by David Krell | Dec 23, 2014 | David Krell
Archie comics inspired two live-action music-comedy television specials in the 1970s. ABC haired a one-hour special simply titled Archie on December 19, 1976. Variety reviewed the special for its December 22, 1976 issue, offering encouraging comments....
by David Krell | Nov 28, 2013 | David Krell
A year after Underdog debuted on NBC in 1964, the titular super-canine made his first of many appearances in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A shrewd bit of marketing boosted the publicity surrounding Underdog’s inaugural parade float. NBC aired the...
by David Krell | Jul 17, 2013 | David Krell
If music be the food of 1960s television sitcoms, play on. In the 1960s, the Beatles captained a British invasion across the Atlantic Ocean. John, Paul, George, and Ringo inspired sitcom versions of themselves after their first American television appearance on The...
by David Krell | Jul 14, 2013 | David Krell
James Bond has gadgets that would make Thomas Edison green with envy for not inventing them. Q, of course, monitors Bond’s gadgets from conception to execution. The exchanges between Q and Bond reveal how and why the gadgets can be used. Later in the film,...
by David Krell | Apr 25, 2013 | David Krell
Ginger or Mary Ann? It’s a question that’s puzzled baby boomers and Generation Xers that watched Gilligan’s Island, a show that lasted three years on CBS (1964-67) and enjoyed a thriving life in reruns in the 1970s and 1980s. Ginger Grant was a...
