B.J. & The Bear

Greg Evigan played B.J. McKay on B.J. & The Bear for three seasons. The show was on from 1978 to 1981. B.J. had a chimp who rode with him in his truck. By the third season, the seven lady truckers came on board with him. It would be the last season of the show. Who remembers the show on here?

I don't recall the lady truckers, but definitely remember Greg Evigan

I do. I also remember Greg's insanely tight pants.

The lady truckers came on during the third season, r1.

B.J. & The Bear @ S3e10 A Bear In The Hand

Part of our Saturday night line up and we never missed it. God I miss 1970s TV.

The show's primary cultural significance is that a one episode crooked local sheriff character was so popular with the audience he got his own spin-off that totally overshadowed the original series.

LOVED it.

Loved the Bear. Loved the whole freedom of their life on the road and the little adventures they had along the way.

Show tailored to a married hetero male audience. Men saddled with responsibilities and a shrew of a wife dreaming of being free to travel the highways in a big truck (obviously a compensatory possession) leading a life surrounded by big titted women who aren't terribly bright.

Karen: You'll never guess who just walked in!

Jack: Is it Greg Evigan, from TV's B.J. and the Bear and, after a brief hiatus, My Two Dads?

Will: You know, I never realized how gay those shows sounded. It's a wonder he didn't follow them up with a show called "Hey Faggot!"

P.S.I. Luv U (1991-1992) Clip and Theme Song

Greg Evigan appeared in the short lived series called P.S. I Luv U with Connie Sellecca from 1991-1992.

I don't know why I never watched this. I was 10-12 years old when it aired, so definitely target audience. I just looked at the Primetime schedule, and I don't see anything that aired against it that I watched either. What the hell was I doing Saturday nights as a kid?

My Two Dads - Episodes 1-3 Intro

P.S. I Luv U - TV series ending (1991)

Greg Evigan with the Original Kenworth

The first time I remember seeing Greg Evigan, it was his very improbable role as Mackenzie Phillips' love interest on One Day At A Time

We all lived in a 1970s dream haze where we thought quality television like this would last forever!

Greg Evigan 1976 Coke Commercial

Real Life Father-Daughter Co-Stars Vanessa & Greg Evigan Talk Family and Faith

He showed up as an insanely hot plumber in the "Reba" show a while back. He looked very able to clean out her pipes with ease, but Reba wasn't ready for anything romantic.

CBS - "P.S. I Luv U" promo - 1991

Judy Landers on the Johnny Carson Show

B.J. & The Bear @ S3e13 Who Is B.J.

i'm bj mckay and my best friend is bare

B.J. & The Bear: 'BJ and the Witch'

Greg Evigan and Family "Only God Can" World Premiere Red Carpet

At this time in my life I was 5-7 years old, it was BJ, Dukes of Hazzard, Wonder Woman, Facts of Life and Love Boat. I can't believe any adults watched these shows.

Remember the episode where BJ was in a truck stop and getting a BJ from a hooker and the light went on and it was a man and BJ beat the man up?

B.J. & The Bear @ S3e08 Blond In A Gilded Cell

We used to watch it. Until BJ started hopping into bed with so many different women. Then my mother got really pissed off and we had to watch it without her knowing.

I used to watch it and just wanted BJ to spunk all over me. He was so fuckin' sexy.

Greg Evigan was my first grown-up-girl crush. Before Greg, it had been Tiger Beat boys like Shaun Cassidy. Greg wasn't a boy. He was a MAN and got my grown-up-girl juices a-flowin'!

I loved PS I LUV U. That's actually a pre-famous Sheryl Crow singing with Greg at the end credits @R15. Connie was just lip syncing.

The show should have had one more season instead of only three seasons.

[quote]The show should have had one more season instead of only three seasons.

Oddly enough, I think that AIDS panic did this show in. Its last season was 1981 and by then people were freaking out about causal sex.

LOVED BJ & Bear! I especially loved the original "Snow White & The Seven Lady Truckers" two-part episode in S2 (which spawned the seven lady trucker regulars in S3). Snow White was played by Laurette Spang....on whom I'd had a little crush since Battlestar Galactica, as Cassopeia....but didn't quite understand why?

B.J. & The Bear @ S2e09 Gasohol

B.J. & The Bear @ S3e12 S T U N T

Where did the show go wrong during the third season?

Ever since that ladies hands and face were ripped off in that chimpanzee attack, I can't look at those lil monsters with anything other than dread and fear. NO WARNING!

Why was there never a porn parody involving a hunky muscle bear who drives around and gets blowjobs in seedy locales.

