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It's WINDY!!!
What about me? I'm the Evil Colonel! You can tell I'm the EVIL colonel because I have a beard. Oh, wait...
Checking my referrals... it seems like nothing I've done has built traffic as much as talking about Rocket Robin Hood. As bad as everyone always says that show was, its return to the air seems to have piqued a lot of interest.
I naturally assumed when I migrated this blog to a separate host, but continued to use Blogger, the old blog*spot domain would stay. Some impostor has snapped it up, and proceeded to post nothing. I'm so indignant, I could, well, uh... (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
Watching "Back to the Future" on TBS tonight... and I don't know if this is Turner doing this, but all the logos that were originally in the film have been digitally covered over. In the opening scene in Doc's house, the cans of dog food have the label (Alpo?) obscured... also the signs at the mall (I think one was JCPenney) and a bus bench that once advertised Zales. The only one that survives is the Texaco station, because otherwise they'd have to cut the scene with the Texaco men. Anyway, I just wanted to say I think it stinks. That is all.
It hasn't made the actual news yet, but this oft-derided game show site is reporting the death of longtime announcer Gene Wood, best known as the man who introduced Richard Dawson every day on Family Feud. He hasn't worked in some time... but his was a distinctive voice that shall be missed.
...Roger Daltrey hosting a Time-Life infomercial for a classic rock compilation.
I turn on the TV, and see one of the dumbest news teases ever, and I am not making this up: "Unravelling the mystery, of guinea pigs found dead in Lollypop Farm."
What a hip new name for a soft drink! And the rap music only sweetens the deal!
Sorry, to be eligible for the Darwin Awards, you have to die. Better luck next time.
I've only seen just enough episodes of The Odd Couple to know that Tony Randall will be missed. He is, though, a textbook example of being typecast... in his case, as a fussy, neat, persnickety type, teevee even going so far as to cast him as a gay man.
This guy's as likely to be the real Andy Kaufman as I am to be the real Harland Sanders.
(from J-Walk)
It's Britain-centric, but this site features "what-if" scenarios and graphics for various non-existent and/or anachronistic tv stations.
I have edited my blogroll to only include stuff I read, or would ever read. A few of the links were dead; others were links I only added to increase the value of my BlogShares portfolio, and that site's been dead for months.
If things don't look familiar, I'm experimenting with new Blogger templates. Just by tinkering, I've managed to lose pretty much all the custom junk I'd added, including the world-renowned linky-dink(tm) section. It may all re-appear in dribs and drabs, however.
Tripod, which was never much of a free web provider to begin with, has picked up an extremely obnoxious trait: Whenever you visit a website hosted there, it automatically opens the search pane in IE to Tripod's search engine. For me, that's enough never to visit a Tripod-hosted site again.
Earlier, I expressed wonder and amazement at the return of Rocket Robin Hood to television. This company is the distributor... it seems last year, they acquired Centaur Distribution Corporation, which had come to own three surviving properties of Krantz Films: Rocket Robin, Max the 2000 Year Old Mouse, and the Ottawa-produced gothic soap opera "Strange Paradise".
Yup, Rocket Robin Hood is back on the airwaves! Teletoon had planned to add the show to the Retro block last month, but had what it calls "delivery problems." So Spider-Man went on in its place for a few weeks. Rejoice, though, one of the worst animated TV series is indeed back.
Okay, I think I've got it all figured out:
1960
Hanna-Barbera produces "Rise and Shine" opening and closing titles in color for The Flintstones. Color negative and one color print put in a vault
Opening and closing titles made in black-and-white for each episode, with sponsor plugs, because ABC hasn't begun color yet. Network is provided with one 35mm and one 16mm standby print (some of these end up in the hands of collectors)
1962
"Meet the Flintstones" opening and closing titles made. Sequences are updated twice, once to add Pebbles, and later to add the Rubbles
1965
Alternate close appears, with Pebbles and Bamm Bamm singing (reprising sequence from "No Biz Like Show Biz")
1966
Show ends its ABC run and reruns go into syndication. "Meet the Flintstones" open and close are put onto episodes from first two seasons, meaning the credits no longer match the episode. At the same time, "Copyright 1966 Hanna-Barbera Productions" added to the open
20 first-season episodes are withheld from syndication, and provided to NBC for a Saturday morning run. The line "Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet" is edited out of the open, so when the song ends, there is time to add a voiceover, to the effect of "The Flintstones, brought to you by..."
1967
Saturday morning run ends. The 20 episodes are added to the syndie package, with the voiceover muted out... the edit, however, remains. These syndie prints continue to circulate for the next two decades
Late 80's
New prints are distrbuted by Worldvision Enterprises (sister company to H-B under the corporate umbrella of Taft Broadcasting). Unedited "Meet the Flintstones" open is restored. However, the closing credits no longer match on ANY episodes. Some opening tags are lost, and in a few cases, re-created by taking a scene from later in the episode and editing it onto the open
Mid 90's
Laserdisc release is announced. Search begins for any lost footage, hoping against hope to find "Rise and Shine" open and close in color.
Eureka! Color negatives and one print each of original open and close are found in a Turner facility in Hollywood. These have never aired
Laserdisc box set of partial first season is released. "Rise and Shine" open and close is restored, and seen in color for the very first time. Because the color negative of the close contains no actual credits, these are re-created, matching the original typeface as closely as possible, and including as many first-season names as is practical so that single set of credits can be used on all episodes.
Restored episodes also appear on Cartoon Network (and later Boomerang). These, however, are missing the "ABC Television Network" plug at end, replaced by updated H-B and Turner logos
2004
Season one released, in its entirety, on DVD. These episodes are restored as they appear on CN/Boomerang.
Whew!
I am such a loser.