Ron,

That's funny right thar.

When our son was lookin for a place to roost, we bought a lit'l place in LaRue, Texas.

After he'd been settled there for a spell, he meet this sweet gal and was a fixin to get married.

I told my future DIL that she was about to hitch her wagon the "the Lash of LaRue"!

I don't think she got it...

Su Amigo,
Dave

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The Lone Ranger. Met him in 49. Still got the "silver" bullet.


Din't know until about 10 years ago that the rim comes off and there's a compass inside.

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That compass is part of the bullet's guidance system.
Lone was truly way ahead of his time!

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Captain Marvel! AKA Billy Batson....

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I liked this show and this sarge...

Popeye. Especially the old stuff that isn't PC.

Hogan was a hero, He sure made life interesting for Col. Clink.

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The Cisco Kid & Pancho. Figured I would be handsome like Cisco, but turned out more like Pancho.

I liked all the B western heros including all cowboy or Sheriffs on TV. Josh Randal Wanted D or A and Rowdy Yates, Reves Superman of course and Jonny Wiesmiller as Tarzan. Just found a Harry Woods that played many many villan roles in westerns you'd recognize him right away. Too many good memories all passed away few are still alive. We should find them and let them know what they meant to us!!
*** Now about that father thing not being fictional. I just thought that kids orphaned with no parents would yes have a fictional parent that was their hero.*** Just a thought. God bless all our heros villans and parents alike.
S2Harry

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Ah thanks.

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That's Combat isn't it? I remember watching it a lot. Vic was cool.

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My heroes were Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, and Dirk Pitt. I read alot of books! For TV/ Movie: Indiana Jones, MacGyver, Jon Gage, Roy DeSoto, Off. Jim Reed, and Sgt. Pete Malloy.

Was always a John Wayne fan, but my favorites were Ivanhoe, Prince Valiant and King Arthur. Oh, and David as in "and Goliath".

Decapitated by a helicopter blade if I remember correctly.

Combat! was a very cool show. Sgt. Saunders always at odds with Lt. Hanley... I also liked The Rat Patrol. It was all about who had the coolest hat. And the machine guns mounted on the jeeps!

Great thread!

Excellent "in-joke" on an NCIS episode:

Abby: "I wonder who Ducky looked like when he was younger?"

Gibbs (with a sly grin): "Illya Kuryakin."

Fictionally, Tarzan and Alan Quartermain. The latter was the white hunter in, "King Solomon's Mines."

Also, the officers on, " Lives of the Bengal Lancers" or, "The 77th Bengal Lancers", whichever that show was called.

Paladin.

And in real life, Jim Corbett (the tiger hunter, not the American boxer) and Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. Add Col. John Singleton Mosby, CSA. I loved the, "Gray Ghost" TV series and read Mosby's real memoirs.

My folks never got tv until I was about 14 years old and no movies either! I do remember gunsmoke and cheyenne when they came out and wouldnt miss them. As a boy I liked tom mix, the lone ranger and straight arrow on the electric radio! Anyone remember Bobby benson of the B BAR B?
Straight Arrow

Bobby Benson & The B Bar B Riders 19 Eps : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Godzilla...

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We didn't own a TV in the 50's, but we did attend the Saturday Matinee's at the Strand Theater every weekend. Entrance fee was 12 cents, packed with kids, no adults allowed. Two full movies, cartoons and newsreel.

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Roy Rodgers & The Lone Ranger.

I recently realized I haven't watched that show enough. In the episode that did the trick, a couple of the characters were going slightly undercover posing as a yuppie couple. One made a point of reminding the other to put NPR on the radio for verisimillitude. For the rest of the scene you could hear the NPR broadcast coming in intermittently as part of the backdrop to the action.

I keep hoping they'll somehow manage to have Robert Vaughn as a guest star someday. Don't know if the reason he hasn't is due to scheduling, or some other personal reason.

I'd never realized David McCallum was so short. I know Harmon and Weatherly are over six feet but they tower over him. I rewatched The Great Escape and McCallum's the same height as Attenborough.

Unfortunately, John Wayne. Later in life I wised up.

I still watch his movies though, he at least set a high standard for lots of young men and some women to attempt to attain.

Can't say that about hardly ANY movie actors of today.

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Vic Morrow on Combat, and Robert Conrad on The Wild Wild West. And someone mentioned Mighty mouse. He was mine around when I was in kindergarten.

Gomer Pyle? One of my favorites too.

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Thanks
Mike

I liked these two guys on the radio "Jack Armstong and his friend Vic Hardy" they solved many mystreys and caught several spies. Jeff

Clint Eastwood in Rawhide. I fell on my knee's for my parents to see that show. And Batman at that time.

Had to be Roy Rogers and of course Trigger!

My adoration of all things western lead to my first handgun - Mattel's Fanner 50! I could strap it low (in as I recall a real leather holster!) tie it just above the knee, quick draw it, fan six of the most accurate shots, half flip forward and a full flip backwards an into the holster, just like Roy!

I grew up in the 80's... MacGyver would have to be on the top of the list..Knight Rider and the Fall Guy.

yes, i remember tom mix. in fact, i had a tom mix rocking horse when i was a little kid.

lash was my favorite movie and comic book hero.

Sgt. Preston of "The Royal N.W. mounted police" (and his wonder dog King) He never had to shoot anyone, only rarely had to fist fight. He'd just point his finger and say "your under arrest, in the name of the crown",

B.G. would fold up like wet paper bag. Sgt Preston would say "well King this case is closed". King the wonder dog would then say..."Woof".

bluejax,,,Seen the episode!
Always liked the episodes when his mother was alive and they were in his house, there always was a picture of him his mother always kept from his younger days and it was an old picture of Illya Kuryakin in his sport coat and turtleneck!

