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We're going to branch out as it were moving beyond just television to the vast world of Popular culture We're gonna start doing something kind of like the old NBC mystery movie or name of the game We're gonna kind of rotating segments so We're gonna have our regular Television concept just like the show you see now with the three of us sitting here And then we're going to have a new show just about comic books with Wilburton myself And then the potpourri show with Wilburton Marty and the potpourri will just be everything else about popular culture Poverry And the scent is on the corn not on the paper So So be tuned in for that of course, we've got the big the rerun next time and then going into our Whatever they call it the specialty week or whatever Special program That's the term I don't know I don't know It's gonna be really special Yeah, real special So be tuned in for that and then the brand-new all-new vast wasteland Or some old but mostly new And now on the grab bag And Robert you have the first pick of the of the new bag tonight Bag or grab The question and sign in please What about Kodiak? Good question Yeah, Mr. Patterson would like to know about that Well, what about Kodiak we asked Kodiak you say Yes, that's what we asked Kodiak Kodiak a police drama Which was first telecast in September 13th 1974 last little cat telecast Oh You remind of a class October 11th 1974 well that Kodiak just didn't last a real long time Well, but wasn't it a replacement for the Brady's? Well, now that is quite possible It could have been that uh This was mentioned to me by somebody who knew It was first done but then after the Brady's finally broke off They would just show it and show it and show it Oh how many episodes would it have been I think there were six Well now we've got to figure that it was probably about six About six About six episodes And he had a snowmobile Well, um, Cal Kodiak McKay was Clint Walker And he was a cop with unusual beating this short-lived series He was a member of the Alaska State Patrol Responsible for 50,000 square miles of rugged country And all the criminals, avalanche victims, and squabbling minors contained therein He worked alone most of the time traveling by four-wheel drive trucks No mobile, skis, no shoes, or whatever Abraham Lincoln M-Hook was his Eskimo friend and confidant And this was played by Abner Beverman And of course they were the Mandy played by Maggie Bly And it was filmed on location in Alaska Like the romantic interest that would be Mandy Oh, quite possibly Right along with that pipeline, huh? Yeah Of course, now we could find out that Mandy was actually his little daughter or something But there's that Kodiak And that's for the DJ who asked about it Or who actually told about it It was on ABC And for asking that question, you received absolutely nothing The knowledge of knowing that we talked about it here on the show You were first on this On our second grab bag episode Episode! Yes, you! The second grab bag! Amazing, your friends! Okay Yes? Favorite Bill Cosby production Oh, well, let's see How many Bill Cosby productions did we have? I mean, yeah I mean, is this one that Bill actually produced? Or is this that he had anything to do with? I guess that he had anything to do with Okay, we'll say Well, I'll say you gotta include I Spy, obviously And Fat Albert And Fat Albert I could say it went off that I probably wouldn't have been my favorite one It wasn't Chris Rock's favorite either Chris Rock, we can tell you about that one Let's see, my favorite was But Chris did have a point about that What I mean, I didn't tell He brought some of my attention in his comedy routine That did I realize, yeah, that show did make black people look stupid Well, it's not a consequence of being Innovative, but stupid It sucked into the cartoon realm That's kind of a site, an automatic site Everybody had some deformities They got named for, oh, I'm dumbed on Although I'm bucking, because I got teeth out of here Well, these were just the kids that Bill grew up with You know, what can you say? That's how he remembered them This is my little brother who wears winter clothes all year round Because we don't have anything else to put on him Russell, he'd always talk about Russell Always, they'd always dress him up And he would always have a suit Somehow Of course, that one wasn't my favorite though I think those stories went over better in Bill's stand-up Than they did in the cartoon Now, there was one cartoon that they did of it Where they were just like a nebulous watercolor kind of thing That one was good And that was one of the stories that he told in his stand-up Right, and what about that? And we didn't have to learn a lesson from it We didn't have to be careful when we learned something We could enjoy it I think that was one of those first you have to learn From small things Well, Bill has gotten a doctorate I thought that was his project Well, it was So he had to show that there was more than just mindless fun But well, he mined full fun My favorite was probably his comedy series that he had