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You are here: Home / I Hope You Will Forgive Me

I Hope You Will Forgive Me

by John Cole|  September 25, 201012:44 pm| 47 Comments

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At around 2:30 last night, Rosie had a dream and woke me up kicking me. Since then, I have had the following running through my head, for reasons I can not explain:

Sorry, but I had to share.

Connie Selleca was seriously hot back in the day.

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  1. 1.

    Politically Lost

    September 25, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    I hate to admit it, that show hit the air when I was the perfect age to actually like it. Around when I was 11 or 12.

    However, whenever the dog wakes me up in the middle of the night nowadays my thoughts usually tend to concentrate on more “adult themed” entertainment.

    To each his own, I guess.

  2. 2.

    leftist

    September 25, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    I remember that one of the reasons that show never took off was the fact that William Katt’s character was originally named “Hinkley.”

    I think they changed it.

  3. 3.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    September 25, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    From Connie Selleca’s bio on IMDB:

    According to a TV Guide article published during her role on “The Greatest American Hero” (1981), she was fond of playing bizarre practical jokes, usually involving faking her own suicide or death. Reportedly, then-husband Gil Gerard, got so used to coming home and finding her lying in a pool of fake blood, he developed a critiquing system for her.

  4. 4.

    Southern Beale

    September 25, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    Connie Selleca is in her mid-50s and is STILL hot but she’s married to John Tesh and they had to make a big deal about abstaining from sex until they were in Holy Matrimony and jeebus people but just keep that shit to yourself TMI already.

    Seriously why is it people who want gays & lesbians to keep their sexuality to themselves feel absolutely no qualms about telling everyone how they were virgins until their wedding night or how they didn’t have sex with their current spouse until the honeymoon?

  5. 5.

    psycholinguist

    September 25, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    You just don’t see the name Connie anymore, just a shame, evokes to me something a little racy – maybe it was this show being around in my hormone spurting years.

  6. 6.

    Southern Beale

    September 25, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    You just don’t see the name Connie anymore

    Brittany became the new Connie back in the 80s.

  7. 7.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    September 25, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    Believe it or not, George isn’t at home.

  8. 8.

    suzanne

    September 25, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    @psycholinguist: Connie is my former mother-in-law’s name. I have since come to associate that name with vapid, superficial bitches.

  9. 9.

    R-Jud

    September 25, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Brittany became the new Connie back in the 80s.

    Judging from the baby announcements I’m getting, “Ava” is the new Brittany.

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack

    September 25, 2010 at 1:17 pm

    I always liked Robert Culp. I have caught a few episodes of I Spy on Retro TV lately. Sadly, that does not hold up so well. Nothing wastes away faster than edgy in-joke hipness.

  11. 11.

    Derek

    September 25, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Man, you know you’re of a different generation if you think of the internet film reviewer The Cinema Snob, ; when you hear the theme from The Greatest American Hero, as opposed to the actual show.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 25, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    @DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.: Heh. Beat me to it.

    I’m thinking this started with “How did I get here? What’s happened to me that I’m getting woken up by a stray dog…. Look at what’s happened to me….”

  13. 13.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 1:39 pm

    Some day, people will speak in hushed tones of the genius of Mike Post’s TV themes in the same way that, today, we celebrate the melancholy beauty, martial longing, and contrapuntal inventiveness of John Phillip Sousa.

    .

  14. 14.

    leftist

    September 25, 2010 at 1:43 pm

    @psycholinguist:

    Her real name is “Concetta.”

    She’s one of those Eye Talians.

  15. 15.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    Politically Lost:

    … whenever the dog wakes me up in the middle of the night nowadays my thoughts usually tend to concentrate on more “adult themed” entertainment.

    You know, you can find humans on Match.com.

    .

  16. 16.

    ruemara

    September 25, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    What can I say? A whole day of Syfy running this makes me damn happy.

  17. 17.

    srv

    September 25, 2010 at 1:45 pm

    Wondering where DougJ is on the NYT pondering what the meaning of “hippie punching” is.

    And why wasn’t BJ on that blogger call with Axelrod? Have BJ readers been thrown under the bus?

  18. 18.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 25, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    And why wasn’t BJ on that blogger call with Axelrod? Have BJ readers been thrown under the bus?

    When the under-the-bus-throwers came around, we were out back having our faces slapped.

    Can’t be in two places at once, you know.

    I have to run. Three different people want to condescend to me.

    It’s hard out there for a liberal.

  19. 19.

    Southern Beale

    September 25, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    Judging from the baby announcements I’m getting, “Ava” is the new Brittany.

