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A Classic TV Christmas Special Right Here Every Day on TVparty!
Bob Hope Christmas Special (1967)
Classic Sitcom Christmas Episodes
Families,
not television, is what Christmas is all about. But can we help it
as children growing up in America that many of our warmest family
Christmas memories are wrapped around watching something on television?
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BONUS: NYC THANKSGIVING DAY TV SPECIALS
Christmas
Specials of the 60s & 70s
TVparty-ers
reflect on their favorite Christmas TV memories - from the Norelco
Santa, Hardrock, Cocoa and Joe, Mr.
Magoo, Bing Crosby and all the rest. What were your favorite holiday
specials?
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OVERHEARD CONVERSATION
If you asked me for a list of people working in television that I'd most like to talk to, at the top of that list would be Bob Einstein. I've been a long-time fan, since The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he played Officer Judy. Since that time he's been a television variety show writer / producer and is today best known for two roles - Super Dave Osborne and Larry David's nemesis Marty Funkhauser on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Listen to the interview.
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The Dark Shadows Movies
House of Dark Shadows stands as perhaps the most effective TV adaptation to the big screen until Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan came along in 1982. The daytime soap opera Dark Shadows struggled to find an audience before Jonathan Frid joined the cast as Barnabas Collins. This happened in 1967 just after Batman ignited in primetime; both Frid and Adam West became instant pop icons. Perhaps it was the success of the Batman movie that prompted MGM to green light a film version of Dark Shadows four years later.
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In 1966 and 1967 The Supremes were on the top of the bill at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. In January of 1970 they gave their final performance at the Frontier Hotel, after that Diana Ross embarked on a solo career and was quickly signed to play Las Vegas with her name alone in big letters on the marquee. A live double album was released of The Supremes' final performance at the Frontier.
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It Ended on Christmas for Wonderama
WNEW
dropped Bob McAllister following an emotional Christmas Day broadcast
in 1977 then aired reruns of Wonderama for three years afterwards.
McAllister went public with his distaste over this practice after watching
reruns of his show one Sunday and seeing an ad for a Charles Bronson movie.
"I had never allowed violence in the frame work of Wonderama.
So I took out a rather elaborate display ad in the New York Times and
told parents not to watch it anymore."
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Where
There's Christmas There's Hope
The Bob Hope Special was the longest-running television series
of all time. No one who wasn't born between 1900 and 1975 could possibly
understand what Bob Hope meant to the entire fabric of this country.
He was safely sarcastic, a constant throughout all time and all media.
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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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1970's Christmas TV Shows
Journey back to the polyester decade to see what boomer kids were watching during the Holidays with loads of video clips from classic shows, many unseen in decades.
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Together Again after 40 Years!
Rick Goldschmidt reveals the recently
discovered, original, newly-restored Animagic models for Santa and
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - unseen by the public in four decades!
Plus: a look at the lovely Noel Neill, TV's Lois Lane.
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1960's Soap Opera Themes
The Edge of Night came on CBS in the afternoons so this is the Soap Opera theme I remember best as a young kid, just getting home from school. It reminds me of laundry being done and dinner on the stove (the kids ate early at our house). There's something eerie about this theme, the show had a dark undertow and a generally seedy nature. And then there was Dark Shadows.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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Hit
Shows of the Seventies: Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy / Gene
Roddenberry in the 1970s / 1977-1978 Superhero & Science Fiction TV Shows / Funniest SNL Skit Ever! / Prisoner: Cell Block H / Henry Winkler on His Happy Days Audition / Patrick Duffy of Dallas Interview / Wonder Woman Leaves Paradise Island / Best Season of Dallas Ever? / TV Show Book Tie-Ins / 1972 Jackie Robinson Interview / Dr. Strange 1978 TV Movie / Kathy Garver Interview / Space: 1999 / Mary Kay Place Albums of the 1970s / The Supremes - Mary Wilson vs Diana Ross / Remembering Ken Berry / Bruce / Caitllyn Jenner? / Billy Crash Craddock Interview / Bill Cosby - WTF?!? / Alex Baldwin On His TV and Film Roles / Top Ten Sitcoms of the 1970s / James Cameron Made No Money for Titanic / Ed McMahon Drunk on the Air! / Dallas vs Eight is Enough / 1974 MAD Magazine TV Special - Never Aired! / When Lucy Got Fired / Partridge Family and Brady Bunch at Kings Island theme park 1972-73 / Jack Benny's Last Tonight Show 1974 / Ed Asner Interview / Freddy's Nightmares TV Series / Emmy Award Multiple Winners / Nathaniel Taylor aka Rollo Lawson / Mary Kay Place Albums of the 1970s / That Girl & TV's Single Working Women / Can You Identify These Stars? / Betty White vs Joan Rivers / Sonny Comedy Revue / Star
Trek Animated / Dark Shadows / Hal Linden Interview / Dark Shadows Movies / Dark Shadows Novels / The Night Stalker / One of the Funniest Carol Burnett Show Skits Ever / Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson / Johnny Carson interviews Lucille Ball / Dawn Wells / Betty White : An Appreciation / Bette Davis' 2 Best Interviews 1971 / Barbara Eden Interview / Gavin McLeod / Spider-Man 77 / The Next Step Beyond / The Music Dark Shadows / 1970 TV Shows / Mike Connors Remembered / Mike Wallace, Virginia Graham & Jim Longworth / Dick Clark / Woody Allen Hosts Tonight Show 1971 / Carson Tonight Show / Alan Alda Interview / Jackie Gleason Show / 1973 TV Shows / Thriller / Post Modern Sitcoms / Elvis in Greensboro / Remembering Dick Van Patten / TV Dating Shows / The Jacksons TV Show / Fall
Previews of the 70s / Lance
Link, Secret Chimp / Star
Wars Holiday Special / Alias
Smith and Jones / 1977
Year in Review / Top
Ten 1970-76 / The
Rockford Files / All
in the Family / Sam Hall (Dark Shadows) Interview / Actor Ed Nelson / Death of Archie / Battlestar
Galactica / Wonder
Woman / Network
Jingles / Class
of '74 / Happy
Days / Good
Times / Mr.
Bill / Dinah! / Maude / Doris
Day Show / Pamelyn
Ferdin Interview / The
Bicentennial Minute / Jingles & Catch Phrases of the 1970s / Early
Cable TV 1970s / TV
commercials for Women / TV Moms / Country Music TV Shows of the 1960s & 1970s / Betty White Show / Ron Palillo / Shirley Jones Interview / Tom Bosley / Rodney Dangerfield / How Sanford & Son Ended / Sanford & Son Spin-Off Grady / Great Memoirs / Virginia Graham Show / The "N" Word on TV / 10 Classic Comedy Routines You Have To Laugh At Before You Die / Hollywood Squares / 1970's Teen Idols & The Hudson Brothers / TV Stars with 3 Hit Shows / The Rookies / Unsold Pilots / Jackie Cooper / The Good Guys / Match Game / Make Room For Granddaddy / Mannix & Gail Fisher / Bette
Midler in the 1970s / Bonus 1970's Stuff: Silent Star Marion Mack / Biff Burger / 1970s Fast Food Chains / Latin Casino / Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire / 1970's Daytime Talk Shows / The Fess Parker Show / Brady Bunch Sex Dungeon? / Love, Loss & What I Watched
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