77 Sunset Strip
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TexasJohnBapster — 13 years ago(July 11, 2012 09:36 AM)
Verily I say unto theeone of the reasons that "77 Sunset Strip" was so popular in its day was because of the "Kookie" character portrayed by Edward Byrnes.Unfortunately his ridiculous hipster dialogue of the time might seem incredibly irritating and unfathomable to modern viewers and it is unlikely that we'll see it any time soon. A shame as it was a good show and an early attempt to break away completely from the western format so popular in those years.
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pickerandfiddler — 13 years ago(July 12, 2012 03:03 PM)
Unfortunate, everyone I mention the series to also brings up Kookie. I thought he was corny but tolerable. He had such a small part as the parking attendant. The real meat of the series was Efrem Zimbalist, Roger Smith and Robert Long. They're the ones I cared about. I don't think you had to be a Kookie fan to want to see a release of the series.
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jazzgirl1920s — 11 years ago(August 10, 2014 08:17 PM)
I remember watching a few of the shows when I was in elementary school. The boys were definitely influenced by Kookie. I remember one boy coming to school with his hair all slicked down with Brylcreem hair tonic and snapping his fingers and telling everyone he was a "kook." Apparently he didn't know the meaning of a kook. The teacher told him that he shouldn't go around telling people he was a kook. I still laugh when I think of that kid telling everyone he was a kook.
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telegonus — 7 years ago(April 18, 2018 08:23 AM)
You might want to check it out again, Bap. I watched a few episodes of
Sunset Strip
over the weekend and they held up beautifully. The stories were well developed, featured lots of plot twists. This was from the one season of Rex Randolph, when Richard Long was a regular. As to Kookie's dated dialogue, it actually makes sense. Goofy, yet comprehensible. Real hiptalk, not like today. Lots of imagery expressed in the words themselves, and implications of all sorts; sexual, social, musical and political. -
clore_2 — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 07:53 AM)
The show was a lot more than just Kookie and usually his slang was explained anyway as he was talking to the P.I.s who were not quite on the same wave length.
Once in a while you'll find episodes on YouTube but the Warner people must have someone checking daily as they don't last long. There were selected episode available on the Instant Archive at the Warner Archive site but I wanted more from season three for me to hook up at ten bucks a month.
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