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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! Read
and watch 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...
The Sixtieth Anniversary of The Andy Griffith Show How
is it that The Andy Griffith Show has endured on television
for half a century? And what is it about the notion of a community
like Mayberry that continues to resonate with so many Americans? TVparty looks in depth at
how it all ended on the anniversary of the show's debut on CBS in the fall of 1960. Read
and watch more...
Lost
Fall Previews of the 1960s
In
past decades, the three networks previewed new fall shows on spectacular,
one-hour specials. Three to five minute teasers for each series were
created so that viewers could sample what they might like before the
shows debuted. Here are examples of fall previews for some of the
best programs of the go-go decade. 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
and watch more...
The
Soupy Sales Shows One
of TV's most notorious pranks!
It was on New Year's day, 1965, when Soupy asked his young audience to
go to Daddy's wallet and get those "little green pieces of paper with
pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln, and Jefferson
on them, send them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto
Rico." This led to a week's suspension (most people believe he was
fired outright). Soupy jokes that he inspired televangelists that now
use the same basic technique. Read
and watch more...
What Makes a 'Hit' a 'Hit' - Part Two! According to the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), the average price of admission for a first run movie theater, for an adult, is $7.93. That means (roughly) that when a movie grosses $1 million, over 126,000 people have paid to see it. Disney’s already-infamous “John Carter” was a domestic bomb yielding “only” $70 million at the box office. Read and watch
more...
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." 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...
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. 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...
Why Did They Fire TV's Captain Marvel? "It was a precedent setting case at the Screen Actor's Guild, and Filmation
had to pay me for all the shows they didn't use me on, plus residuals.
Still, these clown's actions doomed a marvelous show. It wasn't John Davies'
fault that he was suddenly thrown into the part of Captain Marvel. It
was a rush job. I was fired at 1:00 PM that day, and he was out on the
set at 3:00 PM. That's pretty darn fast, I'd say. One of the Execs' reasoning
was "The kids'll never know the difference." Riiight. John's
a fine actor, but he's no more Captain Marvel than I am Wonder Woman." 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...
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...
1970's Christmas TV Shows Is it too early?!? 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...
Reflections
On Bobby Darin
For
31 years Bobby's family kept a dark secret from him. In 1967, they revealed
that his "sister" Nina was really his mother, and his "mother" Polly was
really his grandmother! After
these traumatic revelations he felt, "My whole life has been a lie." He
spent a year at Big Sur, on the California coast, trailer living in the
forest, wondering and writing. Read
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...
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 more...
TV Fall Season : 1972-73 An
overview of what folks were watching in 35 years ago; with rare video
of the hits and flops that marked the beginning of the end of the classic TV era.
Do you remember: The Saturday Superstar Movie, ABC Movie of the
Week, Captain Noah, the Julie Andrews Hour, Bridget Loves Bernie,
Search and The Sixth Sense? 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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