Here’s a relic from the early 1950s that I had never heard of until the lovely and talented Tina Garceau had bought me one of those inexpensive DVD gift sets of old television shows that had lapsed into the public domain. This set had 100 television episodes mostly dating from the dawn of television broadcasting …
Category Archive: Movie Matinee
Poor Old Johnnie Ray
Here is The Big Shot, a television drama from 1955 sponsored by General Electric, hosted by Ronald Reagan before he entered politics and starring teen heart-throb Johnnie Ray. Johnnie Ray has been said to be the bridge between crooner Frank Sinatra and rock and roller Elvis Presley. I think the description is apt. Although the …
What I Want For Christmas – Lotsa Wavy Hair Like Liberace!
Here’s a treasure from 1954 – Liberace’s Christmas Special! His brother George is there along with Santa Claus and the rest of Liberace’s family! Of course, it would be easy and/or lazy to make all of the obvious jokes about Liberace, but this special was shot before he got carried away with the Las Vegas …
A Christmas Carol – 1910
Thomas Edison presents what is probably the first filmed version of A Christmas Carol.
Black Friday Beckons or Tis The Season to Be Stressful
Time flies. Somebody said something in work about the coming week being short, and then it dawned on me that it’s THANKSGIVING! That means that Christmas is right around the corner! Oh, crap! So soon? Don’t we still have Halloween candy lying around? GASP! The holiday season already? I know a lot of people who …
Don Draper Fired This Moron!
Couldn’t they get the Ann Margaret lookalike for this? “Man, it’s the sloppiest?” If only she knew?
The Chicken Heart
No video today. We are going to do something a little different and return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Follow me as we enter the theater of the mind with a vintage radio drama! I first heard about this episode of the classic radio program Lights Out like a lot of people did – …
Dawn of the Regional Do-It-Yourselfers
I wasn’t going to include George A Romero’s 1968 classic because it is too much of an obvious choice. Because of the spate of zombie movies, comedies, remakes and particularly due to the success of The Walking Dead television series, George Romero and his zombie movies are more popular than ever. Reanimated corpses are lurching …














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