"Yikes I'm in Uncle Carl's mouth..." "I'd like you to meet Sadsack, the air-sack..." (who's dying b.t.w.) Once again I am forced to question what the adult educators and television producers were ingesting in the 1970's when I was growing up.  But under the guise of edutainment ABC networks unleashed a barrage of nightmarish horror [...]

I'm going to put the video up front this time.  It's a Marionette show from one of the undisputed master troops in the world, and it was also the source of one of my first chills up the back jump scares... https://youtu.be/IFI9W8Tw3VI When I was a kid growing up here in Orange County California, a [...]

And so the Impossibles, ordinary singing group, become the Impossibles crimefighters in the war against crime... There is a joy and beauty in the timelessness of cartoons to a child.  By the time I was growing up in the 70's, I had no idea that so many of the programs I loved and treasured had actually come [...]