Television
De Dik Voormekaar Show
The Wikipedia page.
TV version of the popular radio program with André van Duin and Ferry de Groot in which the various characters were portrayed on screen by hand puppets in the first season (1977-1978) and full body costumes in the second (1978-1979).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 14, 2024 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, 1970s, Europe
Follies of the Madmen #585
How to sell that newfangled gadget, the television? If you're RCA, you just make a special Xmas song!The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 08, 2024 -
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Category: Holidays, Music, Television, Deceit, Trickery, Subterfuge and General Slyness, Advertising
The Dobie Gillis Teenage slanguage dictionary
A small dictionary of teenage 'slanguage', created in 1962 by an ad agency to promote The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, a sitcom that aired on CBS for four seasons.Yes, that's Gilligan on the cover (before he was Gilligan).
More info: libraries.indiana.edu
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 17, 2023 -
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Category: Television, 1960s, Slang
My Favorite Martians
The Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 16, 2023 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
Intros to Failed 1970s TV Shows
Another collection of never-made-it TV shows.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 26, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
18 UNEARTHED TV INTROS TO SHORT-LIVED 70s SITCOMS
What a parade of forgotten flops! And yet, perhaps some of us will have a keen memory of seeing one of these shows in our youth!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 18, 2023 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Success & Failure, Television, 1970s
War of the Networks Board Game
Does it include dealing with a writers and actors strike?The entry at Board Game Geek.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2023 -
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Category: Games, Television, 1970s
Ed McMahon’s WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Ed sings!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 03, 2023 -
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Category: Jobs and Occupations, Television, Children, 1960s, Comedians
UK TV Ads of the 50s and 60s
Some rarer items for your weirdness appraisal. I like the one with Tarzan. The one for Fish Fingers unintentionally resembles a Monty Python skit.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 24, 2023 -
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Category: Television, Advertising, 1950s, 1960s, United Kingdom
Werner Hirzel
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 09, 2023 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Human Marvels, Music, Television, Twentieth Century
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