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Mr. Smith Money Set

One of the beautiful thing about Rack Toys is they are proof of some of televisions weirdest moments, I didn’t dream that show about the super intelligent talking Orangutan who works for the government. Ja-Ru must have got these to shelves in time for the show’s cancellation. New Six Million Dollar Man Shirt in our […]

Yep, this happened

If you’re like me, you wake up most mornings wondering “Did i dream a show about a hyper intelligent monkey that works in Washington or was that a thing?”  Well, my answer comes in the form of this brilliant, meaningless rack toy from the good people at Ja-Ru. You see, there are no online tribute […]

Forgotten TV: Monster Squad

Monster Squad was a 1976 NBC saturday morning series that married the classic monsters with the 60’s Batman series ( Stanley Ralph Ross who developed Monster Squad wrote 17 episodes of Batman).In a nutshell, Museum night watchman Walter (a pre Love Boat Fred Grandy) is an aspiring criminologist, his crime computer brings to life the […]

Forgotten TV: Cliffhangers

I’m going to devote a couple of times a month to obscure stuff in my video collection, mostly forgotten or short lived TV from the 70’s/80’s. The first show I chose to highlight is Cliffhangers. Cliffhangers was produced by Kenneth Johnson (V, The Incredible Hulk) and it’s concept was throwback to the movie serials of […]