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Nickelodeon’s Super Toy Run
Like a lot of kids who grew up before the creation of the internet, I spent a lot of my free time daydreaming. One of my recurring daydreams involved myself, a shopping cart, and 5 CONTINUE READING…
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The History Behind The History Channel
A Channel is born In 1992 A&E Networks produced a historical series called The Real West, hosted by country music icon Kenny Rogers. The Real West aired from 1992 to 1995 and was A&E’s highest CONTINUE READING…
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Staying Up All Night with Rhonda Shear
Rhonda Shear was an iconic staple of late-night television in the ’90s. She was beautiful, funny, and oozed sex appeal. We pay tribute to her greatness and define why she was so magical. CONTINUE READING…
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MeTV Announces Back to School Marathon
Grab your pencils and pack your lunch for this full-day event reliving all the fun of going back to school, from first class to graduation. And don’t forget your homework! Make the end of summer CONTINUE READING…
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Remembering 3-2-1 Contact
Forty years later and still arguably the best theme song in the history of PBS. From a strange era in between glam rock and disco. In between men wearing short shorts and women wearing short CONTINUE READING…
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TV Tales: Man From Atlantis
When the Star Wars wave hit in the late 1970s, science fiction rode that crest back to the major media in a major way. Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century took most of the TV sci-fi glory, but CONTINUE READING…
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TV Tales: Wonder Woman
Based on Charles Moulton’s 1940’s comic superhero, Wonder Woman first hit the live-action airwaves in a 1974 made-for-TV movie, starring Cathy Lee Crosby as the great one and Ricardo Montalban as her enemy. Another TV CONTINUE READING…
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TV Tales: WKRP in Cincinnati
If you weren’t an avid viewer of WKRP in Cincinnati during its original four-year run, you should have caught it in reruns. And if you didn’t do that, after you’re done giving yourself a swift swat on CONTINUE READING…
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The Original Marvel Cinematic Universe
For kids growing up over the last 20 years, Marvel superheroes have always been big screen icons, beloved by children and adults alike for their extravagant silver screen adventures. But those of us who grew CONTINUE READING…
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30 Years of the Sci-Fi Channel
In September 1992 I was living in Denver with some friends of my family, Joan and Larry. They were an older couple who offered me their basement apartment. (By older I mean they were in CONTINUE READING…
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Exploring the Comeback of Vintage TV Shows and Video Games Among College Students
There is no denying that we are living in a time where new experiences happen on a daily basis at an unbelievable pace. And college students, like no other group, have turned to retro TV CONTINUE READING…
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History of Nickelodeon Part 1: Pinwheel 1983
Before Nickelodeon became the Nickelodeon 80’s kids know and love, it was called C3 or “The Pinwheel Channel”. It was part of an experiment from Warner Amex called Qube and was first tested in Columbus, CONTINUE READING…
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TV Tales: American Gladiators
TV was never really fair to jocks. If you were a nerd, there were many game shows you could try out for, but if you were a musclehead, your game show pickings were slim. But CONTINUE READING…
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TV Tales: Voyagers!
Most folks, if they got their hands on a time-travel device, would probably end up using it to bet on sporting events, sign the Beatles, take vengeance on childhood bullies, kill Hitler, or maybe stop Abraham CONTINUE READING…
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Looking Back at My So-Called Life
Every person alive since TV became mainstream has a show that they would hand to aliens to show them what it was like to be a teenager. For me, that show is My So-Called Life. Let’s look at it with 25 years of hindsight. CONTINUE READING…
