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How and Why It All Ended For Mayberry
How is it that The Andy Griffith Show has endured on television for almost 45 years? And what is it about the notion of a community like Mayberry that continues to resonate? TVparty looks in depth at how it all ended on the anniversary of the show's cancellation.
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Television Terrorists
Ripped from the headlines! On Nov. 22, 1987, video hackers managed to override the Chicago PBS station's broadcast of Dr. Who and replace it with a signal beamed from their secret location. Drunk with mad power, this dastardly duo also hacked into a major Chicago commercial station that night for several moments. With one of the world's largest broadcast markets now firmly in their control, what diabolical message would they send?
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What Zoom Meant 50 Years Ago!
"Am I the only lunatic left who remembers the original ZOOM series out of Boston? I think WGBH was the parent station, and everyone wore these (hideous now, cool at the time) purple and orange shirts. "Ubbie talk" came from Zoom, and I was one of many kids on my block who could sing the ZOOM song at the drop of a hat. Please tell me I am not alone in remembering this '70s series."
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New Fall Season - 30 Years Ago
The 1973-74 season had t

he worst new show success ratio of any season in television history; the 1974-75 rosters performed only slightly better. Just how different was TV three decades ago? Just look at what people were watching - it was the beginning of the end of what is now considered 'classic television.'
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Have a Smoke and Be Somebody!
Cigarette manufacturers advertised widely in the early days of television. They had deep pockets and could afford to gamble on a new medium, footing the bill for a host of early classic programs. Ironically, in just two decades, they were carved away from the medium they helped create.
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Boston Area Educational Kid Shows
WGBH, Channel 2 (still a leading producer of PBS programming) was part of a network (Eastern Educational Network) that showed instructional programming in conjunction with school curricula. Known as "The 21-inch Classroom," the station ran short little programs during school hours, that gave instruction in French lessons ("Parlons Francais," with Madame Anne Slack), science, mathematics and Language Arts.
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Run Buddy Run
We get more requests for this program than almost any other. This dizzy and typically sixties' sitcom starred trumpet player Jack Sheldon (seen as an occasional band member on the 'Merv Griffin Show' during the seventies) as a guy on the run from comical criminals.
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Las Vegas Postcards / The Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas and the Mob!
From a Vegas entertainer: The entertainers and folks I know who worked in Las Vegas pre-1980 liked it better than what came after, When the big hotel chains muscled in on Sin City the mobsters, even with the skim, didn't have the money to compete. They were eventually marginalized and Vegas became a corporate playground.
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Shrimpenstein
The Shrimpenstein series with Gene Moss and Jim Thurman had that zany little puppet that was built by renowned artiste Wah Chang. Chang was responsible for all sorts of stuff, not the least, the props, weapons, etc in the original Star Trek. Moss and Thurmon later went on (well, not much later) to do a short - lived Johnny Carson-esque talk show on KHJ as well as writing AND voicing the cult favorite Roger Ramjet.
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"Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!"
"I am looking for a newspaper editorial - it could've also been in a magazine - written about the kid's TV show 'Andy's Gang' in which the writer blames Froggy for causing the protest movement of the 60s. He said Froggy's disrespectful behavior towards adults, which he demonstrated every show, influenced the kids who were watching him and those kids grew up to become the protesting college students of the sixties who likewise showed disrespect towards their elders."
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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."
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Classic TV on DVD!
Stargate Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving Badly, Captain N, Hootenanny, ER, Wanda Sykes, Adventures of Superman, Pride & Prejudice, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, Cheyenne, and so many more new to DVD. And they're all deep discounted - for you!
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