Red Skelton Show Airs in 1951

On this day in 1951, Red Skelton, one of my favourite comedians and an accomplished painter in his own right, had his first TV show, The Red Skelton Show, air on network television. The show ran from 1951 to 1970 and featured an array of guests and unforgettable performances, including this classic blooper above featuring one of Red's most beloved characters, Clem Kadiddlehopper.

New Cadbury Commercial

It's An Electronic Wasteland

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The piece which I viewed on 60 Minutes last night posed this question: Where does all the electronic refuse our society generates end up? Scott Pelley examined this disturbing subject in his report, The Wasteland.

There's A Hole in The Bucket (classic Sesame Street)

From the days of childhood, here's one of my favourite Sesame Street interpretations of a classic.

First Look: FlashForward Spins Global Blackout Into Time-Warp Mythos

A new series debuting this fall called FlashForward explores the aftermath of a two-minute, 17-second, blackout experienced by the whole of humanity. Discover more about this intriguing premise at wired.com.

UFO the series

Yesterday while I was in a down mood, I began reflecting on things past. As I perused online, I came across references to an old TV series which I had enjoyed as a kid. In 1970 a British science fiction series, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who also produced Thunderbirds (another favourite of mine) and Space: 1999, called UFO, made its debut. In short, the series revolved around a secret organisation called SHADO whose sole purpose was to protect Earth from alien invasion. The opening sequence to this series appears in the video clip above. Below are a couple of more clips, which I discovered on YouTube, and reveal a behind the scenes look at this show some 30 years later and a UFO test trailer.




Since Blair is a science fiction lover (like myself) and has never seen this series before, I thought that I would introduce him to it. I checked online to see if the series was available for download. Sure enough, after a bit of searching, I found it. Now it's a waiting game as this massive file downloads.