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Joseph Force Crater was an associate judge of the New York Supreme Court. On August 6, 1930, the 41-year-old Crater was in New York City, ostensibly on business, while his wife vacationed without him in Maine. While in New York, Crater spent time with his young showgirl mistress, Sally Lou Ritz. Crater dined with Ritz and a lawyer friend, then they attended a play. When the show ended, Crater's companions got into a taxi and watched Crater walk away...never to be seen again. After several days it was obvious to the judge's wife and colleagues that something was terribly amiss--especially when court reconvened on August 25 with Crater still absent. An investigation was launched. When the story hit the newspapers, a nationwide manhunt began. Naturally, foul play was suspected. On the morning of his disappearance, Crater's assistant had helped the judge cash two checks totaling more than $5,100. The money was put into two locked briefcases and taken to the judge's apartment. Speculation ran along the lines of Crater paying blackmail money. A grand jury trial followed, yielding 975 pages of testimony. It implicated Crater in shady real estate and financial deals, but the authorities had no success in finding any trace of the judge. (Sally Lou Ritz escaped much of the publicity--but not the gossip--when she herself vanished, never to be seen again.) Crater's wife did not return to her New York City apartment until January 31, 1931--where she found a manila envelope addressed to her in the judge's handwriting. It contained his will, $6,619 in cash, several checks, stocks, bonds, life insurance policies, and a hurriedly penned three-page personal note. The envelope had apparently been placed there after the police had searched the apartment. (Three checks were dated August 30--more than three weeks after the judge had vanished!) For several decades the term 'pulling a Judge Crater' was slang for vanishing or leaving an awkward situation discreetly. On August 19, 2005, authorities announced they had obtained a letter written by Stella Ferrucci-Good, who had recently died at age 91. The missive indicated that Judge Crater had been murdered by her late husband, a policeman, and a cab driver friend. Supposedly a skeleton found under the boardwalk at Coney Island in the 1950s was Crater's. An aquarium now occupies the site. The unidentified bones were interred in a mass grave on Hart Island, the usual spot where unclaimed corpses were commonly buried in unmarked plots. However, Ferrucci-Good's story has a major hole: no record exists of a body ever being found under the Coney Island boardwalk.
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Added: 16th September 2009
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Here is something unusual on YRT. An unbelievable BAD corrupted attempt on destroying a dramatic heroine with a flair for bad, bad acting. This was a 1967 mistake to follow the superhero trend at the time. The Batman series was what the Wonder Woman creators were trying hard to copy. It was definately unaired when the result was shown to the studio who were considering it. Does Ellie Wood Walker look like Wonder Woman? No. That is Linda Harrison as the female costumed hero.
The working title of this proposed series would of been "Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?" There were four writers involved with this short clip.
It was Greenway Productions, the same organization that was responsible for their "Batman" and "Green Hornet" series. They shot less than 5 minutes of this useless screen test. What were they thinking? This is not a 1941 Wonder Woman, just a cheap imitation.
That is actress Maudie Prickett as the mother.
In this show the girl would've just dreamt of being Wonder Woman instead of really being her.
It would of been a disapointment for all involved, including the viewer. I think this pilot episode just was forgotten as fast as it was made. Maybe?
Wonder Woman was attempted again several years later with Cathy Lee Crosby in 1973. It failed too. Then, in 1975 when ABC took away the comedy and took it into the right time era of the 1940s, this is when things began to change with viewer success when shown on television. Though, because of its unsensible theme the network bosses decided to give the character back to the makers of the show. The producers went to CBS with new plans. But with CBS, they decided to change a few things to the already established show. A change of era for the main characters. It would be a little similiar, but this time it would be updated to now. *E*
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Added: 16th September 2009
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This was taken from Bob Hope's 50th Anniversary Show from 1988, a show that was filled with great clips. Here is a clip from Oct. of 1975, when Don Rickles was guest-hosting the Tonight Show, and Bob Hope showed up, unscheduled, with a couple of other surprise guests!! I just wish I had more of this!
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Added: 21st September 2009
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Here is a 1975 performance of Austalian singer, Helen Reddy with her 1972 co-wrote version of "I Am Woman." A song from which came out the start of the 70s women’s liberation movement. Her writing partner Ray Burton, an Australian guitarist living in California, he had no idea that Reddy would become so big with a few of his added lyrics.
The power of this record made Helen a huge millionaire due to its popularity on radio stations. An over played single can bring in success quickly for a songwriter.
In the 1970s, Helen had her own show, and was the cohost of 'The Midnight Special' because of the reaction towards the 45 single of "I am Woman."
"I am Woman" was a number one song for her, and eventually won her a Grammy. The Australian guitarist who cowrite the song got almost nothing for his imput until more than 20 years later. What happened?
The guitarist/ writer soon got kicked out of America for passport troubles, and had to just read about the popularity of the cowritten song in the press. Must've been tough.
It wasn't until the late 1990s when he got somewhat compensated for what he did for the singer's career. She retired from the business a few years ago and lives in Australia now.
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Added: 30th September 2009
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Okay, here is the group KISS from the mid 70s on the late night Friday show 'The Midnight Special'.
