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Saturday
Morning TV Shows - 1967
With Batman the hottest show in primetime the networks rolled out an extravaganza of bizarre superheros for their Saturday morning line-up. After The New Beatles and American Bandstand on ABC the network scored a hit with Where the Action Is, a teen music show featuring the hottest acts in the country. With video highlights! Read and watch more...
Mary Kay Place Albums of the 1970s Mary Kay Place was one of a handful of stars who made television worth watching in 1976-77. As the second banana on the weeknight syndicated soap opera satire Mary Hartman Mary Hartman (Jan. 1976-May 1977) she walked away with the series in the same way Flo stole Alice out from under Linda Lavin. Place's character, dippy aspiring country singer Loretta Haggers, was one of TV's symbiotic moments - bright script writing brought to vivid life by an actress perfectly suited to her role. Portrayed with a hesitantly sweet but staggering niavete, every scene was rich with comedy gold when Loretta was in the mix. So much so that Mary Hartman herself became irrelevant to the series. Read and watch
more...
Origin
of the TV-Movie Not only was the animated opening sequence to the ABC
Movie of the Week a magnificent graphic achievement (and precursor
to modern computer animation) but the 30-second teasers forever redefined motion picture advertising. We'll
show you some of the best examples from the seventies. Read
and see more...
Lancelot
Link, Secret Chimp
'I
Created Lance Link' takes you behind the minds behind the show, it's
a fascinating look into the makings of a classic show and an intimate
glimpse into the lives of two of TV's greatest comedy writers. The
film was shot at the home of Stan Burns, where he and Mike Marmer
relate one funny anecdote after another about the chimp series. Read
and watch more...
Betty White on Don Rickles
This is what Betty White says about working with Don Rickles: “I’ve known him for years, we’ve been friends for years but the first time I worked with him was, we did the movie version of ‘Dennis the Menace.’ And he would start the day, in the morning, instead of saying ‘Good morning’ to me he’d say ‘I hate animals!’”. Read and watch
more...
Saturday
Morning Shows 1971 1970
was a very good year for network Saturday morning revenues, so 1971
brought a continuation of the shows that were working - along with
remakes of proven series from the past. All three networks started
giving in to pressure from parent groups to offer more educational,
and less violent programs. For the most part, they are all flops. Read
and watch more... One
of Duke Ellington's Final TV Appearances In the spring of 1970, former Ellington
vocalist Joya Sherrill became the first African/American female to
host a kid's TV show. Until now, no tapes of those shows were known
to exist, but we uncovered two rare examples - including an episode
of 'Time For Joya' featuring Sir Duke. Read
and hear more...
America's
Early Child Stars
The Little Rascals were often portrayed as orphans or neglected
kids, dirt-scratching urchins roaming the neighborhood with unattended
babies and an unleashed pit bull. Carefully avoiding the police and
truant officers attempting to coral them back into school, the gang
is plagued by vagrants, burglars, carnival workers, larcenous circus
midgets, snotty rich kids and drunken monkeys. Whatever
happened to those kids? Read
and watch more...
Ronald Reagan's Last Dramatic Role Despite
giving up the acting profession - and his TV hosting duties - to serve
as the governor of California in 1967, there was a special episode of Death Valley Days broadcast that same year that featured Reagan
as the lead actor - it was his last dramatic role. Read
and watch more...
Best of Batgirl 1967-68
The most popular character on the show, besides the Dynamic Duo, was Catwoman but she couldn’t be on every week so the producers asked DC comics to come up with a heroic Catwoman so Batgirl debuted in Detective Comics # 359 in 1967. (As opposed to the earlier Batgirl, a minor character from the 1950s.)
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and watch more...
Dear
NBC... Let TVparty remind you how your network went from last place to first in the
1980s - it was done with bold programming, innovative promos and
some of the catchiest jingles ever recorded. Must-see for
every NBC exec in 2019! Read
and watch more..
Heil Honey, I'm Home! It's Heil Honey, I'm Home, the trials and domestic travails of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun, a not-so-typical suburban couple. The program was presented as if it were an unearthed sitcom from the 1950s. In a nod to that classic sitcom cliche, the first storylines centered around Eva being unprepared for Hitler's important business associate (Neville Chamberlain) coming for dinner and the couple's new neighbors dropping in unexpectedly. The neighbors just happen to be Jewish. WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF AFTER THE JUMP! 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...
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! Read
more...
Sanford Arms
When CBS attempts to save Two and a Half Men without the show's star Charlie Sheen they are not going into uncharted territory. NBC faced the same dilemma when they lost Redd Foxx, the star of their number one sitcom Sanford & Son in 1977. The result, Sanford Arms, was a true debacle and one of the first programs cancelled that fall. Read
and watch more...
Outrageous
Outtakes! WARNING:
harsh language! When Elizabeth Taylor was on the set of General Hospital she
was just having toooo much fun. It's been said that the ultimate Diva
was hyped up on pills and/or booze - that might explain her behavior
- or was she just the happiest person on Earth!?! Her
co-stars seemed none too happy. Read
and watch more...
Hilarious Game Show Bloopers! Sure to give you a laugh, here are a bunch of bloopers from TV game shows from around the world. I'm not sure what's dumber, the shows themselves or the contestants! Read
and watch more...
Classic
TV Shows on DVD?
An
extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's
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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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Origin
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