<p>Ahh Tookie. The Fugitive. The one-armed man. Remember the big hype for the last episode? And do you remember Patrick McGooan in 'The Prisoner"? It was a weird British sci-fi type show- it was on late at night on, I believe, Sunday night. I used to watch it in college.</p>
<p>the AVENGERS- I wanted to be emma peel (sp@)</p>
<p>I miss really the theme music that was written for many of the old shows. Does anyone know of a CD that features the opening music to “The Perry Mason Show”, “Route 66”, “Peter Gun” (boy, did I love the theme from Peter Gun!), and “Hawaii Five-O”?</p>
<p>Me too, CGM! I thought she was just the coolest, most “together” woman ever to wear a secret decoder ring :p. I liked her even better than the Peggy Lipton character on “Mod Squad”.</p>
<p>And John Steed had so much class! What a great team. </p>
<p>There is a boxed DVD set of the Emma Peel Avengers episodes. The rest of the show’s DVDs—not worth it!</p>
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<p>Heck, remember NO SOCCER!</p>
<p>Other memories (boy, this is really dusting off the brain archive cells):</p>
<p>I had a big crush on Robert Vaughn when he played Napoleon Solo on “Man from U.N.C.L.E.”</p>
<p>Taking part in a letter-writing campaign to stop (the original) Star Trek from being taken off the air.</p>
<p>Refusing to go outside on humid days because it was “frizz weather.” The big rage was straight hair and those of us with waves would use empty orange juice concentrate cans as rollers, and also IRON our har (protected by towels, of course). We envied Asian girls for their long luxuerious tresses.</p>
<p>Oh… I had a big crush on David McCallum (playing Napolean Solo’s sidekick, Ilya Kuryakin)…</p>
<p>calmom-
me too… but he doesn’t look quite s good now on Navy NCIS.
Hey- remember Wild,Wild West with Robert Conrad? That was a great show!</p>
<p>no modified sports in PE class…real version of sports were played…not a modified version. captains were chosen and they chose their own teams.</p>
<p>girls basketball uniform tops were crew necks with true short inset sleeves. polyester or something. no long style uniform shorts for girls/boys. no team shoes. no matching bags and apparel. you were lucky if your parents sprung for a plain hoody or sweatpants. </p>
<p>pep club members wore matching sweaters and went to the out of town games on a bus to support the teams. </p>
<p>cheerleader uniforms and drill team uniforms were sometimes homemade…and not always ordered from a company. they oftentimes were passed on from one year’s group down to the next year’s group. </p>
<p>leather oxford shoes…black and white…and sometimes red and white.</p>
<p>typing class…had to learn on both a manual and an electric typewriter. no word processors then…and no pc’s. </p>
<p>shorthand class…gragg’s method?</p>
<p>i think i joined a Man from UNCLE club? I had a mad crush on Ilya, too!</p>
<p>and all the sports memories! condor, i remember those uniforms for girls! we wore the same uniform for field hockey, badminton, basketball and volleyball! </p>
<p>there was a lady in town who would sew our cheerleading skirts–some little pleated thing! </p>
<p>and i never took shorthand in high school, but i did take it in college and loved it!</p>
<p>how about buying $1.00 worth of gas and cruising around all weekend?</p>
<p>Did anyone else have to wear gym uniforms? The last post made me laugh remembering our one piece, navy blue snap up, with short sleeves and short legs (well, to mid thigh). And we had time to change in and out of those things for gym, which was every single day, not twice a week, like kids have now!</p>
<p>We even had swimming during gym!! I am still trying to imagine how we changed into suits, had our swim class, showered, changed, dried hair etc. all during a 50 minute gym class…every day?</p>
<p>Gym uniforms were the worst! So dorky. Then you rushed around showering, changing, and with no air conditioning felt sweaty and messed up the rest of the day. Well, I felt dorky most of the time, but I can blame a lot of it on gym.</p>
<p>Speaking of gym classes, here’s a sad example of one of the things we DON’T like to remember about our society “back then.”</p>
<p>A girl in my junior high gym class was so severely physically abused that she didn’t dress out half the time due to markings all over her legs. I saw them one time and asked about the stripes on the legs and she said, “My mother beats me with a cord.”</p>
<p>Child abuse was not reported back then (or at least not to my knowledge).</p>
<p>Oh, yes, and boys got “pops” in PE when they did something wrong. You could hear them getting the paddlings.</p>
<p>I remember listening on a radio to the World Series for gym class in junior high. We all sat obediently cross legged on the gym floor and I think we actually listened.</p>
<p>Wild, Wild West–loved that show! I wonder if it has come out on DVD? It doesn’t show up on syndication much, much to my chagrin.</p>
<p>I remember our nasty gym uniforms - those one-piece elastic-waisted prison gray outfits - the “shorts” part had elastic at the ends - most girls rolled them up and the gym teachers made us keep them rolled down. We had to have our last name embroidered on the back and our first name on the front pocket.</p>
<p>I remember having to polish our canvas sneakers - they’d get saturated with the white liquid. We sat in squads and the squad leader would have to report uniform infractions. Girls who forgot to polish their sneakers would try to fake it by rubbing them with white chalk.</p>
<p>I remember the change from the powder blue non-stretchy one-piece snapup “bloomers” type gymsuit, (think “bubble” - that toddlers wear), to the mustard-yellow stretchy striped pullon gymsuit. We went from cute, but infantile, to comfortable but prisondrab UGLEEE!!!</p>
<p>ellemenope: In fact, WWW <em>just</em> came out on DVD ([link](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ERVJKO/qid=1149948760/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4061523-1349623?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130]link[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ERVJKO/qid=1149948760/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4061523-1349623?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130)</a>). Timing is everything :)</p>
<p>We had gym tunics that we wore over bloomers (which were baggier than what would now be called bike shorts, but wore about the same shape). I remember that the gym tunics had to reach within 4" of the floor when kneeling (yes, they did check)–this was the late 60’s/early 70’s–so we would blouse them over the belt to make them look shorter. We wore the tunics with white shirts with a Peter Pan collar, but I checked the rules carefully and it just said “white shirt with collar” so I bought a bunch of boys’ buttondowns and wore those instead. They were cheaper and lasted longer.</p>
<p>Any uniform violations–the school’s uniform rules were two-page long–meant swimming 30 laps of the pool on Friday afternoon. Since this was also the penalty for various other rule violations (like skipping study hall), I spent every Friday afternoon of my high school years in the pool swimming laps. I could swim each 30-lap penalty in about 20 minutes and considered it time well spent. Usually I ended up swimming for about an hour. I thought it was fairly stupid of the school to penalize not doing something that took an hour–like attending study hall–by requiring something that took 20 minutes!</p>