AboutMike Hensel Expertise I will try and answer all questions dealing with television...show names, plots, actors, roles, networks, etc...US shows primarily; not real knowledgeable on TV from other countries...I lean heavily into past, more so than current, television...and, my knowledge dealing with "reality" shows is limited, due to the fact that I really can't stand the genre (my apologies to all the "Reality" fans out there...)
Experience Years of watching and cataloging television shows
Question I used to watch a show about a father and son that found grandpa frozen in the ice. Grandpa had went hunting and never returned.
They thawed him out and he lived with them in the modern times, trying to figure out all the new inventions.
I can't think of the name or exactly when. either late sixties to early seventies.
Answer An oft asked question, Glena...
The series you are remembering was "The Second Hundred Years", seen on the ABC Television network from September 6th, 1967 to September 19th, 1968...The series starred Monte Markham in the dual role of Luke Carpenter, the man lost in a glacier while prospecting for gold in Alaska in the year 1900, and Ken Carpenter, his grandson...
Luke actually thawed out on his own, but was found by the military, and sent to live with his son, Edwin (played by Arthur O'Connell), a man in his late 60's, in secret...
The comedy centered on the differences between grandfather and grandson; exact look-alikes, but polar opposites in demeanor (grandpa was exuberant, full of life; grandson was stuffy and reserved...), and Luke trying to cope with the present, his future...
