TV Guns: Twilight Zone

benettfam: Don't feel too bad. Believe it or not he used both a 4" and a 6" Python during the first season. After he got rid of the little 38 he carried the 4" then switched to the 6" Python. In some episodes he used both. You can tell by the grips. The 4" Python used the wood grips and the 6" Python used the Pachmayer grips. David Soul who played Hutch also was in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force" and carried the 4" Python. This is where he got the idea of the Python for Hutch.
 
Black Knight said:
benettfam: Don't feel too bad. Believe it or not he used both a 4" and a 6" Python during the first season. After he got rid of the little 38 he carried the 4" then switched to the 6" Python. In some episodes he used both. You can tell by the grips. The 4" Python used the wood grips and the 6" Python used the Pachmayer grips. David Soul who played Hutch also was in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force" and carried the 4" Python. This is where he got the idea of the Python for Hutch.
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He and his buddies were much cooler as bad biker cops in Magnum Force with his 4 inch Python .357 Magnums.
 
Muley Gil said:
"Interesting since I've never heard of US cops ever using a single-action 9mm."

One of my LTs at the PD in Alabama carried a 9mm High Power.
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Sure. FBI HRT, Axel Foley and Serpico I could have guessed. But that Alabama Lt...he must have been a maverick! ;)

Good quality handgun choice.
 
Dillinger 1973 version....

directed by Sam Peckinpaugh(whoops, I mean John Milius) with Warren Oates (a very underated actor in my opinion) has two 38/44's and a Triplelock plus numerous Colts and Star model B's in .38 super as stand ins for the scarce Colt's in same caliber. Warren Oates, Ned Beatty, and Harry Dean Stanton all went to University of Louisville at the same time.

Warren Oates first role was in the Twilight Zone episode about the Montana National Guard tank crew who slip through time and have an opportunity to help Custer at Little Big Horn.

The earliest I can find Harry Dean Stanton is the premier episode of "Combat" he plays a soldier who deliberatley hurts his foot on D-Day because he doesn't want to hit the beach.

Whoops, Not Sam Peckinpaugh directed but John Milius Directed. I guess an NRA board member would have cool guns in a film he directed.

I love these threads and I will continue to promote "Dillinger" 1973 as one of the best Revolver films of all time until someone agrees:D. Ben Johnson plays Purvis.
 
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indiuckian said:
directed by Sam Peckinpaugh with Warren Oates (a very underated actor in my opinion) has two 38/44's and a Triplelock plus numerous Colts and Star model B's in .38 super as stand ins for the scarce Colt's in same caliber. Warren Oates, Ned Beatty, and Harry Dean Stanton all went to University of Louisville at the same time.

Warren Oates first role was in the Twilight Zone episode about the Montana National Guard tank crew who slip through time and have an opportunity to help Custer at Little Big Horn.

The earliest I can find Harry Dean Stanton is the premier episode of "Combat" he plays a soldier who deliberatley hurts his foot on D-Day because he doesn't want to hit the beach.

I love these threads and I will continue to promote "Dillinger" 1973 as one of the best Revolver films of all time until someone agrees:D. Ben Johnson plays Purvis.
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I love these threads, too. "Twilight Zone," is one of my absolute favorite shows. It makes me happy to see my 12 year-old daughter appreciate it - the show has enduring value.

"Dillinger" was great. Remember when Ben Johnson shows the boy his nickle-plated "Colt"?

Don't get me started on "Combat."
 
I never realized that was Warren Oates in "The Seventh is Made up of Phantoms" LOL!! I had seen him that young in other things from back then, but never connected him to Warren Oates 70s movies like Dillinger and The Wild Bunch. Ben Johnson was Warren Oates' buddy in The Wild Bunch. Warren Oates always played good hicky guys.

