77 Sunset Strip Twisting with Grace Lee Whitney (longer version)
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- čas přidán 20. 12. 2023
- This is a longer clip of Grace Lee Whitney's appearance on the "Penthouse Row" episode of 77 Sunset Strip. This includes some dialog and a bit more dancing. Grace made dozens of television appearances before you made her indelible mark on the Star Trek universe. Take a look at Before the Trek, a book on Amazon.com that features nearly 200 episodes across classic shows from the 1950s and 60s, following the embryonic careers of Gene Roddenberry, Grace Lee Whitney William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and other StarTrek icons. Learn how their careers intersected and Roddenberry chose them as an acting strike force to make the most revolutionary television show ever. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4CT1L1
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77 Sunset Strip and the competition, Surfside 6, were favorites when I was a kid.
Those two shows didn't compete with each other. They were both produced by the same studio (Warner Bros.) and aired on the same network (ABC).
@@scotpens I should have been more clear. I meant that they were competitors on a creative basis, and not an advertising basis.
I wish they would bring back 77 Sunset Strip on those oldie channels, great era.
I get a kick out of watching those old shows, brings back memories makes me almost feel young, again.
METV+
@@JJ-xb4wi I get ME TV, can't find ME TV+.
Indubidubly 🙂
@@richwood1522 METV+ is on cable, but I'm on antenna only for years. I joined FRNDLY TV streaming service, and it's on there, plus other networks I like, INSP and FETV and Heroes/Icons. For only $6.99 a month - less than the cost of ONE McDonald's meal.
@@richwood1522 I looked it up and they are in like 30 Markets. They also play Hawaiian Eye on the weekends. Next month on Bluray the Alaskans TV series with Roger Moore will be available. I bought Colt 45 last month with Wayde Preston.
I want to thank you so much for this video. When I was a boy I had such a crush on Grace lee Whitney in this Star Trek days. This is the first time I have ever seen this clip; what a treat.
Yep...
'Crazy man!' Wikipedia: Edward Byrne Breitenberger (July 30, 1932 - January 8, 2020), known professionally as Edd Byrnes, was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the television series 77 Sunset Strip. He also was featured in the 1978 film Grease as television teen-dance show host Vince Fontaine, and was a charting recording artist with *"Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" (with Connie Stevens).*
The brightest star ever seen on STAR TREK.
I was born in 57...this was my favorite show!
I was born in 1951 and I liked this television show.
Same here. I was born in 1951, and I have fond memories of this TV show. I bet you also liked Peter Gunn.
I liked to watch this show on TV, so long ago, today I tried to dance as they do, and discovered I still can despite the fact I am 78 years old now. I liked to twist when I was a teenager, and can still do it.
Awesome!! This is the BEST twisting footage I have seen on CZcams! Hey Kids, this is what the twist dance craze really looked like.
I was 12 y.o. in 1959 and "77 Sunset Strip" was my favorite show along with "The Naked City", "Highway Patrol, "Peter Gunn" and "Route 66". Yes, when my parents let me see it with them. I wasn't very fond of " Father Knows Best" and " the Beaver..", those kind of shows.
I thought that my parents wouldn't let me watch "Naked City" because it showed naked people......they never explained why, maybe it was on to late or had crime involved?
You liked some pretty serious shows for a kid.
@@davedee4382 .. no but there was no choice, no internet or porn.
Watched all of those PLUS the multitude of westerns!!!!
@@kingforaday8725 ... Endless ... It's true to say that there were more shows and better quality with 3 channels than today. We didn't have time to see everything in one evening. It's really unbelievable but true!
Grace is smokin'
You can see her as the Femme Fataal in Outer Limits
A gangster's jilted girl in Mannix.
Big Valley, Hawaiian Eye, Roaring 20s, Batman, Ironsides, Bold Ones, Name if the Game....etc. typically a party girl, gangster chick, bar waitress or a stripper.
She started getting serious character roles in the late 70s before her return to Star Trek.
Through nearly 200 episodes across classic shows from the 1950s and 60s, follow the embryonic careers of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Grace Lee Whitney, and other Trek icons. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4CT1L1
@@STho205 Miss Whitney was also part of the all female band that backed Marilyn Monroe in SOME LIKE IT HOT .
Miss Whitney was very sexy , good for us . She lived a long life despite her various problems , good for her .
Let’s twist again
Like we did last Summer!
Thanks for this great clip. They took the twist to a whole new level.
You bet
Oh yeah Baby! This weekly TV series was the COOLEST!! Full of hip Cats and Kittens! I was the youngest in my family, born in '54, with three older siblings. We watched this without fail every week! My Dad was was a big Peter Gunn fan at that time!🎵🎶😎
Always had a big crush on Grace from watching her on Star Trek. She sure had it goin on. 😁
What a groovy time. Daddy-O.
