Category: 1960’s
The New Casper Cartoon Show: The Ending We Remember
If you watched The New Casper Cartoon Show on Saturday mornings, the ending probably brings back just as many memories…
The New Casper Cartoon Show
These are the Casper episodes I’m most familiar with, and it’s good to see them all once again. The New…
The Jetsons: The Future We Were Promised
The Jetsons first aired on ABC on Sunday nights at 7:30 p.m., beginning September 23, 1962. The original run was…
Probably no toy gave me more joy than Hot Wheels.
It was great the first day you got the track, but the fun didn’t stop there. A new car didn’t…
Organ Music Made Soap Operas So Dramatic
Soap operas got their name because the early daytime radio dramas were often sponsored by soap and household-product companies. The…
Sorry, Charlie!
The StarKist “Sorry, Charlie” campaign started in 1961 and gave us one of the great advertising mascots: Charlie the Tuna….
ABC Promotes Combat!
An hour after posting the intro, I thought it would be fitting to share this old ABC commercial for Combat!….
Remembering Combat! On Memorial Day
Since this is Memorial Day, I thought the intro to Combat! was worth sharing. This was another one of those…
You Get A Quick Tan With QT !
1963 was a little early for me to go out and get a quick tan. I just did it the…
The Rat Patrol
The Rat Patrol was another one of those shows Dad loved to watch, and to a kid, it sure looked…