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Bette Midler on TV in the 1970s
One of the joys of television in the 1970s were Bette Midler's appearances on talk shows and especially on the awards shows. Here she is in 1973 winning the Grammy for Best New Artist against some seriously stiff competition... like Barry White. What a coincidence that Bette used to make fun of Karen Carpenter in her act and she and her brother Richard are the presenters. That may explain Karen's low key announcement that Bette Midler was the winner.
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The Lone Ranger!
The Lone Ranger character originated on radio in 1933, the program followed the exploits of a former Texas Ranger roaming the West atop his steed Silver and with his faithful Indian sidekick, Tonto, alongside him. Three actors lent their voice to the Lone Ranger during its radio days, and two more played the part in 1930s movie serials. Clayton Moore brought the role to television. The show first aired Sept. 15, 1949, on ABC.
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Gene Roddenberry After Star Trek
Entitled
to half the profits from Star Trek, this amounted to very little
in the early-'70s before the show had yet to fully catch on in syndication. Roddenberry
confessed to an interviewer, "For a couple of years our only income
was lecture fees I got from colleges where kids still loved Star Trek,
even though it was not a commercial success." But soon there were new concepts and attempts to get another sci-fi series off the ground.
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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 chasing a young demographic. It was an instant hit
with the critics but didn't stand a chance.
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Very Weird History of the Today Show
Katie Couric's replacement Meredith Viera proved to be a formitable host in her own right but she too left the show in 2011 prompting the network to once again cast about for the perfect morning face. NBC thought they found her in Ann Curry but she was yanked from the show after one year. NBC is faced again with a difficult decision - will
they fall back on an idea that worked so well in the past and once again
make a chimpanzee co-host of the Today show?
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Woody Woodpecker's
Television Anniversary
October
3 marks the anniversary of the 1957 debut of The Woody
Woodpecker Show. Actor and veteran animator Walter Lantz created
and produced Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Foolish
Fables cartoons for movie goers of the 1930s and '40s. He decided
to bring his pint size bird with the machine gun beak and his friends
to the small screen in 1957 after making a deal with Leonard Goldenson
and the heads of ABC.
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What Happened to What's Happening!!?
"Haywood was a really good kid and Ernest was an
excellent actor. Fred Berry was the one to look out for. He could be trouble.
He received many of the show's big laughs. Unfortunately, he later had
some personal problems that carried over onto the set. After
I had left the show, there was a big contract dispute and I was told that
Fred was the instigator behind the trouble that followed. He convinced
Ernest and Haywood to join him in a strike for more money. Eventually,
the producers simply had enough of the boys' antics and they closed the
series down."
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They Made an Album?!?
Yes, most of us are already aware that the likes of William Shatner, John Travolta and various “Brady” kids have all had their dreams of musical greatness and have all put out albums of their warblings at one time or another. But… they are far from alone in the world of surprising others who have also attempted to parlay their notoriety or fame in one field into the world of the recording arts.
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After the confrontation Sinatra's bodyguard asked Ellison to leave. "He says, 'C'mon, what don't you leave?' I said, 'What'dya mean why don't I leave? I have a membership, I'm a member here!' 'Well, Frank doesn't like the way you're dressed.' I said, 'I don't like the way Frank is dressed.' And Sinatra's saying something from behind him and I say, 'Hey you. Shut the f*ck up. The contest for the fastest mouth in the West isn't open, you got the title.'"
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1950s TV Thanksgiving
Jump back in time for a nostalgic look at Thanksgiving as it was portrayed on TV in the nifty fifties. Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet and more!
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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."
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Sanford Arms
When CBS attempts to save Two and a Half Men without the show's star Charlie Sheen they are not going into uncharted territory. NBC faced the same dilemma when they lost Redd Foxx, the star of their number one sitcom Sanford & Son in 1977. The result, Sanford Arms, was a true debacle and one of the first programs cancelled that fall.
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Saturday
Morning Shows 1971
1970
was a very good year for network Saturday morning revenues, so 1971
brought a continuation of the shows that were working - along with
remakes of proven series from the past. All three networks started
giving in to pressure from parent groups to offer more educational,
and less violent programs. For the most part, they are all flops.
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1970's Christmas TV Shows
Is it too early?!? Journey back to the polyester decade to see what boomer kids were watching during the Holidays with loads of video clips from classic shows, many unseen in decades.
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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.
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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 / 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 / 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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