My longtime pal sent me a youtube link (my youtube of this day) which inspired this thread, as well as the oppontunity to express the other side of the coin of RCMerchant's "The Hudson Bros. Razzle Dazzle Show...and other crap!" thread. I remember "Schoolhouse Rock" very fondly, though at the time I was at the age where anything with "school" in the title was suspect. :wink: Who remembers great 1970s TV?
These were never condescending or too dumbed down, though always fun, with terrific songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGA7ssL-6g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ&feature=PlayList&p=7D05F2E62228AE48&index=9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJ4udW41Ns&feature=PlayList&p=7D05F2E62228AE48&index=6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQA5NDNkUM&feature=PlayList&p=7D05F2E62228AE48&index=3
Don't forget Interjections!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM&feature=related
Just an interesting bit of trivia. The piano player in Riker's holodeck jazz combo is none other than Jack Sheldon, the voice of Bill, the engineer, Albert Andreas Armadillo and others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPT5rm0tEQs
I love the Schoolhouse Rock shorts. I bought the VHS of the collection when it came out, and I now also own the DVD version (in fact, I may own two of them; I think my wife bought another set to use at her school).
Quote from: Zapranoth on August 06, 2009, 02:35:13 AM
Don't forget Interjections!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM&feature=related
Oh yes, one of the greatest. :thumbup: "They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point or by a comma if the feeling is not as strong... "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxmKRyLdBho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns2dkT2sIug&feature=related
I wish that someone would revise these for kids today. I learned a lot from them when I was a kid that helped me in subjects like English grammar years later. I wish my kids had an updated version of Schoolhouse Rock when they were into Saturday Morning cartoons then maybe they might preform better in school.
This bone hawk interuppted Jack Palance as Dracula-i was really enjoying ol' Jack hamming it up when Tricky Dick threw in the towel-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOGJJ7UKFM
I also remeber watching Scooby Doo- and this came on-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDF2aQpYZc
I remeber this too-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6s0gUgiwc
and this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vamprmU6ss
I grew of age in the 70's. Lotsa folks tthink of Disco,smoking pot-the news on tv only reflected the horror that I experianced on a daily basis. I like 70's pop culture- but in reality-my childhood was a f3cking nightmare at times. Famous Monsters mag and walking in the woods saved me from killing myself.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 09, 2009, 06:24:12 AM
...I grew of age in the 70's. Lotsa folks tthink of Disco,smoking pot-the news on tv only reflected the horror that I experianced on a daily basis. I like 70's pop culture- but in reality-my childhood was a f3cking nightmare at times. Famous Monsters mag and walking in the woods saved me from killing myself.
We're soul brothers; like I've said before, I now have much nostalgia for the 70s, but could not wait to get out of them then. (http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/CREEPYno7back.jpg)
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/CREEPYno5.jpg)
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/CREEPYno7.jpg)(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/crust2.jpg)
I had all but forgotten about "Creepy" magazine until you posted those pics. I remember reading those and "Eerie" when I was a kid. My brother would buy them and I would sneak them out of his room to read. It wasn't until later that I started sneaking out his other magazines (i.e. Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse).
They also get bizarre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ
Love it.
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/ahifrankensteincard.jpg)(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/ahicheepees.jpg)
OMG those Creepy magazines and that Frankenstein figure are the coolist things I ever seen! :thumbup:
Quote from: venomx on August 13, 2009, 12:43:10 PM
OMG those Creepy magazines and that Frankenstein figure are the coolist things I ever seen! :thumbup:
Okey dokey...
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/cardedahidracula.jpg)(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/ahidracback.jpg)
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/remcofrankenstein.jpg)(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/remcowolfman.jpg)
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/remcominimonsters.jpg)(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/remcominigroup.jpg)
If you like looking at these '70s era Monster toys, you'd like this website:
http://www.plaidstallions.com/racktoys/azrakmonsters.html (http://www.plaidstallions.com/racktoys/azrakmonsters.html)
Gezz ... I wish I was rich, I would order stuff like that off ebay everyday. I'm almost 36, so I had lots of 70's 80's toys in my time. What sucks is I never kept my toys, I gave some to my cousins and some just disappeared.
