https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRMrV-5lHZM Before ‘Honey West’ was a TV series (see previous two posts) it was a series of detective novels. The writer of these books was G.G. Fickling, a pseudonym for husband and wife writing team Gloria and Forest E. ‘Skip’ Fickling. (Try saying ‘Skip Fickling’ five times fast. I dare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6129bC4Ek In yesterday’s post about the forgotten but groundbreaking female detective show ‘Honey West’ I posited that perhaps the reason for the shows short one-season run was that audiences weren’t yet comfortable with a powerful female in a leading role doing work that typically is the province of men. Then
Above is the title sequence from ‘Honey West’, a groud-breaking American crime drama that aired on ABC for only one season–September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. It was executive produced by Aaron Spelling and starred Anne Francis as TVs first female private detective. (Spelling’s first choice for the role
‘Goof On The Roof’ is the Three Stooges 152nd short film made for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, November 17th through Wednesday, November 19th, 1952 and was released a full year later on Thursday, December 3rd, 1953. The film is probably the most violent of any of the
To close out this weeks series of 1960s TV series promos (and revisitations of forgotten items) here’s a nine minute reel of forgotten and cancelled shows from the years 1963-67 roughly. Did you know there was a ‘Blondie’ TV series that flopped? I didn’t. ‘O.K. Crackerby’ is a famous flop
Here’s a nice compilation reel showing opening clips of typical Sunday programming of the mid-sixties in roughly the order you might see the shows in. Things start off religiously (including ‘Davey and Goliath’ which, as a child, I was clueless enough not to realize was a religiously based program–I just
Here’s another of RwDt09’s compilation videos of intros to old TV shows. This is what a Sunday night lineup looked like in the autumn of 1964. (I would have been three months old and hearing these themes from the living room below…or I would have been sleeping). It’s hard to
Kudos to the Youtuber RwDt09, the person responsible for these terrific compilations of opening credit sequences for TV seasons of the past. Thus far I’ve posted CBS and NBC’s lineups in 1962. Today’s features twenty-one intros from various networks from 1967. Included alongside titles that we still know (for the
Last week I posted a compilation video of the 42 shows CBS presented in the 1962 season. I got a surprisingly good response to this trip down show-biz memory lane–largely I think because so many of the shows are forgotten and are thus interesting the way a newly exhumed ancient
‘The Sitter-Downers’ is the 27th Three Stooges short made for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Thursday May 27th to Wednesday, June 2nd, 1937 and was released on Friday, November 26th of that year. (Assuming that they took Sunday off, that means the shoot lasted a generous six days–most of