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moax429 17th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Young Americans - Presented By Johnny Mathis	If you look closely, Vicki Lawrence is the third from the left in the fourth row.
moax429 17th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Young Americans - While We're Young	I read somewhere Vicki Lawrence of The Carol Burnett Show was a member of this group. But, looking at the personnel on the back cover, she wasn't in this lineup. (Maybe because Carol Burnett was about to premiere four months later?)
moax429 3rd Feb 2019		Vinyl Album The Partridge Family - The World Of The Partridge Family	Another piece of trivia: Screen Gems Television, which made the Partridge Family series, "morphed into" Columbia Pictures Television right after the show was canceled in September 1974. Columbia Pictures Television retained that name until 1996, when they became known as Columbia TriStar Television (in 1986, for one year only, Columbia Pictures Television was known as Coca-Cola Telecommunications, after their then-current owner). In January 2006, the TV division assumed its current name, Sony Pictures Television (in September 1989, Sony purchased Columbia Pictures). After Bell became Arista Records in late 1974, they were still a division of Columbia Pictures until March 1979, at which time Arista was purchased by the German Ariola Eurodisc company. In early 1986, Ariola also purchased RCA Records, and the company became RCA/Ariola. In mid-1988, the German Bertlesmann company bought out RCA/Ariola, and both RCA and Arista were put under BMG Music's aegis. Finally, in the mid-2000's, Sony purchased BMG, and all of BMG's labels were now under Sony's roof. So - in short - the entire Partridge Family saga, both audio and video, is all back together again now at Sony. (Unfortunately, Sony folded Arista in 2011 and placed that label's catalog under RCA Records' administration. Technically, RCA now owns all those classic Partridge Family hits under Sony - very sad.)
moax429 1st May 2017		TV Here's Lucy (1968 - 1974)	Even funnier than The Lucy Show. I'm looking forward to buying the entire series box set of Here's Lucy once I get all major bills paid off (it runs about $150).
moax429 12th Apr 2017		TV That's My Mama (1974 - 1975)	I remember That's My Mama was one of the first shows from Columbia Pictures Television in 1974, after they had changed their name from Screen Gems. Hard to believe Sony owns this program and most of the other Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television shows now.
moax429 6th Mar 2017		TV Remington Steele (1982 - 1987)	One reason this show filmed in Ireland is because (the late, great) Mary Tyler Moore's production company - who made this show - bought a film studio in Dublin, Ireland in 1986.
moax429 3rd Feb 2017		TV Going Bananas (1984)	23skidoo: Yes, it was shot on videotape. I didn't think "wiping" was still prevalent into the 80's. And I thought when Warner Bros. took control of Going Bananas - that is, once they purchased Turner Entertainment Co., which last owned Hanna-Barbera - the show would have been safely locked away in their vaults. I can only hope a miracle happens that the other episodes of this show will be located if they are indeed "lost."
moax429 1st Feb 2017		TV Going Bananas (1984)	Located and uploaded opening title screen. I was surprised to discover at lostmediawikia.com that not too many episodes of Going Bananas are surviving, and a few that are are dubbed into Portugese. Funny, considering Warner Bros. now owns Going Bananas (when they bought Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1998, Warner Bros. supposedly inherited this show), and that it's of fairly recent vintage. Let's hope Warners might have some archival prints of the show in their vaults.
moax429 16th Dec 2016		TV The Alvin Show (1961 - 1962)	Located and uploaded opening title screen.
moax429 22nd Nov 2016		TV Amanda's (1983)	I liked Amanda's much better than Fawlty Towers. One episode I remember and couldn't stop laughing about was when Amanda and her crew were auditioning acts for an upcoming talent show, and one of the acts was a dancing chicken (Amanda commented, "Her splits remind me of Ann-Margret"). Then the night of the talent show a customer orders chicken fricassee, and Amanda and her workers wonder where the star disappeared to. The customer eventually finds a drumstick in his chicken fricassee with a legwarmer on it! I can only hope CBS (who now owns Viacom, who produced Amanda's), Shout! Factory, or some other DVD label might release a DVD box set of this series. Maybe one or all three of the remaining episodes of Amanda's ABC neglected to air will have some even funnier moments.
