by David Krell | Apr 22, 2013 | David Krell
Who would you rather have as your other half in romance, marriage, and domesticity? A witch or a genie? Elizabeth Montgomery played Samantha Stephens, a sorceress of sorts in Bewitched. It aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972. A housewife, Samantha had powers exceeding...
by David Krell | Apr 9, 2013 | David Krell
42: The Jackie Robinson Story opens in theatres on Friday, April 12th. The date is appropriate — nearly 66 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his official debut in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947. He played, of course, for the Brooklyn...
by David Krell | Mar 27, 2013 | David Krell
On September 17, 1972, CBS introduced television viewers to M*A*S*H, a half-hour comedy filmed with a laugh track and set in an Army hospital situated approximately three miles from the front lines of the Korean War. The M*A*S*H acronym stands for Mobile Army...
by David Krell | Mar 15, 2013 | David Krell
Kid Power aired on ABC during the 1972-73 television season — it was another product of the Rankin-Bass animation machine that relied heavily on transforming the creations of others. Based on Morrie Turner’s Wee Kids comic strip, Kid Power centered on a...
by David Krell | Mar 11, 2013 | David Krell
Baby boomers and Generation Xers most likely recall Rankin-Bass as the studio responsible for the stop-motion animation television specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. Rankin-Bass also produced two specials that were quite...
