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On 4/16/2021 at 12:02 AM, Butch Had Not said:

 

Never cared for the show, but this was one of the all time best openings. It was worth watching just to see Heather Thomas come through those swinging doors in the blue bikini. 

It's also is a reminder of how terrific some of the action sequences in movies were before everything went CGI. 

It's two-fold. First, those stunts were dangerous, and when you watch stuff like the guy hanging onto the helicopter, you know it's real. A guy really had to get on a helicopter and hang onto the runner. Saw a sequence recently where they showed before and after on a CGI scene with Supergirl and the Flash. in the CGI scene, Supergirl flies out of the scene like a bolt of lightning, while the Flash uses his arms to create a wind storm. In the before CGI sequence, Supergirl jumps about a foot off the ground while the Flash waves his arms around. You know nothing is at risk in these CGI sequences. 

The second thing is that it's a different kind of actor and special effects person doing the scenes. The old guys like Hal Needham were a little bit outlaw and also incredible risk takers. The new people are mostly in front of green screens on a set and the special effects people sit in front of computers for hours. It doesn't seem like they have an understanding of anything outside of the studio. 

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Great themes above, no doubt, Peter Gunn so cool, but this old geezer is partial to the late 1950’s WB Westerns, in no particular order:
Maverick
Cheyenne
the Rifleman
Bronco Lane
Sugarfoot
Bat Masterson
the Rebel

You left out a few…

Have Gun Will Travel
Branded
A bit later, Bonanza

Riders in the Sky did a great parody of Have Gun Will Travel called Pallindrome. Brilliance as almost every line is a pallindrome fit into a little western scene.
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