The Music of Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard
Depending upon one’s age will depend on how you remember the entertainment couple Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. Most will know of them from the TV series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet one of the shows popular in early television. Others will know them as the father to Ricky Nelson, who also appeared on their [...]
What Will You Be Watching on June 12th
This is not a trick question advertising a special TV show, but the simple fact that June 12, 2009 is the date that over the air television will stop broadcasting the analog TV signals, that have been in use since the beginning of television, and start broadcasting completely in digital.
There has been many rumors about [...]
Flat Screen TVs and Our Kids
Reports are showing that as more families are replacing their old tube TVs with flat screens, and with it more children are being injured by having them fall on them.
Flat screen TVs are lighter than tube TVs of the same size. Most of their weight falls in a couple of inch wide area with [...]
M*A*S*H
The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H first aired on CBS on Monday, February 28, 1983. It was a 1 1/2 hour episode and was the 16th one of its 11th Season. It was the 251st episode and the only one that was not originally broadcast as a 30 minute episode.
The show [...]
Super Bowl XLIII
On February 2, 2009 the forty-third modern NFL Championship game or Super Bowl XLIII will be played. The game will be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Tampa has been the host city for four Super Bowls with Raymond James Stadium holding their second. The game will be played between the [...]
My Favorites of 2008
Movie
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
While some may have found it hard seeing Harrison Ford playing an older Indiana Jones, I actually thought it was refreshing, not to mention you got to see more of the Indiana Jones Adventures.
Network Television Series
Heroes
The end of Season 1 was a letdown and Season 2 wasn’t [...]
There She Is, Miss America
The man who is probably best known for singing There She Is, Miss America was born on December 30, 1914. Bertram Jacobson, or as he’s better know Bert Parks, was born on that day in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was the host of the annual telecast of the Miss America contest from Atlantic City from 1955, [...]
Everyone’s Mom – Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley, who is best remembered as the Mom to Wally and ‘Beaver’ Cleaver in the TV series Leave it to Beaver, was born on December 22, 1915. She was born Barbara Lillian Combes in Los Angeles, California and married her first husband Glenn Billingsley in 1941.
She divorced Glenn in 1947 after 6 [...]
Margaret Hamilton
Nearly everyone’s vision of a wicked old witch comes from the Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Wizard of Oz. The role of the witch was played by Margaret Hamilton who was born on December 9th in 1902.
Even though her most famous role has frighten many children since its release in 1939, [...]
45 Years of Doctor Who
The television character Doctor Who first debuted on British Television on November 23, 1963. It was called An Unearthly Child starring William Hartwell as the Doctor.
Doctor Who is a wanderer in space and time, the only surviving members of his race. He is a Time Lord traveling in a dimensionally transcendental time machine [...]
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