You beat me to it. Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack was a bit of an icon in the style of Martial Arts that I studied. My instructor was a huge fan of him. One Tin Soldier. As far as Burt Reynolds goes, I'm wondering; where was Dom DeLuise?
@@christopherbellore3511the dude that played Billy Jack is a d-list celebrity at best Burt Reynolds was a list all the way even when he had to go back on TV in the early nineties
I was comparing his character here with "Chino" in 1953's "The WIld One." Definitely similar chops, just more honed over the years. I just realized "Chino" was named after a California prison!
I have the entire series on DVD and what a tremendous treasure to have, lots of great character actors that anyboby that knows about television back in the day would be so happy to see. 🌟👍👍
Lee Marvin was the real deal. An actual USMC hero in WWII. Purple Heart at Saipan and Medal of Valor, but was busted down from Corporal to Private First Class for insubordination. Insubordinate heroes won the war.
I used to watch this show when I was 4 years old. Of course my favorite part was Lee Marvin firing back from the front of his car during the opening theme. Likewise with 'The Rifleman'; Lucas rapid firing his rifle during that opening. I either had a short attention span or was fascinated by loud noises.
Theme by "Johnny" Williams performed by Count Basie. Wow! Great cast, too. Sue George was also in "Gidget." Maida Severn (the widow) was also in "The Addams Family." She played a sad victim in another "M Squad" I watched yesterday. RIP to almost everyone in this!
Sue George also played Marigold Dalton in the 1957 movie THE DALTON GIRLS. Her sisters in that movie were played by Merry Anders, Lisa Davis, and Penny Edwards. (By the way: Both Sue George and Tom Laughlin played roles in the 1959 movie GIDGET. Sue George plays Betty Louise (aka "B.L."), and Tom Laughlin plays Lover Boy.)
Yes repliers...please watch clips of Police Squad (Leslie Nielsen). It is the direct parody of this series. The titles, the music, the style. It is as close as Airplane is to Zero Hour.
Interesting. This was only the second role Burt Reynolds ever had. By contrast, Tom Laughlin had been working regularly since four years before. Tom Laughlin was born in 1931 and Burt Reynolds was born in 1936. They both died at age 82.
I've seen Tom Laughlin in the 1957 movie THE DELINQUENTS (first feature-length film directed by Robert Altman); I think that the film is on RUclips somewhere. Worth the watch...... Tom Laughlin also played Lt. Bus Adams in the 1958 film version of SOUTH PACIFIC. The first movie incarnation of Tom Laughlin's Billy Jack character, THE BORN LOSERS (1967), is (or was) on RUclips somewhere. Well worth watching, too!
"galeschool," Good catch. And this being a TIGHT-BUDGETED half-hour, the brief, shot-on-location film footage is surely recycled in other episodes, to give "M Squad" audience the impression the entire series was filmed in the Windy City.
"Joeblow-ms3cv," and 'on the cuff' -- tricking his superior into coughing up the cost. This being 1959 television, appropriate for all ages and sensibilities, he REALLY started it off with a romp between the sheets with a clone of 1959 Angie Dickinson -- as was alluded to on the big screen 8 years later in the very rugged "Point Blank."
5th for me, I remember as a 4 yr old hearing the intro song meant TV time! I have always loved the old Black/White shows, esp. War shows like COMBAT, or Police shows like M Squad or Highway Patrol.📺
Thank you for another M Squad, TooleMan! Good lord Marvin has the most fierce widow’s peak I’ve ever seen! Back in the day when a high hairline wasn’t always thought of as a bad thing.
Kid I grew up with lost all but 1 hair. I said butch, what are you going to leave your last remaining hair in your will? You should tie a blue ribbon around it, and he says AW SHUT UP! what a character. 34 years ago I was driving home to this house I had just bought and he says to me, were being followed! I said I don't see a car behind me. He says NO! THE CAR AHEAD OF US IS FOLLOWING US! I said well if he's ahead of us, how can he be following us! He says, WHENEVER YOU TURN ON YOUR TURN SIGNAL HE TURNS ON HIS! I said what? Did your brains fall out with your hair? Gee Miss the good ole days.
