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TV's First Christmas Classic!
The 1952 Amos 'n' Andy Christmas episode was one of TV's first holiday themed broadcasts - based on a script that had been performed yearly for more than a decade on network radio's most popular program. This moving tradition began in 1940 with an episode that revolved around Amos sitting by his daughter's bedside and explaining the Lord's Prayer to her. It was a powerful and touching moment, perfectly capturing that simpler, religiously inspired Christmas spirit that prevailed decades ago.
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Thanksgiving Day Parades
Thursday, November 28, 2024 marks the 65th anniversary of the CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade Jubilees. Starting in 1959, the CBS network and producer Mike Gargugilo broadcast four different parades from four different locales: The Gimbel's Thanksgiving Day Parade from Philadelphia; The J. L. Hudson Parade from Detroit; The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from NYC; and The Eaton's Santa Claus Parade from Toronto, Canada (Eaton's parade was always pre-taped in advance for later broadcast).
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The Most Negative Political Campaign of All?
He was the perfect presidential candidate: likeable, youthful and opinionated. So what if his handlers jerked him around like a puppet on a string? That was part of his charm. The candidacy was one for the history books; never before had someone from the world of television strived for the presidency. L. Wayne Hicks reports, you decide.
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Sky King
"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... Sky King!" Nabisco's kid friendly cowboy in the air was popular for two decades on the weekends - and years before that on radio. Likable stars Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters were matched with believable scripts, stark desert scenery and exciting aerial shots.
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The Last Days of Bobby Darin
"Regarding Bobby's reputation for being hard to work with. He was. He had good days and bad days but for the most part, he treated us (the band) like gold. We hung together like musketeers and we still talk about how great those days were."
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The Betty White Show
Traditionally, the 'Queen of Television' title goes to Lucille Ball but since she's gone I believe the mantle has been passed to Betty White; no other TV star has enjoyed so much success over the last 60 years.
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Timmie Rogers
I was thinking the other day about the great, pionering black comic Timmie Rogers. He came up through vaudeville, he was one of (if not the) first black comedians to appear without blackface makeup in the 1940s. Yes, even the 'negro' comics had to wear blackface back in the day!
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Della Reese' Tough TV Career
When ABC decided to continue with 8 Simple Rules after star John Ritter's sudden death in 2003, they did so knowing it was a risky strategy. But there was one star, Della Reese, who had been through that very situation - twice!
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Saturday Morning TV Shows - 1967
With Batman the hottest show in primetime the networks rolled out an extravaganza of bizarre superheros for their Saturday morning line-up. After The New Beatles and American Bandstand on ABC the network scored a hit with Where the Action Is, a teen music show featuring the hottest acts in the country. With video highlights!
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G.L.O.W. Comes to Greensboro
The Glorious Ladies Of Wrestling did make an appearance at the Greensboro Coliseum and it was a hoot. Only there was one problem. Every GLOW wrestler except one was a fake. This was a major disappointment because; well the girls on the national telecast show were very, very hot young girls. I have a pulse right?
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Who Killed Elvis?
When Elvis Presley passed away in 1977, the official diagnosis was a heart attack but a special investigation 2 years later revealed a massive coverup by police and medical authorities. This 60 Minutes Australia segment encompasses (and condenses) the 1979 ABC special investigative report by Geraldo Rivera; that was the first time most Americans learned that Elvis was a drug addict.
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Wonderama!
WITH ULTRA-RARE VIDEO!
WNEW dropped Bob McAllister following an emotional Christmas Day broadcast in 1977 then aired reruns of Wonderama for three years afterwards. McAllister went public with his distaste over this practice after watching reruns of his show one Sunday and seeing an ad for a Charles Bronson movie. "I had never allowed violence in the frame work of Wonderama. So I took out a rather elaborate display ad in the New York Times and told parents not to watch it anymore."
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Judy Garland's Rollercoaster Career
She was bred to be an entertainer; like Tarzan raised by the Great Apes, hers was an almost impossibly insular existence. Frances Gumm, rechristened Judy Garland, was a wholly manufactured product of a stage mother that pushed her relentlessly and a movie studio that programmed her, sheltered her from reality, then coldly spat her out into a world she knew little about.
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The Ironic Death of Redd Foxx!
For whatever reason (and the actor's drug and alcohol consumption was surely a factor), the network that capitulated to everyone from Bob Hope to Johnny Carson over the years refused to (or could not) make Redd Foxx happy.
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Saturday Morning Shows 1971
1970 was a very good year for network Saturday morning revenues, so 1971 brought a continuation of the shows that were working - along with remakes of proven series from the past. All three networks started giving in to pressure from parent groups to offer more educational, and less violent programs. For the most part, they are all flops.
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Classic TV on DVD!
Stargate Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving Badly, Captain N, Hootenanny, ER, Wanda Sykes, Adventures of Superman, Pride & Prejudice, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, Cheyenne, and so many more new to DVD. And they're all deep discounted - for you!
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The Sonny & Cher Story!

The Sonny
& Cher Story!