As for Combat and Saunders,,, that's when my love of the Thompson really started!

Honey West.

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For me it's Steve Mcqueen in The Great Escape and Sand Pebbles. And then there was Bullett with that great car chase and the Mustang. Oh that Mustang. McQueen was the man.

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Crockett, Davy not Sonny! and the Lone Ranger... At one time or another in my youth, I was Davy and then I was the Lone Ranger.

Great thread, you can easily tell the approximate ages of all the posters by the "heros" they had when they were kids! In my case, for fictional heroes, they pretty much populated Saturday morning TV, with Superman (George Reeves) pretty much leading as the No. 1 contender, but closely followed by the Lone Ranger and Sky King vying for the No. 2 spot. Roy Rogers was a close third/fourth. I remember tying a big towel around my neck and swinging as high as possible, then leaving the swing to "fly" like Superman, landing in the Asparagus patch - got in lots of trouble for that every Saturday morning! A number of years later, in my late teens and early twenties, a good friend of our family owned the Lone Ranger's saddle, with all its associated tack (Clayton Moore's). I had a big (16-2) palomino quarter horse (a real quarter horse, not the modern "race horse" confirmation) who had such a light coat he looked white. I was fortunate enough to use that saddle and tack several times on Cody (my horse), it felt like an honor. The one that had the greatest influence on my life, though, was probably Sky King (played by Kirby Grant). I loved flying and airplanes anyway, having had my first plane ride at the age of 4 with my Dad, who was Naval Aviation in WWII, lived and breathed it ever since, but Sky King, flying that oh so sexy 310B, a real hot rod airplane, definitely warped me a bit, instilling an absolute love affair with the Cessna 310. I've owned quite a few airplanes over the years, but my favorites are the four 310s I owned. Started the 310 ownership thing in 1975 with a brand new Turbo 310R, later bought a '69 Turbo 310P, then a '60 310D. For the last 13 or 14 years, I've owned a '59 310C, which looks just like Sky's Songbird, with its straight tail and tuna tanks, but with another 20 HP per side (two 260 HP engines, vs. the 240 HP engines on Sky's B model). It is still a good looking bird, and a great traveling machine, usually cruising at about 215 MPH (I can go faster, but the fuel burn goes up quite a bit, and Avgas has become a LOT more expensive in recent years). Lots of fun, and a bit challenging, to fly well (can't say that about most civilian airplanes, except for being fun). Yep, watching Sky fly that 310 across my TV screen every Saturday morning definitely started a life-long love affair for me!

baldeagle...I also loved Encyclopedia Brown.

I also loved the muppets. Many ways I aspired to be kermit, and Zoot is why I play sax. Many years later I find out just how close to a real, heroin strung out jazzer this puppet was...

batman. I still want to be batman. Money and gadgets, and looks good in spandex. yes, I want to be batman, always have.

Quincy, ME. I wanted to be like Quincy.

Or Colonel Potter. But I'm too much a combo of Hawkeye and Hotlips.

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Chip Saunders was one of my hero's. So much so that just a few weeks ago, I saw an Auto-Ordanance Thompson, 45, semi-auto, handgun, with a thirty round stick magazine, in my LGS. Being a handgun, it had the short barrel that made it look exactly like a Thompson submachine gun, but without the buttstock.

Man, there for a few minutes, I was 10 year old kid again, hiding behind the sofa with my Mattell "Tommy Gun" helping Chip whip the "Krauts". Man that thing felt GOOD. I was SO tempted. I actually had them put it on hold overnight while I thought about it. I called them the next morning and told them to put it back on the shelf. My "practical" side took over.

But that would have been so COOL.

My comic book hero was "Jeb Stuart". Not the General. The GI who commanded "The Haunted Tank", guided by his namesake the ghost of the Confederate General.

I was also a fan of "Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commando's."

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Hoss Cartwright. Still is.

Eliot Ness, Josh Randall, Sgt. Rock, Sgt. Fury, Sgt. Saunders, Paladin, and Gen. Frank Savage. (12 O'clock High) Oh, and Archie, because he had all the girls.

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Torn & Frayed

Cap'n John Herrick

I think Robt. Vaughn is deceased.

Still alive and kicking. Starring in a series called "Hustle" I see commercials for and (according to IMDB) something called "Coronation Street", a British soap opera-type show.

Vaughn was in two of my favorite movies - The Magnificent Seven and Bullitt.

I'll have to look it up, but thinking about it he may be the last of The Magnificent Seven still alive. Maybe Horst Bucholz.

Edit: Looked it up. Vaughn is the only one left. Eli Wallach is still with us, though. He's 96.

RonJ,

Comic book - The Flash

TV - James Tiberius Kirk and the Lone Ranger

Movies - Tarzan by Johnny Weismuller

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The Swamp Fox, Leslie Nielson's finest role.

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Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and anything with John Wayne.

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Lost in the 50s

Comic book hero was "Sergeant Rock of Easy Company".

Real life heroes? Any Vet, then and now.

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Nope,,,He's still alive and well!

T.V. - Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden

Funnies - I gotta believe it was a local thing but from the old Rick O'Shay comics, old Hipshot. I couldn't wait for fall to come around and Rick and Hipshot's annual elk hunt. Hipshot was a kindly gunslinger partial to Belle Star his cat and a Christmas ride into the hills to worship God his way. Always good.

Johny Cage "EMMERGENCY"