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.…
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The dog that was twenty times smarter than Lassie.
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…
Read MoreJimmy Kimmel’s censorship had its roots from a 65-year-old bathroom joke
When it comes to network television, we normally get about 100% of whatever a network produces. There are some exceptions, depending on whether the local station might have a concern about the content of the network program. This is not unusual. I recall an episode of the seemingly harmless sitcom Valerie getting pre-empted in the…
Read MoreShould I give “DMV” a try?
Ever since I saw Harriet Dyer as one of the cast members in the Australian import drama Love Child, I thought she had a chance to make it big in Hollywood. And she had a few American television shows that almost got her there – a supernatural procedural called The InBetween that suffered from miserable…
Read MoreSpider-Man’s first live-action TV run was on PBS.
Who doesn’t love Spider-Man? The legendary web-slinger with a heart of gold and a soul of angst, filled with love and loss. Let’s face it – Spider-Man’s 50+ year long comic book arc is the stuff of legend. And, of course, there were many different movie and television Spider-Man projects. A slew of wildly popular…
Read MoreIt’s Black Bart versus Pistol Pete!
Western-themed sitcoms do not have long shelf lives. There was a 1980’s sitcom, Best of the West, that came and went without a trace. And the satirical The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. was fun to watch … for the one season it actually existed. That being said, I’m bringing you two failed TV pilots…
Read MoreTemperatures Rising – three television shows in one
Successful medical television sitcoms are few and far between. While medical dramas last for years and years – i.e., Grey’s Anatomy, St. Elsewhere, E/R, Medical Center, The Good Doctor, Marcus Welby M.D., Emergency!, Chicago Hope, The Good Doctor – there are very few successful medical situation comedies. Let’s see. There’s Scrubs, M*A*S*H, St. Denis Medical,…
Read More“Sports Challenge” – the coolest sports game show of the 1970’s
Here’s the scenario. Three legends from a professional sports team go up against three legends from another professional sports team. And in the end, one team emerges victorious. With what method do they battle? Golf? Bowling? Lawn darts at 30 paces? Nah. We’re talking trivia here. Such was the concept of Sports Challenge, a weekly…
Read MoreWay down yonder in the cornfield …
In the late 1960’s, the most popular television show at the time was Laugh-In, a hyper-scattered comedy variety program that mixed surrealism with one-liners and ribald satire. Here’s the first episode of that series, and you can see the lightning as it flashes in the proverbial bottle. Laugh-In proved so popular that other television networks…
Read MoreA classic episode from November 1963 of As The World Turns
As The World Turns was one of the most popular and durable daytime network soap operas of its era. It was the first daily serial to broadcast a 30-minute episode, when most soaps at the time were limited to 15-minute episodes. The show ran from 1956 to 2010, making it the fourth-longest running daytime serial…
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