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I have been asked by several regular viewers of the channel to put this up to keep interested parties informed on what is going on at Uncle Earl's Classic TV Channel. At present there are more than 75,000 individual programs available including episodic TV shows, specials, and Short Format and Feature length films. There is a search engine like the one above installed on the Front Door Page to make finding your favorite shows easier. Back to the Front Door Page | Go to the Main Library PageBelow is a running tally of my changes to the site, since I created this Update Page on November 21, 2010.9/28/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the Midnight Caller library. Midnight Caller (1988-1993) was an American drama television series created by Richard DiLello. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Jack Killian (Gary Cole) is a former San Francisco police detective who quits the force after he accidentally shot his partner dead in a confrontation with armed criminals. After lapsing into alcoholism, Killian receives an offer from Devon King, the beautiful and wealthy owner-operator of KJCM-FM, to become "The Nighthawk", host of an overnight talk show, taking calls from listeners and acting as a detective solving their problems during the day. Killian's adventures took him frequently back into the realm of police work, where several of his former colleagues were less than happy to see him again. He faced myriad problems, both personal and professional, and was at various points required to come to grips with the nature of his relationship with both his absentee father and his troubled siblings. The new library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. I still have a several of the series episodes yet to post. The added episodes are: 9/27/23 - Today added the first eleven episodes to Season 5 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
9/26/23 - Today I added the last 9 episodes to Season 1 of The Rookies library. The Rookies (1972-1976) ws an American police procedural series that aired on ABC. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD). The pilot for the series began as an ABC Movie of the Week airing on March 7, 1972. The TV movie featured five rookies newly arrived at a police academy in southern California: cadets Jared Whitman (Robert F. Lyons), Kevin Lassiter (Jeff Pomerantz), Mike Danko (Sam Melville), William "Willie" Gillis (Michael Ontkean), and Terry Webster (Georg Stanford Brown), all coming from different backgrounds including the military, college and social work. The cadets' training sergeant was Eddie Ryker, played by Darren McGavin. In the later series, Sgt. Ryker was promoted to lieutenant and was played by Gerald S. O'Loughlin. The character of Jill Danko in the movie pilot was played by Jennifer Billingsley, but was recast for the series with Kate Jackson appearing as a registered nurse. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked - so manymore to come! The added episodes are: Tarnished Idol
9/25/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Season 3 of the Fury Library. Fury (1955-1960) was an American Western television series that aired on NBC. It starred Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California, Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The story begins with two young boys fighting on the street. As Joey Clark, the winner of the exchange, walks away, the loser attempts to throw something at him, but the object goes through a nearby window. The store owner quickly pins the blame on Joey, who has been labeled a troublemaker from past incidents. Rancher Jim Newton witnesses the incident and follows along as Joey is taken before the judge to clear the boy's name. After learning that Joey is an orphan, Newton takes him home to his Broken Wheel Ranch and begins adoption proceedings. This is one of the oldest libraries on the site, created in 2010. The original library had twenty-two of the Season 1 episodes, but disappeared soon after I posted it because all of the episodes were from YouTube. In 2013 I found the original 22 episodes on the internet Archive and was able to rebuild the library. Over the years I kept searching for more of them with no luck until last week, when I found all but 2 of the Season 2 through 5 episodes on IA. I will be adding too the library over the next few months, so more to come. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I want to mention that for for reasons I have not yet figured out, the new episodes' opening and closing credits have been translated into German. In the opening scene of several of them, Bobby also speaks in German, but after the opening credits finish, the audio is all in English. Go figure. The added episodes are: 9/24/23 - Today I added the last twelve available episodes to the The Courtship of Eddies Father library. This completes the library until I find the one missing episode, which is the last one in the series. The Courtship of Eddie's Father was an American sitcom based on the 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles. Following the death of his wife Helen, Tom is left to raise his mischievous, freckle-faced son, six-year-old Eddie (Brandon Cruz). Eddie wants a new mother, so to that end, he cleverly manipulates his father's relationships with women, sometimes even trying to set his father up to fall for women Eddie knows and likes first. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. It can also be accessed via the Bill Bixby Catalog which is located in the Catalog of Stars. I will keep searching for the missing episode. The added episodes are:
