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Even Dr. Who promoted computers - VIDEO
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Doctor Who, Retro Squad, Reality-Free  Okay, when I posted about the television personalities that have pitched computers, I didn't think that this would become a series. Yet, when I saw a comment from reader ThomasD, I had to prep another one because, frankly, this one is weird.
The ad features the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and then-current companion Romana, played by Lalla Ward, which puts the commercial sometime around 1980. The Prime automated office system seems to be a part of Prime Computer, a Massachusetts-based company that produced microcomputers from 1972 until 1992....
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Saturday Morning: 1972 (Part 2) - VIDEOS
Filed under: Video, Animation, Children, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Saturday Morning  Last time on Saturday Morning we took a look at the ABC schedule for the 1972-73 season. This time around, we are looking at the lineups for CBS and NBC.
As mentioned in the previous post, the way that the Saturday morning schedule shaped-up during 1972 was due, in part, to the way that then Saturday Morning programmer for ABC, Michael Eisner, decided to infuse it with a bit of primetime philosophy. The result for the other two networks was a schedule that featured more movie-like and variety-based cartoons as well as animated...
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Five more television personalities who have pitched computers - VIDEOS
Filed under: Video, Commercials, Celebrities, Retro Squad, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free  Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to take you into the world of how a writer of TV-related items thinks during his day. After reading about Jerry Seinfeld's new role as pitchman for Microsoft's Vista operating system my mind didn't turn to thoughts of how Jerry has become a corporate shill and will do anything to get his mug back on television. Nor did I think about the many pluses and minuses of Microsoft Vista. No, what I reflected upon was the...
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Saturday Morning: 1972 (Part 1) - VIDEOS
Filed under: Video, Animation, Children, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Saturday Morning  With a couple of Osmonds, a few Brady kids, an old Chinese detective, a dog and his mystery-solving friends, and Bill Cosby, the second Saturday Morning Revolution began in earnest in 1972. And, it was a long road to hoe to get to this point. That was thanks to the radical changes that needed to be made to the schedule during the late 60s and first few years of the 70s. Changes that were the result of mounting complaints by citizen action committees as well as nervous network...
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Saturday Morning: 1971 - VIDEOS
Filed under: Video, Animation, Children, Retro Squad, Reality-Free, Saturday Morning  Like the year 1965 was before the Saturday morning cartoon explosion of 1966, the year 1971 was also the calm before another storm. After years of producing and airing show after show, the networks took a breather during the 1971-72 season to look around and see where their industry was at the time. Looking back at it from present day it wasn't looking too bright.
With pressure coming from inside the networks (thanks to the censors) and from outside activist organizations, Saturday morning television began to fracture. Out of the 14...
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Subtle Subtitles
Filed under: Subtle Subtitles, Retro Squad, Reality-Free Welcome to Subtle Subtitles. For those of you who are uninitiated to the purpose of this feature, we're asking you to come up with your funniest quote or description for what's going on in the screen grab we choose for the week. Winners are announced in the following Friday's contest.
 Last contest's winner: miller980
"Let's see how much beer we can suck out of Norm!"
This week, in honor of The X-Files week here at TV Squad, a scene from the episode titled 'Dreamland' ...Continue reading Subtle Subtitles
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The X-Files: Humbug (or, the episode that scarred me for life) - VIDEOS
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Retro Squad, The X-Files, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free  Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
(S02E20) I was never a regular X-Files viewer, so I can't say that I had a favorite episode, or that I really liked or disliked certain plots or narrative directions taken by the show. For the most part, all of the episodes run together in my head -- with the exception of one.
I saw it only...
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My favorite monsters from The X-Files
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Retro Squad, The X-Files, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free  Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
For the most part The X-Files was an intense character study of two FBI agents struggling with their beliefs in the supernatural, in America and in each other. Sometimes, however, it was just a show about cool monsters. Here are some of my favorites. Eugene Tooms ("Squeeze," "Tooms")
Tooms was so cool and creepy he had to be brought back for another appearance. What I liked best about Tooms was that...
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X-Files: Aliens, conspiracy and quotes
Filed under: Retro Squad, The X-Files, Reality-Free  The X-Files was a one-of-a-kind, groundbreaking show. It took the typical FBI detective show and spun it, but good. Add some aliens and government conspiracy and you've done one better than a weekly FBI caper.
And the extraterrestrial and supernatural make for some good quotes, starting with the pilot, when Scully refers to Mulder by his nickname from the academy: "Spooky Mulder."
Or how about Mulder's understatement of the millennium: " ... in most of my work, the laws of physics rarely seems to apply."Continue reading...
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Why I'm nervous about the new X-Files movie
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Retro Squad, The X-Files, Reality-Free  Oh, I'll be there, probably on opening weekend, but something about the new X-Files flick makes me nervous as hell.
Maybe it's the fact that it has been ten years since the last movie, and I wonder if people are still interested in it enough to make it a hit (and push another movie into production). I also worry about the plot, since nothing much has been leaked about what the film is about, other than it involves snow, mysterious happenings, and Billy Connolly bleeding from the eyes. No, the...
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