Television
Mystery VHS Pack
For $40, Urban Outfitters is offering a mystery 5-pack of VHS tapes, which means they send you 5 VHS tapes of their choosing. Though, at least, you get to choose the genre (horror, romance, etc.).I guess that's one way to get rid of their inventory of old VHS tapes that, evidently, people aren't otherwise buying.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 20, 2019 -
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Category: Television, Retailing
The day my kid went punk
1987 ABC Afterschool Special. You might recognize Doc from The Love Boat as the father of the wayward teenager.IMDB page.
Akron Beacon Journal - Oct 21, 1987
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 11, 2019 -
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Category: Music, Television, 1980s
Starlit Stairway
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 19, 2018 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Regionalism, Television, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
The Clone Master
The premise of this proposed 1978 TV series doesn't sound that bad, but only one pilot episode was ever made. NBC decided not to pick up the full show. Description from ioffer.com:Unfortunately, the full pilot episode isn't available anywhere online. A clip is all that YouTube has.
The show was written by Frederik Pohl, who had this to say about it in a 1977 interview with Tangent magazine:
POHL: I think that the other media are peripheral. I get involved in them from time to time. I’m making a record and I have a contract to do the pilot script – and the treatment – for a new television series. It’s called “The Clone Master” at the moment. It’s not an anthology series, it’s a series series. They trapped me into it by promising me that it would be an anthology series. Now, this is one that I generated. The producer asked me for some suggestions and I told him that it should be an anthology series and ultimately badgered me down to where I am now. The process is one of badgering down. You get into television and you find there are twenty-five people who are being paid to criticize what you do and they all have to justify their salaries. It’s no fun, I don’t like doing it. I do like it in the sense that I like experimenting on my own in areas that I haven’t done before.
source: Made for TV Movie Wiki
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 01, 2018 -
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Category: Television, Science Fiction, 1970s
Toni’s Boys
A male version of Charlie's Angels that never made it past a 1980 pilot episode. From Wikipedia:
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 25, 2018 -
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Category: Television, 1980s
Follies of the Madmen #386
Very convoluted ad for the Sir Galahad watchband that will add courage to your wrist.
By the way:
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 25, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, 1940s, Comedians
Burt Reynolds in HAWK
Portraying a "full-blooded Iroquois." Lasted 17 episodes.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 29, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Law, Television, 1960s
The Baileys of Balboa
The Wikipedia page, which says:The show was primarily developed for the network because its president, James T. Aubrey, insisted that Gilligan's Island, which premiered the same season (and which he personally loathed), would have been a better show if it had centered on the exploits of a charter boat captain operating in a marina, and had his old friend Keefe Brasselle produce his version of the idea in order to prove his point.
Raquel Welch in this clip.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 26, 2018 -
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Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Television, 1960s
Howie
Will Hutchins prefigures Jim Carrey in DUMB AND DUMBER.
Three subsequent parts of the episode separately on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 17, 2018 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
The Ant Farm, a Cadillac, and a Wall of Flaming TVs
Wikipedia page for the collective.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 15, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Destruction, Motor Vehicles, Television, 1970s
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