Everyone remembers when Shell Oil introduced the No Pest Strips, meant to kill flies, wasps, & hornets.
In 1982, Morton-Norwich introduced an aerosol free No Pest spray, which, like Raid, could be used indoors and outdoors.
Vic Tayback (Alice) did a couple of commercials, including this next item. Michael Bell is the off-camera announcer.
Earlier today, freshman NY Rep. George "Pinocchio" Santos recused himself from the committee assignments he had just been given days ago by House Speaker Kevin "The Body Snatcher" McCarthy, in the face of an increasing number of reports of his pathological lying to just about everyone.
As everyone knows, even Pinocchio, after trying to run away from his problems, eventually manned up, became a hero and a human. Santos, though, comes off more like Joe Isuzu, or even a notorious scammer who got his 15 minutes here in the 518 many moons ago.
Maybe you've heard of.......Bob John Ray?
The year was 1979. Ye scribe was in high school. Bob John Ray, assuming that was his name on his birth certificate, became an overnight sensation when he drifted, literally, into Mechanicville, offering to buy cars at Jack Byrne Ford & Mercury.
Unfortunately, after nearly a week, BJR never fulfilled his end of the bargain, and was escorted from town by train back to Canada.
Kidding aside, the upside is that Santos either straightens up, flies right, or gets side-barred out of Washington before the Nationals' home opener in April. And he has only himself to blame. He's another Donald Trump wanna-be, a pathological liar, just like the Sultan of Spray Tan himself. And while Citizen Pampers is slowly suffering from mental deterioration in front of the world with his daily, unhinged attacks on perceived "enemies" such as author Bob Woodward, Trump also offers a cautionary tale to clones like Santos, who needs to heed the warning before it's too late.
As we often note, death often comes in threes with the famous. We wrote on the passing of hockey legend Bobby Hull earlier, and now, we have two iconic actresses that have left us.
It has come across the wires that Cindy Williams, 75, the cuter half of Laverne & Shirley, passed away on January 25 after a brief illness.
So now, the Super Bowl is set for February 12 in Chandler, Arizona, home of the Cardinals.
The top seeds in both conferences held serve despite trends going in the opposite direction Sunday to set up the "Big Game".
In Philadelphia, the Eagles defense picked up right where they left off a week ago against the Giants, allowing only a touchdown to Christian McCaffrey, and knocked rookie QB Brock Purdy out of the game with an elbow injury, although he did return when his backup, Josh Johnson, was injured, in a 31-7 rout.
It was Purdy's 1st loss as a starter, and a very costly one. It also took some shine off 49ers defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans, who played in Houston and Philadelphia during hsi career, and was being looked at for a possible head coaching position after just two seasons as coordinator, a position he accepted when Robert Saleh left to coach the Jets.
For what it's worth, we mentioned that Philadelphia wrestling icon Paul Heyman cut a heel promo on the "City of Brotherly Love" one week ago, touting Purdy and the Niners to get heat. In terms of kayfabe, the Eagles might want to consider sending Heyman an autographed game ball, since they can say Heyman gave them extra motivation against the Niners.
Following up on an item from earlier in the week.
WROW (Magic 590) began a promotion on January 23 in which they're playing 10 songs in a row without commercial interruption most of the day. The exceptions are during Magic in The Morning between 5:30 and 8:45 am, at which point the first 10 in a row block plays, and The John Tesh Radio Show (7 pm-midnight). As noted previously, the Class Reunion Hour, a segment of Magic in The Morning that was brought over from WGY some time back, is on at least a hiatus.
What we've also discovered is that there are fewer breaks for CBS Radio news, and on Magic in The Morning, the World News Roundup at 8 am has been replaced with a standard news brief to allow more time for music, and that the news seems to disappear after the 8 am briefing. There are no news breaks on the weekends, for however long that lasts.
If that's the approach they're taking, then things will revert to normal come spring.
