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"Joanie Loves Chachi" is an ABC sitcom that aired from 1982-1983. It was a "Happy Days" spin-off that followed Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola to Chicago where they pursued music careers and furthering their relationship. After the initial curiosity wore off, ratings declined rapidly. ABC decided to pull the plug, and both Joanie and Chachi were written back into Happy Days for its final season. "Joanie Loves Chachi" has become something of a punchline in TV history, often cited as an example of a failed spin-off. Will the S1E1 boys disagree? Listen as they deep dive the show's pilot episode, "Chicago". Starting: Erin Moran, Scott Baio, Al Molinaro, Ellen Travolta, Art Metrano, Tom Bosley, & Marion Ross www.S1E1POD.com Instagram & X (Twitter): @S1E1POD
The Neil Haley Show x Love Is Podcast (Simulcast Special)Neil HaleyKim Sorrelle, Host of The Love Is PodcastEllen Travolta – Beloved actress, known for Happy Days, Charles in Charge, and now appearing in Season 2 of Going Home on Great American Pure Flix.In this heartfelt and beautifully reflective episode, Hollywood legend Ellen Travolta joins Neil Haley and Kim Sorrelle to discuss her role in Season 2 of Going Home, a moving series that explores life, love, and the dignity of death through the lens of hospice care. Ellen shares her personal experiences with loss, her passion for theater, and why this project is one of the most meaningful in her career.From the lighter moments of laughter to the profound reflections on grief and faith, this conversation reminds us all to live fully, love deeply, and embrace the now.Ellen's personal connection to Going Home and what drew her to the roleWhy we avoid conversations around death—and why we shouldn'tThe importance of humor, even in our final momentsHow faith plays a role in peace and letting goHer real-life experience caring for her father and the moment he passedThe legacy of love through family and theater in Coeur d'Alene, IdahoWhat young people can learn from aging and mortalityReflections on Betty White, purpose, and living in the presentStreaming now on Great American Pure Flix, Going Home tells stories of patients at the end of their lives, exploring closure, forgiveness, hope—and even humor—through compassionate hospice care. Ellen stars in a powerful episode as a grandmother making peace with passing by ensuring her grandson is not alone.“Even in death, there is humor. There's lightness. And there is always love.”— Ellen Travolta“We're afraid to talk about death, but when we do, we realize there's peace in it.”— Ellen Travolta“She was more worried about leaving her grandson alone than about herself. That's love.”— Ellen Travolta on her Going Home character“Don't live in the past. You can't change it. And who knows what's coming tomorrow? Enjoy today.”— Ellen TravoltaEllen is an accomplished actress, director, and producer known for iconic roles in Happy Days, Charles in Charge, and Joanie Loves Chachi. She is also the sister of actor John Travolta and an active force in community theater in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. At 84, her energy, wisdom, and joy remain magnetic as ever.Now streaming exclusively on Great American Pure Flix
You'll detect, by his accent, that Scott Baio was born in Brooklyn, New York. He rocketed to fame as Chachi, the charming cousin of the Fonz on Happy Days. His chemistry with Joanie was so electric that it sparked the spin-off “Joanie Loves Chachi.” And let's not forget his role as the ultimate live-in-babysitter in “Charles in Charge.” Later he stepped into the director's chair and did some more acting, including a made for TV movie that was filmed in Madison. It's a film that's featured on YouTube. Scott said he loved filming in Wisconsin and working with state athletes. But he almost forgot his name during a quick promo at the end of the interview.
In this episode we're diverting from the usual Satan in the White House formula. We won't be talking about all the people who have claimed Donald Trump is the antichrist. But rather we're tackling the people who have claimed he is the chosen one.There are cameo guest star appearances from Texas, Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, Republican Party, Fox News, Africa, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Michele Bachman, Israel, Gaza, Assassins Creed, Palestine, Black Lives Matter, The Salt Lake Tribune, Pentecostals, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Vladimir Putin, Franklin Graham, Lance Wallnau, God's Chaos Candidate, POTUS Shield, Melania Trump, Florida, Mark Taylor, DARPA, Jesus Christ, Mar a Lago, YHWH, Liberty University, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tim Scott, Republican National Convention, Wayne Allen Root, Newsmax TV, Bill O'Reilly, Joe Rogan, China, Celebrity Apprentice, The Apprentice, Scott Baio, Joanie Loves Chachi, Happy Days and Richie Cunningham. #666 #SketchComedy #Sketch #Comedy #Sketch Comedy #Atheist #Science #History #Atheism #Antitheist #ConspiracyTheory #Conspiracy #Conspiracies #Sceptical #Scepticism #Mythology #Religion #Devil #Satan #Satanism #Satanist #Skeptic #Debunk #Illuminati #SatanIsMySuperhero #Podcast #funny #sketch #skit #comedy #comedyshow #comedyskits #HeavyMetal #weird #RomanEmpire #Rome #AncientRome #Romans #RomanEmperor 666, SketchComedy, Sketch, Comedy, Sketch Comedy, Atheist, Science, History, Atheism, Antitheist, Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy, Conspiracies, Sceptical, Scepticism, Mythology, Religion, Devil, Satan, Satanism, Satanist, Skeptic, Debunk, Illuminati, Heavy Metal, weird, Roman Empire, Rome, Romans, Roman Emperor, SatanIsMySuperhero,
Actor Scott Baio joins the Tim DeMoss Show today to discuss the new film God's Not Dead: In God We Trust (in theatres Thursday September 12). Baio, known for his roles on TV shows "Happy Days" & "Charles In Charge" (among others), plays John Wesley, political advisor to Senator Peter Kane (Ray Wise). Kane runs for office emphasizing his belief there's no room for God in the execution of government. Reverend David Hill (David A.R. White), a small-town pastor, steps up to run against Senator Kane with the help of Lottie Jay (Samaire Armstrong), a former political PR expert in her own right. The fight becomes a beacon of hope for people seeking moral leadership in a divided world, with encouragement to viewers to cast their vote and be counted. Newsboys, as they have with previous "God's Not Dead" films, appear in this newest installation in the series--both as actors and through their music, with three songs from their new "Worldwide Revival Part 1" album featured. Our partnership with GFA World continues as well, seeking to send 2000 copies of God's Word this month to Africa & Asia. To help, please pray...and if you'd like to give a copy ($5 per), 1 866 659-7361 and the GFA World banner at wfil.com are the two main ways to do so (thank you!) Sports clip: Bryce Harper (Philadelphia Phillies first baseman) (MLB.com)Featured clip: Reggie Smith (Gaither Vocal Band)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Did you know that 40 million Christians don't vote? The latest “God's Not Dead” movie is on a mission to change that, and it starts with letting people know their voices deserve to be heard. “God's Not Dead: In God We Trust” is in theaters September 12th. Nine-time Emmy winner David Sams sits down with Scott Baio who stars in the film. Scott is best known for his roles as Chachi in TV's iconic shows like “Happy Days” and “Joanie Loves Chachi” and Charles in “Charles In Charge.” Scott now has entered the faith-based movie scene and talks about why it's the right move for him. He also shares his thoughts on the political climate we are facing and why he believes God still has a place in politics. More information available at GodsNotDead.com #godsnotdead #ingodwetrust #scottbaio #keepthefaith #davidsams #contagiousinfluencer
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Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil" The Media Giant" Haley and Kim Sorrelle will interview Ellen Travolta. ELLEN TRAVOLTA Ellen Travolta is probably best known for her portrayal of Louisa Arcola Delvecchio, the aunt of Fonzie (Henry Winkler) and mother of Chachi Arcola (Scott Baio), in episodes during the 1980s of the 1950s-era American sitcomHappy Days and in its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi. Travolta also played the mother of Baio's character on the syndicated comedy series Charles in Charge from 1987 to 1990.
Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil" The Media Giant" Haley and Kim Sorrelle will interview Ellen Travolta. ELLEN TRAVOLTA Ellen Travolta is probably best known for her portrayal of Louisa Arcola Delvecchio, the aunt of Fonzie (Henry Winkler) and mother of Chachi Arcola (Scott Baio), in episodes during the 1980s of the 1950s-era American sitcom Happy Days and in its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi. Travolta also played the mother of Baio's character on the syndicated comedy series Charles in Charge from 1987 to 1990.
