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tvneon · 6 months

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#ALF #ed mcmahon #80s #1980s #retro

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cerealkiller740 · 2 months

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1966 Budweiser Beer ad with Ed McMahon

#1966 #budweiser #beer #bud #60s #1960s #ed mcmahon #pair #pack #cans #booze #alcohol #cerealkiller #vintage food #food #vintage advertising #vintage magazine #kitchen #magazine

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citizenscreen · 2 months

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Birthday remembrance - Ed McMahon #botd

#ed mcmahon #johnny carson #the tonight show

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oldshowbiz · 1 month

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1978.

Johnny Carson was in disbelief when Angie Dickinson informed him that people watched the Tonight Show in British Columbia.

Dickinson had just finished filming a movie with Rod Steiger in the small Canadian towns of Hope, Yale, and Barkerville.

Angie Dickinson: Your show is seen in Canada… Johnny Carson: Are we? Angie Dickinson: Yes, very much so. Johnny Carson: Not in the Yukon! Angie Dickinson: Yes, I think so … It’s gorgeous … Johnny Carson: What is there to do in the Klondike? Angie Dickinson: I worked there. I didn’t vacation or live there, so it’s different. Now, what do they do? They watch you. Johnny Carson: I know we [the Tonight Show] get into Toronto or Montreal because it’s broadcast from Buffalo, New York. But I don’t think we get up… Angie Dickinson: Yes, you do. I saw you in Hope or Yale, which ever city I was in, which is in British Columbia. Johnny Carson: [to his producer] Now, Fred, how would we be seen there? Ed McMahon: Cable. Fred DeCordova: Over the border. Over the border. Ed McMahon: Our show beams right over. Johnny Carson: I did not know that. Angie Dickinson: I was able to tell you something you didn’t know? Johnny Carson: I didn’t know that at all … I didn’t know we went into Hope and Yale.

#hope #british columbia #barkerville #canada #canadian #angie dickinson #johnny carson #tonight show #ed mcmahon

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make-a-little-mischief · 4 months

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Squeeze the Charmin

Thank you so much @lovejl12 for finding this gem!!

I hope more of this episode surfaces...

Source: https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4m04503p

#jerry lewis #totie fields #ed mcmahon #the tonight show #jerry is the lysol king #but he's got a doity soul #i cannot with totie omfg LOL #also how handsome is jer here holy crap on toast #digging that blue shirt buby #and that kiss...totie always gets her man what a queen

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maturemenoftvandfilms · 1 year

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Ed McMahon (1923-2009) Physique: Husky Build Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, running from 1957 to 1962. McMahon also hosted the original Star Search from and co-hosted TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes. McMahon died on June 23, 2009 at the age of 86.

Tall and handsome with his broad, genial, regular-guy features. I'd loved to make him say "Hi-ooooo!"

#Ed McMahon #mydaddywiki actors #mydaddywiki #celebrities

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lobbycards · 21 days

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Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off, Italian Lobby Card (Fotobusta), 1973

#submission #Slaughter's Big Rip-Off #Gordon Douglas #Jim Brown #Ed McMahon #Lobby Cards #Lobby Card #Fotobusta #Fotobuste

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saleintothe90s · 5 months

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490. The 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 27, 1980

(the whole parade is here, if you just want the commercials and highlights, it's here)

Randy Hamilton from the soap opera Texas sings "Deep in the Heart of Texas" with a small child? Who is this small child. I want it to be a random child that they chose three minutes before turning the cameras on. Randy doesn't have a Wikipedia page! Sadness.

Ahhh!! Is that a baby Mark Linn Baker in the GE commercial?!

I love the crowd whooping it up for the cast of One 'Mo Time. I was wondering what was behind them --- I think it was the broadcast booth for host Ed McMahon! Just ... there with the saddest looking Woolworth decorations ever.

What a weird closing card (what do you call that?) for this Child World / Children's Palace commercial that aired constantly. Ok, the bear didn't fall on his butt? That was the best shot we could get?

For some reason Marilyn Michaels takes off her gloves while singing "Watching the Parade go Byyy". That couldn't of waited, Marilyn?

Todd Bridges sang a song about the Summer. I felt bad for Todd, he had no back up dancers, just dancing in the street. Was this a time filler? Loved the song!

A baby Glenn Close was there with the cast of Barnum. I feel like Ed is auditioning for the Star Search hosting gig with this parade. I love his energy.

I love the juxtaposition of Bryant Gumbel thanking the Museum of Natural history for letting people warm up in their building with Doodlebug.

Ed sang a song! When was the last time a host SANG.

I thought Cootie ran over a clown, but the clown deliberately laid down in front of him??

Just for us Hampton Roads girlies, Busch Gardens of Williamsburg had a Loch Ness Monster float! It's still at Busch Gardens! The cast of Brigadoon was on the float.

Ed was trying to find a date for Happy Dragon. He said "I guess now that he's 21, he's free to go out in the evening and date whomever he chooses. So if you have an eligible dragon hanging around your house moping, we might be able to set them up and in the years to come, who knows how many dragons we might have in the parade!"

There was a float for everyone's favorite box office flop, Popeye! I think that's supposed to be Olive Oyl?!

1980 was electric football's year. It felt like it was the only toy advertised!

"Tonka's Bear in a Box! Everyone's favorite!"

Finally, a game that looks like one of my dad's vintage fire scanners.

Cowboys were HOT this year, due to the movie Urban Cowboy, and the TV show Dallas. Modern equivalent to this would be this past Summer's Western Barbie! We even had Dean Butler from Little House on the Prairie sing "Don't Fence Me In" while riding a tortoise. The Lone Ranger even showed up. Oh, and even the McDonalds commercial with Ronald was western themed.

