There’s this streaming app called “Pluto TV.” It has like a jillion channels of streaming content. There’s a “Happy Days” channel, there’s an all-Johnny Carson channel, and now there’s a “Price is Right” channel. I have been watching the latter a heck of a lot lately. They’re showing episodes from 1982 and 1983, and I … Continue reading “John, Give Me Another Player Please!”
Well, my birthday is six days away but I just got the best present ever. (I mean, there’s still time. You could knock my socks off with like, a big bag of Tootsie Rolls or something.) When Disney Plus launched I wrote a blog about it, and mentioned in passing the presence of a few … Continue reading “Muppet Show”? 30 Days Till Curtain “Muppet Show”!
I am a broadcasting nerd. Which means I have watched a LOT of old TV and listened to a LOT of old radio. Even more in the last, oh, let’s say 11 months or so. So I thought I’d write a post about Garry Moore. He was a radio comedian in the 1930’s and 40’s, … Continue reading FORGOTTEN ICONS OF BROADCASTING: Garry Moore
Here we have two blog posts in one. I do this because I’m not sure I have enough to say about either topic to fill a decent post. So here we go. ____________________________________ It’s been a while since I posted some of my commercial work. A major part of my job at Radio City in … Continue reading Commercials, and “You Blockheads!”
50 years ago this weekend, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on CBS. My Facebook feed is clogged with tribute articles that all repeat the same factoids, like how Mary Richards was originally going to be a divorcee but CBS thought viewers would believe she left Rob Petrie. Classic episodes are recalled, like “Chuckles Bites … Continue reading Love Is All Around
I’ve decided to write a blog about Earle Hagen. There is probably zero interest in this, but my quarantine weekends are so empty and mundane that writing something–anything–at least feels like hitting my binge-watching brain with jumper cables. I finally finished the massive “Best Of Mayberry” Time-Life DVD set which includes episodes of “The Andy … Continue reading Earle Hagen
I’ve been watching a DVD box set called “The Mayberry Collection.” It features a selection of well-remembered episodes from “The Andy Griffith Show.” There are also discs with episodes of “Gomer Pyle USMC” and “Mayberry RFD”, but I haven’t gotten to those yet. Fans of “Andy” are fortunate in being able to determine within 2 … Continue reading Andy In Color
Carl Reiner has died at age 98. 98 years old seems like a nice, long life…but no amount of years would have been enough for the man who gave us “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Now, Carl Reiner has done a million funny things–early sketch comedy with Sid Caesar; movie writing, performing and directing; being … Continue reading Alan Brady, We Hardly Knew Ye
I did a rotten morning show today. I was in a rotten mood, I couldn’t quite snap out of it and the show was just mediocre as all get out. Usually there’s something to point to with pride in a show that’s otherwise flat. Not today. This show just laid there and died. I don’t … Continue reading Behind Door #3: A Book Review(ish)
I’ve been watching a lot of Buzzr lately. Buzzr is a channel that shows old game shows. It’s what I watch now that MeTV has been brutally yanked from my channel lineup yet again by the heartless overlords at Spectrum. Anyway, I’m watching “Password Plus” (“It’s more than just Password! It’s Password PLUS!”) and like … Continue reading “Hi, doll!”
