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Many a Saturday watching Red and Sunday evenings waiting for the "Get' em Jim!!!" and some critter gets wrestled out of some swamp or jungle all to the astonishment of a young, sheltered mind.
 
I don't remember Forest Rangers, barely remember Red, but loved Marlin and Jim. I got confused by the thread for a second because I was thinking of Possum Lodge, lol. I guess I'm just middle aged.
 
Loved it as a kid! Wish they could put out DVD of series.

Oh yeah, Forest Rangers too. Went to sleep many a night dreaming of living in a wilderness fort!
 
Boy, does that bring back memories! Red Fisher, Ted Peck captured my imagination, big time. Everybody on the Ted Peck Show would be fogging Sportsman cigarettes. My friend used to collect the different flies featured on the back of the cigarettes boxes.

Forest Rangers was pretty corny. Was that the one with "Dennis McGubgub" the pilot or a game warden?

Years ago, I was sitting in on a Firearm Safety course. The subject of "scoping" other hunters came up. One kid said, "But they used to do that on the Red Fisher show!".

How about The Last of the Mohicans?
 
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Boy, does that bring back memories! Red Fisher, Ted Peck captured my imagination, big time. Everybody on the Ted Peck Show would be fogging Sportsman cigarettes. My friend used to collect the different flies featured on the back of the cigarettes boxes.

Forest Rangers was pretty corny. Was that the one with "Dennis McGubgub" the pilot or a game warden?

Years ago, I was sitting in on a Firearm Safety course. The subject of "scoping" other hunters came up. One kid said, "But they used to do that on the Red Fisher show!".

How about The Last of the Mohicans?
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Dennis MvGubgub was the pilot on Adventures in Rainbow Country... same lines as Forest Rangers ..but only 2 years and starred the best Miss Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell
 
Ah. The old memory bank has burned a few wires. :p My Dad and I watched Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford.

How about the Jim Coleman Show, right after boxing. Everybody was smoking Marguerite cigars.

I don't remember who sponsored the Red Fisher Show.
 
I have the same signed book. Got it at the Toronto Sportsmen Show. (Yep, feeling old right about now)

IIRC, he was always betting a jug for the biggest fish....
 
By the end of its run, the Mutual of Omaha show was exposed as fake, edited "stories" made up from random shots, zoo footage, and sometimes actually harmful to the animals they showed. Even as a kid I didn't much appreciate the stereotype that Red Fisher portrayed. Red Green is a direct consequence of Fisher's strange ideas about what an "outdoors man was supposed to be.

Sorry to be so skeptical, but even when I was 12 I didn't like Fisher. I thought at the time that the Mutual of Omaha show was pretty neat, but learned later that they were not what they wanted me to believe. It was a sad lesson. And now I'm a skeptic. Hmmmm ........
 
I watched Red Fisher now and then as an adult, and I don't consider myself old just well experienced. I didn't much care for him or the show. He was full of sh!!t 90% of the time. The last time I seen Red Fisher was many years ago down on Pelee Island during one of the Pheasant hunts. He was old and crippled up and his friends had him sitting on a chair on the side of the road and they were trying to drive a few pheasants out by him so he could get some shooting.
 
My Grandfather fished with Mr Red Fisher once. They met somehow while my Grandfather was president of the Kent cloverleaf gun club in Chatham Ontario. My Grandfather passed when I was ten yrs old. I never heard his opinion of Red, but my Grandmother said he was an AHole.lol

But she also said my Dad was an ahole many a times LOL.

Man that show was bad no sound just Red narrating and some crummy music !
 
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