This week, fans of 50s and 70s television lost two beloved character. On Saturday, Barbara Billingsley who played June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver passed away. Throughout the 1950s Ward and June were the parents of Wally and Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver. It is almost inconceivable in today’s world to have a mother who wore […]
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Tonight while watching the first snow of the season continue to fall, I checked the tv listings and discovered two movies that piqued my interest: Santa Claus The Movie and the 1973 made-for-television version of Miracle on 34th Street. Since I have seen Santa Claus (the rather disappointing movie made by Alexander Salkind, producer of
Most memorable television series have at least one key phrase that is associated with it. The following link not only provides the best of these catchphrases but also the story behind the phrase. For instance, Arthur Fonzarelli’s famous sound would not be heard nearly as much if the character had not caught on. The Fonz
Nanu, Nanu…Tonight, I was treated to a blast from my childhood. There was a mini-marathon of the series that launched the career of Robin Williams. Mork & Mindy was one of several series that spun off of Happy Days. Mork is an alien from the planet Ork who was sent to Earth to observe the
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Fans of the popular NBC comedy The Office will have even more to love in 2009. The network has just greenlit a spinoff series which will have its debut in February in the highly coveted post Super Bowl XLIII timeslot (sounds like another party to me). Little has been revealed about the series, but one
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I received another email forward that is worth mentioning today. It was a list of people’s first names followed by a tv show. The idea is that you are supposed to add your name to the list along with a tv show you used to watch that’s not on tv anymore. I was a huge fan
