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A Los Angeles native, Matthew Beard was the highest paid Rascal and with good reason. There wasn't anything forced or false about his performances, he was adorably enthusiastic. The camera loved him, so did film audiences and his peers. Stan Laurel, one of the child actor's comedy influences, gave Stymie the bowler hat he wore in the series out of admiration for his work.
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Batman's
Batmania!
Together
with screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr., executive producer William
Dozier crafted a show that could be enjoyed by adults as well as
kids. Batman debuted on January 12, 1966 on ABC and within
the first few weeks, the telecast was attracting fifty-five percent
of the viewing audience, with a surprising two-thirds over the age
of eighteen.
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more...
Game Shows 1974
A
rundown of all the daytime network game shows from the summer of 1974,
along with audio clips from actual 1974 airchecks, when they could
be found. Sadly, many of these series were erased by the networks
(especially the NBC shows) and no longer exist in any form - except
right here.
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"Plunk
Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!"
"I
am looking for a newspaper editorial - it could've been in a magazine
- written about the kid's show 'Andy's Gang' in which the writer
blames Froggy for causing the protest movement of the '60s. He said
Froggy's disrespectful behavior towards adults, which he demonstrated
every show, influenced the kids who were watching him and those
kids grew up to become the protesting college students of the sixties
who likewise showed disrespect towards their elders."
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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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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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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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Los
Angeles Local Kid Shows from the Fifties to Seventies!
Sheriff
John, Hobo Kelly, Baby Daphne, Shrimpenstein, Chucko and more. With
rare video and dozens of photos. NEW BONUS: Never
before seen backstage footage from KCOP's Romper Room!
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Kids,
Guns and TV
Some modern-day experts contend
that violent video games encourage savage behavior in our young people,
while others say that's just another example of the latest entertainment
medium becoming society's scapegoat du jour. Keep in mind, the same
breed of expert said the exact same thing about comic books and toy
guns in the 1950s - and look at how great the baby boomers turned
out.
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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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Wonder Woman's Long Strange Journey to Television
It
wasn't until The Six Million Dollar Man debuted five years later
on ABC that super-persons were again accepted on television. With
that in mind,
Warner Bros. decided again to mount a Wonder Woman project in 1974.
Stanley Ralph Ross was again brought on board to pitch a completely different
approach than the 1967 pilot; his idea was to stay true to the original
character concept by placing the comic book character back into the World War II era.
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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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and see more...
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