    No, I think “Ava” is the new “Emily” which was the new “Jennifer” which was the new “Brittany.”

    :-)

    I’m so glad we don’t have kids.

  20. 20.

    Nylund

    September 25, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Not only is it a great TV theme song, but as George Costanza showed us, it also makes one heck of an answering machine message.

  21. 21.

    srv

    September 25, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Yeah, I don’t see how any 40-something survived w/o Mike Post:

    Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, A-Team, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Blossom, CHiPs, The Commish, Doogie Howser, M.D., Hardcastle & McCormick, Hooperman, Hunter, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., NewsRadio, Profit, Quantum Leap, Renegade, Riptide, Silk Stalkings, Stingray, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Wiseguy, the BBC series Roughnecks, and Law & Order.

    Greatest American Hero hit #1 on the billboard charts.

  22. 22.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    @srv:

    Yeah, I don’t see how any 40-something survived w/o Mike Post.

    I can’t say I really hate his music as much as Barry Manilow’s, Air Supply’s, or Billy Joel’s, but it’s damn close.

    Post’s saving grace is that, unlike those three, at least he doesn’t have a fan base insisting, in the face of all reason and taste, that he’s actually a brilliant artist despised by the elite in his own time.

    Greatest American Hero hit #1 on the billboard charts.

    God, the 70s sucked.

    .

  23. 23.

    freelancer (itouch)

    September 25, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    @DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.:

    I’m too young for the show Cole posted, so this was the first thing that popped in my head as well.

  24. 24.

    Chat Noir

    September 25, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    @suzanne: Your posts are always pure platinum. This one made me LOL.

  25. 25.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    Steeplejack:

    Sadly, that does not hold up so well. Nothing wastes away faster than edgy in-joke hipness.

    (JGabriel looks around the room self-consiously, looks down, goes to a chair in the far corner of the room, buries head in hands, and despairs over the ephemerality of his voluminous blog comments.)

    .

  26. 26.

    srv

    September 25, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    @JGabriel: I just can’t get over that she left Gil Girard for John Tesh. Wasn’t Yanni available?

  27. 27.

    kdaug

    September 25, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    @srv: I hope Gil was hooking up with Erin Gray and forced her hand (she was way hotter than Connie back in the day, IMHO). But I understand your point – Yanni, the master of the pan flute, was revered for his mystical charms, so while the emcee of Inside Edition may have been tempting, Yanni’s musical call should have pulled her around to her senses.

    Perhaps she couldn’t hear the dog-whistles.

  28. 28.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    srv:

    I just can’t get over that she left Gil Girard for John Tesh.

    It’s always sad when people are lured into religious cults like Christian Fundamentalism and Objectivism.

    .

  29. 29.

    Death Panel Truck

    September 25, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    You just don’t see the name Connie anymore, just a shame, evokes to me something a little racy – maybe it was this show being around in my hormone spurting years.

    Umm…I have an Uncle Connie. Well, it says Conrad on his BC, but no one has ever called him that, not even his own mother. He’s now in his late seventies.

    Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, A-Team, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Blossom, CHiPs, The Commish, Doogie Howser, M.D., Hardcastle & McCormick, Hooperman, Hunter, MacGyver, Magnum, P.I., NewsRadio, Profit, Quantum Leap, Renegade, Riptide, Silk Stalkings, Stingray, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Wiseguy, the BBC series Roughnecks, and Law & Order.

    But Mannix topped them all. No one in TV history ever opened up a can of Whoop Ass on the baddies quite like Joe Mannix. Of course, he usually got his ass kicked early on in every episode, but despite a few broken ribs, a concussion, and Peggy’s pleading with him not to, he’d leave the hospital determined to get revenge. And no one was ever better at dropping a dude with a snubnose at 1000 yards. Funny how the baddies with rifles at close range always seemed to miss.

  30. 30.

    FlipYrWhig

    September 25, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @srv: I feel like the step from Gil Gerard to John Tesh is too far and incomprehensible on its own. It needs like a Lee Majors before it and a Greg Evigan in the middle.

  31. 31.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    September 25, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    @srv:

    I thought that was interesting.

  32. 32.

    Cain

    September 25, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    Hey I loved a lot of those show sound tracks. I can’t remember jack shit of any shows in the 90s or the 00s on whose shows I can recognize. You play the theme from Magnum PI or something and it is instantly recognizable.

    cain

  33. 33.

    Bex

    September 25, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    @srv:

    It was Yanni and Linda Evans. Forever. Until it wasn’t.