John Tesh, by the way, is doing his part to help the station, which added his program back in October. Tesh has recorded some localized promos for local businesses, the same ones that have been read by Patten otherwise. Tesh makes a point to plug Magic in The Morning in a localized spot on his show, which of course creates the idea that he could bring his show to Albany at some point.
Will that actually happen? Will Magic give up 10 songs in a row? Stay tuned.
Tomorrow, the NFL's conference championships will decide who heads to the Super Bowl on February 12. Form has held, as the top two seeds in the AFC, and the 1st & 3rd seeds in the NFC, have reached their respective conference title games.
If it was anyone else, I'd go with the Eagles, but you gotta go with the hot hand here.
Pick: San Francisco.
AFC Championship: Cincinnati @ Kansas City (6:30 pm, CBS): Since Bengals QB Joe Burrow entered the league out of LSU, he's never lost to the Chiefs (3-0), including last year's playoffs. You have to believe that KC QB Patrick Mahomes and coach Andy Reid took time after filming that ridiculous State Farm commercial to go over film of that game to see if they can find some weakness in the Bengal defense, and also to find weaknesses in Burrow's game. Of the four teams remaining, Cincinnati is the only one that hasn't won a Super Bowl (0-3). That may soon change.
Again, you have to go with the hot hand, and a 3rd meeting, albeit a different generation, with the 49ers awaits.
Pick: Cincinnati.
Of course, I could be wrong.
In May, Donald Trump paid a fine of $110,000 for contempt of court. Eight, nearly nine months later, he wants the money back.
So, America's Oldest Baby had lawyer Alina Habba-Dabba-Doo and her team draft a nearly thousand page filing with a bunch of hare-brained excuses as to why the money needs to be returned. It's sitting in escrow in NY AG Letitia James' account since it was paid.
It's one more sign that Trump is losing the last remaining shreds of contact with reality. You want your fine money back? Good luck with that!!
It makes me think of this old Meat Loaf track from "Bat Out of Hell II", "Life is a Lemon & I Want My Money Back!":
In the 80's, a woman named Rosie Ruiz became infamous for being disqualified at the Boston Marathon, I believe it was, for winning the race despite not competing at the start.
In 1999, as part of an ongoing feud with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Vince McMahon won the Royal Rumble, but stayed outside the ring, even chatting with commentators during the match, just because he could, being the owner of the company, and a corrupt, narcissistic one at that.
Last week, one of McMahon's closest friends took a page out of McMahon's playbook.
Yeah, Donald Trump, Washington's original Baron Munchausen, before George Santos came on the scene.
Now, as we all know, Trump was in North Carolina last Saturday, and, as it turns out,"presided" over the memorial service for Lynette "Diamond" Hardaway, 1/2 of Diamond & Silk, and made the event about him, more than Hardaway. Dare I say it was par for the course for Citizen Pampers? Of course.
Two days earlier, Trump had played a round of golf, and then decided to compete in a tournament at one of his courses, took his Thursday score, and added it to his Sunday total, and declared himself the winner. This shameless, pathetic, pathological, lying jackass makes most weekend players ashamed to have ever shared a course with him.
So, of course, late night talkers like ABC's Jimmy Kimmel roasted Trump. Farron Cousins focuses on Kimmel's lambasting.
We know the collective sense of humor at Fox No News and its sister channel, Fox Bees Wax, is royally warped.
So, in the wake of Mars Wrigley yanking their CGI spokescandies in favor of actress Maya Rudolph (ex-Saturday Night Live), thanks in large part to Fox No News gasbag Tabloid Carlson, the makers of A & W root beer decided to troll and came up with their own prank.
The company put out a press release earlier this week announcing that their long time mascot, Rooty, would begin wearing pants with his signature sweater.
As for M & M's & Rudolph, it turns out, as many have suspected on social media, Mars Wrigley is pulling an elaborate stunt that will culminate around the Super Bowl on February 12. Beginning today, the M & M's are being rechristened Ma & Ya's, with Rudolph's face on the candies.
