I Want to be Robert Conrad from Fifty Years Ago

[mnaz]

He wasn't too tall, but
man did he pack a punch.
That guy could kick our ass.

[saw]

Before Tom Cruise, there was Bob Conrad, doing mostly all of his stunts and fight scenes ....I was a big fan of The Wild Wild
West....really innovative......and well, "Wild "....he had one very serious injury from a stunt that left him partially paralyzed.....

[sasha]

There was a season 3 episode of "Mission: Impossible" in which one of the team went undercover as an up & coming boxer. The trainer they recruited to get their man up to speed was played by Bob Crane. He also played one of the character's opponents when the extra they'd hired for the role went AWOL.

(Me, I wanted to be Spock, and jokingly said so to my boss when he was scrounging temporary photos for the R&D group's web page he was putting together. Until he got a real photo of me, he went along with it. (Our ME wanted to be "Home Improvement's" Wilson, and he picked Jean-Luc Picard for himself...)

[winddance]

I'd have to chose betty white. what a fighter she was, but always with a twinkle in her eye.

[sasha]

Good choice! I remember a tv interview in which a much-younger personality was educating her on the finer points of on-line culture - texting, browsing, searching, etc - which she apparently took in with wide-eyed amazement. At the end of the dissertation, she just shook her head & said, without rancor or accusation, "What a colossal waste of time!"

[mnaz]

All good choices. For classic Western TV, the Big 3 for me were Chuck Connors (Rifleman), James Arness (Gunsmoke), and Conrad ('tho he wasn't actually "big"). My baby sister just called him "the man in the blue suit."

Dino wrote a hilarious series of poems about the Rifleman ... I might just need pull that book of his back off the shelf.

[mnaz]

(Btw, I thought of this dumb "poem" as I watched a 1974 Columbo episode on dvd, with RC as a corrupt health spa fraudster who kills a potential whistleblower ... like usual, the perp and Peter Falk got into a long cat-and-mouse game, but it was testier than usual; Columbo seemed to really despise RC's character ...)