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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:23 PM

If someone were writing a paper about the crap amateur athletes had to put up with in the mid-20th century, a great source would be old episodes of I've Got a Secret. Every time they had an Olympic athlete on, after his appearance, the host would bring the show to a dead stop to explain to the audience that, in order to keep his standing as an amateur, said athlete will not be keeping the eighty dollars he just won. Instead he would be donating the money. To whom? The Amateur Athletics Association (that is, the people who decide whether keeping eighty bucks from a game show appearance is OK).

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:14 PM

Speaking of mid-60's spy shows, I Spy season sets are $12.99 a piece at Best Buy. A bargain at twice the price.

I mocked Robert Culp for referring to himself and Bill Cosby as "Culp and Cosby". However, in the first season, he wrote an episode called "The Loser". In this episode,

His character is only around for a few seconds in the first 20 minutes.
Cosby's character gets a love interest
Cosby gets to do some acting because the girl is a drug addict.

This would be the equivalent of William Shatner writing "Amok Time".

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:11 PM

When Don Adams died, I obsessed over a Bob Hope special he did in 1966 called "Murder in NBC" starring a mess o' comedy stars. This special has been posted in its entirety on the YouTube. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:09 PM

A humorous parody of Boing Boing

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:07 PM

Three months later...

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