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Season 2 Episode 3 of Stargate SG1, from July 1998.
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Bei den US-Präsidentschaftswahlen gewann der republikanische Herausforderer #RonaldReagan heute vor 45 Jahren gegen Amtsinhaber #JimmyCarter. Wie #Carter in den Augen vieler bereits zuvor verloren hatte, zeigt:
▶ Felix Krämer, Der Fall Carter. Das Scheitern eines US-Präsidenten in den Fernsehnachrichten zwischen 1975 und 1981, #WerkstattGeschichte 71/2016 „scheitern“, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-71-felix-kraemer
#histodons #USHistory #TVHistory #Mediengeschichte #MediaHistory #Zeitgeschichte
Spelling-checker changed Monthy Python into Monthly Python when mentioning that somewhere.
I wish it was.
A dumb bit from SCTV that made me chuckle when I first saw it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrwHRT612w8
The show has only received a partial video release (and even then, with music edits), so people have uploaded old recordings online like on the Internet Archive. Here's the episode this particular bit came from. As with any old comedy, Your Mileage May Vary.
Bonus: here is the original season 1 opening you won't find in reruns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHbCJTCyW58 The theme music, like much of the show's music, was sourced from whatever they had around: in this case, Spike Jones's rendition of "Dance of the Hours". The original Canadian version of this open had an additional announcement before it stating, as recalled by one commenter, "Don't touch that dial, don't touch that other dial, and stop touching yourself!".
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory
Film legend Margaret Hamilton portrayed the mother of Morticia Addams, Hester Frump in the 1960s television series.
#margarethamilton #hesterfrump #grandmafrump #addamsfamily #theaddamsfamily #halloween #halloweenseason #halloweenvibes #morticia #morticiaaddams #carolynjones #gomez #gomezaddams #filmlegend #60stv #sixtiestv #60stelevisionshow #rememberlegends #johnastin #television #tvhistory #actress #actors #tvsitcom #sitcom
📺🎩 In a groundbreaking revelation, the Doctor Who #archive expert reassures us that a missing episode might be slightly less missing than before. 🌌💼 Oh, the suspense! Finally, something to distract from the endless abyss of recycled streaming content! 😂🔄
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-missing-episodes-update-teases-announcement-newsupdate/ #DoctorWho #MissingEpisodes #StreamingContent #GroundbreakingRevelation #TVHistory #HackerNews #ngated
Over a decade later, New Girl's first kiss between Nick and Jess remains iconic.
Their chemistry ignited during a drinking game, leading to a passionate moment that fans still cherish.
The anticipation made their romance even sweeter!
'Brady Bunch' kids reveal why filming the iconic blue-box opening was so 'insidiously difficult'
A collection of opening teasers for The ABC Sunday Night Movie from the mid-1980s. The GOAT Ernie Anderson voices most of these. Chuck Riley does Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws, while longtime ABC movie announcer Joel Crager, who retired in 1983, does Assault Force. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvCvgjrspr4
I previously wrote about the movie open itself:
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RE: https://hellaverse.social/notes/adqiqpln9b3o00mq
Open and some promos from the 1982 TV premiere of John Carpenter's The Fog on ABC. Voiceover on the open and promos is by the legendary Ernie Anderson. Longtime ABC movie announcer Joel Crager handles the break bumpers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADtr9V3E_M
Here's the full version of that season's promotional campaign "Come on Along", one of my favorites, composed by Frank Gari and Artie Schroeck (according to published sources). Harry Marks designed the look and produced the promo film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5ikot-DJ2I
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Open and breaks from the 1995 network TV premiere of Jurassic Park on NBC over KNBC in Los Angeles. I was unable to find the open by itself and the ads have been posted several times over from different parts of the country (including WRDC, NBC's outgoing affiliate in Raleigh/Durham, NC that the network had finally lost patience with after 27 years of poor performance).
