Category: US
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Egon Spengler’s Brother
Thanks to this excellent tweet, I was made aware of this appearance by Harold Ramis as Elon Spengler, the brother of Ghostbuster Egon. It’s a segment from the 1990 ABC network presentation The Earth Day Special which aired on 22nd April 1990. It also features Martin Short and MTV’s Julie Brown. I can’t help thinking…
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Starting From Scratch
There’s always something to be found when thumbing through a giant reference book of television, and today I came across the US sitcom Starting From Scratch. This was a syndicated show starring Bill Daily and Connie Stevens, and aired from October 1988 to April 1989, but more interestingly it was created by Brian Cooke. Cooke…
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Stir Crazy: The Sitcom
In 1980, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor starred in the hit movie Stir Crazy. It was written by Bruce Jay Friedman and directed by none other than Sidney Poitier. It made over $100 million at the box office, and was a smash hit on home video too. Here’s an article about the movie from the…
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Title Over Cityscape
This should be a coffee table book.
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The Mupclip Show
A trio of newspaper clippings for you today, this time from 1976 just as The Muppet Show was about to hit British teatime television screens. The first is from the Coventry Evening Telegraph on Wednesday 18th August. The same paper told much the same story a few weeks earlier too, this time on the 4th…
