Are You Afraid of the Dark TV Show
The age-old tradition of the campfire ghost story got a 1990’s update in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? Debuting as part of the Friday night SNICK block in 1992, the show featured a …..[CONTINUE]
Retro Encyclopedia
L.A. Gear Fashion
“Your ticket to Los Angeles, no matter where you live.” With L.A. Gear’s fancy footwear on your feet, whether you were in Los Angeles or Kansas, you were the height of fashion. Founded in 1983, …..[CONTINUE]
Hulk Hogan’s Rock and Wrestling Cartoon
Professional wrestling had been around long before television, but the mid-80’s brought new levels of popularity to the much-maligned “sport.” Due to the business savvy of Vince McMahon, pro wrestling became one of the most …..[CONTINUE]
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]
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]
The Beastmaster
Every film lover has a ‘guilty pleasure, a movie one enjoys despite what popular opinion says about it. The designation has been applied to films as diverse as Grease and Plan 9 From Outer Space, …..[CONTINUE]
Axis & Allies Board Game
Hey, kids! Now you can control the Nazi army in its fight to inherit the earth! Okay, so there may have been something slightly disturbing about having players “become” the army of the master race …..[CONTINUE]
Ms. Pac-Man Arcade Game
What do you give the video game that has everything? The original Pac-Man was all that a good arcade game should be easy to learn, difficult to master, incredibly addictive. Machines became choked on quarters …..[CONTINUE]
Pirates of Dark Water Cartoon
Saturday morning cartoons got a little more grown-up with the debut of Hanna-Barbera’s Pirates of Dark Water in 1991. Blending sci-fi with swords and sorcery, the show had more in common with Japanese anime than …..[CONTINUE]
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
As television rose to prominence in the early 1950’s, it provided a new entertainment frontier for science fiction to conquer. The result was a flood of sci-fi shows like Captain Video, Space Patrol, and the …..[CONTINUE]
The Dudley Do-Right Show
Originally just one segment on the hilarious The Bullwinkle Show, the Canadian Mountie soon brought his chin-cleft good looks and high morals to his own program, The Dudley Do-Right Show. Dudley’s main interest, aside from his duties …..[CONTINUE]
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
Tennessee Tuxedo lived in the Megopolis Zoo, but he yearned for more than eating fish and swimming in freezing water. The determined penguin never stopped thinking of new and different ways to make himself successful. …..[CONTINUE]
The Berenstain Bears
The characters of the popular children’s books by Stan and Jan Berenstain came to Saturday-morning in 1985. The episodes varied little from the books, emphasizing family and good moral behavior. Living in Beartown, the family …..[CONTINUE]
It’s Punky Brewster Cartoon
One of the most talked-about new series for NBC in 1984 was Punky Brewster. The show starred newcomer Soleil Moon Frye as the latest entrant in the “cute kid” sitcom derby (Diff’rent Strokes and the like). Punky …..[CONTINUE]
The Snorks
Take a Smurf, stick a snorkel on his head, put him underwater and force him to replace the word “Smurf” with the word “Snork” when he speaks, and you’ve got the basis for The Snorks. The premise …..[CONTINUE]