Wow..Grace is lovely !...
Edd Byrnes never took his eyes off her hips. Can’t say I blame him.
She's the reason the TOS women's uniforms were so short. She pushed for it, to show off those great legs! Janice Rand and Spock have always been my 2 fave ST characters.
Gerald Lloyd Kookson, III, LEND ME YOUR COMB!
What’s not to love about this … the sixties were just about to start in reality
Try doing that these days, with all the takeaway food we consume on a daily basis.
Most people cant even stand up these days. !
Full with the Twist! An iconic series, which showed luxurious Cadillacs, dazzling blondes and successful detectives with women.
Love the TV show!
I was in high school when the twist came out. There were reports of backs, knees, and hips thrown out of joint from out-of-shape people getting carried away while doing the twist.
I heard the game Twister actually put FDR in that wheelchair. But my high school had a bad history department.
These cats are too cool for school.
The casting couch days - man i miss those days
Connie Stevens was a doll ! :)
That's not Connie stevens
I watched this show when I was young. I was in the Grease stage play 2 years ago. I had to explain to the teenagers who Kookie was.
Mrs. Whitney's 8 or so appearances on Star Trek left a *_delible_* mark. Not a great actress and/or they didn't give her much to work with. Instead of Yeoman Rand, they put a different hot girl in tight clothes each week.
After 7 episodes they decided to switch Kirk from Matt Dillon to the Adam Cartwright archetype...and start having a starlette du jour every other episode.
Therefore they wrote out Miss Kitty after Miri but kept Doc (Spock) and Fetus/Chester (Bones) along with Newly the gunsmith (Scotty).
The writers and producers had raped her character onscreen twice, harassed her in the halls and she did bondage in Miri. The rest of the time she was serving coffee or listening to Spock insult her.
It is unfortunate for actors, but shows often tweek the formula in their first 13 episode package.
The real tragedy is The Executive tried to get a roll on the couch while firing her...figuring she was desperate to save her job as she had worked hard in pre production. She realized later that she was gone no matter what, but thought at the time it was due to the incident.
Maybe the two mistresses on the set wanted her gone too...or maybe they sympathized with her.
Before the Trek" Before warp speed and photon torpedoes, the stars of Star Trek were working actors hustling for their big breaks. This fascinating book chronicles the early television roles of the talent that would later achieve sci-fi immortality. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN4CT1L1
@@blankreb1 Shatner had his own series the year before (For the People). Nimoy was a popular character actor in B films and TV. George Takei was in bigger movies, and was during TOS S2. Walter Koenig was a Sci Fi and generic screen writer. Kelley, Douhan, Barrett and Nichols were working character actors.
@@STho205 there's an old "Millionaire" episode with Deforest Kelly playing a doctor and his wife wants to move up in society and get him into politics and believe it or not he tells her : "I'm a Doctor not a Politician"....absolutely true...
I gather it's supposed to be a casual night out for all the locals in the storyline? But you can see they're almost all professional dancers for sure.
I never saw the Twist, done this way...very good...very cool!
Kookie's trying real hard to do those moves
I was so in love with Edd Byrnes when I was 12 years old.
I liked this show more than the other contemporary Warner Bros. detective shows and was a fan of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. As for the twist, these days it looks to me plain embarrassing.
aah 1959 .. The Beatniks and " Cloud Nine ". Just listen to that song: " Like Young " by Ella Fitzgerald live in 1959, It's a beatniks song and there are the lyricks : ....
LIKE YOUNG (1959)( Ella Fitzgerald )
I'm out doin' the usual places ... And I'm livin' it, like young
Then I dig me this face of all faces ... He's the craziest, like young.
He drinks coffee at Cafe Espresso ... He reads Kerouac, like young
He goes where all the angry young men go ... Recites poetry, like young
We start blowin' the pad around eleven ... And we're homin' it, like now
We spin records on cloud number seven ... And he's reachin' me, like wow
I'm all unstrung 'cause man ... He's got me feelin' like young
If he were to brush me and go ... I'm starting to wear my hair again
Just like a square again
I keep gettin' the kookiest notion ... I think maybe it's, like love
I've been feelin' a crazy emotion ... I think baby it's, like love
Now we're ridin' a rainbow to Cloudsville, And we're makin' it, like young
Love, soft as April snow .... Love, warm as candle glow
Love, love is easy to go .... I'm all unstrung 'cause man
He's got me feeling like young
Without him I'm no good at all ... Without him I'm less than a decimal
And in a festival
I keep gettin' the kookiest notion I think maybe it's, like love
I've been feelin' a crazy emotion I think baby, it's like love
Now we're ridin' a rainbow to Cloudsville or Wowsville
We're makin' it, makin' it, like, like young ...
