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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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Classic Television Shows of the 1970s / Shirley Booth's Last TV Show

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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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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Video Village

The Sonny
& Cher Story!

Video Village

The Sonny & Cher Story!

The Sonny
& Cher Story!