The old days of radio had announcers who got worked into the actual programme. Harlow Wilcox, Ken Carpenter, Don Wilson, Harry Von Zell are among them. And there were others who were very solid but worked more along the traditional lines of handling the opening and closing and commercials.
Mike Wallace lulls us into a false sense of security and then—WHAM!!! He hits us with what he really wants to get across?
Times were changing in the late 1950s when it came to background music on television.
You know Friz and Chuck and Tex and Tash and Bob (times two) and even Art. But what about Earl?
“Who’s on First?”
During the ‘50s and ‘60s, Jack Benny repeatedly told newspaper reporters if he had to do it all over again, he would be a concert violinist and not a comedian.
There’s a site which has posted the Monday-through-Saturday newspaper comic strips of The Flintstones. I wasn’t going to post my copies because of that, but since they’re taking up space in my computer, I’ll put them up for December 1961 and leave it at that.
Two buzzards are arguing over which one has caught a rabbit to eat when the rabbit gets between them and mimics their argument.
How could a TV show with Whit Bissell, John Zaremba and a set made of concentric metal ovals fail?
“When he hits a low...he is impossible to talk to.” One wouldn’t think that is a description of Jack Benny, but that’s how his business manager Myrt Blum described him.
It’s a television pairing that sounds improbable—singer and game show host Merv Griffin, and an actor who played condescending English butlers, Arthur Treacher.
I have mixed feelings about Bob McKimson, at least when it comes to the cartoons he directed.
“You’re one of the good ones,” Yogi Bear editorialised on occasion. We have the story of a “good one” who has recently helped this blog immensely. And an assist goes to an old friend who passed away some years ago.
July 31st may not have been the birthday of George Jetson, but it was the day after the death of the first woman to play George’s wife.
