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The first line of the song goes "Saturday morning serials, Chapters 1-15" They are referring to the cliffhanger movie serials that were shown at the neighborhood theaters on Saturday afternoons. The serial chapter ran about 12-15 and wrapped up the matinee program of a double feature (western a...

Haunted Ranch showed Davy Sharpe enlisting in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to explain why he was leaving the plot midway through the picture. His role as one of the Range Busters was taken by Rex Lease. In the next few films, John King was given the lead role with Dennis Moore and Max Terhune ...

This is a remake. The original "Mickey and the Beanstalk" was part of a Disney feature, "Fun and Fancy Free." It was released in 1947 and there was also a Golden Big Book issued of the same title. Luanna Patten, who was making films with Bobby Driscoll at the time, and Edgar Bergen with Charlie M...

I would have loved this routine way back when I was in the second grade. The teacher would make me do math problems at the blackboard and I would use this routine to prove my answer. "Did you go to school stupid." Yeah, and I came out the same way.

They also do the routine with a group of college girls as the audience in "Here Come the Coeds" (Universal, 1945).

Bad casting choice by Allied Artists (formerly Monogram Pictures) to take Wild Bill Elliott out of his western togs and dress him up like Joe Friday. As a cowboy, he was cool but as a plainsclothesman, he was dull.

Dan Dare was Britain's answer to Captain Video and other sci-fi heroes of the Fifties. His comic strip appeared in the Sunday tabloid. I used to have a Dan Dare pop-up book as a child. The figures stood up as you turned the pages.

Colorization does nothing for this serial. First off, Linda Stirling was a dark brunette and color makes her hair lighter. The somber blacks and greys give the serial more mystery. Color is just added for those people who feel that it makes the movie more up to date. Originally these serials ...

@MARK1HOE The reason that Kay Aldridge wore those culottes is to keep the censors happy. According to director William Witney, Frances Gifford in the first Jungle girl serial wore a short skirt that kept hiking up those delectable thighs. Also in the long shorts, Ms. Aldridge could be better do...

I would like to know what was on the flip side of that record. I recall seeing a 45rpm demonstration record (used in record shops) with the Chinese Waiter routine on one side. On the other side was a routine about Gene Autry. This guy had a accent and he talked about going to see Gene Autry mov...

Jack Benny got a lot of mileage out of ribbing this song. He did a whole routine about asking Phil to explain each one of the lyrics. He did another routine out of trying to find Doo-Wa-Diddie on a Rand McNalley map.

I had a 78rpm record of Big Bear Lake (Capitol label). I never knew it was a popular song at the time. On the flip side, Mel did "I'm just wild about animal crackers" in which he did the Porky Pig and Bugs voice. At the age of five, I appreciated that song better than the other. There were Loo...

Jerry might have said to the guy who wanted to do an impersonation (in a kidding way), "Amateur night is tomorrow night. Leave your name with the girl when you go out." If I was going to do an impersonation of Jerry, I would mimic him saying, "Dean...oh...Dean" or "La--a--ady." I don't associate...

I still prefer Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon as a team together. They really hit off together. Jerry Lewis should have half as much talent as McMahon for all of his cheap shots.

I was seven years old when I learned that Roy's birthday was Nov. 5, three days after mine, and he was born in Cincinnati, like I was. That's when I knew I had chosen the right cowboy hero. Met him when I was 12 at Ohio State Fair, and even though I may have been a little old for playing cowboys,...

Early "cheating" CW song. Wakely's daughter told of how her father attended a church service where the minister criticized the song as being degrading to public morals..And this was in 1949. Wakely never went back to that church again.

This song clip is from "Road to Rio" (1947). Bing and Bob just happen to be a boat going to South America, on which the Andrews Sisters are passengers.

What I would like to know is where the Yahoo website censor is. I thought that there was a terms and conditions menu that determined the type of language that could or couldn't be used. Can't you people engage in debate without using profanity and insult? Immature behaviour seems to be running ...

Tallulah Bankhead was the hostess of a big time radio show, called "The Big Show." It was on Sunday nights in the early Fifties, with a lot of big stars. The idea was to pull back the audience which had been lost to television. Tallulah's "theatah" way of talking probably put some people off. ...

This song was used in a documentary on Gene Autry. They showed kids coming to a Saturday afternoon movie in the back of a pickup truck. Of course, it was staged, but it did show how Autry's films were big at neighborhood theaters in the South and rural areas. They would run a Roy Rogers-Gene Au...

@Rickslic90 The person who is stupid is you. Christmas is a time for happiness, peace and for some of us "old people" a chance to revisit our youth. I pity you that you had to become so cynical at such a young age. Maybe you should read "A Christmas Carol" over again.

