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The TV That Time Forgot: Richard Diamond
With all of the CSI-style forensic cop shows on TV, it may be hard to remember that network television was once ruled by cowboys and two-fisted private eyes. One of the first of the shamuses…
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Gidget (1959)
This is the film that started it all! Teen exploitation movies! A nationwide craze for surfing! The slang phrase “Big Kahuna!” Sandra Dee’s brief career as a movie star! Before Gidget, there had been movies…
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6 Things You Never Knew About "The Adventures of Superman"
Ask any Baby Boomer what comes after, “It’s a bird, it’s a plane…” and they will undoubtedly reply, “It’s Superman!” Beginning in 1952, The Adventures of Superman aired weekly in virtually every market…
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Operation Petticoat (1959)
What could be funnier than men having to discuss bras and panties, right? Ah, the much more innocent 1950’s came to an end at movie theaters with this extremely popular WWII-themed sex comedy. Operation Petticoat…
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Hey Everybody, Surf’s Up!
Remembering the Beach Party Films Who would have ever thought that two Italians from New York City would come to represent the “summer blond” California surfing movement? But that’s what happened when American International Pictures…
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The TV That Time Forgot: Milton the Monster
In 1957, a package of the old, classic monster movies (Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.) was released to local TV stations, touching off a craze for movie monsters that continued strongly through most of the 1960s. Of…