Ozzie and Harriet

Too often these days the phrase "Ozzie and Harriet" is used as a perjorative to describe a days-gone-by era when if we weren't doing "duck-and-cover" we had our heads in the sand. I was raised watching "Ozzie and Harriet" and wouldn't mind a bit going back to those halcyon days. I'm partly a child of the 50s and partly of the 60s. If I had to vote - give me 60s music but I'll take the 50s please for most things.

I can't explain why but I often read the fine print (if you don't believe me ask my wife about any time we have to sign big stacks of documents!) and I often read stuff for no reason.

I got a free subscription to Daily Variety. For no other real reason other than I could and it allows me to sort of follow Hollywood business goings-on. Today I got one and in the back there is a huge (6X8 inches) ad labelled: Notification of Disposition of Collateral on page 23 of the March 23 edition (I guess free subs get sent via slow mail service.) For some unexplainable reason I started reading the ad. I guess I wanted to see just what was being disposed of that required such a big ad in Variety.

About 2/3 of the way down in the first paragraph begins a list of TV shows and similar entertainment properties. I guess someone went bankrupt and the lien holders want to sell off some of these assets to recover their investment.

Item # VI is Conan the Barbarian. Didn't Arnold the governator play in that? Surprised he hasn't jumped up to buy it back.

But the one that caught my roving eye was item XVIII: Ozzie and Harriet. I couldn't believe it. If I worked for Nick at Nite or TV Land, I'd be snatching this one up in a New York Minute. I'm half tempted to bid myself just to own this little slice of Americana.

The items can be bid for as a group or individually. So if anyone wants to partner with me and bid on Ozzie and Harriet - please comment. It doesn't say how many episodes or where the films or kinescopes or whatever are stored and in what condition but hey - it's Ozzie and Harriet! The bidding closes April 18 so time is short.