@@UberLummox ha ha ha ha ha ha ha he he he he he he he he ho ho 2 dollar ho heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA AGAHHHHHH!!!! Leric 's from this punk band I heard when I was young. Too bad I don't know the name of the band or the song. Used to like listening to warped music when I was on 400 micrograms of white blotter acid.
Right you are, Brian. Glad I am not alone in knowing this fun fact. It's no coincidence that the show name, music, and name of the lead Lt. are very similar. The people behind Police Squad, Naked Gun, Airplane, etc. drew from this and other "ancient TV shows," but Police Squad is very directly modeled after M Squad.
Including several interesting TV series over the years, including the first (1959-1960) season of RIVERBOAT (he played Ben Frazer in 20 episodes), GUNSMOKE (he played Quint in 50 episodes in Seasons 8, 9, and 10 (1962-1965)), HAWK (1966; he played Detective Lt. John Hawk in this one-season wonder, which aired only 17 episodes), DAN AUGUST (1970-1971; another one-season wonder, but it aired 26 episodes), and EVENING SHADE (1990-1994; he played Wood Newton in 99 episodes in 4 seasons)).
There are actors that decided to have fun at a certain point in their career instead of achieving The Art. Vincent Price was one of the finest actors on the screen but in the 60s he decided he was having more fun in horror flick and making variety show appearances.
@@STho205 the difference was Price was much older when he was, doing what you just claimed. Burt started that at the height of his popularity. He was more interested in the attention than perfecting his craft. It was a shame because he was an underrated actor.
@josephconner3742 Burt Reynolds found that being in the adult comedy version of Star Wars on the Highway in 1977 worked a lot better than trying to be shoehorned awkwardly into At Long Last Love with Peter Bogdonovich's current girlfriend. He was a football star turned TV character actor, famous mostly for his run on Gunsmoke and some procedural movies, but a big Star after Deliverance. Other actors on that path at the time were Rosie Greer and Alex Karris.
14:10 -- "The coroner officially recorded Mr. Snyder's death as suicide." Say WHAT? The marks from the blackjack to the face lead to the conclusion of suicide? That coroner should be fired!
These are all A-list actors to me. But oddly, the only one of these that I happened to see in a movie theater, in a first-run film, is Tom Laughlin. (I didn't often go to movie theaters.)
The music is interesting. Not only was it copied for Police Squad, but I’m hearing elements that I’ve also heard in a later Chicago based program - The Night Stalker TV series!😮
9 episodes as Lt. General Bill Pritchard in "12 O'Clock High" over the course of 3 seasons (4 episodes in Season 1, 4 more in Season 2, and only 1 in Season 3). Paul Newlan also played General William Hallerton in the 1964 movie THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY.
Burt in one of his first tv roles,he was constantly working at this early stage of his career always a guest star on tv shows ,he had star written all over him and was a serious actor, not surprised he was constantly cast by casting agents, just think this was 1962 ,ten years later in 1972 he would be in the top 5 biggest moviestars in the world ,wow if you had told him that on the set on this show what would he have said, lifes a gamble and Burts determination paid of big time.
This episode is from 1959, a few years earlier than you mentioned. Between 1962 and 1965, Burt Reynolds played Quint in "Gunsmoke." He moved on to bigger and better things after that, including his own TV series.
@@seanstewart6893 No need to be sorry about anything. I appreciate your comments and insights about Burt Reynolds. He worked hard to find his place in Hollywood, and it paid off bigtime!
@@TooleManTVI was wondering if you would be screening any more hard to find Early Burt Reynolds shows like The Everglades 2 episodes he appeard in, Route 66, FBI, Branded, Gentle Ben,and any tv interviews he did, seen the ones on youtube but their were so many more including a special when he came to England ,love to see that,love to get a dvd copy,I would pay good mony for that ,perhaps you would know were I can get a copy, Thanks.
"hoosez," The GREAT opening title of Howard Duff's and Dennis Cole's "The Felony Squad" would be closer for inspiration for the Zucker Brothers' silliness. . . . . As I note elsewhere, the oh-so-admirable and sweet Eileen (Sue George), Burt's lady, being viciously gang assaulted by Tom's goons -- and probably raped too -- places this half hour episode above the platform for ridicule.
