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History Channel's 'Swamp People' star Mitchell Guist died after boat fall. History and Original Media, producers of Swamp People, offered this statement: "We are extremely saddened to report that our friend and beloved member of the Swamp People family, Mitchell Guist, has passed away earlier today. Mitchell passed on the swamp, doing what he loved. We appreciate your respect for the Guist family's privacy and hope you join us in sending our thoughts and prayers to his brother, Glenn, and the rest of the Guist family.
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Then
Came Bronson
Easy
Rider was a hit in 1969, a movie about two young counter-culture
cyclists looking for the "real" America. Perhaps Middle America was
not quite ready for that story on the small screen, but Then Came
Bronson expressed some of the themes of that movie in a way more
palatable to the mass audience (interestingly, the pilot movie was
completed before Easy Rider hit the screen, so TCB was not a knockoff.)
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Summer
Variety Shows of the 1970s
During
the first three decades of television, there was a crowded slate of
network variety shows and they would all go on hiatus for the summer.
As an alternative to reruns (which began in spring), original programs
showcasing other talents were produced for the off months. This practice
ended with the '70s, when the entire musical-comedy genre was laid
to rest. Still, the polyester decade began with great promise.
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The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
L.
Wayne Hicks interviews the original star of the classic BBC radio
& TV series. Simon Jones' role in the big-screen version
of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is sparse. His screen time
amounts to maybe 30 seconds, a brief part to be sure. But it wouldn't
be - and couldn't be - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy without Jones.
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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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The Betty White Show
Traditionally, the 'Queen of Television' title goes to Lucille Ball but since she's gone I believe the mantle has been passed to Betty White; no other TV star has enjoyed so much success over the last 60 years. But her 1970s sitcom never really got off the ground.
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Ric
Flair, Dusty Rhodes & the Legend of Baby Doll!
She cut an impressive figure at almost six feet tall, clad all in leather with a punk haircut and a saucy reputation for destroying people in the ring; she was Chyna before Chyna. In 1984, Nicole turned up down south with a new identity and a brand new dream. She realized if she couldn't be champion herself - she could be the girlfriend of the champion!
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The Original Dark Shadows Movies
For me, House of Dark Shadows stands as the most effective TV adaptation to the big screen until Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan came along in 1982.
The daytime soap opera Dark Shadows struggled to find an audience before Jonathan Frid joined the cast as Barnabas Collins. This happened in 1967 just after Batman ignited in primetime; both Frid and Adam West became instant pop icons. Perhaps it was the success of the Batman movie that prompted MGM to green light a film version of Dark Shadows four years later.
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Mayberry's Unexpected Ending With CBS phasing out their down-home comedies in 1970, Andy Griffith needed to make the transition to a younger, hipper audience if he wanted to be a presence on television during the seventies. Griffith's longtime producer stated, "They signed us for a half-hour weekly series even though we had no script, not even a format in mind. They were willing to take Andy in anything. We could have given them a dirty picture if we wanted to." They did worse than that.
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Joe Kubert's late-1960s Comic Book Covers
In the 1940s Joe Kubert was known for illustrating the costumed superhero adventures of Hawkman, Johnny Quick, The Justice Society, The Flash and more.
By the mid-sixties Kubert became primarily known as a war comic artist. Here are Kubert's DC superhero covers from 1966-1970. Now that's obscure!
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Great TV Commercials of the Early-1970s
Some
of the most memorable commercial jingles and catch phrases of all
time! "Does
she or doesn't she (only her hairdresser knows for sure)," "You're
not getting older, you're getting better," "No cat ever
walked away from Friskies Buffet," "Kawasaki lets the good
times roll," "I don't use soap anymore," "Who's
behind those Foster Grants?" ...and so many more!
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The
Very First Interactive Video Game
Win Cash Watching TV? Yes, in the 1960s!
Horse racing, Bingo & Dialing for Dollars offered viewers a chance to win cash money on Saturday nights. All Star Bingo gave viewers the thrill of a live Bingo game coupled with some of the biggest stars on television. Agnes Morehead, Ruta Lee, Judy Carne, Stubby Kaye, William Shatner, and many other tube favorites gathered to compete for a national winner that would receive $1000 cash if they had that coveted winning Bingo card from the grocery store that sponsored the series. There was at home winning with Horse Races as well. Speaking of winning money, there are several poker rooms on the internet that offer online poker real money games like Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7 Card Stud etc.
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Billy Gray Interview
Billy Gray, who played teen Bud Anderson on the 1954-1960 sitcom “Father Knows Best” (FKB) told me, while discussing the DVD release of the series’ fourth season, that a 1962 arrest for possessing “marijuana seed and residue” ruined his career.
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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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My
TV Dads
"I realized how important fathers truly were. And I didn’t have
one. In television terms, my father had been written out of my life
when I was three years old, like James had been written out of 'Good
Times,' although my father hadn’t been killed off. One
day, he simply went away and didn’t return. Too bad life isn’t
more like television, or else there would’ve been a sassy maid
in my home to help guide us children, but in real life most families
can’t afford a live-in maid."
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My
World and Welcome to it
My
World and Welcome To It might be considered The Simpsons of its time. Smartly-written with a superb cast of familiar faces, My World presented sitcom life enhanced by the writing and scribbling of New Yorker humorist James Thurber (who died eight years before
this show aired).
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Kids
With Guns!
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The
Old Rebel Show
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DVD REVIEW: Hot In Cleveland
First off the cast is impeccable - Jane Leeves (Frazier), Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time), and Wendy Malick (Just Shoot Me!) make up the core ensemble. But when Betty White meanders into any scene the show is hers from that point on. And thank goodness otherwise this caustic comedy would mostly fall flat.
The premise is flimsy but who cares, it's a sitcom, I come for the laughs - three LA airheads descend on the Cleveland bar scene once they realize the local guys there find them attractive. On a lark, they move into a home that comes with a cantankerous caretaker in the form of Betty White.
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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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