..to be 40?
On November 10th, 1969 this education show went on the air, for the first time.
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November 11, 2009RevoluTuck’s Halloween Party Time
October 25, 2009It’s that season of strangeness here @ RovoluTuck blog once again, everybody! I know you’re steeped in Halloween parties and plans all this week, so here are a few things you gotta have for it!
watch the whole thing here.
THE PAUL LYNDE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
This was an ABC TV special, from 1976. Starring comedian Paul Lynde, best known as center square of the classic “Hollywood Squares”. This show features Margaret Hamilton who was the wicked witch from the “Wizard of OZ” and an early tv appearance of the rock group KISS!
Sounds and musical mashups for any hipster spooky party!
I POSTED THIS OVER ON ARCHIVE.ORG BACK IN 2005, PEOPLE ARE JUST NOW DISCOVERING IT!
Well Turn it Up, Bitch!!
October 11, 2009The K-Tell style of tv adds that sold compulation record collections off of the tv was the norm growing up. The pre-world of ipod.. and easily downloading that we have today.
This is possibly the best known add.. “Freedom Rock”!
A few other (ahemm.. ) “gems”…
Cardboard not included.
And Dat’s da way it were…
July 17, 2009My brother has always told me that Walter Cronkite’s coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing was beyond anybody else.. of anything… EVER!
WALTER CRONKITE, R.I.P.
So I was going to hold off and post this for Monday, but well… regardless here as it was on July the 20th, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Nine.
Here is actual “as-it-happened” footage from CBS, with Walter Cronkite reporting on the historic moon landing of Apollo 11 in July, 1969.
The “One step for man” speech is right at the beginning of part 3…
long forgotten nostaga
July 1, 2009ty youtube!
Classic DOCTOR WHO, Part 17
June 25, 2009Sketchy ’90’s
THE EIGHTH DOCTOR: PAUL McGANN: 1996
Apart form a few specials here and there, in the 1990s there was one serious attempt at relaunching the Dr. Who franchise back to television. This time the BBC was going to team up with the American network produce it in Vancouver Canada. The series for FOX was never picked up, but the visually cool telemove of the pilot “The Enemy Within” made it to air in both countries in 1996. Sylverster McCoy was brought back to give his official had over of the TARDIS key to Paul McGann. (more…)
Classic DOCTOR WHO, Part 16
May 24, 2009More then just a Timelord
Part two.
THE SEVENTH DOCTOR: SYLVESTER McCOY: 1987-1989
SPOTLIGHT: “Remembrance of the Daleks” (1988)
SPOTLIGHT: “THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY” (1988)
SPOTLIGHT: “THE SILVER NIMINISIS” (1989)
SPOTLIGHT: “BATTLEFIELD” (1989)
Well, kids here we are, the end of eighties. We are also marking an end of an era! This is the final seasons of the regular BBC run of the Dr. Who television serial series. But what we do have here is one of the strongest ever DW team ups in all of it’s history. The Doctor 7 and Ace. The new season though starts off with a bang as The TARDIS make it’s return to 1963 London to face a new invasion by non other than Davros and the Daleks! The Cyberbmen come out to celebrate his 25th Anniversary and the return of the Brigader..oh it just doesn’t stop.
To bad the network higher up felt that who franchise and series was played out. Remember the had tried to shut it down just a few years before. The was no proper end for the current team… It was just not brought back. It would have a very sparse life in the following decade.
NEXT TIME…
Season Twenty-Five – 1988
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
Silver Nemesis
The Greatest Show In the Galaxy
Season Twenty-Six – 1989
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
Survival
Extras.
(hey there y’all, classic who is drawing near. So I’m asking this should I cover the current series? from 2005 on?)
Classic DOCTOR WHO, Part 15
May 17, 2009Who am I? … Where am I? .. and Who are you?
The Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy: 1987-1989.
Spotlight: “Time and The Rani” (1987)
Spotlight: “Dragonfire” (1987)
Starting fresh and new again, Producer JNT seeks out the next direction and finds it in Sylvester McCoy. This is the little dude with the white hat and umbrella. He is also remmensent of the 2nd Doctor in build and personality. The first season is a very rocky one. But please bare with it, it’ll get much better in the following season, with Ace as his assistant. I’ll cover those separately.
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Season Twenty-Four – 1987
Time And the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta And the Bannermen
Dragonfire
Extras
Classic DOCTOR WHO, Part 14
May 1, 2009Any doc will do.. I guess
THE SIXTH DOCTOR: COLIN BAKER: 1984-1986
SPOTLIGHT: “Attack of The Cybermen” (1985)
SPOTLIGHT: “The Two Doctors” (1985)
SPOTLIGHT: “Revelation of The Daleks” (1985)
“TRIAL OF A TIMELORD” (1986)
You gotta low points to have high points, right? So here we are in the middle of the 1980’s with nowhere to run! I’m not saying the Colin Baker era was bad, but it’s not the hay day of the 70’s either. This is a netorious era for Whovians. The cosmic- electro-techno-dream-coat, arrogant persona and fluffy fro. There was also alot of turmol going on behind the sceans as well. Colin Baker was cast.. could it have had something to do with his last name.. to accociate with Tom Baker? That I don’t know. (and no there are not related.)
Nicola Bryant as companion Peri Brown was dealing with all kinds of critisism too.. from being too sexy, to to annoying.. to faking to everybody that she was not really American for the first year. The head of BBC even canceled the series. The allows it to be revived as “The Trial of The Timelord” . That didn’t help Colin, as after that season the BBC head just fires him. (oh, and the prick was sleeping with Colin’s wife!!)
There are some interesting gyms here, worth the time to check out.. It IS Doctor Who, you know.
Season Twenty-One – 1984
Season Twenty-Two – 1985
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance On Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks
Season Twenty-Three- 1986
The Trial of a Timelord:
The Mysterious Planet
Mindwarp
Terror of the Vervoids
The Ultimate Foe
Extras
Inside OUT
April 24, 2009Inside Out.. Outside in..
Hopefully that’ll give you something to Thinkabout..a-boot…
