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I'm guessing it's more of an "in-retrospect" sort of thing, but for those who might still be interested in those monster shirts, it just so happens that cartoonist/commercial artist Mitch O'Connell re-created the designs (as "Classic Beaver Monster Fink #1-4"), and offers them for sale as either...

Classic Telly-vision. Don't scoff. A man of experience, Ernst Stavros Blofeld (aka Telly Savalas) knows of what he speaks. It's a world full of corrupting influences out there, tempting innocent children with smoking, drinking, gambling and other pernicious vices. Thank goodness he endorses...

"You say you like these Chevy cars now... but just wait until you see how they handle, after I install the flubber!"

It's been quite a while, but I had some vacation time this week, so I watched these: Medic: "My Very Good Friend Albert" (Season 1, Episode 10, 1954, DVD set from Timeless) Shy concert violinist and Swedish immigrant Albert (Robert Osterloh) has serious hearing issues, which lose him his job at...

I must admit that middle-aged "square" writers' takes on "hip" youth characters (whether they be late-1950s beatniks, mid-1960s mods and surfers, or late-1960s/early-1970s hippies) is one of the (many) things that makes classic TV enjoyable to me, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. Jack...

Mannix had a pretty exciting opening sequence, although I'm always a little bit disappointed that few, if any, of the actual episodes followed through on the promise of Mannix painfully trying to retrieve his burnt-black breakfast toast out of the electric toaster, as seen in the upper...

"Un-fasten your seat belts, lolly-lickers!"

August 21st - 31st: The Fugitive: "In a Plain Brown Wrapper" (Season 3, Episode 29, 1966) DVD While working as a bartender, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) strikes up a small romance with a waitress (Lois Nettleton), who has just been given custody of her orphaned nephew (Pat Cardi). The boy...

August 1st - 20th: Jonny Quest: "The Robot Spy" (Episode 8, 1964) Blu-ray Jonny Quest: "Monsters in the Monastery" (Episode 25, 1965) Blu-ray Jonny Quest: "The Sea Haunt" (Episode 26, 1965) Blu-ray - series completed The Night Stalker (1972, TV-movie) Blu-ray The Fugitive: "The 2130" (Season...

February 3rd - July 31st: Barney Miller: "The Vandal" (Season 5, Episode 9, 1978) DVD Barney Miller: "The Harris Incident" (Season 5, Episode 10, 1978) DVD Barney Miller: "The Radical" (Season 5, Episode 11, 1978) DVD Barney Miller: "Toys" (Season 5, Episode 12, 1978) DVD Barney Miller: "The...

Don't forget The Fugitive S3's "All the Scared Rabbits", where Dr. Kimble chauffeurs Suzanne Pleshette, her little daughter (the fruit of Pleshette and her ex-husband), and the kid's pet bunny, across the desert southwest... not realizing it is a highly-contagious, meningitis-infected test...

I like Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) quite a bit, although I'd say, so far, it's overall 'good' rather than 'great'... Kenneth Cope, as the ghostly half of the detective team, sometimes performs his part a bit too broadly (especially when he's trying to summon wind --one of the very few ways he...

I did buy all three Roxbury sets, back in the day, but I have a sinking feeling I may have sold off Seasons 2 & 3 in a garage sale, after the Shout set came out. Either that, or they are hidden somewhere behind DVD/Blu cases in my extensive shelving and are temporarily misplaced --which could...

January 13th - February 2nd: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): "Who Killed Cock Robin?" (Episode 6, production order, 1969) region-free import Blu-ray Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): "The Smile Behind the Veil" (Episode 7, production order, 1969) region-free import Blu-ray Barney Miller: "The...

That's a made-for-TV remake of the excellent 3D film, Inferno (1953), starring Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming and William Lundigan (Men Into Space)... smaller roles for Larry Keating (Burns & Allen, Mr. Ed) and Carl Betz (The Donna Reed Show))... and directed by Roy (Ward) Baker, who would later...

Interesting that this should come up now, in particular... because Quentin Tarantino just mentioned this very thing in an interview with Deadline.com a few days ago, concerning the fictional Bounty Law TV western series, starring 'Rick Dalton' (Leonardo DiCaprio), seen in clips in Tarantino's...

Great stuff, Jeff! When you're on the run like Kimble, you definitely have to be shrewd when dealing with that Russell kid... especially when he's packing superior firepower and also borrows your show's narrator without asking first--

January 1st - 12th: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): "You Can Always Find a Fall Guy" (Episode 5 - production order, 1969) region-free import Blu-ray Barney Miller: "Accusation" (Season 5, Episode 5, 1978) DVD WKRP in Cincinnati: "An Explosive Affair, Part 1" (Season 4, Episode 1, 1981) DVD WKRP...

Sept 7th - Dec 31st: Gumby: "Pilgrim on the Rocks" (Season 2, Episode 41, 1966) DVD Gumby: "Son of Liberty" (Season 2, Episode 43) DVD Gumby: "Gumby Crosses the Delaware" (Season 2, Episode 44) DVD Gumby: "Of Clay and Critters" (Season 2, Episode 45, 1967) DVD Gumby: "Tricky Ball" (Season 2...

I love the original Home Alone, but could only make it through the sequel once (and wisely never bothered with the others). Same plot, minus much of the charm, most of the slapstick gags repeated (but dialed up to 11), and too many forced coincidences so that they could repeat the plot, once...

Nice, Jeff. If you haven't already, you should check out "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas" episode of 1950s Dragnet on YouTube, as well as "The Big Cast", where Joe has an episode-long interrogation session with Lee Marvin!

Lee Meriwether can do no wrong (even when engaged in wrong-doing). (go to the 4:00 minute mark for the last one)

Happy birthday, Jeff (and you, too, Doug)! I've been meaning to ask you-- since you live and work in Japan, I'm curious as to what currently is the classic TV situation over there. Perhaps you get most (or all) of your personal entertainment viewing via discs and streaming, but do you know...

Damnation Alley (1977)? --featuring trailer narration by the great William Woodson (The Invaders, The Odd Couple, WKRP in Cincinnati)!

He's also the kid the other kids elect to sneak into the "haunted house", just before the opening credits of Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).

At any point, does he enter a magic shop, only to mysteriously re-appear later, as totally evil? Poor Diahann... that kid sure was a handful. Oh wait, no, wrong show... carry on, then. :D

You know, pretty much any '60s spy/adventure show could (and usually did) occasionally have a chrome-domed genius megalomaniac as that week's heavy (paging Theodore Marcuse)... what set The Wild Wild West apart is that it often took that additional bizarre step that the others wouldn't. Case in...

Carey is so very...

Howie's worst programming nightmare scenario (come to think of it, perhaps mine, too!)-- Classic TV characters react-- :D

Great stuff as usual, Jeff! Oh! Oh! I've never watched Father Ted, but I knew instantly where the odd episode title, "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep", came from... it's a pun on this 1971 tune, "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", by UK pop group, Middle of the Road!