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getTV talks CASEY JONES and 1950s Westerns An Interview with Toby Roan by getTV Staff April 12, 2021
If you were a kid in the 1950s, you were probably watching Westerns on television. Cowboys dominated the medium’s earliest days, with thrilling tales of handsome heroes and black-hatted bad guys captivating younger viewers. But, as the decade progressed, producers increasingly sought to appeal to viewers of all ages with recognizable characters both historical and fictional.
Casey Jones was a little of both, an actual 1890s railroader mythologized in a popular folk song.
Alan Hale Jr. (
“The best engineer west of the Mississippi” with
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10 Times Farrah Fawcett Was an Undercover Angel on CHARLIE’S ANGELS by getTV Staff March 16, 2021
“Female private detectives?” a man asks incredulously on a 1976 episode of
Charlie’s Angels.
It was, as they say, a different time. But scenes like this are a good reminder that casual gender bias is key to the
Angels origin story. In the show’s iconic opening sequence, rookie cops Jill (
Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Sabrina (
Kate Jackson) and Kelly (
Jaclyn Smith) are saddled with menial jobs, despite their extensive training. “But I took them away from all that,” their new employer Charlie (
John Forsythe) says in voiceover, as three capable women strut out of the police station and into pop culture history.