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 QuotesLook boss! De plane! De plane! --Tattoo (Fantasy Island) Looooking good! --Chico Rodriguez (Chico & The Man) Kiss my grits! --Flo (Alice) We are two wild and crazy guys! --the Festrunk brothers (SNL)  Listen to it! (.wav)
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly --Arthur Carlson (WKRP In Cincinnati) Listen to it! (.wav)
 Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not --Chevy Chase on "Weekend Update" (SNL) Aayyy! --Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (Happy Days) Jane, you ignorant slut --Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on "Point/Counterpoint" (SNL) Listen to it! (.wav)
Dy-no-mite! --J.J. Evans (Good Times)  Never mind..... --Gilda Radner as Emily Litella (SNL) Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! --Jan Brady (The Brady Bunch) what...? where...? --Vinnie Barbarino (Welcome Back, Kotter) Heeeeeere's Johnny! --Ed McMahon (The Tonight Show) Listen to it! (.wav)
Up your nose with a rubber hose--Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington (Welcome Back, Kotter) Goodnight, John-Boy! --various members of The Waltons | ||
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The Doctor is in! 1970s TV Trivia Challenge (scroll down for the answers) | 1) On The Hollywood Squares, who always sat in the center square? 2) How many actresses have portrayed Charlie's Angels? 3) What real-life musical family was The Partridge Family based on? 4) Before coming to WKRP In Cincinnati, Dr. Johnny Fever was fired from his radio job in California for doing what? 5) Which Brady Bunch son had his hair dyed because it wasn't dark brown like the other Brady men? 6) Which cast member of the short-lived New Laugh-In went on to superstardom later in the decade? 7) Which popular 1970s sitcom started out as a skit on Love, American Style? 8) Mork & Mindy was not the first time Mork was sighted on our planet. On which sitcom did he make his debut? 9) At the M*A*S*H 4077th, the signpost pointed to nine different locations. Can you name them? 10) What did Redd Foxx have in common with his alter-ego, Fred Sanford? 11) What distinguished Jamie Farr (Corporal Klinger) from the other M*A*S*H cast members? 12) On The Love Boat, which guest-star took more trips on the Pacific Princess than anyone else? | ||
| 13) Can you match the actor with the TV role he was originally considered for or turned down? | - | ||
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1. Mickey Rooney 2. John Wayne 3. Alan Hale Jr. 4. Bing Crosby 5. Henry Fonda 6. Robert Blake 7. Gene Hackman | 1. Sam the Butcher (The Brady Bunch) 2. Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) 3. Lt. Columbo (Columbo) 4. Mike Brady (The Brady Bunch) 5. Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke) 6. Archie Bunker (All In The Family) 7. John Walton (The Waltons) | ||
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Classic TV Moments
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Answers To The Trivia Challenge
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"Went With The Wind"
Rat Butler (Harvey Korman): "Starlett, that gown is gorgeous."
Starlett O'Hara (Carol Burnett): "Thank you. I saw it in the window, and I just couldn't resist it."
In Carol Burnett's hilarious 1976 spoof of "Gone With The Wind," Starlett O'Hara makes a dress out of curtains, just like her big-screen counterpart....complete with curtain rod still attached.
an unlikely pair
Bing Crosby and David Bowie sing a duet on Bing's last Christmas special in 1977.
The Story From Bing's Website
Transcript & Lyrics From David's Website
Listen to it! (.wav)
oh my nose!
Marcia Brady (Maureen McCormick): "My brothers were playing football, and my nose got in the way. There goes my date with Doug."
In this 1973 Brady Bunch episode, poor Marcia breaks her date with Charlie to go out with Doug, the "big man on campus." A swollen nose soon changes everything. This episode also gave us that classic line used by date-breakers everywhere: "Something suddenly came up."
(bonus trivia points: what classic 1960s movie did the actor who portrayed Doug Simpson appear in? ...see "Trivia Answers" below)
a moment in history:
Saturday Night Live
April 22, 1978
Many people consider this broadcast
to be the best in SNL's history.
The host was Steve Martin and
the musical guests were The Blues Brothers.
classic skits include:
*Dancing In The Dark
*Trough n' Brew
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"Hey You" Cologne
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Weekend Update
*Next Week In Review
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Theodoric Of York, Medieval Barber
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Those "wild and crazy" Festrunk Brothers
*King Tut
See "King Tut!" (RealPlayer)
Listen to "King Tut!" (RealAudio)
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Cable
TV
History Of TBS Superstation
Warner AMEX Qube
Cable Center
Pinwheel--Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon Nostalgia
When Cable Went Qubist
How Cable TV Works
History Of Public Access TV
Cable TV was invented in 1948. At first, its sole purpose was to pick up the regular TV channels and send them to subscribers in remote areas who otherwise couldn't receive them.
special programming
Exclusive cable-only content came along in 1972, when public access and theme-specific channels were added to the lineup. In this pre-satellite era, cable TV was known as CATV, or Community Antenna Television, because cable operators received programming by antenna and microwave tower.
