Monday 26 December 2016

Benny on Benny

Benny Rubin was a star, so big a thoroughbred race horse was named for him. But unlike his friend Jack Benny, he didn’t remain one when vaudeville died. Rubin went into movies and had his own series of shorts. Read more here.

Sunday 25 December 2016

Dino and Christmas

Almost all the animated Christmas TV shows in the mid-1960s were specials. There was one exception—“A Christmas Flintstone,” just another episode in the 1964-65 TV season.

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Saturday 10 December 2016

A Date With Jet Screamer, Part 1

There’s a wonderful naïveté about rock and roll of the future in what’s arguably the best-known of all the Jetsons cartoons.

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