Auction Finds – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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That’s Entertainment! #6: The Cast of Emergency!, 1970s

Chris Holmes
posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021
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My current favorite TV show aired its last episode in 1979, but I watch it every week. I’m talking about the 1970s medical drama Emergency!, which aired weekly on NBC from 1972 to 1977 (with a

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Now Playing: A 1971 Creature Double Feature!

Chris Holmes
posted on May 24, 2021
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A 1971 newspaper ad for a horror double feature - Beast of the Yellow Night and Creature with the Blue

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Mascot Hall of Fame #1: Count Chocula & Franken Berry

A few years before advertising mascot classic Boo Berry and Fruit Brute entered the pantheon of Monster Cereal mascots, there was the original duo of Count Chocula and Franken

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Now Playing #3: Airport (1970)

A vintage 1970 newspaper ad for the classic disaster movie

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What’s on TV #1: CHiPs, 1977

Chris Holmes
posted on September 15, 2020
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A groovy newspaper ad for the series debut of NBC's CHiPs, September 15,

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Single Cel Organism #2: Journey Back to Oz

Chris Holmes
posted on September 10, 2020
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Among the many things Filmation Studios is known for, I don’t think the 1972 theatrical release Journey Back to Oz is among them. It’s certainly not because of the cast, which featured

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Book Report: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man

Chris Holmes
posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020
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As you might have guessed, I read Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Here's what I have to say about

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That’s Entertainment! #5: Bee Gees, c. late 1960s

Chris Holmes
posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
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A look at the Bee Gees group lineup, circa

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Toon Time #2: Quick Draw McGraw for Kellogg’s

Chris Holmes
posted on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
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From the age when corporations directly sponsored TV shows comes this color animation cel from 1959. It features Baba Looey of The Quick Draw McGraw Show on top of a wagon spiriting a Kellogg’s