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_TV Stars with Three Hit Shows? **You see, all of these performers have achieved something rare in TV, a hat trick. That is: starring in three separate hit series. While we would easily suspect such success from such legends as Lucy (with “I Love Lucy,” “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy”), others who have “three-peated” (and those who haven’t) is a surprising list indeed.Read and watch more...
Alan Young, Mr. Ed & Marilyn Monroe?
On January 5, 1961, Alan Young was having dinner with friends, when they all stopped to watch the premiere of his new comedy, "Mr. Ed". Afterward, actor William Conrad (later, TV's "Cannon") said to Alan, "Congratulations, you've got a hit on your hands". Conrad was right, and today "Mr. Ed" is still in re-runs and celebrating its 50th anniversary. Next weekend, Alan Young celebrates his own personal milestone when he turns 92. I interviewed Alan by phone recently, and we talked about his life and career.
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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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Anatomy of My TV Crushes
I was 11 years old when I had my first television crush. I’d just learned at 10 that I wouldn’t be allowed to marry my mother—apparently, that sort of thing is not only frowned upon, it’s also illegal—so it was time to move on, time to find a new woman. It didn’t take long for me to pick a replacement. My new crush was on television every Saturday night at 8:30.
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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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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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NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade Telecasts
March 17, 2025 marked the 76th anniversary of the very first broadcast of NYC's annual St. Patrick's Day Parades. WPIX 11 became the first NYC based television station to air the event; actually, the real reason for telecasting the parade was just to test Channel 11's cameras, newly acquired for upcoming baseball games.
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Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue would combine the talents of television’s top animation studios, the money of the McDonald’s corporation and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a team of entertainment industry copyright lawyers and the technical facilities of the Disney Corporation to create a half hour that they anticipated would help effectively and entertainingly explain to children the perils of substance abuse. The project had what seemed to be a sure fire hook - a cast of nearly 20 familiar characters from Saturday morning cartoons of the late-1980s.
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Overheard Conversation - Bob Einstein
If you asked me for a list of people working in television that I'd most like to talk to, at the top of that list would be Bob Einstein. I've been a long-time fan, since The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he played Officer Judy. Since that time he's been a television variety show writer / producer and is today best known for two roles - Super Dave Osborne and Larry David's nemesis Marty Funkhauser on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Listen to the interview.
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Who Killed Elvis?
When Elvis Presley passed away in 1977, the official diagnosis was a heart attack but a special investigation 2 years later revealed a massive coverup by police and medical authorities. This 60 Minutes Australia segment encompasses (and condenses) the 1979 ABC special investigative report by Geraldo Rivera; that was the first time most Americans learned that Elvis was a drug addict.
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Wonderama!
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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."Read and watch more...
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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.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.
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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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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!
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1980's TV Wrestling - Greats and Near Greats!
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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.Read and see more...
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! / Remembering Suzanne Somers / 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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