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TV Close-Ups 1975
TV Close-Ups by Peggy Herz, special Arrow edition of TV People. Scholastic TX 3028, 1975.
This is my first of several years of books on TV. I’ll be posting them over the next week or so. They’re pretty interesting to look back at. This is a kid’s version of the book TV People. They have Radar from M*A*S*H and Michael Landon from Little House on the Prairie, then Darren McGavin in the Night Stalker? I suppose a lot of kids watched it which may explain Generation X. And Rhoda, which I wasn’t allowed to watch.
What surprises me after showing my 3 books on Fonzie, all these books between 1975 and 1980 and only one talks about Henry Winkler and this one talks about Happy Days.
Does anyone remember Patti Cahoon and Apple’s Way? I sure don’t. Others are Freddie Prinze and Chico and the Man, the fabulous Kurt Russell in New Land (another I don’t remember), Clifton Davis That’s My Mama, Angie Dickinson and Police Woman, Richard Thomas of the Waltons (I wasn’t allowed to watch this one either. Actually my Dad hated the show so we never watched it), and Roddy McDowall in the TV show Planet of the Apes.
The TRUTH about Fonzie
The Truth about Fonzie, by Peggy Herz. Scholastic Books TK-3571, 1976. Some punk kid wrote “The coolest!” on the cover. Seeing as how I bought this new and have owned it ever since, you might guess who the punk kid was. Peggy Herz wrote a million books like this.
aaaay! The Very First Fonz Book!
The Fonz: The Henry Winkler Story, by Charles E. Pike. Pocket Books 80746. 1976. “The very first book about a very cool guy called Fonzie” Including the summer he lost his virginity and passed geometry!?! I don’t remember reading about that! I thought I got most my books through Scholastic and Arrow book clubs at school, but maybe this one came from somewhere else.
The Fonz! The Official Fonzie Scrapbook
This is my official Arthur Fonzarelli week! The Official Fonzie Scrapbook, Ben Davidson, Tempo Books 14044, 1977. The disappointing thing with this book is that it’s not really a scrapbook and what pictures there are, are all black and white.
I was a HUGE Fonzie fan back in the day. I was a huge fan of the 1950s in general. Music, cars, etc. In the 1970s there was a 1950s revival, which makes sense after the chaotic 1960s. Plus, people who grew up in the 1950s were old enough to look back on their childhood, much as every generation tends to do.
TV’s Superwomen Scrapbook 1978
TV’s Superwomen Scrapbook by Susan Katz. Tempo Books 14662, 1978. Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Farrah Fawcett-Majors (all Charlie’s Angels), Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman), Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman), and Angie Dickinson (Police Woman).
As a kid I wasn’t sure why Angie Dickinson was in this collection. Still not. Her birthdate is 1931. Cheryl Ladd and Lynda Carter were born in 1951, making Angie 20 years older than them, and almost 60 years old at the time of this book. Granted, Angie still looked amazing and Police Woman was in it’s final year on the air when this book was written, but this is a kids book and she wasn’t on our radar. The closest in age was Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Jaclyn Smith, born in 1947, a sixteen year difference. That’s a lot to a kid with only 12 years.
Dynamite Magazine Brady Bunch August 1977
Dynamite, August 1977, Volume 1, Number 2. The Return of the Brady Bunch! With articles on Godzilla movies, old radio shows, and an NFL football preview!
Juice Simpson with the Buffalo Bills looks good, and the Baltimore Colts too. And the new AFC West team, the Seattle Seahawks. St. Louis Cardinals didn’t make the playoffs last year. The article mentions that the Denver Broncos will have to do better then 9-5 which was their best to that point. They went to the Superbowl against the Dallas Cowboys and lost. Not too bad considering the record they had. That was the first Superbowl I remember watching.
