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Aug
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You love that machine? He's dedicated to keeping me happy...
Aug
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Aug
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B-movie action at its best! I actually saw this movie in the theater thinking to my nine year old self “Cool special effects! Don’t touch those monsters! Wow, that lady’s space dress is tight!”. Actually, I can’t really remember seeing any slime; the title must refer to some type of alien racial slur. After all of these years it’s the theme song that sticks in my mind….Green Sliiimmme….
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Jul
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An Irwin Allen classic, Land of the Giants centers around the Earth ship Spindrift that is sucked into a time/space vortex only to return back to the Earth...a GIANT EARTH! The series which ran from 1968 to 1970, was mainly about how the ships' valiant crew and passengers dealt with a world of giant tormentors...the most perfect and believable story premise for a kid! In the series, the characters had to deal with a hostile, authoritarian world and survive to find their way back home. Similiarly in a world
The beating of the jungle drums was the signal for kids to get in front of the TV for another Clutch Cargo adventure! Clutch, and his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot, were always traveling to the edges of human understanding to deal with some trivial matter. They always had access to the coolest "Space Age" equipment and vehicles leading me to believe they must have had a DoD size budget! The most memorable feature of this
cartoon were the mouths of the characters. Human-like lips were strangely superimposed o
The one that started it all. James T. Kirk didn't worry much about Political Correctness...he had a job to do. Actually I didn't get to see much of the original Star Trek during it's prime time network run (remember dads controlled the TV so it was usually Bonanza for us). I picked it up later during syndication like most people. There were two distinct popular culture genres for boys in the 1950's and 1960's. The 50's tended to focus on the past (cowboys and Indians, Davy Crockett, etc.), and the 60's focu
Get Smart is proof that not all spy shows of the time were drama. Maxwell Smart, Agent 89, could be successful against the evil forces of C.H.A.O.S. (an analogy for Communism) while being totally inept. With the help of the lovely Agent 99, Smart actually pulled off a bumbling kind of cool, not to be seen again until Austin Powers. Kid interest was always aroused by the cool secret spy gadgets. Smart had access to such things as the Cone of Silence, shoe phones, a multi-door security labyrinth for a headqua
Felix the Cat,
The wonderful, wonderful cat.
You'll laugh so much your sides will ache,
Your heart'll go piddy-pat,
All for Felix,
the wonderful cat.
Felix was a pretty laid back kind of cat, that is until his neighbors the Professor and Rock Bottom started scheming. Sometimes the Master Cylinder (who lived on Mars) would get into the action as well. No problem for Felix. He would just reach into his yellow bag of tricks and viola--what ever
was needed to take care of the bad guys was there! He also had
Television's answer to the Beatles. The "Pre-Fab Four" cruised around in the customized jalopy looking for adventure and hijinks. The rather light plot lines would be interspersed with live music concert footage. As goofy as this show seems today, I can remember when KDSX-AM radio (Sherman-Denison, TX) was inundated with calls from eager pre-teen Monkees fans to play their latest hit. On a Saturday it wouldn't be uncommon for the old kitchen wall radio to play "I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone" and "I'm a Believ
This Hal Roach classic was produced from the 1920s through the 1940s and is another example of how television saved old movie theater shorts. Evolving from the Little Rascals of the 1920s, Our Gang's cast of characters is best know from the 1940s when it featured Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Mickey, Froggy, Buckwheat and Butch. It was made into a full length feature movie recently which fortunately preserved the spirit of a more innocent time.
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