Scooby-Doo Where Are You

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It was supposed to be about a family trying to get by economically in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression and WWII.

“The Homecoming”, which was the pilot for the series that had Patricia Neal as the mom (I didn’t really like her in the role) had a lot more emphasis on how poor and broke the family was, along with almost all their neighbors. Also on the tension between the mom and her parents-in-law.
It was considerably darker than the TV series ended up being.
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Sort of like ‘MASH’ the movie versus ‘MASH’ the series? (The software wouldn’t let me put in the asterisks for some reason.)

Perhaps that’s why I didn’t watch it as a kid, it seemed vaguely depressing, but also a bit too cloying in its family values (before that term was coined). Didn’t a bunch of family members sleep in one room, dormitory-style? That’s almost all I remember about it. And that great things were expected from the actor who played John Boy but these never really materialized on the big screen or anywhere else. He could be seen from time to time in made for tv movies like Elizabeth Montgomery but that was about it. That also made me a little sad.
 
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In those days, it was normal for a bunch of sibs to all be sharing one room. My mother shared one tiny bedroom with her two sisters, and her three brothers had one tiny room across the hall to share. Not only that but I’m pretty sure the three sisters at least were all sharing one queen size bed. I don’t even know how they all fit much less got any sleep.

I think Richard Thomas got typecast as “John-Boy” and never was able to do too much else. But I didn’t like him very much so I didn’t pay much attention.
 
Oh wow.

SMEDLEY!!!

And who was the cat who always said, “Heavens to Mergatroid”?
 
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Oh yes, “the Creeper” chase scene has always stuck with me too. It’s probably one of the overall most memorable episodes too.

My favorite episode (and the one that always creeped me out the most for some reason) was the Dr. Jeckyl/ Mr. Hyde episode.
 
John-Boy’s earnestness annoyed the heck out of me. And Mary Ellen was just a complete b. I usually wanted to give both of them a good kick in the rear end. The other kids were more human and likeable, but they seemed to get relatively little screen time because when the episodes weren’t focusing on the parents, grands or John-Boy and Mary Ellen, there were all the characters of the neighbors and relations who kept popping up.
 
I agree that the supporting characters were interesting, but it’s always been weird to me when the premise of a show is a family with a bunch of kids and then most of the kids are ignored. By contrast I really enjoyed the early seasons of “Little House on the Prairie” where the family only had four people to focus on (Ma, Pa, Mary and Laura), who were generally nice, not b’s, not overly earnest, just human. I know that show got criticized for Michael Landon’s character allegedly being too perfect, but I didn’t see that - he was just your standard kind, wise, TV dad to me.
 
I really preferred Michael Learned’s portrayal to Patricia Neal’s in the pilot. Neal seemed really miscast. I don’t know why I felt that way, I liked her in “Hud” so I know she can play poor women housewife types, but it just didn’t seem to work as she seemed too snooty to be in the Walton family.
 
@OsculeturMeOsculo …There was a Scooby episode in which somebody actually died? That sounds completely foreign to the cartoons I watched,
 
The dog goes into a coma and gets possessed by some entities from space.
“Mystery Incorporated” is pretty clearly an attempt to reboot Scooby Doo as a Japanese anime type show.
Which is pretty dumb if you ask me, but they’ll do anything to keep a franchise going.
 
How many noticed that the deceased mother in Gone With the Wind was catholic?

The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America was formed at the request of the AOH primarily to protect the immigrant Irish women.

The Irish are the only group where the women came first (and largely ended up in domestic employment). In every other group, the men came first, saved money, and sent it back to bring the women.

The Irish, however, were starving to death, and the women were sent first. (Look at an Irish railroad map: hub and spoke, but with all the hubs at western seaports, as it was built to kick them out of their own country!).

Anyway, one of the things the AOH was formed to protect the Irish immigrant women from was marriage to Protestants, which apparently happened to the mother in that novel/movie.

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Because it was the only way to get rid of that annoying scrap of a rat, perhaps?

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