DVD Review: Family Ties: The Third Season
Though Family Ties debuted in September of 1982, it wasn’t until the series third season that the show really took off. Aided by its position behind The Cosby Show on Thursday nights, Family Ties reached #5 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1984-85 season. Family Ties centers around the Keaton family. Steven (Michael Gross) and […]
DVD Review: Pioneers of Television
In this age of 500 channel, cable, satellite and HD TV, it’s easy to forget that television itself is just over eighty years old. Originally invented by Philo Farnsworth in 1927, television took more than twenty years to become a staple in American homes. In 1945 there were fewer than 7,000 working television sets in […]
Rita Moreno, Turns 76 Today
Born Rosita Dolores Alverio, in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931, actress Rita Moreno was the first performer to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony and a Grammy. Moreno and her mother moved to New York City in 1937. Rita got her first taste of show business at the tender age of eleven, when she […]
‘Mr. Whipple’ Dies
Dick Wilson, the actor who made the catchphrase, ““Please, don’t squeeze the Charmin,” a part of pop culture history, died Monday. He was 91. Wilson played George Whipple in over 500 commercials from 1964 to 1985.
DVD Review: Mork & Mindy – The Third Season
I will readily admit that I was a huge fan of Mork & Mindy almost from the day it premiered on September 14, 1978. It seemed everyone at my elementary school was Mork crazy for awhile; there where Mork lunchboxes, thermos, and t-shirts. I even had a pair of Mork suspenders I wore almost everyday […]
DVD Review: Criminal Minds – The Second Season
CBS is the place to go to fill up on crime drama. In the last seven years or so, Les Moonves and his crew have brought us several flavors of CSI, Without a Trace, and several other crime-related dramas with much success. Criminal Minds, which debuted in 2005, distinguishes itself from the pack with the […]
DVD Review: Frasier – The Complete Ninth Season
Frasier was like the Energizer bunny of television shows. The darn thing wouldn’t go away; it just kept running and running. Entering the show’s ninth season, the Frasier staff was rocked by personal tragedy when David Angell, the series’ executive producer and co-creator was killed on American Airlines flight 11, which struck the World Trade […]