Not a massacre. Linda ;o). And Sundays Rick Ely will be leading The Young Rebels, a trio of underground patriots fighting for American independence in 1777. playlist: "/playlists/pl010_young_rebels.rss", It is great to know there are others who remember it and great to know I did not just imagine it being the first place I saw Louis Gossett. Norman Dresser of the Toledo Blade suggested that viewers have not rejected relevancy but phony relevancy, bad scripts, and just plain boring programs [24]. Plus, the networks returning programs on average performed much better than the previous season, meaning there were few time slots open to shift under performing new programs. Copyright 2003-2023 Robert Jay. Forquet paid less attention to his acting career and became involved with his family businesses. Today I was wondering whatever happened to him. Of the series overall, Gossett felt The Young Rebels was trying to be as truthful as possible on TV without losing our audience. Rather shy and introspective, intelligent and well read, the young Philippe began life as a rising movie star. As relayed in Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter, the best-selling true crime book of all time, Tennant said, "Roman, there's been a disaster in a houseYour house. This series should never have been cancelled. It is difficult to find a bio on him under any name. Biographer Sanderswrites about Tate'srelationship with Philippe Forquet,whom she lived with in New York while briefly studying acting with Lee Strasberg. Ed Sanders, the biographer who wrote Sharon Tate: A Life, claims that Polanski liked to hold orgies at the home he shared with his wife in LA. I was terribly disappointed when it was abruptly canceled, and like several of you, had a crush on Rick Ely. She became a fashion archivist and consultant. They were made from off air VHS recordings. He earned the "I felt that, if you're serious about it, it's a lot of hard work. He died on December 9, 2019. I had high hopes for that show, Try to find 1970 the Young Rebels on Facebook. I also remember a show called Alias Smith and Jones and I think I was equally smitten with the stars. It was tough to pass up Wonderful World of Disney, but Ive always been a big fan of the Revolutionary War. She then began dating Philippe Forquet in a tumultuous relationship, which included instances of domestic abuse which at one point sent Tate to the hospital in 1964. There is a page on Facebook now. Ive seen more authentic dialogue on the menu of the Old English Room of the Pearson Hotel. And the New York Posts Bob Williams, although conceding that it was a bang-bang case ofadventure exploitation, felt the series was utterly without meaning for the customary young customers of Lassie., Lawrence Laurent of the Washington Post was more ambivalent, writing that the series isnt bad enough to condemn and it isnt good enough to praise. He remarried and had three children. If anyone has more of this, please let me know!!! Theres next to nothing about him on the Internet. At the time, shewas a stunning up-and-comer whomoved to Hollywood with big dreams, which she hoped were on the verge of panning out. Manson, who never stopped insisting that he didn't tell anybody to commit murder for him, while still spouting his half-cocked theories about whatever was grinding his gears, died in November 2017. Grace Van Dien played Tate in Mary Harron's 2019 filmCharlie Says, but it's mainly about how Manson, played by Matt Smithof The CrownandHouse of the Dragonfame, manipulated his "family" members. I, too, loved this show, even though it only aired from September 1970 to January 1971, (per information from The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh) Philippe is alive and kicking and is currently 82 years old.Please ignore rumors and hoaxes.If you have any unfortunate news that this page should be update with, please let us know using this form. Had the series done better in the ratings and if ABC had not been planning for the loss of so many prime time hours the following season, it is possible the network could have moved it to another night where it might fare better. Debra Tatevoiced her displeasureat the movie's concept, which is that the doomed actress was receiving subliminal messages and foresaw her fate, and that of her friends. They cut off the opening but it was better than nothing. So sad! I found no confirmation of his death, but I did see that actor Christopher Stone, contemporary of Rick Ely & husband of Dee Wallace Stone, died on Oct. 20, 1995 at age 53 But had the Rick Ely album, too, and I also recall some paperback novelizations based on the characters & pictures from the show on the covers. The only reason I knew it existed was because my brother worked for the local ABC affiliate at the time. now defunct) broadcast TV airings. When Polanski and Tate married in London on Jan. 20, 1968, hewas about to have a hit on his hands withRosemary's Baby, his adaptation of Ira Levin'sbook, the biggest-selling horror novel of the 1960s, starringMia Farrow, John Cassavetes andRuth Gordon, who'd win a Supporting Actress Oscar for her turn as the neighbor from Hell. News at the premiere. "It's classless how everyone is rushing to release something for the 50th anniversary of this horrific event. And she was once I had to have it at the time. ABCs description of the series as wholesome, and the fact that repeats wound up on the Christian Broadcasting Network, gives a pretty good indication of intended tone and desired audience. aspectratio: "4:3", I was in my 20s and had lived through the latter 60s (graduated in 1964) working for various famous rock groups of the era without being a groupie. In 1962 he was flown to Hollywood to be groomed into the