Ernie Kovacs - 50's TV Westerns featuring "Schwarze Bart"
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Pure genius!
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Nice to see the RCA TK-10/30 camera (with round air vents put in) at the 1:39 mark.
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Typical Kovacs... insightful, funny and on-the-mark for its time.
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6:30 OOPS, a blooper they left in!
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Rancid the Devil Horse kind of looks like a horsey version of Ernie Kovacs himself. Jolene Brand's most famous role (outside of the Kovacs shows) was in Walt Disney's Zorro TV show, which was something of a western. But my favorite Kovacs western was "Blue Bows", which was a spoof of all the TV western gimmicks of the time (Bat Materson's cane, Josh Randall's sawed off shotgun, etc.) that Jay Ward spoofed mercilessly in one of his Aesop & Son's cartoons—the one with the rabbit & the "ears bit".
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Most all the prime time shows in the Fall of 1959 were westerns. To watch each episode here on YouTube from that season would take the better part of the rest of your life!
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The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman and the Incredible Shrinking Man spoofs were great (not to mention the Twilight Zone Western)
But what seriously got me laughing uncontrolibly for about 5 minutes was the Sourkraut Western (as opposed to Spagetti Westerns) near the end.
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Brilliant. Especially his paranormal, Twilight Zone Western. He was way ahead of his time.
Das Einsam Aufseher. Sounds like a cool western. Vintage Kovacs
yogafan6500 1 year ago
@yogafan6500 - "Das Einsam Aufseher" loosely translates to "The Lonely Guard".
rolko52 1 year ago
That "formula for success" is still used by the entertainment industry today.
Freenbean 2 years ago 3
@Freenbean Unfortunately!
rolko52 1 year ago