Friday, January 14, 2022

The Wild Wild West, The Andy Griffith Show and The Automobile And American Life


Back in the mid-1960s the spy craze was at its height of popularity.

The James Bond films ushered in a new spy craze and with the threat of nuclear war, The Cold War and the menace of The Red Threat (Communism) the United States and the world were caught up in all things concerning espionage.

TV networks, never ones to pass up a profitable trend, began churning out Spy TV shows.  Most were relegated to the current times-all-except one.

The Wild Wild West on CBS TV combined the Western, Fantasy and the Spy genres into a unique show that showcased the best of all three.

Robert Conrad starred as James West and Ross Martin costarred as Artemus Gordon as two U.S. agents that confronted and fought both domestic and foreign threats.

The show successfully merged all three genres into a fantastic blend that kept viewers glued to their seats every week.

Unfortunately both Conrad and Martin have passed away but their adventures in The Wild Wild West lives on through syndication.

Author Don Presnell and McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, present the ultimate guide to the cult TV show with Wandering The Wild Wild West A Critical Analysis Of The CBS Television Series.

The book delves into the production of the show, provides an episode guide complete with cast and crew listings and synopsis of each episode, a look at the reunion TV movies, the lamented movie adaptation, Infographics and much more.

What a wonderful traipse down TV Memory Lane-I highly recommend it.

Authors Dale Robinson and David Fernandes provide an episode-by-episode with cast and production biographies and a guide to collectibles in The Definitive Andy Griffith Show Reference book.

Learn all about the folk both in front of and behind the cameras, full episode descriptions with cast and crew, notes and other fascinating information behind each episode in the series.

For a real old time memory jaunt about the TV show that charmed millions and is still as popular today as when it first aired, pick up a copy of this book today.

Ever since the automobile was introduced to the American public it has become an integral pat of American life.

In The Automobile And American Life Second Edition, by John Hetman, travel the decades and discover how the automobile shaped American society.

From clunky Model Ts to muscle cars to the high-tech wonders on the highways and roads today, the book delves into how the very landscape of American changed to accommodate the automobile.

From drive-ins, motels, the urban sprawl, how we shop, where we live and work and all aspects of American life the automobile has transformed America and Americans for decades.

History unfolds as the book examines each decade, the events shaping our country and how the automobile transformed our lives.

Discover how the automobile in America became a mega-business, what happened when foreign car manufacturers arrived and how they affected the auto industry, the rise and fall of the American auto industry and what to expect it he future.

America and the automobile are securely intertwined, intermingled and forever joined as the nation heads to the future.

1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”

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