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In my becks induced memory The persuaders with tony curtis and roger moore was a GREAT show, but reading about tony curtis in the newspapers today they make it seem as though the series was a bit of a flop.

If any of you gents remember the show i would appreciate your comments....IE thumbs up or down on the series

clive

fallingwickets wrote:In my becks induced memory The persuaders with tony curtis and roger moore was a GREAT show, but reading about tony curtis in the newspapers today they make it seem as though the series was a bit of a flop.

If any of you gents remember the show i would appreciate your comments....IE thumbs up or down on the series

clive

his cameo on the Flintstones as Wilma's slave boy was cool


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Kent

I'm a big fan of The Avengers (Emma Peel years), The Saint, The Prisoner etc., in comparison, I'm afraid the Persuaders was a flop... the chemistry wasn't there and seemed forced...

I loved the Persuaders at the time, as a kid. I haven't seen it since though, so I can't really comment other than in nostalgia mode. (I do have the theme music on my iPod. . . )

I'm afraid both gentlemen were phoning it in. The improv dialogue was excruciating to listen to, and some of the plots rehashed from old Saint shows. Other than that, bitchin'.

I remember the show from my last year in high school. Wikipedia has a nice write up. It was near the end of a genre including Man From U.N.C.L.E. ( anyone recall what the letters stand for?) Dangerman, The Avengers, Mission Impossible and a lot of factors played into it's success.
The pilot episode was fun.
More important, given current teevee's genres I would gladly watch all 12 episodes again.

The Saint, The Prisoner etc., in comparison

I guess that's where it must come from because we didnt get tv until about 1976-77 (for the first few years it was on in english only 2 hours a night out of 4) and so there wasn't much to compare to.

clive

KAV wrote:. . . including Man From U.N.C.L.E. ( anyone recall what the letters stand for?) . . .

United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. Battling the evil forces of THRUSH, for as many seasons as the sponsors would put out. Loved the first two. I dressed like Illya, back then; Mr. Waverly, now.

p.s. To Tony: you'll always be the Great Leslie.

I still had my secret agent radio that converted to a carbine until it became to valuable to keep. I was in Las Vegas, dropped into a gunstore and recognised the former owner from a store back home! He was known for being a bit loose with regulations.
He always had some interesting stuff. That time I came home with a T.V. prop silencer from M.F.U. It was actually a neat design that allowed a P 38 Walther to cycle 3 in 1 blanks.
Just about downtown L.A. there is a black and white mural of Tony on the freeway. That, his star and anothr mural on a tourist trap store on Hollywood BLVD are it as memory of his work. Hopefully TEEVEE will run SOME LIKE IT HOT soon.

Some Like It Hot -- classic. We have it on DVD -- and I love it - even if it is a tad long.



I also always got a kick out of his Stoney Curtis cameo in the Flintstones -- ah yes, long before the Simpsons, there were The Flintstones. "Oh slave-boy!!"

I go back a lot farther than you guys. I swear I saw the King Arthur-style movie in the early 1950's, in which he actually said "Yonda lies da castle of my fahda."

Probably "The Black Shield of Falworth." I'm sure he held his role in the same esteem that Paul Newman did in "The Silver Chalice," or John Wayne when he portrayed Genghis Khan. But he redeemed himself in "The Vikings," and so many more.

I dunno -- I still like the slave boy slant on the flintstones --- classic cameos with heart I tell ya.

he was good,and you guys are right,the vikings and some like it hot were great..

rsp1202 wrote:p.s. To Tony: you'll always be the Great Leslie.

Truth.

I remember The Persuaders. I was very young (single figures) and liked it. Perhaps that's a reflection of it's quality. Probably my strongest Tony Curtis memory.

I suspect that if I watched an episode now, I would think that it was awful.

Ian

95% wrote:I go back a lot farther than you guys. I swear I saw the King Arthur-style movie in the early 1950's, in which he actually said "Yonda lies da castle of my fahda."

Funny. Just caught that same line from documentary on Monty Python told by mr. Eric Idle.

The Persuaders had the best theme music ever.

I had dinner with Tony Curtis and six other people about 20 years ago at the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto. He was exhibiting a few of his oil paintings, which were mainly of cats. It was a good evening and he was quite talkative.

IanM wrote:I remember The Persuaders. I was very young (single figures) and liked it. Perhaps that's a reflection of it's quality. Probably my strongest Tony Curtis memory.

I suspect that if I watched an episode now, I would think that it was awful.

Ian

I am with you. Loved it at the time, but wouldn't want to watch it now and spoil my memories. Did that with Beverly Hillbillies

ExecAccess wrote:

IanM wrote:I remember The Persuaders. I was very young (single figures) and liked it. Perhaps that's a reflection of it's quality. Probably my strongest Tony Curtis memory.

I suspect that if I watched an episode now, I would think that it was awful.

Ian

I am with you. Loved it at the time, but wouldn't want to watch it now and spoil my memories. Did that with Beverly Hillbillies

Ooops, did I really admit to that in print?!