*** E. Fitzgerald, " Like Young ", Playboy Club, 1959 : czcams.com/video/tj57oW68oAM/video.html
Theses shows had really cool theme songs, my favorite was Peter Gunn. Now that was cool!🤣
Mr. Lucky.
"Bat Masterson." It had kind of a hokey opening theme but I remember it pretty well. And "Surfside Six" too.
@@57highland I liked it, lol.
@@richwood1522 "Oh, when the West was very young .... there lived a man named Masterson .... He wore a cane and derby hat; they called him Bat ... Bat Masterson!"
@@57highland You would be correct, I still see the show around, catch it, when I😀 can.
A great tune!
A long dance segment for a television show.
Remember this is before many households had remote controls for their TVs. Today, most folks would be saying, "I wonder what's on channel eleven?"
Hope one day! They put the whole series on DVD 📀 as “Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye” 🤗🥰😬
God, I remember seeing reruns of "Surfside Six" late at night when I was a kid. I remember the opening theme: "Surfside Six! In Miami Beach!"
@@57highland had to watch these shows, in my Dad’s room 🤗because my sister would watch these Stupit Shows 😬
@@frankmartinez4856 Wow, so you had two TV's in your home? That was pretty rare for that era.
@@frankmartinez4856 Wow, so you had two TV's in your home? That was pretty rare for that era.
@@57highland yes! They were Black/White(no color, yet) my Dad worked in Palm Spring, as a waiter at the Howard Manor (think 🤔was owned by Frank Sinatra’s Mom) we (dad) had two 1955 Lincoln Capri H/T’s, Black/White 2dr, Black/Pink 4dr 😬
Can't help but wonder how many takes it took to get this scene.
Twist = Elaine's "little kicks".
This is the era when dance began to die.
Thanks for the L. A. Twist.
Grace Lee Whitney will forever be Yeoman Rand.
She was born in Ann Arbor, MI! Go Blue!
I sure wish I could move like that again.
Kookie Kookie lend me your comb
エド？バーンス大好き💓♥️❤️懐かしい、正統派美男子、1960年代私が13才あの頃、白黒テレビにしがみついて、見いっい、た自分が子供だった、てことですね😊
Now, that's kookie!
Cookie cookie lend me your comb!
❤️❤️❤️
I was enjoying this until I saw it was an AMAZON ad. No thanks.
I respect that.
Long ago the Twist was considered immoral. Never mind that the dancers do not touch each other.
When was this recorded? From what show?
I don't watch OTA TV now, just those avalible on streaming , so don't know (please comment if these are or have been on the "nostalgic" TV channels), if 77 Sunset Strip ("Kookie.., Kookie.., Lend Me Your Comb !") or that dreamboat, dish, series, Hawaiian Eye have been re-run again I don't remember in the original run (circa 1959), of HE, watching it as much as 77.
I wonder how long they had rehearsed this dance plus the number of re-takes…would have made me tired..😊!
Have a great day!
they're doing the "peppermint twist" (I think)
Dars ole Kookie
Forget the assistant director - who's the choreographer?
17’ distance from each other required.
Van Williams is dreamy but I would have loved to have gotten a better look at Russ Tamblyn's twisting style. He is a great dancer.
Grace Lee had quite a rack!! No wonder she was Kirk's personal yeoman!!
The Twist was one of the easiest dances ever. Chubby Checker who introduced us to this 1960's dance craze was very adept and neat in his demonstrations. His "Let's Twist again' is one of the best examples. The dance was cool, but here dancers are shown exerting themselves beyond belief. Legs were placed more together than flying apart as depicted in this upload. Troy Donahue and Connie Stevens were very neat twisters, who were early shown at the Whisky a Go-Go. Ed Byrnes [of 77 Sunset Strip fame] just tries too hard. One must learn to swing to the music. That's all there is to it. Listen to Speedy Conzalves by Pat Boone and Twist away to glory!
Entertainment dance 💃
Granny twists too hard she'll dislocate her hip !
Lend me your comb...
Cookie ain't no dancer
Yummy cuttin' it
Shake that money maker..
smithsonian record of white people dancing mid 20 th century.
But they really aren’t doing the twist. Somebody should’ve showed him how to do the twist.
it's the L.A. twist with a combination of the limbo , the jerk and a forerunner of The Bump which came in around the disco era...quite frankly they look like they're having epileptic fits.
Wow that looks pretty awkward.
Gee, that was grim.
Kookie cannot dance
The cops musta framed Kooky and hid chick!