Posts Tagged ‘1981’

Thrifty Ice Cream

March 4th, 2010

Thrifty Drugs had the BEST ice cream ever and it’s STILL selling at RITE AID. Can you say, yummy? Originally aired on KHJ in 1981. ALL COPYRIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGED

Thrifty Ice Cream

March 4th, 2010

Thrifty Drugs had the BEST ice cream ever and it’s STILL selling at RITE AID. Can you say, yummy? Originally aired on KHJ in 1981. ALL COPYRIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGED

Thief (1981) Part 4

March 1st, 2010

Part 4 of Thief from 1981. Frank finally gets to keep his dinner-date with the lady at the restaurant he hit on back in part 2. Unfortunately, Franks work made him late, which leads to a really bad first impression for Jessie. So Frank takes her somewhere to have a serious sit-down, where they both share their backgrounds as ex-cons. Then Frank begins to tell an important story about his early years in jail. Here are some liner notes from the DVD box, which you wont find on Wikipedia or anywhere else that I can find. They supposedly come from the press release for the film: Although best known today for such uniquely American fare as Miami Vice TV series, The Last of the Mohicans, and Heat, Chicago-native Michael Mann began his filmmaking career in England as a director of commercials and documentaries. After spend 7 years in England, Mann returned to the US, where he began writing for TV shows (Starsky and Hutch, Police Story, Vega$). In 1979, he helmed the TV movie The Jericho Mile, for which he received a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials. Thief marked Manns first feature film project. Manns screenplay is loosely based on the novel The Home Invaders, a veritable textbook on robbery, written by Frank Hohimer. The author, a real-life cat burglar, was still in prison at the time the film was being made.

“A Love Letter to Jack Benny” – 1981 – part 6 of 9!

February 17th, 2010

Here is the lead-off video of this new youtube Channel! This is a GREAT Jack Benny special, probably the best one I have of him. “A Love Letter to Jack Benny” aired on NBC on Feb. 5, 1981, and was hosted by 3 of Jack’s closest friends – Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and George Burns. ALL 4 of these great comedians are long gone, unfortunately. Also, notice the special effects in this show, they are an early form of a then-new effect called squeezoom, which is hardly used anymore. This recording is an off-the-air original, with commercials cut out, and shows how great even my oldest Beta tapes still look!! This is part 6 of 9.

‘The Greatest American Hero’ [01] TV Promo – 1981

February 11th, 2010

1981 ABC TV show promo spot for 'The Greatest American Hero'.