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[niko]

My Netflix queue spit out the old Disney "Davy Crockett" series with Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen, and I watched it over the weekend for a bit of nostalgia.

I now remember why this stuck with me enough to put it in the queue to begin with... it's got some lovely buddy-ship chemistry between Davy and Georgie, despite the rather gee-shucks corniness of the whole thing.  There's this bit where the two are walking through a forest and Georgie is singing the Davy Crockett song, and Davy has this sort of fond exasperation about it that just speaks volumes.  Makes me squee a smidge. *g*

I wants me some fic.

(It does feel a bit odd to be getting a squishy like this over *Buddy Ebsen*, though.  I mean, dude, it's Jed Clampett!  And Barnaby!  Barnaby, fer chrissakes!  I feel like I ought to be making a fandom!Secrets post or something.  ^_^)

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It's old, but

[jnutley.livejournal.com]

Disney hit it out of the park with the Davy set. I love it to this day. Sadly, they were more focused on finding commercial exploits on the order of the Coon Skin Cap after that. Once Walt died they lost their grip on story-making for a while, the second Golden age came and went and now they're futzing around with committee built commercial vehicles again. When the current leaders leave Pixar (not a rumor, but all things eventually change) I fear Disney will be back in post Walt doldrums. :(

Re: It's old, but

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Poking around on the 'net the last day or two, I read something that said Disney *didn't* expect Davy to garner the kind of attention that it did. I found it interesting, considering what a commercial success they apparently got from it... I also thought there was *more* out there than this. Granted, the DVD I got is the cut-down movie versions, but to have sparked the whole coonskin cap thing, I wish there was more. :)

Re: It's old, but

[jnutley.livejournal.com]

The original Davy Crockett, as you may have already seen, was 5 one hour episodes, three historical, which were cut to make the movie you have, and two legendary, the Mike Fink arc. There's a set with the whole thing under the Disney Treasury line, but it's out of print so you'll end up paying collector prices when one comes up on Amazon.

Although it seems to have come after the fad, you can also see Fess Parker playing essentially the same character in the multi-season television series "Daniel Boone", which is available at a reasonable rate as a group of box sets.

http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Boone-Season-Fess-Parker/dp/B000GH3CDO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1278509174&sr=8-2