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The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour
"I remember it well because it was my first national television debut and I truly loved Redd. We had some real good talks and I met some really super artists. This was a huge springboard for me. I got a holding contract from ABC and a costarring role in a pilot at Paramount Studios. I was 27 years old then and I am a happy 52 now."
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Winky Dink / TV Kid shows of the 1950s / classic television

Winky Dink and You
"I used to watch Winky Dink... I had the kit, but I would intentionally draw the wrong things. When Winky needed a ladder to get out of a hole, I would draw a cover on the hole. When he needed a parachute, I would draw an anvil to pull him down, etc. I would tease my younger sister and tell her that I was making Winky die! Whenever she left the room crying, I would laugh and laugh. Winky was cool."
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Video Village & Video Village Jr.
Called a “living board game" concept, contestants moved ahead or behind however many squares to win prizes. It was like a walking version of Candyland or Monopoly, there was even a jail. The game board was laid out with three streets: Money Street, Bridge Street and Magic Mile.
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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.A true TV classic!
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Christmas Specials: Rudolph and Santa from the TV Christmas special

Together Again after 40 Years!
Rick Goldschmidt reveals the recently discovered, original, newly-restored Animagic models for Santa and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - unseen by the public in four decades! Plus: a look at the lovely Noel Neill, TV's Lois Lane.
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Heil Honey, I'm Home!
It's Heil Honey, I'm Home, the trials and domestic travails of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun, a not-so-typical suburban couple. The program was presented as if it were an unearthed sitcom from the 1950s. In a nod to that classic sitcom cliche, the first storylines centered around Eva being unprepared for Hitler's important business associate (Neville Chamberlain) coming for dinner and the couple's new neighbors dropping in unexpectedly. The neighbors just happen to be Jewish. WATCH IT FOR YOURSELF AFTER THE JUMP!
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Camp Runamuck
One of a handful of short lived mid-1960's sitcoms that are considered classics - a kid favorite that failed to pull in enough adult viewers to stay afloat. Camp Runamuck starred sitcom stalwarts Dave Ketchum, Arch Johnson, Leonard Stone, and Dave Madden as camp counselors who find themselves besieged by the boy campers they're in charge of and overwhelmed by the girl's camp (Camp Divine) across the lake.
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What Zoom Meant 50 Years Ago!
"Am I the only lunatic left who remembers the original ZOOM series out of Boston? I think WGBH was the parent station, and everyone wore these (hideous now, cool at the time) purple and orange shirts. "Ubbie talk" came from Zoom, and I was one of many kids on my block who could sing the ZOOM song at the drop of a hat. Please tell me I am not alone in remembering this '70s series."
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The Merry Mailman - Ray Heatherton
Heatherton made his debut on the small screen in an early video adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates Of Penzance produced in 1939. "It was for NBC TV," Heatherton recalled. "Harold Sandford was the conductor and Margaret Baum was the soprano. They (the network execs and the producers) were really testing the commercial possibilities of television. "I did the lead in both of them."
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How and Why It All Ended For Mayberry
How is it that The Andy Griffith Show has endured on television for almost 45 years? And what is it about the notion of a community like Mayberry that continues to resonate? TVparty looks in depth at how it all ended on the anniversary of the show's cancellation.
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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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Classic TV Shows on DVD?
An extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's available today - with big discounts for you!

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?!?
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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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