new French Heartthrob.His first role was as a French artist and love interest in Take Her, She's Mine (1963), also starring James Stewart and Sandra Dee, a very popular teen star at the time who was married to Bobby Darin. Wojciech was asleep on the sofa when The Family barged in and was kicked in the head by Tex Watson. When they first met, "I thought she was quite pretty, but I wasn't at that time very impressed," Polanski later told detectives at Parker Center, headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department, after his wife was killed. The actress had a handful of B-movies,the most memorable beingValley of the Dolls, and some TV guest spots to her name when, at 26 years old andeight-and-a-halfmonths pregnant, she was one of seven people murdered by members of Charles Manson's so-called "family" over the course of two nights of carnage that shook Hollywood. I seem to like all the shows that get cancelled. I loved the show as a 12-year-old. There is fascinating information on Philippe Forquette, who played General Lafayette, and who was quite a hottie as well. And Alex Hentleoff (Henry Abington) I last saw in the 1986 movie Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (supporting role). Officers did not link the two crime scenes. Place of Death. Gavin Newsom blocked the decision, saying she "currently poses an unreasonable risk of danger to public safety." More on the Young Rebels can be found at TV.com. A seventh, This Is Tom Jones, was cut back to airing once a month. Jeremy and the others devised a plan to recover a number of canon captured by the British. I absolutely loved this show. "Even when I was doing something as mundane as walking down the street, he would set up 100 feet of track, or a craneor whatever it was, it was always a really extravagant, amazing shot, and that never really happens on film sets," Robbie told E! Sharon tate was married to acclaimed director, Roman Polanski, and had just earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in Valley Of The Dolls. "I checked with all of her living friends. Joining these shows were the Now sitcoms which included Nancy, Barefoot in the Park and The Headmaster. The Outcasts (Don Murray, Otis Young, 1968-69), from the 1970s The Quest (1976, Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson) and The Young Rebels (not a Western or even anywhere close! In 1964 she met hairstylistJay Sebring, who had recently separated from his wife. And here I read on this site that hes passed I dont even know him except for The Young Rebels and I feel like Ive lost a friend. They returned to L.A. supposedly engaged, though there was some doubt that they were that serious, that itmay have been the studio system at work whipping up publicity. Tate is rumoured to have been beaten by her lover and is even said to have once stabbed him in the chest with a wine bottle. It's not clear if Watson or Atkins stabbed Tate and delivered the fatal blow. She was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1968, Most Promising Newcomer (she lost toThe Graduatestar Katharine Ross) and quickly booked two more films,The Wrecking Crew and12+1, featuring wildly differentco-stars in Dean Martin and Orson Welles. Robin of Sherwood used the same premise of young people who appealed to the current young people in an historical setting. If I were guessing why, Id say it was because of the actors. They would propagandize, intercept orders, spread disinformation and otherwise disrupt the movement of British troopers. P.S. Like you I liked Jeremy Larkin best on the show because Rick was so good looking. He now he lives a quiet life in France, remarried with three children, - IMDb Mini Biography By: But despite lasting just 15 episodes, the series spawned two novels (written by prolific TV tie-in author William Johnston) and a single Dell comic book. It was basically the same idea. "That ended my career in cigarette commercials," she laughed. The series premiere opened in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Brandywine, which took place in September of 1777. The series, which was running against Lassie and Disney, rated third in the 7:00 time slot on network TV. Born in Paris, Forquet made his film debut in 1960 in La Menace while still an art student and over the next few years became popular in France. Highly regarded for his appearance he was expected to make a successful transition into American films, after appearing opposite Jean Seberg, In the French Style (1963). Almost fifty years later still remember scenes, people, characters and events from such a short seasonal run. I too, had a huge crush on Jeremy Larkin. Yeah! They traveled throughout Europe. To celebrate the killers and the darkest portion of society as being sexy or acceptable in any way, shape or form is just perpetuating the worst of our society. So sorry to hear of his premature death. WHY NOT. At the time of the announcement, ABC had nine of the bottom 12 programs in the most recent Nielsen report; The Young Rebels was among them [19]. No true crime renaissance was needed to bring the interest in that back. It took until the 1980s to reach what this show was going for. She appeared in national ads, magazine covers, TV commercials and national catalogs. Jean SEBERG *1938-1979+, Actress, USA - in the I was 36 when this show aired. Sheended up loaning Robbie a few pieces of Sharon's jewelry and a partially used bottle of her perfume. She first appeared on film in Barbabbas in 1962 but it was five years until she made her next movie, Eye Of The Devil. The text explained what happened due to the events that took place in that episode. I wish the kids of today had a show like this to watch. It was on in the afternoon, after school. His last TV appearance was on One Life to Live in 1981. I would love to watch some episodes. Sharon "was so sweet and so kind, intelligent, and lighter than the air in every way And Margot did a beautiful job at portraying that. It gave me a sense of patriotism, well, for an 8 year old. I think this was an excellent show to draw attention to our history as a nation. Some reviewers say that it did. And she was once engaged to actor Philippe Forquet, who it is claimed had a temper. 