Return to Mayberry

It's been awhile since we looked in on our friends in Mayberry. Here's how they're doing:

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1960s Saturday Mornings
Baby Boomers were not just the first generation to grow up with television, we were first to experience the magic of Saturday mornings. Back in those dark days of no cable and no home video,…
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
One of the great movies of our adolescent years was Bye Bye Birdie, the film version of the successful Broadway musical. It’s one of the rare instances when the changes Hollywood inevitably brings to Broadway…
The TV That Time Forgot: Love That Bob!
Imagine a TV series where Miss Hathaway from Beverly Hillbillies, Alice from The Brady Bunch and Dobie Gillis all hung out together. There was such a series in the 1950’s, originally called The Bob Cummings…
8 Things You Didn’t Know About "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"
One of the best films of the sixties came at the very end of the decade. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, a hybrid of the buddy comedy and a Western, was a huge hit…
The TV That Time Forgot: Circus Boy
Return with us to the days when the circus was still a major entertainment attraction, when clowns were funny, not scary and small boys were allowed to roam TV’s vast wasteland years before finding lasting…
TV That Time Forgot: Good Morning World (1967)
On paper, this TV series couldn’t miss. It was created by the two guys (Bill Persky & Sam Denoff) who had been head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show and had launched Marlo Thomas…