Category: Television

Monday Night Countdown

Flashback to the Fall of 1982. There were no less than 28 sitcoms on the prime time television schedule on the three broadcast networks combined. They all had real opening theme songs with quirky memorable lyrics, closing theme songs, and loud and rambunctious laugh tracks ‘recorded before a LIVE studio audience’.

Since I couldn’t limit this list to a TOP 5 I present to you my TOP 10 favourite sitcoms from that particular television season – in alphabetical order:

Alice (CBS)
Archie Bunker’s Place (CBS)
Benson (ABC)
Diff’rent Strokes (NBC)
Happy Days (ABC)
The Jeffersons (CBS)
Newhart (CBS)
One Day At A Time (CBS)
Silver Spoons (NBC)
Three’s Company (ABC)

Here now is my all-time favourite television sitcom theme song !

They just don’t make them like that anymore !

Saturday Night Retro

I’ve got over a dozen pictures of varying sizes on display atop the entertainment center in my living room. I frequently look at them. They are pictures of me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my cats over the years. My brother appears the most number of times within these pictures – a total of 12. By comparison I’m only featured 7 times !

The oldest picture of them all features me, my mom, and my dad. It was probably our first professional family portrait, and I believe that it was done in 1972 – perhaps 1973 – when I was 5 or 6. The photo studio imprinted on the back of it was located in Lanham Maryland not too far away from the Catholic Church that we attended back then. It looks like I’m wearing my Sunday finest !

Here now is the earliest picture of me that you’ll ever see (unless an even earlier picture of me is discovered – very possible). As usual I removed my mom and my dad from the picture to protect the innocent:

Incidentally that teddy bear that I’m holding was not even mine. It was supplied to me by the photographer so that I would look even cuter in the photo-op.

According to a photo album that my mom has of me it is well documented that my favourite television show at the time (1972-1973) was “Wait Till Your Father Gets Home” – an animated family sitcom much like “The Flintstones” of the 1960s. Check out its memorable theme song, and if you’re over 40-years-old and remember all of the lyrics to it then sing along with me:

Music Television

Hammertime !

Some 20 years after he totally ruled the U.S. pop charts with such jammin’ smash hits as “U Can’t Touch This”, “Pray”, “Have You Seen Her”, and “2 Legit 2 Quit” M.C. Hammer is getting back into the limelight again with a new half-hour reality series on A&E. The new show will focus on his day-to-day life with his wife of 23 years and 5 children. It’s being described as an unscripted ‘Cosby Show’ 25 years later.

And now here’s one of his big hits from when he was at the top of his career:

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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date January 29, 2009

– Don’t confuse this with the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’.
– These are the ‘Thursday Night Mini Thoughts’ – in 15 words or less.
– Last week was the pilot episode of it.
– It was a runaway smash hit.
– That means that I’ll be doing this every Thursday night.
– After next week’s ‘Mini Thoughts’ this blog goes on hiatus for a week.
– This blog hasn’t taken a single day off in over 14 months.
– So far in 2009 this blog is averaging over 800 hits per day.
– One year ago this blog wasn’t even averaging 60 hits per day.
– Joel Osteen is on “Infanity” tonight. Ted Haggard is on “Larry King Live“.
– The 5TH season premiere of “Hell’s Kitchen” is on at 9 PM tonight.
– It’s my favourite recurring reality show on a major broadcast network.
– My 2ND favourite ? “Big Brother“. Season 11 begins in July !
– My A.C. is still rockin’ the freon – keepin’ me cool.
– It goes off tonight in preparation of the upcoming cold snap.
– I saw this cold snap coming last weekend.
– Can you believe that January is almost over ?
– Can you believe that this first decade of the 21ST Century is almost over ?
– I’ll have the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ for you tomorrow.
– Post your best and brightest blog entries for consideration.
– The ‘Major Bloggie’ award could be yours !