I remember another episode where a man can change is face like a shape shifter to look like anybody he wants. He ends up gunned down by a man with a S&W M&P at the end mistaken for somebody else
 
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Doug.38PR said:
I never realized that was Warren Oates in "The Seventh is Made up of Phantoms" LOL!! I had seen him that young in other things from back then, but never connected him to Warren Oates 70s movies like Dillinger and The Wild Bunch. Ben Johnson was Warren Oates' buddy in The Wild Bunch. Warren Oates always played good hicky guys
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My Dad said he was like Lee Marvin in the sense that when he finally got recognized by the "Academy" it was for playing a drunk fool in "Cat Ballou". Warren got nominated (and may have won) for playing Sgt. Hulka in "Stripes". I think they felt guilty for passing them both up over the years. He sort of played himself most of the time and like the Everly Brothers, John Prine's parents, Merle Travis (I think) he was from Muhlenberg County Kentucky. That's alot of talent to come out of such a small place. Must be something in the limestone and the Green River.:)

I love the scene in Dillinger with Purvis and the shoeshine boy. Purvis asks if he wants to be a G man when gets older and the kid said "Heck no, I want to be like Dillinger!"

Purvis going in to get a bad guy. "Vest.....Cigar....Light...." He then carries his nickled "Colts" akimbo style to get his man. Great acting. I was suprised to see Richard Dreyfuss (young) as I think Baby Face Nelson.

Oates is real good in "Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" Kris Kristoferson and Donnie Frits (for you seventies country fans) play outlaw bikers and Oates plays a honky tonk piano player who carries a Colt Combat Commander and the head of guy who slighted a Mexican Mafia kingpins daughter on her wedding day in a sack to collect a reward. It's dark and funny in a perverse way and Oates just nails this two bit, scheming, piano player to a T.
 
HA, right now I am watching the 5th season episode "In Praise of Pip" I just watched Jack Klugman demonstrate the 21 ft. rule with a pocket knife against a hood armed with a .38 M-10 2 inch
 
Muley Gil said:
"Interesting since I've never heard of US cops ever using a single-action 9mm."

One of my LTs at the PD in Alabama carried a 9mm High Power.
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Years ago, when I was a security guard in a grocery store, I had a Henrico County (Va) plainclothes cop working with me one night. He was armed with a Browning Hi-Power. I remember it well, because this was in the day when more or less no cops carried semi's.

I remember a classic "little old lady" coming up to me that night and giving me the "shhhhh" finger to her lips. She then pointed to a man standing near the front of the store. She wispered..."That man has a GUN!" (This was in the before "shall issue" days). You could clearly see the outline of the Hi-Power in his SOB holster. under his sweatshirt. I wispered back..."That man is a policeman." She nodded knowingly..."OH!" and went on with her shopping.
 
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Doug.38PR, I believe the NRA did an article once on Tom Selecks guns. I believe they said the Colt he used in "Magnum P.I." was in 9mm because the blanks were easier to get than for the 45. It was a 9mm though.
 
Wow next time wifey tells me I have too much time on my hands and am waisting time watching tv, I am going to bring up this forum.
 
bennettfam said:
Would Tim Selleck really do such a thing to his character's Vietnam Vet persona?

Good catch Andy. ;)
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Many of the "1911's" in movies and on TV are 9mm's. 9mm blanks are much more in use by movie prop people.

In fact I have some 9mm blanks that were given to me by the Stembridge "gun guy" durring the shooting of HEAT.
 
For those who are interested about the firearms used in Magnum P.I. here is a link to a site called IMFDB (Internet Movie Firearms Database). Also many of the other movies talked about on this thread are covered. It's a fun site. Check it out.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Magnum,_P.I.
 
Andy Taylor said:
If you watch the opening sequence where he slams the mag into the gun, it is obviously either a 9mm or 38 Super mag. definately not a .45.
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I hope you don't mind me jumping into your thread, but I'd like to add a confirmation to the above:

"The main handgun used by Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) is a Colt MKIV/Series 70 Government Model, which is a commercial version of the U.S. Military M1911A1. This handgun is supposed to be the one he carried during his service in Vietnam and is sometimes carried in a tanker-style holster, most often seen carried inside wast band small of back, no holster. It is sometimes seen in Magnum's flashbacks to Vietnam. A former propmaster for the show has been quoted saying that the original gun was a traditional .45 ACP 1911, but was soon changed to a 9mm version because .45 ACP blanks were too hard to get on location for the show."

source: Magnum, P.I - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database.
 
Checkman said:
For those who are interested about the firearms used in Magnum P.I. here is a link to a site called IMFDB (Internet Movie Firearms Database). Also many of the other movies talked about on this thread are covered. It's a fun site. Check it out.

Magnum, P.I - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database.
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Sorry about that Checkman... I responded to Message #30 and when I reviewed my post I found that you had already supplied the answer. :)
 
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