Television
Weebles
Certainly one of the weirder toys that ever became popular. No distinguishing attraction other than wobbliness.
"You Jane, me Weeble!"
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 11, 2023 -
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Category: Television, Toys, Advertising, 1970s
Señor Wences
Once upon a time, pop culture was very different.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 07, 2023 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, Surrealism, Twentieth Century
Peter Gunn Theme—With Lyrics
A very famous song, in one of its lesser known, more wild-eyed versions.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 02, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Television, Adaptations, Reworkings, Recastings and New Versions, 1950s, 1960s
Miss Paramount Week
This beauty prize is plenty weird on its own. Most beauty queen titles are not delimited by a timeframe. Of course, the winners of the most famous contests generally reign for a year. A week seems a short splurge. But this winner, actress/singer/model Sandy Warner, also notches up another claim to WU fame. She was the cover girl for many of Martin Denny's exotica albums. Read about her at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Movies, Music, Space-age Bachelor Pad & Exotic, Television, 1950s, 1960s
Woops!
A comedy about life after nuclear Armageddon.Fox cancelled the series in late November. At the time, it was ranked 105th out of 108 weekly shows [54]. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired; the last was broadcast on December 6th.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 01, 2023 -
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Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1990s
Win a Pony!
Maybe this 1950s contest was the inspiration for the famous episode of THE SIMPSONS where Bart won an elephant.A survey of newspaper records indicate the contest ran multiple times from 1952 to 1955. I wonder how many ponies were actually accepted and delivered?
But Roy and Dale could never cause any trouble, could they?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 18, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Television, Children, Cereal, Wild West and US Frontier
Miss Color TV
Apparently the contest continued beyond 1956 (first and second images), because the advertisement that follows is from 1959.
Ann Daly (No. 25) screams as she is declared "Miss Color-TV" in beauty contest at Palisades Amusement Park, N.J.; other contestants stand alongside her.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 08, 2023 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Television, 1950s
The Better Sex
Surely this could be rebooted for 2023 in our absolutely carefree and non-contentious cultural atmosphere.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 03, 2023 -
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Category: Games, Rivalries, Feuds and Grudges, Television, Men, Women
Endogen Depression—Turkeys and TV sets
The art installation "Endogen Depression," by Wolf Vostell, consisted of 30 television sets, partially cast in concrete, and five live turkeys.Vostell presented this installation once in the U.S., at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, in December 1980.
source: LA Public Library
Text from the LA Times (Dec 17, 1980):
Vostell means to contrast the sophistication of TVs and turkeys. The birds win handily. He also feels we can learn more from reputedly stupid turkeys than from television, but the comparison may not be a fiar one. The TV drone is so familiar and the programming so low-level, we quickly accept it as easily tuned-out background noise. Turkeys, on the other hand, look downright exotic to city folks who have never encountered one off a serving dish and wearing its feathers.
You can check out a video of the turkeys and TVs from the 1980 event at vimeo.com (embedding was disabled).
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 18, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Television, 1980s
“The Mouse That Roared” Unsold Television Pilot
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 14, 2022 -
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Category: Movies, Television, Unlikely, Improbable and Counterfactual Phenomena, 1960s
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