The group were only discovered a few years earlier in a New York hotel called The Diplomat, which would've been in the summer of 1973.
From today, the band has been together for thirty five years, since their debut album, and their first cross-country tour in 1974. It only took a a few years for this band to be huge, as can be seen in this clip from 1975. By 1977, it was difficult not to see or not know about this band. Images and music could be heard in school's and vehicle speakers.
Back in 1975, KISS released a landmark live album that many groups would later copy with releasing their own double-disc releases on vinyl, and cassette tape formats. I can think of many at this moment. How about Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, and so on.
Since the 1970s, this band has gone through many lineup changes without losing their core fans.
Were you a fan?
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Added: 10th October 2009
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When Happy Days debuted in 1974, there were three Cunningham children: Joanie, Richie, and Chuck. Chuck, the eldest, was supposed to be a mentoring-type, college-age big brother to middle child Richie. The jockish Chuck's roles were small--so small that few viewers noticed that two different actors (Gavan O'Herlihy, shown in the photo; and Randolph Roberts) were cast as Chuck. By 1975, when the show went to live tapings and Fonzie became Richie's mentor, Chuck was simply dropped from the show with no explanation. He was only mentioned in one episode after the first season--and that was a flashback episode where his presence had to be explained. Several times in later episodes, Howard and Marion Cunningham both refer to having just two children. Tom Bosley, who played Howard, liked to joke in interviews that Chuck had 'accepted a full scholarship at the University of Outer Mongolia.'
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Added: 23rd October 2009
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Remember the glow in the dark sticker you'd find in this monstrous cereal? Can you remember yesterday?
Well, how about rememberering Fruit Brute? This was only one out of the five cereals created and manufactured by America's General Mills.
This sugar fruit-flavoured cereal had mixed in it lime tasting marshmallows. Yummy!
This 1975 cereal accompanied the 1971 Franken Berry, and also 1973's Boo Berry, and alongside 1975's Count Chocula; both who have appeared in a few motion pictures and occasionally on television shows. Fruit Brute remained on grocery shelves until 1983. How's that? Fruity Yummy Mummy replaced him without a cause four years later. There has been no explanation on why Fruit Brute was taken off the all-important cereal market that kept you happy.
It ain't all bad though. Fruit Brute's appearance can still be seen in two Quentin Tarantino films over the years. Fruit Brute can as well be found at nostalgia shows. Have you seen a box recently?
This Saturday commercial was the introduction to the wolf.
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Added: 27th October 2009
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Shown on CBS, this television show was shown first on Saturday mornings for two years, from 1970 to 1972.
The characters were then took over to ABC in 1975, then in 1978 the series was mixed in with something different called 'The Groovie Goolies and Friends'. This was syndicated for a limited time.
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Added: 28th October 2009
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After its 1975 pilot film proved a ratings success ABC gave approval for a full series of STARSKY AND HUTCH, an action-packed cop show that enjoyed a four season run. Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul starred as unorthodox plain clothes police officers Dave Starsky and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, fighting crime with the occasional assistance of their hip street snitch Huggy Bear (played by Antonio Fargas). Bernie Hamilton co-starred as their superior, Captain Dobey, and an additional star was the tire-squealing Ford Gran Torino that was frequently in the middle of the action.
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Added: 29th October 2009
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The Jeffersons was a hugely successful spinoff from All in the Family, running for 10 seasons from 1975 to 1985. It also inspired a not-so-successful spinoff: Checking In.
On The Jeffersons, Marla Gibbs played Florence Johnston, the sassy, wisecracking maid who regularly exchanged insults with George Jefferson. Her character was so well liked by viewers that CBS figured it would be a smart move to give Gibbs her own series. Accordingly, in episode #154 and #155 of The Jeffersons, a hotel manager was so impressed by Florence that he offered her the job as supervisor of maids at his St. Frederick Hotel. Florence accepted and Checking In was born. It premiered on Thursday, April 9, 1981. Larry Linville (Major Frank Burns from MASH fame) played Lyle Block, the hotel's weasly manager and, naturally, Florence's nemesis. After four weeks, though, Checking In was floundering in the ratings and CBS pulled the plug after the April 30 episode. Smartly, the network had Gibbs return to the Jeffersons' household as their maid. In her return episode, #161, Florence arrives at the Jeffersons' door explaining that the hotel burned down! (Her clothing and hair had traces of soot and fire damage to add credibility to the plot twist!) She had to compete with new maid Carmen to get her old job back. After missing just five shows, Gibbs' Florence character remained on The Jeffersons until the series ended in 1985.
Marla Gibbs was nominated for an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy in for five stright years (1981 through 1985) for her role as Florence Johnston. Gibbs' career accomplishments are even more impressive when one considers she was married at age 13 and had three children by age 20! She still managed to graduate from Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago. A performer in amateur theatricals, Gibbs was working as a customer service agent for United Airlines when she got her role on The Jeffersons. Cautiously, she waited until The Jeffersons was a bonafide hit show before quitting her job at United!
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Added: 28th August 2011
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