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Howard Stern took aim at Jay Leno on the CBS Morning Show with Stern calling Leno a thief, among other things - "Jay-Walking was lifted from my radio show."
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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?
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Have a Smoke and Be Somebody!
Talk about Government mandated health care, our nation's leaders decided more than three decades ago that Tobacco and TV don't mix. Before that, stars like John Wayne appeared on TV selling cigarettes, speaking highly of the product: "Mild and good tasting pack after pack. And I know, I've been smokin' em for twenty years." Coincidentally, some of the last commercials the Duke filmed were to ask people to stop smoking. Watch some of TV's wildest commercials like the dancing cigarette pack!
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NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade Telecasts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the very first broadcast of NYC's annual St. Patrick's Day Parades. WPIX 11 became the very 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.
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Enola Gay's In The Military
FROM 1950: The next time you're watching Jackass or Fear Factor or some sports stunt show, and you see a guy jump a car, set himself on fire, eat a bucket of worms or whatever, think about Col. Paul Tibbetts - who took off in a 1940's era airplane, flew it over the ocean with the biggest bomb ever made shoved up his ***, dropped that mega-bomb on target and - here's the best part - made it back alive! And by doing so, he ended a World War.
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The Sonny and Cher Shows
A lot of press was generated about Cher's exposed belly-button, it had never been done on television before. "There were so many things that were censored - ideas and words," Cher said looking back on the show. "All I know is I got in trouble for showing my belly button, and every time I turned around after I went off the air, all you saw were Cheryl Ladd's boobs."
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Worst. Commercial. Ever?
I'm not even going to set this one up except to say - can you imagine a worse TV ad? At least now we know where George Lucas got the idea for Jabba the Hut. From the summer of '75 -
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The New Dick Van Dyke?
An odd thing happened late in the second season of The New Dick Van Dyke Show. CBS censors rejected a scene in an episode that had Dick and Jenny's daughter walking in on them while they were having sex. All of this happened off camera, of course. The result was a funny and very human scenario, and producer Carl Reiner insisted the scene stay. When CBS refused to air the episode as it stood, Reiner quit, promising never to produce another television show again.
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What a Weird Year in Television - 1977
ABC (who's slogan was We're Still The One) lunged unexpectedly into first place in 1976, causing CBS and NBC to shake up their faltering schedules. Network programmers rushed to create shows for 1977-78 that catered to every taste (always a recipe for disaster). No doubt about it, this was the beginning of the end of the three network era.
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Winky Dink and You
"I used to watch Winky Dink... I had the kit, but I would intentionally draw the wrong things. When Winky needed a ladder to get out of a hole, I would draw a cover on the hole. When he needed a parachute, I would draw an anvil to pull him down, etc. I would tease my younger sister and tell her that I was making Winky die! Whenever she left the room crying, I would laugh and laugh. Winky was cool!"
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Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
'I Created Lance Link' takes you behind the minds behind the show, it's a fascinating look into the makings of a classic show and an intimate glimpse into the lives of two of TV's greatest comedy writers. The film was shot at the home of Stan Burns, where he and Mike Marmer relate one funny anecdote after another about the chimp series.
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Lucy Battles With Her Co-Stars
Most everyone loved Lucy but there were times when things got pretty heated on the set, especially when Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Burton and Joan Crawford appeared with the queen of comedy. After one taping, Crawford was quoted as saying, "My God, they tell me I'm a bitch - Lucy can outbitch me any day of the week!"
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Then Came Bronson
Easy Rider was a hit in 1969, a movie about two young counter-culture cyclists looking for the "real" America. Perhaps Middle America was not quite ready for that story on the small screen, but Then Came Bronson expressed some of the themes of that movie in a way more palatable to the mass audience (interestingly, the pilot movie was completed before Easy Rider hit the screen, so TCB was not a knockoff.)
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In 1958 the producers of this wildly popular primetime game show admitted they had been providing answers to contestants that they wanted to see win. The quiz show scandals erupted after Herb Stemple came forward with the story that he was forced to throw the game and allow Charles Van Doren to win.
