Lucky (TV series) - Wikipedia. Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from 1. Stories of a young man growing up on an airbase near Manila in the Philippines. Includes the first and only World Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the Philippines. This is the best TV theme from a show you never heard of! Lucky' was produced by Blake Edwards, but aired for only one season -- 1959-1960. Tommy Lasorda signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an undrafted free agent in 1945 and began his professional career with the Concord Weavers in 1945. Classic Movie Musicals: Actors and Actresses: B. Bon Voyage (1962) The Children's Hour (AAN, 1962) The President's Lady (1953).
1965 Review Events, News, Information, Entertainment, Technology, Music, Celebrity, TV, Movies, Sports, Business, History, Pop. Scroll Down Page Or Click Categories. About The Classic TV Database. This site is dedicated to the best old TV shows to air on television. Featured are series guides, theme songs, DVDs and more from the. September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, in which the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. Edwards directed and co- wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included the text, . He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky Goes Latin. Cast and format. Ross Martin portrayed Andamo. Pippa Scott had a recurring role as Maggie Shank- Rutherford, Lucky's girlfriend. Tom Brown also had a recurring role, as Lieutenant Rovacs of the city police. Mr. Lucky is an honest professional gambler with extraordinary luck. He carries a pocket watch whose chimes play the first five notes of the Mr. He and Andamo operate a floating casino aboard a luxury yacht anchored outside an American port city. Smith, publisher of the now- defunct Herald American Newspaper chain.) Their business brings them into contact with numerous criminals and people hiding from criminals. This continues even after Lucky changes their business to a floating restaurant (see . Lucky's actual name was never identified in the series. Lucky, starring Cary Grant. The film and the television series had little in common beside the title and the suave nature of the lead characters. The first episode of the series, . To stay in business, they must pay a weekly bribe of $1. Nehemiah Persoff). They lose everything because of Andamo's revolutionary activities: he uses Lucky's yacht, the Fortuna, to smuggle guns to the revolutionaries, and he helps a beautiful female assassin (Ziva Rodann) get into position to kill the president. The episode ends with Lucky and Andamo escaping in a small boat with nothing but the clothes on their backs. In the second episode, . Lucky wins enough money in a crap game to buy another yacht and a truck full of gambling equipment. He renames the yacht Fortuna II (pronounced . The city's marked police cars (black and white 1. Plymouth four- door sedans) are marked simply . Lucky drives a 1. Chrysler New Yorker convertible. Format change. This was done by order of the show's sponsor, Lever Brothers, due mainly to the 1. Dwight Whitney wrote about the format change in the following week's issue of TV Guide. It decided that soap and gambling don't mix. As the sponsor of one of the year's two big hits, Mr. Lucky (the other being Dennis the Menace), the powers- that- be sent down orders that the celebrated television character played by John Vivyan would henceforth have to be made respectabilized. Almost immediately Lucky turned up running a restaurant instead of gambling aboard his ship. By so ordering it seemed that the soap company was taking a big gamble itself. By taking the bite out of the character, it was running a very real risk of transforming one of the season's big hits into a big flop, to say nothing of fumigating the air so thoroughly that even soap suds might seem astringent after that. CBS could not find other sponsors to replace them, and finally cancelled the series. John Vivyan believed the program was pulled in order to give up its Saturday time slot, as a favor to Jack Benny, to a new drama in the fall of 1. Checkmate, which was produced by Benny's company, Ja. Mco Productions. Attempted revivals. Lucky movie for Paramount in the mid- 1. Peter Gunn for the studio. The failure of the film Gunn saw the project's abandonment. Aaron Spelling and Blake Edwards later teamed to develop a movie of the week in 1. Casino, starring Mike Connors as a similar gambler character. Edwards developed another Mr. Lucky revival for New World Television in the late 1. Peter Gunn revival for the studio. When the latter project failed to be picked up as a weekly series, New World pulled the plug on Mr. Lucky - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. The 4- disc set features all 3. CD featuring Henry Mancini's soundtrack.
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