{"id":2808,"date":"2009-12-29T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2808"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:01:59","slug":"more-blasts-from-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2808","title":{"rendered":"More Blasts From My Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know I\u2019m terrible for taking long, agonizing walks down Memory Lane<\/a>, right? Well\u2026 I\u2019m at it again!<\/p>\n

Out of the blue a few days ago I started humming the theme song to The Littlest Hobo<\/a>.  When I told my husband about it he had never heard of the show so I started singing the tune to him.  Then today I saw my friend Gail<\/a> posted a video with the same tune.   Most of you probably have no idea what it is, but if you were a child in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s in Canada, this will probably tug at your heartstrings the same as it does mine.<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t imagine a child out there who didn\u2019t love The Littlest Hobo.  I know I definitely did.<\/p>\n

\"LittleJoe\"<\/a> Then yesterday I was talking with my friend Heather<\/a> when she brought up Little House on the Prairie<\/a>, yet another of my childhood faves!  I have always been a huge fan of Michael Landon<\/a>, who I still consider to be one of the greatest TV stars of all times.  <\/p>\n

So handsome, so talented\u2026 *sigh*  I literally weeped when he died.   I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one.  I gather he was a bit of a heartthrob!  Thinking of him brought on an entirely new set of memories\u2026 <\/p>\n

Would could forget him as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza<\/a>??<\/p>\n

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Then of course, the role most people of our generation will remember him for, playing Charles Ingalls in Little House, based on the books by the real<\/em> Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Finally, another favorite of mine and his last major role, Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven<\/a>.  Big ups to Victor French<\/a> too for this one.<\/p>\n

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I honestly don\u2019t know anyone who had such major and classic roles in television as Michael Landon.  Back in the day when TV shows were less about shock value and more about just honest to goodness family entertainment.  I miss that sometimes.<\/p>\n

Heather and I also got to talking about Anne of Green Gables<\/a>.  Quite possibly one of my favorite stories of all time. No wait, it\u2019s definitely my favorite story of all time, there is no doubt.   I first saw the movies as a child and was completely enamored with Anne (WITH AN E), her Kindred Spirit Diana Barry, her darling Matthew and even Marilla with her strict but loving ways.   I grew up dreaming of having a Gilbert Blythe of my own, but happy to love hers in the meantime.   Always wondering why everyone thought Anne was so ugly because I personally thought Megan Follows<\/a> was beautiful in the film, even with her short hair.<\/p>\n

How could anyone not just love the chemistry between them and not watch it again and again\u2026 and again and then one or two more times?!<\/p>\n

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Ok not an opening theme, but that\u2019s not going to cover how magical the story of Anne and Gilbert was, now is it?  I so totally cried just watching that.  Don\u2019t judge.<\/p>\n

Who am I kidding.  I STILL<\/em> love him!  I\u2019ll also be marathon watching the Anne movies tomorrow, you can bet your ass on that.<\/p>\n

It would be wrong of me to not give Road to Avonlea<\/a> an honorable mention here.  While I did watch it and enjoy it, it was never came close to the OMG FAVE status of Anne of Green Gables or Little House on the Prairie.  It was still a lovely family show though.<\/p>\n

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Aaaah, I am so nostalgic right now.  I think if I ever had a child, a little girl especially, I would buy box sets of all these shows for them to watch.  There aren\u2019t enough heart warming TV shows with good <\/em>messages out there anymore, and that is such a pity.<\/p>\n

There are other shows I would have added, but I\u2019ve already spoken about them in the past.<\/p>\n

Like FAME in I’m Gonna Live Forever!<\/a>
Also, The Facts of Life in You Take the Good, You Take the Bad<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

What shows make you all nostalgic?!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know I\u2019m terrible for taking long, agonizing walks down Memory Lane, right? Well\u2026 I\u2019m at it again! Out of the blue a few days ago I started humming the theme song to The Littlest Hobo.  When I told my husband about it he had never heard of the show so I started singing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5,7],"tags":[9,105,13,14,132],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-man-thats-sad","category-memory-lane","tag-homesickness","tag-make-me-cry","tag-movies","tag-tv","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5262,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/5262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}