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The Osmonds cartoon
Before Donny & Marie became a TV variety-show staple, the Osmonds had their own Saturday morning cartoon. The Osmonds aired…
Ball Buster: Yes, This Was a Real Game
Some toy commercials age gracefully. Others come back years later and make you wonder how nobody in the room stopped…
Dairy Queen and the Cartoon Rock-and-Roll Sell
This old Dairy Queen ad has that familiar feel of a commercial trying to grab kids fast. Instead of just…
ABC’s 40th Anniversary
ABC 40th Anniversary. How many faces or shows from the past do you recognize? 33 years later, do you think…
The Lone Ranger: “Hi-Yo, Silver!” and the TV Western That Started Early
Before TV westerns took over the 1950s, The Lone Ranger was already riding across the small screen. The series premiered…
Sugar Jets: Space-Age Cereal In A Bowl
Sugar Jets was a General Mills cereal from the 1950s and 1960s, right when everything “space age” seemed exciting to…
It’s Thursday night in 1966/67. What’s on ABC?
It’s Thursday night in 1966/67. What’s on ABC? Bewitch at 8:30, Love on a Rooftop at 9:00 and That Girl…
Best Cracker Jack Commercial
This Cracker Jack commercial brings back so many memories for me personally. I was about the same age as the…
The Rookies: A Grown-Up Look At The Working World
As The Rookies came on the air, I was entering my teen years, and this mature adult show fit right…
The Untouchables: Before There Was Airplane!
Before Robert Stack showed up in Airplane! as Rex Kramer, he was dead serious as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables….