I USE MY DICK
mr10inches11 1 year ago
When I was a kid and this was in syndication, this opening always begged one question: Why are they showing a close-up of his ear?
MikeChuk21 1 year ago
shuffle up and deal...............
northshore7x 1 year ago
kult hoch 10
JarodKhoon 1 year ago
You know for a big man ,he had no problem with whipping out that little 38 snubnose on your ass from his waist
LarryT954 1 year ago
@LarryT954... and he could run like Babe Ruth.
midmodgal 1 year ago
As a kid growing up during the 1960's Mr. Conrad's voice was known to us before his face. He did the narrations for The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
magovenor 1 year ago
@magovenor He also did the voice of Sheriff Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke
jerryg1964 1 year ago
@jerryg1964 cool...he was the coolest voiced fatman that I knew!
magovenor 1 year ago
era niño. y toda la familia se reunia para ver estos magnificos programas de muy buena calidad . ahora donde estan estos programas???????
pipopecelebre 1 year ago
Hahahah, hell, I remember this.
wayneleon1000 1 year ago
Heavens to Murgatroid! This opening brings back so many fond memories. The week this show premeired on CBS was the year I started high school as a sophmore (I went to a 3 yr high school). Though the late great Bill Conrad wasn't traditionally handsome, he had a huge talent & a huge heart. And it's no wonder he was such a prolific radio & voice over actor...he had a truly MAGNIFICENT voice. THANK YOU for posting this thrilling series intro! You've MADE my day & my weekend! :)
JubalCalif 1 year ago
Holy crapballs! Tom Skerrit was young once? O_o
Cybrludite 1 year ago
@Cybrludite But he looks too happy - he obviously didn't know he was going to get posted to the Nostromo 8 years later
ewaf88 1 year ago
Ohhh such a typical 1970s era intro
Scorpiofootlvr 1 year ago
I remember Cannon!! My daddy watched this and the Angie Dickinson show....what is that show...daddy loved him some Angie Dickinson....Police Woman! That's it.
msmiche1000 1 year ago
Great Show! The best detective series I´ve seen.
AndyAce83 1 year ago
Tom Skerritt!?!? Pre-mustache days.. WOW he looks different with long hair and no mustache. !
Delphinus72 1 year ago
Tom Skerritt and Vincent van Patten...haha...I love watching these old intros.
mooneepondskid 1 year ago
Wow. Soooo different today. Show me a major non comedy show today starring an older fat guy!!
aquaiz 1 year ago
I first saw William Conrad's acting on Have Gun will Travel. He had a larger then life presence.
gardee37 1 year ago
Quinn Martin was the Jerry Bruckheimer of his era!
vccstudents 1 year ago
Man I had to go to bed when Cannon came on!! LOL! That was my parents time .
MrHotrodjones 1 year ago
My Uncle used to be close friends with William Conrad while Mr. Conrad was here in Hawaii filming "Jake and the Fat Man"....Mr. Conrad gave my uncle a bottle of expensive Cognac....One day my uncle came to me with that bottle of Cognac and poured me a shot...I said I didn't want it,but he said that he promised Mr. Conrad that he'd drink it only on a special occasion....When I asked my uncle what was the occasion,he said that William Conrad had just past away...That was good enough for me...!!!
WhitePony93 1 year ago 42
@WhitePony93 You and your uncle seem to be freaking sociopaths for drinking to the death of a man who presented him with the bottle of drink in the first place. Sick fucks.
minutemanIV 1 year ago
@minutemanIV Me and my uncle wasn't drinking to his death...We were drinking to his life that he lived....If that troubles you then you're the one with the problem...!!!
WhitePony93 1 year ago
@WhitePony93 Oh, I see. Your comments were slightly misleading (your English is a bit iffy.) BTW, please send my regards to Thomas Magnum and King Kamehameha.
minutemanIV 1 year ago
@minutemanIV I will..!!!
WhitePony93 1 year ago
@WhitePony93 Sounds like you were celebrating his passing.
trwent 1 year ago
@WhitePony93 I lived in Hawaii at the same time they were filming jake and the fatman, I saw them filming one day in Hawaii kai. to bad the show didn't last long.
fordxbgtfalcon 1 year ago
@WhitePony93 William Conrad was a fine actor. Thanks for sharing your memory.
skateboardgumby 1 year ago
@WhitePony93
Great story.
