A Charlie Brown Christmas is an animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Produced by Lee Mendelson and directed by Bill Melendez, the program made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965. In the special, lead character Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a school Christmas play, but he is both ignored and mocked by his peers. The story touches on the over-commercialization and secularism of Christmas, and serves to remind viewers of the true meaning of Christmas (the birth of Jesus Christ).
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9. Retro Saturday Morning: The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour (1960-2000)(ABC/CBS)
The Bugs Bunny Show (Better known as The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour) is a long-running American television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros.. Because Warner Bros. did not have the copyrights to their pre-1948 cartoons (their copyrights, but not their original negatives, were sold to Associated Artists Productions in 1956), the show only could air cartoons released between "You Were Never Duckier" and "Injun Trouble". Despite the black and white cartoons (excluding the 1931-33 Merrie Melodies, except "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!") being back in Warner's ownership by 1969, they were never shown.
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8. The Sad Fate Of Illinois Central 0-6-0 Locomotive 333
I'm sad to report that the famous former Illinois Central 0-6-0 Steam Locomotive #333 is in very bad shape rusting away in the weeds of the Tioga Heritage Museum. To look at this once mighty locomotive it is hard to believe that not too long ago it, and several other pieces of vintage rolling stock, were once on prominent display in Louisiana's state capitol.
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7. It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966)(CBS)
The story opens with Linus and Lucy going out into a nearby pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. After rejecting a couple of smaller choices by Linus, Lucy points to the biggest pumpkin in the bunch, which Linus clumsily rolls back home. When they get home, Lucy takes a big knife and slices into the pumpkin to gut it, at which point a mortified Linus says "Ohhhh, you didn't tell me you were going to kill it!", and starts wailing.
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I'm sad to report that the famous former Illinois Central 0-6-0 Steam Locomotive #333 is in very bad shape rusting away in the weeds of the Tioga Heritage Museum. To look at this once mighty locomotive it is hard to believe that not too long ago it, and several other pieces of vintage rolling stock, were once on prominent display in Louisiana's state capitol.
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The story opens with Linus and Lucy going out into a nearby pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin. After rejecting a couple of smaller choices by Linus, Lucy points to the biggest pumpkin in the bunch, which Linus clumsily rolls back home. When they get home, Lucy takes a big knife and slices into the pumpkin to gut it, at which point a mortified Linus says "Ohhhh, you didn't tell me you were going to kill it!", and starts wailing.
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In 1979 the Milton Bradley decided to capitalize on the Star Wars craze by producing a line of space adventure toys. The coolest of these was the electronic Star Bird space transport with electronic sound effects that were cutting edge for the time. If you turned the toy on it would make flying sounds that changed when you lifted it and turned it side to side or pointed it downward. When you pushed a button behind the cockpit the laser cannons in front glowed red and the ship emitted laser sounds. Pretty cool stuff!
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5. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (CBS)(1973)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is an Emmy award-winning animated television special based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, directed by Phil Roman and Bill Melendez. It originally aired on CBS on November 20, 1973 and continues to air annually in the United States on a date near to the Thanksgiving holiday. It has aired on ABC since 2001.
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4. Tracing The Rock Island Railroad Through Lecompte, Louisiana
Fast forward to present day. My family moved to Lecompte, Louisiana over two years ago and I was excited to learn the the once mighty Rock Island line once ran smack dab through the middle of town. Of course the Rock Island went bankrupt in the late 70s and the tracks of this once large Class 1 railroad were torn up in these parts in 1979.
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3. M.E. Moses Five and Dime Store - Vernon, Texas
One of my favorite stores from the past was the M.E. Moses Five and Dime Store on Main Street in Vernon, Texas. For those of you to young to remember what a ‘Five and Dime’ store was, it was an old-fashioned discount store. As you may have guessed the name literally meant that everything was around five and ten cents in price. Of course, you would have had to travel way back in time to get those kinds of bargains. Way further back than my memories of the mid 1970s anyway.
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2. MeTV Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night Should Become "Sci-Fi Saturday"
If you grew up a major Sci-Fi Geek like me then you have probably really enjoyed MeTV's "Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night" programming that showcases many of the classic fantasy TV series that we all grew up with. As many of you know the cable network recently shifted many of these series into late-night time slots and moved the Svengoolie show (A late night horror host program from Chicago that shows classic horror and sci-fi movies) into prime-time. I personally think that this was a mistake.
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1. Remembering When Grandpa Munster Helped New Mexico Become A Basketball Powerhouse
It's funny how things just pop into your mind from time to time. Memories that have been forgotten for decades just unexpectedly emerge from the far corners of the brains complex filing system at the strangest times. Such is this memory of Al Lewis, who is most famous for playing Grandpa on the 60s television series The Munsters, being interviewed during New Mexico Lobo basketball games in the 1980s.
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