While Snoopy couldn't fly this year due to a leg injury, we had Underdog.

Can we discuss how a station wagon is pulling a float. Later on, I saw an Oldsmobile sedan towing the float with the Spinners on it.

This beautiful phone store.

I feel like by the time we were growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, Kermit had more bad days at the parade than good, but 1980 was a good year for him. Just look at him.

Casper is over here looking like the baby from Ally McBeal.

Bob from Sesame Street sang a song while Bert & Ernie danced. Even Oscar liked the song.

Unfortunately, the entire parade isn't on YouTube. Looks like the recorder only set their VCR for two hours. One of the final things you see is Linda Ronstadt and the cast of The Pirates of Penzance. "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" slaps.

Related: previous thanksgiving entries.

#thanksgiving #Macys thanksgiving day parade #1980 #ed mcmahon

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jerrylewisphotocollection · 1 year

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Jerry makes Carson laugh on The Tonight Show.

#Jerry Lewis #johnny carson #ed mcmahon #The Tonight Show

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moorheadthanyoucanhandle · 2 months

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PO THINGS

Opening this weekend:

Kung Fu Panda 4--The titular mammal, Po, has been promoted from "Dragon Warrior" to the more exalted status of Spiritual Leader, and is expected to find and train a replacement for his former position. But he'd rather not; he'd like to just keep having butt-kicking adventures on his own.

This entry, set again in a fairy-tale Chinese past inhabited by talking animals, has Po capturing Zhen, a light-footed cutpurse fox. The "Furious Five" of the earlier films is away on assignment, so the imprisoned Zhen talks Po into letting her serve as a guide on a quest to the distant lair of a villainous shape-shifting lizard, The Chameleon. See where this is headed?

This Dreamworks series has been at the less exhausting, more rewarding end of the CGI animated family flick spectrum starting with the original, back in 2008, and continuing with the first two sequels. It's hard to say if it will be sustainable from now on, but this fourth film, at least, keeps the streak going. The story deals in the usual kid-movie platitudes, but the lighting-fast yet precise slapstick sequences are exciting, and rise at times to laugh-out-loud funny even for adults.

The voice cast in this film, as in the earlier films, is unusually strong too. Jack Black is exuberant as ever as Po, and is joined again by Dustin Hoffman as the red panda master Shifu, Bryan Cranston as Po's biological father and the great James Hong as Po's adoptive father (a goose, you'll recall). Ian McShane returns from the first film as a sinister snow leopard. New cast members include Ke Huy Quan as a pangolin bandit, and the mighty and menacing Viola Davis as The Chameleon. But the showcase new role is Awkwafina as Zhen; she fits the series like a glove.

In another pretty good touch: Tenacious D rousingly covers "Hit Me Baby One More Time" over the credits.

Opening today at Harkins Shea 14:

Pitch People--Back in the late '60s I was fascinated by the Veg-o-Matic, the infamous manual vegetable chopper sold on TV by Ronco; it's one of my earliest consumerist memories. After numerous appeals to my poor Mom, she wearily ordered one, and we quickly learned that it did not significantly improve the efficiency of her kitchen. Decades later my kid, around the age of eight, insisted on ordering a Snackeez, a drinking cup with a compartment for snacks at the top likewise peddled on TV. The speed with which she lost interest in it was ineffably heart-tugging to me; I could hear "The Circle of Life" playing in my head.

This documentary, directed by Stanley Jacobs, is about the people who have sold products of all kinds, with kitchen gadgets a special favorite, by "pitching" them; demonstrating them with a performer's panache. The art goes back thousands of years, no doubt--it's described here as "the second oldest profession"--but this movie's focus is on the American and British practitioners who took it from boardwalks, notably Atlantic City, to state fairs to shopping malls to TV commercials and later, after Reagan-era deregulation, to "infomercials."

It's a brisk, amusing, revealing chronicle. Strikingly, many of the veterans we meet here are related to each other, members of the Morris family, with connections to the Popeil family behind Ronco (the credits pointedly declare that "RON POPEIL WOULD NOT GRANT AN INTERVIEW FOR THIS FILM"). They gleefully dissect the strategies for separating audience members from their money, but they don't seem contemptuous of them, and we're told that they truly believe in their products. In any case, they show a certain guileless pride in their performing skills. It's as if the entertainment value of their pitches should offset any disappointment in what they're selling.

Along with Arnold and Lester Morris, talking heads here include Ed McMahon, an Atlantic City pitch veteran before his TV stardom, and Wally Nash, a Brit whose effortless old-school pitch of the "hand-hammered wok from the People's Republic of China" I watched countless times on late-TV in DC. Re-watching it on YouTube I was amazed at how much of I could still say along with him; I wanted to buy one every freakin' time I saw it.

Inevitably the extended footage of performances makes up the strongest passages of Pitch People. It's also hilarious when we see behind-the-scenes footage of an infomercial rehearsal in which the presenters break several demo models of a slicer before realizing that they're using it wrong.

Alas, a number of the pitchers featured here have left us, as this movie was made in 1999. It saw play at festivals back then but was not picked up by a distributor, and actually had to be restored before it could get a proper release, a quarter of a century after it was completed. There's a delicious and stinging irony in the fact that this movie about selling failed, until now, to sell. Maybe it needed a better pitch.

#pitch people #stanley jacobs #kung fu panda 4 #jack black #awkwafina #arnold morris #ed mcmahon #dustin hoffman #bryan cranston #james hong #viola davis #ian mcshane #ke huy quan #tenacious d

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samsdisneydiary · 1 year

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Mickey's 60th Birthday | The Magical World of Disney | 1988 | Mickey Mouse

Mickey’s 60th Birthday | The Magical World of Disney | 1988 | Mickey Mouse