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60th Anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade! Starting in 1959, more than half a century ago, the network and producer Mike Gargugilo broadcast four different parades from four different locales: The Gimbel's Thanksgiving Day Parade from Philadelphia; The J. L. Hudson Parade from Detroit; The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from NYC; and The Eaton's Santa Claus Parade from Toronto, Canada. (Eaton's Parade was always pre-taped in advance for later broadcast). RARE FOOTAGE! Read and watch more...
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. Read
more...
1950s TV Thanksgiving Jump back in time for a nostalgic look at Thanksgiving as it was portrayed on TV in the nifty fifties, when life in America was simpler and so were our TV shows. Read
and watch more...
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. 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...
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." 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...
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. Read
and watch more...
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? Read and watch
more...
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. Read
and watch more...
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. Read
and see more...
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. Read
and watch 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
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?!? 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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