Andy Kaufman played an android butler in the little-known 1977 sci-fi sitcom pilot, ‘Stick Around’
On May 30th, 1977, ABC aired the pilot for a sci-fi sitcom called Stick Around. The program starred Andy Kaufman as “Andy,” an android servant…
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Salvador Dalí goes in search of a psychedelic mushroom in ‘Impressions of Upper Mongolia’
Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…
‘Who ate my pie?’ David Byrne plays boorish, mustachioed, pie-loving drunk on PBS sitcom
The first episode of the PBS anthology series Trying Times (originally called Survival Guide) was directed by Jonathan Demme. “A Family Tree” stars Rosanna Arquette…
‘Morrissey Rides a Cockhorse’: The Warlock Pinchers hate Moz, but love them some Satan
I first discovered the Warlock Pinchers while working at a record store in East LA. Buried among the piles of LPs that circulated through the…
Adam Ant, John Cale, Ad-Rock and others guest star on ’80s crime drama ‘The Equalizer’
Edward Woodward and Adam Ant on the cover of Ant News Today, 1985 The Equalizer was a crime drama starring Edward Woodward (The Wicker Man‘s…
‘The Modern Antiquarian’: Julian Cope’s guided tour of the megaliths of Britain
Sure, everyone knows about Stonehenge, but it might not be quite as widely known that stone rings and megaliths dating back several thousand years, well…
If ‘Get Out’ and ‘Logan’ and ‘Stranger Things’ existed as VHS tapes in the 1980s
It seems like yesterday, but it was actually more than two years ago that we presented readers with some recent TV and movie hits done…
That time Neil from ‘The Young Ones’ released his ‘Heavy Concept Album’
Hippies make the best capitalists. They are the passive-aggressive masters who use their artificial sense of moral superiority to sell you shit you don’t need.…
Everybody–even Dick Clark–knows that the bird is the word: The Trashmen on ‘American Bandstand’
While it may be a stretch to say that the Trashmen invented punk rock, with 1963’s “Surfin’ Bird” they were very clearly one of the…
That time the FBI investigated the alleged murder of Trent Reznor
Other than the fact that the FBI, the Michigan State Police and Chicago’s finest all believed that Nine Inch Nails vocalist Trent Reznor was dead,…