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TV Stars with Three Hit Shows?
You see, all of these performers have achieved something rare in TV, a hat trick. That is: starring in three separate hit series. While we would easily suspect such success from such legends as Lucy (with “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy”), others who have “three-peated” (and those who haven’t) is a surprising list indeed.
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Hanging Out With Lucy
"I got a job at a department store and Lucy came by one day to see if I was really working. She bought $600 worth of linens from me. She gave me her home phone number and said, "Do you play Backgammon?" and I said "No," and she said "You'll learn." She taught me how to play Backgammon and I still play to this day."
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Lucy's Tragic Last Series
"All of us 'little people' who worked on the show knew it was a complete train wreck, but the executive producers and writers insisted from the very beginning that Life With Lucy would zoom to the top of the ratings and be on the air for years. Sadly, this didn't prove to be the case. I can tell you the best shows were the ones that aired; the others were reaaalllly bad."
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Dick Kallman as Hank
"Dick was stabbed to death in 1980 during a 'drug induced' robbery - while most of the articles mention he was murdered in his apartment, it is my belief that he was abducted by someone on drugs looking for money and forced him back to the apartment... clearly it was a robbery and a very violent one. I never sat foot in our apartment again. I left everything I owned in it to be sold. I could not bear to see it ripped and stained with Dick's blood."
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Sexy Edgar Rice Burroughs Paperback Covers
These Roy Krenkel illustrations from the '60s came before the Frank Frazetta covers of the '70s that replaced them. Some of the 1960's books came with illustrations on the title page by Krenkel and they are truly spectacular; he was one of the greatest pen & ink artists of all time.
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classic Lucy Shows / Lucille Ball & her battles with guest stars

Lucy Battles With Her Co-Stars
Most everyone loved Lucy but there were times when things got pretty heated on the set, especially when Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Burton and Joan Crawford appeared with the queen of comedy. After one taping, Crawford was quoted as saying, "My God, they tell me I'm a bitch - Lucy can outbitch me any day of the week!"
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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."
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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.
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Las Vegas Postcards / The Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas in 1977!
1977. It was the year Las Vegas lost its biggest draw, Elvis Presley. Elvis first attempted a Vegas foothold in the 1950s but it was a not successful, his hip-shaking rockabilly persona was considered a vulgar affront to the well-dressed, cool cat Rat Pack crowd. It was Frank, Dean, and Sammy that defined this desert oasis.
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Sky King
"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... Sky King!" Nabisco's kid friendly cowboy in the air was popular for two decades on the weekends - and years before that on radio. Likable stars Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters were matched with believable scripts, stark desert scenery and exciting aerial shots.
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Enola Gay's In The Military
FROM 1950: The next time you're watching Jackass or Fear Factor or some sports stunt show, and you see a guy jump a car, set himself on fire, eat a bucket of worms or whatever, think about Col. Paul Tibbetts - who took off in a 1940's era airplane, flew it over the ocean with the biggest bomb ever made shoved up his ***, dropped that mega-bomb on target and - here's the best part - made it back alive! And by doing so, he ended a World War.
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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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Classic TV Shows on DVD?
An extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's available today - with big discounts for you!

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?!?
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The Sonny & Cher Story!

The Sonny
& Cher Story!