by David Krell | Apr 26, 2013 | David Krell
Julie Newmar’s sex appeal as Catwoman on the 1960s television show Batman stemmed not only from a statuesque figure, a skin-tight outfit, and a beautiful visage. Newmar’s self-assuredness was a powerful force, too. In The Twilight Zone episode Of Late I...
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...
by David Krell | Apr 5, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan’s popularity inspired takeoffs, parodies, and parallels. Television, in particular, provided a fertile platform for these offerings. On November 11, 1962, Carol Burnett gest starred on The Jack Benny Program. She plays Jane in the Jack Plays Tarzan...
by David Krell | Apr 4, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan benefited from the superhero craze of the mid-1960s ignited by the 1966 launch of the camp television show Batman. On September 8, 1966, Ron Ely debuted as the title character in Tarzan. Jane did not appear on the show. It lasted two seasons. Twenty-five...
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...
