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In 1973 Lost In Space was re-imagined by Hanna-Barbera as an animated pilot for a possible Saturday Morning series, it was broadcast on ABC's Saturday Superstar Movie. Jonathan Harris provided the voice of Dr. Smith, the only original cast member to be involved and the only recognizable character other that the 'robon' which looks kinda-sorta similar to the Robinson's pet robot. Why adapt a much loved TV series and eliminate almost every element of the original that made it so popular in the first place?
Since 20th Century Fox and Irwin Allen owned the property they could have created likenesses of the rest of the cast without paying them (as they almost did with Uhura in the animated Star Trek) but why redesign the iconic space ship? It was a sloppy poorly produced effort that deserved to be passed over, with no redeeming qualities other than a few decent Jonathan Harris moments.
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. Read
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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. Read
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TV Fall Season : 1972-73 An
overview of what folks were watching in 35 years ago; with rare video
of the hits and flops that marked the beginning of the end of the classic TV era.
Do you remember: The Saturday Superstar Movie, ABC Movie of the
Week, Captain Noah, the Julie Andrews Hour, Bridget Loves Bernie,
Search and The Sixth Sense? Read
and watch more...
New
York City Local Kid Shows The
most comprehensive look at local children's programs ever attempted.
More than 75 pages with hundreds of photos. If you grew up in NYC
you'll find all your favorites - The Merry Mailman, Sandy
Becker, Bob McAllister, Wonderama, and
dozens more along with rare video, audio and outtakes. Read
and watch more...
Mack
& Myer For Hire NOW ON DVD! In
1963, Trans-Lux Television of Norwalk, Connecticut, produced a series
of live-action comedy films entitled Mack & Myer For Hire.
The films centered around two bumbling yet lovable handymen, who shared
an office/loft in Manhattan. They try and fail countless times to
make a living, and more often than not end up making things worse,
while helping others they hadn't even counted on. Although they always
screw up, somehow, things usually end up right. Read and watch more...
The Movie of the Week 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. Read
and see more...
Dick
Kallman as Hank "Dick
was stabbed to death in 1980 during
a 'drug induced' robbery - while most of the articles mention he was
murdered in his apartment, it is my belief that he was abducted by
someone on drugs looking for money and forced him back to the apartment...
clearly it was a robbery and a very violent one. I never sat foot
in our apartment again. I left everything I owned in it to be sold.
I could not bare to see it ripped and stained with Dick's blood." Read
and watch more...
Have
a Smoke and Be Somebody! Talk about Government mandated health care, our nation's leaders decided
almost forty years ago that tobacco and TV don't mix. Before that, stars like John Wayne appeared
on TV selling cigarettes, speaking highly of the product: "Mild and
good tasting pack after pack. And I know, I've been smokin' em for
twenty years." Coincidentally, some of the last commercials the Duke
filmed were to ask people to stop smoking. Watch some of TV's wildest commercials... like the dancing cigarette pack! Read
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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. Read
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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! Read
and watch more...
Judy
Garland's Rollercoaster Ride 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
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The
Sonny and Cher Shows
A
lot of press was generated about Cher's exposed belly-button, it had
never been done on television before. "There were so many things that
were censored - ideas and words," Cher said looking back on the show.
"All I know is I got in trouble for showing my belly button, and every
time I turned around after I went off the air, all you saw were Cheryl
Ladd's boobs." Read and watch
more...
TV
Terrorists Ripped
from the headlines! On Nov. 22, 1987, video hackers managed
to override the Chicago PBS station's broadcast of Dr. Who and replace it with a signal beamed from their secret location. Drunk
with mad power, this dastardly duo also hacked into a major Chicago
commercial station that night for several moments. With
one of the world's largest broadcast markets now firmly in their control,
what diabolical message would they send? Read
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Classic
TV on DVD - Archived Reviews! NEW:Tom
Jones, Twin Peaks, Stargate Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving Badly, Captain N, Hootenanny, ER, Wanda
Sykes, Adventures of Superman, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, and
so many more hot DVD releases.And they're all deep discounted
- for you! Read
more...
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TV Shows on DVD?
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extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's
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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?!? Read
and watch more...
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...
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