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    Old Kung Fu episode with Jodie Foster playing mandolin.
    Old Partridge Family episode with Ray Bolger playing a Martin mandolin.
    I wish there would be more mandolins on television!!!
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    GEICO has resurrected their "Hump Day" commercial with the camel. The commercial goes out with a little mandolin picking.
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    For a while, my daughters were fans of The Disney Channel's "Sophia the First".... one of the characters (Princess Vivian I think) played the mandolin. I am pretty sure one of the animators was a mandolinist because mandolins or mandolin-like instruments would appear on the show regularly.

    This is the kind of knowledge that comes of having 4 daughters with whom you are willing to watch TV.

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    Quote Originally Posted by soliver View Post
    For a while, my daughters were fans of The Disney Channel's "Sophia the First".... one of the characters (Princess Vivian I think) played the mandolin. I am pretty sure one of the animators was a mandolinist because mandolins or mandolin-like instruments would appear on the show regularly.

    This is the kind of knowledge that comes of having 4 daughters with whom you are willing to watch TV.

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    I worked it up myself a while back, not exactly what they played, but close enough for kiddies.
    I only had trouble with the intro, finding something similar to those chords took me a while.
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    Quote Originally Posted by domradave View Post
    Old Kung Fu episode with Jodie Foster playing mandolin.
    Wow, that's a good one. I forgot how early she started. And I used to love that show when it first aired, for turning the Western tropes upside-down. Although in retrospect, I could find more than a few things to criticize from a modern day perspective on representation (trying to stay within Cafe guidelines here). This is the relevant mandolin clip:



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    There is an episode of Snowfall where the guy who invented crack cocaine has an F5 hanging on his wall.

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    The Stained Glass Mandolin TV movie. Boomerrang on Cartoon Network had a cartoon about a magical mandolin.
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    First time I’ve seen this one,


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    Quote Originally Posted by seg View Post
    First time I’ve seen this one,


    https://youtu.be/OraU0lfbpoU
    Discussed in more detail here:
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    oops, first time I’ve seen that thread too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by foldedpath View Post
    Wow, that's a good one. I forgot how early she started. And I used to love that show when it first aired, for turning the Western tropes upside-down. Although in retrospect, I could find more than a few things to criticize from a modern day perspective on representation (trying to stay within Cafe guidelines here). This is the relevant mandolin clip:


    I'm right there with you, I was really into that show as a teen in the wake of hippiedom. Haven't watched it again in all these intervening years. I did see this clip in the long-time threads here about random mandolin sightings, mandolins in the movies, mandolins on TV. These are fun threads. As someone mentioned in another thread, the f-hole mandolin is out of period there, but what a fun clip, right? Little Jodie Rocks Her Tremolo For Kwai Chang Caine
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    1971 "Columbo", season 1 episode 4 "Suitable For Framing", approx. 1:10:00 into the show, mandolin at right edge. Screenshot:

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    This was on mainstream British TV in Nov 20

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    The BBC had Jules Holland's Hootenanny last night & they ran a Madness set from 2007 during which Paul McCartney bopping along holding a mandolin :
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beanzy View Post
    The BBC had Jules Holland's Hootenanny last night & they ran a Madness set from 2007 during which Paul McCartney bopping along holding a mandolin :
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    Thanks Beanzy! I missed that, although did go out just before midnight for a toast and to play auld lang syne on the mandolin for some neighbours, and ended up having a bit of a jam with a guitar playing neighbour, hopefully that is indicative of more music to be made in 2022...

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    I've seen Marty Stuart play his on TV a few times.
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    There are lots of appearances noted in the Random mandolin sightings, Mandolins On TV - Advance Notice, and Mandolins In Commercials threads, and a few others. Sadly, the recent change in video embedding protocol hampers the visibility of many of the videos posted there. The only way I know to correct this would be to repost them. That's a lot of grunt work. If I'm ever bored enough and full of enough coffee, I may chip away at that daunting task. Or if I'm suffering from insomnia, because that will put me under, for sure ....

    Someone mentioned the hump day commercial from Geico. There was a series of several of them, all of which ended with the two pickers. Here it is, and another one.

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    Here's the Dillards on Andy Griffith, the guy has a nice 3 point F2, but I read on Facebook he recorded it with his F5, but strum synched with the fancier F2. He has the F5 in some of the later clips. Not sure who the mandolin player is Dean Webb?

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    1991? Oh my goodness. Before mobile phones and computers that worked.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon DS View Post
    1991? Oh my goodness. Before mobile phones and computers that worked.
    Um, well, not to be argumentative or anything, but those existed in 1991. At that time I had two Motorola cellphones (a small thin shirt-pocket-size Motorola MicroTAC Lite for carrying with me, and also a big bulky Motorola bag phone which stayed in the vehicle most of the time), and a non-nerdly friend of mine had a Mac SE/30 computer which he used for writing and printing sheet music and tab for himself, his session cohorts, and his students. As to the computers of that era, one has to bear in mind that Mac computers (and Mac-oriented software developers) were considerably ahead of the competition (PC's) as far as producing user-friendly programs that ordinary non-technical people could successfully use (such as, in my friend's case, notating and printing music). Incidentally, he still had that SE/30 up until just a few years ago, although he only used it regularly for around 15 years before the hard-drive failed and then, growing impatient while awaiting its repair, he bought his second-ever computer, predictably a then-contemporary Mac.

    But anyway, the reason I came to this thread today is to post the following picture of a mando-something or lute-something instrument seen on a TV show today... in the background painting is a person playing a pear-shaped instrument - might have to click to make bigger:

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    (From TV show "Secrets Of Sulphur Springs", about 2/3 of the way through the episode "It's About Time" (S2 E5), on Disney channel.)

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    Two mandolins make get played in an episode (I think episode 2) of the new limited series Station Eleven.
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    Last night on CBS's "Ghosts" in the last scene there was a mandolin in the background... I wish one of the ghosts had the ability to play like the blues singer can hum a melody to haunt the mansion.

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