Slum clearance of what had been "Little Sicily" - and construction of the low-rise Mother Cabrini homes - began in the late 1930s, with the housing project opening in 1942. Those public housing projects were originally intended to be "starter" housing, so that young newly-marrieds could save to buy houses of their own later; they were NOT originally intended to be permanent housing for those living there. Construction of the high-rise William Green homes did, indeed, begin in the late 1950s - and those projects opened in 1962. And, within, 7 years, St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church and School were closed by the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Maria SS. Lauretana feast was moved elsewhere, out of "the old neighborhood."
It ran 3 seasons (1957-1960), 117 episodes in those 3 seasons (an average of 39 episodes per season). Considering the proliferation of cop shows and Westerns on television at the time, that's pretty impressive. It ran as long as it was going to run. And Lee Marvin went back to movies after the show finished its run, playing Tully Crow in "The Comancheros."
A young Burt Reynolds seemed a little stiff as an actor. Laughlin had strong command as a young actor, very strong screen presence playing a calculating bully.
Some real period dialogue @ 15:00. Attesting to health of ‘suicide’ we’re given this throwaway line, “Coroner says the man was sound as a dollar” - that line would draw guffaws nowadays. Poor hambone Laughlin. Typecast as punk kid from then on, notwithstanding the Billy Jack reprise.
Burt Reynolds AND Billy Jack in the same half hour getting schooled by Lee Marvin? Epic!
Indubidubly 🙂
You beat me to it.
Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack was a bit of an icon in the style of Martial Arts that I studied. My instructor was a huge fan of him.
One Tin Soldier.
As far as Burt Reynolds goes, I'm wondering; where was Dom DeLuise?
Burt Reynolds. Before he needed gum spirits to keep his hair on his head.
That's too much awesomeness
@@christopherbellore3511the dude that played Billy Jack is a d-list celebrity at best Burt Reynolds was a list all the way even when he had to go back on TV in the early nineties
John Williams wrote the music score. WOW!
That's right! Johnny Williams, as he was known then, also played piano with Henry Mancini on the "Peter Gunn" soundtrack.
@@TooleManTV Killer!!!
Wow, right. He goes back aways. I knew he composed music for "Gilligan's Island" but this is five years earlier.
Wow! Is right. But, then again John Williams is 90years old. What a living treasure we have - still - in 2024.
Glad to see Billy Jack straightened himself out after a bad start.😁
His mannerisms never changed. Tom Laughlin was a good guy for sure.
Still violent, but for "good."
RIP PFC Lee Marvin USMC. We love, man.
👴🏻🥃 IM SECURITY GUARD
And he was a lib. A hardcore lefty badass lib with an epic combo of physical skills & acting chops.
@UberLummox he'd probably be considered a right wing nut job now.
@@michaelward9880 How so?
How old are you? If you are my age, you wouldn't ask such a question.
Marvin and Reynolds are terrific in this episode.
Marvin, Reynolds and Laughlin...power.
How GREAT IS LEE MARVIN!!!!??
I was comparing his character here with "Chino" in 1953's "The WIld One." Definitely similar chops, just more honed over the years. I just realized "Chino" was named after a California prison!
Burt getting some lessons in cooool from Mr Marvin, decorated ex Marine. The music is such a great bonus.
FORMER Marine!!
@@StevenGale-yn1qs ALWAYS SEMPER FI!! Oooops
It's Great when you see stuff like this!!
I have the entire series on DVD and what a tremendous treasure to have, lots of great character actors that anyboby that knows about television back in the day would be so happy to see. 🌟👍👍
Seeing Burt Reynolds scared was not easy to watch, but then again, it's Billy Jack (LOL)
In his autobiography, Burt had only positive things to say about Lee when they worked together on this episode.
Not surprised that two males would have a problem with each other.
Dan August was balding even then.😂
Lee Marvin was the real deal. An actual USMC hero in WWII. Purple Heart at Saipan and Medal of Valor, but was busted down from Corporal to Private First Class for insubordination. Insubordinate heroes won the war.
Yeah. I like that he used some karate or jiu-jitsu moves to take down "Sharpie."
I think more than once. Typical, good Marine for the time . . . . .
