The Flying Nun
Would a TV show like this even be allowed on the air today?
The subject of this comedy was Sister Bertrille, a bright, exuberant young novice who brightened the lives of all at the ancient Convent San Tanco, situated on a hilltop near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Not the least of Sister Bertrille’s attributes was that she could fly. How? Well, “when lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag,” any object can fly, including Sister Bertrille, who weighed only 90 pounds. Whenever a stiff wind caught the starched cornette worn by her order, off she went. These aerodynamics were not always pleasant.
Resources:
Episode Guide
Collectibles
Nostalgia Central
Wacky WAV files from TVland website
Would a TV show like this even be allowed on the air today?
We can hope not. 🙂
Likely not, but nobody could stop it from being published on the web thankfully. 🙂
The Talibans are ready…
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/l/K/taliban_antiaircraft.jpg
I never watched the show, but I don’t suppose it was any more silly than any number of other shows from the time period. Think Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Batman, My Mother the Car.
The Flying Nun continued Sally Field’s career from her first TV role, Gidget, and now she’s doing dramatic roles like Abby’s mother on ER. She has an extensive filmography (which I’m not familiar with).
So, even though her first TV roles (Gidget and Sister Bertrille) were impossibly perky girls, and the shows might not have had much substance, they gave a start to an actress who was able to break out of the stereotype and do some wonderful stuff (judging solely on her ER role).
I read that The Flying Nun was praised by nuns for its accurate portrayal of convent life. And it sounds like they had the theory of flying down, as well.
Why would the Taliban care about this show? Am I missing something here?
At least it wasn’t a cookie cutter show from the same tired formula. How many times do we have to see the working class dim witted husband married to the much better looking smart mouthed wife. All they do is rewrite Ralph Cramdens goof ball scheming. I think it’s a requirement to also hire a standup comic for these roles.
The Flying Nun — What Would the Taliban Think?
Three letters…..RPG.
I see from further research that Sally Field succeed despite her roles in Gidget and The Flying nun, not because of them.
Hmmm… Queer eye for the Dvorak blog XD
Now she has osteopourosis–makeing her even lighter.
(Sorry, I’ve always liked Sally Field. I hope she sees the humor in this.)
Can you imagine the first time the idea was pitched to a TV exec…
“Okay, there’s this nun, you see…”
RBG
The naked nun would go over big in the UK.
(Naked nun? I don’t think I’m too old to remember that….)
I didn’t watch this show too much but found it kinda cute. Total fluff though.
I don’t think anybody’d take that show anymore but for it’s time it was fun.
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Not Without My Daughter
A TV show about a nun? That wouldn’t fly today with all the competition feeding our sadistic, sexually-depraved souls relentlessly. We’ve become a society of violence, sex and scandal. That’s all TV is about these days. I put my television set where it belongs: in the garbage. Why do people want to sit in their living rooms giving attention to an idiot box when there are PEOPLE who we could give attention to. Americans spend most of their time in a RELATIONSHIP with their bloody TVs. I think Osama bin Laden was dumb. He should have done something that would really have uprooted our society: bomb all the television towers in America and bring the idiot box to darkness. Boy, now THAT would have caused WWIII.
I was a kid when “The Flying Nun” was on. I think I had a crush on Sally Fields from her movie work, but also her funny stuff on that show. I still have a crush on her. Even though she’s 60, she is still looking great.
Sally Field was and still is a great actress. Both Giget and The Flying Nun were typical comedies of the time. Not to be taken seriously and not great art, but highly entertaining. We laughed because they made us feel good.
Some of the other shows mentioned above, My Mother the Car, Bewitched, I Dream of Genie, Batman, and others like Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Monkees, and the Dick van Dyke Show, all brought something new, light and funny to our evenings. This was an age where slapstick comedy was common and many shows did a lot of shooting outdoors.
Today, production costs have relegated almost all programming to be done in studios and seldom on location. Situation comedy has turned into insulting one of the cast members. Today we laugh because someone has been humiliated.
Oh ya, “F” the Taliban if they can’t take a joke.
#14 We’ve become a society of violence, sex and scandal.
As opposed to what other society in the past?
Well Rocco Rizzo,
I can understand how someone could have a crush on Sally fields.
The show was fun in its time and sally fields was terrific,
however it would be nice to see her get really really drunk and crash into something or better yet fly away with superman.
As children we where so entertained with such cr2p.
Now we have Dvorak’s Blog to keep us entertained,
Cheers J.C.D……………
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