During the 70s It was like a variety show Really, but it was more of a comedy type show Cos Cos No, it wasn't Cos Cos was when he was a schoolteacher He was a gym teacher That's the one I liked This one Well, I think it was the Bill Cos one I thought the 60s one was the Bill Cos one Well, I like the one where he was like the schoolteacher Well, that was the schoolteacher one Let's clarify here Thank you Let me clarify this Well, personally, I would pick I Spy over either of those Okay I always enjoyed I Spy Two swinging guys You know, just kind of hanging out and doing spy and stuff And being witty Okay, now the Bill Cosby show here was the one Where he was the schoolteacher So maybe it was Cos That was the comedy one that I really liked What I enjoyed was on the Cosby show When Robert Kohl came on as the guest star That was a great episode I don't really like the Cosby show See, I didn't either But that one I watched I didn't see that one That was cool The I Spy reunion type thing Go out and track something down Cos Okay, it was Cos That was the comedy variety This was the one that I liked Because they would do all kinds of crazy things And they had this Where they would dress Don Knots up And they would play James Brown songs in the background And they would all be out there like musicians And they would touch Don Knots When they had a James Brown scream And it was like he wouldn't open his mouth And it was like There's something like that And they would touch him And he would open his mouth And act like he would enjoy it And he'd go Don Knots He would get in here and do the funny little dance They'd dress him up And then Then Mark Spitz was on there And he was like, ooh, that's just how long it was Yeah Mark, there's a name for you Now, at one point Well, I know he did He did Electro Company But He also did some sort of thing And they still Something about a magic screen type thing I've seen this in a while Picture pages Picture pages Of course, I think one of the best things about Cosby's Was the chocolate princess cartoon That was pretty neat You've seen it Okay Oh, come on, it's about candy But it's subtly about racism and such It's real neat Okay Well It was real It happened And, of course, there's always the jello commercial Probably his best performance But anyway It's your turn I never got picture pages, hey, truth Never did Well, because it's like Here, kids, now do it See, do it, do it Just draw these lines It's like And the question was Would this have been a lot like Winky Dink Where kids were just drawing directly on the screen No, you got the pages in a magazine Or you could send for them Gotcha Gotcha But the question is Did kids actually try to just say Oh, forget that I'll just draw right on the screen with my crayon Not mine Of course, that would explain why There are crayon marks on the TV But, no, they weren't doing picture page Because that was just too easy And they usually were standing there going Well, stupid, it's that one Well, now you see the thing is These are always aimed towards kids Who are a lot younger But then, if they're that young They don't know how to get the older The other thing anyway You gotta be a little older To figure out how to get a older And by the time you're that old Well, then you don't want to do it So, there we are Bit of a problem Next We have shows where the characters Traveled or took vacations Hey, well, that could be just about A love boat! Cover that one back Hey, Fantasy Island Fantasy Island, that was a vacation That was a vacation Well, I think more in the idea Of shows that were like Family-type sitcoms where it's like Oh, let's go take a vacation Gilligan's Island The Brady Bugs Go to Hawaii, King's Island Where else they go? The moon The moon No, that was the honeymoon It was one of them They kept playing on that trip But never got on the rocket Well, hey, you know, the Flintstones Would always go places That's right They'd go to Holly Rock Or Rock Vegas They always went off in the In the big bird plane In the building with a stone On top of it Better than the pterodactyl plane They'd all be on the plane, too On the plane On top of the tear On the plane There was a lot of traveling From Bug Tussle to Beverly Hill Oh, it was absolutely dark The Cousin Pearl And everybody would come in Well, the historic episode Where they officially brought together The Beverly Hills Universe And the Green Acres Universe You know, that Also, of course, the Petticoat Jensen That's where Granny went back To help Emmie Lou Or Betty Lou No, Betty Jo They all had Joe middleman Joe was always the middleman Betty Jo, Bobby Joe, Billy Joe Uncle Joe Uncle Joe Moving kind of slow Dog Joe Kate Joe And Eb Eb Joe was on Green Acres Yeah, well, that's all the same place They got it But that was always a great way To, like, stop reading They usually do that, like, in sweets Like, happy days When they went out to the dude ranch And... And Shirley actually moved All the way to California Never came back That's right Got buried in Milwaukee Got told in Milwaukee And, you know, Gomer He took a big vacation And went back to the Marines The vacation