Comments on: Q & A: Outdoor Adventure Club, The Veil,

By: Jim Doney

Jim Doney — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:42:57 +0000

To Cee Jay. I miss those days, too. Jim Doney

By: RGJ

RGJ — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:25:38 +0000

Cee Jay, it’s certainly possible that the format was shopped around locally by a production company. Or else it was just a popular format that a lot of stations came up with on their own (or borrowed).

By: Cee Jay

Cee Jay — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:48:53 +0000

I think each area had a show like ‘Outdoor Adventure Club’ because in Cleveland where I live there was a show called ‘Jim Doney’s Adventure Road’

I believe it ran from the mid 60s to the early 70s and was on in the afternoon between the networks soap operas and the local news.

The show was basically film of the host in exotic locales like jungles and deserts and the like. It was on when local channels made their own shows to put on the schedule and syndication was in it’s infancy (God I miss those days)

By: Barry I. Grauman

Barry I. Grauman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:14:52 +0000

I believe “THE VEIL” was supposed to be a part of the “NTA Film Network” schedule National Telefilm Associates was trying to establish with its “affiliates” and its flagship station, WNTA in Newark/New York [Channel 13, a commercial station in those days]. Among the series NTA co-produced between 1957 and ‘59 were “HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE” (with 20th Century-Fox), “THIS IS ALICE” (their deal with Desilu) and “THE THIRD MAN” (in partnership with Fox and the BBC). If Hal Roach Jr. hadn’t been such a terrible businessman, the projected 39 episodes WOULD have been produced [in England]; in fact, his sense of business acumen was such that the studio that bore his father’s name was sold to other interests by 1960, and torn down in 1963. But, then again, NTA wasn’t financially secure either by 1960, shutting down WNTA in 1961 while waiting for the right buyer to take it off their hands. Educational Broadcasting Corporation “won” the bidding war for the station, and it’s been a “public TV” station since September 1962.

Several episodes of “THE VEIL” were also re-edited into a feature film or two during the ’60s. But the entire series, as ‘RGJ’ noted, was finally issued on DVD several years ago- and often sold in supermarkets for about $10.