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Have
a Smoke and Be Somebody! Talk about Government mandated health care, our nation's leaders decided
almost forty years ago that Tobacco and TV don't mix. Before that, stars like John Wayne appeared
on TV selling cigarettes, speaking highly of the product: "Mild and
good tasting pack after pack. And I know, I've been smokin' em for
twenty years." Coincidentally, some of the last commercials the Duke
filmed were to ask people to stop smoking. Watch some of TV's wildest commercials like the dancing cigarette pack! Read
and watch more...
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. Read
more...
Partridge Family and Brady Bunch at Kings Island theme park 1972-73
King's Island opened to the public on April 29, 1972 and, within 2 years, this Cincinnati, Ohio amusement park was visited by both the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch. Scenes from those productions offer us a prime look at this quintessential midwestern theme park in its heyday. Read
and watch more...
Hilarious Game Show Bloopers! Sure to give you a laugh, here are a bunch of bloopers from TV game shows from around the world. I'm not sure what's dumber, the shows themselves or the contestants! Read
and watch more...
1970s Phenomenon : The Gong Show Chuck Barris
was responsible for some of the most popular programs of the sixties,
primetime and daytime hits like 'The Dating
Game' and 'The Newlywed Game'. These pseudo-game shows fed off
of an individual's willingness to do anything to be on television, 'The
Gong Show' would take that premise a step further. ABC
bought the show for nighttime syndication, to debut in the fall of 1976. Read
and watch more...
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Classic
Car Commercials
Cruise
the digital highway TVparty style! Drop-top
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! Read and watch 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." Read
and watch more...
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. Read
and watch more...
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. Read and watch
more...
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. Read
and watch more...
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.' Read and watch 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...
The Tonight Show starring Soupy Sales?
When Jack Paar decided to leave The Tonight Show in March of 1962, he scheduled Sales as his final guest. In a 1962 Detroit News interview Sales stated, "Jack Paar called me and said, 'They're going to expect me to cry on that final night. You come and hit me with a pie instead.' I was delighted. What a break! I worked hard doing my Los Angeles daytime show ahead on tape so I could go to New York. Then Paar decided it wouldn't be dignified or something and I was cancelled. Was I burned. He called me; I didn’t call him. I spent a lot of time getting ready." 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...
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...
TV Fall Season : 1972-73 An
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? Read
and watch 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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