So who gets the last laugh now, Tabloid? It ain't you, that's for sure!!!
Lindsey Buckingham peaked at #9 on the Hot 100, and hit #1 in Australia & South Africa with "Trouble", the 1st single from his solo debut, "Law & Order", released in the fall of 1981. Buckingham is joined by Fleetwood Mac bandmate Mick Fleetwood, former bandmate Bob Welch, and guests Dwight Twilley and Walter Egan, among others, in the video.
We'll start with this video from Farron Cousins:
From season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show:
Here's an in-show ad for Sanka and General Foods (Now, after a series of mergers, Kraft-Heinz) in which Barney (Don Knotts) is playing charades with Andy, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), & Opie (Ronny Howard). Olan Soule, who played choir director John Masters on the show, narrates.
More changes at WROW (Magic 590 AM/100.5 FM).
The station has discontinued, at least for now, The Class Reunion Hour, which ran from 9-10 am as the last hour of Magic in The Morning Monday-Friday. As of January 23, WROW is doing a promotion where they're playing 10 songs in a row between 8:45-9:30. No idea whether this is just a temporary thing, or if The Class Reunion Hour, which got its start at WGY-AM (810 AM) when they still had music, will return. And it probably will.
General Mills' Total cereal gets lost amidst all the variations of Cheerios on the market these days. It was GM's answer to, say, for example, Kellogg's Product 19 and/or Special K, the latter of which is still around.
In the 80's, however, in order to call attention to Total, General Mills consented to having celebrities pitch the product, including Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote), Sherman Hemsley (The Jeffersons, Amen), and, in this 1989 spot, Richard Mulligan (Empty Nest, ex-Soap).
Is when he whines and lies about a nearly 7 year old controversy over deleted e-mails attributed to 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
That, of course, would be par for the course for America's Oldest Baby, Donald Trump.
Trump is whining and crying, begging special prosecutor Jack Smith to shift his focus to Clinton and former president Barack Obama. The pressure is getting to Trump, that's certain, but he's become more mentally unstable than ever. We've said that Trump's carefully cultivated public image has crumbled the last few years because of his higher profile as president and as an overall pain in the tuchis.
Farron Cousins breaks down Trump's latest breakdown.
A 2nd generation judge moves into Night Court, and she has a lot more to learn than her father did in the original series.
Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch, ex-The Big Bang Theory) arrives in New York, prepared to step into the same courtroom her late father, Harry (Harry Anderson) presided over for several years. After a public defender quits on her first night on the bench, Abby recruits former Assistant DA Dan Fielding (John Larroquette, also a producer) to be on the other side of the aisle this time. Perhaps realizing he owes it to his friend, Harry, to watch over Abby, he finally accepts after a trim of his beard, though the old instincts stubbornly remain.
Rauch doubles as an executive producer for the revival, which leads off NBC's Tuesday block.
We showed you a teaser in a previous post. Now, let's see a trailer.
After the failure of The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour on NBC, Hanna-Barbera forged ahead with a 2nd attempt at copying the popular Muppet Show. Unfortunately, The B. B. Beegle Show went unsold, premiering in Canada in November 1979, and in the US a couple of months later.
Beegle (Michael Bell) is a poor man's Kermit the Frog, trying to mount a variety show, but coming across like a con man. Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company) appears as the main guest, while Arte Johnson (ex-Knockout, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) plays a coach working with some monsters.
Taped and produced in Canada.
More than three months ago, Donald John Narcissus Pinocchio Trump, physical age 76, mental age of about 3 1/2, sat for a deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by journalist and former cable personality E. Jean Carroll. Trump was anything but willing to sit in, and whined about it. Farron Cousins explains.
While the real life Liars' Club is based in Washington these days, better known as the Republican Party, let's take a look back at the last two iterations of the game show.
Producer Ralph Andrews (You Don't Say, It Takes Two) brought the show back in 1975 as a local series, with Bill Armstrong (the announcer on Celebrity Sweepstakes) as host. When the series went into national syndication the following year, Armstrong came with it, but was let go after the 1976-7 season, replaced by game show icon Allen Ludden, who was in between iterations of Password.
This time, actor Larry Hovis (ex-Hogan's Heroes, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) was on board as a producer as well as a panelist. Once the Club closed again in 1979, Hovis spent more time behind the camera as a producer, working on various other projects.
Let's take a look at a sampler from the Ludden era:
Now we are down to 8.
AFC:
Jacksonville @ Kansas City (Saturday, NBC): 2nd trip to Kansas City for the red-hot Jaguars this season. The Chiefs won the November meeting, but this isn't the same Jacksonville team that they faced before. The oddsmakers proved how dumb they are, again, installing the Chiefs as a 9 1/2 home favorite, ignoring the fact that the Jags came back from a 27-0 halftime deficit against the Chargers to advance. No, this one's going down to the wire.....
Pick: Kansas City.
Cincinnati @ Buffalo (Sunday, CBS): This one's filed under unfinished business for both teams, as their previous meeting in Cincinnati was called off after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field with 6 1/2 minutes left in the 1st quarter, and the Bengals holding the lead. The Bills & Bengals will light up the sky for sure, but it will come down to who is hungrier. And Buffalo has all that history, unpleasant as it was 30+ years ago, to erase.
Pick: Buffalo.
Giants @ Philadelphia (Saturday, Fox): The Eagles swept the season series between the two teams en route to the #1 seed, and have had the Giants' number in recent years. A reversal, if you will, of the Mets owning the Phillies in baseball. They say Jalen Hurts has been cleared to play, but is he 100%? If not, the Giants will make it closer than the Eagles would like. The way Daniel Jones has been playing of late, this will turn into a track meet between the quarterbacks.
Pick: Philadelphia.
Dallas @ San Francisco (Sunday, Fox): These ancient rivals have been here before many times in the past. The 49ers have a hot young QB in Brock Purdy, the last man selected in the 2022 draft. His emergence may hasten Jimmy Garappolo's departure, as they've been trying to move the vet for a while. The Cowboys, with one fewer day of rest between games, will have to prove Monday's win over Tampa Bay was no fluke. And this is the same place where Dak Prescott made a game ending blunder a while back.
Pick: San Francisco.
Of course, I could be wrong.
In a twisted take on Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, James Earl Jones is stranded on an island. His "Friday"? David Leisure (Empty Nest), passed off as a certain cop............
That "serial liar", of course, being one Donald John Pinocchio Narcissus Trump. He sat for a deposition in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case in October, and recently, parts of the deposition were unsealed, revealing, that, of course, Trump lied his head off.
The simple fact is, Trump can't stop with the lies, regardless of the case, because telling the truth would make him weak before his base of brainwashed, low-information yokels. Farron Cousins explains.
Today's supermarket tabloids are costing roughly about $7 per copy. Small wonder, then, that long running rags like the National Enquirer, which has been sued in the past, most famously by Carol Burnett, for fabricating stories, are still inventing stories in order to goose sales. Publisher David Pecker's American Media needs to be sent a case of copies of the works of George Santayana after this latest gaffe.
Turns out the Enquirer was barking up the wrong tree in trying to claim there were issues between Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-star Ice-T and Law & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni. Both actors stepped forward to debunk the rumors of a non-existent feud.
So far, American Media hasn't come forward to retract their claims. Their loss.
Is your NFL playoff bracket busted?
Three weeks after losing a heartbreaker to Minnesota, the Giants returned to Minneapolis on Sunday, and stunned the 2nd seed in the NFC, 31-24.
Like, this was a cute idea, but only because Brioschi, an antacid with its roots in Italy, was running far, far behind Alka-Seltzer, Tums, et al, in sales.
