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Laurel and Hardy -This is your life was a very special moment as they were beginning to loose the amount of public appearances as the years caught up with them. Early 1950s Laurel and Hardy took several months off, so they could recuperate. They then traveled to Europe and undertook a successful series of public appearances in short ...
On 9.30 saturday Oct 1976 Multi-Coloured Swap Shop was born. Multi-Coloured Swap Shop was a Saturday morning magazine programme that was screened for 3 hours. Never had the BBC broadcast a show as long as 3 hours unless it was a sporting advent. Often shortened to Swap Shop, it was all about swapping games and toys on air. Swapping was ...
John Cravens Newsround is one of the first news programmes that you may ever of seen while growing up. Today we take a few minutes to find out more about John Cravens Newsround and how and why the man himself started the newsround off for younger viewers of the BBC. From the outset, the idea of it ...
Super Striker was the new and improved subbuteo for kids. If you loved football or soccer then you would love Striker and Super Striker. Though these were only 5-a-side games, not your full 11 players. These plastic figures with long necks made them all look like Rodney Trotter on a football pitch, but they had one ...
Just Dennis? Well It seems that Dennis is the name to have in the 60's or 70's especially if you were the type who caused trouble and mischief. Yes while kids in the UK enjoy "Dennis the Menace" as a curly black haired menace causing havoc with police in the UK neighbourhood along with his dog ...
Masquerade Party was a TV Game Show shonw on the following Networks: CBS,NBC,ABC TV July 28,1952-February 5,1960 Hosts: Bud Collyer,Bert Parks, Eddie Bracken, Douglas Edwards, Robert Q.Lewis and Peter Donald. Announcer: Johnny Olsen Returned: Syndicated:1974 Host/Performer: Richard Dawson Regular Panelists: Lee Meriweather, Nipsey Russell and Bill Bixby Announcer: Jay Stewart This tv game show had a panel of famous performers and personalities trying to guess the true identities of the persons..who were hidden under make ups and ...
Tickle Me Elmo is based on the character Elmo from the children's television show, Sesame Street. Tickle Me Elmo was invented by Ron Dubren and Greg Hyman, two veteran toy inventors. In 1992, They had no intention to make it a sesame character until toymakers Tyco lost the rights to do Looney Tunes but gained the rights to Sesame Street, thus starting Tickle Me Elmo. The ...
The Flintstones is still a family favorite according to skooldays stats, as it suddely overnight became the most searched for show. The Flintstones Episodes were 166 in total spanning 6 seasons. The animated series ran from 1960 to 1966. The Flintstones is presently seen in 22 languages in more than 80 countries around the world, and ...
Lois and Clark:The New Adventures Of Superman by Kevin Butler In the early 1990's..lawyer,executive TV producer and scriptwriter Deborah Joy Levine decided to do a new version of the "Superman" saga as a prime time series for ABC TV. Unlike the 1950's series..which was a crime drama (Which later on..became a light hearted kids tv adventure show) seen in national syndication.Ms.Levine's concept ...
Anyone Remember Zoobilee Zoo? Zoobilee Zoo is a programme that became popular in the eighties.They made 65 episodes over 15 years. The actors dressed up in animal costumes thus the name zoobilee zoo. The animals has a specific behavior that gives him a unique view on each problem faced. The main characters were called Zoobles. Characters included Bill Der ...
