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Years ago, I blogged about seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time, as a college student when my college’s film society showed it as part of a weekend film fest.  Yeah, it was an adventure.  But I was hooked.  So much so, that I purchased an audience participation record that contained the…

What we see in syndicated TV shows are a standard intro with opening theme music, and a closing theme as well.  What we DON’T see are the original integrated television commercials.  And that’s understandable.  Why would we want to see old TV commercials for old products? Well, in many cases TV shows made special television…

It’s almost a lost art, as many current TV shows either start with a stinger note (Lost, Once Upon a Time) or they’ll just start off cold – opening credits, here they are. But there are plenty of shows – dramas, comedies, anime, action, reality – that act like an alarm system to viewers, notifying…

In the 1970’s, the ABC network aired a popular series called the ABC Movie of the Week – an original drama for television.  If I played the opening show credits, you would immediately recognize the format. You recognize that, right? Well, that anthology series became so popular, ABC created an additional movie anthology series ……

I want to take you back in time.  Way back to the golden year of 1966. See, back in 1966, the Hanna-Barbera animation studio made an amazing lineup of Saturday morning cartoon favorites.  They also made several animated television specials, and this psychedelic retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a 1966 modern reinterpretation of…