Archive for 2012
Protected: Labor Day Weekend 2012
Monday, September 17th, 2012Everybody’s Got a Special Kind of Story. Everybody Finds a Way to Shine…
Sunday, September 16th, 2012
OK, it was either those lead-in lyrics or “Watchoo talkin’ ’bout?” as the title of this posting – and that one’s been done to death. But still it never fails to make me smile a bit, because Diff’rent Strokes was one of the earliest prime time sitcoms that really captured me. I won’t even bother to wax philosophical about what it taught the Gen X’ers about race relations, drugs, pedophilia, smoking, kids in wheelchairs, kidnapping, and epilepsy during some of its ‘very special episodes’ that it was famous for – because somehow through all the seriousness it never failed to make me laugh and feel right at home in the Drummond residence. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected: Disneyland and Club 33 in 2012
Friday, September 14th, 2012The Hottest Bradford
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
I didn’t tune into Eight Is Enough all that terribly often, but you can bet that even at a young age I had my opinion on the ladies of the Bradford family. Mary had that older/wiser thing going; Joanie was the smart, nerdy one; Susan was a delightfully cute freckle-faced redhead; Connie was on the verge of blossoming into a looker; and Nancy was just plain hot. Nancy was played by Dianne Kay, and during the run of the series, she’d also appear in the Steven Spielberg film 1941. Other than that, most of her other roles were sadly relegated to guest spots on such TV shows as Starsky & Hutch, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, and Murder, She Wrote. Read the rest of this entry »