Just For Fun…Bob Newhart Roasts Don Rickles
It’s hard to believe that Don Rickles had any friends, but in real life, he and Newhart were indeed dear friends and, with their wives took many trips abroad. This is funny! Enjoy and share.
WNBT (NBC), December 1941 – Part B Just 2 weeks before this, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and we were at war with Germany, Italy and Japan. Even this meager schedule of programming would basically go to nothing in the next few years as production of home receivers was replaced by radar and radio equipment manufacturing. […]
SNL Rarities…Jim Henson’s Notes From The Debut Show It’s a little surprising and most don’t know that The Muppets were a part of SNL that first year, but they were and I guess the exposure paid off as they left the next year to start their own show. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee Source
Speaking Of Bob Hope…NBC Burbank Studio 1, Behind The Scenes Short but sweet. Here is a 2 minute video clip from what I think is the beginning of an episode of ‘Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater’ from 1963. We’ll see great shots of Studio 1 (Carson’s home base) and oddly, a TK60 with a […]
December 30, 1963…’Let’s Make A Deal’ Debuts On NBC Here is the pilot, complete with a TK41 in the foreground of the intro shot at NBC Burbank May 25, 1963. The original edition of the show was a daytime series that ran on NBC, but moved to ABC in 1968 where it ran until 1976. […]