4 According to provisional data, in 2020, there were notable changes in the number and ranking of deaths compared with 2019. How Sony managed to get Hotel De Paree which was once filmed/owned by CBS-TV is a complete mystery to me not to mention a total surprise. I started writing fan fiction back then, Dark Shadows, Star Trek, Here Come the Brides, and Young Rebels all got my feeble attempts to write back then. Which of course since it has not been officially released on DVD by its original studio (Screen Gems the TV department of Columbia Pictures, both presently owned by Sony Pictures) I of course purchased even though the condition overall of the recordings are not great but fall under the category of what I call watchable and better than nothing. You don't see the big low-cut dresses anymore, it's more all to the imagination.". Thanks for your website. Like many of youI have been looking for a disc or tape. "She was so in love with her pregnancy she would do nothing. Ely played Jeremy Larkin, leader of the Yankee Doodle Society, whose public persona was that of a fairly inept, lackadaisical youth and the perfect cover. She was af--king angel. The series quite obviously attempted to draw parallels between the radical youth of 1960s America with the young men who took up arms against the British during the Revolutionary War. Roughly a month after the 1970-1971 season had begun, UPIs Rick Du Brow wrote no television trend in recent memory has bombed out as fast the current one in which news [sic] series were advertised as emphasizing social relevance [23]. Jack Goulds brief review in The New York Times stated simply that it was set in the 1770s rather than the 1970s, reminding viewers of ABCs ploy to connect the contemporary rebellious youth with the historical, and that it has the normal appeal of underground forces surreptitiously helping the good guys [13]. Each DVD has a label with its episode number on it. I think I was in the 7th grade. Although the canon were recovered, tragically Robert was killed in the process. Elizabeths uncle, who was her guardian, disapproved of her relationship with Jeremy. To my knowledge, Sony has only released one frontier-related TV series of the 60s: Here Come The Brides (1968-70) starring Robert Brown, David Soul and Bobby Sherman and thats it. But it all started with this show. Ed and I met in Vietnam, 1968, and later re-connected once back in California. Had a great sense of humor and delighted in playing jokes on his friends. Its a noble kind of TV series, but we dont get too schmaltzy about it. I cant believe so! It showed kids standing up for something they believed in. False information about the nature of the wounds and the positioning of the bodies made the rounds. Manson, played by Damon Herriman, is only briefly glimpsed, and Robbie's Tate largelyruns parallel to the saga of her next-door neighbor, DiCaprio's fadingTV star Rick Dalton, and his stuntman/errand guy/devoted buddy Cliff Booth, played by Pitt. Then he just disappeared in 1974. Tacky, tacky, tacky. WebPhilippe Forquet 1 of 26. I was just on IMDB, and found that Rick Ely passed away on December 9, 2019 after a long illness. I remember it vividly, but was only 5 or 6 when it was made, so we must have seen it a few years later in Australia. This sounds similar to an animated show that was on a few years ago called LIBERTYS KIDS, I remember it was about three children an american boy, a french boy and an english girl that worked for a newspaper run by Ben Franklin (voiced by Walter Cronkhite), and an emancipated slave. When Polanski arrived in L.A., he was immediately bombarded with questions about his rumored marital troubles. Melcher later remembered Mansonbeing in the car one night when Wilson gave him a ride home when he was living at Cielo Drive. Isak fared worse than the others; he was both wounded and captured (in separate episodes). He is arrested and given the opportunity to recant. I enjoyed watching this show, even bought one of the teen magazines with Richard Ely on the cover. They were actually very good and kept the characterizations true. In the episode, his patriotic compositions offend the British. Jeremys father, played by Will Geer in a number of episodes, was mayor of Chester and a Loyalist. I remember watching the Nathan Hale episode, but not any others I thought it was pretty boring, and even then, at age 13, I could tell that the attempt to connect the American revolutionaries with the protesters of the sixties was laughable. Parent, who worked part-time at a stereo shop and was there to see if the caretaker Garretson wanted to buy some equipment, was shot dead in his car. He received thousands of fan letters a week and was featured in fan magazines. ", As far as the spurned Jay Sebring was concerned, Polanski said, "I'm sure in the beginning of our relationship there was still his love for Sharon, but I think that largely it disappeared. Instead, he helps Jeremy and the Society destroy a number of cannon protecting a nearby valley. The original series opening credits of The Young Rebels were removed from the syndication reruns airings (CBN, etc.) Philippe Forquet is known as an Actor. Ive kept it up and am now an author. 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