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Tim Lones writes: Doing a search through the TVParty Blog I came across the Andy Griffith Clip from WJW-TV 8 in Cleveland that you featured in 2007. Several interesting things about this clip.
First, the slate at the very beginning says it was done February 17, 1967. Griffith was at Channel 8 to promote a Comedy Special - The Andy Griffith Uptown-Downtown Show with Don Knotts and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Tuesday, Feb. 21, Griffith mentions both Knotts and Ford during this skit and does a little of his "Football" comedy sketch.
Second, this skit was done just 2 months after Bob "Hoolihan" Wells and "Big Chuck" Schodowski took over Friday Night movie hosting from Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson as Anderson had just left to join his friend Tim Conway on the West Coast. Here is a blog post I made about this in March, 2008.
This is clever - someone has spun together the openings for TV programs from Thursday nights in 1959, a surprisingly strong lineup. Better than what's on the networks tonight, I'd stay home to watch most of these shows.
Some of us are old enough to remember when O. J. Simpson was a respected advertising pitchman, his most famous TV ads were for Hertz Rent-A-Car ("Hertz puts you in the driver's seat").
This print ad for Dingo Boots was seen in comic books of the late-1970s and it's pretty funny by itself.
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I don't know where this parody came from, I got it in an email from James Counts - it's hilarious but don't read it if you're easily offended.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:09am
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Here's an article about a promising 1977 sitcom that fizzled - The Betty White Show. The lady will host SNL on May 8th.
Bruce Beresford-Redman, co-creator of Pimp My Ride and a supervising producer of Survivor, is being questioned in connection with the death of his wife; she was found strangled to death while on a family vacation in Cancun with her husband and the kids. Apparently, he flew back to LA with the kids following the death of his wife and then returned to Cancun to report her missing. Witnesses heard fighting the night before and his face was seen all scratched up the next morning. Of course, people are lining up to tell stories about the guy, like he drove a hearst when he was in High School. No doubt we'll be hearing from angry former co-workers.
This is a comment left on You Tube about the great Paul Tripp, a pioneering children's TV educator, and his NYC local kiddie show Birthday House: God this brings back such memories. I remember standing in a line two blocks long outside our local department store just to meet Paul , and Ruth and Jan and have them autograph my Birthday House album. (I still have it *LOL*) My mom still jokes that she didn't stand in that long a line to see Sinatra at The Paramount as she did to see Paul Tripp.
This is kind of a shock - 1970s-'80s punk rock impresario and first class huckster Malcolm McLaren of Sex Pistols and Bow Wow Wow fame has died.
I mentioned The Addams Family the other day, a Broadway musical of the show / cartoon debuted starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth (Frasier). USA Today headlined their review - "'Addams Family': Mysterious and not altogether amusing". Ouch.
Watch this really cool mash up of openings to the TV shows you'd be watching tonight if this was the year 1977. I really enjoyed watching What's Happening!! when it went into first run syndication a couple of years later.
ABC had a lot of winners that year and the Thursday night lineup was a big part of that success - Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening!!, and Barney Miller were all in the top 25. Then again, The Waltons and Hawaii Five-0 on CBS were in the top 20 as well. NBC died a thousand deaths on Thursday nights in 1977 with the excellent but under watched Van Dyke & Company and the dreadful Best Sellers.
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