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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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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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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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Batman's Batmania!
Together with screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr., executive producer William Dozier crafted a show that could be enjoyed by adults as well as kids. Batman debuted on January 12, 1966 on ABC and within the first few weeks, the telecast was attracting fifty-five percent of the viewing audience, with a surprising two-thirds over the age of eighteen.
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The recently released DVD set of the first 15 episodes, plus the unaired pilot, of the 1960-1961 anthology series “The Barbara Stanwyck Show” is a treat for fans of Stanwyck, good TV drama, and amateur TV historians. I had not heard of the show but am very pleased that I got this chance to discover it. It was believed that every episode of this program was lost until the Archive of American Television (archive) located the ones that this set includes.
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Shrimpenstein
The Shrimpenstein series with Gene Moss and Jim Thurman had that zany little puppet that was built by renowned artiste Wah Chang. Chang was responsible for all sorts of stuff, not the least, the props, weapons, etc in the original Star Trek. Moss and Thurmon later went on (well, not much later) to do a short - lived Johnny Carson-esque talk show on KHJ as well as writing AND voicing the cult favorite Roger Ramjet.
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Run Buddy Run
We get more requests for this program than almost any other. This dizzy and typically sixties' sitcom starred trumpet player Jack Sheldon (seen as an occasional band member on the 'Merv Griffin Show' during the seventies) as a guy on the run from comical criminals.
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Las Vegas Postcards / The Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas and the Mob!
From a Vegas entertainer: The entertainers and folks I know who worked in Las Vegas pre-1980 liked it better than what came after, When the big hotel chains muscled in on Sin City the mobsters, even with the skim, didn't have the money to compete. They were eventually marginalized and Vegas became a corporate playground.
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Origin of the TV-Movie
Not only was the animated opening sequence to the ABC Movie of the Week a magnificent graphic achievement (and precursor to modern computer animation) but the 30-second teasers forever redefined motion picture advertising. We'll show you some of the best examples from the seventies.
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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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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 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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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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The Sonny & Cher Story!

The Sonny
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