Archives: Blast From The Past

Peter Barton

When I started FH, one of my goals was to only featured some of today's hottest and most talented hunks, but also feature men who impacted my, and others in the past.  So many sites are all about the men of the moment, the current and hottest bodies and moments.  As we all know however, it's hard to stay front burner for too long, at least not without burning out.

Patrick Duffy

Blast From The Past began as my way of spotlighting some of the models, actors and singers who I grew u with.  It soon became so much more.   Although I had connections with many of the men that I featured, I also included actors who I discovered later in life.  There are many actors, who I either didn't like or didn't notice that I looked at differently when I got older.  

Terry Lester

When I was a kid, I remember thinking that Tom Selleck was sort of 'gross'.  He seemed old, and I hated his moustache, and how hairy he was.  Then... when I hit my thirties, I started looking back on all those shirtless shots of Selleck with a different perspective...   There are also several classic stars from the 40's, 50's and 60's that I never heard of when I was a kid.  Thanks To TCM, I quickly began crushing over actors, many of whom are in their 80's, 90's or no longer with us at all.

Adrian Zmed & Scott Baio

This list includes most of those actors, performers, singers and models that I've blasted back to the past with.  I say most, as there are many former heart throbs who showed up in my birthdays or movie section that I have yet to include.  I hope to add them in once I have time to fully research the blog, but this list is a pretty good beginning.   Looking back at some of the posts, especially those from the site's early days, I realize many need an update.  Some were done before I had the ability to cap and create images on my own, and before learning how enlarge an image.  Hoping to update a few of my favorites soon.

Ted Shackelford

Willie Aames | Bruce Abbott | Jeb Adams | Steve Antin | Richard Dean Anderson | Christopher Atkins | Scott Bakula  | Jimmy Baio | Scott Baio |  Lajos Balázsovits | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Doug Barr | Peter Barton | Steven Bauer | Randall Batinkoff | Warren Beatty | John Beck | Michael Beck | Dirk Benedict | Tom Berenger | Helmut Berger | Kevin Bernhardt | Michael Biehn | Hunt Block | Brian Bloom | Steve Bond | Jesse Borrego |  Joseph Bottoms | Timothy Bottoms | Bruce Boxleitner | Greg Bradford | Brady Boys | Beau Bridges | Woody Brown |  Tom Byrd | 

Billy Hufsey

Bill Cable | Stephen Caffrey | Dean Cain | John David Carson | Maxwell Caulfield | Byron Cherry | Brian Patrick Clarke | Nicolas Clay | Jack Coleman | Christopher Collet | Jeff Conaway | Nicholas Cortland | Christopher Crabb | Brett Cullen | William Kirby Cullen | Rad Daly | Brad Davis | Mac Davis | Brandon De Wilde | Matt Dillon | Troy Donahue | Patrick Duffy | Keir Dullea | Sam Elliott | Greg Evigan | Shea Farrell | Jay R. Ferguson | Jon Finch | Steve Forrest | Sami Frey | Tony Ganios | Leif Garrett | Jonathan Gilbert | Grant Goodeve | Richard Grieco | Steve Guttenberg

John Allen Nelson

Antony Hamilton | Randy Hamilton | Tye Hardin | Mark Harmon | Jim Harris | Gregory Harrison | Rodney Harvey | David Hasselhoff | Richard Hatch | Martin Hewitt | Charlton Heston | Jon-Erik Hexum | Darby Hinton | Tom Hodges | Lee Horsely | Billy Hufsey | John James | Doug Jeffery | Christopher Jones | Sam Jones | Steve Kanaly | William Katt | Omri Katz | Alan Kayser |  Andrew Keegan | Brian Kerwin | Perry King | Wyatt Knight | Martin Kove | Kris Kristofferson | 

Kevin Bernhardt

Matthew Laborteaux | John Lafayette | Burt Lancaster | Lorenzo Lamas | Michael Landon | Perry Lang | Lawrence Lau | Scott Layne | Terry Lester | Tony Lo Bianco | Jason London | Simon MacCorkindale | Fred MacMurray | Ed Marinaro | Steve Mateo | Lee Majors | Paul Mercurio | Leigh McCloskey | Matt McCoy | Ted McGinley | Scott McGinnis | Todd McKee | John McMurray | William McNamara | Jimmy McNicol | Steve McQueen | Robert Mitchum | Lee Montgomery | Rick Moses | William R. Moses | Ben Murphy | Timothy Patrick Murphy |