You just never see Dracula or Wolfman toys now days, why is that? Even the cartoons had Dracula Wolfman and Frankenstein. The live shows the same - The Hilarious House of Frightenstein and so on.
This is why I like Halloween so much, funny thing though I get in trouble when my wife and I go in a halloween store, I want so many things, gags, and junk it's not even funny. She says "do you really need that?" lol
Allhallowsday, That is one awesome post!!! Really good stuff!!! Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWuXHMrwXo&feature=PlayList&p=81090A9238E0D2BC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7
Action figures, albeit much less detailed, were so much cooler back then compared to the stuff they pan off now.
And, as AllHallows pointed out, Wacky Packages are awesome. I'm glad they put them out again recently so kids of today can enjoy them in a new form. I have all my brother's originals.
You know else, toy commercials. What happened to them?
Remember in the late 70's and early 80's? Every other toy commercials was RC cars or trucks ... right?
Now it's just video game commercials.
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 19, 2009, 07:19:48 AM
Action figures, albeit much less detailed, were so much cooler back then compared to the stuff they pan off now.
And, as AllHallows pointed out, Wacky Packages are awesome. I'm glad they put them out again recently so kids of today can enjoy them in a new form. I have all my brother's originals.
I remember Wacky Packages! I wish I kept the ones I had when I was little. I was around 8 or 9 in 1974 and part of my regular jaunt to the corner store consisted of Wacky Packages and Tack It To Me Tattoos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZSG12-3Vg
W\reagrd to the action figues, amen on that. I remember Mego was the king of the hill-they had Batman and Star Trek figures, and heck, I even had the Planet Of The Apes Treehouse with the astronaut figures, and several soldier ape figures too.
Lastly, anyone remember the old Aurora monster model kits that slowly died out around the mid 70's? They were big in the 60's but times changed, and the Aurora catalog changed also. I remember the Vampirella model kits, and the "Pre-Historic Scene kits" with the cavemen and sabre tooth tiger. Great time for toys, people! :cheers:
Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 20, 2009, 01:09:45 PM
Lastly, anyone remember the old Aurora monster model kits that slowly died out around the mid 70's? They were big in the 60's but times changed, and the Aurora catalog changed also. I remember the Vampirella model kits, and the "Pre-Historic Scene kits" with the cavemen and sabre tooth tiger. Great time for toys, people! :cheers:
I had just about all of the Aurora models. Most went through quite a few paint jobs (including my 'Pimp' Phantom of the Opera complete with white tux and purple trim) and died a violent death by fire and BB gun. We even filmed my Dracula melting with my mom's Super 8 camera. I still occasionally run across a random piece from a 'Prehistoric Scenes' kit in my boxes of junk.
For some reason my cousin's mom, who was a very strict Baptist, bought him all the 'Monster Scenes' kits - including Vampirella and the infamous 'The Victim'. 'The Victim' fit perfectly into all of Dr. Death's torture devices. the kit was later renamed 'Dr. Death's Daughter' which is somehow even more disturbing...
(http://www.wordsandpicturesonline.com/images/victim.jpg)
ALSO: Just by sheer coincidence today I taught the "I Described It with Adjectives' song to some of my younger coworkers. I just love that "It was a hairy bear, it was a scary bear, we made a hasty retreat from there." part.
