HARRY 0: Collection (1973–1976) action, crime, drama
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After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house.
Harry Orwell is a world-weary private investigator who was forced to leave the San Diego Police Department after a bullet became lodged near his spine. He lives on the beach, and when he's not working on cases he spends his time fixing up his boat, "The Answer." Harry O is unusual in that he doesn't own a flashy car in which to conduct high-speed chases, preferring to ride the bus.
Harry Orwell is a world-weary private investigator who was forced to leave the San Diego Police Department after a bullet became lodged near his spine. He lives on the beach, and when he's not working on cases he spends his time fixing up his boat, "The Answer." Harry O is unusual in that he doesn't own a flashy car in which to conduct high-speed chases, preferring to ride the bus.
A long-running drama based upon the "Little House" series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, "Little House on the Prairie" follows the lives of the simple, farming Ingalls family: Charles, Caroline, Mary, Laura, Carrie and then Grace and the later adopted Albert, James and Cassandra, who settle into a quaint little house on the banks of Plum Creek near the small town of Walnut Grove during the late 1800s.
Often narrated by Laura, the series follows her simple farm upbringing from her childhood until her adulthood with Almanzo Wilder with whom she starts a family of her own. While the series is based upon the Little House books (and thus the real life of author Laura Ingalls Wilder), it is a very loose adaptation, with mostly only key events and elements of fact surviving the transition from book to TV series, the most important being Mary's eventual blindness, and Laura's future.
Several other fictitious (some factual) characters make up the friendly community of Walnut Grove, including teacher Miss Beadle (succeeded by two other teachers, then Laura, then Etta Plum), Dr. Hiram Baker, Rev. Robert Alden, Mr. Hanson (of the Hanson lumber mill), and the well-to-do Olesons, owners of the local mercantile, and also the primary rivals of the Ingalls family (except the Oleson patriarch). Family friends include the Edwards family, the Garvey family and the Carters, who, in the final season, move into the Ingalls' little house.
Often narrated by Laura, the series follows her simple farm upbringing from her childhood until her adulthood with Almanzo Wilder with whom she starts a family of her own. While the series is based upon the Little House books (and thus the real life of author Laura Ingalls Wilder), it is a very loose adaptation, with mostly only key events and elements of fact surviving the transition from book to TV series, the most important being Mary's eventual blindness, and Laura's future.
Several other fictitious (some factual) characters make up the friendly community of Walnut Grove, including teacher Miss Beadle (succeeded by two other teachers, then Laura, then Etta Plum), Dr. Hiram Baker, Rev. Robert Alden, Mr. Hanson (of the Hanson lumber mill), and the well-to-do Olesons, owners of the local mercantile, and also the primary rivals of the Ingalls family (except the Oleson patriarch). Family friends include the Edwards family, the Garvey family and the Carters, who, in the final season, move into the Ingalls' little house.
The purpose of this film was to try an entice Studebaker dealers to sponsor the Mr. Ed television program. It starts off with a sales presentation, complete with charts, graphs and statistics. Then the pilot begins and is shown to the prospective sponsors. At the conclusion, George Burns talks to the dealers as to why he thinks they should sponsor the show (which they ultimately did). Finally, we meet Alan Young, Connie Hines and of course, Mr. Ed...
I am so pleased to have found this original pilot to the show. The makers were right that it would be a hit, at least it was for me as I was growing up. Though the acting in this original pilot was fine I am partial to the series starring Alan Young and Connie Hines. I noticed that the palomino is not Bamboo Harvester (Mr Ed) as was in the series. I noticed that the white blaze down his nose to his muzzle was not the same width or length as in the series. (I just notice things like that.) However; this horse did a fine bit of acting as well. As I watch each episode on T.V. I am amazed at the tricks that they were able to get "Mr Ed" to perform and how calm he is while they don hats and glasses on him. This show entertained me as a child during the era of innocence- clean and wholesome T.V. and continues to delight me to this day.
I am so pleased to have found this original pilot to the show. The makers were right that it would be a hit, at least it was for me as I was growing up. Though the acting in this original pilot was fine I am partial to the series starring Alan Young and Connie Hines. I noticed that the palomino is not Bamboo Harvester (Mr Ed) as was in the series. I noticed that the white blaze down his nose to his muzzle was not the same width or length as in the series. (I just notice things like that.) However; this horse did a fine bit of acting as well. As I watch each episode on T.V. I am amazed at the tricks that they were able to get "Mr Ed" to perform and how calm he is while they don hats and glasses on him. This show entertained me as a child during the era of innocence- clean and wholesome T.V. and continues to delight me to this day.
The misadventures of a wisecracking talking horse and his human owner.
Mister Ed (Himself) is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post (Alan Young). Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur. But this gets Wilbur in all kinds of trouble because Mister Ed won't talk to anyone else, so Carol (Connie Hines), Wilbur's wife, thinks that Wilbur loves Mister Ed more then he loves her, because he spends so much time with Mister Ed. Mister Ed also talks on the telephone and goes out of his barn to cause mischief, for which Wilbur gets blamed . . .
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SERIES . . .
Mister Ed (Himself) is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post (Alan Young). Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur. But this gets Wilbur in all kinds of trouble because Mister Ed won't talk to anyone else, so Carol (Connie Hines), Wilbur's wife, thinks that Wilbur loves Mister Ed more then he loves her, because he spends so much time with Mister Ed. Mister Ed also talks on the telephone and goes out of his barn to cause mischief, for which Wilbur gets blamed . . .
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SERIES . . .