Something Old, Nothing New

In the 20th episode of season 3 (written by Dan Guntzelman from an outline by Tim Reid), an unsolved robbery at the station sets off the usu...

Someone has put the complete movie The Swinger up on YouTube. It is one of the strangest movies of the '60s, not Skidoo strange but cl...

The three Warner Brothers wartime musicals released in the new Homefront Collection boxed set are all uneven. ( Thank Your Lucky Stars is ...

Finally, an episode that's upbeat -- this was episode 19 of season 3, and has Mr. Carlson and his wife deciding to renew their marriage...

Irv Brecher , writer of many Golden Age film musicals and radio comedies, has died at the age of 94. Ivan at Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, a...

Oh, one other thing, a James Bond-related thought (which I probably should have posted last Friday, but what the heck): one thing I've n...

I don't have much time for posting at the moment, so here's something to fill the time, the not-on-DVD Animaniacs cartoon "Back...

For me, the highlight of The Chronological Donald Vol. 4 is the opportunity to see Jack Hannah's "No Hunting" in widescreen. ...

Another episode from that strange run of dour, downbeat episodes toward the end of the third season. The idea that Herb's use of alcoho...

I couldn't find the whole cartoon online, but someone has uploaded my favorite scene from the Hippety Hopper cartoon "Too Hop To Ha...

That's an image from the first scene of Stanley Donen's Arabesque , which just came out on DVD as part of a Gregory Peck boxed set. ...

Mark Mayerson has a 1961 black-and-white clip from the CBC that takes us inside the Hanna-Barbera studios . Bill and Joe explain the whole a...

I happened to leaf through an Archie digest in the supermarket checkout line yesterday (what? the other stuff in the checkout line isn'...

This article on Disney superstar animator Milt Kahl is from the Dallas Morning News in the early '70s (when Robin Hood ) was coming out...

The fifteenth episode of season 3 kicked off the weirdest cycle of episodes in WKRP 's run: almost every episode from this one through t...

Here's a weird question, but one that should make sense if you've seen a lot of DVDs of Alfred Hitchcock movies: which person who wo...

I wrote a post a couple of months back about my love for the song "An Occasional Man." Since then, I've found the movie it co...

As Variety's Cynthia Littleton noted yesterday in her great piece on WKRP , yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the show's most ...

This was one I was always hoping the original Grudge Match site would do, but no (though they did do Pinky and the Brain vs. Dogbert ). So I...

Based on an earlier post about the re-tooling of Newhart into a better show than it promised to be in its first season (in my opinion, anyw...