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This is what I call educational programming. And I discovered this yesterday from the Hackaday website. Take a look at this short video clip. You’re seeing what looks like a dancing arrow – which, once the rest of the video rolls, provides a clue as to how the arrow can dance and move. You’ve just…

There are some fantastic, long-running game show concepts. An elaborate version of the children’s game Hangman is the framework for Wheel of Fortune. A giant version of tic-tac-toe evolved into The Hollywood Squares. But sometimes the concept just doesn’t work when you turn it into a game show. And for that, I bring you The…

I enjoy good science fiction as much as the next person. Give me a good Star Wars movie or a good Star Trek TV series, and I’m a happy man. Is there a TARDIS nearby? Might there involve a time-traveling telephone booth? (air guitar riff) Then again, some science fiction fandom can border on the…

Follow along with me for a bit. A long time ago, Marvel Comics sold off the movie rights to various film studios to make some much-needed cash. The X-Men and the Fantastic Four were sold to 20th Century Fox, while Spider-Man was parceled off to Columbia Pictures / Sony, the Incredible Hulk found a new…

I approach rebooted shows with a mixture of apprehension, curiosity and dread. I worry that the show’s return will diminish its original greatness, I’m curious how a reboot will work, and I dread when the returning show flounders from its over-arching aspirations. The return of The Muppet Show, the classic 1970’s-era variety program that featured…

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…