June 16, 1959…Remember This Headline?
I guess we’ll never know if it was suicide or murder, but I remember the day the news broke…you too?
It was a sad day for all of us kids of the ’50s, but it would have been worse had the news come while the series was still in production. Thankfully, it wrapped in April of ’58. -Bobby Ellerbee
You Bet Your Ass There Is A Connection To ‘I Dream Of Jeannie’! This photo is from the 1964 movie ‘The Brass Bottle’. It starred Tony Randall and Barbara Eden…but not a a genie! Eden played Randall’s wife…Burl Ives played the genie that caused more problems than he solved. ‘I Dream Of Jeannie’ was created […]
December 18, 1953…First Color Commercial Airs On WPTZ, Philadelphia In yesterday’s post, we learned of the FCC’s December 17, 1953 decision adopting RCA’s Compatible Color System. On Friday, December 18, 1953 at about 11:15 am, the FCC issued to WPTZ, Channel 3, its official color experimental license which authorized the transmission of color video on […]
Super Rare! First Plumbicon Tests The smaller camera is one of two experimental models of the first color plumbicon camera from Philips. It is the predecessor of the Philips LDK1/Norelco PC60 and it ha been built inside the body of a Philips monochrome camera. It is being compared in performance by the BBC to the […]
It’s True: You Can’t Tell The Players Without A Program Thanks to David Daughtry for this shot of his Grass Valley LDK camera ready to shoot a San Diego Chargers – Baltimore Ravens game. Shooting from the Chargers side of the field, David’s face card shows the Baltimore coaches that he’ll be looking for on […]
strange visitor goes home
I’ve read plans were in the works to produce another set of episodes. John Hamilton had already passed away and they planned to replace him with Pierre Watkin who played Perry White in the serials. But unfortunately, the series got worse every year. The best episodes were the season one film noir episodes with Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane. She was smart enough to get out in time.
MURDERED
Superman may have had low production values but still, one of the greatest ever.. I still enjoy them to this day. George Reeves was great and everybody in it was ideally cast.
That woman he lived with shot him
I believe they called it the Superman curse. Several Supermen have had tragedies
Why is it always the woman…
I definitely remember it, I was 14 at the time.
Did cops ever suspect MGM’s general manager, Eddie Mannix, with whose wife George had been fooling around for some time? Open secret among some in the industry at the time. Of course, in those days studios could easily get things hushed up.
WOW !
This was ruled a murder, look it up.
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