Performing oral sex on a bear will surely end in tears. What is wrong with this country that dangerous filth like that can become so popular?

We called it "Blow Job and the Bulge" in my day.

B.J. & The Bear was a show that came on television for three seasons. Maybe it was a rarity to have a porn parody on it back then. The show was catered to a straight heterosexual male audience because of the seven lady truckers in the third season. Straight women liked Greg Evigan because he was cute for his time.

As I mentioned upthread, I never really watched BJ and I can't figure out why. I was the perfect age when it first aired (8-10 yrs old) But now that I'm hearing it featured a lot of Greg Evigan sex scenes, maybe I will. Do you get a lot of shirtless Evigan in the programme?

Does anyone think that Greg Evigan was being typecast for playing certain roles after B.J. & The Bear? I know he did My Two Dads several years after that.

I know B.J. & The Bear is one of the shows from the late 1970's and early 1980's that does not hold up pretty well. It is pretty dated at this point with the casual sex and the innuendos. Plus the chimp riding along with his trucker friend.

That was the last time I wanted to go down on a trucker. Since, then, I moved to UPS men and the ocassional FedEx dude.

[quote]Straight women liked Greg Evigan because he was cute for his time.

Didn't you read all of the gay men who lusted for him? And he wasn't just 'cute'; he really was gorgeous, especially in BJ AND THE BEAR. He would still be considered highly attractive today, late '70s fashion notwithstanding.

R48 there was a lot of this:

R43 SAME! Now whenever I see a still of clip from BJ AND THE BEAR, for example, I can't help but cringe thinking about what if that chimp suddenly became irate and ripped off HIS beautiful face!

Separating a chimp from its mother - not a good thing. So people watched a show about a man and primate which shouldn't have been removed from it natural habitat. Bad on several different levels.

[quote]The first time I remember seeing Greg Evigan, it was his very improbable role as Mackenzie Phillips' love interest on One Day At A Time

he was Barbara's love interest and he rejected her for Julie. Like anyone would ever do that.

I remember loving the concept when I was a little kid, and watching it. But, I remember thinking they didn't have enough of the monkey.

Dukes of Hazzard was the same kind of thing, but done much better.

I know the theme song (well parts of it) without even clicking it.

"Good scenes and better dreams I'm BJ Mckay and this is my best friend Bear"

Back in the days when they still programmed Saturday nights. Now it's all repeats of shit from earlier in the week and I don't know why.

Evigan was both hot and somehow not really a star too. Something almost "Jersey" about him. But I loved the natural hair on his chest.

[quote]Something almost "Jersey" about him.

What does that mean? A 'guido'?

A blow job McKay, gets my best friend bare

[quote]I'm BJ Mckay and this is my best friend Bear"

Greg was recently on the "Battle of the Network Stars" reboot. Here's a before-and-after pic.

This thread proves that there is brand equity. I guess we can save our money to buy tickets for the movie and the prequel and the sequel and the reboot and the animated version.

"Guido" feels too far, he wasn't obnoxious or any stereotype -- but he definitely had something of an accent and that demeanor. Trust me, I beat off to him as a kid many a time so it didn't get in the way but he wasn't the typical California boy by a long shot.

I remember it, as well as Hardcastle & McCormick & Kate & Allie & Simon & Simon!

(Simon & Simon needs its own thread, I think.)

No love for "A Year at the Top" with Greg Evigan and Paul Shaffer as musicians who sell their soul to Satan for "A Year At the Top?"

R65? That was really unnecessary.

I liked it when he chose acne ridden Julie the whore, over the wholesome and perky and pretty Barbara

I'm BJ McKay and my best friend is bare

Love Boat was followed by Fantasy Island.

I'll suck tatoo's nipples on that island

I watched this show when I was 12 - 13 and all I remember was the rug on his chest and his long torso.

Did adults really watch these shows? Ones who weren't brain damaged? Or did they stick to Hill Street Blues?

I preferred the reboot "BJ for the Bear."

[quote] Did adults really watch these shows? Ones who weren't brain damaged? Or did they stick to Hill Street Blues?

I was a kid then but I feel like they were for kids. My parents watched "The Greatest American Hero" and "Dallas." The former was kind of stupid when you think about it, although it has a great theme song.

I hope if they ever tried this again PETA would shut the whole shit down before it aired. There’s no way that chimp wasn’t abused and traumatized filming this every day in and out for months on end. That’s not how a wild animal should be treated.

Sheriff Lobo had Brian Kerwin who was that shows answer to Evigan

never watched bj but I liked the theme song

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