Television

Well, apparently computers celebrate Christmas too. Max Headroom’s Giant Christmas Turkey aired on Boxing Day in 1986. Not to be confused with the follow-up sci-fi…

Seriously, the wealth of batty–pun intended–images from the 1960s never ceases to amaze me. Here we have the foremost pop artist of the era and…

YouTube user Mylo the Cat aka isthishowyougoviral aka Adam Schleichkorn brings us the Muppets-rap mashup we didn’t know we’ve been waiting for–a lengthy montage of…

How to stay relevant. It’s a question we all face at some point in life. Mick Jagger was thinking about staying relevant. It was 1983.…

Guiding Light holds the record for the longest run of any soap opera. It debuted in 1952 as a narrative doled out in 15-minute increments…

Jon Pertwee starred in the reruns of Doctor Who my local PBS affiliate started airing in the Eighties; perhaps the station decided to start with…

Right now Channel 4 in the U.K. is running Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams–U.S. viewers will be able to see it once it gets on…

Tom Snyder’s late-night talkfest The Tomorrow Show was one of the more reliable sources of stimulating programming in the 1970s and early 80s. Snyder was…

On April 25, 1967, CBS ran a special documentary that had been put together by David Oppenheim called Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution. The program…

Fumio Miyashita was the leader of one of Japan’s most far out space rock units, The Far East Family Band, which also included the future…