The Smurfs - Best of Friends

Another great post by Way Out Junk! The Smurfs were big. I hear they are attempting to launch another Smurfs show soon too! Umm, YAY!

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Mr. Rogers - A Place of Our Own

Way Out Junk has posted this Mr. Rogers album that you have to add to your collection RIGHT NOW! Well, I guess you don't really have to, it is kind of crappy but it is the first album that I ever remember owning (we played it on our plastic Fisher Price turntable almost daily!).

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NBC.COM's Way Back Wednesdays

I am not exactly sure why they call it WAY BACK WEDNESDAYS but I can tell you that THIS is the future. Free streaming video on the internet is going to take over everything else. I have been highlighting other sites on previous blog postings but this one is bigger and a sign that the classic vaults are starting to open up even further.

Watch The A-Team, Alfred Hitchcock, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Night Gallery and more on your pc (or your tv if you have a PC near your tv). Quality is pretty good, at least as good as my Dish Network video and they even have a button you can click to download the whole episode but I didn't test this.

I will be building a home theater PC soon to take advantage of this new wave in streaming internet video and will post my experiences here. I was going to go Linux but it seems that many of these sites use a proprietary format that doesn't work on Linux just yet.

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The History of French Animated Commercials

The Motion Design blog has posted a nice article about the history of French animated commercials that is highly worth a few minutes of your time. I have include one youtube video in my post but I think a person really could enjoy oneself by poking around in this field a bit more. Think of those old Depatie-Freleng cartoons (the Pink Panther) and imagine that done with even more panache.

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The King of Kong is now available on DVD!!!

I just watched this movie last night and it was everything that I hoped it would be (and more!). If you didn't know any better you would think this was some indie comedy full of quirky characters but IT'S REAL!!! Most of the people in the movie come off as lovable, although somewhat misguided, geeks but that Billy Mitchell guy is a real weirdo and this movie leaves you cheering for the underdog, Steve Wiebe. Rent it or buy it now. Even my kids liked it and they usually hate documentaries.

Official movie website

Buy/Download/Rent at AMAZON.COM

NBC Saturday Morning - 1972 - Part 2

Roman Holidays - Opening and Closing


The Barkleys - Finders Weepers (Part 1)


The Barkleys - Finders Weepers (Part 2)


The Barkleys - Finders Weepers (Part 3)


Sealab 2020 - The Singing Whale (Part 1)


Sealab 2020 - The Singing Whale (Part 2)


Sealab 2020 - The Singing Whale (Part 3)


Don't forget to visit the AMAZON store to buy the products featured in this blog.

NBC Saturday Morning - 1972 - Part 1

Promo Reel (a little rough)


Underdog - Tricky Trap by Tap-Tap

Buy UNDERDOG on DVD


The Jetsons - 1960's TV Spot

Buy THE JETSONS on DVD


The Pink Panther - The Pink Fink (first episode)

Buy THE PINK PANTHER on DVD



The Houndcats - Pilfered Plans (part 1)


The Houndcats - Pilfered Plans (part 2)


The Houndcats - Pilfered Plans (part 3)

Buy THE HOUNDCATS on DVD

On a more serious note, THE SANDBOX blog

The sandbox is a blog for soldiers stationed in Iraq (and Afghanistan I think).
I have been reading the blog for well over a year now and it's always interesting to get the 'grunt' perspective of the Iraq conflict. The mood in the blog postings seems to be on a steady decline (as does my tolerance for the war in Iraq) as the conflict seems to me to be degenerating into 'another Vietnam.'

But this isn't a political blog either so I will just stop at this. Check out the blog if you are interested in this sort of thing.

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The Planet Strappers (free ebook)

Manybooks.net has been posting lots of FREE ebooks on a near daily basis in almost every imaginable format. Here is a nice science-fiction novel from 1961.

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RSS Feed Link (recieve new ebook info as they are released)

Spaceballs - Enhanced Soundtrack

The Inferno Music Crypt posts movie soundtracks that are enhanced with dialog and other bits from the movie. What more perfect combination could be imagined for a movie like SPACEBALLS? Not that the soundtrack is bad but the dialog really enhances this one.

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Pete Rose Raps (Songs about Pete Rose)

I have mixed feelings about the man myself - should he be in the hall or not? I was a BIG fan of the man in the late 1970's (as most of us were who grew up in Ohio at the time). But I am an even bigger fan of sports related gimmick 45's from the era. Back then there were tons of regional 45's issued to celebrate favorite athletes or teams with the most famous probably being the Chicago Bears and the Super Bowl Shuffle.