The military always needs the anti-hero in time of war.
I used to watch this show when I was 4 years old. Of course my favorite part was Lee Marvin firing back from the front of his car during the opening theme. Likewise with 'The Rifleman'; Lucas rapid firing his rifle during that opening. I either had a short attention span or was fascinated by loud noises.
Even just the soundtrack of this tv show is great. Wish I could walk into any bar in any city and hear this kind of music - especially live.
Theme by "Johnny" Williams performed by Count Basie. Wow!
Great cast, too. Sue George was also in "Gidget." Maida Severn (the widow) was also in "The Addams Family." She played a sad victim in another "M Squad" I watched yesterday.
RIP to almost everyone in this!
Sue George also played Marigold Dalton in the 1957 movie THE DALTON GIRLS. Her sisters in that movie were played by Merry Anders, Lisa Davis, and Penny Edwards.
(By the way: Both Sue George and Tom Laughlin played roles in the 1959 movie GIDGET. Sue George plays Betty Louise (aka "B.L."), and Tom Laughlin plays Lover Boy.)
Lee Marvin is the king of cool
All the young guys, Burt Reynold and Tom Laughlin. Saw one earlier with Charles Bronson. All doing good.
Police Squad, er, I mean M Squad, is great. 😊
🥃👴🏻 WUTS POLICE SQUAD?¿
@@paulyricca3881 HA - you are UNEDUCATED
Dragnet too.
LOL! Yep!
Yes repliers...please watch clips of Police Squad (Leslie Nielsen). It is the direct parody of this series. The titles, the music, the style. It is as close as Airplane is to Zero Hour.
Interesting. This was only the second role Burt Reynolds ever had. By contrast, Tom Laughlin had been working regularly since four years before. Tom Laughlin was born in 1931 and Burt Reynolds was born in 1936. They both died at age 82.
Laughlin played teens in the late '50's early '60's.
I'd be happy to live to 82.
I've seen Tom Laughlin in the 1957 movie THE DELINQUENTS (first feature-length film directed by Robert Altman); I think that the film is on RUclips somewhere. Worth the watch......
Tom Laughlin also played Lt. Bus Adams in the 1958 film version of SOUTH PACIFIC.
The first movie incarnation of Tom Laughlin's Billy Jack character, THE BORN LOSERS (1967), is (or was) on RUclips somewhere. Well worth watching, too!
I cried thru the entirety of the Olympics - for every country. (USA citizen here!). And I am a NYer, a Democrat. You guys are great!
At 5:00-5:05 Lee Marvin passes Mrs. Snyder's Candies and Toffenetti Restaurant, both actual Chicago businesses.
"galeschool," Good catch. And this being a TIGHT-BUDGETED half-hour, the brief, shot-on-location film footage is surely recycled in other episodes, to give "M Squad" audience the impression the entire series was filmed in the Windy City.
The Lieutenant starts his morning with coffee and a doughnut. 😃
You should see what he ends it with!
As everyone should
"Joeblow-ms3cv," and 'on the cuff' -- tricking his superior into coughing up the cost.
This being 1959 television, appropriate for all ages and sensibilities, he REALLY started it off with a romp between the sheets with a clone of 1959 Angie Dickinson -- as was alluded to on the big screen 8 years later in the very rugged "Point Blank."
I like that Marvin always wore his hat
I saw Count Basie in New London, Connecticut in 1972. It was thrilling.
This is only my second episode and I am hooked!
5th for me, I remember as a 4 yr old hearing the intro song meant TV time! I have always loved the old Black/White shows, esp. War shows like COMBAT, or Police shows like M Squad or Highway Patrol.📺
Burt should have married that wholesome cutie pie 😃
Sue George was actually almost 3 years older than Burt Reynolds. He was 23 when this episode aired; she was almost 26.
Thank you for another M Squad, TooleMan! Good lord Marvin has the most fierce widow’s peak I’ve ever seen! Back in the day when a high hairline wasn’t always thought of as a bad thing.
