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Today we look at the NYC based kids tv series"B.J.'s Bunch!" - a real blast or nostalgia from the 1970's "Saturday Morning Kids TV Shows" - Review by Kevin Butler In 1973..Chicago,Ill. based kids tv wraparound host/performer:Bill Jackson ( "BJ" )was invited by the station execs at WNBC TV Ch.4 in NYC to mc a children's educational series. Set against ...
Barrel of Monkeys Barrel of Monkeys game is actually credited for its use in understanding structures and particularly viruses. Certainly this wasn't initially in the mind when first created by Lakeside Toys in 1965. MB games currently produce it as a toy barrel in either green, yellow, red, or blue. The instructions on the bottom of the ...
Fashion took a dramatic change for women in the seventies and men in the eighties. In the 1970s, acid perms were invented. These use glycerol monothioglycolate instead and contain no ammonia. They are sometimes called buffered waves. This perm is slower but gentler to the hair. Heat is usually added by placing the client under ...
The Dick Tracy Show (Syndicated:1961) Details by Kevin Butler. Production Co.:UPA Studios,Inc. Voices: "Dick Tracy":Everett Sloan "Hemlock Holmes":Paul Frees "Go Go Gomez":Paul Frees "Joe Jitsu":Benny Rubin "Officer Heap O'Calorie":Paul Frees "Stooge Villa":"Uncle Johnny"Coons "Mumbles":"Uncle Johnny"Coons "Prune Face"Paul Frees "Itchey":Jerry Hauser "Sketch Parree":Paul Frees "The Mole":Jerry Hauser, Benny Rubin "BB Eyes":Everett Sloan, Paul Frees "Flat Top":Mel Blanc, Paul Frees "The Brow":(Actor Unknown) "Oodles"(Actor Unknown) "Cheater Gunsmoke":Everett Sloan Other Voices:Jerry Hauser and Frank Nelson In 1960, UPA Animation Studios were hired by The ...
Who remembers the Joe 90 Tv Theme? Joe 90 was a futuristic children's TV series about a boy secret agent that ran on British independent television between 1968 and 1969. It was the brainchild of Gerry Anderson, who together with his wife Sylvia produced a string of similar TV programmes in what he called Supermarionation. Although most ...
It had to happen in 2011, The Smurfs make it as the next big movie to hit the screens this summer. For years The Smurfs have been loved by generation after generation, but now they make it to the big screen again. We say again as in 1976 they made it with the The Smurfs and ...
Whistle pop candy sweets! These whistles were actually a boiled sweet lolly, tasty and zingy, with various fruity flavours. Various flavours i can remember include lemon, cola and strawberry. But the real reason you bought these were for there value for annoying parents. While you can suck, you could also blow your whistle at a high pitch screech, ...
So what were you doing on Friday night back in 1974? Chances are you just may of been watching a classic sitcom on ABC. The Partridge Family Some of the greatest 1970 TV shows would of included The Partridge Family. With David Cassidy, every girl swooned. The Partridge Family went to the top of the hit parade back in ...
It seems that the 1957 Leave it to Beaver is the latest craze to grip parents and children. This great sitcom ran through the 1950s and 60s. It was about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver and the adventures and pickles he would get into around the neighbourhood. Its estimated there were ...
Here is a toy that you may remember if you grew up in the Eighties. Rubber Poppers It was a simple concept. Turn the rubber popper inside out and wait for it to ping into the air. Parents everywhere would exclaim "I'll buy you one, but do not put it in your mouth"! This retro toy from the ...
