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 at ESU, Peter met fellow …….continure reading
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 successful entertainment ventures in the …….continure reading
Proving that we indeed are a one-world community, NBC president Fred Silverman bought the rights to the Flemish created characters known as the Smurfs and turned them into one of the most successful and smurfiest cartoons ever to hit the air. Created …….continure reading
Disney’s first foray into Saturday morning was The Gummi Bears, a half-hour adventure series about a charming sextet of anthropomorphic, medieval bears. In a unique move for the time, the cartoon was based not on a comic strip, plush doll, or …….continure reading
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 as a mountie, was the …….continure reading
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. Whether it was starting a …….continure reading
The Bullwinkle Show, a pun-filled satire on melodramatic cliffhangers, debuted in 1959 under the title Rocky and His Friends. Created by TV animation pioneer Jay Ward, the show was an instant success with both kids—who loved the show’s crazy characters—and their …….continure reading
Today marks the 73rd birthday of the greatest professional wrestler of my lifetime, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, so for this edition of Retro Ramblings, I want to share with some thoughts about the best of all time. When I first …….continure reading
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