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"We're the merry Texaco men; tonight we may be showmen; tomorrow we'll be servicing your cars." That's part of the Texaco jingle that opened TV's hottest show in 1952. This is what big-time network television looked like fifty-five years ago.
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It's About Time
This was one of network TV's most beloved sitcoms and it only aired for one year. The series itself may not have been successful, but the show's theme song is one of the most memorable of all time. People who never saw the show became familiar with it! Like many Sherwood Schwartz productions, the theme gives you the entire premise of the show in hummable fashion. But will we ever see this classic on DVD?
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America's First Lady of Comedy
Carol Burnett won the hearts of TV viewers playing the nervous klutz in dozens of hilarious skits on The Garry Moore Show. She was an instant hit with the home audience, one of the emerging medium's first bright stars.
Each week, hapless Carol would find herself in the most outrageous predicaments. No matter how sketchy the script, the comedienne turned each performance into a farcical romp with her spasmodic interpretations. She quickly became the de-facto star of the program.
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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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Saturday Morning
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"The only thing more existentially disturbing than the Trix Rabbit is the way kids used to torment Sonny the Cuckoo Bird with his obvious psychological addiction to Cocoa Puffs."
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Richard Pryor Show
Was Richard Pryor bitter about his television experience? No, not at all. He had this to say: "One week of truth on TV could just straighten out everything. One hundred and twenty-seven million people watch television every night; that's why they use it to sell stuff. They've misused it a long time so now it's just a business, that's all. They're not going to write shows about how to revolutionize America. The top-rated shows are for retarded people."
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Remembering Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo was the longest-running network children's show of all time - from 1955 until 1984, the good Captain could be seen mornings on CBS. Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum played sidekick Mr. Green Jeans, joining Cosmo Allegretti's hand-puppets Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit in the Captain's Treasure House.
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Poker television programs have been extremely popular in the last several years, especially in North America and Europe. This has especially become the case since the invention of the "pocket cam" in 1997 (axnd its first use in the United States in 2002), which allows viewers at home to see each player's hole cards. It comes with no surprise that many of the online poker sites sponsor big events like WSOP and WPT.

Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
15 years ago, the women of GLOW took to the ring and were slammed by those people who always criticize wrestling for lowering TV standards to new depths. But it was a very popular show - and no wonder!
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Philly Local Kid Shows
Bertie the Bunyip! Chief Halftown! Sally Starr! Pete Boyle! Gene London! Pixanne! Happy the Clown! Dickery Doc! Captain Noah! Our long and longing look at a golden era of local television, with dozens of rare photos and recordings.
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40 Years Ago -
TV's First Angry Conservative
Move over Bill O'Reilly! Never one to avoid controversy, Joe Pyne kept a loaded gun in his desk drawer - and no wonder with the kooks he (or more accurately, the TV cameras) attracted. BONUS: a glimpse into to the very origins of one of the most notorious organizations of all time, the LA Crips.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
L. Wayne Hicks interviews the original star of the classic BBC radio & TV series. Simon Jones' role in the big-screen version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is sparse. His screen time amounts to maybe 30 seconds, a brief part to be sure. But it wouldn't be - and couldn't be - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy without Jones.
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Hot Dog
The Peabody Award-winning children's series Hot Dog, aired on Saturday mornings in 1970, a wildly entertaining educational broadcast that demonstrated how things were made - pencils, crayons, money, toothpaste, etc. - interspersed with hilarious non sequiturs from Joanne Worley, Jonathan Winters and Woody Allen.
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Bill Bixby's Forgotten Series
This was supposed to be Bill Bixby's breakthrough into dramatic television. Fresh off The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Bixby was considered a top audience draw when The Magician premiered in 1973. Both NBC and Paramount Pictures had high hopes for this light action drama about a troubleshooting illusionist named Anthony Blake. But fate intervened, in the form of a Writers Guild strike in the spring of '73 that threw a wrench in production schedules throughout television (it's rather difficult to shoot anything when there aren't any scripts ready).
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Kids With Guns!
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The Old Rebel Show
BONUS VIDEO CLIP! It's been 30 years since WFMY's George Perry ended his 27 year run as Greensboro, NC's Old Rebel, one of the most beloved TV hosts of all time. Rare video includes the opening and closing from the 1970s.
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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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