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The
Star Wars Holiday Special?!?
The
London Sunday Times called this article a "must
read." George Lucas would like to forget about the first
time he brought Star Wars to television. The occasion was
something called The Star Wars Holiday Special, which aired
on CBS only once, on Nov. 17, 1978. Although CBS hailed it as a two-hour
"visual and audio delight," the made-for-TV mess was anything
but.
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1950s TV Thanksgiving
Jump back in time for a nostalgic look at Thanksgiving as it was portrayed on TV in the nifty fifties.
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The Original Mr. Belvedere
These feature films starred the impeccably prissy Clifton Webb as Mr. Belvedere, it's the most well-rounded character of his career and a rare starring role for this popular supporting actor. The first, Sitting Pretty directed by Walter Lang, is a riot as this erudite genius, who has seemingly been everywhere and done everything, goes to work as a live-in nanny for a typical American family so he can secretly write a tell-all book. Pretty modern concept, huh? Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara co-starred.
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David
Bowie on TV
Bowie
made several but not many appearances on American TV during the 1970s,
mostly on talk and variety shows. Here are a few examples.
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BONUS: A Short History of the Thanksgiving Day Parades on TV
The
Most Negative Political Campaign of All?
He
was the perfect presidential candidate: likeable, youthful and opinionated.
So what if his handlers jerked him around like a puppet on a string? That
was part of his charm. The candidacy was one for the history books; never
before had someone from the world of television strived for the presidency. L.
Wayne Hicks reports, you decide.
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The
Star Wars
Holiday Special?!?
The
London Sunday Times called this article a "must
read." George Lucas would like to forget about the first
time he brought Star Wars to television. The occasion was
something called The Star Wars Holiday Special, which aired
on CBS only once, on Nov. 17, 1978. Although CBS hailed it as a two-hour
"visual and audio delight," the made-for-TV mess was anything
but.
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more...
Della
Reese' Tough TV Career
When
ABC decided to continue with 8 Simple Rules after star John
Ritter's sudden death in 2003, they did so knowing it was a risky
strategy. But there was one star, Della Reese, who had been through
that very situation - twice!
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Jack Sheldon!
Jack Sheldon - you may not recognize the name but you'll recognize his voice from those wonderful Schoolhouse Rock segments from Saturday mornings. My favorite of his was 'Conjunction Junction' but there were others - like perhaps the most well-known of the bunch, 'How a Bill Becomes a Law.'
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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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What Makes a 'Hit' a 'Hit' - Part Two!Disney’s already-infamous “John Carter” was a domestic bomb yielding “only” $70 million at the box office. But its actual audience ends up looking impressive when this formula is applied: seventy million dollars translates to around eight million people in the theater. Eight million is more than regularly tune into episodes of “Jersey Shore,” “Conan O’Brien,” and “Once Upon a Time”—and those shows are free!
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The First Interactive Video Game
This is the previously untold story behind the very first interactive video game. It was created 30 years ago this year, in 1983, by Busustow Entertainment for Disney. The format? A Laser Disc.
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Kevin “Servo” Murphy discusses MST 3K
With the release of the sixteenth volume of collections of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (MST 3K) episodes excited me even more than the prior 15 collections because it provided a chance to interview series star Kevin Murphy. This was the equivalent of a Trekker getting to speak with Shatner.
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Woody Woodpecker's Television Anniversary
October 3 marks the anniversary of the 1957 debut of The Woody Woodpecker Show. Actor and veteran animator Walter Lantz created and produced Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Foolish Fables cartoons for movie goers of the 1930s and '40s. He decided to bring his pint size bird with the machine gun beak and his friends to the small screen in 1957 after making a deal with Leonard Goldenson and the heads of ABC.
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Classic
Commercials for Women
From
the very beginning of the ad age, women became a key strategic focal
point for advertisers. The polyester decade in particular played host
to some of the most memorable and wildly successful ad campaigns of
all time. All too often, early TV advertisements aimed at "the
weaker sex" were condescending and simplistic. The women's movement
in the sixties was one factor leading advertisers to rethink the methods
they were using to reach an increasingly important market segment.
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The Merry Mailman - Ray Heatherton
Heatherton made his debut on the small screen in an early video adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates Of Penzance produced in 1939. "It was for NBC TV," Heatherton recalled. "Harold Sandford was the conductor and Margaret Baum was the soprano. They (the network execs and the producers) were really testing the commercial possibilities of television. "I did the lead in both of them."
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Bizarre Life & Death of Joe E. Ross
Car 54 was dropped after two terms and a few years later Joe E. Ross landed the show I first saw him on, It's About Time, which I loved as a 9 year old. The kooky combo of Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coca was hard to resist. Again his co-workers complained about his loutish behavior and that one season wonder was the comedian's last primetime series.
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Gene Roddenberry After Star Trek
Entitled
to half the profits from Star Trek, this amounted to very little
in the early-'70s before the show had yet to fully catch on in syndication. Roddenberry
confessed to an interviewer, "For a couple of years our only income
was lecture fees I got from colleges where kids still loved Star Trek,
even though it was not a commercial success." But soon there were new concepts and attempts to get another sci-fi series off the ground.
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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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Joe Kubert's late-1960s Comic Book Covers
In the 1940s Joe Kubert was known for illustrating the costumed superhero adventures of Hawkman, Johnny Quick, The Justice Society, The Flash and more.
By the mid-sixties Kubert became primarily known as a war comic artist. Here are Kubert's DC superhero covers from 1966-1970. Now that's obscure!
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Great TV Commercials of the Early-1970s
Some
of the most memorable commercial jingles and catch phrases of all
time! "Does
she or doesn't she (only her hairdresser knows for sure)," "You're
not getting older, you're getting better," "No cat ever
walked away from Friskies Buffet," "Kawasaki lets the good
times roll," "I don't use soap anymore," "Who's
behind those Foster Grants?" ...and so many more!
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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!
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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?!?
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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.
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