The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (09/26/2023): 3:05pm- According to reporting from Alex Thompson of Axios, “Democrats, including some in the administration, are terrified that Biden will have a bad fall—with a nightmare scenario of it happening in the weeks before the November 2024 election.” Consequently, Biden has been doing exercises to improve his balance and his team has a “mission” to prevent him from tripping. You can read the full report here: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/biden-trip-2024-campaign-sneakers 3:30pm- Philadelphia Municipal Judge Wendy Pew has dismissed all charges against former Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial who was accused of shooting and killing Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop last month. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced he will appeal the decision. You can read more about the story here: https://www.inquirer.com/crime/mark-dial-charges-dismissed-eddie-irizarry-shooting-philadelphia-police-officer-20230926.html 3:45pm- On Tuesday, President Joe Biden visited United Auto Workers (UAW) picket lines in Van Buren Township, Michigan to show support for their strike against automotive manufacturers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. 4:05pm- While speaking with CNN, Mayor of El Paso Texas Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, said his city was “at a breaking point” as immigrants continue to cross the U.S. Southern border unlawfully. In a separate segment, CNN host Jim Acosta outlandishly claimed that the crisis at border was merely a Republican “talking point” and that there was no proof that the “border is open.” Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy slammed those comments noting that more than 10,000 migrants are crossing the Southern border and entering the United States every day. 4:10pm- According to reports, Target will close nine stores nationally in response to unmitigated thefts in major cities which have cost the retail store an estimated $700 million. 4:15pm- On November 30th, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) will debate California Governor Gavin Newsom in a 90-minute broadcast on Fox News. The debate will be moderated by Sean Hannity. 4:20pm- Ryan Mills of National Review writes: “San Francisco leaders are preparing to ramp up efforts to clean up and clear out homeless camps in the city after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals clarified that people who decline shelter should not be classified as ‘involuntarily homeless.'” He continues: “San Francisco mayor London Breed announced Monday that the clarification provides the city with a ‘path forward' to enforce laws against ‘voluntarily homeless individuals.'” You can read Mills' full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/san-francisco-prepares-to-clear-homeless-camps-after-court-clarifies-definition-of-involuntarily-homeless/ 4:40pm- Jerry Connor of the MC-LEF Philadelphia Committee and Tony Boyle, retired Philadelphia Police Department Chief Inspector and MC-LEF National Committee member, join The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the 2023 Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation (MC-LEF) Gala on October 28th. Marine Corps Col. Harvey “Barney” Barnum joins the conversation as well—a Medal of Honor recipient who served in Vietnam. There is even a U.S. Navy destroyer that bears his name! You can learn more about the MC-LEF Gala here: https://www.mclefphila.org/events-overview 5:00pm- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have arrived at an agreement on a stopgap spending plan that would avert a government shutdown and fund the government through mid-November. The agreement would include a reported $6 billion in additional aid for Ukraine. In response to the agreement, Sen. J.D. Vance tweeted: “This will certainly lead to a government shutdown. Democrats won't fix our border but will shut down the government unless we fund Ukraine. Disgraceful.” According to reports, Sen. Rand Paul may use Senate procedural tools to challenge the Ukrainian aid package—delaying the bill's arrival in the House of Representatives. Does the bill have any chance to pass in the House? It's likely Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy would need to rely on Democrat votes if he chose to bring the bill to the floor for a vote—which could ultimately result in a Republican-led challenge to his speakership. 5:20pm- In response to a potential government shutdown, President Joe Biden said: "Funding the government is one of the most basic fundamental responsibilities of Congress and if the Republicans in the House don't start doing their job, we should stop electing them." 5:30pm- Rich gains entrance to an elite fishing club—but he doesn't know how to fish. Will this impact his membership? 5:35pm- A listener calls-in to ask Rich to help them book a hotel room at the Grand Hotel in Cape May. 5:40pm- Philadelphia Municipal Judge Wendy Pew has dismissed all charges against former Philadelphia police officer Mark Dial who was accused of shooting and killing Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop last month. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced he will appeal the decision. You can read more about the story here: https://www.inquirer.com/crime/mark-dial-charges-dismissed-eddie-irizarry-shooting-philadelphia-police-officer-20230926.html 6:05pm- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have arrived at an agreement on a stopgap spending plan that would avert a government shutdown and fund the government through mid-November. The agreement would include a reported $6 billion in additional aid for Ukraine. 6:10pm- On X, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed that he has “obtained two bank wires revealing Hunter Biden received payments originating from Beijing in 2019 when Joe Biden was running for President. Joe Biden's Delaware home is listed as the beneficiary address for both money wires from China.” You can read Comer's full statement here: https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1706777879290290624 6:15pm- On Tuesday, President Joe Biden visited United Auto Workers (UAW) picket lines in Van Buren Township, Michigan to show support for their strike against automotive manufacturers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Interestingly, some striking workers are blaming the administration's emphasis on electric vehicle production for reduced company earnings and a loss of jobs. 6:20pm- During a campaign rally in South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke out about offshore wind development and its link to the sudden surge in whale deaths. Many environmental experts hypothesize that offshore wind development's use of sonar to map the ocean's floor prevents whales from communicating with one another and inhibits accurate navigation. In response to Trump's warning, MSNBC's Morning Joe mocked the former U.S. President and completely dismissed his claims. 6:40pm- Will there be a reboot of “The Office”? Rich wonders what the worst spin-off series of all time is and concludes it must be “Joey” or “Joanie Loves Chachi.”
The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have arrived at an agreement on a stopgap spending plan that would avert a government shutdown and fund the government through mid-November. The agreement would include a reported $6 billion in additional aid for Ukraine. On X, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed that he has “obtained two bank wires revealing Hunter Biden received payments originating from Beijing in 2019 when Joe Biden was running for President. Joe Biden's Delaware home is listed as the beneficiary address for both money wires from China.” You can read Comer's full statement here: https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1706777879290290624 On Tuesday, President Joe Biden visited United Auto Workers (UAW) picket lines in Van Buren Township, Michigan to show support for their strike against automotive manufacturers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Interestingly, some striking workers are blaming the administration's emphasis on electric vehicle production for reduced company earnings and a loss of jobs. During a campaign rally in South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke out about offshore wind development and its link to the sudden surge in whale deaths. Many environmental experts hypothesize that offshore wind development's use of sonar to map the ocean's floor prevents whales from communicating with one another and inhibits accurate navigation. In response to Trump's warning, MSNBC's Morning Joe mocked the former U.S. President and completely dismissed his claims. Will there be a reboot of “The Office”? Rich wonders what the worst spin-off series of all time is and concludes it must be “Joey” or “Joanie Loves Chachi.”
Television Writer and Producer, Cindy Begel who has worked on over 30 classic sitcoms (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Jeffersons, Married With Children, Mama's Family, etc.) joins Joss to talk about Season 3 Episode 11: The Kleptomaniac! Cindy shines a light on what it's like to be in the writers room during the golden age of sitcoms, how some of the best jokes and moments come to be, and why writing for Three's Company is actually a tough job. This episode was recorded pre-SAG strike and pre-WGA strike and follows all guidelines surrounding strike compliance. Follow us on Instagram : @threescompanyrewatchpodFollow us on TikTok: @tcrewatchpodFollow Joss: @joss.richardCouch Artwork: Morgan Gesell
In this episode we take a look at the pilot for the short-lived sitcom, Joanie Loves Chachi (1982) This spin-off of Happy Days (1974) follows Chachi Arcola as he moves out and tries to succeed on his own with a rock band and a music career. In between holding down a job and keeping his girlfriend, Joanie Cunningham, happy, he must also deal with the often unwanted, but sometimes needed, advice and interference from his friends, relatives and neighbors. Scott Baio Chachi Arcola Erin Moran as Joanie Cunningham Al Molinaro as Al Delvecchio Ellen Travolta as Louisa Delvecchio Art Metrano as Rico Mastorelli Robert Pierce as Bingo Pierce Derrel Maury as Mario Mastorelli Winifred Freedman as Annette Mastorelli Listen, Rate and Share the show!!! Find us at all2reeltoo.com Listen to Mike on The Family Fright Night Horror Podcast ... https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kstbpDOnLQeI8BQGLzina Check out some cool music by host Matthew Haase at https://youtu.be/5E6TYm_4wIE Check out cool merchandise related to our show at http://tee.pub/lic/CullenPark Become a Patron of the show here.... https://www.patreon.com/CullenPark Listen to Mike on The Nerdball Podcast.... https://pod.fo/e/ba2aa Check out some cool music from Jason Quick at www.jasonquickmusic.com TO HELP WRITERS AND ACTORS ON THE PICKET LINES YOU CAN DONATE HERE: ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND If you can during these troubling times make a donation to one of the following charities to help out. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ https://www.hrc.org/hrc-story/hrc-foundation https://pointfoundation.org/ https://www.directrelief.org/ https://www.naacpldf.org/ https://www.blackvotersmatterfund.org https://www.tahirih.org/ https://www.monafoundation.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James Patrick Dunne joined me and talked about growing up on the same blok with David Hasselhoff; how music drew him in; making piano records in high school; getting hired by Garry Marshall; being given access to all of the Paramount lot; scoring a movie for Dorothy Hamill; being a Phi Beta Kappa; writing "Do the Fonzie" for Happy Days; writing the theme song for Joanie Loves Chachi; writing "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" for As the World Turns and having it covered by Anne Murray, Jermaine Jackson, and Whitney Houston; writing "Pumps Your Blood" and getting Anson to sing it; it's life as a jingle; changing the lyrics to "Wash Your Hands" during COVID; the Happy Days softball team; going on a 1980 USO show with Cyntha Weil, Anson Williams, and Marion Ross; the greatness of Marion Ross; his over forty year friendship with ex-roomate Ted McGinley; writing "When You Put Your Heart in It" for the 1988 U.S. Olympic Gymnastic Team and getting it covered by Kenny Rogers and going o #2; writing "Chance of a Lifetime" for the 1992 Olympic Track & Field Team, having it covered by Take 6 and winning a Grammy; writing college alma mater's and fight songs; writing "I'm a Big Girl Now" for Huggies; his career
