TV SITCOMS – PT10

TV SITCOMS – PT10

August 21, 2023 Alan Royle 2

  LEAVE IT TO BEAVER (1957-63)             236 EPISODES                     For those of us who were around in the mid-fifties, Leave it to Beaver was the epitome of good, wholesome family entertainment. It seemed to have everything: a cute little kid named Theodore Cleaver (known as ‘the Beaver’ and portrayed by Jerry […]

IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY…

August 9, 2019 Alan Royle 10

    Station promo for opening night October 16, 1959 Television came to my home town of Perth, Western Australia at 5.30 pm, Friday, October 16, 1959. I was 12 years old and living with my grand-parents in East Fremantle, about 13 miles south of Perth, at the time. My […]

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February 18, 2017 Alan Royle 2

          It did not take Hollywood long to start altering World War Two history. Shooting began on Wake Island (1942) even before the battle for the island had ended. In all there were 449 military personnel on this tiny speck in the Pacific (plus 1221 civilian workers). By […]

Actors marrying other actors – PT 5.

August 2, 2016 Alan Royle 2

  BAXTER, Meredith                         BIRNEY, David                                 1974 to 1990 (div.)                                                                 BLODGETT, Michael                      1995 to 2000 (div.)   […]