9/23/23 - Today I created a new 87th Precinct Library with the first fourteen episodes of the series. 87th Precinct (1961-1962) was an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, Ron Harper, Gregory Walcott and Norman Fell. The characters appeared in a series of novels and short stories written by Ed McBain. The TV series differs from the books in that the series is explicitly set in New York. As well, the character of Roger Havilland in the books is violent, corrupt, and thoroughly disliked by the other members of the squad. For the TV series, he was transformed into an honest and respected veteran officer. The new library os located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come! 9/22/23 - Today I added the last eleven available episodes to the Dick Powell Theatre Library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. The Dick Powell Theatre was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
9/21/23 - Today I created a new Mrs. Thursday library with all thirteen of the Season 1 episodes. Mrs. Thursday (1966-1967) was a British television comedy-drama produced by Associated Television. It starred veteran British actress Kathleen Harrison as Alice Thursday, a Cockney charwoman who inherits £10 million and the controlling interest in a multinational company upon the death of her employer, as well as his Rolls-Royce and Mayfair mansion. Hugh Manning played Richard Hunter, Mrs. Thursday's butler, business advisor, and confidant. Reg Lye played Bill Lee. Three seasons, thirty-eight episodes, of Mrs. Thursday were produced. Unfortunately, episode plot information is very hard to find, so only one of these epiaodes has a plot description. Apparently the first two Seasons were released on DVD a few years ago and I am assuming that is where these available episodss came from. Season 3 has yet to be released, so I don't have those episodes bookmarked. I will continue to search for the missing episodes but it could be a while before I find any. The new library is located in the British Television Catalog and the Whacky Dames Catalogs. I have all of the Season 2 episodes bookmarked, so more to come. 9/20/23 -Today I added the last fourteen available episodes to Drew Carey Show library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor. I had a large library of this series at one time, but they were all from Dailymotion and most of them disappeared after a few months. Since then I have been rebuilding it as I found more of the missing episodes. This library is located in the Drew Carey Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. I will keep searching for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: 9/19/23 - Today I created a new Farscape Library with the first thirteen episodes of the series. Farscape (1999-2003) was an Australian-American science fiction television series, produced originally for the Nine Network. It premiered in the US on Sci-Fi Channel's SciFi Friday, 19 March 1999, at 8:00 pm EST as their anchor series. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by The Jim Henson Company and Hallmark Entertainment. The Jim Henson Company was responsible for the various alien make-up and prosthetics, and two regular characters (the animatronic puppets Rygel and Pilot) are entirely Creature Shop creations. The new library is located in the SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Library. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. 9/18/23 - Today I added the last eight episodes to the Stoney Burke Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Stoney Burke (1962-19630 was an American Contemporary Western television series broadcast on ABC. Jack Lord starred in the title role. Burke is a professional rodeo cowboy who specializes in saddle bronc riding and competes for the Golden Buckle, presented annually to the rodeo world champion in each rodeo event. During his quest for the Golden Buckle, Stoney becomes entangled in the lives of numerous people and is accompanied on the rodeo circuit by friends Ves Painter (Warren Oates), Cody Bristol (Robert Dowdell), and E. J. Stocker (Bruce Dern). Lord said that he wanted Stoney Burke to move beyond rodeos "into good thematically solid stories." He added, "What we're trying to do is say something to gently lift the moral tone of society. We have a responsibility to ennoble and enlighten as well as entertain." This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. The added episodes are all of them on Page 2 of the library. 9/17/23 - Today I added the last seventeen available episodes to the Barnaby Jones library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator, who runs a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: 9/16/23 - Today I created a new Captain Midnight Playlist with all but two episodes of the series. The Captain Midnight (1954-1955) TV series (aka Jet Jackson) starring Richard Webb, began September 9, 1954, on CBS, continuing for 39 episodes until January 21, 1956. When the TV series went into syndication in 1958, Ovaltine was no longer the sponsor but owned the rights to the character's name "Captain Midnight", forcing a title change from Captain Midnight to Jet Jackson, Flying Commando, and all references in the episodes to Captain Midnight were redubbed "Jet Jackson". The new Playlist is located in the SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Playlists Library. 9/15/23 - Today I added the last nine available episodes to the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact. The added episodes are: Future Shock
