Both these guys were based on real people, Kojak was an amalgam of several people who worked on a real life case but Armes was a real life detective with prosthetic hands. I’m not sure about the van being real however, just in my dreams sadly… More JJ Armes: “
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1977 looked like it would be another banner year for Ideal Toys with it’s Evel Knievel toy line which set sales records the previous years. Evel was even playing himself in the movie “Viva Knievel” to be released that June but thanks to a very well publicized incident, it all came crumbling down that year. Check out the […]
I would have gone nut for a Jughead as a kid, sadly I never crossed path with these great Marx Archie figures until I was a teenager. Having no Reggie in the line does seem to remove all conflict.
Cool bar ware hit it’s peak in 1975, around the same time as “you keep the glass” drinks….
There aren’t many better ways to spend an afternoon in 1980 than acting out a “Buck Rogers on Tatooine” storyline.
Roving packs of “Dad Gangs” plagued suburbia until the Reagan administration created “The Thermostat Act” in 1981.
Well, we got a lot of love for our Bif Bang Pow! Flash Gordon action figure spotlight contest last week and while I can’t give everyone a set, my pal (and podcast partner) Jason kicked in a second set so we could have two winners! And they are: Andy Raab (who said Flash himself is […]
This month J& B discuss one of the most prolific comedy influences of our young lifetimes, Monty Python’s FLying Circus and it’s many incarnations. We talk about our first encounters growing up, our favourite skits, the term “Pythonesque”, delve into the movies (especially Holy Grail) and some of more interesting experiences with Python fans we’ve […]
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