Playing at the Newly Re-Opened Boomtown Drive-In

I don't know about you, but we think this is the double feature we need today!

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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
What was the first made-for-TV animated holiday special? Oh, alright. The title of this post sort of gives it away. Yes, before Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, before A Charlie Brown Christmas, there was Mister Magoo’s…
6 Things You Didn’t Know About “Leave It to Beaver”
Why did June Cleaver always wear high heels & pearls when performing household chores? The heels actually started in the second season – and for a very good reason. Her boys were growing taller and…
The Untold Secrets of Tom Terrific
If you were a kid growing up in the late 1950s and early 60s, odds are good to certain you started your weekday with Captain Kangaroo on CBS. Beginning in 1957, the Captain added a…
The TV That Time Forgot: Fireball XL5
The Baby Boom, television, and space exploration all got started at roughly the same time. By the sixties, astronauts had already gone up in rockets, and the spaceman hero was gradually replacing the cowboy as…
The TV That Time Forgot: Hawaiian Eye
In show biz, imitation may not be the sincerest form of flattery, but it is the most predictable. When 77 Sunset Strip was a rating success in the 1958 -59 TV season, Warner Brothers immediately…
Does Father Know?
Early in her career, actress Elinor Donahue actually dyed her dark brown hair blond and posed for what were then the near-obligatory cheesecake photos expected of every young starlet. Just don’t tell Jim Anderson. We’re…