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It took a while, but I’ve finally warmed up to the TV show Ghosts. You know, the one where a bevy of spirits inhabit a Hudson Valley home, and cause hijinks and hilarity for the past five years or so. Now this show was originally based on a British sitcom, and many of the archetypes…

The Three Stooges are motion picture comedy icons. No argument on that one. Their Columbia two-reelers spanned from the 1930’s to the late 1950’s, and their popularity increased with repeated television broadcasts. The Stooges also made several full-length motion pictures, including Have Rocket Will Travel, The Three Stooges In Orbit, and The Outlaws IS Coming.…

If the name Gil Gerard sounds familiar to you, it might be because of his most memorable television series. It was a show that lasted for only one and a half seasons, and that second season was just straight-up dreadful. But when it debuted back in the day … it was an extremely popular science…

Children of the 1950’s will remember the great animated series Gumby, in which a green anthropomorphic clay figurine and his trusty clay horse Pokey go on surreal adventures in the stop-motion world. The show was immensely popular in its time, and would later get a revival in the 1990’s. As for me, I was more…

The Hudson’s Bay Company has a fascinating history. They were instrumental in the formation and exploration of what would become Canada, and their fur trading ports evolved into a collection of department stores and clothiers throughout the Great White North. And in1959, someone had this great idea to create a television series that placed the…

It’s the 1970’s, and my parents invest in cable television. At the time, the biggest thrill cable television provided for me was the ability to watch stations like WSBK in Boston, as well as three New York stations – WNEW, WOR and WPIX. All four of these stations had some sort of children’s programming in…

Last night I attended a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Palace Theater in Albany, and had a fantastic time. The “shadow cast” really went above and beyond in their performances, and the audience was super-loud and super-energetic. And I’m still picking bird seed and confetti out of my hair this morning.…

I’m sure you remember Lassie – the rough collie who starred in dozens of movies and in a long-running television series. Yeah, that Lassie. The same one that rescued Timmy every time the boy fell in a well. That Lassie. I’m about to introduce you to an even smarter television / movie dog. And he…