Here’s a reel of alternately funny, scary, disgusting or disturbing TV ads from the golden 80s. Lots of Cocaine and AIDS nostalgia, of course, and Brenda Vaccaro shilling for Tampons while inhaling through an iron lung in between sentences is pretty messed up. Cosby makes an appearance, natch, and a
Before ‘The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis’ was a silly TV show, ‘The Affairs Of Dobie GIllis’ was a silly musical movie. (Before that it was a series of silly stories by Max Shulman who was responsible for all the silliness. He must have a made mega-ton of money from
The above question is asked by Lou Reed in ‘Dirt’. If the answer is no then the above video–a mashup of two separate performances of Fuller’s hit ‘I Fought The Law’ will provide the answer. Featuring some excellent Go-Go-Girl action, the vids supply a look at Fuller just a year
My dogged pursuit of the increasingly obnoxious vaudeville routine known as ‘Niagra Falls’ or ‘Slowly I Turn’ continues with a Colgate Comedy Hour version starring Abbott and Costello featuring Errol Flynn. This is the worst version thus far of the routine–Flynn is miscast, unable to convincingly be broad and over
Here’s an interesting reel of opening credits and set-up sequences of the shows you were likely to see if you were watching TV in the late 1940s. Television had of course been around in various forms and incarnations for almost twenty years by then, but it was in 1947-48 that
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