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TV Stars with Three Hit Shows? You see, all of these performers have achieved something rare in TV, a hat trick. That is: starring in three separate hit series. While we would easily suspect such success from such legends as Lucy (with “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy”), others who have “three-peated” (and those who haven’t) is a surprising list indeed. Read
and watch more... Alan Young, Mr. Ed & Marilyn Monroe? On January 5, 1961, Alan Young was having dinner with friends, when they all stopped to watch the premiere of his new comedy, "Mr. Ed". Afterward, actor William Conrad (later, TV's "Cannon") said to Alan, "Congratulations, you've got a hit on your hands". Conrad was right, and today "Mr. Ed" is still in re-runs and celebrating its 50th anniversary. Next weekend, Alan Young celebrates his own personal milestone when he turns 92. I interviewed Alan by phone recently, and we talked about his life and career. Read
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A Talk With a TV Legend! During the 1960s, the Bozo the Clown show was a mainstay of children’s programming. While there were several different men playing Bozo in various TV markets across the United States, only one actor was the national face of the whacky but good-natured clown. He was radio and TV announcer actor Frank Avruch. 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
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Anatomy of My TV Crushes
I was 11 years old when I had my first television crush. I’d just learned at 10 that I wouldn’t be allowed to marry my mother—apparently, that sort of thing is not only frowned upon, it’s also illegal—so it was time to move on, time to find a new woman. It didn’t take long for me to pick a replacement. My new crush was on television every Saturday night at 8:30. Read and watch more...
Jack Sheldon! Jack Sheldon - you may not recognize the name but you'll recognize his voice from those wonderful Schoolhouse Rock segments from Saturday mornings. My favorite of his was 'Conjunction Junction' but there were others - like perhaps the most well-known of the bunch, 'How a Bill Becomes a Law.' Read and watch more...
Timmie Rogers I
was thinking the other day about the great, pionering black comic
Timmie Rogers. He came up through vaudeville, he was one of (if
not the) first black comedians to appear without blackface
makeup in the 1940s. Yes, even the 'negro' comics had to wear blackface back in the day! Read
and watch more...
NYC's
St. Patrick's Day Parade Telecasts March 17, 2025 marked the 76th anniversary
of the very first broadcast of NYC's annual St. Patrick's Day Parades.
WPIX 11 became the first NYC based television station to air
the event; actually, the real reason for telecasting the parade was
just to test Channel 11's cameras, newly
acquired for upcoming baseball
games. Read
more...
Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue would combine the talents of television’s top animation studios, the money of the McDonald’s corporation and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a team of entertainment industry copyright lawyers and the technical facilities of the Disney Corporation to create a half hour that they anticipated would help effectively and entertainingly explain to children the perils of substance abuse. The project had what seemed to be a sure fire hook - a cast of nearly 20 familiar characters from Saturday morning cartoons of the late-1980s. Read
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Overheard Conversation - Bob Einstein 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. Read
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Who Killed Elvis? When Elvis Presley passed away in 1977, the official diagnosis was a heart attack but a special investigation 2 years later revealed a massive coverup by police and medical authorities. This 60 Minutes Australia segment encompasses (and condenses) the 1979 ABC special investigative report by Geraldo Rivera; that was the first time most Americans learned that Elvis was a drug addict. Read and watch
more...
Wonderama! WITH
ULTRA-RARE VIDEO!
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...
Judy
Garland's Rollercoaster Career She
was bred to be an entertainer; like Tarzan raised by the Great Apes,
hers was an almost impossibly insular existence. Frances Gumm, rechristened
Judy Garland, was a wholly manufactured product of a stage mother
that pushed her relentlessly and a movie studio that programmed her,
sheltered her from reality, then coldly spat her out into a world
she knew little about. Read
and watch more...
The Ironic Death of Redd Foxx!
For
whatever reason (and the actor's drug and alcohol consumption was surely
a factor), the network that capitulated to everyone from Bob Hope to
Johnny Carson over the years refused to (or could not) make Redd Foxx
happy. 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
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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...
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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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