Television from the 1950s: Retro TV shows, Saturday morning cartoons, TV serial reviews.
Audie Murphy’s life & career are explored from war hero to successful Hollywood actor starring in the action classic To Hell and Back, based on his own WWII experiences. Did you know that James Cagney gave him his first show business break?
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Guest blogger Melanie Simone writes in with this look back at Betty White‘s 1958 TV series, Date with the Angels: Plot summary: Vicki and Gus Angel’s first year of marriage. She’s a housewife. He’s an insurance salesman. They both live…
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Guest contributor Victoria Balloon writes: As a writer, it’s always fun to discover something new. In this case, what’s new is actually old but that makes it even more fun. A new series has been released on DVD called Lost…
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Guest blogger JSD writes: Whenever I think of movie serial villains, an image burned into my brain during my youthful years watching 1950s television pops into my consciousness. It is the image of Ming, the Merciless, the cruel yet cool…
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Here at the Scene Stealers corner of Movie FanFare, we try to pay tribute to that large group of often-unsung supporting actors and actresses who rarely received star status or got their name above the title, but still achieved popularity and garnered fans through their performances….
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Guest blogger Rick 29 presents this look at the saga of The Bold Ones, the NBC Mystery Movies, and Others: In 1955, U.S television launched one of its most interesting experiments: the umbrella series, in which different TV shows were…
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Guest blogger Victoria Balloon writes: Already popular in comics and radio, Superman had previously starred in two serials: Superman (1948) and Atom-Man vs. Superman (1950) If our hero could leap tall buildings in a single bound, surely he could make…
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Guest blogger Dave Blakeslee writes: Well, you know, if people think you’re gonna die, they’re gonna be nice to you and… Now that we’re into September, the Major League Baseball season enters that phase of the year where it has…
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Do you know what the following names had in common? Eddie Albert, Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, Ernest Borgnine, Beaulah Bondi, Walter Brennan, Lloyd Bridges, Rory Calhoun, Lee J. Cobb, Wendell Corey, Robert Culp, John Derek, Bobby Driscoll, Jack Elam, John…
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