Ten years ago I did a series of posts here looking back at the year 1974, and now that that year is officially a half century in the past, I find myself thinking about it again. In particular, I was…
Halloween is nearly here, and next week brings the even scarier reality of another presidential election, but for me this time of year always brings memories of another annual tradition: the Christmas catalog, or as they were officially known, “wishbooks.”…
At one point I had grand plans for this blog to review whole seasons of a favorite old TV show, The Six Million Dollar Man. Ultimately, I made it as far as the pilot movie, two follow-up TV movies and the…
Back in the blow-dried, bell-bottomed 1970s, I was one of the millions of little boys who ran around a playground in simulated slow motion pretending to fight robots and death probes as The Six Million Dollar Man. Nowadays, the miracle of…
We try to keep down the TV time in our house, but it occurs to me even if my kids are watching a lot less than I did at their age, they’re still getting a lot more out of it.…
At some point in the last few months, I noticed everything happened in 1974. Well, okay so maybe not everything, and certainly not everything good. In the headlines that year, Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace to avoid impeachment in the…
As noted in an earlier post, the highly-rated (and Hugo nominated) TV movie adaptation of Martin Caidin’s Cyborg aired in March, 1973, selling its audience on the outlandish notion of a half-mechanized superhero and launching the 70s cultural phenomenon we…
Wow, even for a guy who runs in slow motion, this has been a long time coming. For about as long as we’ve had DVDs and the internet, I’ve been haunting the “TV Shows on DVD” website, hoping to see…
In the spring of 1973, ABC television aired a made-for-TV adaptation of Martin Caidin’s novel, “Cyborg,” introducing Steve Austin to millions of viewers and launching a 70s pop culture phenomenon. The film opens with ex-astronaut Austin suiting up to pilot…
Assuming anyone reads this blog, you may have noticed I recently made the switch from Blogger to Word Press. Among the many reasons for this was my goal of posting videos of the kids (and what not) without having to…
