Trailer Tuesday: Doc Savage: Man of Bronze

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Doc Savage, 1975. About to kick some 'Green Death' hinny.

Doc Savage: Man of Bronze starred Tarzan’s Ron Ely and hit theaters in June of 1975. Savage, intended to be a series (much like Tarzan,) was a campy adventure filled with hammy acting and hokey special effects and fared poorly at the box office. A little film called Jaws, which released in the same month, swallowed it whole. Watch the trailer below and beware “The Green Death!”

Interesting Factoids: Actress Pamela Hensley (who played Mona in Savage) also appeared in the film Rollerball and on TV’s The Rockford Files in 1975. She later appeared in The Six Million Dollar Man (’77) and B.J. and the Bear (’79).

Doc Savage IMDb, Doc Savage Wiki

Music for Mondays: The Knack ‘Good Girls Don’t’

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The Knack - 'Good Girls Don't'. Squeaky clean video version, Summer 1979

Happy Monday friends and neighbors! Let’s start the week off with a power pop blast. Kick those feet right up on your desk and slip back in time to August, 1979. We’re going to enjoy The Knack playing “Good Girls Don’t”. “Good Girls Don’t” was the follow-up single to the No. 1 smash “My Sharona” and hit a respectable high of No. 11 on the Billboard charts. The video below features the “Clean” radio edit of the song and leaves out any mention of “in her pants” and “sitting on your face.” Now, we can listen along with Granny and the whole family. Whoo hoo!



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Wattstax Trailer (’73)

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Wattstax, Summer '72. Power Shakin' and Lockin'

The Wattstax concert was organized by Stax Records and held in the Los Angeles Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The film documenting the event was released in February of 1973. Witness a fantastic trailer below and seek out the entire motion picture if you haven’t seen it. Not only is it an amazing document of the social climate in 1972 but the music is incredible across the board. You need to see this amazing film if for no other reason than to see Rufus Thomas perform “Do The Funky Chicken” while the audience in the Coliseum goes wild.

Wattstax, Summer '72 - The Bar-Kays and one hell of a white afro!

Interesting Factoids: Actor Ted Lange, who went on to play Isaac on TV’s The Love Boat, talks about the black experience in 70s America in the movie (and in the trailer below).



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TV Time: NBC’s Super Season Promo (’75)

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Here’s a nifty promo from 1975 for NBC’s upcoming Fall “Super Season.” Turns out Tony Curtis’s McCoy and Glenn Ford and Julie Harris in The Family Holvak weren’t very “Super” in the ratings department. Still, Disney and the Sunday Mystery Movie did OK.

Interesting Factoid: James at 15‘s Lance Kerwin played the son, Ramey, in The Family Holvak.

Investigate: McCoy, The Family Holvak, NBC Sunday Mystery Movie

People Feb 06, 1978: Bee Gees ‘Stayin’ Alive’

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Let’s dip back into another time capsule issue of People Magazine. This time we’ll crack open a copy from February 06, 1978 with the Bee Gees featured on the cover. The headline reads: “Saturday Night Fever’s Bee Gees, Stayin’ Alive?, After 22 years, the Brothers Gibb are hotter than ever.”

The cover story focuses on the Saturday Night Fever explosion, mentions the Bee Gees’ upcoming Sgt. Pepper’s film and follows Barry and Maurice to their new homes in Florida. Robin has remained in England. Here are a few choice paragraphs.

Robin and Molly Gibb Feb. 1978

“Their Here at Last—Bee Gees Live LP then sold some one and a half million, and when impresario Stigwood asked them to come up with some tunes for a disco movie, they delivered five in a week and a half: one of them, Stayin’ Alive, in two hours. Its title—and exhilarating thrust of rhythm—tells it all about the Gibbs. So do sales: Their first single release off the LP, How Deep Is Your Love, shot to No. 1 the same week Saturday Night Fever hit the moviehouses. Alive, the film’s opening and closing theme and one of the finest creations of the disco era, is well on its way to the top. And Fever’s sound track double LP, moving a staggering 200,000 a week, finally dislodged Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours from No. 1 after so long that everyone had forgotten its predecessor (Hotel California).”

Barry and Lynda Feb. 1978

“Barry, the eldest, is the chief songwriter, apostle of domesticity and prime mover of the Gibb HQ to Florida (after spotting it on a promo tour last year). Once he’d relocated his wife of seven years, Lynda, a former Miss Scotland, and their two children, he convinced Maurice to follow with Yvonne, his wife of three years, and their son. Along the way came the Bee Gees’ parents—Barbara, an ex-songstress, and Hugh, a ferryboat bandleader back in Britain and their manager pre-Stigwood. They bought a houseboat near the homes Barry and Maurice own along a private cove in Miami Beach. Andy (who has lately been dating actress Susan George, 27, since his marriage got into trouble after 16 months) also lives nearby.”

You can read the entire article if your fancy is tickled.

Here’s a nifty bonus ad from the same issue.

The VW Bus Feb. 1978. Man, whatta van.

TV Time: ‘In the News’ Rollerskating and the Olympics (’79)

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Rollerskating 'In the News' 1979. The flared trousers made you go faster. Fact!

Here’s an “In the News” segment from CBS Saturday Morning programming in 1979. The clip focuses on rollerskating and the attempt to bring the sport into Olympic competition. I always loved when I caught an “In the News” report and the spacey theme tune and narrator Christopher Glenn’s voice are indelibly etched in my brain. On display below we have an intro by Bugs Bunny and a cool, Western-themed commercial for “New” Hubba Bubble bubble gum included.