New TV series - Pan Am

[Duper]

So ABC has spawned another nostalgic 60s show. I imagine there will be a few fedora wearing extras wandering around the terminal and boarding the planes. Myself, I'm waiting for the new season of Boardwalk Empire but I thought I would pass this along.

From Wiki -

Pan Am is a television series centered around the iconic airline Pan American World Airways during the 1960s. The period drama, from writer Jack Orman (ER) and director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), will focus on the pilots and flight attendants working for the world-famous airline in 1963.

 

[HatsEnough]

I already heard some annoying things about this one. First is that the show will have black stewardesses on the planes. Now, I am not against black stews, but the American airline companies didn't start hiring black women to be stews until years after the time period of the early 60s in which this show is set. Secondly no one will be allowed to smoke in this show. That is also idiotically unrealistic. Everyone smoked in the early 60s and they did so while the plane was in flight, too!!

And I'll also bet that hats are not much used.

So, once again we see TV making a mockery of history.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

There is a Thread in the Moving Pictures forum about this topic.

Coming-this-fall-ABC-s-quot-Pan-Am-quot-quot-Mad-Men-quot-in-the-skies

 

[Duper]

There is a Thread in the Moving Pictures forum about this topic.

Coming-this-fall-ABC-s-quot-Pan-Am-quot-quot-Mad-Men-quot-in-the-skies

And it is MUCH more interesting!

 

[Sam Craig]

It's yet another effort for the TV talking heads to convince young American women that the way to get ahead is on their backs and always has been.
Revisionist cultural heritage.
Where the NOW is, one can only guess.
Meanwhile ... good luck seeing any great hats on the show, or anywhere else on TV for that matter.

Brisco County Jr. ... now that was a great hat show.

Untouchables
Superman ... the original. I think there were some Whippets on that one
Yancy Derringer, if you like derbies
Even that one episode of Star Trek, where they went to the planet that was based on the Roaring 20s. Didn't Kirk have a wide brim, long finish fedora?

Not so much today, unfortunately.

Sam

 

[Brent Hutto]

Even that one episode of Star Trek, where they went to the planet that was based on the Roaring 20s. Didn't Kirk have a wide brim, long finish fedora?

A Piece of the Action

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

A Piece of the Action

Vic Tayback (Mel from TV's Alice) was also in that episode

 

[zetwal]

I know the thread's not about Star Trek. But here you can see just how fuzzy it was.

 

[Brent Hutto]

I think that's either Starsky or Hutch on the communicator wanting to speak to Huggy Bear.

 

[Wildblue]

Am VERY much looking forward to this show. Being a pilot, and a lover of classic aviation travel as well as 1950-60's business attire, I think this one will be right up my alley. Here's to hoping that they do it right.

 

[alanfgag]

First is that the show will have black stewardesses on the planes. Now, I am not against black stews, but the American airline companies didn't start hiring black women to be stews until years after the time period of the early 60s in which this show is set.

Some history of racial desegregation in the airlines industry is discussed here. If this source is correct, Mohawk Airlines broke the color barrier and hired the first black flight attendant in 1957... the casting of black stewardesses in a show set in 1963 would not be historically inaccurate.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Yeah, I'm seeing the ads all over town.

 

[Brent Hutto]

I spent a few days at the beach with a high-school buddy of mine one summer during college, circa 1979. He was chatting up a nice, slightly older lady that we encountered somewhere or another and asked where she worked...

The Lady: "Piedmont Airlines"
My Buddy: "So are you a Stewardess?"
The Lady: "We prefer Flight Attendant nowadays."
My Buddy: "Sorry, no offense."
The Lady: "None taken, I'm a Pilot anyway."

 

[hatophile]

Great story, Brent!

 

[HatsEnough]

Some history of racial desegregation in the airlines industry is discussed here. If this source is correct, Mohawk Airlines broke the color barrier and hired the first black flight attendant in 1957... the casting of black stewardesses in a show set in 1963 would not be historically inaccurate.

It was a bit of time from the first black stew to commonly seeing black stews. And I read that Pan Am did not hire a black stew until the late 60s. It was in an article about the show I read a few weeks ago, unfortunately I can't remember where I saw it.