RCA TK60s In Action…WRVA, Richmond Virginia 1965
This kids show with WRVA cameraman “Sailor Bob” Griggs as host, was built around Popeye cartoons and ran locally from 1959 till 1969. Thanks to Bob’s son, Tom Griggs for sharing this. I think this was shot on film by one of the stations news cameramen.
In Case You Missed It…Funniest SNL Christmas Bit In Years! Kenan “What’s Up With That” Thomson is at it again. This was part of a very good show this past Saturday. I haven’t laughed this hard at an SNL holiday skit since ‘Schwetty Balls’. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnP2jO06gc If you’ve been crossed off […]
December 6, 1923…First Presidential Speech On Radio The White House was brought fully into the modern age of communication when Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) made the first presidential radio broadcast from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on this day in 1923. The next year, he made history again in by appearing in the first sound film of an […]
David Letterman…First Monologue, First Show February 1, 1982, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry “Bud” Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers – the peacock girls. After a brief monologue, the very first […]
Mike Douglas Show, TK10 This shot is from 1963, a couple of years into the show. It was live every weekday for an hour until around October of ’65. That’s when Zsa Zsa Gabor called Morey Amsterdam a “son of a bitch” for interrupting her joke. After that, the program aired on a one-day tape […]