As a kid, I grew up hearing the following song-spoof: Rudolph the Bow-Legged Cowboy Had a very shiny gun And if you ever saw it You would turn around and run All of the other cowboys Used to laugh and call him names They wouldn't let poor Rudolph Join in any Cowboy games Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say Rudolph with your gun so bright Won't you shoot my wife tonight? And this was considered...
With the exception of the occasional football match or Formula 1 race I have stopped watching live television, instead I 'catch-up' with the iPlayer, 4OD, and occasionally the ITV Player and Demand Five. Online availability has now become the most important factor in my watching of a television programmme; if a programme is not available online it doesn't exist to me. Increasingly, however, I'm not...
By David Lambert - Van Dyke and Company, the NBC network's 1976 variety show starring Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins), is being planned for DVD according to one of our most reliable... (more)
Filed under: Programming , Web , Reality-Free I know, I know, you're thinking, those are the only two choices I get, Happy Days and Gilligan's Island ? Yes, according to this poll over at AOL Television. For the past several weeks they've pit various TV show theme songs against each other in a tournament, and the two finalists, for some reason, are Happy Days theme and the Gilligan's Island theme....
(S03E05) - "Once upon a time's gotta count for something." - Zloz to Hank Ah, the old friend from back home trick. It's been done so many times before in television. Remember when Rob's old Army buddy came to town in that one episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show or that one time when Don Rickles met up with his old pal Maxwell Smart on Get Smart ? Those were some good times. Imagine those episodes...
His face is much more familiar than his name, but to some extent that is to be expected for a character actor with as lengthy a career as Lou Jacobi, who has died at 95. He made his Broadway debut in 1955 in The Diary of Anne Frank as Mr. Van Daan, a role he repeated in the 1959 film version. His other Broadway work included Woody Allen's play Don't Drink the Water . He worked with Allen again on...
It was a tip from his older brother that helped steer the writer-director-actor toward a show business career. At 87, he has two new books out. If it wasn't for Carl Reiner's older brother Charlie, "Your Show of Shows" would have been missing one of its funniest regulars, there would be no "2,000 Year-Old Man" routines with Mel Brooks, and no classic sitcom series "The Dick...
Lately, Don Draper has not been coming off as a very nice guy on Mad Men . In fact, he's been a complete jerk. However, if there's one thing positive about the tall, dark and handsome ad man, he's a great dresser. Jon Hamm looks amazing in Don Draper's suits . Well, now so can you. Brooks Brothers is selling the Mad Men Edition suit for a mere $998. (Hey, that's not a grand, unless you count tax)....
Jake Tapper tweets on the bloggers-in-pj's controversy:isnt the real issue that bloggers arent wearing pajamas but are in their underwear? Pajamas'? i mean, what is this, the Dick van Dyke Show?Hmm. This is a family blog, Jake. We keep it wholesome but stylish:Twitter-tip: PunditMost recent posts here.
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/the_masturbating_to_mary_tyler_moore_society/ The Masturbating to Mary Tyler Moore Society 10.10.2009 Richard Metzger Topics: Kooks There are many times a day we modern folk here at Dangerous Minds, have the occasion to click on a link sent from a total stranger only to have our minds completely stop working for a moment. This was one of those times…...
It's bigger than the NFL. It's drawing more than celebrity dancing. It's the little show that could. In its seventh season on the air, NCIS is the number one show according to the Nielsen ratings . Over 21 million viewers for the week of September 28 put the drama series on the top of the heap, and there's no sign that it was a fluke. This is the second week in a row NCIS was the top show . The question...
In one of the four episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show I stayed up way too late watching the other night, Rob decides he wants to be a writer. Laura points out that he’s already a writer. Rob rejects the idea. Writing for television doesn’t count. “I’m not a writer that you read. I’m a writer that other people say what I wrote.” A writer, a real writer, as far as...
Filed under: TV Squad Polls , Dexter , Reality-Free Every now and again (mostly now), something small and insignificant will waft in front of my snark radar and won't go away until I point it out to someone. Right now, something with the new season of Showtime's Dexter has found its way through my skull and is gnawing on parts of my brain, and the only way to kill it is to expose it for the brain...
Yom Kippur ended at sunset today. It is the day of atonement for Jews, and it is the holiest day of the Jewish calender. This afternoon I was watching Chicago's "ME TV," Channel 23; it's schedule is dominated by TV reruns from the 1960s and '70s. Station programmers will occasionally put some episodes aside for specific holidays, Halloween, Christmas especially. I mean, wouldn't you rather...
I thought it would be a fun challenge to list my 100 favorite TV shows of all time--"favorite" being the operative word here. This is not a "best" list. If it was, The Sopranos would definitely be on it. I liked The Sopranos , which was a great show, but it's not something I ever care to see again. On the other hand, every show listed below I wouldn't mind watching a second or...
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