TV SITCOMS – PT13

TV SITCOMS – PT13

October 14, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  THE FLINTSTONES (1960-66)      166 EPISODES                                 It might surprise fans to learn that the famous tune ‘Meet the Flintstones’ did not appear until the third season of the series when it went into syndication, when it became necessary to remove all mention of the first season’s sponsor Winston cigarettes. Mel […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT135

July 25, 2019 Alan Royle 0

    Audrey Meadows – glamour shot I have been watching television since the mid-1950s, several hundred series, many of them sitcoms, yet I still rank The Honeymooners (1955-56) very near the top of the heap. Like most viewers, I appreciate witty, sharp scripts above anything else, yet the more […]

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TV – The old classics – The Honeymooners 1955-6.

May 12, 2016 admin 0

  Television first reared its ugly head in my hometown of Fremantle, Western Australia on 16 October 1959. By then the quite brilliant comedy series The Honeymooners had come and gone in the USA. TV viewers in WA were probably unaware of that, however, and the show was an immediate […]

TV – More trivia from the early days.

December 8, 2015 admin 4

  In 1945 there were 7,000 TV sets in the USA. By 1950 there were 5 million! The first three shows to run weekly were I Love Lucy, Life with Riley and The Adventures of Superman. Most movie actors did not want to have anything to do with TV, convinced […]