zatoichi
12-07-2007, 01:40 PM
Guys,
it just came to my mind that the 1950s/1960`s are not just considered the golden age of DEs, but also the golden age of US-television, when many talented writers created TV shows that would still be copied for decades to come.
Gillette also seemed to recognize the power of the new media and tried to use it for making profit -they issued a TV-Edition twice.
So what is your favourite TV-show from this time? And can you remember any DE reference in it, maybe even Product placement?:eek:
Two of my favourites are Rod Serling`s Twilight zone and Boris Karloff`s Thriller. I don`t know about the last one, but I have noticed some DE references in the first one. I cannot name the episodes, but I think that I have seen people shaving with a Fat boy in the Twilight zone.
And, by the way, do you know "The man who wasn`t there" by the Coen brothers? The film about the poor barber who dreamt of dry laundry and got sentenced to death in the end? It is not an old film, but it has a 1940`s retro feeling. I think that we can see a DE being used twice, and one seems to be an old Gillette tech with a bakelit handle.
it just came to my mind that the 1950s/1960`s are not just considered the golden age of DEs, but also the golden age of US-television, when many talented writers created TV shows that would still be copied for decades to come.
Gillette also seemed to recognize the power of the new media and tried to use it for making profit -they issued a TV-Edition twice.
So what is your favourite TV-show from this time? And can you remember any DE reference in it, maybe even Product placement?:eek:
Two of my favourites are Rod Serling`s Twilight zone and Boris Karloff`s Thriller. I don`t know about the last one, but I have noticed some DE references in the first one. I cannot name the episodes, but I think that I have seen people shaving with a Fat boy in the Twilight zone.
And, by the way, do you know "The man who wasn`t there" by the Coen brothers? The film about the poor barber who dreamt of dry laundry and got sentenced to death in the end? It is not an old film, but it has a 1940`s retro feeling. I think that we can see a DE being used twice, and one seems to be an old Gillette tech with a bakelit handle.