Kid I grew up with lost all but 1 hair. I said butch, what are you going to leave your last remaining hair in your will? You should tie a blue ribbon around it, and he says AW SHUT UP! what a character. 34 years ago I was driving home to this house I had just bought and he says to me, were being followed! I said I don't see a car behind me. He says NO! THE CAR AHEAD OF US IS FOLLOWING US! I said well if he's ahead of us, how can he be following us! He says, WHENEVER YOU TURN ON YOUR TURN SIGNAL HE TURNS ON HIS! I said what? Did your brains fall out with your hair? Gee Miss the good ole days.
@@robertpeters4161 absolutely epic story. You shoulda been a writer for the Em Skwaud...
@@UberLummox I gotta learn how to read first.
@@robertpeters4161 Haha! 😁👍
@@UberLummox ha ha ha ha ha ha ha he he he he he he he he ho ho 2 dollar ho heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA AGAHHHHHH!!!! Leric 's from this punk band I heard when I was young. Too bad I don't know the name of the band or the song. Used to like listening to warped music when I was on 400 micrograms of white blotter acid.
watching this i could not help but see a lot of the inspirations for the later Leslie Nielsen Comedy Police Squad
Right you are, Brian. Glad I am not alone in knowing this fun fact. It's no coincidence that the show name, music, and name of the lead Lt. are very similar. The people behind Police Squad, Naked Gun, Airplane, etc. drew from this and other "ancient TV shows," but Police Squad is very directly modeled after M Squad.
Burt has always been a better actor than a lot of the roles he was given.
Burt declined " One flew over the cuckoo's nest " , "Terms of Endearment ", "Die Hard ", and Pretty Woman !" More misses than Hits.
Including several interesting TV series over the years, including the first (1959-1960) season of RIVERBOAT (he played Ben Frazer in 20 episodes), GUNSMOKE (he played Quint in 50 episodes in Seasons 8, 9, and 10 (1962-1965)), HAWK (1966; he played Detective Lt. John Hawk in this one-season wonder, which aired only 17 episodes), DAN AUGUST (1970-1971; another one-season wonder, but it aired 26 episodes), and EVENING SHADE (1990-1994; he played Wood Newton in 99 episodes in 4 seasons)).
There are actors that decided to have fun at a certain point in their career instead of achieving The Art. Vincent Price was one of the finest actors on the screen but in the 60s he decided he was having more fun in horror flick and making variety show appearances.
@@STho205 the difference was Price was much older when he was, doing what you just claimed. Burt started that at the height of his popularity. He was more interested in the attention than perfecting his craft. It was a shame because he was an underrated actor.
@josephconner3742 Burt Reynolds found that being in the adult comedy version of Star Wars on the Highway in 1977 worked a lot better than trying to be shoehorned awkwardly into At Long Last Love with Peter Bogdonovich's current girlfriend.
He was a football star turned TV character actor, famous mostly for his run on Gunsmoke and some procedural movies, but a big Star after Deliverance. Other actors on that path at the time were Rosie Greer and Alex Karris.
The producers seemed to have used an entire bottle of Brylcreem on Burt’s rapidly receding hairline. Call it late ‘50s product placement.
considering the amount of Brylcreem i bought over the years i am laughing real real hard.thanks,i think....!
So this was Burt's real hair. Cool! Sharpy draws attention to it in the early scene where he flicks it. Burt looks like a million bucks, as always.
I guess we aren't supposed to question the guy just hanging out in the listening booth all day, every day.
Wow, Tom and Burt.
I like how fast conclusion wrap it up boys
Burt Reynolds looks like a 27 year old High school student
He was 23 in 1959.
Looks 21 to me but to each his own
He was 23 when the episode aired in early 1959.
🥰Thank you 👍
Excellent tv show have the entire series on dvd
Billy Jack's fingerprints were all over the office murder scene. Why didn't they dust the phone and door handle?
I am so glad that back then, there in 1959, everything was now going to be better in Chicago. Truly a bright new future. Yeah. Sure thing.
And then came the Summerdale police scandal.....
@jmccracken1963 I've not heard of that scandal, there being so many. But I will endeavor to research it.
this is a good one!
14:10 -- "The coroner officially recorded Mr. Snyder's death as suicide."
Say WHAT? The marks from the blackjack to the face lead to the conclusion of suicide?
That coroner should be fired!
A good # of guest stars in different (TV) series. Went on to enjoy flourishing careers-!!!🤗.
