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Classic Sitcom Christmas Episodes
Families, not television, is what Christmas is all about. But can we help it as children growing up in America that many of our warmest family Christmas memories are wrapped around watching something on television?
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Gene Roddenberry After Star Trek
Entitled to half the profits from Star Trek, this amounted to very little in the early-'70s before the show had yet to fully catch on in syndication. Roddenberry confessed to an interviewer, "For a couple of years our only income was lecture fees I got from colleges where kids still loved Star Trek, even though it was not a commercial success." But soon there were new concepts and attempts to get another sci-fi series off the ground.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special?!?
The London Sunday Times called this article a "must read." George Lucas would like to forget about the first time he brought Star Wars to television. The occasion was something called The Star Wars Holiday Special, which aired on CBS only once, on Nov. 17, 1978. Although CBS hailed it as a two-hour "visual and audio delight," the made-for-TV mess was anything but.
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Christmas Specials: Rudolph and Santa from the TV Christmas special

Together Again after 40 Years!
Rick Goldschmidt reveals the recently discovered, original, newly-restored Animagic models for Santa and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - unseen by the public in four decades! Plus: a look at the lovely Noel Neill, TV's Lois Lane.
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Christmas Specials / classic TV holiday specials

Christmas Specials of the 60s & 70s
TVparty-ers reflect on their favorite Christmas TV memories - from the Norelco Santa, Hardrock, Cocoa and Joe, Mr. Magoo, Bing Crosby and all the rest. What were your favorite holiday specials?
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classic Lucy Shows / Lucille Ball & her battles with guest stars

Lucy Battles With Her Co-Stars
Most everyone loved Lucy but there were times when things got pretty heated on the set, especially when Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Burton and Joan Crawford appeared with the queen of comedy. After one taping, Crawford was quoted as saying, "My God, they tell me I'm a bitch - Lucy can outbitch me any day of the week!"
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What Happened to What's Happening!!?
"Haywood was a really good kid and Ernest was an excellent actor. Fred Berry was the one to look out for. He could be trouble. He received many of the show's big laughs. Unfortunately, he later had some personal problems that carried over onto the set. After I had left the show, there was a big contract dispute and I was told that Fred was the instigator behind the trouble that followed. He convinced Ernest and Haywood to join him in a strike for more money. Eventually, the producers simply had enough of the boys' antics and they closed the series down."
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1970s Phenomenon : The Gong Show
Chuck Barris was responsible for some of the most popular programs of the sixties, primetime and daytime hits like 'The Dating Game' and 'The Newlywed Game'. These pseudo-game shows fed off of an individual's willingness to do anything to be on television, 'The Gong Show' would take that premise a step further. ABC bought the show for nighttime syndication, to debut in the fall of 1976.
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Las Vegas Postcards / The Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas and the Mob!
From a Vegas entertainer: The entertainers and folks I know who worked in Las Vegas pre-1980 liked it better than what came after, When the big hotel chains muscled in on Sin City the mobsters, even with the skim, didn't have the money to compete. They were eventually marginalized and Vegas became a corporate playground.
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Sky King
"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... Sky King!" Nabisco's kid friendly cowboy in the air was popular for two decades on the weekends - and years before that on radio. Likable stars Kirby Grant and Gloria Winters were matched with believable scripts, stark desert scenery and exciting aerial shots.
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The Lone Ranger
"I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world."
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They Made an Album?!?
Yes, most of us are already aware that the likes of William Shatner, John Travolta and various “Brady” kids have all had their dreams of musical greatness and have all put out albums of their warblings at one time or another. But… they are far from alone in the world of surprising others who have also attempted to parlay their notoriety or fame in one field into the world of the recording arts.
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Classic TV on DVD!
Stargate Atlantis, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Dallas, Men Behaving Badly, Captain N, Hootenanny, ER, Wanda Sykes, Adventures of Superman, Pride & Prejudice, Battlestar Galactica, F Troop, Cheyenne, and so many more new to DVD. And they're all deep discounted - for you!
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Classic TV Shows on DVD?
An extensive catalogue of every classic program available on DVD! See what's available today - with big discounts for you!

1980's TV Wrestling - Greats and Near Greats!
NOW WITH ADDED RARE VIDEO!
John Hitchcock's look back at the heart of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling - with grapplers known and unknown. Wahoo McDaniel! Ric Flair! Dusty Rhodes! Jim Cornette! Magnum TA! Buddy "Killer" Austin! Johnny Weaver! Johnny Valentine! Harley Race! Dick Murdock! Jimmy Garvin! Nikita Koloff! Have you ever heard of these guys?!?
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The Sonny & Cher Story!

The Sonny
& Cher Story!