Monday, July 14, 2025

Diana

 


1973-74 NBC. Diana Rigg sitcom. Richard B. Shull, Barbara Barrie, Richard Mulligan. 15 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_(American_TV_series) 

Lotsa Luck

 

1973-74 NBC. Dom DeLuise. I watched this on Antenna-TV several years ago and this is a show in the Kinja archive. 22 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotsa_Luck

Shasta Red Apple Soda

 


1973 ad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/70s/comments/1atkgq9/shasta_sodas_1970s/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(drink)


The Girl with Something Extra

 


1973-74 NBC. Sally Field, John Davidson. ESP. 22 episodes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_Something_Extra

This may be the 700th TV show covered on The Golden Horn. Not counting cartoons, game shows, or failed TV pilots. I'm too lazy to count them all again. Close enough for government work.

Chase

 


NBC 1973-74. First show created by Stephen J. Cannell. Mitchell Ryan. 23 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_(1973_TV_series)

1982 Partager Wine "French Cowboys" TV Commercial

 

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Hardee's Restaurant sign, Crowson Road, Columbia, South Carolina

 


This image very popular on Twitter at the moment by my standards. Twitter must have changed their algorithm because my content does not get better or worse day by day but average views have jumped considerably lately. This series is roadside America going state by state, 10-12 images every day.

Quaker Oh's Cereal Commercial 1987

 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Ohs!

https://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=195

Friday, July 11, 2025

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

 


Directed by Jonathan Lynn. Free with ads on Youtube. Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne, Ralph Macchio, Lane Smith, Austin Pendleton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Cousin_Vinny 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/my-cousin-vinny-1992


https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/38201/my-cousin-vinny/ 

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/my-cousin-vinny-oral-history-1302630/


https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mycousinvinnyrhowe_a0aeab.htm

Gung Ho (1986)

 


Directed by Ron Howard. Free with ads on Youtube. Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Clint Howard, John Turturro. Written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_Ho_(film)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gung-ho-1986


https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-14-ca-20843-story.html

Casselton

 


Carl's Jr - Giant Chicken Explorers (1981, USA)

 


Thursday, July 10, 2025

Remington Steele - Red Holt Steele

 


Season 2, episode 3. Aired Sept. 27, 1983. Barbara Cason, Joel Polis, Lewis Arquette, Raye Birk, Audrie Neenan. It Happened One Night (1934) is referenced.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684864/

https://www.razorfine.com/television-reviews/remington-steele-red-holt-steele/

Magnum, P.I. - Legend of the Lost Art

 


Season 8, episode 10. Aired Feb. 10, 1988. Margaret Colin. Raiders of the Lost Ark parody episode.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639676/

https://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season8/Legend_of_the_Lost_Art.html

In attempting to figure out Peter Ridley-Smythe's plan, several classic movies are mentioned - The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (1948), North by Northwest (1959), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), King Soloman's Mines (1950, the Stewart Granger version), Raiders of Ghost City (1944), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Perils of Nyoka, aka "Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates" (1942). A brief clip from Perils of Nyoka is seen on Magnum's TV at the end. 

Out of the blue "Bogie Rick" returns, complete with white tux and cigarette.

[New Sherwood Hotel, Burlington, Vt.]