Television
Follies of the Madmen #614
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 17, 2025 -
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Category: Food, Robots, Television, Advertising, Australia
Automan
As Wikipedia tells us:Automan is an American superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for 12 episodes (although 13 were made) on ABC between 1983 and 1984. It consciously emulates the visual stylistics of the Walt Disney Pictures live-action film Tron, in the context of a superhero TV series.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 14, 2025 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Motor Vehicles, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Technology, Computers, Television, 1980s
Korla Pandit
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 29, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s
Full Sensory Theater
Only the 1960s would conceive of this. Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 18, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Movies, Television, 1960s, Eyes and Vision, Head, Smells and Odors
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 59
Remember my rule for this series? The artwork in question had to be made during Khrushchev's lifetime. Well, I thought 1968 was too late. But no! Nikita lived till 1971.The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 12, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Television, Self-referentiality, Circularity, and Endless Loops, 1960s, Russia
George Carl—“French Pantomimist”—on The Ed Sullivan Show
Prime time humor was really different, way back when.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 23, 2024 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Humor, Television, 1960s, Europe
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 31, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Television, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1970s, Comedians
The Shrink
Poetry of the insane?Are you nuts? Are you nuts? Have you lost your guts?
Why do you think you are nuts?
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 16, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Television, Psychology, 1980s, Mental Health and Insanity
The Odd Couple Sings
The rest of the playlist is on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 18, 2024 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Television, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1970s
No TV for a year
Back in the early 1970s, a German research group called "The Society for Rational Psychology" challenged 184 people (all regular TV watchers) to go without TV for a year.. with financial incentives to encourage them to stick to the plan.Briefly all went well, but then things quickly began to go downhill. Frustration grew. The people started to become moody and aggressive. After five months they were all back to watching TV.
The lesson the researchers concluded: "people who watch television regularly are likely to become so addicted they can no longer be happy without it."
What would they conclude about the Internet?
Of course, the study probably needs to be taken with a grain of salt because I can't find any info about this Society for Rational Psychology. Was it some kind of market research group? Nor can I find the write-up from the study itself. Just lots of references to the study in the media.
Buffalo Evening News - May 8, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 17, 2024 -
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Category: Addictions, Television, Psychology, 1970s
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