WFMU has posted a couple of songs about Pete Rose so take a trip with me back to the age of disco and the Big Red Machine.

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The Kiddie Rekord King

The Kiddie Rekord King has a nice website with lots of great examples of vintage children's 78's including audio clips from over 40 records. It's not as extensive as the old Kiddier Records Weekly site but still interesting nonetheless.

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Kiddie Records Weekly Link

The Many Incarnations of THE FLINTSTONES

When I was a kid I used to gobble up anything that Hanna-Barbera threw at us when it came to the Flintstones and apparently I was not the exception as this franchise seemed to churn for quite a long time. Starting on prime time in 1960 this show went on in one iteration or another for the next 40+ years (with another Flintstones movie presently in production). I couldn't find clips for quite a few of the series but after the first Flintstones family hour they followed a pretty consistent formula until the Flintstones Kids came along.

Flinstones on DVD at Amazon.com



Barney and Fred hawk Winstone Cigarettes


The Flintstones - Original Opening (1960)


The Flintstones - Original Closing (1960)


The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show - Opening (1971)


The Flintstone Comedy Hour - Opening (1972)


The Flintstone Comedy Show - The Bedrock Rockers (1973)


The Flintstone Kids - Opening (1986)


Cave Kids - Clip (en Espanol) (1996)
(the complete series is available at the AOL video website)

Easter Egg Hacks

In the spirit of Easter this weekend MAKE magazine has a nice blog post with a few really cool links to some easter 'hacks' including a how-to for Ukranian egg painting, laser egg etching, and instructions for electrocuting Peeps!

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Future Fashion 2000 (as predicted in the 1930's)

Here is an interesting, but too short, look at the fashions of 2000 as predicted in the early 1930's. At least one of the dresses looks normal (for 1930's standards) but most of the rest of the fashions are just downright ridiculous.

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7 More EERIE Magazine Scans

Head on over to the Manchester Morgue for 7 more issues of EERIE.

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The Mel Brooks Collection - 8 Movie Set

I try not to post too many deals on this blog but this one is too good to not tell everyone about! The 8 disc MEL BROOKS COLLECTION is on sale right now (and today only I believe) for $41.99 with FREE SHIPPING.

Mel Brooks Collection at Amazon.com

Monster Madhouse Clips

This one looks like a FABULOUS monster host show! Zany, crazy, cheesy jokes, a large ensemble of memorable characters and some pretty high production values make me pretty envious for those of you that get to actually watch this show every week.

Monster Madhouse hosted by Karlos Borloff - Fairfax, Virginia



Online Videos by Veoh.com

If anyone knows where I can get some DVD's or DIVX/XVID of this show please post in the comments. I would also love to hear about your favorite hosts from the past of the present and I will highlight them on a future post. Stay scary!

Science Fiction Fanzine Cover Gallery

WFMU has posted a really cool cover gallery of late 1970's/1980's science fiction fanzine covers. Most of them are pretty cool although I think that some of them are a bit 'creepy' like this Captain Kirk 'art-nude.'

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Kiddie Record Spectacular

A really strange record that just may help to explain some of the weirdness afflicting many of the kids of my era. (From the Boot Sale Sounds blog)

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Next up is SUPERMAN courtesy of Power Records and the Children's Records and More blog. Can Mr. Myxylplk and Lex Luthor finally outsmart Superman? Well, umm, no.

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Now let's take a voyage to Disneyland, 1960's style! This one comes from the excellent Kiddie Records Weekly blog (which seems to have quit posting new records at the close of 2007).

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Horror Host Panel at MONSTERFEST

I just found this cool little clip on youtube. Too bad it's not longer than five minutes but it is kind of cool to see all of these guys (and girls) sitting at one table and talking about their craft.

I have no idea WHEN this was made but it was added to youtube last January so I would guess that it was made in the last couple of years. Posted by Karlos Borloff, a popular host in present day Virginia.

Search Rapidshare

Rapidshare is a pretty nice system for the sharing and delivery of all kinds of content, both legitimate and not-so legitimate but they don't have a search engine for their content. A search on Google turns up some defunct search engines and lots of other wannabe's. I have found a couple that work really well for me though:

RAPID.AM - A good general search engine.
Funfail - Another general search tool that lets you search by category.
Quicksearch.info - Uses a custom google search to find almost everything that is publicly posted to Rapidshare. This one is the most comprehensive but you also tend to have to filter through a lot of junk to get what you want.

Don't forget to get your Rapidshare downloader that I previously highlighted in this blog.

Saturday Morning Cartoons - High Quality Streaming Video Shootout

I typically highlight a year/network's full day programming or special themes but today I wanted to just throw up a smorgasboard of higher than normal quality streaming videos that are presently available on the net. I connected a laptop to my 42 inch LCD tv this week and the quality was as good as Dish network. THIS is the wave of the future and I am going to build a home theater PC with my tax refund to prepare for all of this great, FREE TV.

Even Youtube is starting to get into the act by offering higher quality downloads of selected videos. If you have a high-speed internet connection youtube's servers are supposed to automatically detect that but you can go in to your settings pages and change the default to always send you high quality videos when available. Finding the high quality videos is a different story, I can't seem to find an easy way to do this just yet.

I have highlighted three of the more popular services. In my eyes GUBA is miles ahead of the competition when it comes to quality and you can download most files from them in the DIVX format for home use. I am not sure if the youtube video that I have highlighted is actually the best that they have to offer but I searched for damn near an hour and that was the best that I could find. The embedded clips all seem to be of a greatly reduced quality so you need to go directly to the source to do a proper evaluation.

Let me know in the comments if I missed something (please). I left out a couple of known entities including JOOST because they don't offer an embedding service and it uses it's own program but I highly recommend this one as well. Their content is growing quickly.


Vintage : Rankin & Bass - Festival of Family Classics - 119 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1973


Problem Child - Episode 1 - 1993 (from hulu.com - limited animation selection thus far)


Donald Duck - Crazy over Daisy (youtube)

Dr. Seuss & Ford Commercials

The Saturday Morning blog has a post up today dealing with old Ford commercials starring Dr. Seuss characters. They are in black and white and are pretty simple animations but they are a nice example of this animation style.

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Genuine Ford Parts & Service
by DwightFrye

More CREEPY Magazines

The Manchester Morgue has just posted six more CREEPY magazine scans - #74-79.

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FREE Marvel Comics (online versions)

Marvel Comics has posted a somewhat limited FREE section to entice you to purchase the online subscription. It seems that there is a pretty decent cross section of issues available for FREE but the free titles mainly seem to center on more current comics.

If you are a comic fan it is a pretty good deal at $5 per month (if you buy a year at a time).

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Invasion USA (1952)

Trailers From Hell is highlighting INVASION USA - no not THAT INVASION USA with Chuck Norris but the 1952 red-scare version with Gerald Mohr - one of my favorite 'imagine if the commies took over' movies.

Did I forget to mention that the Joe Dante provides commentary to the trailer?

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Trippy Hippy Kid's Book Images From the 1960's and 70's

Here is a nice photo set from the Flickr Eye Candy group.

The Banana Splits - OST

I have been waiting impatiently to put up today's post! THE BANANA SPLITS original soundtrack!

I found this one earlier last week and really had trouble holding off until today but now here it is. The soundtrack has the excellent theme song (of course) and lots of other songs that were played on the series. I actually find it pretty enjoyable and you should too if you enjoy 60's pop with a bit of psychedelic thrown in.

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Link (to the TWILIGHTZONE! blog)

TWENTY-ONE, The Game Show

Classic Televsion Showbiz has posted the complete TWENTY-ONE episode, Stempel v. Van Doren.

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The making of 'the' HBO early 1980's movie introduction loop

I always loved this one, even more so than many of the movies I watched back then.
(the actual promo is at approximately 8:55)

ABC Saturday Morning 1980

Many of these are available on DVD by clicking here.


Superfriends - PSA - Don't Take Pills From the Medicine Cabinet (1977) DVD


Fonz and the Happy Days Gang - Opening (1980)


Scooby and Scrappy Doo - Beauty Contest Caper (1980) DVD


Richie Rich - Segment Intros (1980) DVD


Heathcliff - Opening (1980) DVD


Dingbat and the Creeps - Episode 2 in Spanish (1980)


Plastic Man - Opening (1979)


Thundarr the Barbarian - Opening (1980)

A Modern Art Tribute to Marvel Comics

Wired Magazine has a nice, but small, collection of re-interpretations of some classic Marvel characters. I really love the one that I have highlighted!

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