On this episode, we continue our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge with a look back at her 1985 under appreciated classic, Real Genius. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. Before we hop in to today's episode, I want to thank every person listening, from whatever part of the planet you're at. Over the nearly four years I've been doing this podcast, we've had listeners from 171 of the 197 countries, and occasionally it's very surreal for this California kid who didn't amount to much of anything growing to think there are people in Myanmar and the Ukraine and other countries dealing with war within their borders who still find time to listen to new episodes of a podcast about 33 plus year old mostly American movies when they're released. I don't take your listenership lightly, and I just want you to know that I truly appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, with that, I would like to welcome you all to Part Three of our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge. When we left Ms. Coolidge on our previous episode, her movie Joy of Sex had bombed, miserably. But, lucky for her, she had already been hired to work on Real Genius before Joy of Sex had been released. The script for Real Genius, co-written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft, the writers of Bachelor Party, had been floating around Hollywood for a few years. It would tell the story of a highly intelligent high school kid named Mitch who would be recruited to attend a prestigious CalTech-like college called Pacific Tech, where he would be teamed with another genius, Chris, to build a special laser with their professor, not knowing the laser is to be used as a weapon to take out enemy combatants from a drone-like plane 30,000 feet above the Earth. ABC Motion Pictures, a theatrical subsidy of the American television network geared towards creating movies that could be successful in theatres before playing on television, would acquire the screenplay in the early 1980s, but after the relative failure of a number of their initial projects, including National Lampoon's Class Reunion and Young Doctors in Love, would sell the project off to Columbia Pictures, who would make the film one of the first slate of films to be produced by their sister company Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture between Columbia, the cable network Home Box Office, and, ironically, the CBS television network, which was also created towards creating movies that could be successful in theatres before playing on television. Tri-Star would assign Brian Grazer, a television producer at Paramount who had segued to movies after meeting with Ron Howard during the actor's last years on Happy Days, producing Howard's 1982 film Night Shift and 1984 film Splash, to develop the film. One of Grazer's first moves would be to hire Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, writers on Happy Days who helped to create Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi, to rewrite the script to attract a director. Ganz and Mandel had also written Night Shift and rewrote the script for Splash, and Grazer considered them his lucky charm. After trying to convince Ron Howard to board the project instead of Cocoon, Grazer would create a list of up and coming filmmakers he would want to work with. And toward the top of that list was Martha Coolidge. Coolidge would naturally gravitate towards Real Genius, and she would have an advantage that no other filmmaker on Grazer's list would have: her fiancee, Michael Backes, was himself an egghead, a genius in physics and biochemistry who in the years to come would become good friends with the writer and filmmaker Michael Crichton, working as a graphics supervisor on the movie version of Chricton's book Jurassic Park, a co-writer of the screenplay based on Chricton's book Rising Sun, and an associate producer on the movie version of Chricton's book Congo. Once Coolidge was signed on to direct Real Genius in the spring of 1984, she and Backes would work with former SCTV writer and performer PJ Torokvei as they would spend time talking to dozens of science students at CalTech and USC, researching laser technology, and the policies of the CIA. They would shape the project to something closer to what Grazer said he loved most about its possibility, the possibility of genius. "To me,” Grazer would tell an interviewer around the time of the film's release, “a genius is someone who can do something magical, like solve a complex problem in his head while I'm still trying to figure out the question. I don't pretend to understand it, but the results are everywhere around us. We work, travel, amuse ourselves and enhance the quality of life through technology, all of which traces back to what was once an abstract idea in the mind of some genius.” When their revised screenplay got the green light from the studio with an $8m budget, Grazer and Coolidge got to the task of casting the film. While the young genius Mitch was ostensibly the lead character in the film, his roommate Chris would need a star to balance out the relative obscurity of his co-star. A number of young actors in Hollywood would be seen, but their choice would be 25 year old Val Kilmer, whose first movie, Top Secret!, had not yet opened in theatres but had hot buzz going for it as the followup film for the Airplane! writing/directing team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. Fourteen year old Gabe Jarret, whose only previous film work had been in a minor role in the 1981 Tony Danza/Danny DeVito comedy Going Ape!, would land the coveted role of Mitch, while supporting roles would go to Coolidge's former costars Michelle Meyrink, Deborah Foreman and Robert Prescott, as well as William Atherton, who at the time was on movie screens as Walter Peck, the main human antagonist to the Ghostbusters, as Chris and Mitch's duplicitous professor, Jerry Hathaway, and Patti D'Arbanville, who had made a splash on screens in 1981 as Chevy Chase's long-suffering girlfriend in Modern Problems. Shooting would begin on Real Genius in Southern California on November 12th, 1984. Most of the film would be shot on sets built at the Hollywood Center Studios, just a few blocks west of the Paramount Studios lot, while several major set pieces, including the memorable finale involving Professor Hathaway's house, a space laser and 190,000 pounds of popcorn, were shot in the then quiet suburban area of Sand Canyon, a few miles east of Magic Mountain, a popular theme park and filming area about 45mins north of Hollywood Center Studios. Outdoor scenes standing in for the Pacific Tech campus would be filmed at Occidental College in Eagle Rock and Pomona College in Claremont, while some scenes would be filmed at General Atomics outside San Diego, standing in for an Air Force base in the film's climax. Shooting on the film would finish after the first of the year, giving Coolidge and her editor, Richard Chew, about seven months to get the film in shape for a planned August 7th, 1985, release. Going in to the Summer 1985 movie season, Real Genius was positioned to be one of the hit films of the summer. They had a hot up and coming star in Val Kilmer, a hot director in Martha Coolidge, and a fairly solid release date in early August. But then, there ended up being an unusual glut of science fiction and sci-fi comedy movies in the marketplace at the same time. In March, Disney released the dinosaur-themed Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, which was not a good film and bombed pretty bad. In June, there was the artificial intelligence film D.A.R.Y.L., which was not a good film and bombed pretty bad. In July, there was Back to the Future, which was a very good film and became one of the biggest successes of the year, and there was Explorers, Joe Dante's followup to Gremlins, which featured Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as teenage boys who build their own spacecraft to explore outer space, and although it was one of the best movies released in the summer of 1985, it too bombed pretty bad. But then, in a seven day period in early August, we had Weird Science, which was not very good and not very successful, Real Genius, and My Science Project, another Disney movie about a glowing orb thing from outer space that causes a lot of problems for a lazy high school student looking for something to use for his science class final, which is one of the worst movies of the year, and bombed worse than any of the other movies mentioned. Weird Science, John Hughes' followup to his surprise hit The Breakfast Club, released only six months earlier, would open on August 1st, and come in fourth place with $4.9m from 1158 theatres. In its second weekend of release, Weird Science would lose 40% of its opening weekend audience, coming in fifth with $2.97m. But that would still be better than Real Genius, which opened on Wednesday, August 5th, which would come in sixth in its opening weekend, with $2.56m from 990 locations. My Science Project, opening on August 7th, could only manage to open in 13th place with $1.5m from 1003 theatres. That would be worse than a reissue of E.T. in its fourth weekend of release. In its second weekend, Real Genius would only drop 14% of its opening weekend audience, coming in with $2.2m from 956 locations, but after a third weekend, losing a third of its screens and 46% of its second week audience, Real Genius would be shuttled off to the dollar houses, where it would spend another seventeen weeks before exiting theatres with only $12.95m worth of tickets sold. However, it is my personal opinion is that the film failed to find an audience because it was perceived as being too smart for a simple audience. Real Genius celebrates intelligence. It doesn't pander to its audience. In many ways, it belittles stupidity, especially Mitch's moronic parents. Revenge is dished out in the most ingenious ways, especially at the end with Professor Hathaway's house, to the point where the science behind how Chris and Mitch did what the did is still actively debated thirty-eight years later. Caltech students served as consultants on the film, and played students in the background, while Dr. Martha Gunderson, a physics professor at USC whose vast knowledge about lasers informed the writers during the development stage, played a math professor on screen. Finally, to help promote the film, Martha Coolidge and producer Brian Grazer held the first-ever online press conference through the CompuServe online service, even though there were less than 125,000 on the entire planet who had CompuServe access in August 1985. Today, the film is rightfully regardless as a classic, but it wouldn't make Val Kilmer a star quite yet. That, of course, would happen in 1986, when he co-starred as Tom Cruise's frenemy in Tony Scott's Top Gun. Gabe Jarret would eventually become Gabriel Jarret, appearing in such movies as Karate Kid 3, Apollo 13 and The American President, and he continues to work in movies and on television to this day. Sadly, the same cannot be said for Michelle Meyrink, who would quit acting three years after making Real Genius, but we'll talk about that on our next episode. And, of course, William Atherton would cement his reputation as the chucklenut Gen Xers love to hate when he played the cocky television reporter Dick Thornburg in the first two Die Hard movies. And with that, we come to the end of this episode. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again next week, when Episode 111, on Coolidge's 1988 comedy Plain Clothes, is released. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
