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The Iconic Early Days of MTV: An Interview with Neal Mirsky, Early MTV Producer

“I Want My MTV!” Who remembers the first time you heard that phrase? Did you ever realize the impact those 4 words would make? Today, we interview a true insider on the early days of MTV. In the beginning: “On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 AM Eastern Time, MTV launched with the words “Ladies and …

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Breaking the Law: Police Procedurals in the 80s

When we think about the 80s, one of our entertainment favorites are the police procedural shows of that era. Today we fondly remember things like European styling, “teenage” cops, male and female detective pairs, and a crime-solving mystery writer. These were the shows that bring the 80s back to life for us. Remington Steele Remington …

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How Some of the Iconic 80s Sitcom Families Got it Right

Many a Gen Xer grew up on a steady diet of heavily laugh-tracked sitcoms. Flashback to 1987, I am in my room surrounded by pinups torn from sundry teen magazines featuring the likes of Michael J. Fox and Kirk Cameron. How could you not fall for the devilish and still kind-hearted Mike Seaver. The Seavers, …

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MTV’s “The Real World” The Original “Reality Show”

In the early 90s, Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray were looking for new ideas and watched a 70s show on PBS called “An American Family.” It was a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, an upper middle-class family in Santa Barbara, California, but ended up documenting the break-up of the family when the …

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Do You Remember? VH1’s “Behind the Music”

On January 1, 1985, MTV’s parent corporation launched a new music video network aimed at building upon what the original music channel had created, but it focused on a slightly older demographic. When VH1 first came into existence, it was all about music videos and music shows. Favorites like “Behind the Music”, “VH1 Legends”, “Best …

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Sid & Marty Krofft: 70s Fantasy Innovators

Canadian siblings Sid & Marty Krofft are truly master puppeteers. Born in Quebec, Canada, they spent many years honing their craft before their television career began in earnest. In the 1940s, Sid created his one-man puppet show, The Unusual Artistry of Sid Krofft, and performed it all over the world, with his father. Marty stayed …

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FRIENDS: The Reunion

Show creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman were good friends and roommates in New York City in their 20s. Their lives, loves and friends are the material they utilized to create the epic television show, FRIENDS, that captured the hearts of millions all over the world. But the story behind it is so much more. …

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Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (often referred to as Laugh-In) was an American sketch comedy TV program that ran from January, 1968 to March, 1973 on NBC, hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. The show was characterized by a rapid-fire series of gags and sketches, many of which conveyed sexual innuendo, or were politically …

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Nina Blackwood: MTV In Her Own Words

“On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 AM Eastern Time, MTV launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia (which took place earlier that year) and of the launch of Apollo 11.” And with those words, …

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Television Archives - PopDaze

The Iconic Early Days of MTV: An Interview with Neal Mirsky, Early MTV Producer

Breaking the Law: Police Procedurals in the 80s

How Some of the Iconic 80s Sitcom Families Got it Right

MTV’s “The Real World” The Original “Reality Show”

Do You Remember? VH1’s “Behind the Music”

Sid & Marty Krofft: 70s Fantasy Innovators

FRIENDS: The Reunion

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In

Nina Blackwood: MTV In Her Own Words

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