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Oct 28, 2021

Halloween Episode Part Two:

As Halloween is just two days away, Andrew regails us with more terrifying tales of working as a Hotel Manager. Some you’d just have to hear to believe. Also the crew discuss their memories of Halloweens long gone by. The old Ben Cooper costumes as well as some unconventional movies people...


Oct 21, 2021

The Addams Family and the Munsters are two television shows eternally linked to one another. Both debuted merely weeks from one another in September of 1964 (The Addams Family a week before the Munsters did) they introduced audiences to two very unconventional American Families. The Addams Family was inspired by a...


Oct 14, 2021

Saturday Morning and Weekday Afternoon Cartoons would finally come to an end with the demand of Educational Programs from parent/teacher groups as well as networks putting more reality talk shows on weekday afternoons. 

The other factor was the introduction of Cartoon Network. A television network solely dedicated to...


Oct 7, 2021

THE RISE OF WEEKDAY AFTERNOON CARTOONS AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF SATURDAY MORNINGS…

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Cartoons ruled the airwaves on Saturday mornings. With Hanna-Barbara as the undisputed kids of television animation. But don't think for a moment Filmation was going to fade away...