On this episode, we continue our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge with a look back at her 1985 under appreciated classic, Real Genius. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. Before we hop in to today's episode, I want to thank every person listening, from whatever part of the planet you're at. Over the nearly four years I've been doing this podcast, we've had listeners from 171 of the 197 countries, and occasionally it's very surreal for this California kid who didn't amount to much of anything growing to think there are people in Myanmar and the Ukraine and other countries dealing with war within their borders who still find time to listen to new episodes of a podcast about 33 plus year old mostly American movies when they're released. I don't take your listenership lightly, and I just want you to know that I truly appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, with that, I would like to welcome you all to Part Three of our informal miniseries on the 1980s movies of director Martha Coolidge. When we left Ms. Coolidge on our previous episode, her movie Joy of Sex had bombed, miserably. But, lucky for her, she had already been hired to work on Real Genius before Joy of Sex had been released. The script for Real Genius, co-written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft, the writers of Bachelor Party, had been floating around Hollywood for a few years. It would tell the story of a highly intelligent high school kid named Mitch who would be recruited to attend a prestigious CalTech-like college called Pacific Tech, where he would be teamed with another genius, Chris, to build a special laser with their professor, not knowing the laser is to be used as a weapon to take out enemy combatants from a drone-like plane 30,000 feet above the Earth. ABC Motion Pictures, a theatrical subsidy of the American television network geared towards creating movies that could be successful in theatres before playing on television, would acquire the screenplay in the early 1980s, but after the relative failure of a number of their initial projects, including National Lampoon's Class Reunion and Young Doctors in Love, would sell the project off to Columbia Pictures, who would make the film one of the first slate of films to be produced by their sister company Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture between Columbia, the cable network Home Box Office, and, ironically, the CBS television network, which was also created towards creating movies that could be successful in theatres before playing on television. Tri-Star would assign Brian Grazer, a television producer at Paramount who had segued to movies after meeting with Ron Howard during the actor's last years on Happy Days, producing Howard's 1982 film Night Shift and 1984 film Splash, to develop the film. One of Grazer's first moves would be to hire Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, writers on Happy Days who helped to create Laverne and Shirley and Joanie Loves Chachi, to rewrite the script to attract a director. Ganz and Mandel had also written Night Shift and rewrote the script for Splash, and Grazer considered them his lucky charm. After trying to convince Ron Howard to board the project instead of Cocoon, Grazer would create a list of up and coming filmmakers he would want to work with. And toward the top of that list was Martha Coolidge. Coolidge would naturally gravitate towards Real Genius, and she would have an advantage that no other filmmaker on Grazer's list would have: her fiancee, Michael Backes, was himself an egghead, a genius in physics and biochemistry who in the years to come would become good friends with the writer and filmmaker Michael Crichton, working as a graphics supervisor on the movie version of Chricton's book Jurassic Park, a co-writer of the screenplay based on Chricton's book Rising Sun, and an associate producer on the movie version of Chricton's book Congo. Once Coolidge was signed on to direct Real Genius in the spring of 1984, she and Backes would work with former SCTV writer and performer PJ Torokvei as they would spend time talking to dozens of science students at CalTech and USC, researching laser technology, and the policies of the CIA. They would shape the project to something closer to what Grazer said he loved most about its possibility, the possibility of genius. "To me,” Grazer would tell an interviewer around the time of the film's release, “a genius is someone who can do something magical, like solve a complex problem in his head while I'm still trying to figure out the question. I don't pretend to understand it, but the results are everywhere around us. We work, travel, amuse ourselves and enhance the quality of life through technology, all of which traces back to what was once an abstract idea in the mind of some genius.” When their revised screenplay got the green light from the studio with an $8m budget, Grazer and Coolidge got to the task of casting the film. While the young genius Mitch was ostensibly the lead character in the film, his roommate Chris would need a star to balance out the relative obscurity of his co-star. A number of young actors in Hollywood would be seen, but their choice would be 25 year old Val Kilmer, whose first movie, Top Secret!, had not yet opened in theatres but had hot buzz going for it as the followup film for the Airplane! writing/directing team of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. Fourteen year old Gabe Jarret, whose only previous film work had been in a minor role in the 1981 Tony Danza/Danny DeVito comedy Going Ape!, would land the coveted role of Mitch, while supporting roles would go to Coolidge's former costars Michelle Meyrink, Deborah Foreman and Robert Prescott, as well as William Atherton, who at the time was on movie screens as Walter Peck, the main human antagonist to the Ghostbusters, as Chris and Mitch's duplicitous professor, Jerry Hathaway, and Patti D'Arbanville, who had made a splash on screens in 1981 as Chevy Chase's long-suffering girlfriend in Modern Problems. Shooting would begin on Real Genius in Southern California on November 12th, 1984. Most of the film would be shot on sets built at the Hollywood Center Studios, just a few blocks west of the Paramount Studios lot, while several major set pieces, including the memorable finale involving Professor Hathaway's house, a space laser and 190,000 pounds of popcorn, were shot in the then quiet suburban area of Sand Canyon, a few miles east of Magic Mountain, a popular theme park and filming area about 45mins north of Hollywood Center Studios. Outdoor scenes standing in for the Pacific Tech campus would be filmed at Occidental College in Eagle Rock and Pomona College in Claremont, while some scenes would be filmed at General Atomics outside San Diego, standing in for an Air Force base in the film's climax. Shooting on the film would finish after the first of the year, giving Coolidge and her editor, Richard Chew, about seven months to get the film in shape for a planned August 7th, 1985, release. Going in to the Summer 1985 movie season, Real Genius was positioned to be one of the hit films of the summer. They had a hot up and coming star in Val Kilmer, a hot director in Martha Coolidge, and a fairly solid release date in early August. But then, there ended up being an unusual glut of science fiction and sci-fi comedy movies in the marketplace at the same time. In March, Disney released the dinosaur-themed Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, which was not a good film and bombed pretty bad. In June, there was the artificial intelligence film D.A.R.Y.L., which was not a good film and bombed pretty bad. In July, there was Back to the Future, which was a very good film and became one of the biggest successes of the year, and there was Explorers, Joe Dante's followup to Gremlins, which featured Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as teenage boys who build their own spacecraft to explore outer space, and although it was one of the best movies released in the summer of 1985, it too bombed pretty bad. But then, in a seven day period in early August, we had Weird Science, which was not very good and not very successful, Real Genius, and My Science Project, another Disney movie about a glowing orb thing from outer space that causes a lot of problems for a lazy high school student looking for something to use for his science class final, which is one of the worst movies of the year, and bombed worse than any of the other movies mentioned. Weird Science, John Hughes' followup to his surprise hit The Breakfast Club, released only six months earlier, would open on August 1st, and come in fourth place with $4.9m from 1158 theatres. In its second weekend of release, Weird Science would lose 40% of its opening weekend audience, coming in fifth with $2.97m. But that would still be better than Real Genius, which opened on Wednesday, August 5th, which would come in sixth in its opening weekend, with $2.56m from 990 locations. My Science Project, opening on August 7th, could only manage to open in 13th place with $1.5m from 1003 theatres. That would be worse than a reissue of E.T. in its fourth weekend of release. In its second weekend, Real Genius would only drop 14% of its opening weekend audience, coming in with $2.2m from 956 locations, but after a third weekend, losing a third of its screens and 46% of its second week audience, Real Genius would be shuttled off to the dollar houses, where it would spend another seventeen weeks before exiting theatres with only $12.95m worth of tickets sold. However, it is my personal opinion is that the film failed to find an audience because it was perceived as being too smart for a simple audience. Real Genius celebrates intelligence. It doesn't pander to its audience. In many ways, it belittles stupidity, especially Mitch's moronic parents. Revenge is dished out in the most ingenious ways, especially at the end with Professor Hathaway's house, to the point where the science behind how Chris and Mitch did what the did is still actively debated thirty-eight years later. Caltech students served as consultants on the film, and played students in the background, while Dr. Martha Gunderson, a physics professor at USC whose vast knowledge about lasers informed the writers during the development stage, played a math professor on screen. Finally, to help promote the film, Martha Coolidge and producer Brian Grazer held the first-ever online press conference through the CompuServe online service, even though there were less than 125,000 on the entire planet who had CompuServe access in August 1985. Today, the film is rightfully regardless as a classic, but it wouldn't make Val Kilmer a star quite yet. That, of course, would happen in 1986, when he co-starred as Tom Cruise's frenemy in Tony Scott's Top Gun. Gabe Jarret would eventually become Gabriel Jarret, appearing in such movies as Karate Kid 3, Apollo 13 and The American President, and he continues to work in movies and on television to this day. Sadly, the same cannot be said for Michelle Meyrink, who would quit acting three years after making Real Genius, but we'll talk about that on our next episode. And, of course, William Atherton would cement his reputation as the chucklenut Gen Xers love to hate when he played the cocky television reporter Dick Thornburg in the first two Die Hard movies. And with that, we come to the end of this episode. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again next week, when Episode 111, on Coolidge's 1988 comedy Plain Clothes, is released. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
The legendary Scott Baio from "Happy Days", "Joanie Loves Chachi", "Charles In Charge" & more stops by The Anything Show to chat about his involvement with the first "To The Rescue Pup-A-Thon" for the Great American Family cable network!
On today's show, we have a performer who portrayed Paul McCartney in the original cast of Beatlemania. He also performed on albums by KISS and with The Turtles and appeared on Joanie Loves Chachi. Here he is, Mitch Weissman. Plus, the usual news from Fun Ideas Productions.
December 4-10, 1982 This week Ken welcomes writer and creator/host of The Bastard Tapes Podcast, Tim Harrod. Ken and Tim discuss the unique spite of people from New England, video games, Atari, walking to the arcade, Charlottesville, pinball companies trying to take on video games, how Nintendo temporarily killed arcades, Dragon's Lair, Saturday Supercade, Q*Bert, Steve Allen, stand up on TV, the influence of MTV, Solid Gold, Tim Thomerson, the weird MTV influenced syndicated sketch comedy show, Laugh Tracks, Gallagher, Gallagher II, Cinemax Comedy Experiment, Martin Mull, Rich Hall, Joe Piscapo and his mysterious Halloween Special, Dead Heat, Disney's Christmas Gift, Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders, the influence of Letterman, Dennis Wolfberg, how you rarely saw Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck together, Fridays, being conscripted into Circus of the Stars, Charlie Brown Christmas, Doctor Who, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Joanie Loves Chachi, the missing Cunningham, RapCity Kids Christmas, M*A*S*H, Three's Company, Dolly Parton's Sister, Jane Curtain's Cousin, Newhart, Real People, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Follow that Bird, Family Ties, Cheers, Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, always going for comedy, fake bands on real TV shows, The Urkel, The Guys Next Door, Chip and Pepper's Comedy Madness, Meatballs and Spaghetti, the fame of Nelson, Taxi, Too Close for Comfort, Sneak Previews, Siskel and Ebert's dog vs skunk, The Toy, Richard Pryor, a good story about Jackie Gleason, Chris Elliot, Action Family, The Powers of Matthew Star, Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Special, Sledge Hammer, losing the car horn, Wonder Bug and Schlep car, and the changes of the Incredible Hulk.
