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Sunday, 10 March 2019

Jack Benny at Massey Hall

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Jack Benny arrived at Toronto’s Malton Airport where he was to be greeted by 50 children playing “Love in Bloom” on their violins. Instead,...
Saturday, 9 March 2019

The Krazy Kat Came Back

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There’s something nice about seeing old cartoon characters revived, provided the revivals are done well. Revivals are really nothing new...
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Friday, 8 March 2019

Bosko’s Radio References

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The MGM cartoon Hey-Hey Fever (1935) looks like a tarted up Warner Bros. cartoon. It has that two-tone Technicolor and Bosko design you see...
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Thursday, 7 March 2019

A Fishy Talkartoon

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If there was a series of sound cartoons without the name “Tex Avery” that I’d love to see restored, it’d be the Fleischer Talkartoons. They’...
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Wednesday, 6 March 2019

The Almost Prime-Time Pickle

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You have to feel bad for producers who juuuust miss getting their show on the schedule for the fall TV season. I was doing a bit of animati...
Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Mel-O-Hood

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Perhaps the most interesting-looking cartoons on TV in the early 1960s were the Mel-O-Toons , produced by Art Scott before he went to work ...
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Monday, 4 March 2019

Daffy Gets the Girl

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The anarchic version of Daffy Duck horns in on a movie love scene by kissing the girl. Then he tells us about it. “Wow! What a kiss! I think...
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Sunday, 3 March 2019

Wedlocked to Jack Benny and Jack Pearl

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Hugh Wedlock, Jr. and Howard Snyder wrote for Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In but, at the time, they were hardly young hip writers. They had be...
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Saturday, 2 March 2019

Sorry, Walt, You Can't Air That

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Miss X’s cartoon career was very short through no fault of her own. Walter Lantz basically took Tex Avery’s singing/dancing Red character, ...
Friday, 1 March 2019

Grand Slam Tennis

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Jerry lofts a tennis ball high into the sky. Both Tom and Butch run to return it over the net. Jerry knows what’s going to happen. You d...
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