Was shown to his own show Big old vacation I don't think he ever came back either Oh, man, speaking of that Remember that We were watching Since we're on vacation We're watching the Jokers Wild today And they asked... They were doing... They had a category called Spinoffs And they asked Gomer Pyle You know what the guy answered? It was a spinoff at Gilligan's Island Wasn't it? No, they're looking at me I'm just spinoff at Gilligan's Island Nobody got off that island! That's right It was like... Uh-uh, yeah He gets the... Stupid old words Of course, well, we just figured He never watched TV He never watched TV That's all we could think of He was an educated psychologist Of course, too Sometimes you can be so smart And stupid at the same time Next! Next! Ooh, thanks Gosh, what the heck is this? It's a letter Throw it away We don't have time to read Did we answer your question? I don't remember If we actually looked at this In the last time or not Anyway, Mr. Dandridge Mr. E. Dandridge You went with the question What would happen if Perry Mason Charged his clients Before he helped them Or if he had to beat somebody Up to get money from them He'd be a real liar We don't know that he ever got paid Do we? Well, we don't Did we ever see anybody Writing a check? Well, Perry was always He was Mr. Good Guy He was like, oh, no Here's a hardship case I'll help you Oh, no, no And everything Everybody else is back there Della and Perry Yeah, come on Della's like, you haven't paid me In years What's the deal here? Della's down at the welfare department Yes, I work for a lawyer But he doesn't make any money Boy, that's TV You know, it has to be on TV That's right Only on TV And now they got commercials So maybe L.A. Law Is kind of a backlash For Perry Mason For Perry Mason Lawyer's like, money, money, money Every time you turn around Money That's right No money We spent so much time on that one Shows with midgets I don't think it's correct to say midgets I think that's a little people now What is it? Wrestling I was trying to think of a politically correct term Little people No, isn't it like a small person? No, it's little people Autotutually disadvantaged or something No, that's government talk Little people, that's what they be Wrestling Wrestling had lots of little people And they were mean too They would fight Be plain Be extra crispy A little air-vay-village Anything is Sid and Marty Croft This is true This is quite true We found another one Was that Billy and the Sea Surfer Was that thing called? No, no, no, no Sidney and the Sea Monster Sigmund and the Sea Monster Sigmund and the Sea Monster Okay I was another one of those Darn Billy Barty Not Billy Barty Sid and Marty Croft things Well, if you say Sid and Marty Croft Billy Barty probably was in it Because Somewhere or another He was the firefly That was a lot of things Because he was little That one had Winky That one had Weenie the Genie That's what it was Weenie the Genie Oh, boy That Sid and what a wacky Couple of guys they were What else had? Wild Wild Wild That's right Dr. Miguelito Lovelace Played by Michael Dunn That's an amazing little guy And then when he did the Return to Wild Wild Wild Wild They had Paul Williams to play Miguelito Lovelace Jr. He's just been little forever Well, and then when you talk Michael Dunn, you have to mention The Star Trek episode Played by Stepchildren That's right He was in that one too A little midget What was his name? I don't remember now A little midget Rather redundant there, weren't you? I saw this big old midget Walking down the street He was cute It was a jumbo shrimp That's um... It wasn't puck, was it? No, no, no, no I can't remember But I know the episode That's the thing now With Star Trek The classic Star Trek Because they rarely show The sound And it's written in a lot of markets You just don't see Old Trek anymore that much Oh, I'm missing it Look at the tears I don't miss it too much But this is like Gee, it's been nice Ever once in a while to see it again Where's our show? What the hell? You can buy those Where's the show? Where's the show? Show them the show anymore Dumb it, dumb it Besides Sean Luke is much sexier A sexier, not a TV There's her giant I can't tell you what they're going to show Those little people They're the little person I can think of as Billy Barty Well, it's always on everything It's like when they had to cast Somebody short, they just called him It's not like when they had To get somebody tall They'd get Ted Cassidy Or the other guy Robert Richard Keele Or Andre the Giant Cousin it had to be rather small Yeah, that's true He was, he probably was That was Silva What's his name? Henry Silva? Well, that's the other one Not Henry Silva, Felix Zilla Not like that But the other one I just remembered Can't forget Tweaky from Buck Rogers Well, that was Felix Zilla That's why I mentioned it Hey, Buck He had Mel Blanks voice Mel Blanks voice, that's right There's none of those great Science fiction characters in a suit And he's played by some person But we'll give him another voice That was just a short C3PO Well, kind of But then he had Dr. Hewer Around his neck