Posted in Auction Finds, Games & Toys Auction Finds: Vintage Cragstan RCA-NBC Mobile Color TV Truck Chris Holmes posted on June 19, 2013July 17, 2013 Comments Off on Auction Finds: Vintage Cragstan RCA-NBC Mobile Color TV Truck Here's a great tin toy specimen from the late 1950s: A Cragstan NBC-RCA Mobile Color TV Truck, featuring vintage Read More
Posted in Auction Finds, TV & Radio Very Cool “Visitors” Poster from V: The Final Battle (1984) Chris Holmes posted on June 14, 2013June 11, 2013 Comments Off on Very Cool “Visitors” Poster from V: The Final Battle (1984) Here's an original prop poster from the V: The Final Battle NBC mini-series (1984), showing a friendly Visitor and some Earth Read More
Posted in TV & Radio Vintage Daytime Soap Opera Promotional Artwork (1981) Chris Holmes posted on March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 Comments Off on Vintage Daytime Soap Opera Promotional Artwork (1981) From 1981 comes this classic daytime soap opera promotional artwork, featuring P&G shows like Guiding Light, Another World, and As the World Read More
Posted in Auction Finds Cool Stuff: Name That Tune Control Box from NBC Chris Holmes posted on February 28, 2013June 11, 2013 1 Comment Here's a piece of fun TV history: A control box from the 1970s version of NBC's musical game show Name That Read More
Posted in TV & Radio Fall TV Preview Madness! (NBC Saturday Mornings, 1985) Chris Holmes posted on August 23, 2012August 20, 2012 Comments Off on Fall TV Preview Madness! (NBC Saturday Mornings, 1985) Let's all relive our '80 childhoods by watching this 1985 NBC Saturday morning cartoon preview show -- Back to Next Read More
Posted in TV & Radio Fall TV Preview Madness! (NBC, 1975) Chris Holmes posted on August 14, 2012November 21, 2013 1 Comment Here's a look at a preview for the 1975 NBC Fall Television Lineup, dubbed the Superseason. Your host for this preview is Lloyd Read More
Posted in Sports Summing Up My Thoughts on the London 2012 Summer Olympics Chris Holmes posted on August 13, 2012 4 Comments Thanks to NBC's consistently poor efforts at broadcasting the Summer Olympics, I think I'm tired of watching them on Read More
Posted in Advertising This Ragú Ad Made It Worth Watching the Summer Olympics Chris Holmes posted on August 6, 2012February 28, 2013 Comments Off on This Ragú Ad Made It Worth Watching the Summer Olympics For those who forgot the childhood trauma of walking in on your parents having sex, Ragú pasta sauce is here to help you relive Read More
Posted in TV & Radio Get the Lead Out — A History of Series Debuts After the Super Bowl Chris Holmes posted on January 24, 2012February 8, 2013 Comments Off on Get the Lead Out — A History of Series Debuts After the Super Bowl The record of TV shows debuting after the Super Bowl is, just like the game itself, not always so good. Here's a list of them since Read More