77 SUNSET STRIP

77 SUNSET STRIP

October 2, 2023 Alan Royle 0

77 SUNSET STRIP (1958-64)            The first ‘private investigator’ series to air on TV was probably Richard Diamond – Private Detective in 1957. It lasted until 1960. Another crime-fighting show, M Squad, appeared at the same time, but it was about a squad of detectives operating […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204

October 13, 2022 Alan Royle 6

  (L to R) Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Edd Byrnes & Roger Smith – stars of 77 Sunset Strip The very first private detective TV series was the Warner Brothers production of 77 Sunset Strip (1958-64), and ran for over 200 one-hour episodes. Such was its popularity, it spawned another four […]

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ITALIAN/AMERICAN SINGER/ACTRESSES

August 26, 2018 Alan Royle 0

Bernadette Peters                                                                Bernadette and her then boyfriend Steve Martin Singer/actress Bernadette Peters is nicknamed ‘The Queen of Broadway’ and […]

A few Hollywood substance abusers. PT 1.

November 2, 2016 Alan Royle 18

  John Barrymore John Barrymore became famous for playing sympathetic drunks on film, no great stretch for him given he was a fully-fledged, dedicated alcoholic off-camera all his life. As a Shakespearian stage actor he was brilliant in his youth, able to memorize and deliver extraordinarily long speeches effortlessly and […]

PT 109 (1963) – JFK biopic and not a girl in sight.

April 30, 2016 admin 4

  Most baby-boomers (like me) are familiar with the story of the PT-109, so this precis is for those late-comers who are, perhaps, a little less intimate with the war record of John F Kennedy, the man who would later become the 35th President of the United States, albeit all […]