Archive for Television
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.
Dynamite #34 John Travolta 1977
Dynamite Magazine #34, TV 3592, April 1977. John Travolta: Barbarino and Beyond! Welcome Back, Kotter and the Sweathogs was the world’s introduction to Travolta.
Trading Card games? Isn’t that dangerous with such a valuable commodity? And an article on science fiction.
JVC – Video the Better Way – Early VHS Booklets
Here’s some vintage VHS booklets when the medium was new. Video the Better Way: A New Art for a New Age. JVC VHS. There are five booklets in here, Basics, Production, Enhancement, Applications, and Supplements. I’m going to be putting this on eBay unless one of my gentle readers contacts me today. I don’t remember seeing a copyright date, but it does mention the equipment lineup “as of December 1980.” I couldn’t scan it without damaging the binding, so I took photos as best as I could.
When I first saw this on the shelf, I thought it was an old tape, but when I was it was a set of booklets in a VHS-tape sized container, I thought, “How cool!”
I didn’t actually know anyone who owned a VCR until about 1985. Before that we had to rent the machine along with the movie, and it wasn’t cheap. It was cheaper to go out to eat or cruse around all night.
“Possibilities for introducing Video into your life.” I like how Video is capitalized.
Look at the size of those VCRs and cameras! VCRs with wired remotes!
Check out the map of the world’s color and black and white TV broadcasting systems.
Tales of Wells Fargo by Frank Gruber
Tales of Wells Fargo by Frank Gruber, Bantam 1958, “See the Big TV Series Starring Dale Robertson”
Classic TV Shows on Netflix Instant!
Netflix Instant works with all kinds of devices: Playstation 3, Wii, XBox360, Blu-Ray players, TiVo, some HDTVs are set up to do it by themselves, and of course computers and laptops as well as iPhone and iPod Touch, and iPads among many other devices. Good night!
Some of the great classic TV shows that are available on instant include
- The Greatest American Hero (One of my favorites. I don’t remember watching it a whole lot when it was new, but my family loves it now);
- The Incredible Hulk;
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century;
- Battlestar Galactica;
- Wagon Train;
- Have Gun Will Travel;
- Rat Patrol;
- The Cosby Show;
- Lois and Clark – The New Adventures of Superman (perhaps not classic yet, but my wife’s favorite);
- Richard Diamond, Private Eye;
- two seasons of The Avengers;
- The Munsters;
- The Addams Family;
- The Best of Benny Hill;
- Fawlty Towers with John Cleese;
- The Rockford Files (another of my favorites);
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Complete Series;
- Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody;
- Dr. Who;
- The Secrets of Isis (you remember that one!);
…and I could go on and on and that doesn’t even count what all they have on DVD. So if you don’t have Netflix, get it today!