What a CreepSeason 16, Episode 4Scott BaioScott Baio was a teen heartthrob in the 70s and 80s. He starred in “Happy Days,” its spin-off, “Joanie Loves Chachi,” and “Charles in Charge.” His face was on all those Teen Bop/Tiger Beat-type magazines. But he's also a Trump-supporting creep who has been accused of abuse and sexual assault. The Daily BeastE! OnlineInsiderHollywood ReporterJezebelNewsweekNicki SwiftPeopleSalonScott Baio's TwitterScott Baio's websiteUproxxWikipediaYahoo NewsTrigger warnings: Ignorance, racism, sexism, and sexual assaultBe sure to follow us on social media. But don't follow us too closely … don't be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple PodcastsTwitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPodFacebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcastVisit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreepEmail: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We've got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud
Madame Webb bring us the latest news! Marvel back to SDCC, Jonny loves Tyrion, The Boys get a Dad , Not Really “Over the Moon” about Cameos, IDW Celebrates a Milestone in their TREK ComicsIn the Geek Easy, we watched “Elvis”, Strange New Worlds episode 7 , The Boys episode 6, Ms Marvel episode 3, and played The QuarryIn The Thunderdome, we discuss the good, bad and the ugly world of Spin-off'sVisit our new website at www.secretfriendsunite.comSubscribe to our Youtube channelFollow us on Twitter: @secretfriendsu, @Toxtra, @Theceethree Join our discord server to be part of the community
Madame Webb bring us the latest news! Marvel back to SDCC, Jonny loves Tyrion, The Boys get a Dad , Not Really “Over the Moon” about Cameos, IDW Celebrates a Milestone in their TREK ComicsIn the Geek Easy, we watched “Elvis”, Strange New Worlds episode 7 , The Boys episode 6, Ms Marvel episode 3, and played The QuarryIn The Thunderdome, we discuss the good, bad and the ugly world of Spin-off'sVisit our new website at www.secretfriendsunite.comSubscribe to our Youtube channelFollow us on Twitter: @secretfriendsu, @Toxtra, @Theceethree Join our discord server to be part of the community
Come on in. Grab a seat and hear Shawn and Mark talk about the problem of having food delivered, Yellowstone 1932, a reboot of Quantum Leap and having a coyote in your house. Shawn tells us all about his recent colonoscopy that takes a deep, dark turn. A Randomosity classic returns on this episode with Would You Rather. Lastly, the fellas wrap things up with a look at the worst television spinoffs in small screen history. Plus the Maroon of the Week and a trip to Uncle Mark's Joke Bag. Re-brand your Tuesdays with some comedy and nostalgia! Subscribe and tell your friends about another funny episode of Randomosity with Shawn and Mark!
Scott Baio joins Adam in studio for a conversation about his career trajectory, from ‘Bugsy Malone' to ‘Happy Days' and ‘Joanie Loves Chachi'. Scott recalls his meteoric rise to teenage superstardom and shares insightful stories about his former co-stars including Jodie Foster, Erin Moran, Henry Winkler, and Ron Howard. The two then chat how America's political atmosphere has changed over the years and they share their issues with the media's involvement within the societal divide. Please support today's sponsors! SoloStove.com/Adam Con-Cret.com/Podcast XChairAdam.com
Cindy Begel is a Writer-Producer who has worked on staff or freelance for over 30 classic sitcoms and some not so classic. Her background includes both multi and single camera series, animation, and was one of the writers for the hugely popular film, "The Flintstones". She's worked for Garry Marshall, Norman Lear, even Bill Cosby... Shows include: Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Jeffersons, Head of The Class, Alice, Married With Children, Mama's Family, The New Leave It To Beaver, The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, The Martin Short Show. Co-creating the animated series "The Kids From Room 402, she also co-wrote all 52 episodes. Most recently, she wrote for the Muppet Babies on the Disney Channel. Cindy has recently finished a darkly comedic semi-autobiographical novel called, "Morgan Keller Takes A Deep Breath": A determined young woman struggles to hide a devastating health secret that threatens to destroy both her career as a TV comedy writer and her (finally!) head-over heels first love. imdb.com/name/nm0066703/ @CindyBegel The Entertainment Business Wisdom podcast and its hosts are providing this podcast as a public service. Reference to any specific product or entity during these interviews does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Entertainment Business League LLC or its hosts. The views expressed by guests are their own, and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Any views or experience shared by guests and the hosts has been shared for the betterment of the intended audience. Views expressed on the program by guests are the views and opinions of the guests and do not represent the views, interests, opinions or position of the podcast, its hosts, or the company. If you have any questions about this disclaimer, please contact the legal dept. of the Entertainment Business League LLC.
Welcome to the 102nd episode of Yesterday's Capers. Every week, Abdullah Moallim will be reviewing and looking back at some of the most memorable and well known tv shows and cartoons from the past. Every week Abdullah and a contributor will compare two different shows, and put them head to head, as well as having an in-depth discussion about a specific show.We're looking back at spin-off shows and classic characters who tried to make it on their own based off the success of their parent shows. We will be talking about Joanie Loves Chachi from Happy Days, Tucker's Luck from Grange Hill and Joey from Friends. We talk episodes, moments and how each spin-off was received by audiences. And we also find out if they managed to make it on their own successfully.Yesterday's Capers is available to subscribe and download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play and anywhere podcasts are found.For any questions and queries email us at yesterdayscapers@gmail.comYou can follow the podcast on Twitter @yesterdaycapers, on Instagram @yesterdaycapers1 and subscribe on YouTube at 'Yesterday's Capers.'The theme song is 'Clap and Yell' from Bensound. You can find this and a whole host of music on www.bensound.com
Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Dan Foliart, Film and Television Composer About Harvey's guest:Dan Foliart's music has been indelibly etched on the landscape of network television. He is serving his fifth term on the ASCAP Board of Directors, currently as the Writer Co-Chairman. He sits as the immediate past- president of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, after serving that organization for five terms over ten year, developing the New York chapter and instigating the Ambassador Program, recognizing excellence in the field of film music.Included among his recent projects are George Lopez's Saint George, ABC Family's successful series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and the eleven-year run of 7th Heaven, for the WB. Along with Emmy nominations, Foliart has garnered 38 ASCAP Film & Television Awards, including 16 in the ‘Most Performed Theme' category. Although short lived, the reboot of Roseanne with Dan's theme and underscore was recently the year's number one show.Of the 50-plus series he has composed for, many continue to air both in syndication and internationally. Beginning at Paramount Studios with then partner Howard Pearl, Foliart started an extended run that included such favorites as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Angie, Bosom Buddies, Joanie Loves Chachi, and cable's first series, Brothers. Other series that he has composed for include Home Improvement, Beverly Hills 90210, 9 to 5, Guns of Paradise, Island Son, Carol & Company, Soul Man, Burke's Law, Malibu Shores and 8 Simple Rules.Growing up in Oklahoma City, he was proud to have his symphonic work Oklahoma Trilogy performed as part of the state's centennial celebration. Currently he is completing a follow-up symphony based on The Trail of Tears. While enrolled at Amherst College, where he received his BA degree, he had the opportunity to write the song score for GD Spradlin's film The Only Way Home. The songs were co-written with Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame writer Tom Shapiro, with whom he penned over 100 more. He and Tom have recently reunited on a retrospective of their songs. Other works in development include the musicals, “Back in the Game” and “A Lovely Part of Town” with collaborator Rob Dames.He has served for thirteen years on the ASCAP Foundation Board, ten years on the Television Academy's Music Peer Committee and sits on the Advisory Board of the Film Music Society. Along with Paul Williams, he served as the ASCAP representative on the MLC Writer Selection committee mandated by the Music Modernization Act. He believes that the relationships that he has nurtured through meetings with members of Congress, as well as friendships that he has fostered with his colleagues here and around the world, will be valuable components that he will continue to bring to the ASCAP Board, whether virtually or face to face. He is honored to have been part of ASCAP's prestigious We Write the Songs program at the Library of Congress, where he performed his television themes before members of Congress. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/http://danfoliart.com/https://www.facebook.com/dan.foliart#DanFoliart #harveybrownstoneinterviews
