Yes, I used to watch the classic Sid and Marty Krofft TV shows from back in the 1970’s. HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Bugaloos, Lidsville, all of those. Heck, I even had a 7-year-old boycrush on Joy the Bugaloo. And trust me, when I was able to interview several stars from the…
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I want to go on the Hard Quiz game show!
Back in television’s early years, there was The $64,000 Question, where contestants were asked tremendously difficult questions in their expert categories. The most notable champion from this program was psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who eventually won $64,000 for her knowledge of the history of boxing and prizefighting. That being said, there’s currently an Australian version…
Read MoreThe OTHER “Cousin Oliver” show – Big John, Little John
If you’re a classic sitcom fan, you know of the “Cousin Oliver” trope – when a sitcom, which is currently floundering in the ratings, tries to revitalize its audience by adding a previously never-before-referenced “cousin” or “neighbor” to the show’s lineup. This can be traced to the final season of The Brady Bunch, when the…
Read MoreVision On – was this the first truly inclusive children’s show?
Today’s blog post will feature a very unique and sweet children’s TV show from the 1960’s-1970’s era – a British program that featured art, surreal humor, and all sorts of wonderful imaginative diversions. Oh, and it was designed so that hearing-impaired children could enjoy it just as much as their hearing-abled friends. Welcome to Vision…
Read More$100 Grand for 100,000
Last Sunday, during my travels, I purchased a candy bar at a local gas station. Nothing major, just a candy bar. Well, by the end of the day, that candy bar factored in a milestone. Let me explain. The candy bar was a $100 Grand bar, which was once known as the $100,000 bar. And…
Read MoreSpeed Racer, the coolest cartoon of all time
NOTE: This article was originally written for Toy Collector Magazine, and was their cover story for their September 2007 issue. Article written by Chuck Miller. Go! Speed Racer Go! Written by Chuck Miller Forty years on, the voices of Speed and Trixie reveal the back story behind the now-classic TV series His skills were unmatched…
Read MoreI bet Karen Parker of Schenectady, New York wished she NEVER filmed that commercial …
You gotta love the YouTube algorithm. Thanks to it, I’ve had a bit of a deep dive into classic television commercials, including a series of ads for a 1980’s-era diet supplement. And in this commercial, several svelte, easy-on-the-eyes women offer their own personal testimonials about losing a lot of weight with a specific diet caramel…
Read MoreThe cheapest Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show ever made.
Last week, I blogged about the arrival of the new Fantastic Four: First Steps movie, and in the blog I mentioned that the Fantastic Four’s first TV appearances came from a 1967 Hanna-Barbera animated series. At the time, the Fantastic Four were part of an onslaught of Marvel super heroes on weekend television. For while…
Read MoreDoes Kylie Minogue know the plural of Coca-Cola?
Okay, follow me here. Kylie Minogue is an incredible singer and actress, and she’s drop-dead gorgeous. And at one point in time, she did a commercial for Coca-Cola. In fact, here’s the commercial. Minogue places an order for some pizza and soda, and a delivery driver scurries through a hotel to bring the food order…
Read MoreI was scared straight by Scared Straight!
Imagine this. It’s 1979, and there’s a documentary on local broadcast television. It features juvenile delinquents who enter a New Jersey prison and spend the next three hours learning the stories and experiences of the inmates. All the details. All the grisly, gory, seedy, scary, frightening, terrifying details. And we saw it all, unexpurgated and…
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