Frank cannon revolver, 70s tv series?

Cannon used to look extra hefty to me when I was a kid, he looked like he was really giving the shocks on his Lincoln a work out. :)

Now in 2012, he looks the same size as the average American standing in line at Cinnabon. :p

As an aside, IIRC McGarret shot down a helicopter with his snub.:rolleyes:
 
Conrad was not offered the job of Matt Dillon on TV because of his size. It was an interesting radio cast . Parley Bear of Keebler Cookie fame was Chester and Doc was Floyd the Barber from the Andy Griffith Show. I don't recall his real name at the moment.
 
>>he fought pretty good for an old fat guy who smoked a pipe.<<

And you can't forget his trademark "rabbit punch"!
 
Back in my younger days, I was saddled with the nickname "Cannon" when I reported to a new job, because one of my co-workers thought the TV character looked like me. They even produced a hard hat with the name on it for me.
 
Jack Lord was seen many times throughout the run of the original Hawaii Five-O carrying and using a Colt Detective Special, S&W Model 36 and even an M1 carbine. He was a rabid anti-gun owner in real life. Something of a hypocrite.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968)
 

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>>He was a rabid anti-gun owner in real life. Something of a hypocrite.<<

He wouldn't be the only Hollyweird character to fit that description.
 
I remember watching one of those old shows e.g. Rockford files? Colombo? where the hero takes out a helicopter with his S&W chiefs special! :D

Man... I gotta get me one of those! All I have is this lousy LCR. :D
 
I thought that was Bruce Willis that brought down a helicopter with a 38. But then you have the Joker what brought down the Batplane with a long barreled 38 too. Must've been shooting Glasers, lol.
 
We laugh about .38's downing aircraft, but when I was in AZ in the 90's at an Airplane Museum, there was a .38 S&W model 10 in a glass box, along with documents / eye wittness statements about a WW2 GI who brought down an enemy aircraft with the revolver. Talk about a lucky shot!
 
I've been watching Highway Patrol reruns lately (just about all of them are on Foxeema.com) Broderick Crawford is a hoot. He frequently walks around with his D Special in hand using it like a pointer....pointing at friend and foe alike. Great line from a show I saw the other night--"He'll be OK, he just lost a lot of blood."
 
Don't be so hard on the guy; we were all thinner at one time and younger, too. And don't be too hard on actors, either. John Wayne was never a marine, a cowboy, a cavalry officer or any of the other characters he usually played. He was just a good actor. But he was also older than my father, who was drafted at the age of 27 or 28 (Wayne was 34). But many Hollywood (that's how it's spelled) actors went off to war, something not done so much anymore. Even Michael Caine served in Korea in the infantry. Not sure if any WWII veterans who were actors are still around.
 
Will you guys please stop this thread, I aged 10 years just reading this thread. I’m old enough as it is.;)
My favorite of Steve’s was the “Wanted dead or alive”
 
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Frank Cannon's revolver...

In reality he probably had several, the television business being what it is and was.

The photo shown in this thread indicates a six shot revolver of some sort, but I remember a scene with our hero shooting at a distant target - camera stationed from his left side, slightly behind him - and the revolver in his outstretched hand clearly visible as a S&W Chief's Special.

As a further example of this, Deputy Barney Fife carried a six inch double action Colt revolver (a Police Positive, I think) in his duties. Except when it was a four inch Military & Police.

As an aside, the late William Conrad actually knew about firearms. He was a collector and shooter, probably laughing at himself making some of the shots one makes ONLY with a sympathetic writer. In fact, Mr. Conrad had a rather widespread field of interests and knowledge in reality.
 
Harry Dean Stanton served in the Navy as a cook in World War II. He was on an LST during the Battle of Okinawa and his ship did come under several Kamikaze attacks. He's still alive and still acting (Alien, Pretty In Pink, Kelly's Heros). However he's the only one I can think of who is still alive and working.
 
I had no idea Harry Dean Stanton was that old, but he's 86.

It's depressing how old the actors I watched when I was a kid have become... and how normal "Cannon" appears now.
 
Yes, it sure puts things in perspective. I loved watching Cannon, but for some reason, the snub nosed revolvers had more appeal when carried by 3 Angels;)!!! The surviving Angels must be drawing Social Security at this point....:eek: Time sure flys!!!!
 
Jim Rockford was a felon and he very rarely
carried a gun.
When he did, he took it out of his cookie jar
(hidden in plain sight) which had baking soda
or some such stuff to absorb the moisture
as he lived by the Ocean.

My memory isn't the greatest,but I think
that's correct.
ron
 
The gun in that picture is definitely not a 3rd gen Colt Detective special. Could be one of the earlier unshrouded ones.
 
Jim Rockford was a wrongfully convicted felon, IIRC, and the series had a sub-arc in which his innocence had been proven. He had been set up, framed, etc.

So, he legally had the gun, but he had done time and developed ex-con habits prior to being exonerated, again IIRC.
 
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