Actor Bill Fiore, Chuck McCann's foil in those Right Guard spots, is under the silver makeup as the Tin Man for this spot.
It might've been the cold weather. It might be that the event organizer is already closing in on being irrelevant.
For whatever reason, an anti-trans rally hosted by Empty-G (Marjorie Taylor Greene) drew just 12 people the other day. Joe & Jane Average are tired of seeing Empty-G's mug on television virtually every day, and in the newspapers and/or online just as often. The basic message being sent to Empty-G and friends is, please go away.
Here's Farron Cousins' take:
An easy way to describe Relic Hunter, which lasted three seasons in syndication, is to take note of the title character, Sydney Fox (Tia Carrere, "Wayne's World"), as a female version of Indiana Jones.
Both characters were college professors who also spent time traveling the world in search of specific artifacts. While there hasn't been a movie spun off from Relic Hunter, the opportunity was there if the series had attracted more viewers, but perhaps the producers were cognizant of the fact that the comparisons to the Indiana Jones movies would also be there.
Locally, Relic Hunter aired on Saturday afternoons and at night. Unfortunately, no one has seen fit to bring the series back since it ended, absent a stint on El Rey Network a while back.
Following is the 1st season intro. The theme music is so cool.
40 years ago, The A-Team kickstarted NBC's ratings turnaround in primetime. A year later, another mid-season replacement, Night Court, found the jackpot as well, and actually outlasted A-Team by 5 years.
31 years after the original series' conclusion, Night Court is reopening for business.
Melissa Rauch (ex-The Big Bang Theory) has the lead as Abby Stone, daughter of the late Judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson, who passed away well after the original series ended). This will call into question whether or not Harry finally settled down with public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post, ex-The Fall Guy, Hearts Afire). That will certainly be addressed when the series returns next Tuesday.
So far, the only cast member from the original series to return is John Larroquette, reprising as attorney Dan Fielding, now filling the public defender role. Seems as though he'll also be asked to be a sort of mentor to Abby after she arrives on his doorstep, as we'll see in this teaser.
And so it begins. Six games over three days. The first steps toward the Super Bowl on February 12. Your actual mileage will vary.
Los Angeles @ Jacksonville (Saturday, NBC): Jacksonville has gone worst to first, claiming the AFC South title, and are one of the hottest teams in the entire league. 2nd year QB Trevor Lawrence has thrived under coach Doug Pederson. The Chargers have a young star QB of their own in Justin Herbert, but have been hot & cold this season. Gotta play the hot hand.
The pick: Jacksonville.
Miami @ Buffalo (Sunday, CBS): Round 3 between these AFC East rivals. The Bills & Dolphins split the two regular season meetings, and Miami travels north to Buffalo for the 2nd time in as many months. Their QB situation is in flux due to injuries. That will prove costly against an opportunistic Buffalo defense. There is no reason to get rid of 1st year coach Mike McDaniel because of circumstances beyond his control. Buffalo's Josh Allen will make his share of highlight reel plays to lead the offense.
The pick: Buffalo.
Baltimore @ Cincinnati (Sunday, NBC): These two teams closed the regular season five days ago, and now comes the sequel, right back in Cincinnati. No Lamar Jackson means the Ravens must rely more on their defense, which has gotten picked apart this season.
The pick: Cincinnati.
NFC:
Seattle @ San Francisco (Saturday, Fox): Still another divisional rematch. Seattle was the upstart at the start of the season behind resurgent QB Geno Smith. San Francisco is on its 3rd QB, rookie Brock Purdy, and surged to the top of the division in the NFC West. This could go down to the wire.
Pick: San Francisco.
Giants @ Minnesota (Sunday, Fox): It was just a couple of weeks ago that these two met, with the Vikings escaping with a win, holding off a Giants rally in the 4th quarter. No mercy this time, methinks, and Big Blue will be sent home.