The Girls delve into what made Happy Days one of the most beloved and iconic sitcoms of the Twentieth Century. Which came first, American Graffiti or Happy Days? Or Love, American Style? The first season, a single-camera dramedy and older brother Chuck. Fonzi's windbreaker. The multi-camera sitcom that Happy Days became. Fonzi's hoodlum evolution and Henry Winkler's contributions to the character. Incredible sidebar: a deeeeeep dive into the theme songs, "Rock Around the Clock," and "Happy Days," and a shocking vocal revelation about Jim Haas, the guy who sang it: find out who the late Jim Haas "ghost sang" for...hint: it was a huge disco hit by a verrrrry famous teen idol. Aaaand all the other songs the incredible Jim Haas lent his vocals to, plus the *iconic* classic rock band he toured with as a backup singer. Robbie-Ann gets way too excited about it all. The Girls discuss their favorite characters. Fonzi's brown bomber motorcycle jacket and the Standards and Practices reason why Fonzi always leaned on his bike when he wore it in the early seasons. How did Fonzi get away with dating all those girls? The Girls discuss waiting on some of the cast members at the famous deli where they worked, or at the World's Largest Disco. The Henry Winkler Mystique: Yale?! Amy talks about waiting on beautiful Marion Ross and seeing Scott Baio in L.A. Clubs. Robbie-Ann remembers the lovely Mrs. C's banana pancake order and Amy recalls her saying she was going to exercise class. The spin off cast members and guest stars: Ted McGinley. Crystal Barnard. Morgan Fairchild. Tom Hanks. Brady Christopher Knight. Cheryl Ladd. Lenny & Squiggy. Charlene Tilton. Robbie-Ann describes waiting on Michael McKean, aka Lenny, aka David St. Hubbins. Amy's friend annoys Scott Baio in a club with the Charles in Charge theme. Mork: a spin off character from Happy Days and why he was a space alien. Amy explains how Robin Williams became Mork. Sidebar: Mork and Mindy. Sidebar: Robbie-Ann finds the real Golden Girls house, and the murder house from Halloween in Los Angeles. Amy's sitcom house meditation technique, and the Happy Days set. Cousin Spike. Amy reports on his date with Joanie, and the origin of the characters' names. The infamous Pinky Tuscadero demolition derby two-part episode. The Malachi Crunch! Fonzi, and later the show, Jumps the Shark: the Girls discuss. Arnold's vs. Al's. Fonzi's cold-ravioli Thanksgiving. 80s hair in the 60s. Amy does Chachi's "wah wah wah." Linda Purl, Fonzi's real girlfriend. Donny Most and Anson Williams, Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber. Joanie Loves Chachi, and what went wrong there.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Prince" 1: Until 1999 the first snowfall signaled the start of the "Nude Olympics" at this university. Princeton. 2: Satan, Dracula and Ozzy Osbourne go by this nickname. the Prince of Darkness. 3: This was the name given to the ship cast in the starring role on "The Love Boat". the Pacific Princess. 4: This Caribbean capital was occupied by the U.S. from 1915 to 1934 and from 1994 to 1995. Port-au-Prince. 5: A French explorer called this North American island Ile-St.-Jean. Prince Edward Island. Round 2. Category: Flies 1: The largest land animal native to this continent is a small wingless fly. Antarctica. 2: A pest of wheat, the Hessian fly is so named because it's believed Hessian soldiers brought it here during this war. the Revolutionary War. 3: Wake up and tell us the name of this deadly disease, aka trypanosomiasis, spread by the Tsetse fly. sleeping sickness. 4: It's the common name for the fly known scientifically as musca domestica. the housefly. 5: Examples of these flies popular with geneticists include the apple maggot and the cherry. fruit flies. Round 3. Category: The President Who Said... 1: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate". John F. Kennedy. 2: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet". Lincoln. 3: In his first address to Congress: "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today". Lyndon Johnson. 4: "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". Gerald Ford. 5: "It must be a peace without victory... Only a peace between equals can last". Wilson. Round 4. Category: Porgy-Pourri 1: Sadly, "Porgy and Bess" was the only full-length opera this composer wrote; he passed away in 1937, at age 38. George Gershwin. 2: Now a famous poet, she played Ruby in the acclaimed European tour of "Porgy and Bess" in the mid-'50s. Maya Angelou. 3: In 1936 this city's National Theatre was briefly desegregated so African-Americans could see "Porgy and Bess" there. Washington, D.C.. 4: Bobby McFerrin's father dubbed the singing voice of Porgy when this leading man played him on film in 1959. Sidney Poitier. 5: The opera is based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this Southern city. Charleston, South Carolina. Round 5. Category: Tv Or Not Tv 1: Duuuuude, Ray Walston totally reprised his role as Mr. Hand, Spicoli's teacher, in the series based on this film. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. 2: "My Mother The Car","His Gal Shirley","Your Show Of Shows". His Gal Shirley. 3: Starring Erin Moran, it was the last primetime sitcom spun off from "Happy Days". Joanie Loves Chachi. 4: On TV, this title trio was played by Kate, Jaclyn and Farrah; on film, it was Cameron, Lucy and Drew. Charlie's Angels. 5: On 60s TV, Cesar Romero cackled as this criminal; in 2008, Heath Ledger gave a startling film performance. the Joker. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Kirk Buchner and Chris Bournea tackle the unsuccessful spinoff of Happy Days and examine why this show was such a failure.
Aeneas gets shipwrecked in Book 1 of The Aeneid. To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization. If there's no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode. Join me on Patreon at www.patreon.com/triumvirclio to get early access to ad-free episodes and bonus content. References “The Aeneid – Vergil Epic | Summary & Analysis | Ancient Rome – Classical Literature". Ancient Literature, https://www.ancient-literature.com/rome_vergil_aeneid.html#Top. Accessed 09 Aug 2021 Cole, William F.. "The Aeneid." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 17 Aug 2014. Web. 09 Aug 2021. Dektar, Molly. "The Aeneid." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 22 Jul 2013. Web. 6 Aug 2021. Fitzgerald, Robert, translator. Virgil: The Aeneid, Vintage Classics, 1990. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bethany-banner/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bethany-banner/support
“We're movin' on up … to the top!” Today, the girls rank the top 10 TV theme songs as voted on by the PCPS social media society (and yes, themselves). Did an instrumental theme song make the list? Which sleeper show squeaked into the top 5? And which two shows battled it out for the #1 spot? LISTEN to find out … and to hear Carolyn, Kristin, and Michelle sing many of them, naturally.~ TV shows discussed include: The Jeffersons; Eight is Enough; Mary Tyler Moore Show; M*A*S*H; One Day At A Time; Partridge Family; Welcome Back, Kotter; Hawaii Five-O; Little House on the Prairie; Family Ties; Facts of Life; Courtship of Eddie's Father; Joanie Loves Chachi; Love Boat; Greatest American Hero and more.~ Who got a warming sensation from the “Little House on the Prairie” tv theme song?~ Who is Mike Post and why should we care?~ Did GenX-era tv shows have the best theme songs?~ Listen to Kristin sing the theme from “Wonder Woman”~Why do Laverne & Shirley say, “Schlemiel, Schlemazel”?~ What tv theme song composer was an original member of “Lovin' Spoonful” and whose godmother was Vivian Vance aka “Ethel Mertz”?~ What TV theme songs topped the Billboard charts?~ Who knows the correct lyrics of the “One Day at a Time” theme song?LinksMakin' It openingKillers & Violent Femmes sing “Lavern & Shirley” theme song“The 50 Best TV Themes of all Time” from Paste Magazine
The Mick and The Mook interview legendary director and actor Howard Storm.Howard Storm's acting credits include The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Rhoda, and Sanford and Son, among other television series.In 1975, he began his directing career, directing episodes of Laverne & Shirley, Busting Loose, Joanie Loves Chachi, Mork & Mindy, Taxi, The Redd Foxx Show, Full House, ALF, and Head of the Class, among other series.In 1985, Storm directed his only feature film, Once Bitten, starring Lauren Hutton and Jim Carrey. In 2010, he made a small guest appearance in the film Valentine's Day.
Here is a show we recorded last year where I invited my lovely lady to talk about this 80s classic sitcom - originally for just our patreon subscribers. Enjoy!
SPECIAL: Back in February, "These Days are Ours: A Happy Days Podcast" Joined us in Hell to take apart one of Garry Marshall's failed spin-offs...turns out, they had a LOT More to say, and we're gonna show you what they said in this edition of Telehell's "Sifted Ashes" (Our thanks again to Joe Blevins & Peter Freville for lending their time) This episode is sponsored by PODGO.co and by Dave's Archives on Youtube.
This week, we get to Spend Valentine's Day with These Days are Ours: A Happy Days Podcast, as the three of us take a closer look at the Red-headed stepchild of the Happy Days Franchise and see if it's REALLY as bad as people say it is. This episode is sponsored by FedEx Office (click the link to save 30% on orders over $100), and by Dave's Archives on Youtube.
WandaVision is underway on Disney Plus and has the boys just waiting for the next installment, so, this week Scott and Paul are joined by Darren Steeves to look at three books featuring The Vision and the Scarlet Witch. Listen in and have some fun!Feedback for this show can be sent to: bins@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!
WandaVision is underway on Disney Plus and has the boys just waiting for the next installment, so, this week Scott and Paul are joined by Darren Steeves to look at three books featuring The Vision and the Scarlet Witch. Listen in and have some fun!Feedback for this show can be sent to: bins@twotruefreaks.comTwo True Freaks! is a proud member of BOTH the Comics Podcast Network (http://www.comicspodcasts.com/) and the League of Comic Book Podcasts (http://www.comicbooknoise.com/league/)!! Follow the fun on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/113051642052970/ THANK YOU for listening to Two True Freaks!!
The ninth episode of TG Talk features songwriter, entrepreneur, and SAE alumnus, Jimmy Dunne. Let's get real. What you think post-graduation life will be like may not be a reality. Don't worry; we enlisted Jimmy to tell us the truth about what really happens after graduation. Have you ever scaled a wall to get an interview? We don't recommend it, but Jimmy has. Although considered by many to be a renaissance man, Jimmy is, first and foremost, a musician. He has studio albums and successful covers recorded by big names such as Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Kenny Rogers. Jimmy's songs have been recorded on 28 million records, in addition to scores, songs, and themes featured in over 1500 television episodes and dozens of films. Additionally, he is the Founder and CEO of Inspire. Inspire assists colleges and universities in composing and recording official university music and incorporating music into its overall culture. Jimmy also has experience as a television writer and producer, working on hit shows such as Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi. Foundation CEO Steve Mitchell interviewed Jimmy about his extraordinary career and how he got his start. Jimmy gets real about what you need to do to succeed after college. While we don't recommend using your musical talents to get out of paying the bill at a restaurant or scaling the fences at Paramount Pictures to get a job, we do think that Jimmy has a ton of great advice for undergraduates and young alumni who are starting in their careers.
