I love the theme song to “Greatest American Hero”. I used to sing it all the time when I was a kid. And I still find myself doing so these days too if I’m being honest. And Connie, what a rare beauty and a rare talent. As always, so appreciate your hard work Dave.
Thank you for the walk down memory lane. I grew watching all of Connie's tv shows and movies of the week. Love her! A real Beauty! Huge shout out to...Hotel! One of the best shows to ever air on television. It was just so watchable. I remember loving it.
You can still see one of her best roles here on RU-vid. It's called, "Miracle Landing," from 1990. She plays the real-life co-pilot of a flight that had 18 feet of roof torn off in midair. Tremendous job of portraying Mimi Tompkins there.
Very talented actress. Her intelligence showed through her ability. And very gorgeous too! Always enjoy watching her and one of my favorites with her is The Greatest American Hero. I still watch it when I get a chance. What a fun show!
Wow. What a beauty. Eleven years old and fell in love with her on Greatest American Hero. Great to hear about all of the philanthropy she is doing with that piano guy. Not bitter.
A true beauty in both external beauty and the beauty of the soul, which is what most likely attracted both Gil Gerard and John Tesh. A success both professionally and personally, I love that Connie has allowed her life to be lived without the constraints of celebrity holding her back from pursuing whatever passion projects she chooses and her life isn't the trainwreck that most celebrity lives are which is truly a good thing to hear. Thanks, Dave for another good news story of the people we grew up with.
@@faithfultotheend5202 its polite and professional, a couple of things young people today tend to leave out in their effort to be, how is it put? "Awake?"
I always liked her. I don’t know how I missed a whole tv series The Hotel! It’s exactly like the kind of show I would have liked. I must have blacked out for a year or so 😂 Thanks for another great show!
I remember an interview where she said she went into the Producers' office after being cast for The Greatest American Hero and before shooting for the first season started to tell him she was pregnant fully expecting to be fired. Unexpectedly, he asked, "So?" This is why most of the first season of the show she had something covering her expanding belly. She was very surprised as women who got pregnant were usually fired from the production. The producer didn't care. One more reason to love the show!
Wish I could give you 2 thumbs up your work is amazing and I love that there is always some piece of information I had no idea about. Thank you. Keep up the great work.
Man, I love your channel. You bring back soo many memories of past actresses/actors as well as songs and other forms of entertainment. Thank you for the updates.
Thanks for uploading this video! It's great that *you're doing the diligent grunt work* of keeping fans of the personalities that we grew up watching on TV!
Connie became one of my favorites back in the day during her run in Hero! And although it's very difficult to know "the real person" through all of the Hollywood blitz and glimmer, Connie always stood out (from my vantage) as simply a really good person. No surprise to find she walked the walk! Great job, as always!
Thank you for catching me up on "the woman I'm gonna marry" according to this list from 1984 I found while social distancing at my parents. Middle aged men with time on their hands get talked into cleaning out just about anything.
Dave, another FANTASTIC video, you always hit it out of the park!!! I Loved almost everything Connie Sellica did, Greatest American Hero included!!! Thanks for the memories !!! I can’t wait for your next video upload . Your the best !!!
Dave my friend my Dad would always say that Connie Sellecca was very pretty whenever we would watch episodes of The Greatest American Hero and/or Hotel. Thank you your RU-vid upload brought back those great childhood memories with him for me.
Another great job Dave, I remember Connie Sellecca vividly, I first became aware of her on "Flying High" the CBS Show it was around 1977, great memories of a better time. I also remember about that time she was on a game show I can't remember the name of the game show however, but on the game show was her brother and mother and father as part of the game show scheme. It was so interesting to see such a personal side of her with her family.
Oh man Connie Selleca is gorgeous. A beautiful woman I forgot about until your video Dave. It's too bad she didn't quite get the acting career that she probably deserved !
Dave you do realize that all of us sitting here watching these videos do you get to a point in the video where we all say "you know stuff". you've got yourself a great catch phrase there thanks so much for all of these wonderful videos I enjoy every one of them.
Loved her on GAH, but the TV movie that really stuck in my mind with her was the only Rankin-Bass production with live action cast- The Bermuda Depths. I saw it on a late-late-late night airing when I was real young, and it has haunted me ever since. It wasn't so much the content of the movie itself, it was rather crap, but the imagery and the fact that I didn't know the name until the mid 2000's. I only remembered bits and pieces of it, but eventually I found it on YT and elsewhere and got to see it all over again. That is the movie that really drew me to Connie Selleca, and also led to a childhood of not wanting to swim when there were turtles around (j/k)! Connie and Phoebe Cates were childhood crushes for me.
