Old TV Guide Memories And More

26/12/2024

Nashville, 1977

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas!

Name a “Big Three” affiliate on Channel 25.

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas Eve!

Name a “Big Three” affiliate on Channel 24.

24/12/2024

Streaming on Max!

Day 24 of the 25 Days of Classic TV Christmas:
CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET (1978):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF4XRQwzls8

23/12/2024

Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

Name a “Big Three” affiliate on Channel 23.

23/12/2024

Happy Festivus to those who celebrate.

It's that time of year, so we're embracing our roots and looking back at why we celebrate this Festivus for the rest of us!Find your local listing | http://...

23/12/2024

On TV, Evans appeared in series such as “A Different World” and “The X-Files.”

Evans played Leslie Barnes in the second 'Die Hard' installment, an air traffic control tower employee who helped Bruce Willis' John McClane stop terrorists.

22/12/2024

Kentucky, 1980

22/12/2024

“The Magic Garden” was a staple on New York’s WPIX. You may have seen it on its superstation feed if you were outside the market.

📺📼 Set your VCRs: A Magic Garden Christmas is airing Christmas morning! At 7:00AM on PIX11! They're running it MG style (no streaming) like we watched all holiday specials back then! 😉

22/12/2024

Maurice and Robin Gibb.

The talented twins would have turned 75 today.
🎵 12/22/49 🎵

22/12/2024

Happy 85th Birthday Actor William Devane

21/12/2024

San Antonio, 1965

21/12/2024

Now here’s something we hope you’ll really like

21/12/2024

Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) died 15 years ago today at the age of 91. Stang worked often as a voice actor for animated cartoons. He is perhaps best known in this field as the voice of "T.C.," the sly alley cat in the Hanna-Barbera series Top Cat (modeled explicitly after Sgt. Bilko in The Phil Silvers Show). He also provided the voice for Popeye's pal Shorty (a caricature of Stang), Herman the mouse in a number of Famous Studios cartoons, Tubby Tompkins in a few Little Lulu shorts, and Catfish on Misterjaw. He also voiced the character Nurtle the Twurtle in the 1965 animated feature "Pinocchio in Outer Space".

On television he appeared in commercials for the Chunky candy bar, where he would list many of its ingredients, smile and say, "Chunky, what a chunk of chocolate!" He provided the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee in the 1980s and was also a spokesman for Vicks Vapo-Rub. As a pitchman for Alcoa aluminum window screens in the late 1960s, he was known for the tag line "Arnold Stang says don't get stung". Stang also appeared in "The Grave Robber," an episode of the popular horror anthology series Tales from the Darkside, playing Tapok, an ancient Egyptian mummy who encounters some unscrupulous archaeologists that lure him into a game of strip poker.

Arnold Stang reprised Top Cat in Yogi's Treasure Hunt and Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats. Stang also appeared on an episode of The Cosby Show with guest star Sammy Davis, Jr. (He also made a cameo appearance in Cosby's 1990 film Ghost Dad.) In one TV advertisement he played Luther Burbank, proudly showing off his newly invented "square tomato" to fit neatly in typical square slices of commercial bread, then being informed that the advertising bakery had beat him to it by producing round loaves of bread. He played the photographer in the 1993 film Dennis the Menace with Walter Matthau. He also provided many voices for the Cartoon Network series Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Turner Program Services's original series, Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He had a small role as Queasy the Parrot in the 1970s film Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure.
In 1994, Stang voiced Herman the Squirrel and the honeybee in Storybook Weaver, and later in 2004, remade as Storybook Weaver Deluxe.

Also in 1994, he guest starred as the voice of Irwin the Mouse in Garfield and Friends episode, "Thoroughly Mixed-Up Mouse".
In 2000, writers Kurt Seligmann, Jr. and Martin Olson asked Stang to use his voice to talk to Pikachu in Hey You, Pikachu!.

Stang died of pneumonia in Newton, Massachusetts, on December 20, 2009.