television history – Brady Carlson

That Time There Was A Laugh Track On “The Twilight Zone” (Cool Weird Awesome 171)

Posted on November 14, 2019
Brady Carlson

Who knew the Twilight Zone was a dimension not only of sight and sound but of canned laughter?!? The episode “Cavender is Coming” features Jesse White, Carol Burnett, and a laugh track the network thought might help lead to a spinoff series. (It didn’t.) Plus: anybody want to fly in an airplane where the whole interior looks like a giant window?

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It’s The Birthday Of Fawlty Towers, Don’t Mention The War! (Cool Weird Awesome 131)

Posted on September 19, 2019
Brady Carlson

Today in 1975 the BBC aired the first episode of “Fawlty Towers,” a landmark comedy series that was – amazingly – received about as poorly by TV executive and the public as Basil Fawlty’s appalling attitude was received by guests at his hotel. How did it finally get its due?

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Zoinks, Scooby, it’s Some Things For Friday, September 13, 2019

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019
Brady Carlson

Hi! Lots of TV news on today’s roundup.

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Scooby-Doo And Those Meddling Kids Started Solving Groovy Mysteries 50 Years Ago (Cool Weird Awesome 127)

Posted on September 13, 2019
Brady Carlson

It’s the 50th anniversary of the premiere of “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” That’s right, the Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby have been setting traps, being danger prone, dropping glasses, making gigantic sandwiches and solving mysteries for a half-century. But originally the show was going to be very different.

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