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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.
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and see more...
ABC
Fall Jingles and Promos
ABC
is a much younger network than NBC and CBS; founded in the forties,
ABC had to play catch-up both in prime-time and daytime for decades
because they didn't have the resources (money, stars and long-established
relationships) that the competition had access to.
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more...
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."
Read
and watch more...
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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and watch more...
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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and watch more...
Fantastic
Commercial Jingles
The 1960s was
a golden age of memorable tunes used to sell products - you'll get
to see and hear some of the best. PLUS: the first negative
TV political campaign ad of all time!
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and watch more...
Greatest
Athlete in TV History?
WITH RARE PHOTOS AND VIDEO
"I never saw Picasso paint. I never saw The Beatles live. I never
saw Bill Russell at the Boston Garden. But for over twenty years I
observed a true artist from the front row and his name is... Ric
Flair." A part of John Hitchcock's decades spanning look at renowned
(and forgotten) grapplers from down in Dixie.
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and watch more...
The
Redd Foxx Comedy Hour
"I
remember it well because it was my first national television debut
and I truly loved Redd. We had some real good talks and I met some
really super artists. This was a huge springboard for me. I got a
holding contract from ABC and a costarring role in a pilot at Paramount
Studios. I was 27 years old then and I am a happy 52 now."
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and watch 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.
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more...
Shrimpenstein
The Shrimpenstein series with Gene Moss and Jim Thurman had that
zany little puppet that was built by renowned artiste Wah Chang. Chang
was responsible for all sorts of stuff, not the least, the props, weapons,
etc in the original Star Trek. Moss and Thurmon later went on (well,
not much later) to do a short - lived Johnny Carson-esque talk show
on KHJ as well as writing AND voicing the cult favorite Roger Ramjet.
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and see more...
"Plunk
Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!"
"I
am looking for a newspaper editorial - it could've also been in a magazine
- written about the kid's TV 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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and watch more...
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."
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!
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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.
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and see more...
Hit
Shows of the Seventies: Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy / Gene
Roddenberry in the 1970s / 1977-1978 Superhero & Science Fiction TV Shows / Funniest SNL Skit Ever! / Remembering Suzanne Somers / Prisoner: Cell Block H / Why John Amos Left Good Times / Orson Welles' Last Interview / Henry Winkler on His Happy Days Audition / Patrick Duffy of Dallas Interview / Wonder Woman Leaves Paradise Island / Best Season of Dallas Ever? / TV Show Book Tie-Ins / 1972 Jackie Robinson Interview / Dr. Strange 1978 TV Movie / Kathy Garver Interview / Space: 1999 / Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky / Mary Kay Place Albums of the 1970s / The Supremes - Mary Wilson vs Diana Ross / Remembering Ken Berry / Bruce / Caitllyn Jenner? / Billy Crash Craddock Interview / Melissa McCarthy Almost Quit Acting Days Before Landing Gilmore Girls / Alex Baldwin On His TV and Film Roles / Ray Charles' BIG Problem With TV / Top Ten Sitcoms of the 1970s / James Cameron Made No Money for Titanic / Ed McMahon Drunk on the Air! / Dallas vs Eight is Enough / 1974 MAD Magazine TV Special - Never Aired! / When Lucy Got Fired / Partridge Family and Brady Bunch at Kings Island theme park 1972-73 / Jack Benny's Last Tonight Show 1974 / Ed Asner Interview / Freddy's Nightmares TV Series / Emmy Award Multiple Winners / Nathaniel Taylor aka Rollo Lawson / Mary Kay Place Albums of the 1970s / That Girl & TV's Single Working Women / Can You Identify These Stars? / Betty White vs Joan Rivers / Sonny Comedy Revue / Star
Trek Animated / Dark Shadows / Hal Linden Interview / Dark Shadows Movies / Dark Shadows Novels / The Night Stalker / One of the Funniest Carol Burnett Show Skits Ever / Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson / Johnny Carson interviews Lucille Ball / Dawn Wells / Betty White : An Appreciation / Bette Davis' 2 Best Interviews 1971 / Barbara Eden Interview / Gavin McLeod / Spider-Man 77 / The Next Step Beyond / The Music Dark Shadows / 1970 TV Shows / Mike Connors Remembered / Mike Wallace, Virginia Graham & Jim Longworth / Dick Clark / Woody Allen Hosts Tonight Show 1971 / Carson Tonight Show / Alan Alda Interview / Jackie Gleason Show / 1973 TV Shows / Thriller / Post Modern Sitcoms / Elvis in Greensboro / Remembering Dick Van Patten / TV Dating Shows / The Jacksons TV Show / Fall
Previews of the 70s / Lance
Link, Secret Chimp / Star
Wars Holiday Special / Alias
Smith and Jones / 1977
Year in Review / Top
Ten 1970-76 / The
Rockford Files / All
in the Family / Sam Hall (Dark Shadows) Interview / Actor Ed Nelson / Death of Archie / Battlestar
Galactica / Wonder
Woman / Network
Jingles / Class
of '74 / Happy
Days / Good
Times / Mr.
Bill / Dinah! / Maude / Doris
Day Show / Pamelyn
Ferdin Interview / The
Bicentennial Minute / Jingles & Catch Phrases of the 1970s / Early
Cable TV 1970s / TV
commercials for Women / TV Moms / Country Music TV Shows of the 1960s & 1970s / Betty White Show / Ron Palillo / Shirley Jones Interview / Tom Bosley / Rodney Dangerfield / How Sanford & Son Ended / Sanford & Son Spin-Off Grady / Great Memoirs / Virginia Graham Show / The "N" Word on TV / 10 Classic Comedy Routines You Have To Laugh At Before You Die / Hollywood Squares / 1970's Teen Idols & The Hudson Brothers / TV Stars with 3 Hit Shows / The Rookies / Unsold Pilots / Jackie Cooper / The Good Guys / Match Game / Make Room For Granddaddy / Mannix & Gail Fisher / Bette
Midler in the 1970s / Bonus 1970's Stuff: Silent Star Marion Mack / Biff Burger / 1970s Fast Food Chains / Latin Casino / Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire / 1970's Daytime Talk Shows / The Fess Parker Show / Brady Bunch Sex Dungeon? / Love, Loss & What I Watched
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