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I decided to add a new Quick Category - right now the name of it is "Mostly Content (Minimum Commercials)" and the idea is to have a separate section for all the clips on the site where the actual content of the show is the main element. So, no commercials (unless they are included along with a significant chunk of content), bumpers, PSAs, etc. Show openings will be a judgment call. If it's the opening to a Son of Svengoolie episode, then obviously it will be included in the category, but something like the opening to a Monstrous Movie won't be included. News clips, AM Chicago episodes (but not promos), PM Magazine clips - anything with some "meat" to it.
Pledge breaks - should they be included? I'm leaning toward no. I'm sure there will be other things that will be hard to call.
The category will be a work in progress as I go through and add clips to it.
I'm going to see Randy Dry. Randy was the guy who worked at the MBC way back when during the time I did, and who let me make copies of some of his personal tapes - material with some of my earliest (if not THE earliest) finds, such as the WSNS Magical Mystery Tour breaks, Popeye Super Cartoon Sunrise break, and the Monkees Technical Difficulty moment, among others. I haven't seen him for - oh, probably about 18 years. For better or worse, his tapes were the first ones (other than our Bozo tapes and a couple I found at the Maxwell Street flea market) that got me interested in collecting this stuff.
I'm lucky I was able to track him down a few months ago. I had forgotten his name until I found it written on an old piece of paper by chance. A quick search on Facebook and I had located him.
I'm going to borrow his tapes again for a fresh, direct-to-DVD transfer. And hopefully there will be some stuff in there that I didn't get the first time or had missed. (he says he might have lost the Popeye tape - hopefully that's not true, but hey, I can't be choosy)
Wow! I'll be damned. I just saw her about a week ago at a book signing. I'm not a huge fan of hers so I didn't go into the bookstore but I was at the Jamba Juice nearby when she went in.
Just found out something kind of cool - comedian and TV personality Kathy Griffin appears in this commercial. It was her first role, when she was 17 years old. She appears at about the 15 second mark - blowing a kazoo. She has braids, a Sox hat and what looks like a pink checkered shirt, and is all the way to the left of the picture in the second row.
Even though there was never a Showbiz around me when I was growing up (the closest I got was a Chuck E. Cheese all the way in Redwood City that's now a Harley dealership), I oh so vaguely remember the TV commercials, which is probably why I'm having flashbacks from watching this.
In addition, if an affiliated Museum of Classic Los Angeles Television were to be started, this would be a good clip to headline it (as well as the other L.A. clips from 1976 on here).
