The Bad News Bears
Written by Bill Lancaster (Burt’s son) and directed by Michael Ritchie (who had helmed adult fare like The Candidate and Smile), this winning 1976 film worked on a lot of levels—and not just the “hey, …..[CONTINUE]
Yesterdayland Archives
Looking Back at Electric Football
With the Superbowl coming up this weekend, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at a time before video game systems emulated the fun of football inside the home. A …..[CONTINUE]
Lazer Tag
“The game that moves at the speed of light.” If you were a kid in 1986, you probably remember the hype. For months before Worlds of Wonder finally released Lazer Tag, the company built up …..[CONTINUE]
Thundarr the Barbarian Cartoon
Forget the global chaos myth that was Y2K. In the world of Thundarr the Barbarian, the end of civilization occurred six years earlier, when, in 1994, a runaway planet hurtled between the earth and the mooon, …..[CONTINUE]
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends Cartoon
Marvel Comics’ famed webslinger returned to Saturday morning in 1981 with a pair of new companions. In this incarnation, Peter Parker was a college student at Empire State University, boarding with his Aunt May. While …..[CONTINUE]
Mister T Cartoon
“I pity the fool…” A catchphrase as instantly recognizable as the man behind it. Big, tough, Mohawk-sporting (the haircut was technically a Mandinkan, to the purists), and decked out in over $300,000 worth of gold …..[CONTINUE]
Alvin and the Chipmunks Cartoon
“Aaaalviiiin!!” Ross Bagdasarian created an unlikely smash when he changed his name to David Seville, multitracked his own voice, and recorded the novelty single “The Chipmunk Song.” That led to 1961’s The Alvin Show, which gave …..[CONTINUE]