9/14/23 - Today I added the first fifteen eisodes to Season 3 of the MacGyver Library, Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson. I wanted to mention that Richard Dean Anderson was also the star of one of my favorite series', Stargate SG-1, which I have watched in re-runs many times. MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun. This library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog. I have all seven Seasons of the MacGyver series bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
9/13.23 - Today I ceated a new Alias, Smith & Jones (1971-1973) Playlist to the Action-Adventure/Western Shows/Historical Drama Playlists Library with all fifty of the series episodes. In Alias, Smith & Jones (1971-1973), operating primarily in Wyoming Territory (1868–1890), Hannibal Heyes and Jedediah 'Kid' Curry are the two most successful outlaws in the history of the West. However, the West is starting to catch up with the modern world; safes are becoming harder to crack, trains more difficult to stop, and posses more adept at tracking them down. They decide to "get outta this business!" Now calling themselves Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones, they are forced to rely on Heyes's silver tongue, Curry's fast draw, and occasionally a little help from friends on both sides of the law. Stars: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis, Pete Duel. The new Playlist is located in the Action-Adventure/Western Shows/Historical Drama Playlists Library 9/12/23 - Today I added eight episodes to the Stoney Burke Library. Stoney Burke (1962-19630 was an American Contemporary Western television series broadcast on ABC. Jack Lord starred in the title role. Burke is a professional rodeo cowboy who specializes in saddle bronc riding and competes for the Golden Buckle, presented annually to the rodeo world champion in each rodeo event. During his quest for the Golden Buckle, Stoney becomes entangled in the lives of numerous people and is accompanied on the rodeo circuit by friends Ves Painter (Warren Oates), Cody Bristol (Robert Dowdell), and E. J. Stocker (Bruce Dern). Lord said that he wanted Stoney Burke to move beyond rodeos "into good thematically solid stories." He added, "What we're trying to do is say something to gently lift the moral tone of society. We have a responsibility to ennoble and enlighten as well as entertain." I have all of the series episodes, so more to come. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. The added episodes are: Spin a Golden Web
9/11/23 - Today I created a new All American Girl library with the first twelve episodes of the series. All-American Girl (1994-1995) was an American sitcom starring Margaret Cho. The series aired on ABC, and was loosely based on Cho's own experiences growing up in a Korean American family in San Francisco. Cho starred as Margaret Kim, the rebellious daughter of Korean emigrants and bookstore owners, whose American attitude often comes into conflict with her more traditional parents (Jodi Long and Clyde Kusatsu). Among her co-stars were BD Wong as Margaret's brother, and Amy Hill as her eccentric grandmother. All-American Girl was created by ABC to capitalize on the trend of female comediennes headlining their own sitcoms. Cho was included in a Wednesday night lineup that included other women in lead roles. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so more to come! The new library is located in the Whacky Dames Catalog. By the way, a shout-out to David Gradwell for suggesting I create this library. 9/10/23 - Today I created a new Airwolf library with the first eighteen available episodes of the series. Airwolf (1984-1986) was an American action military drama television series that centers on a high-technology military helicopter, code-named Airwolf, and its crew. The show follows them as they undertake various exotic missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme. The main cast for seasons one through three consisted of Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Deborah Pratt (who left after season 2 when Bellisario left the series), and Jean Bruce Scott (who was added as a regular in seasons two and three). The program originally aired on CBS and was canceled after the third season. USA Network picked up the show for a fourth season that was completely recast, with Jan-Michael Vincent having only a minor role in the first episode. The fictional Airwolf is described as an advanced prototype supersonic helicopter with stealth capabilities and a formidable arsenal. Airwolf was designed by Charles Henry Moffet (David Hemmings) — a genius with a psychopathic taste for torturing and killing women, and built by "the Firm", a division of the Central Intelligence Agency (a play on the term "the Company", a nickname for the CIA) The new library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog. I have episodes from the first three seasons bookmarked, so more to come. 9/9/23 - Today I added the last nine missing episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 to the Scarecrow and Mrs. King library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987) was an American television series that aired on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner, as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson, who begin an unusual partnership and eventual romance after encountering one another in a train station. The pair travel to places like Germany and England and help each other as they pose as other people, sometimes posing as husband and wife. Escapades involving cruise ships and getting "married" are some of their assignments, and the KGB or other enemies of the United States are always involved. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: The A.C.M. Kid
9/8/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to the Mystery Science Theater 3000 library. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989-1999) (abbreviated as MST3K) was an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then moved to nationwide broadcast, first on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for seven seasons. Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three more seasons until August 1999. A 60-episode syndication package titled The Mystery Science Theater Hour was produced in 1993 and broadcast on Comedy Central and syndicated to TV stations in 1995. In 2015, Hodgson led a crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018. A second successful crowdfunding effort in 2021 brought at least 13 additional episodes to be shown through the Gizmoplex, an online platform that Hodgson will develop for future MST3K works that launched in March 2022. As of 2022, 230 episodes and a feature film have been produced as well as three live tours. I have episodes from all eleven seasons, so more to come. The added episodes are: 9/7/23 - Today I added the nine missing episodes to the St. Elsewhere library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: Coupla White Dummies
9/6/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 to the Fury Library. Fury (1955-1960) was an American Western television series that aired on NBC. It starred Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California, Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The story begins with two young boys fighting on the street. As Joey Clark, the winner of the exchange, walks away, the loser attempts to throw something at him, but the object goes through a nearby window. The store owner quickly pins the blame on Joey, who has been labeled a troublemaker from past incidents. Rancher Jim Newton witnesses the incident and follows along as Joey is taken before the judge to clear the boy's name. After learning that Joey is an orphan, Newton takes him home to his Broken Wheel Ranch and begins adoption proceedings. This is one of the oldest libraries on the site, created in 2010. The original library had twenty-two of the Season 1 episodes, but disappeared soon after I posted it because all of the episodes were from YouTube. In 2013 I found the original 22 episodes on the internet Archive and was able to rebuild the library. Over the years I kept searching for more of them with no luck until last week, when I found all but 2 of the Season 2 through 5 episodes on IA. I will be adding too the library over the next few months, so more to come. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I want to mention that for for reasons I have not yet figured out, the new episodes' opening and closing credits have been translated into German. In the opening scene of several of them, Bobby also speaks in German, but after the opening credits finish, the audio is all in English. Go figure. The added episodes are:
9/5/23 - Today I restored my Captain Nice Library with all fifteen of the series episodes. Captain Nice (1967)was an American comedy TV series that ran on NBC. The show was an unsuccessful attempt to cash in on the 1966 smash hit ABC TV version of Batman. A similar series on CBS, Mr. Terrific, also aired on Monday nights that season in the 8 pm EST time slot. Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved police chemist Carter Nash (William Daniels), a mild-mannered mama's boy who discovered a secret formula that, when he drank it, transformed him in an explosive burst of smoke into Captain Nice. Nash called himself "Captain Nice" in his first appearance when a bystander asked him who he was: his belt buckle was monogrammed "CN," and Nash later admitted, "It was all I could think of!" On that occasion the explosion that transformed him blew off most of his clothes, leaving him in long underwear and with the remnants of his shirt suggesting a cape. The restored library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A shout-out to Ernie Renn for alerting me to the problems with the series episodes, which were all from YouTube, and had vanished several years ago. The new version is all from the Internet Archive, so I expect it will last a while. 