Tbirds on TV

[Bill Brown]

The latest E-Bay commercial has a light blue 55 T-bird for us classic birders watching.

[Catbyrd]

Bad News for Miss Match

From USA Today:

"That's a troubling sign for the few clear clinkers of the season: ABC's Threat Matrix (predictably suffering against Friends and Survivor); CBS' The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H.; NBC's Miss Match; Fox's Luis; WB's One Tree Hill and Run of the House; and UPN's Jake 2.0 and The Mullets. All were distant third-place finishers — or worse — in their premieres.

But it's encouraging news for a handful of shows that hope to hold onto early momentum. That list includes CBS' Charlie Sheen comedy Two and a Half Menand crime drama Cold Case, the week's top new sitcom and drama; NBC's Las Vegas, ABC's Hope & Faith and UPN's All of Us, a family sitcom produced by Will and Jada Smith.

CBS' Joan of Arcadia easily topped NBC's Miss Match in a contest for female viewers on Friday, while Sunday's legal battle between NBC's The Lyon's Den and ABC's overhauled The Practice wound up in Lyon's favor."

[K.P.]

I just checked the History Channel site, and couldn't find Shifting gears episode 2 for sale. If somebody watches episode 3 which is on Oct 4 at 6 or 6:30 (I already forgot!) EDT maybe we can get the phone # to call. Episode 3 airs twice, then episode 4 twice. I saw a summary of# 3, (no Birds listed) but I couldn't pull up a summary of #4 although it looked like a hyperlink.

[MATBird]

I saw a Red one on "The District", Saturday night, 10-4-03

[Skip]

I checked with The History Channel Store re: purchasing a copy of the Shifting Gears from last week. I was advised that there is not a copy of this available, at least yet. I'll keep checking.

Skip

[ZOBCHEK]

I could just barely make out the one Alicia Silverstone was driving on Friday night from the hood scoop. The DSB color looked gray in the evening light. Great car..... shallow show.

Jim

[Catbyrd]

Originally posted by ZOBCHEK
I could just barely make out the one Alicia Silverstone was driving on Friday night from the hood scoop. The DSB color looked gray in the evening light. Great car..... shallow show.

Jim

I thought it looked like it was a white one this week!

[REDH0TR0D]

T-Birds/Cubs playoff games

State Farm has been running two different commercials during the Cubs playoff games (on Fox in the Chicago area - don't know if they're running nationwide). The first one shows a car cover being removed from a Torch Red parked in a garage. The second one shows a black Bird in a couple of scenes - one on the road and one parked.

Ford hasn't show ANY commercials showcasing a Bird in a long time.

Pretty sad when an insurance company is giving us more exposure than the manufacturer is...

Dave

[ZOBCHEK]

Tom Brokaw was driving a DSB on the NBC Nightly News last night. Too bad they had those ugly cameras mounted on the hood during the approach shots.

Jim

[FUN X 3]

Zobchek- I agree on Miss Match. I endured 45 minutes last Friday night trying to catch a glimpse of the DSB Bird and finally gave up. What a lame excuse for a TV show.

[ZOBCHEK]

Phil,

The car looked gray, didn't it? It was a lot like the amount of time you saw the coral 007 version in the movie...... very disappointing.

[FUN X 3]

Jim- I never saw it. I got so disgusted with the show that I gave up waiting to see the Bird.

[03ShadowBird]

I saw in interview last night with Willie Brown and some tv anchor. They were driving in a Blue T bird with the top down discussing the recall vote.

[jerrym3]

Watching a bad show just to see a car brought back a lot of old memories.

As a kid in the late 50's, I used to watch an hour long show hosted by Chrysler just to see the new "forward look", Chrysler's name for the 56 model line with fins.

I had no idea what the shows were about, but I just had to see the commercials.

Almost the same story for The Ed Sullivan show (Lincoln/Mercury), although he did have some acts which appealed to little kids.

When Good Morning Miami first aired, they had a shot of a 64 Ford convert in the opening scenes. The car, color and all, was/is my car's twin. I think my 64 Ford will easily outlast that show.

[Dave123]

ALCS Game tonite also showed the State Farm Commercial with the two birds. Love these cameo's....