Archive for Books
TV Super Stars ’79
TV Super Stars ’79 by Ronald Lackman. Xerox Education Publications, 1979. This book is a bit unusual in that it covers all the major actors of the shows it covers. For the most part.
“Wonder Woman” Lynda Carter.
From “Welcome Back, Kotter” Gabriel (not just Gabe?) Kaplan, John Travolta, Ron Palillo, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Marcia Strassman.
Then for some reason, Shields and Yarnell.
From “Charlie’s Angels” Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd.
From “Three’s Company” Suzanne Sommers, Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter.
“Bionic Woman” Lindsay Wagner.
From “Family” Kristy McNichol, Gary Frank, Meridith Baxter-Birney.
From “Eight is Enough” Dick Van Patten, Betty Buckley, Susan Richardson, Willie Ames, Lani O’Grady, Connie Newton, Grant Goodeve, Dianne Kay, Lauri Walters, Adam Rich.
From “One Day at a Time” Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Philips, Valerie Bertinelli.
“Starsky & Hutch” Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.
From “Alice” Linda Lavin and Polly Holliday.
Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams from “Lavern & Shirley.”
From “Good Times” Jimmy J. J. Walker.
From “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” DanHaggerty.
Ernest Thomas, Heywood Nelson, and Danielle Spencer from “Good Times.”
“The Hardy Boys Mysteries” Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson.
“Happy Days” Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
Donny and Marie Osmond from “Donny and Marie.”
Sha Na Na from “Sha Na Na.”
From “Little House on the Priarie” Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Melissa Gilbert, and Lindsay and Sindey Greenbush.
1960s Batman Coloring Book
This Witman Batman coloring book (# 1002) was purchased at Service Merchandise for 39 cents. What a cool cover. After my kids finished coloring the book (I had colored in it some as a kid) I kept the cover and recycled the rest. I also have the back cover which is the same except for the price sticker. So why is this show not on DVD yet???
TV 80 Scholastic Book
TV 80 by Lisa Freeman. Scholastic 1980.
Jimmy McNichol “California Fever” which I think I remember, Robin Williams “Mork and Mindy”, Shelly Hack “Charlie’s Angels”, John Schneider “Dukes of Hazzard”, Valerie Bertinelli “One Day at a Time”, “CHiPs”, Greg Evigan “BJ and the Bear”, “Three’s Company”, Peter Barton in a show called “Shirley” with Shirley Jones, Gary Coleman “Diff’rent Strokes”, “Bad News Bears”, Gil Gerard “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”, “Lavern and Shirley”, Lauren Tewes “The Love Boat”, “The White Shadow” I remember that one, Scott Baio “Happy Days”, Mary McDonough “The Waltons”, “Taxi”, “Eight is Enough”, “240-Robert”?, “Out of the Blue”?
Mountain Songs – 1937 Songbook
Mountain Songs from Belmont Music Company. Chicago, 1937. Kinda cool rustic artwork in this book. It’s really just line drawings without much detail, but it matches the content pretty well.
TV Super Stars ’78
TV Super Stars ’78 by Ronald Lackmann. Xerox Publishing 1978. Guess what, there isn’t a table of contents! But at least these are all people that I remember, unlike yesterday’s 1978 Television book.
People mentioned here include Farrah Fawcett-Majors, her hubby at the time, Lee Majors, David Soul, Cindy Williams, Pamela Sue Martin, Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Blake, Linda Carter, Levar Burton, Penny Marshall, Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Lindsay Wagner, Vince Van Patten as the Bionic Boy.
TV Time ’78
TV Time ’78 by Peggy Herz. Scholastic TX 4219, 1978. Man, she wrote a zillion of these books!
TV shows covered this year are: Thunder (anyone hear of this one?); Welcome Back, Kotter; Happy Days (and she profiles Erin Moran! Hardly anyone did that.), Willie Ames in Eight is Enough, Grizzly Adams, Kristy McNichol in Family; Ernest Thomas in What’s Happening!!; Wonder Woman; Wojo in Barney Miller; The Tony Randall Show? I don’t remember that! Brad Savage was in Red Dawn.; The Fonz in Happy Days. Hey! Happy Days gets two chapters!
Get most of these shows from Netflix.