Dr. Hewer was an actual person That's right Dr. Theopolis was the Little Simon video game Beaty beaty beat And let's see Well then there was In Battlestar Galactica There was somebody in the Daggett suit Right, we don't know who Those unsung people Who were usually in suits Unsung suit wearers Gee I guess wrestling was the only thing Where you actually got to see their faces And then well, I mean Kenny Baker Well, he did so many of those things Although he's more known for being R2-D2 But he did several of the TV things also And now his daughters are into that Okay Amazing Well, there is a guy on Night Court I don't remember the actor's name But he was on there quite a bit He was Dan's boss Dan's boss And of course if you watch Night Court everybody on the show Is like six feet tall anyway Right I mean it's just a tall cast Yes Some of them are abnormally tall Anybody over five, six have Normally tall anyway Well, by Galia But he was on there I doubt, well Hard press to find Of course, wait a minute The wizard Yeah The late David Rapaport He did several TV things also Oh yeah But I used to just I used to really like him Yeah, he was neat Yeah And he was even on L.A. Law I think And then the guy that Was Dan's boss on Night Court He's done several movies in fact What's that one Time Band-Aids He's in that He was one of the Oompa Loompas All those guys were There's a whole In fact But were they actually playing A person And not a Non-robot In a suit With paint on the face Or anything That's not too That wasn't too common Until, well, they started Billy Birdie started That any part of the Little People League Whatever it is To give them better roles And everything So Well, that's Good job, Billy Let's move on Favorite Dumb Blonde Favorite Dumb Blonde So many to pick from Is this a Is that like a contradictory thing? Let's see Well, for television I don't know I'm kind of Stumped actually Well Hell he may There's one There's one Yeah, actually Although she was probably Smarter than Jethro It's, well It wasn't her fault What an achievement that is To be smarter than Jethro Come on He had that It takes a great education Eighth grade Well, that's sixth grade Susie in summers was pretty dumb But not my favorite Ooh, the crew thought that one was funny Oh, my Literally, I mean There were a lot of women That just kind of stood in the background Like Like Marilyn From The Monsters Yeah, but she wasn't really Well, yeah She was just kind of Just in a situation And everybody thought she was pretty strange For hanging out with these Monster people Yeah Well, I thought she was pretty dumb For not realizing the situation Personally Hey, it was family It was blood Yeah And she accepted them for their Ugliness Or I think she was a great person Monsterousness I think she should get a peace prize Or something Being so accepting And But The thing about me Was the fact that she never Everyone else was like Why don't Don't you realize what's happening here? And she never Never quite figured it out You know Well, they're family Well, I understand She was understanding But she had no concept That there was Something strange here Well, if you're a little kid And you grow up with something You figure it's normal Okay It's just the whole idea That family is all And what is normal anyway? That's right Normal is in the eye Of the beholder Yeah Like that And remember Everything is just based On your own perception Boys and girls So whatever you view As being the way it should be Is usually the way it is Even if it's just The way it is to you Becoming like the fat Albertson You know, learn something For yourself Be careful We're not careful We might learn something I'm on vacation I don't have to learn Right now Let's see here Ooh, he digs one out here Shows with time travel Well, time tunnel, obviously That'd be the first one It's about time Oh, yeah Land of the Lost Land of the Lost Forgot Well, that's more of a movie Well, but there was a story Land of the Lost Land of the Lost Land of the Lost Where they've made So many horrible changes Yeah, between the old Land of the Lost And the new Land of the Lost Classic Classic Land of the Lost Definitely gets it They just changed all the names And they messed it all up And we're just boring Marked it down That was just funny Let's see How many times in B-Witch Did they go back and forth? They brought a lot into the To the end, with the color ones Especially, they were Doing that a lot Yeah, and they were Bringing a lot back from It's like, oh, look For dinner we're having Ben Franklin as our guest So we can teach our Children about history And what else? Well, my dream a genie They do the same Things kind of They usually just bring Somebody from the past More than actually travel Are we all kind travelers? I guess so Well, this show is Just way too deep for me And by golly speaking Of time, I guess Our time is just about Run out Oh, my goodness Mr. Safeway Thank you Thank you Next time on Bass Waste Land It's a rerun And then right after that It's the all-new, all-exciting Not a rerun Vintage Vintage Bass from the vault We'll see you next time Go on, everybody