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Batman 1943 First Chapter
Bob Einstein Interview
After the Smothers Brothers were fired by CBS in 1968 he was a comedy writer for Sonny & Cher's hit TV show and Sonny Bono's big flop before teaming up in the mid-1970s with writer / producer Allan Blye (Laugh-In, Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour). Together they produced ground-breaking variety shows for Redd Foxx, Dick Van Dyke and Lola Falana, among others. For various reasons these programs never lasted more than 13 weeks.
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Hanging
Out With Lucy
"I
got a job at a department store and Lucy came by one day to see if
I was really working. She bought $600 worth of linens from me. She
gave me her home phone number and said, "Do you play Backgammon?"
and I said "No," and she said "You'll learn."
She taught me how to play Backgammon and I still play to this day."
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Sea
Hunt
"I
have been looking for re-runs of a fabulous show that I'd like to
request. Sea Hunt - the Lloyd Bridges (pre-comedy) underwater
classic. My afternoon staple diet in the early to mid-sixties and
it shaped my life since then. If you have anything about Sea Hunt,
I'd be one happy '60's TV junkie!"
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Lucy's
Tragic Last Series
"All of us 'little people' who worked on the
show knew it was a complete train wreck, but the executive producers and
writers insisted from the very beginning that Life With Lucy would
zoom to the top of the ratings and be on the air for years. Sadly, this
didn't prove to be the case. I can tell you the best shows were the ones
that aired; the others were reaaalllly bad."
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The Judy Garland Christmas Show
Judy Garland didn't pretend
to drink on her CBS series (1963-64), it was painfully obvious that
she was occasionally drunk when she showed up for tapings. This may or may
not have been true of The Judy Garland Show's Christmas episode, guest-starring
daughters Lorna Luft, Liza Minnelli, son Joey Luft, Mel Torme, and Jack
Jones, but producers were minutes away from calling off the show because
no one knew where the star was.
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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.
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Fords, '66 Mustangs, '59 Chevys, '57 CHP cars, and those supercharged
Mopars - with the 'realm of silence' ride! See for yourself the evolution
of automotive advertising, from the fifties to the seventies. ALSO: the
LA car dealer that was mauled by lions, tigers and bears - oh my!
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"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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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.
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Fabulous Lola Falana!
This one woman blast of dynamite ignited the stages in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, a multi-talented beauty attracting high rollers searching for entertainment of the highest magnitude. So much so, Lola was billed as "Miss Las Vegas" on the casino marquees.
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Bizarre Life & Death of Joe E. Ross
Car 54 was dropped after two terms and a few years later Joe E. Ross landed the show I first saw him on, It's About Time, which I loved as a 9 year old. The kooky combo of Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coca was hard to resist. Again his co-workers complained about his loutish behavior and that one season wonder was the comedian's last primetime series.
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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.'
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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.
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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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Shirley
Booth's Last TV Show
A
Touch of Grace was an oddball show in many ways, not the least
of which was that it focused on elderly people at a time when the
networks were all vigorously chasing a young demographic. It was an instant hit
with the critics but didn't stand a chance.
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Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving
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Pride & Prejudice, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, Cheyenne, and so many more new to DVD. And they're all deep discounted
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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!
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TV Fall Season : 1972-73An 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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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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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! / 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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