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The
Bette Davis Show?
Television's
early years are one long blur of dizzy dames. The very idea of women in
the workplace was usually met with belly-laughs or outright contempt on
TV shows. Bette
Davis would have none of this! On her program, the women wouldn't be played
for laughs - they would be the players. Read
and watch more...
Jerry Vale One of the titans of the strip, crooner Jerry Vale packed the houses in Vegas and on the road. He's considered one of the finest Italians singers of all time, his rich tenor bathed each and every song he sang with an authenticity other singers lacked. Known for his distinctive high-tenor voice, wide vocal range, and romantic crooning, he was most popular in the 1950s and early 1960s. Read and watch
more...
Lou Costello's Daughter Talks About The Abbott & Costello Show Chris was also unsure why her father was not among the scores of stars who appeared on “I Love Lucy.” She did say that Costello and Ball were friends, that she used to play with Lucie and Desi Arnaz, Jr., and that Ball helped Chris’ mother plan her 10th birthday party. I almost fell on the floor laughing when Chris added that her mother dragged her out of the room when Chris asked Ball if her famous vibrant red hair was her natural color. Read
and watch more...
BONUS
VIDEO! The
Pledge of Allegiance In
the early-1970s, a regular feature of the Casey Jones Show in the Twin Cities was the playing of a recording
from the 1950s by Red Skelton. This makes for interesting
viewing in light of the recent controversy over two little words in
the Pledge of Allegiance. Watch
it now - in Real Player format...
Dialing For Dollars? Many a housewife in the 1960s, and well into the mid-1970s, would be sitting at home eating Bon Bons when the phone rang and a familiar voice asked, "This is Charlie Harville from Channel Eight's Dialing for Dollars calling. Do you know the count and the amount?" If fair maiden was watching the morning or afternoon movie she would know that the "count" was the number spun on the wheel early in the program, and the "amount" (what she could win) would be the money accumulated since the last winner. Read more...
Billy Gray Interview Billy Gray, who played teen Bud Anderson on the 1954-1960 sitcom “Father Knows Best” (FKB) told me, while discussing the DVD release of the series’ fourth season, that a 1962 arrest for possessing “marijuana seed and residue” ruined his career. Read
and watch more...
Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue would combine the talents of television’s top animation studios, the money of the McDonald’s corporation and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a team of entertainment industry copyright lawyers and the technical facilities of the Disney Corporation to create a half hour that they anticipated would help effectively and entertainingly explain to children the perils of substance abuse. The project had what seemed to be a sure fire hook - a cast of nearly 20 familiar characters from Saturday morning cartoons of the late-1980s. Read
and watch more...
1970s Phenomenon : The Gong Show Chuck Barris
was responsible for some of the most popular programs of the sixties,
primetime and daytime hits like 'The Dating
Game' and 'The Newlywed Game'. These pseudo-game shows fed off
of an individual's willingness to do anything to be on television, 'The
Gong Show' would take that premise a step further. ABC
bought the show for nighttime syndication, to debut in the fall of 1976. Read
and watch more...
What Happened to What's Happening!!? "Haywood was a really good kid and Ernest was an
excellent actor. Fred Berry was the one to look out for. He could be trouble.
He received many of the show's big laughs. Unfortunately, he later had
some personal problems that carried over onto the set. After
I had left the show, there was a big contract dispute and I was told that
Fred was the instigator behind the trouble that followed. He convinced
Ernest and Haywood to join him in a strike for more money. Eventually,
the producers simply had enough of the boys' antics and they closed the
series down." Read
and watch more...
Winky
Dink and You "I
used to watch Winky Dink... I had the kit, but I would intentionally
draw the wrong things. When Winky needed a ladder to get out of a
hole, I would draw a cover on the hole. When he needed a parachute,
I would draw an anvil to pull him down, etc. I
would tease my younger sister and tell her that I was making Winky
die! Whenever she left the room crying, I would laugh and laugh. Winky
was cool!"
Read
and watch more...
They Made an Album?!? Yes, most of us are already aware that the likes of William Shatner, John Travolta and various “Brady” kids have all had their dreams of musical greatness and have all put out albums of their warblings at one time or another. But… they are far from alone in the world of surprising others who have also attempted to parlay their notoriety or fame in one field into the world of the recording arts. Read
and hear more...
My
TV Dads I realized how important fathers truly were. And I didn’t have
one. In television terms, my father had been written out of my life
when I was three years old, like James had been written out of "Good
Times," although my father hadn’t been killed off. One
day, he simply went away and didn’t return. Too bad life isn’t
more like television, or else there would’ve been a sassy maid
in my home to help guide us children, but in real life most families
can’t afford a live-in maid. Read
more...
Classic
TV on DVD - Archived Reviews! Tom
Jones, Twin Peaks, Stargate Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving Badly, Captain N, Hootenanny, ER, Wanda
Sykes, Adventures of Superman, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, and
so many more hot DVD releases.And they're all deep discounted
- for you! Read
more...
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1980's
TV Wrestling - Greats and Near Greats! NOW WITH ADDED RARE VIDEO!
John
Hitchcock's look back at the heart of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling - with
grapplers known and unknown. Wahoo McDaniel! Ric Flair! Dusty Rhodes!
Jim Cornette! Magnum TA! Buddy "Killer" Austin! Johnny Weaver!
Johnny Valentine! Harley Race! Dick Murdock! Jimmy Garvin! Nikita Koloff!
Have you ever heard of these guys?!? Read
and watch more...
1980's
PUNK ROCK
In the early-eighties, young people in Los Angeles were flocking to
makeshift clubs in droves to see new, up and coming bands. Live new
music, not DJs, was what they craved. These writings provide a sketchy
look at the underground club scene in Los Angeles during the time
that groups like X, Missing Persons, The Go-Go's, The Minutemen and
Wall of Voodoo entered the public consciousness. Read
and see more...
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