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Earle Hagen, 1919-2008

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

If it had only been the whistle, Earle Hagen would have qualified for major send-off from TV Land. That’s his own windy pursed lips at the beginning of The Andy Griffith Show as Andy and Opie head to the fishing hole, and it’s his tune as well. But Hagen, who died this ... Continue reading »

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  • Chuck Tryon

    1 year ago

    I realize it has its origins in Robert Altman's movie, but I've always admired the theme from M*A*S*H. It helped encapsulate, for me at least, the social importance of the show in a way that would be hard to describe.
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  • The Ghost of Earl Hagen

    1 year ago

    In your capacity as editor of this blog, I believe you need to exercise a bit more editorial control, especially with regard to writers such as Lance Manion. His writing is frequently so poor and grammatically unstructured that it is virtually unreadable.

    Anyway, I always loved the Gilligan's Island theme. I wish I had written that one.
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  • wwolfe

    1 year ago

    - "Secret Agent Man," (PF Sloan and Steve Barri)

    - "Hawaii Five-O" (Mort Stevens)

    - "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini)

    - "The Tonight Show" (Paul Anka)

    - "Get Smart" (Irving Szathmary)

    - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Nerf Herder)

    - "The Monkees" (Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart)
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