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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...
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. Read
and watch more...
John Wayne's Final Years A
longing look at the legend's last years. His TV appearances,
battles with cancer, the last great adventure films and how the Duke faced
death head on. "On location in Durango, Mexico, he amazed me,"
film producer Hal Wallis stated. "Even though he was functioning
on one lung and had a terrible scar running down his back, he showed
no sign of illness or weakness. He did this own riding, roped in
steers, rounded up cattle, and handled the fight scenes without
a double. Only occasionally, in high country, was he short of breath." Read and watch
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. Read
and see more...
Run
Buddy Run We
get more requests for this program than almost any other. This dizzy
and typically sixties' sitcom starred trumpet player Jack Sheldon
(seen as an occasional band member on the 'Merv Griffin Show' during
the seventies) as a guy on the run from comical criminals. Read 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. 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...
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 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...
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...
Classic
TV Shows on DVD?
An
extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's
available today - with big discounts
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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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