Pick: Minnesota.
Dallas @ Tampa Bay (Monday, ABC/ESPN): People complain about the current system allowing division winners to have the top seeds, despite a sub .500 record, such as Tampa Bay, which has been up & down all season. Tom Brady is showing his age at QB, and also going through a divorce, which isn't helping. Dallas, however, has a history of choking in the postseason under Jerry Jones after the Super Bowl years of the 90s. This will be the last home game for Tampa Bay this season, and Brady will play like he's got something to prove. Something has to give.
The pick: Dallas.
Of course, I could be wrong.
In 1965, Curtis Mayfield wrote & recorded "People Get Ready" with the Impressions. Mayfield sang and played guitar, and "People", with its gospel themes, was a huge hit.
20 years later, guitar icon Jeff Beck covered "People", with vocals by long time friend Rod Stewart, who had played with the Jeff Beck Group before going solo.
We get that most politicians are also music lovers. However, regardless of which side of the aisle they're on, they tend to forget that if you want to play your favorite songs at a campaign event or in a commercial to promote yourself, you still have to go through certain, specific protocols with the artists and/or their reps.
This comes back into focus after rapper Dr. Dre (Andre Young) had his attorney, Howard King, issue a cease & desist letter to Empty-G (Marjorie Taylor Greene, of course) to stop using Dre's 1999 hit "Still D. R.E." in her ads. She deleted a tweet that included a snippet of the song after getting the letter, but that may only be a temporary deterrent.
How many times did we see this happen during Donald Trump's campaigns and administration? While it's been mostly Republicans who've been flagged for copyright infringement (Trump, the Bushes, John McCain), Democrats Al Gore & Barack Obama have also been cited.
Former Alaska Governor and failed Senate candidate Sarah Palin was issued a cease & desist by reps for the band, Heart, over the use of their song, "Barracuda", which was a high school nickname of Palin's. Governor Grizzly ignored the order, and maybe that's why she ended up losing back in November. Karma, you know?
Trump, in particular, has been cited for using music by Queen, Survivor, and Adele, among others. Adele eventually endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016.
You know what the likely excuse is from these politicos. They don't have time to go through all the paperwork. Yes, you do. All it takes in this era is doing a quick Google search to find out who holds the rights and/or licenses, and go from there. In Trump's case, it reinforces the notion that he thinks he's above such rules and protocols. Plus the fact that he's cheap. Jack Benny is likely turning over in his grave 10 times a day the way Trump co-opts his act. Empty-G can't be bothered with it, either, and will likely stick her ex-husband with the bill once their divorce is finalized.
Do yourselves a favor, folks. Look for something in the public domain. It's not that hard.
Contrary to an old radio & TV staple from back in the day, father doesn't always know best, but when that father is Vince McMahon, too stubborn to accept change for the better, well.......!
Daughter Stephanie stepped down as co-CEO of WWE today, leaving the position solely in the hands of Nick Khan, who has been with the company since August 2020. The elder McMahon plans to sell the company, with rumors linking Disney, NBC-Universal-Comcast, Fox, and even a Saudi Arabian group, to the prospective sale.
Three morons from Utah, totally drunk on Trump-ade, filed a frivolous lawsuit claiming, of course, the 2020 election was stolen, and demanded that President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, and 387 members of Congress be removed, and the Oldest Baby in America reinstated as president, sans VP Mike Pence.
Raland, Loy, & Lloyd Brunson had their case dismissed, of course, despite the support of former presidential candidate-turned-right wing yakker Mike Huckabee, who falsely claimed the Supreme Court would hear their case.
Farron Cousins breaks it down:
The Albany Times-Union reports that local law firm Martin, Harding, & Mazzotti is making a cosmetic change, but the long running ad campaign won't be too adversely affected.
