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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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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