Post by cnyguy on Feb 23, 2023 21:04:06 GMT -5
Ralph and I both like to watch some of the old television shows on the two classic TV channels we can get. Sometimes in the shows from the 1950's, 60's and 70's that we have on, a parrot makes a guest appearance. That happened in two shows that were on yesterday and today. As a parrot person it's always fun to see a parrot on a TV show and to try to identify what kind of parrots they are. Not always easy in black-and-white shows. It looks like an Amazon, but which kind? 
Yesterday an episode of "Leave It to Beaver" shown on FETV featured an Amazon. And this morning an umbrella cockatoo was in an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies." The cockatoo had been trained to put coins into a piggy bank.
Not long ago I watched an episode of "Perry Mason" titled "The Case of the Perjured Parrot," based on the original Erle Stanley Gardner novel with the same title. An Amazon played an important part in that show and even went to court. Parrot people would be disgusted with the nasty round cage the parrot was stuck in for the filming of the show. I imagine that he had better accommodations in real life, though knowledge about housing and feeding parrots was rather limited in the 1950's.
Maybe you've seen some parrots in other TV shows and movies that you've watched.
Yesterday an episode of "Leave It to Beaver" shown on FETV featured an Amazon. And this morning an umbrella cockatoo was in an episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies." The cockatoo had been trained to put coins into a piggy bank.
Not long ago I watched an episode of "Perry Mason" titled "The Case of the Perjured Parrot," based on the original Erle Stanley Gardner novel with the same title. An Amazon played an important part in that show and even went to court. Parrot people would be disgusted with the nasty round cage the parrot was stuck in for the filming of the show. I imagine that he had better accommodations in real life, though knowledge about housing and feeding parrots was rather limited in the 1950's.
Maybe you've seen some parrots in other TV shows and movies that you've watched.