EAPTV 1 year ago
@WhitePony93 William Conrad was a fine actor, and had a great voice.
skateboardgumby 11 months ago
Loved Cannon's theme, but I ask the same question now that I did when I was 10:
"WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT CANNON'S EAR???"
pbanta62 1 year ago
TV is too cold and shallowed today it does not have an experimental and sincere depth than yesterdays tv. 50s,60s, and 70s were progressive that is the reason for putting alive again Hawaii 50 with an australian actor, but the problem is here in USA the social trends in a cultural level are weak before China and Brazil growing as strong economics.
juanunderground 1 year ago
Tom Skerritt at the time lol Terrible intro.
heartofzorro 1 year ago
The answer for Marcia's interest that I was looking for was Harvey Klinger or Desi Arnaz Jr. I will think of my 5 fave songs and movies, and let you know what they are tomorrow. It's getting late, and I'm starting to doze. Hey, I've had a good time. This has been fun. Have a great night, and I'll talk to you tomorrow night! God Bless!
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
god it looks cheap and cheerfull lol ...
19smokey19 1 year ago
Starring; William "The Boat Anchor" Conrad.
hubciti 1 year ago
Cannon getting into the Continental Mark IV you have the Lincoln lowrider caused by the seefood diet.
buffedbob 1 year ago
I think it's nice how they had a voiceover on the titles, for thick people who can't read.
Widmerpool99 1 year ago
I think Mr Conrad eat to many pies.
elli1897 1 year ago
@elli1897 - Yes he did. But that's what I liked about the 1970's, you turned on the TV and every human imaginable had a Police or Detective show: The Woman, The Blind, The Fat, The Old-Enough For The Old Folks Home, The Black, The Hispanic, The Asian, The Italian, The Greek, The Bald, The Hip, The Teens..and people watched it! You folks got a lot to learn about your fellow human beings and what people really want to watch!
Mandi7882 1 year ago
@elli1897 Your right, they just were not fur pies !
buffedbob 1 year ago
"The Salinas Jackpot" (1971)
CraigFoye80 1 year ago
Down in the wood panelled basement sipping a schlitz watching our rotund hero. That was only last week.
midmodgal 1 year ago
I MET our rotund HERO in 1983 THAtTand meeting Adam West, THE highlights of my LIFE!
rf396 1 year ago
@rf396 What was it like in the prescence of pure awesomness?
campbellc 1 year ago
@campbellc unbelievable. A truly nice warm human being. He a Mercedes at the time with the vanity plat "Darnoc" Conrad speeles backwards. He was great, let me take photos, the whole 9
rf396 1 year ago
I never watched this show, but I always liked William Conrad. Early in his career he played the bad guy in several movies. Still, I grew to like him from his voiceovers on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
ftsjr 1 year ago
where the hell is Sharon Acker now? probably giving 3-dollar blow jobs on 8th and Union
TracyAndersonFoxhunt 1 year ago
Looks like Ron Jeramy
Michshnly 1 year ago
Cannon massive flatuence maker!
billthestinker 1 year ago
Yeah, why don't TV land show these episodes. SHAME ON TV LAND !!
TheLizardKing1967 1 year ago
It's the only show were 300pd white man can chase down 150pd black kid
hellsbells3084 1 year ago
I didn't like this show when I was a kid but now I want to see it! "Salinas Jackpot" LOL!!
vaniti06 1 year ago
I use to watch this show.... My mother love this so much...
MarcusLeepapi 1 year ago
no show today could touch the 70's.cannon,barnaby jones,streets of san francisco,hawaii 5.0,mccloud,the rifle man, ect.. damn i miss the greatest era of t.v. shows and music ever.
str8outtatexas1 1 year ago
@str8outtatexas1 i agree with you 100!! and also with fivebearrugs...why doesnt tvland show this stuff? they used to...and this was tv and music back then...now its nothing...so sad!
puginscat 1 year ago
a quinn martin production
locsman 1 year ago
Frank Cannon - once he'd heaved his bulk out of the car and lumbered around the endless hood and caught up with the running-on-the-spot villains and felled them with one chop of his flabby arm - he was the king. No-one could escape the speedy king of crime-solving.
krakenwave 1 year ago
Passava na TV Bandeirantes nos anos 70. Terças, 22h00.
Excelente seriado.
ROBSOMable 1 year ago
this was such a good show they reacon he was king of the cops that much he did not need any help he surrounded them him self
booboo7ful 1 year ago
Yes i heard cannon was king of the cops he did'nt need any help he surrounded them him self you remember the record they made
booboo7ful 1 year ago
and now it survives on a Lil Wayne freestyle. Bizzare.
thejoisey82 1 year ago
fat fuck
pbmax 1 year ago
As a child in 1970's, i never really liked this intro, cause it made Cannon seem big, dumb n sloppy.
cylinder4ify 1 year ago