On this episode of Slander Radio, the Official podcast for the Best Damn League Ever! We recap Week 5 with the Defensive/Special Team lottery winner! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Kari connects Franke to his mom as they talk about writing the hit "Hungry Eyes" for "Dirty Dancing," which he also wrote "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," garnering an Academy Award. She also connects Pamela to her mom, as they talk about how one song created a spin-off from "Happy Days," and caused 17-year olds to get married in "Joanie Loves Chachi." They also talk about "One World," the song they wrote for "Earth, Wind and Fire" in 1989, which was recently re-recorded by stars like Patti LaBelle, Christine Ebersole and Tico Torres, as Kari notes hearing it underscored the importance of the environment. They also discuss feeling a soul connection with a person, how adoptive parents are often the true soul connection, while sometimes family members who share the same DNA don't feel that soul connection, past lives and knowing when you're on the life path you're meant to be on, what they do when they feel blue to pick themselves up and whether they hear random original tunes in their heads as songwriters.
Chris Hasler and Mark tackle the Happy Days spinoff, Joanie loves Chachi! Mark loved this as a kid but thinks it was because he was caught up in the world of Happy Days popularity. We hope you enjoy this unique take on this short lived sitcom. Joanie loves Chachi aired from March 23, 1982 until May 24, 1983. In the final episode Joanie and Chachi elope....awwwww
Chris Hasler and Mark tackle the Happy Days spinoff, Joanie loves Chachi! Mark loved this as a kid but thinks it was because he was caught up in the world of Happy Days popularity. We hope you enjoy this unique take on this short lived sitcom. Joanie loves Chachi aired from March 23, 1982 until May 24, 1983. In the final episode Joanie and Chachi elope....awwwww
Chris Hasler and Mark tackle the Happy Days spinoff, Joanie loves Chachi! Mark loved this as a kid but thinks it was because he was caught up in the world of Happy Days popularity. We hope you enjoy this unique take on this short lived sitcom. Joanie loves Chachi aired from March 23, 1982 until May 24, 1983. In the final episode Joanie and Chachi elope....awwwww
Joanie Loves Chachi WAS a show. You’ve probably heard of it, but never actually seen it! It was the Happy Days spin-off that spun out. The series mixes traditional sitcom elements with musical performances, as Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola try to make it as rock and/or roll musicians in Chicago in the early 60s—and we see if they can carry the tune. Follow us on Instagram @thatwasashow The Trope Library blog is now live! thatwasashow.tumblr.com Merch available at: redbubble.com/people/thatwasashow Hosted by: Brynn Byrne @brynnabyrne Aaron Yeger @aaronyeger Andrew “Barry” Helmer @andrewhelmer Podcast logo and artwork by Brian Walker @briguywalker That Was a Show? is a Radio Gizmo Production
We were Live for the first successful COVID edition of Game Changers with a guest. And what a guest she was. Birthday Person, Writer, Producer, Cindy Begel, whose credits include: Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Jeffersons, Head of The Class, Alice, Married With Children, Mama's Family, The New Leave It To Beaver, The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, The Martin Short Show and most recently the Muppet Babies on Disney Channel, and, Ed McMahon to my Johnny... was sensational. The birthday part was unknown bonus! If you've been watching the daily LIve you know how funny Cindy is, and boy did she live up to my hype. We got stories about Lucy, Carol Burnett, Robin Williams, Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall. Cindy Williams, Linda Lavin, and Bill Cosby, pre #METoo but #MeTooish. Talked Cindy into opening her BF's birthday gift on the air, gloves, fear, and all. And, of course, we talked the days COVID news and had a visit with her fab mom, Roberta. Spectacular fun in the time of corona. Thank you, Be.Live! Cindy Begel on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 4/29/20 Wed, 4/29/20, Live @5 pm PT On The Facebook Replay here: https://bit.ly/3bSb3VJ Cindy Begel on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 4/29/20 Wed, 4/29/20, Live @5 pm PT On The Facebook Replay here: https://bit.ly/3bSb3VJ All BROADcasts, as podcasts, also available on iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Soundcloud http://bit.ly/2hktWoS Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj YouTube
(12-26-2019) - Actor and car guy Scott Baio (Happy Days, Charles in Charge) join Randy and "Hot Rod" Bob Beck at the "Hollywood Show" near LAX to talk about how he grew up a big fan of big bodied Caddys and Lincolns, how he had a rough experience with a 65 Corvette, the one car he owned for a summer, what car is number one on his "I have to have that someday" list and how much does he think the "Bullitt" Mustang will go for when it is auctioned in January on his favorite car show.
Mike and Michael dive deep into the new player profile feature on LaxRecords.com and the duo discuss the relevance of Joanie Loves Chachi to our audience ... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/laxrecords/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laxrecords/support
Episode 179 is Joanie Loves Chachi Happy Days spinoff Joanie and Chachi move to Chicago where they audition for a summer singing job, but Joanie is considered too wholesome for the gig.
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AYYY! It’s time for the bestest, most special-est, most important-est guest we’ve ever had! Okay, Taylor is writing this, and she’s a little biased, but you’ve gotta admit that her mom is one of the coolest moms this side of Lorelai Gilmore, right? Taylor’s cool mom comes on the podcast to school her clueless Millennial nerd daughter about another classic TV sitcom with a very catchy theme song. Her mom shares her Tuesday night TV lineup, the nostalgia for the ‘50s in the ‘70s, and how much of the Happy Days Television Universe she watched, including Blansky’s Beauties, Joanie Loves Chachi, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and Out of the Blue. So don’t be a nerd—be cool and listen in and try to keep up with the gajillions of catchphrases that make up Happy Days jargon! And don’t forget to tune into our next episode with Kyla’s mom about anotherclassic TV show with a catchy theme—TBD on whether these four pull off an epic mother/daughter weekend getaway! Other pop culture we ref: Raising Helen, Pretty Woman, Parks & Rec, The Office, The Princess Diaries, Mary Tyler Moore, 24, Robin Williams, James Dean, Grease, Donna Reed, Barney & Friends, The Lion King Oy with the podcast already! Subscribe to stay up to date on all the new eps and fun on SO IT'S A SHOW?, the podcast where Kyla and Taylor attempt to keep up with Lorelai and Rory's pop culture refs here: https://tinyletter.com/soitsashow
Don't forget to visit 1upxesports.com for more info about the upcoming expo and to get your tickets!This episode:MovieSquat (2:17) Three Amigos! + Staying Alive = "Saturday Night Amigos"TubeSquat (14:57) Joanie Loves Chachi + Manimal = "Manimal Loves Chachi"ToySquat (29:51) Godzilla + Mouse Trap = "Get Godzilla"GameSquat (41:29) Track & Field 2 (NES) + Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis) = "Sonic Field IV"⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀RetroSquat.com / YouTube / Twitch / iTunes / Google Play / Stitcher / @retrosquatWatch us record live, Mondays at 7pm Eastern Time on Twitch. See episodes weeks before they're released, get a behind the scenes look at the show and interact with us between segments. Looking for a shout out? We'll answer questions and read the best comments on air!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Music/SFX: https://evanking.bandcamp.com/album/20xx⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Want to be a guest host for a segment? DEMAND to be on the show!
Hey Everyone! I'm back from a brief hiatus due to my mom's personal illness and other family matters, but I'm officially back. The podcast is back, and it is up and running. More ideas are on the way. So much has happened within the last couple of weeks, including Trump's State of the Union speech, and so on. Anyway, here are the topics. 1. The Official Nunes Memos Is Out. A classified memo authored by Congressman Devin Nunes, a Republican, was authorizedd for release and the rest is history. It alleges that the Department of Justice and the FBI engaged in abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by acting on questionable actions against Trump adviser Carter Page during the early phases of the government's investigation into claims that Trump was elected to the White House by Vladmir Putin and his Russian stooges. Did they do this? Are they responsible for this? It's hard to tell, but it's very possible. However, the release of the memo has been opposed by the leftist media and the Democrats, which are actions that are not all that surprising. Should we be shocked? No, no, no!!! 2. Family Sues Starbucks. A family is suing Starbucks for spiking a beverage that the parents' two-year daughter drank because it purportedly contains a barista's blood. Really? Seriously? Are these people fucking retarded? Do we really need a frivolous suit on our hands? Why would Starbucks enable a barista to put blood in a kids' coffee drink? Grow the fuck up, people! I mean really! 3. Trump's State of the Union Speech. Trump gives his first official State of the Union speech after a year of launching his presidency. He talks about everything from immigration to his claim that wages are rising thanks to his "great" tax cuts to the repeal of ObamaCare. While his speech does contain some good things, it's mostly a bag of statist goodies that he wants to hand over to the American citizens. Yawn! And yet he doesn't talk about freedom! And he doesn't even talk about eliminating our foreign policy of interventionism. *Snore* 4. Actor Scott Baio Accused of Molesting Charles in Charge Co-star Nicole Eggert. Actor Scott Baio, known for his roles as Chachi in Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi and Charles in Charles in Charge, is accused to have molested Nicole Eggert when she was an underage minor....like 17 years old. Baio addresses the accusation, claiming that she's lying her ass off because, according to him, she was pushing 19 in 1990 when the show ended. Now another co-star is making a similar accusation. Jesus Fucking Christ! And Eggert is taking her claims to the police! Does she know that the statutes of limitations have expired? *Sighs* and 5. The Libertarian Party rejects Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano. The Libertarian Party thumbs its nose at Ron Paul and Judge Andrew Napolitano despite its own Mises Caucus is trying to bring them to this year's Libertarian National Convention. Jesus. Christ. Man. That's all, my friends I will comment on the podcast. Enjoy the show! I know you will!