Quote from: Raffine on August 20, 2009, 05:35:38 PM
Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 20, 2009, 01:09:45 PM
Lastly, anyone remember the old Aurora monster model kits that slowly died out around the mid 70's? They were big in the 60's but times changed, and the Aurora catalog changed also. I remember the Vampirella model kits, and the "Pre-Historic Scene kits" with the cavemen and sabre tooth tiger. Great time for toys, people! :cheers:
I had just about all of the Aurora models. Most went through quite a few paint jobs (including my 'Pimp' Phantom of the Opera complete with white tux and purple trim) and died a violent death by fire and BB gun. We even filmed my Dracula melting with my mom's Super 8 camera. I still occasionally run across a random piece from a 'Prehistoric Scenes' kit in my boxes of junk.
For some reason my cousin's mom, who was a very strict Baptist, bought him all the 'Monster Scenes' kits - including Vampirella and the infamous 'The Victim'. 'The Victim' fit perfectly into all of Dr. Death's torture devices. the kit was later renamed 'Dr. Death's Daughter' which is somehow even more disturbing...
(http://www.wordsandpicturesonline.com/images/victim.jpg)
ALSO: Just by sheer coincidence today I taught the "I Described It with Adjectives' song to some of my younger coworkers. I just love that "It was a hairy bear, it was a scary bear, we made a hasty retreat from there." part.
Nice post man! The face on The Victim looks a bit like Barbara Steele from "Black Sunday."
I still have 3 of my originals from the 70's: I have an assembled Hunchback (now named "
The Bellringer" for Polar Lights) and a Forgotten Prisoner and Phantom Of The Opera both in the box.
I got these when a special sale took place years back in Fangoria magazine when they sold them limited time. And yeah, some of MY kits faved the firing squad, only I was using my dad's old Remington 870 pump 20 gauge, as well as the occasional burning with gasoline.
In a way, kids like us created the value of the kits, because we made them somewhat sparse and hard to get. But I miss them like hell
now..
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 13, 2009, 08:17:02 PM
Quote from: venomx on August 13, 2009, 12:43:10 PM
OMG those Creepy magazines and that Frankenstein figure are the coolist things I ever seen! :thumbup:
Okey dokey...
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff259/allhallowsday/ahidracback.jpg)
That artwork is the artwork from the old Aurora Dracula model kit box. The artwork was always half the fun of these unique kits.
Quote from: Raffine on August 20, 2009, 05:35:38 PM
Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 20, 2009, 01:09:45 PM
Lastly, anyone remember the old Aurora monster model kits that slowly died out around the mid 70's? They were big in the 60's but times changed, and the Aurora catalog changed also. I remember the Vampirella model kits, and the "Pre-Historic Scene kits" with the cavemen and sabre tooth tiger. Great time for toys, people! :cheers:
I had just about all of the Aurora models. Most went through quite a few paint jobs (including my 'Pimp' Phantom of the Opera complete with white tux and purple trim) and died a violent death by fire and BB gun. We even filmed my Dracula melting with my mom's Super 8 camera. I still occasionally run across a random piece from a 'Prehistoric Scenes' kit in my boxes of junk.
For some reason my cousin's mom, who was a very strict Baptist, bought him all the 'Monster Scenes' kits - including Vampirella and the infamous 'The Victim'. 'The Victim' fit perfectly into all of Dr. Death's torture devices. the kit was later renamed 'Dr. Death's Daughter' which is somehow even more disturbing...
(http://www.wordsandpicturesonline.com/images/victim.jpg)
ALSO: Just by sheer coincidence today I taught the "I Described It with Adjectives' song to some of my younger coworkers. I just love that "It was a hairy bear, it was a scary bear, we made a hasty retreat from there." part.
That's "...beat a hastry retreat from his lair..." :smile:
You have so much energy, and I have most of these kits in box, and had them all back in the day except
the Monster (believe it or not,
all USA issue including The Pendulum, Gruesome Goodies, the Victim, Vampirella...) Now, I have boxed Victim, Gruesome Goodies, the Monster (and loose painted example) Pain Parlor, hmm... some others... I had a display but took it down and packed away during renovations, and haven't looked at in a long time... I was very into collecting '60s and '70s monsters, not so much these days. I did have in the early '70s the Aurora store display exploding volcano and factory painted cave with Neanderthal and allosaur very cooly painted!!! I have a good collection of Aurora Monster model boxes, with a bunch of monster builtups, all packed away for years now. But those are '60s...of the '70s models, I have no prehistoric.