  34. 34.

    goatchowder

    September 25, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Connie Selleca grew up in Yonkers and she had the same orthodontist I did. I know this because an autographed headshot of her thanking the orthodontist for “this smile” was prominently displayed in the office.

    I never found her in the least bit attractive. She looked just like all the other uptight, sexually-repressed Italian Catholic girls I went to school with. Ain’t nothin hot about that. at least not to me.

  35. 35.

    JGabriel

    September 25, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Cain:

    I can’t remember jack shit of any shows in the 90s or the 00s on whose shows I can recognize.

    Really? This gets my vote for best (and most memorable) TV show theme, and it’s from the late 90’s.

    .

  36. 36.

    Chris G.

    September 25, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    Connie Seleca circa GAH reminds me a lot of Cobie Smulders, circa now.

  37. 37.

    Violet

    September 25, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    @Cain:

    Hey I loved a lot of those show sound tracks. I can’t remember jack shit of any shows in the 90s or the 00s on whose shows I can recognize. You play the theme from Magnum PI or something and it is instantly recognizable.

    The “Friends” theme topped the charts for eight weeks and is instantly recognizable. “Friends” ran 1994-2004.

  38. 38.

    gene108

    September 25, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    Theme songs have really gone down.

    Hawaii Five’O ‘s is legendary.
    Get Smart was catchy
    The Greatest American Hero’s can just stick in your head.
    Battle Star Galactica (the original) was also memorable
    Hell, the A-Team’s theme song was pretty kick-ass.

    What was the last really memorable theme song you remember?

  39. 39.

    suzanne

    September 25, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    @Chat Noir: Awww, why thank you! Heh.

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    September 25, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    @Gabriel:

    Present company excepted, of course. Ahem. I should have made that clear.

  41. 41.

    Ab_Normal

    September 25, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    @gene108: One of my favorite jokes about Torchwood is that it should win a BAFTA for “Least Hummable TV Theme Song”. (Alas, I can’t remember who to credit this to.)

  42. 42.

    Donald G

    September 25, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    @JGabriel:
    On the theme song for GAH topping the Billboard charts back in the day:

    God, the 70s sucked.

    GAH debuted in March 1981, around the time that John Hinkley shot Ronald Reagan. Shortly after the shooting the “Ralph Hinkley” character’s name was changed to “Ralph Hanley” for several episodes before reverting back to Hinkley for the second season. It was canceled during its third season.

    I know of very few people who consider the period from 1981-83 to be the seventies.

    While it has been fashionable since the eighties to rag on the seventies as sucking (and yes, the period did have its problems), the level of its suckitude is overstated. I have a fond spot for the period post-Watergate and pre- Iranian Hostage Crisis.

  43. 43.

    Donald G

    September 25, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    @Ab_Normal:

    @gene108: One of my favorite jokes about Torchwood is that it should win a BAFTA for “Least Hummable TV Theme Song”. (Alas, I can’t remember who to credit this to.)

    Murray Gold, I believe, since the TORCHWOOD theme is a rearrangement of a piece that first appeared in DOCTOR WHO: “Army of Ghosts”, although most of the music on Torchwood is arranged by Ben Foster, IIRC.

  44. 44.

    The next to last samurai

    September 25, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    I liked the jaunty toe tapping theme of star trek t.n.g much better than i liked the show itself. I used to fancy that, behind his blank expression, data was thinking: if those klingons start blathering about their honor one more time, i am going to rip their lips off.

  45. 45.

    Donald G

    September 25, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    @Death Panel Truck:

    But Mannix topped them all. No one in TV history ever opened up a can of Whoop Ass on the baddies quite like Joe Mannix. Of course, he usually got his ass kicked early on in every episode, but despite a few broken ribs, a concussion, and Peggy’s pleading with him not to, he’d leave the hospital determined to get revenge. And no one was ever better at dropping a dude with a snubnose at 1000 yards. Funny how the baddies with rifles at close range always seemed to miss.

    Mannix was one of my must-sees as a kid, although the Lalo Shifrin theme doesn’t scream hard-hitting private eye to me. To me, the theme sounds like it should accompany a program about glamorous Vegas showgirls and their promoter.

    It’s a catchy tune, but it seems misplaced with the program it accompanies. As a theme song, it’s no “Mission: Impossible”

  46. 46.

    Batocchio

    September 26, 2010 at 12:48 am

    That was a popular show with the kids back in the day.

  47. 47.

    sebmojo

    September 27, 2010 at 6:45 am

    Robert Culp was the Nathan Fillion of the 70’s – badass but sensitive. And he was Dr Breen from Halflife 2 – truly an awesome pedigree. RIP.

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