RETRO SHOCK: "Seriously ... not the Jake Gyllenhaal movie." (1983) No graphic image struck more graphic fear into Tim's childhood than the atomic stalk of a mushroom cloud. And no program better illustrated this phobia than the 1983 tv movie THE DAY AFTER. So, following last weekend's text to the brink, he's returning to ground zero for a horrifying re-watch.00:00:00 - PRE-EMPTIVE WARNING - hey its John Cullum .. I guess 00:00:38 - BUNKERIN’ DOWN - Tim is solo in this current predicament / “99 Luftballooons” 00:02:30 - NOVEMBER 20th 1983 - Content warning for “The Day After” 00:05:14 - MIRACLE MEYER - Wait …now we’re talking Star Trek? 00:09:09 - MUSHROOM CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF IMMOLATION - Stoking Tim’s fears again and again 00:17:43 - IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE - except that it could totally happen here 00:20:29 - 12,478 DAYS AFTER - and Good Memory/Bad Memory / “Is There Something I Should Know” 00:24:51 - HOPE FLATLINES - brought to you by gloom, despondence and Almond Joy 00:29:36 - ANSWER DURAN DURAN ALREADY - small town targets and the murmur of war 00:35:32 - FLASH … AHHHHHHH - and the nuclear mystique 00:41:57 - CELEBRITY HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - pushing the button, then and now 00:47:44 - GOOD REALITY/BAD REALITY - and a slightly mis-remembered Bloom County cartoon 00:51:54 - CLOSINGS - Contacts, plugs and no catch phrase / “Ask” 00:53:26 - SPECIAL FEATURES - our decimated sponsorLook at the film though recent eyes journalist Sean O'Neal A.V. Club retrospective HERE.Watch ABC newscaster Ted Koppel host the original post show discussion that aired immediately following THE DAY AFTER including butcherer of peace Henry Kissinger, architect of the Vietnam War Robert Mcnamara and humane voice of reason Carl Sagan HERE.See how they devastated Lawrence and Kansas City in this behind the scenes segment HERE.Skip all the humanity and just witness the inhumanity of the nuclear strike scene of the film HERE.And ruin the rest of your day by viewing the film in full HERE.The use of audio and video clips linked from YOUTUBE are for educational purposes and without the expressed permission of their legal holding companies. All rights remain with with their original distributor.This episode of 20TH CENTURY POPCAST was recorded by ZENCASTR, a high fidelity podcast recording platform that records multiple guests from multiple zip-codes all as if they were in the same room. Log on for studio quality recordings NOW! (exclamation point also provided by ZENCASTR)MUSIC FEATURED IN TODAY’S EPISODE:“99 Luftballoons” performed by Nena off the 1983 debut album of the same name ... NENA. "Is The Something I Should Know"" performed by Duran Duran and originally released as a single in 1983 and later added to the U.S. re-release of their 1981 self-titled debut. "Ask" performed by The Smiths, originally released as a single on Tim's 11th birthday in 1986 and later included on the 1987 compilation LOUDER THAN BOMBS. The use of these songs are for entertainment purposes and without the expressed permission of the recording artist.Subscribe to 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on APPLE PODCASTS, STITCHER and ANDROID or stream it at www.20popcast.com.Like, share and reminisce with 20TH CENTURY POPCAST! on FACEBOOK.Contact the show with any questions, suggestions or possible topics at 20popcast@gmail.com, #20popcast on Twitter and the POP TALK section of www.20popcast.com.Follow ROBERT CANNING @rhcanning on TWITTER. Read his web-comic at EXAGGERATEDLIFE.wordpress.com and his music blog at superultramegamix.wordpress.com. Follow TIM BLEVINS @subcultist on TWITTER and as SUBCULTISTon INSTAGRAM.20TH CENTURY POPCAST will return next week with an insightful and detailed look at the AIDS epidemic ... or "Joanie Loves Chachi."
Alternate Titles: "Joanie Loves Chachi of Zombie Shows" or "Would Let Touch Nozzle"Show Notes, Links, Videos, Photos, Whatnot Discussed: https://cvradio313.blogspot.com/2017/08/episode-154-being-billie-dee-williams.htmlOur Patreon page for early access and additional bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/CultureVulturesRadio
Welcome to Eventually Supertrain! The Short-Lived TV Show Podcast that will eventually cover 1979's Supertrain. Join Daniel R. Budnik (call him Dan) as he journeys through three shows, episode by episode. In this first one, we cover: Episode 1 of 1979's Cliff Hangers! (Solo Dan) Episode 1 of 1982's Joanie Loves Chachi. (With Made For TV Mayhem star Amanda Reyes.) And, Episode 1 of 1993's Cobra starring Michael Dudikoff. (Dan and his wife, Madelynn) Plus, you get to meet Tom. You'll like Tom. Please, listen and enjoy. The journey begins here.
April 17-23, 1982 Today Ken welcomes comedian, author and fellow Bostonian Jen Kirkman to the show. Ken and Jen discuss Jen's awe at Ken's west coast TV Guide collection, being torn between two issues, Ripped from the Headlines, AIDS, The Day After, Red Dawn, unsupportive terrifying fathers, Happy Days, being a defacto only child, bus station TVs, listening to TV on the radio, making audio tapes of Moonlighting, Back to the Beach, The Brady Bunch house, The Love Boat, high fashion on the high seas, Halston, The Mandrell Sisters, the final years of Variety, Boston Lies, James at 15, Spenser for Hire, special kids on Highway to Heaven, Jen's Mother's mistrust of Michael Landon, punk rock scare shows, ChPs, sitting in a tent at the beach, One Day at a Time, kids cooking shows, Alice, living the dream waiting tables in a diner, having a maid, Today's FBI, Ballet, Ken's ignorance of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gov Weld defunding mental health facilities, The Reagans' war against the arts, Gary Marshall Night, female heart-throbs, Joanie Loves Chachi, when the 50s turn into the 70s, Laverne & Shirley, The Big Ragu's Lowell beginnings, Boy George Make A Wish, Three's Company, pretending Joyce DeWitt is your finance, The Too Close for Comfort rape episode, the mystery of "Pee Pee People", being jealous of Kids Incorporated, Facts of Life, loving Alicia Witt, Grandma's loving a mustache, Diff'rent Stroke, Danny Glover on Gimme a Break, the sadness of Friday Nights and why 2017 does not deserve guest stars.
Actress Erin Moran of "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi" fame arrived recently in the Next World. She didn't have longbto wait before she was offered a great gig. What will Erin be doing soon? We'll tell you. There's trouble on the set of the upcoming "Forbidden Planet" musical starring Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis. One of the co-stars is acting unprofessionally. You'll be shocked when you hear who it is. Big things are happening in Mediopolis, the town formerly known as Trump City. Visitors to the town will be greeted by non-humans. Wait til you hear what Steve Jobs and Walt Disney have planned for tourists. We now know some of the other comedians who will be joining Don Rickles on a comedy tour of the Afterlife. Also, one big name turned down an invite to join the tour. You'll be surprised when you hear who said "no thanks."
It is hard to believe that Joanie had so many “unhappy days” after Joanie Loves Chachi. Does the crises at United Airlines make you want to get on an overbooked flight?
Mike spoke to Derrel Maury about his work with Norman Lear and in Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, among other things.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike spoke to Derrel Maury about his work with Norman Lear and in Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, among other things.
Scott Baio knows a thing or two about longevity in Hollywood, and you will too after hearing his stories about playing Chachi on "Happy Days" & "Joanie Loves Chachi," Charles on "Charles In Charge," and Bob Loblaw on "Arrested Development." He's also talking "Zapped," "Battle of The Network Stars," Howard Cosell, hockey, Willie Ames, and reality television.
Because every "Happy Days" needs a "Joanie Loves Chachi," Babaloo finally makes good on his threat of creating his own podcast - and you get the first taste of it here on PiMC! Join Babaloo as he tells his goals for the show and a silly little story about his life in Miami! Thank you to Babaloo for allowing us to share his story with our listeners, and look for That's So Babaloo to get it's own podcast feed/blog/phonenumber/etc. soon! Happy Thanksgiving!
When we realized that legendary director JOEL ZWICK has been directing Shake It Up!, we knew the time arrived to show how PIPER REESE got started on the red carpet! PIPER had already been doing the Piper's PIcks series...but this was the event that led us into the Piper's QUICK Picks series. MR. and MRS. ZWICK were incredibly nice and gracious. MR. ZWICK directed LAVERNE and SHIRLEY, JOANIE LOVES CHACHI, FULL HOUSE, SUITE LIFE, PERFECT STRANGERS, WEBSTER and a TON of other huge classics from TV! OH! Here's a bit of trivia! MR. ZWICK also directed "BOSOM BUDDIES" starring someone else you've seen PIPER interview - TOM HANKS! Hope you love seeing how Piper got her start! Thank you for asking! Title: JOEL ZWICK - Flashback to PIPER'S 1st Red Carpet & Laverne & Shirley & Full House Legendary Director-----------------------------------------------------------------------PIPER on iMDB: http://imdb.me/PiperReese-----------------------------------------------------------------------REGISTER on PIPERSPICKS.TV: http://piperspicks.tv/INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/PipersPIcksTVTWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/PipersPicksTVFACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/PipersPicksTV ©2012 Piper's Picks® TV