The reason that nobody else saw Santa is because he appears only to innocent beautiful children like this girl. Why do adults enjoy cross-examining children about things like this. It isn't like the child lives in a totally fantasy world. Kids in their own way get more out of the Christmas seaso...

I can't believe that anyone would believe this obvious "put-on". The woman is far too articulate and good looking to pass for a home schooler, fundamentalist parent. If she had used a hillbilly accent, was a few pounds heavier, it might have gone over. She sounds like she's mimicking Sarah Pal...

The original Mighty Mouse TV show showed the old black and white cartoons of the mnvies (or so they appeared on early TV). It aired on Saturday mornings about 10 a.m. on CBS. Andy Kaufman (Taxi) had an early routine in which he would pantomine to this song.

I met Fred Foy at an OTR convention in Cincinnati a few years ago. He was sitting in the room where they were doing a LR re-enactment. I was impressed by his height and appearance. He greeted me with a smile and gave me his autograph. For a moment, I was eight years old again, listening to hi...

I got a copy of Yvonne Craig's autobiography "From Ballet to the Batcave" personally autographed because I am friends with a former co-worker of hers. Yvonne has also sent me some nice autographed photos.

The stunt referred to is similar to the jump used by tennis players to come over the net to shake hands with their opponents. Both Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones made frequent use of the "Crouper Mount" where the cowboy takes a run up to the horse, putting both hands on the horse's rump and vaulti...

You never ask an interview guest "What's Your Book About?" You should have already perused (browsed) the book and get some basic information. You don't make the guest carry the whole ball. Don Kay Reynolds had been a rodeo performer to the movies. As "Little Brown Jug" he worked in Durango Ki...

@JhonnyDaemon Because he was a disguntled employee who wanted to go home. It also emphasized that even Santa agreed with parents about how dangerous air rifles could be. This is my favorite scene in the whole movie.

You found the Daisy Air Rifle target but you don't show the Red Ryder B-B gun. Most of these toys came from late Fifties and early Sixties. No video games or I pods but toys that you could get involved with. What one video game cost today, our parents could have bought us enough toys for an enti...

Whoever donated their family Christmas pictures to this video...a very big Thank You. Seems like we had to pose with our toys for the camera. Unfortunately my family didn't have a camera for indoor shots. We have one photo of all of the grandchildren with my grandmother (who looked like and acted...

Here's a black woman who is supposed to be a tax expert and she's going to find a tax code number to make prostitution legal. At some point in the interview, I would have said "Are you guys for real. Get out of here. Don't waste my time." That one girl knew a hell of lot about working the street...

Really great video. You have a nice layout of track. When I saw you winding up the engine, I wanted to say "Don't wind it too tight or it will break." Should have known that those old clockwork trains ran for ever. I had one back in 1946 that I'm sure would still run today.

The jungle scenes were filmed at Corriganville Movie Ranch, including the high dive from the rock into Robin Hood Lake. I believe Crash Corrigan was the guy inside of the gorilla suit.

Phyllis had a lot of practice screaming. She was Lols Lane on the first season of Superman, had made Monogram westerns with Whip Wilson and appeared with Clayton Moore in Republic's Jungle Drums of Africa in 1953, She is reputed to be the last of the Cliffhanger Serial Queens.

You might be old enough to recall Jungle Jim on TV, but what about the movies that were made. There were 12 in the series and the first was in 1948. George Reeves played a villianous photographer. Screen Gems then took the series to TV in 1956,

This was Ruth Roman's first film

"Ridin' Down the Canyon" was a song that Smiley Burnette wrote in about 20 minutes and sold it to Autry for about $5. The two were driving out to California from Chicago to begin a career in western movies. Autry recorded the song and made it a hit. Burnette never got any of the residuals. Once...

I'll always remember Christopher Lloyd as Jim, the burned out driver on Taxi. The scene where he's taking his driving test is a classic. "What does the yellow light mean," "Slow Down"

The kid will never be the actor or the gentleman his father John Carradine was. Carradine worked in a lot of schlock pictures just to be working. His portrayal of Dracula (even in a B film) was ten times better than Lugosi. If it hadn't been forKung Fu, nobody would even remember David Carradine.

I used to have a gold plated Roy Rogers cap gun like the ones he used in the movies and on comic book covers. It is known as the Roy Rogers '49er among capgun collectors. I never knew why until I heard Dusty's story. Apparently, it came out in 1949 as part of the Roy Rogers merchandising campaign...

Part of the fun is being able to distinguish the new clips from the old clips. The real fun comes from trying to guess the actresses who appeared in the old clips and what movies these were taken from. As a senior FrontrowKid, I can spot some of them: Jennifer Holt, Evelyn Finley, Nancy Gates, N...