Just a few samples from the rare TV section of our DVD site. Low, low prices! Check 'em out here:
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Gordon Jump in 1963
Click on this to read a nice piece on young Gordon Jump in Dayton Ohio, some 15 years before he moved South by about 50 miles to WKRP IN CINCINNATI.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Red Skelton
Red Skelton was a good actor in 1940s movies, hilarious in his radio series, a star for two decades on television...and yet largely forgotten now. He was unique in his embracing of pantomime and silent comedy in a world where television just never seemed to shut up. He was patriotic and spiritual and clean...except when he was egotistical, dirty, mean and cruel to his writers and co-workers. And he painted clowns. LOTS of clowns.
His TV series--my father's favorite and thus on every week in our house--was canceled as too old-fashioned at the end of the sixties, only to be picked up and brought back on another network with "hipper" guests. It didn't last and a bitter Red threatened for years to have all of his old episodes burned just to spite the audience he felt turned on him. He continued working "concerts" for many years afterwards, however.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
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