‘All In The Family’ Weekly Run Down…
Here’s a great television artifact from of of it’s biggest shows. As you can see, the show taped on Tuesday nights, which I think stayed constant at both Television City and Metromedia. Enjoy and share!
As early as 1919, Ethyl Waters had been appearing in roles on Broadway and in 1926 recorded “Dinah” which was the first international hit by a black singer. In 1933, she became the first person to ever sing and record “Stormy Weather” as the star of the Broadway show by the same name. By the […]
Now THIS Will Take You Back! From the early 1950’s, here’s a generic weather package for sale to local stations. Compared to what we have today, the weather reports on the local news stations were not much more than ‘chalk talks’. Some used actual chalk boards, some had fancy plastic covered maps they drew on, […]
The female in these Match Game clips is our friend Christina Skaggs. She lives in Hawaii now and is a fantastic artist, working in several mediums. Here are 4 videos that show the Norelco PC 70s at Television City at work on The Match Game. Gene liked to mess with them as you’ll see here. […]
The History Of Live Pool Splashdown Coverage…Part 1B Tampa’s CBS affiliate WTVT had a mobile unit that was so good, even NBC used it on their ‘Today’ show trips to Florida, but the unit’s usefulness did not stop at the water’s edge. Prior to being aboard for November 1965’s, first live splash down coverage via […]