How I Learned About Me From Watching Too Much TV

[AdamSmith]

Illya!

 

http://wap.chinadaily.com.cn/img/attachement/jpg/site1/20160803/b083fe9562de190b871f09.jpg

[Rudynate]

Then there's this guy:

 

David McCallum

 

 

Interesting how tastes change. As Ilya, I just thought he was quirky and weird-looking. I look at his pics now and think, "What a gorgeous man!"

[AdamSmith]

Interesting how tastes change. As Ilya, I just thought he was quirky and weird-looking. I look at his pics now and think, "What a gorgeous man!"

I was enamored of him from age five!

[Rudynate]

I was enamored of him from age five!

 

You had good taste.

[AdamSmith]

You had good taste.

It was not only his looks, but also his demeanor and whole personality. Wikipedia reminds of some details...

 

Much of the character’s appeal was based on what was ambiguous and enigmatic about him. When an acute reaction to penicillin hospitalized him in the early days of filming, David McCallum took the opportunity to give serious thought to how he might flesh out what was, at that stage, a sketchy peripheral character. The approach he hit upon was to build a persona based on ambiguity and enigma, hiding, rather than revealing, aspects of the agent’s background and personality. McCallum summed up the character in commenting "No one knows what Illya Kuryakin does when he goes home at night." ...

 

He holds a Master's degree from the Sorbonne and a PhD in Quantum Mechanics from the University of Cambridge, though he admits to not keeping up-to-date with the field ("The Her Master's Voice Affair"). He appears to have been an undergraduate at the University of Georgia in Tbilisi, where he practiced gymnastics ("The Hot Number Affair"). Kuryakin is a polymath. He is well-read in English literature, he has an in-depth knowledge of music and plays the bass viol, the English horn and guitar. He also sings, and he speaks many languages, including French, German, Italian and Japanese.[episode needed]

 

His technical skills are also well honed. He is an explosives expert who stayed on at the U.N.C.L.E. Survival School a month after he graduated to teach a class on the subject. In "The THRUSH Roulette Affair" he is described as "proficient in Physical Arts, Judo, Karate, Fencing, Sharpshooter,"[4] and references are made in various episodes to his training and expertise.[episode needed]

 

He dresses more soberly than Solo and in darker colors - his signature costume is black slacks and a black turtleneck, often with his shoulder holster worn outside the sweater. He is generally more ascetic in his tastes than his partner and expresses distaste for extravagance on more than one occasion. His one indulgence is food, and his enormous appetite is a recurring joke throughout the series.[citation needed]

 

According to the fan site manfromuncle.org, Kuryakin is the perfect foil for his more personable, extroverted, risk-taking partner. He is self-contained, practical, taciturn, intellectual, irritable, pessimistic and intense. He is the more athletic of the two agents and also the more ruthless. He possesses a dry sense of humor, a great devotion to duty (which he describes as his only weakness) and a flair for the dramatic which shines through on numerous undercover assignments.[4] On rare occasions it is suggested that a more passionate and sensitive personality lurks beneath his pragmatic exterior. In "The Neptune Affair," he exhibits genuine distress and anger when he describes the threat posed to millions of his countrymen by an attack on the Russian grain harvest. He also displays fierce loyalty to Solo and an enthusiasm for art, music and literature.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illya_Kuryakin

[+ quoththeraven]

Living around Boston, a not altogether uncommon sight was Urich running out of an alleyway onto a main street when a scene was being shot.

 

I got to have an instinctive dislike of the show for the irrational reason that these shoots would close the street for a few minutes which, given Boston's already unnavigable downtown, would snarl traffic quite a while for several blocks around.

 

I can see where that would be annoying, and as you say, downtown Boston is already unnavigable except by foot or the T.

 

Speaking of actors in TV detective series darting out of alleys (and totally off topic), sometimes location shooting provided such realism that a criminal was known to surrender to an actor playing a cop, as happened to Richard Belzer while filming Homicide: Life on the Street on location in Baltimore.

 

Illya!

 

http://wap.chinadaily.com.cn/img/attachement/jpg/site1/20160803/b083fe9562de190b871f09.jpg

 

He was my very first TV/media crush.

 

I was enamored of him from age five!

 

I was a little older than you (still am, actually), but ditto.

 

You had good taste.

 

I will take your compliment as applying to me, too.

[Rudynate]

It was not only his looks, but also his demeanor and whole personality.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illya_Kuryakin

 

Call me shallow, but I'm taken by his jawline.

[+ quoththeraven]

Call me shallow, but I'm taken by his jawline.

 

Me too, and yet costar Robert Vaughn, with a more conventionally jutting jawline, held little to no attraction for me. Perhaps it was the differences in personality between the characters they played. Just as studio executives expected women to swoon over Captain Kirk of Star Trek only to find they gravitated to Mr. Spock instead.

[Rudynate]

Me too, and yet costar Robert Vaughn, with a more conventionally jutting jawline, held little to no attraction for me. Perhaps it was the differences in personality between the characters they played. Just as studio executives expected women to swoon over Captain Kirk of Star Trek only to find they gravitated to Mr. Spock instead.

 

And the lips don't hurt either.

[Meo]

Robert Conrad in Wild Wild West was never really my type, but as a youngster I always took notice all the times he was stripped shirtless and tortured on a spinning wheel or similar! GGRRRRR!

[Rudynate]

Robert Conrad in Wild Wild West was never really my type, but as a youngster I always took notice all the times he was stripped shirtless and tortured on a spinning wheel or similar! GGRRRRR!

 

I don't think I missed more than a couple of episodes of Wild, Wild West. I was completely in lust with Robert Conrad.

[body2body]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CNPZ0JYfo5Y/SFGwKW60XSI/AAAAAAAAATI/1EvD5l26gm4/s1600-h/GeorgeGay.jpgI loved Route 66. George Maharis was so handsome, but had a reputation for being "difficult". He left the show in '63 due to health problems ( incurable homosexuality?). A few years later he was arrested in a gas station restroom with a hairdresser and charged with lewd conduct. His career faltered and he moved to New York where he became involved with a wealthy man with whom he lived for many years. He began reappearing in public a few years ago still very handsome in his 70's.

[+ Truereview]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CNPZ0JYfo5Y/SFGwKW60XSI/AAAAAAAAATI/1EvD5l26gm4/s1600-h/GeorgeGay.jpgI loved Route 66. George Maharis was so handsome, but had a reputation for being "difficult". He left the show in '63 due to health problems ( incurable homosexuality?). A few years later he was arrested in a gas station restroom with a hairdresser and charged with lewd conduct. His career faltered and he moved to New York where he became involved with a wealthy man with whom he lived for many years. He began reappearing in public a few years ago still very handsome in his 70's.

You got me curious...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NzBAZ91bVcM/T06hETKwgVI/AAAAAAAAQ2Y/dsMJhGtPIww/s1600/hqlhqgnlyybbgqlq.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v3dyiHb7Ako/T06hCa00Z9I/AAAAAAAAQ2Q/vpVDmP_DHws/s1600/george_maharis_4_shirtless.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CNPZ0JYfo5Y/SmR0aImnzsI/AAAAAAAALyU/Bk5aVu-zJBU/s800/GeorgeMaharis09.jpg

 

IMO, I agree with you; he aged handsomely...

http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/temporadas/files/2010/12/GM2006.jpg

[KentuckyBoy]

Gardner McKay in Adventures in Paradise flipped my switches and then some! This TV series starring McKay was on from 1959-62. I have a nice face pic of McKay, but I cannot seem to be able to post it here.

[Reluctant Daddy]

When I was a kid, I had a huge crush on Jack Wild from H.R. Pufnstuf. I think it was that cute upturned nose.

 

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbffwl7a981qiij35o1_500.jpg

[Boink]

Damn! To this incredible list I was just about to add one of my all time favorites. And today I read he's died at age 91. RIP Hugh O'Brian!

 

http://i1.wp.com/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/hugh-obrian-dead.jpg?crop=15px%2C0px%2C1059px%2C590px&resize=670%2C377&ssl=1

[Rudynate]

Damn! To this incredible list I was just about to add one of my all time favorites. And today I read he's died at age 91. RIP Hugh O'Brian!

 

http://i1.wp.com/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/hugh-obrian-dead.jpg?crop=15px%2C0px%2C1059px%2C590px&resize=670%2C377&ssl=1

Another one of my favorites . . . from my home town no less.

[AdamSmith]

When I was a kid, I had a huge crush on Jack Wild from H.R. Pufnstuf. I think it was that cute upturned nose.

 

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbffwl7a981qiij35o1_500.jpg

OH GOD YES!

 

Not as pervy as it may seem, given he was 7 years older than me.

[BabyBoomer]

Damn! To this incredible list I was just about to add one of my all time favorites. And today I read he's died at age 91. RIP Hugh O'Brian!

 

http://i1.wp.com/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/hugh-obrian-dead.jpg?crop=15px%2C0px%2C1059px%2C590px&resize=670%2C377&ssl=1

 

Another hairy chested hunk.

 

~ Boomer ~

[Moondance]

And this (although I certainly didn't understand it then) may have been how "the Daddy thing" began...

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yxOG1HKBiHw/UtaBb7Lq6PI/AAAAAAAAMtY/7iGukvwQdc8/s1600/lloyd.jpg

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_04kZGR_ltmE/TArRX20wOYI/AAAAAAAAHwU/UMGCMIDSILo/s1600/Lloyd-Bridges-SEA-HUNT-Rolex-Submariner.jpg

 

[BasketBaller]

Baywatch was another show that I watched for all the wrong reasons.

[+ Truereview]

Baywatch was another show that I watched for all the wrong reasons.

I would vote that you watched it for all the right reasons.

I think we are contemporaries. I also had a crush on Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap and the two male leads in Saved by the Bell

 

Bakula then & now

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/1c/cd/531ccd4a03cb27d682d857ff620384d9.jpg

 

Saved by the Bell: Mark-Paul Gosselar & Mario Lopez then and now.

http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2013/06/04/585/n/3019466/1fb6dcd7e5c87d1e_808915121CELTi.xxxlarge_2x/i/Mark-Paul-Gosselaar.jpg

http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mpg-mcm/mark-paul-gosselaar-shirtless-photos-exclusive-03.jpg

 

http://gallery.superherofan.net/M/Mario-Lopez/saved-by-the-bell4x22--19.jpg

http://images.wikia.com/savedbythebell/images/f/fd/Mariolopez2.jpg

[Becket]

Starsky and Hutch

 

My favorite Bromance. They hugged from time to time. So sexy.

[+ Truereview]

Starsky and Hutch

 

My favorite Bromance. They hugged from time to time. So sexy.

http://bay2.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/GillianHug12.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eRnDMUkDhTA/T2GEYhSruCI/AAAAAAAAClg/GOQp6pK7DUM/s1600/Starsky+and+Hutch+12.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6hDZt1e0ofY/SU28DVbd-II/AAAAAAAACs8/U3lbUfqhnSY/s400/starsky.jpg

[Moondance]

Starsky and Hutch ... My favorite Bromance ...

This was, of course, years after David Soul broke up with Bobby Sherman, his "Here Come the Brides" TV brother.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/769/HCB352.jpg