Actress Polly Holliday died from pneumonia September 9th in Manhattan, New York City. She was 88. Holliday was best known for her role as Florence Jean “Flo” Castleberry in the 1976-85 TV series Alice. The sitcom was based on Martin Scorsese’s…
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The weather’s turning cooler, the leaves are changing color, and the kids are all back in school. Another fall is just about here. And in the increasingly irrelevant world of broadcast network television, that means it’s time to introduce…
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If Farrah Fawcett-Majors was the queen of 1970s pin-up models, running a close second was another statuesque blonde in a red swimsuit, Loni Anderson. The TV/film actress, who rose to fame on the 1978-82 CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati…
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Earlier this week actor Michael Cole, best known for playing rich kid-turned-undercover cop Pete Cochran on The Mod Squad, passed away at the age of 84. Since the 2021 death of co-star Clarence Williams III, Cole had been the last…
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As anyone who’s ever watched Baggy Pants and the Nitwits can tell you, the 1970s were a strange time in the half-century history of kids’ Saturday morning television. The late ’60s superhero craze, brought on by the popularity of ABC’s…
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The 1970s were a golden age for cop shows. From Kojak to CHiPs, Columbo to Barney Miller and beyond, the airwaves were packed with shows about law enforcement officers and detectives. For this week’s poll, we want you to get…
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When I was a kid/young man in the late 70’s I was into the concepts of anything that bordered on the bizarre. I read with avid interest anything I could get my hands on on UFOs, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness…
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“In the year 1987, at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA launched the last of America’s deep space probes. The payload, perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel – Ranger 3. Aboard…
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Although overshadowed by its remake series in terms of pop culture appreciation, the original Battlestar Galactica contains plenty of sci-fi thrills of its own. Led by Lorne Greene as the heroic Captain Adama, the 1978-79 series was, during its original…
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Okay, so maybe we are being hyperbolic due to all the love that’s in the air today, but you have to admit that the credits to The Love Boat are pretty great. From 1977 to 1987, this hit ABC comedy…
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