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Boston children's show icon Rex Trailer has passed away. "According to Bill Ranney, Trailer's friend of 44 years, Trailer's family was at his bedside singing the western songs he wrote and loved. "In the end, he left with a smile on his face." Ranney said." Viewers remember Rex Trailer here.
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What Makes a 'Hit' a 'Hit' - Part Two!
According to the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), the average price of admission for a first run movie theater, for an adult, is $7.93. That means (roughly) that when a movie grosses $1 million, over 126,000 people have paid to see it. Disney’s already-infamous “John Carter” was a domestic bomb yielding “only” $70 million at the box office. But its actual audience ends up looking impressive when this formula is applied: seventy million dollars translates to around eight million people in the theater. And though “Carter’s” box office take is dwarfed by its reportedly $250 million dollar production cost, eight million people should be nothing to sneeze at. In fact, eight million people is an audience that is larger than the weekly TV audiences for “Home Land,” “Here Comes Honey Boo” and “Girls”--in fact, bigger than their audiences combined. Eight million is also more than regularly tune into episodes of “Jersey Shore,” “Conan O’Brien,” and “Once Upon a Time”—and those shows are free!
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Carol for Another Christmas
A couple of years or so ago, I wrote an article for TVParty! on a series of made-for-TV movies produced by the United Nations to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its founding. It was hailed at the time as a significant event in television, and yet today hardly anyone remembers it, including the UN itself. (I know, because I called a librarian at the UN and got the vocal equivalent of a blank stare when I asked her about it.) My curiosity had been piqued by a TV Guide article about the first special in the series, Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It was broadcast for the first and only time on December 28, 1964.
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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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61
Years of Today
NEW VIDEO! When Today debuted on January 14, 1952, it was a bold experiment
- a daily, network morning program of this scale had never before
been attempted. But it wasn't until a chimp named J. Fred Muggs joined
the show as co-host that the program finally took off in the ratings.
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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."
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The Betty White Show
Traditionally, the 'Queen of Television' title goes to Lucille Ball but since she's gone I believe the mantle has been passed to Betty White; no other TV star has enjoyed so much success over the last 60 years.
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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!
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Heil Honey, I'm Home!
It's Heil Honey, I'm Home, the trials and domestic travails of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun, a not-so-typical suburban couple. The program was presented as if it were an unearthed sitcom from the 1950s. In a nod to that classic sitcom cliche, the first storylines centered around Eva being unprepared for Hitler's important business associate (Neville Chamberlain) coming for dinner and the couple's new neighbors dropping in unexpectedly. The neighbors just happen to be Jewish. WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF AFTER THE JUMP!
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Those Unforgettable Christmas Commercials of the 1980s!
When shopping was a nightmare! One of the most sought after Christmas gifts in 1982 was the Atari play system, there's a commercial here for the new E.T. game. Amazing how quaint 1982 looks from here! And what was up with Californians and their Miller's Outpost Christmas commercials? Those two guys, Homer and J.R., starred in dozens of spots throughout the '70s & '80s.
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Fridays
For
a brief time in the early 1980s, as the Carter administration gave
way to the Reagan era, Melanie Chartoff, Bruce Mahler, Larry David
and Michael Richards were part of an industrious ensemble on Fridays,
along with Darrow Igus, Mark Blankfield, his wife Brandis Kemp, John
Roarke and Maryedith Burrell. Known primarily for two things - as
a copy of Saturday Night Live and for a riotous appearance
by Andy Kaufman - Fridays was so much more than that.
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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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"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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Judy
Garland's Rollercoaster Ride
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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Mack
& Myer For Hire
In
1963, Trans-Lux Television of Norwalk, Connecticut, produced a series
of live-action comedy films entitled Mack & Myer For Hire.
The films centered around two bumbling yet lovable handymen, who shared
an office/loft in Manhattan. They try and fail countless times to
make a living, and more often than not end up making things worse,
while helping others they hadn't even counted on. Although they always
screw up, somehow, things usually end up right.
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Win Cash Watching TV? Yes, in the 1960s!
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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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TV
Terrorists
Ripped
from the headlines! On Nov. 22, 1987, video hackers managed
to override the Chicago PBS station's broadcast of Dr. Who and replace it with a signal beamed from their secret location. Drunk
with mad power, this dastardly duo also hacked into a major Chicago
commercial station that night for several moments. With
one of the world's largest broadcast markets now firmly in their control,
what diabolical message would they send?
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Kids
With Guns!
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Morning
Commercials (1960-1970)
"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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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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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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