I need to get you to a Sounders game, Grant.

"Here Comes The Brides" was indeed a dumb show, but it made an impression on me for some reason (which is doubly weird, since I have always hated westerns).

When I was just a little Catalina, Seattle was that mod town with the Space Needle and Monorail that had the TV show about it.

Of course "Here Come The Brides" was a stinker. That wasn't the point. The point was...Bobby Sherman. BOBBY SHERMAN, okay?? That's all that mattered. If you don't get that...you clearly weren't an 11-year-old girl in 1969.

By the time I first saw Bobby Sherman on this show it was off the air but rerun on Saturday afternoons on KSTW channel 11. Yes, a bonehead show for morons. But I used to brush my curly hair out every single morning to part and swoop it in a pale imitation of Bobby Sherman's do. I mean, c'mon.

Also, it was filmed in Southern California, so all the trees are wrong.

(Not that I noticed that when I saw it.)

@1 I'm with you, I'm ready to get that bitter taste of Monday out of my mouth.

In the meantime, I'll be full of laughter and beers.

This show was a significant factor in my sexual awakening. No, not Bobby Sherman! The brides, man, the brides! Hot ladies delivered to you by boat, that's still my dream today. A (semi) true story, too.

The only version of this song which should be allowed is Perry Como's.

I don't think those of you too young to have experienced this show first-hand really get the impact it had on young, impressionable minds living in the PNW in the late '60's. For one thing, IT WAS A SHOW SET IN FREAKIN' SEATTLE! Right up the road! Yeah, yeah, set 100 years in the past and shot on a Los Angeles sound stage, but hey, some people still get a little pang of recognition over Grey's Anatomy, so there you go.

Besides, look at that cast: Robert Brown, a stalwart of '60's & early '70's TV (including one of my favorite forgotten treasures, Ivan Tors' '70's remake of "Seahunt", "Primus: First Man Of The Sea"), Sherman of course, David "Hutch" Soul, Marc Leonard (AKA Spock's father), the great Joan Blondell - that's a pretty solid cast of veteran & soon-to-be veteran actors there - too bad the show they were doing didn't give them much of an opportunity to show their real chops.

@8:

Except for the one with the really annoying voice.

Could this have been any worse than F Troop, which I regret that I watched in reruns on Nick at Bite as a kid?

Also, this sounds vaguely like a sitcom adaptation of McCabe and Ms Miller.

I'm down on the Oregon coast and my sun burnt ass thinks the skies are pretty dang blue here too

@12, I watched "F Troop" religiously in its original run, for which I will burn in hell. I don't even think I laughed, except at Larry Storch. But I watched, mouth hanging open, fingers in it, snot starting to run out my nose. My parents must have thought I was mentally disabled. Perhaps I was.

@4: Somewhere I still have the packaging for my "Bobby Beads." Squeal!

I vividly remember this (unwatchably dumb) show, and it played a role in my fascination with the PNW.

I was just a kid in Nowhere OK 73075 and the PNW seemed so exotic. It had trees. It had the ocean. It had mountains. It had Bobby Sherman. It had a cool theme song. It was everything that Oklahoma was not.

A couple of years later when my Boy Scout troop traveled to the PNW for the 1973 Jamboree, that song was playing in my head the whole time. I fell in love and moved here a few years later.

The PNW is so magical.

Bobby Sherman might have set teen girls a flutter, but his version of this song sucks compared to the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkDE_Ak…

@14 It seems we are both members of a sort of shameful brotherhood. Can you recite the theme song? For your own sake, I hope not. Somehow we survived that shit with our brains more or less intact.

By the way, I was going to mention the high point being when the Byrds made a guest appearance and sang Tambourine Man. Then I looked up the clip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1oEiCeX…

And, um, that's most definitely not the Byrds. I've been wrong about that for about 25 years. Imagine, THIS was my first exposure to Dylan. On the bright side, quality of music aside, I believe strongly that the chick who's singing made a deep and lasting impact on my subconscious.

Just barely remember this show, I was maybe a few years too young. It's shown early Sunday mornings (4 am) on Antenna TV (Comcast 340 or broadcast 22.3), for anyone who thinks they can sit through a whole episode.

@17 I think that's the same episode of F Troop with Lowell George & The Factory (later known as Little Feat) playing a band called the Bed Bugs?

@15, we local Scouts had to sell tickets for that Jamboree door to door. We wrote our names on the stubs, which went into a prize drawing at the closing ceremony. That's how I got my first bike.

@17, hey, is that David St. Hubbins on guitar?

@20 - far out!

@17: They're OK, but they're no Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving.