NBC Saturday Morning 1972

NBC started this year off with a block of reruns (Underdog, Jetsons and the Pink Panther) and was then dominated by cartoon version rip-offs of popular prime-time shows - The Houndcats (Mission Impossible), Roman Holidays (Flintstones/Jetsons) and Barkleys (All in the Family).


Promos for NBC's 1972 Saturday Morning Block


The Houndcats - Pilfered Plans




Roman Holidays - Intro and Ending Credits


The Barkleys - Matchbreaker



Sealab 2020 - The Singing Whale




Runaround

Defunct Technology Ad of the Week

Imagine financing a typewriter!

The Seattle World's Fair

Believe it or not, they STILL have World's Fairs (according to Wikipedia they are planned out to the next ten years or so) although they don't seem to publicize them very well. The World's Fairs of old were a great place to marvel at the possibilities of the future and Walt Disney sure seemed to love them for this reason although most of the predictions never really seemed to come true. Today's link is an excellent overview page from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as they celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair in 2002.

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Live Action Simpsons Spoof (Spanish)

Vintage Magazine Cover Art

I was browsing around this morn while waiting for my wife to get ready and found an ad for magazineart.org on my own blog page. If you are at all interested in vintage illustration you have to check this site out. Loads and loads of good cover scans from vintage magazines of all genres.

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100 Years Ago In Comics

Do most people even know that the comics pages in today's newspapers have been there for over ONE HUNDRED YEARS???

Click on the images to view them in their full resolution.

Star Wars MOOG Soundtrack

36 15 Moog has posted this classic MOOG adaptation of the original Star Wars soundtrack. Created back when Star Wars was all the rage and Moog was a quicly fading fad, I remember snapping this up at our local Rink's (bargain store chain in Ohio in the 1970's) because it was about half of the price of the 'real' soundtrack and I didn't know any better.

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(Rename the file you download 'The' to 'The.zip')


Oops! Yesterday was Monday and I forgot to post this. I will use the vacation excuse I guess.. still in Seattle and having a great time. Saw SWERVEDRIVER and FILM SCHOOL last night, great show.

The Old Postcard Museum

The Old Postcard Museum is a website located in France and is in French but you don't have to really be able to read French to browse and there are lots of really interesting vintage postcards here in ALL categories including fantasy and nudes. Find the link on the home page marked GALERIE and click away.


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Donny and Marie in REAL GONE HAWAIIAN GOON

Taken from the National Lampoon comics satired of D&M's movie GOIN' HAWAIIN. Click on the image to view it in it's entirety.

Saturday Morning Commercials Part II

I am going on vacation for two weeks (commencing with a 12+ hour drive to Seattle today) so I may or may not be updating the blog every day during this time. Today's SMC post is short but I will pick up where I left off when I return (NBC 1972 I think).


Vintage Burger King Animated Commercial - Early 1970's


Ronald McDonald in his first commercial


Burger Chef - Wolf Burger (1976)


Hostess Fruit Pie Magician - 1970's


Mr. Bubble - 1970's

Even more CREEPY magazines!

Issues 105-110 are now posted at the MANCHESTER MORGUE.

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Oh My God! It's MUSIC VEST!!!

I certainly don't remember this yet I should...

Mexican Sci-Fi Pulp Paperback Covers

Wow! I have never seen any of these but I would sure love to add a couple of them to my vintage science fiction paperback collection someday! (a Flickr set)

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Crypt of Shadows

The Manchester Morgue has come through again, this time with a complete run of the CRYPT OF SHADOWS from 1973-1975. Click the link below to get issues 1-21.

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Complete Sunday Comics Section From May 18, 1958

8 pages of comics in black and white (sorry, I wish I could get color)
(from the Idaho Falls Post Register)

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75 Years Ago in Comics

Click on the image to view it in it's full resolution. These are the best quality scans that I can obtain right now and sometimes they are just barely readable. Sorry.

100 Years Ago Today...

The smartest fashions of well dressed folk...



It only cost you $5 to 'cure' a bunch of non-existent diseases, never mind any actual diagnosis...




100 years ago today it took 100 hours to get to New York from Oakland...

Evolution Gone Mad

From Amazing Stories (February 1940).
(found at Lady That's My Skull blog)

Psychotronic Videos Available at the Internet Archive

Anyone who is a big cult movie fan certainly has this book in their collection but even if you don't the Eye of the Goof has compiled a list of psychotronic (i.e. cult) movies available at the internet archive.

For starters I would recommend White Zombie, a real classic and this one didn't make the list for it's camp values.

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NBC Saturday Morning 1971

This year was somewhat dominated by live action shows and cartoon retreads and, needless to say, was a rather horrible year in NBC history - although they did call it The NEW Pink Panther Show. I guess it was technically NEW as they did add some new cartoons to the Pink Panther rotation including The Ant and the Aardvark, Inspector Clouseau, Mr. Jaws and Catfish the Hunter.

I could not find any streaming clips for the live-action BARRIER REEF and TAKE A GIANT STEP but from what I hear that is not the greatest loss to society given the shows' dismal ratings. If you know of any links to video clips please post them in the comments. Otherwise you can click here for a downloadable RM video of the opening to BARRIER REEF.

1971 NBC 'bumper'


Dr. Doolittle - The Grasshoppers Are Coming Hooray!




Deputy Dawg - Space Invitation


The New Pink Panther Show - The Ant and the Aardvark


The Bugaloos - Older Woman


Mr. Wizard - 1950's Version


And they re-re-re-ran episodes of the Jetsons and Woody Woodpecker....

25 Years Ago Today in Newspaper Comics

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50 Years Ago Today In Newspaper Comics

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75 Years Ago Today in Newspaper Comics

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100 Years Ago Today In Newspaper Comics

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Diorderlies/Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn Original Soundtrack

Today's Music Monday bonus post was brought to you by THE MANCHESTER MORGUE. I actually have some fond memories associated with this movie. I saw it in 3-D and I was on a date with some unremembered girl and this time we, or at least I, actually watched the movie.

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Next up is the soundtrack to the Fat Boys movie, DISORDERLIES. I was never really a fan back in the day but one of my brothers was a huge fan of these guys. The movie was pretty ridiculous and rather lame but is a fun watch these days because it is so dated.

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More CREEPY magazines!

Head on over to THE MANCHESTER MORGUE to pick up some more issues of CREEPY magazine!

This time it's issues 99-104.

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Treasury Comics . com

I just found the most amazing website that is loaded with vintage comic artwork, articles and interviews. The gallery has to be seen to believed - hundreds of cover scans that, when clicked, lead to informative little snippets about the book as well as advertising artwork. Really really nice!

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Vintage Mountain Dew Commercials

I have been watching this cool show on the History Channel called AMERICAN EATS. I really enjoy it because it is loaded with vintage commercials and info-mercials and I almost always go to youtube after watching an episode to see the entire commercial and find others.

The second clip that I have posted is pretty long but it was the best COLOR version that I could find. Everything after the first minute and a half is relatively new and is probably not worth watching (in my opinion). The last clip is from some foreign country (I don't recognize the language at all) and is pretty recent but interesting nonetheless.

Scary Sounds, The Jetsons & Pirates of the Caribbean

Scary Spooky Stories Link (from the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing blog)

Night of Terror Link (from the Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing blog)

The Jetsons Link (from Children's Records and More blog)

Pirates of the Caribbean Link (from the Children's Records and More blog)

75 Years Ago Today in the Comics Page

Click on the images to zoom in. The Tribune page has a nice Buck Rogers strip (very wordy though!) and I included a Mickey Mouse and Gasoline Alley strip from a different paper.

Shazam Coloring Book

Plaidstallions posts an old coloring book every week and this week he posted a SHAZAM! coloring book. This one has pretty good artwork if you consider that fact that it is a coloring book and that most coloring book art is pretty minimalist. As a kid I probably would have hated it because it looks like it is too hard to color!

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NBC Saturday Morning 1970

A pretty lame year for NBC with lots of reruns that I won't be covering here and little action. The campaign against cartoon violence was in full force this year and it led to a pretty dismal Saturday morning lineup. Highlights of the year were the live action Sid and Marty Kroft shows - The Bugaloos and H.R. PufnStuf - and Hot Dog starring Woody Allen, Joanne Woodward and Jonathan Winters.

Heckle and Jeckle - Foreign Legion Birds


Tomfoolery - Half of an Episode


Bugaloos - Intro


The Further Adventures of Dr. Doolittle




The Pink Panther - Intro and Outro


H.R. Pufnstuf - Titles and Clips


Here Comes the Grump - Opening


Hot Dog (with Woody Allen) - Pilot Intro


Hot Dog - How to Make a Baseball Glove

I Guess Some Words Mean Different Things These Days

Handbell Hero

I should save this one for Christmas but I know that I will forget so here it is - the next iteration of Guitar Hero - better than GH4 and more fun than Rock Band - HANDBELL HERO. Use your home keys and your left hand to pilot your way through such awesome classics as JINGLE BELLS and WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS - exclusives, as far as I know, to this game.

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Realistic Looking Do-It-Yourself Ghost

This picture was making the rounds on the internet a while back but I never saw a how-to until today. So here it is, take a bunch of chicken wire and sculpt your own ghost.

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The Blue Ball Machine

It doesn't really do anything and the music is kind of lame but it if you like Rube Goldberg type inventions you will appreciate this.


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Soundtrack-O-Rama on Music Monday

Here is a good starter for the week - the original soundtrack to the classic BATMAN tv show (thanks to the Crime Lounge for posting this one). While you are visiting this blog don't forget to search for the other two Batman soundtracks that they posted last week.

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Next we have two Rudy Ray Moore comedy albums from the 1970's. Raunchy 1970's comedy, I remember listening to these at my friend's houses - their dad had the albums (and some girlie magazine collections) not them!

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Children's Records and More has posted a couple of cool Disney LP's - Disney Hall of Presidents and Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln. I always thought that the attraction was kind of creepy...

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Our last stop is at the Inferno Music Crypt for the original Dick Tracy Movie score (by Danny Elfman).

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Friday Nights in 1974

Times They Are a Changing... Or Not

I found this old political cartoon from the February 13, 1974 edition of an old newspaper. Seems meaningful even today, 30+ years after it was published!