I loved the New Zoo Revue! You see Freddie, it isn’t enough to have a mother. To make a baby, ya’ll also need a father. –Henrietta, The New Zoo Revuew For me, it didn’t get much better than the New Zoo Revue. Three delightful animals coming right at you. To this day, my brother Billy gives me […]
1971: The Homecoming, A Christmas Story
The one thing I really didn’t like about The Walton’s was that Grandma and Grandpa always bickered at each other. Remember her nickname for him, Old Man? There were other things I didn’t like, too, but I still watched the TV series faithfully throughout my entire Generation X childhood. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story The […]
The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn’t (1972)
Here’s a little Thanksgiving after-school special for all you Gen Xers out there. This is a clip from the 1972 holiday original The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn’t. Happily, you can tune in to Boomerang at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. (ET) on Thanksgiving Day to see the 30-minute commercial-free special. The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn’t […]
1973 Afterschool Special on Divorce: My Dad Lives In A Downtown Hotel
Latchkey Generation During my first two years of high school, I lived in Southeast Kansas. My parents both worked 20 miles away, across the border in Oklahoma. I was the quintessential latchkey kid. Sometimes, I didn’t mind coming home to an empty house, but mostly it scared me. I’d usually call a friend or I’d […]