Happy Birthday Kathy Garver

You know you're getting up there when Cissy turns 70! Interview with Kathy Garver.

A ‘High Chaparral’ Thanksgiving

Henry Darrow is best known for playing Manolito (center, in photo) in the popular ’60s western television series "High Chaparral." He looks back at the Thanksgiving episode ‘For What We Are About to Receive,' first broadcast on NBC on Nov. 29, 1968 (it will air this year on INSP at 8 am EST on Thanksgiving Day). Link to interview here.

Happy Birthday The Twilight Zone

This week, 56 years ago, the first episode of The Twilight Zone aired on CBS. Anne Serling, Mariette Hartley, Ann Jillian and the late Theo Bikel share some memories of working with Rod Serling.

Betty Lynn and Mayberry Days

Andy Griffith Show fans will want to hop on over to Mount Airy, North Carolina, quick smart. Mayberry Days starts this week with great guests scheduled to appear. But don't believe me, here's what Betty Lynn - Thelma Lou - has to say about it all.....interview

Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels remember 9/11

Laughter is often cited as a key ingredient for a successful marriage. Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels would agree. In 1974, Shirley was leaving an art exhibit at Michael Landon’s home when Marty bumped into her. Literally.

“I was getting into my car and as Marty was arriving, he knocked me over onto a chez lounge,” laughed Jones from the couple’s home in Encino, Calif. “That’s how we met" ........ more

Remembering Ingrid Bergman at 100

How will you celebrate Ingrid Bergman’s 100th birthday this weekend? Take trip to Casablanca? Pick a Cactus Flower? Do something Notorious? Or maybe just sit home, Spellbound, and watch TCM’s Bergman marathon?

Pia Lindström talks about plans to remember her mother who would have turned 100 this weekend. Link

Michael Harney Talks "Orange is the New Black"

You may recognize Michael Harney from popular shows such as “NYPD Blue,” “Deadwood,” and “Weeds.” Now, the Queens native has another hit “Orange is the New Black”... more

Star Trek’s red shirts didn’t ‘live long and prosper’

A little Star Trek humor, thanks to Walter Koenig, Celeste Yarnall, and Julie Cobb.

It’s a long-standing source of amusement among “Star Trek” fans: Crew wearing red uniforms the red shirts rarely lived long and prospered, many falling victim to a speedy on-screen demise during the original series’ three seasons....more

The Blob and Blobfest

Since 2000, residents and visitors to the small Pennsylvania borough of Phoenixville have been witness to a strange summer ritual. Each July, hundreds of theatergoers flee en masse from the local Colonial Theatre to pay homage to a scene from “The Blob,” filmed at the theater in the late ‘50s...... more.

Happy Birthday June Lockhart - 90 Today

Since the 1960s, June Lockhart has been widely recognized as the practical and protective TV mom from “Lost in Space” and “Lassie.” But her extensive career stretched beyond zany aliens and courageous canines. Her body of work includes some 200 stage, film, and TV roles – including two seasons on “Petticoat Junction” and numerous television guest-starring appearances since the 1950s. Westerns were among her favorites .....read full interview in the
Santa Monica Mirror.

While preparing for the interview, I watched some of her early TV westerns. An episode of “Wagon Train” (The Sarah Drummond Story) dealt with the settlers’ predictable attitude to the local “Indians.” What struck were the final words of June’s character:

 “It’s the young we’ve got to worry about, they learn to love and hate quicker than anybody else depending on how we teach them.”

Pianist Richard Glazier Back on PBS

Keep an eye on your local PBS station this summer - Richard Glazier has a new special. Talks about how the Gershwins influenced his career in this recent interview.

Bad Weather?

 Clearly need to get eyewear updated.
Could have sworn the recent news  headline read: “1 person killed when tomatoes hit Oklahoma, Arkansas.”