moax429 20th Oct 2016		TV Thicke Of The Night (1983 - 1984)	Agreed, 23skidoo.
moax429 19th Oct 2016		TV Thicke Of The Night (1983 - 1984)	And now Ted Turner has the dubious honor of owning the tapes of this show.
moax429 14th Oct 2016		TV The Last Resort [US] (1979 - 1980)	It's not hard to understand why this series only lasted about six months. It stunk!
moax429 12th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Dangerous Christmas Of Red Riding Hood	Too bad I never got a chance to see this special when I was just a kid (I was only 3 years old when it first aired). Why isn't The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood on DVD? I presume ABC Studios produced the show and therefore Disney - which now owns ABC - would own the DVD rights. (I believe this album - if the masters still exist - would now be owned by Universal Music via Geffen Records.)
moax429 12th Oct 2016		Vinyl Album The Impressions - Greatest Hits	I presume you mean the label with the "Mobius strip and sound wave" logo. The page you cross-referenced posts an error notice when opened. ABC Paramount became ABC Records in 1966 when the parent company changed its name to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. Then-label president Larry Newton felt record buyers could better identify with the ABC network logo, as well as provide for better cross-promotion. (ABC had also branched out into such industries at that time as theatrical films, Broadway stage productions, and book publishing.)
moax429 12th Oct 2016		TV Westwind (1975 - 1976)	Thanks!
moax429 8th Oct 2016		TV Westwind (1975 - 1976)	One of my favorite shows when I was 14. Pity it isn't currently available on DVD or in syndicated reruns (because of the limited number of shows made in this series). 23skidoo, is there a title screen for Westwind you know of? I had trouble finding one. Thanks.
moax429 2nd Oct 2016		TV Mulligan Stew (1972)	Remembered watching this in 5th grade in elementary school in Lansing, Michigan (I had no idea there were local connections); the class also received copies of the accompanying comic book. Saw Mulligan Stew one last time in 1979 (episode #5 only) when we lived in the Chicago suburb of Glenwood, Illinois; it aired on PBS affiliate WTTW, channel 11 in Chicago. Sure wish this would be released on DVD. I also understand the young actress who played Micki (or was it Maggie?) is, sadly, no longer with us.
moax429 2nd Oct 2016		TV Runaround (1972 - 1973)	23skidoo: I was the one who submitted the notes. But if you say Winchell's estate would likely not have any copies, then thanks for elucidating. (I always thought the stars of a show got a copy of a tape for themselves, much like Jackie Gleason got kinescopes of the "lost" Honeymooners episodes after they first aired in the 50's. Only Gleason was smart to have kept all the copies he owned of those "lost" episodes in his own refrigerated vault until he decided to release them in the summer of 1985.)
moax429 1st Oct 2016		TV Runaround (1972 - 1973)	I can only hope Paul Winchell's estate owns all 13 episodes of Runaround and contract with MGM, Shout! Factory or some other DVD label and put them all on DVD. I distinctly remember this show - I was only 10 when it premiered - and seeing it again would bring back some pleasant, untapped memories. I especially enjoyed Runaround because I also remember writing to the TV question-and-answer column of the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal in January 1973, asking them if they knew if the show would return that fall. To which they replied they weren't sure - it was too soon to know at that time since no information from NBC was available yet - but that Runaround "had fairly good ratings and we'd say it's a good bet to be back." Wrong! That fall, NBC replaced Runaround with Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, which ran for two years. (And to be sure, I got some ribbing from my classmates in school about my letter in the paper - but hey, it was worth a shot, and I had my 15 minutes of fame.)

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