Jon-Erik Hexum

Michael Nader | James Naughton | John Allen Nelson | Rick Nelson | Anthony Newley | Paul Newman | Tony O'Dell | Michael O'Keefe | Miles O'Keeffe | Ryan O'Neal | Cyril O'Reilly | Ken Olandt | Ken Olin | Jameson Parker | Michael Parks | Michael Paré | Robert Parucha | Alain Patrick | Don Michael Paul | John Payne | Bruce Penhall | George Peppard | Radames Pera | Joe Perry | Pat Peterson | Aidan Quinn | Robert Redford | Christopher Reeve | Burt Reynolds | Christopher Rich | Brian Robbins | Charles Robinson | Cliff Robertson | Rick Rossovich | Kurt Russell |

Greg Evigan

John Savage | Devon Sawa | Jack Scalia | John Schneider | Ricky Schroder | Tom Selleck | Ted Shackelford | Stephen Shellen | Marc Singer | Mark Slade | Rex Smith | Star Trek | Andrew Stevens | Parker Stevenson | John Stockwell | Rob Stone | Adam Storke | David Tiefen | Richard Thomas | Oliver Tobias | Barry Tubb | Robert Urich | Tim Van Patton |  Jan-Michael Vincent | Jesse & Alan Vint | Ralph Waite | Clint Walker | Kelly Ward | Ted Wass | Grant Wilson | Brian Wimmer | Ray Wise | Tom Wopat | Jeff Yagher | Michael York | Jim Youngs | William Zabka | Adrian Zmed |

Scott McGinnis

Blast from the Past: Nov6th Greg Evigan

Ah, Hunky Greg Evigan from BJ and The Bear was a staple on tv in the 70's and 80's. He also did not seem to mind taking off his shirt for the countless magazine pin-ups he appeared in.

More Greg Evigan

Greg in BJ and the Bear




Again...those network star game shows were the best!

Also Celebrating today October 14th to:

Happy Birthday also today to:

Actor Max Thieriot turns 22 today.



Degrassi hottie Daniel Clark turns 25 today.




The 'oh so sexy to me' Argentine football defender Renato Civelli turns 27 today.




Actor Jordan Brower turns 29 today.



Actor, model and former Big Brother VIP Mexico guy José Luis Reséndez turns 32 today.




Usher turns 32 today.



Actor Jon Seda turns 40 today.





Greg Evigan turns 57 today. (See previous post on Greg).


Roger Moore turns 83 today.

The Sixth Battle: May, 1979

Battle VI

May 7th, 1979

Host: Howard Cosell

Winner: CBS

The Teams:

ABC

Dick Van Patten (captain) 

Scott Baio, Billy Crystal, Richard Hatch, Donna Pescow, Susan Richardson. Toni Tennille. Robert Urich

NBC

Robert Conrad (captain) 

Todd Bridges, Mary Crosby, Jane Curtin, William Devane, Greg Evigan, Brianne Leary. Larry Wilcox

CBS

Jamie Farr (captain)

Catherine Bach, Valerie Bertinelli, Patrick Duffy, Lou Ferrigno, Leif Garrett, Victoria Principal. Gary Sandy

As we're, (finally) approaching the 1980's, I seem to be more familiar with more and more of the contestants on the Battle of the Network Stars episodes. I only had to Google a few names form the sixth installment, and they were all female actors.

It still amazes me, the variety of actors who appeared on the show.  Today, I don't think you'd find big name network stars on a celebrity sports event.  It's weird to see names like Billy Crystal and Scott Baio on the same team, let alone the same show.  As much as I dislike Baio today, I can't deny he was incredibly hot when he was younger.

Although as you can see, there were plenty of hot 1970's hunks in speedos, most of the best views came from promotional shots.  Again in this episode, they skipped the introduction to the swim competition, and the parade of actors in their swim suits. 

There was still plenty of skin, and if you look closely at the image below, it looks as if Leif Garrett may have flashed a little of his balls when he took part in the dunk tank competition. 

Whenever I see images of actor Robert Urich from the 70's and 80's I think of how sad it was he died so young.  Urich really was one of the most handsome men at the time.  One of these days, I'll have to check out some of his work.  The only movie of Urich's I really watched was Endangered Species, and that's because of his butt scene. (HERE:)

Although they didn't do the 'speedo intros', I still included the swimming relay in the video below. You do get a few good views, but sadly so many missed opportunities.  WKRP's Gary Sandy was swimming in his speedo, but I couldn't find one decent shot.  You do however get to hear Howard Cosell describe Leig Garrett as 'young and supple.'   You also get a hot William Devane.  Although incredibly talented, I never saw Devane as especially handsome, but he looks really good with his longer hair and his facial hair as well.

Hatch, Garrett and Conrad start off the swimming relay.