They don't make 'em like this anymore!
Great music…M, 66, Gunn 😺
Amazing,, Tom and Burt working together
These are all A-list actors to me. But oddly, the only one of these that I happened to see in a movie theater, in a first-run film, is Tom Laughlin. (I didn't often go to movie theaters.)
The music is interesting. Not only was it copied for Police Squad, but I’m hearing elements that I’ve also heard in a later Chicago based program - The Night Stalker TV series!😮
Wood shop with no eye protection? Ouch
The police Chief played by paul newlan a few years later would play the General in the 12oclock High TV series.
9 episodes as Lt. General Bill Pritchard in "12 O'Clock High" over the course of 3 seasons (4 episodes in Season 1, 4 more in Season 2, and only 1 in Season 3).
Paul Newlan also played General William Hallerton in the 1964 movie THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY.
So that's where "The Naked Gun" theme comes from!
Wow. That is Tom Laughlin, Didn't catch that. @actionsub
Sorry Lee, it's 2024 and Chicago is still a s##thole.
👴🏻🥃 IT WAS AL CAPONES FAULT
You see the influcence of late Marlon Brando on some characters acting in the show.
"Write if you ger work." Bob and Ray tag line . . . .
".....and hang by your thumbs."
Burt had lower billing than Tom Laughlin and Sue George, who played Sandra Dee's friend in the first Gidget movie.
Not only did Sue George play Betty Louise (aka "B.L.") in GIDGET (1959), but Tom Laughlin played Lover Boy in the same movie.
Chicago didn't get better, it has gotten much worse.
👴🏻🥃 PROVE IT
I thought the same thing.
@@saulchapnick1566
😫 WAIT WHAT? PROVE IT.
@@paulyricca3881 117 shootings over 4th of July; 17 dead. No wonder my recent college grad niece was able to buy a condo for next to nothing...
After AL Capone ran Chicago things really went downhill
A 23-year-old Burt Reynolds. Looks a lot different without his signature moustache.
Love Lee Marvin. Always has been one of my all-time faves. So very cool. But how about all those "boys" 20/21 years old?
Burt in one of his first tv roles,he was constantly working at this early stage of his career always a guest star on tv shows ,he had star written all over him and was a serious actor, not surprised he was constantly cast by casting agents, just think this was 1962 ,ten years later in 1972 he would be in the top 5 biggest moviestars in the world ,wow if you had told him that on the set on this show what would he have said, lifes a gamble and Burts determination paid of big time.
This episode is from 1959, a few years earlier than you mentioned. Between 1962 and 1965, Burt Reynolds played Quint in "Gunsmoke." He moved on to bigger and better things after that, including his own TV series.
@@TooleManTV Sorrey Tooleman, your absolutely correct ,Thanks .
@@seanstewart6893 No need to be sorry about anything. I appreciate your comments and insights about Burt Reynolds. He worked hard to find his place in Hollywood, and it paid off bigtime!
@@TooleManTVI was wondering if you would be screening any more hard to find Early Burt Reynolds shows like The Everglades 2 episodes he appeard in, Route 66, FBI, Branded, Gentle Ben,and any tv interviews he did, seen the ones on youtube but their were so many more including a special when he came to England ,love to see that,love to get a dvd copy,I would pay good mony for that ,perhaps you would know were I can get a copy, Thanks.
Burt showing range. Never saw him like this.
Crap. Missed Burt.
But, still can watch a great old cop show in reruns.😊
By the way, am I the only one who expects the Police Squad intro instead??
"hoosez," The GREAT opening title of Howard Duff's and Dennis Cole's "The Felony Squad" would be closer for inspiration for the Zucker Brothers' silliness.
. . . . As I note elsewhere, the oh-so-admirable and sweet Eileen (Sue George), Burt's lady, being viciously gang assaulted by Tom's goons -- and probably raped too -- places this half hour episode above the platform for ridicule.
They tore down that slum building and built the Cabrini Green Hi Rise Apt. Complex which became a slum 5 years later.
