1965: The Beatles, a Saturday morning kids cartoon show debuts on ABC-TV. The show features the songs of the Fab Four, but not their actual voices. It runs for 3 seasons.
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Halloween Movie Ideas - Take 2
GORGON (1964) We were born too late to experience the great Universal horror films in first run theaters. Instead, we watched them on our local TV station’s “Shock-Horror-Monster-Chiller-Nightmare Theater.” You remember. Those late night weekend…
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Halloween Movie Ideas
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE I Walked with a Zombie may be the best movie with the dumbest title in motion picture history. Cranked out by the b-movie horror unit at RKO pictures in 1943,…
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Now Playing at the Boomtown Drive-In: "I Married a Monster from Outer Space"
Just like I Walked with a Zombie, behind the incredibly silly title lurks a pretty decent little B-movie. I Married a Monster from Outer Space was made by Paramount Pictures in 1958. Directed by Gene…
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The TV That Time Forgot: Hazel (1961-66)
Hazel was a very popular sit-com that ran for 5 seasons (4 in full color), producing 154 shows, that was also quite popular in syndication. The show was based on a popular one panel cartoon…
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The TV That Time Forgot: Annie Oakley
There was a time when Westerns dominated television programming so thoroughly that it was tough (with no home video, no streaming, and just 3 networks if you lived in a city big enough to have…
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The TV That Time Forgot: My Living Doll (1964-65)
For a show that lasted only a single season, a surprising number of Baby Boomers remember the situation comedy My Living Doll. Perhaps that’s because once seen, Julie Newmar cannot easily be forgotten. The situation…