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Friday, December 12, 2025

Getting Schooled: Gumby in The Small Planets (1960)

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 Many thanks to fellow blogger Chuck Miller for the tip on this one. It is October 1960. Gumby  is now well entrenched in syndication after ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Sunday Funnies: Total Panic (1989)

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The legendary Wonderama  had been long off the air by the time Nickelodeon mounted a 3 hour (at first) Sunday children's variety show, T...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Tooniversary: Planet Sheen (2010)

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 It had been 4 years since The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius  had ended. Nickelodeon decided to green-light a spinoff. Maybe they ...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Toon Rock: Christmas Time is Here (1965)

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 Today marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas , an enduring holiday classic that has aired on three networks and currently ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Rein-Toon-Ation: The Perfect Crime (Fantastic Voyage, 1968)

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 Jonathan Kidd (Ted Knight) poses as a criminal to get the goods on some sleaze trying to steal an experimental pocket miniaturizer develope...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Teenage Toons: The Archies enter syndication, and Archie is rapping? (1976)

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 After CBS cancelled US of Archie , Filmation landed a deal to syndicate previous iterations of the franchise, including chopping the Archie...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

From Primetime to Daytime: "Maynard" rocks out for Danny Thomas (well, it's not Maynard, but......)(1964)

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 Just a few months before the launch of Gilligan's Island , Bob Denver, who'd previously showcased his singing ability on  The Andy ...
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