As it should be. And, just because he carried it in Nam doesn't mean he stole it. He may have taken it with him.
Old time TV guns
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The gun rack in the background in the Sheriff's office in the old Andy Griffith Show has a couple of interesting-looking guns.Well, somewhat old-time, anyway.
I enjoy watching police-type dramas from back in the mid-20th century and a little later. Some old westerns, too, but their guns are always the same.
So, take the other day on Spenser For Hire - 1985 - Season 3. Episode 1:
Twice, there's a confrontation between two opposing sides. Everyone pulls out revolvers. I'm sufficiently amused to stop the show and examine the freeze frame. To the best of my determination:
J frame S&WS
L frame S&Ws
Maybe some Colts. For sure, one 6" Python - Hawk always carried that huge thing.
And then only Spenser - who pulls out a pistol, a Beretta 92.
Fascinating.
Then that same evening, or the next, no matter, I'm watching a 1977 Hawaii Five-O episode. McGarrett is at a police firing range, standing shoulder to shoulder, literally, with a half dozen cops, banging away at targets. Weirdly, no hearing protection. He gets a call, and when he picks up the car's radiophone to speak, he covers his other ear to block out the gunfire. In what world did these writers not know that on the range everyone uses ear protection? Anyway, I digress.
Every shooter on that line is shooting a revolver. Just so nice to see that, never mind the lack of hearing protection. McGarrett is shooting a Smith & Wesson Model 36 or, because they made a switch that year, a Colt Detective Special revolver. Hard to tell but fun to see.
In one or two episodes the hillbilly character Ernest T. Bass is shown carrying and shooting what looks like an 1892 Winchester carbine with a large bore, probably a .44/40.
These look like Remington 3200s but not sure, one of the best Andy Griffith show. She's perfect in my book, worth finding the whole episode. Skeet shooting
Haven't seen any mention on here.......There was a series called Johnny Ringo where the protagonist carried what appeared to be a Le Mat special. Opening shots showed a window; he fires six shots in a circle, then a shotgun sized hole in the middle.
Of course we all remember the Mare's Leg Steve McQueen carried.
Last one....Robert Culp carrying a Schofield Model 3.
Seems each of the western stars.....since there were eleventyteen westerns on in the 50s and 60s...... had some sort if gimmick to make them stand out so we would remember. Rex Allen carrying one gun backwards, Wild Bill Hickock AND Jingles carrying two the same way, Johnny Yuma with a foot long shotgun, Earp and the Buntline that hung down to his ankle--the list goes on and on.
Of course we all remember the Mare's Leg Steve McQueen carried.
Last one....Robert Culp carrying a Schofield Model 3.
Seems each of the western stars.....since there were eleventyteen westerns on in the 50s and 60s...... had some sort if gimmick to make them stand out so we would remember. Rex Allen carrying one gun backwards, Wild Bill Hickock AND Jingles carrying two the same way, Johnny Yuma with a foot long shotgun, Earp and the Buntline that hung down to his ankle--the list goes on and on.
I remember watching John Payne in Restless Gun. His gimmic gun was an extended barrel and stock for his SAA - one season he had a barrel extenstion and another he actually screwed out the short barrel and replaced it with a longer one.
All this talk about detectives reminds me of a little known movie called Hickey and Boggs - Robert Culp and Bill Cosby - they use an 8 3.8" S&W 29 and some sort of long barreled Colt likely in .38 or .357. Hickey shoots (and misses) at around 200 yards in a football statium and says "I've got to get a bigger gun!", he also shoots down a helicopter in the climax. One guy one easily misses in this movie is the driver for the bad guys is Bill Hicks - Bill drove the Charger in Bullitt and was Patton's Driver in the movie Patton. He could act but he was also a really skilled stunt driver.
Robert Culp was in an odd comedy series called "Greatest American Hero" in which he played an FBI agent, often seen with a pair of 1911 longslides but he changed guns frequently - and often wore a T-shirt that said "Happiness is a warm gun" on it.
One other recent TV cop/detective I haven't seen mentioned was Tom Selleck (other than Magnum PI) but in the Jesse Stone Movies he carries a custom commander (and no it is not a S&W commander), and in Blue Bloods he oftern carries his grandfather's Fitz Special. Seleck is a multiple Gunsite grad. The Fitz special also shows up in a couple of Jesse Stone movies. And who can forget Qugley Down Under which starred an 1874 Sharps and co-starred Tom Selleck
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All this talk about detectives reminds me of a little known movie called Hickey and Boggs - Robert Culp and Bill Cosby - they use an 8 3.8" S&W 29 and some sort of long barreled Colt likely in .38 or .357. Hickey shoots (and misses) at around 200 yards in a football statium and says "I've got to get a bigger gun!", he also shoots down a helicopter in the climax. One guy one easily misses in this movie is the driver for the bad guys is Bill Hicks - Bill drove the Charger in Bullitt and was Patton's Driver in the movie Patton. He could act but he was also a really skilled stunt driver.
Robert Culp was in an odd comedy series called "Greatest American Hero" in which he played an FBI agent, often seen with a pair of 1911 longslides but he changed guns frequently - and often wore a T-shirt that said "Happiness is a warm gun" on it.
One other recent TV cop/detective I haven't seen mentioned was Tom Selleck (other than Magnum PI) but in the Jesse Stone Movies he carries a custom commander (and no it is not a S&W commander), and in Blue Bloods he oftern carries his grandfather's Fitz Special. Seleck is a multiple Gunsite grad. The Fitz special also shows up in a couple of Jesse Stone movies. And who can forget Qugley Down Under which starred an 1874 Sharps and co-starred Tom Selleck
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One actor that always looked like he knew how to use a weapon, was Lee Marvin; Marine combat veteran. As a kid I was fascinated by the weapon in the "Professionals", especially Miss Cardinials's 38s.
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