The Aurora MONSTER SCENES were early '70s and all, particularly THE VICTIM, were "rated X for Excitement!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PS_L9s-Xtk
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 21, 2009, 12:20:06 AM
Quote from: Raffine on August 20, 2009, 05:35:38 PM
Quote from: Umaril The Unfeathered on August 20, 2009, 01:09:45 PM
Lastly, anyone remember the old Aurora monster model kits that slowly died out around the mid 70's? They were big in the 60's but times changed, and the Aurora catalog changed also. I remember the Vampirella model kits, and the "Pre-Historic Scene kits" with the cavemen and sabre tooth tiger. Great time for toys, people! :cheers:
I had just about all of the Aurora models. Most went through quite a few paint jobs (including my 'Pimp' Phantom of the Opera complete with white tux and purple trim) and died a violent death by fire and BB gun. We even filmed my Dracula melting with my mom's Super 8 camera. I still occasionally run across a random piece from a 'Prehistoric Scenes' kit in my boxes of junk.
For some reason my cousin's mom, who was a very strict Baptist, bought him all the 'Monster Scenes' kits - including Vampirella and the infamous 'The Victim'. 'The Victim' fit perfectly into all of Dr. Death's torture devices. the kit was later renamed 'Dr. Death's Daughter' which is somehow even more disturbing...
(http://www.wordsandpicturesonline.com/images/victim.jpg)
ALSO: Just by sheer coincidence today I taught the "I Described It with Adjectives' song to some of my younger coworkers. I just love that "It was a hairy bear, it was a scary bear, we made a hasty retreat from there." part.
That's "...beat a hastry retreat from his lair..." :smile:
You have so much energy, and I have most of these kits in box, and had them all back in the day except the Monster (believe it or not, all USA issue including The Pendulum, Gruesome Goodies, the Victim, Vampirella...) Now, I have boxed Victim, Gruesome Goodies, the Monster (and loose painted example) Pain Parlor, hmm... some others... I had a display but took it down and packed away during renovations, and haven't looked at in a long time... I was very into collecting '60s and '70s monsters, not so much these days. I did have in the early '70s the Aurora store display exploding volcano and factory painted cave with Neanderthal and allosaur very cooly painted!!! I have a good collection of Aurora Monster model boxes, with a bunch of monster builtups, all packed away for years now. But those are '60s...of the '70s models, I have no prehistoric.
The Aurora MONSTER SCENES were early '70s and all, particularly THE VICTIM, were "rated X for Excitement!!"
NEWSFLASH!!! They're re-issuing them!!!
http://gammillustrations.bizland.com/monsterkid7/models.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBn2ux5vRHk
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 09, 2009, 06:24:12 AM
This bone hawk interuppted Jack Palance as Dracula-i was really enjoying ol' Jack hamming it up when Tricky Dick threw in the towel-
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrn4l1WA3w&feature=related
I know how that really sux, here's the ending
just for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnN5F19nDA
So...
DAN CURTIS!!! My
fave!!! :lookingup: :drink: :twirl: :lookingup: :bouncegiggle:
Oh, I'm on a wave now... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2H3xuhkZuY&feature=PlayList&p=D55078002F35E6E0&index=9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfrboygxhec&feature=PlayList&p=D55078002F35E6E0&index=7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7UTG-0r_A
Here's a nice tribute to FM and the Warren mags!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PxxO0-yYmg
"The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" a show Burgomaster reminded me of months ago, now I'd really like to look at some of these again; though when it was new I thought it corny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXm7K1Po-tw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsTaVA3CXYQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfl0m6U8IE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmelTlEzI34&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klzt8CgtRlw
I appreciate this way more now then when I was a kid. I think then I thought I was too old for this "urban" tripe, but now I recognize its innocence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UafySyflp5I&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCBeimzXMo&feature=related
You got to do what you got to do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laqrwfzfeyY
And almost as good as the movie... almost...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8vduU-B7o Find this movie if you can.
