Coronet Blue: Six Months To Mars Part I

[scorejames]

I can't start to watch this if it's not complete

[ferociousgumby]

Coronet Blue is the ostrich-feather-trimmed turquoise tiara he wears when dressing up as Miss America.

[hawkeyevsgirl]

Dennis Patrick guest star! <3 Thanks so much for posting.

[chuckcollins]

@hawkeyevsgirl Met him at the Dark Shadows Festival in '99. What an amazing career!

[hawkeyevsgirl]

@hawkeyevsgirl WOW! Lucky you! He's my fantasy male. ;) I never got to meet him, sadly. Hey, if you have the rest of this episode that would make me smile. Thanks.

[vividwatch47]

I didn't even know T.V, Land played this show.  In theirly early days, they used to play shows like "The Felony Squad" and "The Joey Bishop Show". Now they play unnecessary drivel like "Extreme Makeover" which doesn't belong on T.V. Land but rather on H&G.

[asubjectiveopinion]

This looks great, I wish they'd release it on DVD.

[centurionknight]

Wow, I haven't seen this since the sixties!

[cyedrysek]

I almost thought I was crazy, still hearing the theme song in my head...wondered if I imagined it...I loved this show! Can you say "Jason Bourne"?

[CarterStanB]

My favorite part was the go-go dancer in the opening credits. I always wondered why they showed her so much when she wasn't really relevant to the storyline. Or was she? Fun to look at, in any event.

[peacemakersjapan]

Thanks,Sir. I`d enjoy them.

[CruelestSea]

@chuckcollins Thanks, will do!:)

[saljustfarted]

I see the TV Land logo in the corner. This must have been before they started airing crap.

[chuckcollins]

@saljustfarted This was when it was still commercial-free. Today, the only repository of such television excellence is right in front of you. I'll do my best to contribute to it.

[CruelestSea]

Could you post the rest of the episode, please? I'd love to see more.:)

[chuckcollins]

@CruelestSea Check my channel in November of 2010 at the earliest for that to happen.

[CruelestSea]

@chuckcollins I was just wondering if more is going to be up, please? Thank you ever so much..sorry to pester, I'd just love to see the rest.

[tuxguys]

My favorite episode in this series was music-industry based, and featured a very young Sally Kellerman; Dick Clark, in a very good performance, as some kind of corrupt music biz exec; and society bandleader Peter Duchin as himself... any chance of that being posted here?

(A testament to how good it was, or my memory is, or both: I only saw it once, when it aired, summer of '67.)

[chuckcollins]

@tuxguys Ah yes. I remember it well, too. Sally Kellerman never looked lovelier. And Murray The K was smart to stick with being a DJ. But, no. The episode you mention actually happens to be the finale of the entire series. No resolution. Michael Alden, the man born just yesterday, to himself a stranger, continuing like a river on his lonely quest to solve the mystery of..... "CORONET BLUE". Cue Gene Pitney.

[tuxguys]

@chuckcollins Actually, it was Lenny Welch.

And I'd forgotten about Murray the K. Thanks.

[chuckcollins]

Of course. But no one has shown any interest, so it will not be posted before several other things that have been requested.

[pigmango]

So fantastic. Do you have the rest of the ep?

[roverthegreen]

remember loving this show, its theme song, and being *so* disappointed never to learn what Coronet Blue meant. Not sure I buy the Russian spy explanation either. It would be cool if someone good could pick this up and run with it, but would only work if it were still set in the 60s -- that whole political scene is a huge part of its appeal. And Frank Converse is nigh irreplaceable.

[halbie71]

Great show!!!! I was sad to see it cancelled. I remember the theme song after all these years. Thank you for posting this!!!!!!!

[tuxguys]

@halbie71 The theme song was sung by Lenny Welch; the only other performance of his of which I'm aware is the incredibly good hit from the early '60's, "Since I fell For You."

[halbie71]

tuxguys thank you for the info.

[IFavorFire]

Thank you for uploading!!! I've never heard of this show before but it's very interesting!

Do you happen to have the first episode? I'd love to see how it began.

[sto59]

from Wikipedia The actual secret is that Converse was not really an American at all. He was a Russian who had been trained to appear like an American and was sent to the U.S. as a spy. He belonged to a spy unit called 'Coronet Blue.' He decided to defect, so the Russians tried to kill him before he can give away the identities of the other Soviet agents

[chokkan7]

@sto59

It's interesting - in many ways, most certainly stylistically, this is like a precursor to the Bourne movies.

[chuckcollins]

You left off the T when you copy and pasted this directly from Wikipedia.

While this is what Larry Cohen claimed in his biography, some of the things he said do not jibe with history. It is entirely possible this is what he came up with as an answer at the moment rather than what he was working from in 1965.

When viewing the episode of Tales From The Darkside: Distant Signals, I immediately thought of Coronet Blue.

[headley62]

I like the girl wearing the Couerrges look with white boots. I know I misspelled it.

[terrapinstation100]

My Mom was going into labor and didn,t want to go to the hospital the day this episode aired

[fromthesidelines]

The episodes were filmed in 1965, but it wasn't until the summer of 1967 that they finally aired-- CBS shelved it because this was one of chief programmer James T. Aubrey's choices for the Fall 1965 schedule; after he was fired in February 1965, his "choices" for the fall schedule were "undone", and this went into "limbo". This episode first aired on August 14, 1967.

[bertzork]

I didn't think anyone else remembered this after 42 years. Goddam! Is there a fan club anywhere? More stuff on video?

[chuckcollins]

There are several episodes available for viewing at your local Museum Of Broadcasting.

[bertzork]

Do you mean The Museum of Radio and Television Broadcasting in Manhattan? I went there many many years ago and saw the few episodes available, of which I had remembered the last fairly well. But I'd like to see this series made available.

[chuckcollins]

Or the one in Beverly Hills or my favorite one in Chicago.

I agree. I wish the whole thing was on DVD as it should be. And you know, if they're going to remake The Prisoner, why not the far superior and much more comprehensible Coronet Blue?.

[Neville6000]

Thanks for posting this, and in HD yet! Did you record this with a Super VHS VCR, BTW?

[spacepatrolman]

I remember seeing frank converse on the street heading for lincoln center he was in a play there then .

[caraqueno]

Excellent series! Deserves major long-overdue recognition and a cast reunion as far as that's possible, after over 40 years since the series was filmed.