Voiceover for the open is by none other than Don LaFontaine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NoyWPAqkGA
Leading up to the premiere were promos some still remember all these years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyADXLmhmkI
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Open to the October 30, 1981 TV premiere of Halloween on NBC. Voiceover is by NBC's promo voice throughout the '80s and Superman on Super Friends, Danny Dark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yInwGIO-79M
This article documents parts of that night's broadcast, including some of the additional scenes shot to fill the time slot for the TV edit. https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/halloween-tv-premiere-1981/
The movie open ties with NBC's just-retired promotional campaign "Proud as a Peacock" for the 1979–81 seasons (a new open would debut soon after). Despite its name, it was a low period for the network marked by several high-profile programming failures under Fred Silverman, who had led CBS and later ABC to new heights earlier in the 1970s but was now competing against those same shows he greenlit.
Discontent at the network was so high, people at the jingle company made a parody titled "Loud as a Peacock" that ended up being played on Don Imus's show on WNBC radio. Al Franken's scathing "A Limo for a Lame-O" Saturday Night Live bit about Silverman caused him to lose his role to replace Lorne Michaels, setting up the poorly-received 6th season under Jean Doumanian. Wikipedia has an entire entry on what led up to Franken's segment and its fallout. It also has an article on the "Proud as a Peacock" campaign if you wanna learn more.
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The iconic TiVo DVR, once a game-changer for TV viewers in the 2000s, is officially discontinued—ending all hardware sales as of Oct. 1. TiVo will still support existing devices, including those with “lifetime plans,” but the focus shifts to its TV operating system on select connected televisions. The final model, TiVo Edge, launched in 2019, marked the end of an era that began in 1999 and revolutionized how we watched and recorded shows. As streaming takes over, TiVo’s legacy lives on in modern TV tech. More here: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tivo-stopped-selling-dvrs-exits-hardware-business-1236552025/ #TiVo #DVR #TVHistory #Streaming #TechNews #CordCutting
Open to the 1984 TV premiere of Alien on ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38nygqDOyV0 Leading it off is another of my favorite movie opens, the "Star Tunnel", used from 1981 to 1986. The music was done by Rochester, NY-based composer Ferdinand Jay Smith, who also did CBS's 1978 movie open and the iconic "HBO in Space" open from 1982. No leads on who else produced this open, but any answers might be found in industry magazines of the time.
Smith and his company, Jay Advertising, are still around, and were commissioned by CBS to update their movie open in 2020. His other works include a funky '70s news theme for Rochester's then-CBS affiliate WHEC-TV and a 2017 news theme for the current affiliate WROC-TV. You can listen to both here (click the buttons).
Voiceover is by the one and only Ernie Anderson.
Fun fact: someone who worked on the “Star Tunnel” commented on a different upload that he accidentally left an imprint of his hand in one frame of the final product! I thought I found it long ago, but I was wrong. Maybe you can!
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Open to the 1979 TV premiere of Jaws on ABC. Voiceover is by the inimitable Ernie Anderson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdrCGDz_iyw #vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory
Open to the 1990 TV premiere of Little Shop of Horrors on ABC. This movie open is one of my favorites—short but sweet. Harry Marks, the innovative motion graphics designer who also co-founded the TED conference, did this one, with music from Salt Lake City-based Non-Stop Music. Pacific Data Images, which later became part of DreamWorks Animation after working on their first film Antz, probably animated this open since they had a working relationship with Marks.
Voiceover is by Gary Owens of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txyt58ysz9k
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🎉 Beverly Hills, 90210 turns 35!
Paramount is celebrating with a full 4K UHD digital release of all 10 seasons on Oct. 20.
From the Walsh twins’ arrival in Beverly Hills to the unforgettable drama at the Peach Pit, the legacy lives on.
#BeverlyHills90210 #90210 #TVHistory #EntertainmentNews
https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2025/10/02/90210-at-35-complete-series-arrives-in-4k-digital/
This day in history (or, this day in possible mass hallucinations):
On September 24, 1989, NBC aired a special episode of ALF, in which ALF takes over for Johnny Carson to interview Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
https://archive.org/details/alf-takes-over-the-network-1989
#thepastisadifferentcountry #1980s #80s #ALF #nostalgia #culturalhistory #ronaldreagan #margaretthatcher #wtf #nbc #television #tvhistory #internetarchive #genx
A seminal moment in TV history was Betty Ford's hilarious cameo on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Mary thinks it's a prank, and won't believe it's the First Lady on the phone. #marytylermoore #bettyford #tv #television #sitcom #sitcoms #seminal #seminalmoment #tvhistory
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