Nanny and the Professor was a stupid show but had a fantastic theme by the Addrissi Brothers. I also loved the theme for The Courtship Of Eddie's Father by Harry Nilsson.
Soft and sweet,
Wise and wonderful,
Ooh, our mystical, magical Nanny.
Since the day that Nanny came to stay with us
Fantastic things keep happening.
Is there really magic in the things she does?
Or is love the only magic thing that Nanny brings?
You know our Nanny showed us
You can make the impossible happen
Nanny told us
Have a little bit of faith and lots of love.
Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name
And so many silly things keep happening.
What is this magic thing about Nanny, is it love? (or is it magic?)
Quote from: retrorussell on October 28, 2009, 11:41:32 PM
Nanny and the Professor was a stupid show but had a fantastic theme by the Addrissi Brothers. I also loved the theme for The Courtship Of Eddie's Father by Harry Nilsson.
Soft and sweet,
Wise and wonderful,
Ooh, our mystical, magical Nanny.
Since the day that Nanny came to stay with us
Fantastic things keep happening.
Is there really magic in the things she does?
Or is love the only magic thing that Nanny brings?
You know our Nanny showed us
You can make the impossible happen
Nanny told us
Have a little bit of faith and lots of love.
Phoebe Figalilly is a silly name
And so many silly things keep happening.
What is this magic thing about Nanny, is it love? (or is it magic?)
Impressed that you remember that whole lyric. The theme used to be available on youtube, but alas, I can't find it now. Could find this one, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCF7Dnov8vA&feature=related
AHD,
Nanny was a stupid show but somehow I just loved the theme. Courtship Of Eddie's Father was a very good show all around, and a great theme too.
Here's some clips of some of the best TV of the '70s..
GAME SHOWS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2aEM6vLL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6899KRhGcA
And here's an obscure one from 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAd7WR4kql0
And another rarity, from 1976:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5eyEUSk2ig
A couple more..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LREkjZoWAKQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YxWlTZCf9Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmAT77cd9Uw&feature=related
What can I say...? JACKSON 5 ripoff...? TV nadir...? I couldn't watch this program way back when, but I think I'm old enough now, with my educated palate and taste for nostalgia, that I could stand even the moldiest cheeze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW8spd55t8I&feature=related
See what I mean? :twirl: pyew...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YG2NJcnAI
Rankin/Bass did the JACKSON 5 treatment, too, of course. :wink:
Yeah.. Rankin/Bass ripped THEMSELVES off!
More 70s toons..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP60kmd8fYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxxL2YvNkzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD36ZhpHPpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIoHDB1FUOM
Quote from: retrorussell on November 23, 2009, 06:07:54 AM
GAME SHOWS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2aEM6vLL8
I had THE JOKER'S WILD home game when I was a kid. Instead of spinning the wheels, you used 3 decks of cards. When it was your turn, you turned over the top card on each deck ("Joker", "Joker", and a triple!) Then you answered questions from a booklet that came with the game. Of course, I was way too young to know most of the answers, but I enjoyed flipping the cards over.
Yeah, this one.
(http://www.curtalliaume.com/jokers01.jpg)
I used to dream I had the actual slides and lever in my bedroom. I remembered the Devil in the bonus round creeped me out.. then I noticed he looked just like Jack Barry. Then Jack Barry began to creep me out.
INTERPNETARY JANET the little rocket lady and NAGHTY NUMER NINE the cat using the mouse for a poolball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPEvKsme-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqw0LMdFR3Q