In the early 1970s, the industry was experiencing a slow time. Large cities were reluctant to launch cable systems because their TV reception was fine. The harsh restrictions placed on cable content by the FCC in 1966 were still in effect. Some of the shows on the local access channels were definitely in bad taste!
In the mid 1970s, many of the regulations were modified or lifted, and business picked up. Cable subscriptions rose from 7.5 percent of all households in 1970 to 22.6 percent in 1980.
movies at home
In 1972, a new concept in theme channels was born when Home Box Office (HBO) was launched. Operating only in the evening,
HBO showed new movies, uncut and commercial-free. For the first few
years, HBO didn't fare very well. Transmission by microwave was
an inefficient and expensive process, and many cable operators didn't
think the channel was worth purchasing.
satellite technology
In 1975, HBO leased a transponder on RCA's Satcom 1 communications
satellite. An uplink facility sent signals to the satellite, and the transponder relayed them to receiving
dishes owned by the cable operators. The change was drastic and
immediate, and HBO subscriptions went up 500 percent in one year.
superstations
This new method of transmission caught on like crazy, and soon other broadcast and cable-only channels were putting their signals
on satellites. In 1976, Ted Turner put his small Atlanta UHF station on a satellite and
began offering it to cable operators as the TBS Superstation. In 1978, Viacom began transmitting Showtime, their nightly movie channel, via satellite. WGN in Chicago also began offering a cable channel in 1978.
Qube
In 1977, Warner Cable introduced Qube to Columbus, Ohio. Qube was the first interactive cable package, with 30 channels offering a mixture of broadcast stations, pay-per-view channels and theme channels. Pressing buttons on a "black box" allowed subscribers to choose premium programs and participate in polls and game shows. One of the most popular theme channels on Qube was Pinwheel, which featured children's programming. As revolutionary as it was, Qube was not financially successful, and ceased operations in 1985.
more channels
Early in 1979, Warner Cable decided to put two channels on a satellite: Qube's Pinwheel and a new nightly movie channel called The Star Channel. ESPN, the all-sports channel, was also launched via satellite this year.
poised for the 1980s
In late 1979, American Express purchased one-half of Warner Cable, and the new company began developing
new channels for satellite distribution. They started by expanding the Star Channel to 24 hours and renaming it The Movie Channel, and by taking Pinwheel and renaming it Nickelodeon. Two years later, this company would make pop culture history when they launched their third channel: Music Television (MTV).
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1) Paul Lynde was always the center square
2) Six actresses portrayed the Angels (Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson,
Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack & Tanya Roberts)
3) The Partridges were patterned after The Cowsills
4) Dr. Johnny Fever was fired for saying "booger" on the air
5) Mike Lookinland (Bobby) has red hair in real life,
so his hair was dyed dark brown for the series
6) The New Laugh-In featured a pre-Mork Robin Williams
7) Love, American Style served as the testing-ground
for the pilot episode of Happy Days
8) Mork's first visit to Earth took him to Milwaukee,
where he was spotted by Richie Cunningham on Happy Days
9) The 4077th signpost pointed to Coney Island, Burbank,
San Francisco, Death Valley, Indianapolis, Decatur,
Tokyo, Boston and Seoul.
10) Redd Foxx and Fred Sanford shared more than just a crotchety
temperament. Redd Foxx's real name was John Sanford.
11) Besides the fact that his character liked to wear dresses, Jamie Farr
was the only M*A*S*H cast member who actually served in Korea.
12) Charo took more trips on the Pacific Princess than
anyone else. "cootchy cootchy!"
13) Actors and the parts they turned down:
Mickey Rooney...Archie Bunker
John Wayne...Matt Dillon
Alan Hale Jr....Sam the Butcher
Bing Crosby...Lt. Columbo
Henry Fonda...John Walton
Robert Blake...Jim Rockford
Gene Hackman...Mike Brady
bonus) Nicholas Hammond, who portrayed Doug Simpson
on the Brady Bunch, played the eldest
Von Trapp son Friedrich in The Sound Of Music.
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