It just occurred to me; The Flying Nun is a preposterous idea for a TV show...

[Dennis S]

datbeme wrote:
I can't think of a clever way to convince you all to join me on my bandwagon, but I really can't stand Sally Field. She PEAKED with the Flying Nun.

You can't stand her. You really can't stand her.

[srf1957]

datbeme wrote:
I can't think of a clever way to convince you all to join me on my bandwagon, but I really can't stand Sally Field. She PEAKED with the Flying Nun.

I thought it 2 years before that.

[decay]

billb wrote:
she has no belly button !

she's EVE?

[Blankity Blank]

hal wrote:
I remember this show being on TV when I was a kid and remember seeing it a couple of times.

Storyline:
The large headgear on 90-pound novice Sister Bertrille, of the convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico, enables her to fly in any stiff breeze. Her gift enables her to aid others, whether they wish it or not.

What on earth possessed Hollywood to produce this? What drugs was the originator on at the time? I'm trying to imagine writing a story line week after week. What did the Vatican think about it?.

I wouldn't be shocked if it was something as cut and dried as the success of Mary Poppins two or three years before that planted the seed. Writing it week to week? There were and are plenty of writers, not all of them bad, who can put on the 'hired gun' hat and crank out scripts for whatever you like as long as the checks keep coming. A family to feed, kids to put through college, the great American novel to write when the nest egg is fat enough.

As for the audience, being enough of a geezer to contrast and compare then and now, TV was 'just TV' more back in the day; people didn't define themselves as much by what they consumed. So watching a goofy show about a nun with hat that let her fly wasn't some intractable blight on one's image.

Today it seems to be an integral part of the culture. We plaster logos and catchphrases on our clothes and gab endlessly about ratings, demographics, time slots, and 'show runners', parsing shows out to granular levels.

I'm not sure if I'd ultimately judge it as worse than 'the good old days', but it definitely is different.

My 2¢.

[Black]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=hal]
I remember this show being on TV when I was a kid and remember seeing it a couple of times.

Storyline:
The large headgear on 90-pound novice Sister Bertrille, of the convent San Tanco in Puerto Rico, enables her to fly in any stiff breeze. Her gift enables her to aid others, whether they wish it or not.

What on earth possessed Hollywood to produce this? What drugs was the originator on at the time? I'm trying to imagine writing a story line week after week. What did the Vatican think about it?.

I wouldn't be shocked if it was something as cut and dried as the success of Mary Poppins two or three years before that planted the seed. Writing it week to week? There were and are plenty of writers, not all of them bad, who can put on the 'hired gun' hat and crank out scripts for whatever you like as long as the checks keep coming. A family to feed, kids to put through college, the great American novel to write when the nest egg is fat enough.

As for the audience, being enough of a geezer to contrast and compare then and now, TV was 'just TV' more back in the day; people didn't define themselves as much by what they consumed. So watching a goofy show about a nun with hat that let her fly wasn't some intractable blight on one's image.

Today it seems to be an integral part of the culture. We plaster logos and catchphrases on our clothes and gab endlessly about ratings, demographics, time slots, and 'show runners', parsing shows out to granular levels.

I'm not sure if I'd ultimately judge it as worse than 'the good old days', but it definitely is different.

My 2¢. (tu)

[OWC Jamie]

datbeme wrote:
I can't think of a clever way to convince you all to join me on my bandwagon, but I really can't stand Sally Field. She PEAKED with the Flying Nun.

Did not even like Norma Rae. ?

[vision63]

billb wrote:
[quote=datbeme]
I can't think of a clever way to convince you all to join me on my bandwagon, but I really can't stand Sally Field. She PEAKED with the Flying Nun.

Did not even like Norma Rae. ?
Really.