Slum clearance of what had been "Little Sicily" - and construction of the low-rise Mother Cabrini homes - began in the late 1930s, with the housing project opening in 1942. Those public housing projects were originally intended to be "starter" housing, so that young newly-marrieds could save to buy houses of their own later; they were NOT originally intended to be permanent housing for those living there.
Construction of the high-rise William Green homes did, indeed, begin in the late 1950s - and those projects opened in 1962. And, within, 7 years, St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church and School were closed by the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Maria SS. Lauretana feast was moved elsewhere, out of "the old neighborhood."
Everybody recognizes Burt Reynolds but did you recognize Tom Laughlin who became famous playing Billy Jack during the 70s.
Walk TALL, and carry a BIG STICK.
note to Sharpy, a "blackjack" ain't a big stick. 😃
"Joeblow-ms3cv," . . . oh, precision, well-administered blows from a blackjack HURTS . . . even worse.
I feel so stupid..... I didn't get the joke until now where the theme music from "Police Squad" came from.
17:41 records on the wall, Keely Smith, Caterina Valente.
John "Star Wars" Williams composed the music.
Groovy tunes
Music Score by John Williams! 24:16
Lee Marvin rules
Just sayin ... a good coroner would have immediately spotted the blackjack strike to the forearm & ruled foul play.
Marvin and Reynolds 👌
I thought it stood for murder squad. 😮
Few know this was the model for Leslie Nielsen POLICE SQUAD Lt. Frank Driben.
Dust the phone, door knob, papers on desk - - Next stop, Joliet.
And his hoodlum pals would be off to Montefiore.
Why wasn't M-Squad more popular... and lasted longer...??
It ran 3 seasons (1957-1960), 117 episodes in those 3 seasons (an average of 39 episodes per season). Considering the proliferation of cop shows and Westerns on television at the time, that's pretty impressive. It ran as long as it was going to run.
And Lee Marvin went back to movies after the show finished its run, playing Tully Crow in "The Comancheros."
"Burt, I'm going to take this foot and hit you on that side of your head...and there's not a damned thing you can do about it."
They promptly built Caprini Green😭
Where's the teacher when a class bully takes over during class? Only on tv eh?
Chicago cops would have busted the kid up then dropped him off in wrong neighborhood
Was EVERY young actor trying to be Brando (I'm asking rhetorically)?
that "better housing" didn't work out, did it ?
No fingerprint sweep at the crime scene?
A young Burt Reynolds seemed a little stiff as an actor.
Laughlin had strong command as a young actor, very strong screen presence playing a calculating bully.
Very young Bury Reynolds when he still has his football physique.
👴🏻🥃 HE DIDN’T PLAY FOOTBALL HE PLAYED MAVELS
Reynolds showing his Cherokee genes.
Billy Jack as the bad guy...
The only time I was ever injured by a Sharpie is when I breathed to close to one.
Count Basie soundtrack!
Early signs of Reynolds….going bald😺
At the end: Chicago is tearing down the slums, soon there'll be better housing to give them better breaks for those that live there. LOL!
When they tired of the burned up Robert Taylor homes, they moved everyone and the crime down state.
NYC learned and moved everyone up river
Wow! Better housing in Chicago. Can you imagine?
An all white gang, those were the days.
👴🏻🥃 YEAH , BAD
Their still out there depends on the state they stomp at.
Every Chicago neighborhood has its own gang
That Sharpie left black marks all over that school.
Does anyone here know what the "M" in "'M' Squad" stands for? Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say "Murder"...
the women are always so much braver than the men
And they all lived happily ever after. 😃
Some real period dialogue @ 15:00. Attesting to health of ‘suicide’ we’re given this throwaway line, “Coroner says the man was sound as a dollar” - that line would draw guffaws nowadays.
Poor hambone Laughlin. Typecast as punk kid from then on, notwithstanding the Billy Jack reprise.
Is dis how Daley ran Chicago? Doubt it…until 68🙀
In the 60s and 70s the Chicago cops broke bones. Saw it many times. They don't just chat . Then they drop you off in the wrong neighborhood
@@sugarpuddin the Chicago way…Lloyd Pettit…a shot,,And a Goal😺
REST IN PEACE KID!
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So what does the "M" stand for in "M Squad"?
Murder
@@fallenleaflakes Makes sense. Instead of Homicide Squad I guess.