The firm is changing its name to Harding Mazzotti, reflecting the two remaining partners, Paul Harding & Vic Mazzotti. Bruce Martin, the 3rd partner, retired some years back, and junior partner Rosemarie Bogdan became the 3rd face of the firm in advertising. Their familiar jingle is being reworked to reflect the change.
Well known not only as a respected law firm, but also for their imaginative commercials, often using CGI technology or going on location.
Let's take you back to an earlier period, with Martin joining his partners in front of the camera.
It took 15 votes over 4 days, but California Misrepresentative Kevin "The Body Snatcher" McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of The House after midnight (ET).
So what did it take to get McCarthy over the top? Empty-G and Donald Trump.
The Georgia bubblehead got on the phone with the former president, and he personally persuaded, via long distance, each member of the opposition, including Lauren Balloon and Rusty Gaetz (who actually nominated Trump, as he had said he would, one day this week), to finally, as Trump had pleaded earlier in the week, to get behind McCarthy.
For once, Trump did something valuable for the sake of the party. Unfortunately, it also negates some of his earlier nonsense.
And what would that be, you might ask?
Well, after Rep. Adam Kinzinger's term officially ended on Monday, Kinzinger signed with CNN as a commentator. To Citizen Pampers, that's like sleeping with the enemy.
And as for Empty-G, she's taking some heat from right wing jobroni Ali Alexander, the geek behind the 1/6/21 "Stop The Steal" rally, claiming she's broken the law, but won't specify. Oh, please. Farron Cousins explains.
If you've wondered why Warner Bros. had so much trouble with sitcoms in the 60's, such that the only comedy series that lasted, The Bugs Bunny Show, was moved to Saturday mornings after a few years in primetime, well, it's one of life's great mysteries. WB was cranking out Westerns and crime dramas, but the occasional sitcom just didn't connect. F-Troop, of course, lasted two seasons (1965-7), but there was a mid-season replacement in the winter of 1962 that deserved a better fate.
Room For One More was based on a novel, and the premise was a couple adopting a couple of children to expand their family. Radio & TV vet Peggy McCay teamed with Andrew Duggan (ex-Bourbon Street Beat) as the parents. Tim Rooney, son of Mickey, was one of the children.
Room lasted exactly six months, absent late summer repeats, from late January to late July. Following is a sample open/close. Dick Tufeld is the announcer.
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is awake and alert, three days after suffering cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati during the Bills' game vs. the Bengals.
While Spic 'n' Span was still part of the Procter & Gamble family, the company hired comedienne Minnie Pearl (Hee Haw) to do some ads for the product. Check this:
Remember when Republicans threatened civil war not too long ago? Well, it's happening-------within the GOP itself!
California Misrepresentative Kevin "The Body Snatcher" McCarthy is being blocked from his dream job as Speaker of the House by 20 peabrained GOPers who want anyone but McCarthy. Former president Pecos Pampers (Donald Trump) is trying to rally the party behind McCarthy, but none of the 20 holdouts, which include Goofy Gosar, Rusty Gaetz, and Lauren Balloon, are listening, as the debate rages into a 3rd day.
And the longer this goes on, the longer it'll be before incoming members of Congress, including Pinocchio Santos, will be officially sworn in and seated. It's just too bad ABC cancelled To Tell The Truth. Santos would be a perfect fit.
Another 1st term member of Congress is facing a different kind of battle, though.
Anna Paulina Luna, who previously spent 5 years in the Air Force, filled the seat vacated by Charlie Crist in his failed bid to unseat Governor Ron DeSantis. However, in another case of GOPers attacking their own kind, Luna is being accused of being a witch. By a pathetic excuse of a man named Matt Tito, a friend of GOPer strategist Roger (Blood From a) Stone.
Tito went on The Bubba The Love Sponge Show, and made his false claims that 1) Luna is a practicing witch, and 2) has has an affair with Florida Misrepresentative Rusty Gaetz, which both Luna & Gaetz have denied. Luna is happily married. Farron Cousins explains where Tito got his dollar store gossip from...