I remember Connie Sellecca best from a movie I loved as a kid called The Bermuda Depths, which also co-starred Carl Weathers (Rocky/Predator). It's not a great film, but I love spooky stories and things with magical/mystical elements and that's what this is, combined with a love story. I haven't seen it as an adult - now I may need to go watch it for old time's sake.
I also remember Connie from Flying High. A lot of people probably don't remember that her husband John Tesh used to cover the Tour de France for CBS Sports.
Thanks Dave for sharing this with me and I will never forget the most beautiful woman on TV, love the channel and keep doing what you're doing 😁, and as always "Howdy from Texas"!!
Funny you'd post this I just watched a pretty amazing testimony with her and her husband John Tesh, and his battle with cancer. Still a beautiful lady.
Thanks for taking the time to post these. I am interested in what happened to actors and actresses from old movies and TV shows. I can't berate anyone who has cable TV or satellite TV service as it's their money. I dropped cable TV about 15 years ago and went to Dish Network, and dropped it back in January 2016. I was mad when they bumped The History Channel up to the next tier which would have cost more and the shows we saw on the History Channel we could watch had little to do with real history. I then realized that it seemed stupid for me to pay for 150+ channels when we only watched 10 or 15 at most. I did find that all my old favorite TV shows and cartoons, and even the History Channel and Modern Marvels I can watch for free on RU-vid, it's only free as I already pay for the internet service. I am subscribed to your channel and get notified when you put up another video.
Back then I thought she was the most beautiful woman on earth, I probably still do, so gorgeous but also classy, elegant, sexy, just ethereal. I wish her all the best, Connie we still love you!
Wow! No mention of the 1978 TV film The Bermuda Depts! That's the movie that made me fall for her. It was a sci-fi fantasy movie with Leigh McKloskey, & Carl Weathers. She played Jenny Hannover a girl who was somehow supernaturally tied to a giant (monster sized) sea turtle. I remember it being halfway decent for the time as a made for TV movie. And she looked absolutely stunning in her bikini!
+Jeffrey Keller -- Despite wanting to give up after scrolling through a bunch of posts and simply write out my own thread, I am glad I held out some more and finally spotted someone mentioning *The Bermuda Depths* which is an old favorite of mine! I saw it when it first aired as well as seeing it 1-3 times in the late 70's and early 80's. I took a quick glance over at the Wikipedia article to see if it still mentioned a certain longing and wistfulness that many of us had afterward for years on end. Sadly it does not and I will assume it has been re-edited quite a few times. I thought what I had felt was kind of unusual and strange until I read many years ago -- sometime in the mid or late 90's if I am not mistaken -- the same phenomenon affected numerous others. I recall a website in which many folks shared their feelings about this made-for-TV movie that in one sense was kind of corny but in another way had a compelling mystery and undertone to it that one could not shrug off no matter how hard one tried. There is even a Facebook page dedicated to the movie, and despite not bothering with that social media platform for a number of years I still receive an occasional notice via e-mail. I also took an extra glance to see if a fan-made video is still up -- *_"...Homage to Jenny and Magnus ~ Vivaldi's Largo"_* by *teocarlo* -- and sure enough it is. Go check it out because it is quite a delight to see and hear what a wonderful job that particular RU-vidr did for that movie and song.
+Dave Sundstrom -- I thought I would not only tag your name but write up a quick post so you see what I wrote as well as the person who started up the thread. For what its worth, you should look into that made-for-TV movie which had quite an impact on many of us who saw it the first time around or afterward. Whether it calls for a separate video remains to be seen, but it would be interesting in the event no one else has done so.
I know I'm in the extreme minority here, but when I was a kid I loved her in the 1978 made for TV semi-horror movie The Bermuda Depths. Her haunting beauty fed the story line perfectly. Although the special effects were terrible compared to today's quality, her character's ethereal nature stole the show, enough that I've lost count of how many times I've seen it. It costars a fellow best known as Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), as well as the wonderfully salty Burl Ives. It's a fun tale, more gothic than violent. I actually recommend it.
Born in 75, so I was young in the 80's, but I do remember her from Hotel. That was one of my Mothers shows but us kids watched it too. I also remember her from the tv movie, Miracle Landing, she played an airline pilot that had to make an emergency landing after the top of the plane was ripped off.