9/4/23 - Today I added eighteen episodes to the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have a large cache of episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 9/3/23 - Today I added the last eight available episodes to the Captain Midnight Library. This completes the library until I ind the last two missing episodes. This the first time I have added to this library in about 4 years. This is pretty special too me because not only is this one of (if not the first) library I ever created on the site, but it is definitely the first television program I ever watched when I was 6 years old in 1954. Captain Midnight (later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando) is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. The character's popularity throughout the 1940s and into the mid-1950s extended to serial films (1942), a television show (1954?1956), a syndicated newspaper strip (1942-late 1940s), and a comic book title (1942?1948). The title character, originally Captain Jim "Red" Albright, was a World War I U.S. Army pilot. His Captain Midnight code name was given by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission from which he returned at the stroke of 12. When the show began in 1938, Albright was a private aviator who helped people, but his situation changed in 1940. When the show was taken over by Ovaltine, the origin story explained how Albright was recruited to head the Secret Squadron, an aviation-oriented paramilitary organization fighting sabotage and espionage during the period prior to the United States' entry into World War II. The Secret Squadron acted both within and outside the United States. This library is located in the Kid Shows the SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Catalogs and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: Secret of the Jungle
9/2/23 - With the holiday weekend upon us I am a bit busy right now, so I decided to just add the last seven episodes to the Hardcastle and McCormick library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series starred Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. During an interview in the early 1980s, producer Stephen J. Cannell referred to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants. Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities. Inspired by his childhood hero the Lone Ranger, Hardcastle desires to make the criminals answer for their crimes. This library is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama and the Action & Adventure Catalogs, and also in the Brian Keith Catalog which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: Can You Spare a Crime?
9/1/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 2 of the Midnight Caller library. Midnight Caller (1988-1993) was an American drama television series created by Richard DiLello. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Jack Killian (Gary Cole) is a former San Francisco police detective who quits the force after he accidentally shot his partner dead in a confrontation with armed criminals. After lapsing into alcoholism, Killian receives an offer from Devon King, the beautiful and wealthy owner-operator of KJCM-FM, to become "The Nighthawk", host of an overnight talk show, taking calls from listeners and acting as a detective solving their problems during the day. Killian's adventures took him frequently back into the realm of police work, where several of his former colleagues were less than happy to see him again. He faced myriad problems, both personal and professional, and was at various points required to come to grips with the nature of his relationship with both his absentee father and his troubled siblings. The new library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. I have a large cache of the series episodes and will be expanding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are: 8/31/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of The Courtship of Eddies Father library. The Courtship of Eddie's Father was an American sitcom based on the 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles. Following the death of his wife Helen, Tom is left to raise his mischievous, freckle-faced son, six-year-old Eddie (Brandon Cruz). Eddie wants a new mother, so to that end, he cleverly manipulates his father's relationships with women, sometimes even trying to set his father up to fall for women Eddie knows and likes first. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. It can also be accessed via the Bill Bixby Catalog which is located in the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. The added episodes are: 8/30/23 - Today I added the last ten episodes to the S.W.A.T. Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. S.W.A.T. (1975-1976) was an American action/crime drama television series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified Californian city, although filming was done in and around Los Angeles. S.W.A.T. starred Steve Forrest as the unit's leader, Lt. "Hondo" Harrelson, Robert Urich as Officer Jim Street, Rod Perry as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay, Mark Shera as Officer Dominic Luca, and James Coleman as Officer T.J. McCabe. The opening theme was composed by Barry De Vorzon. The series was known for its instrumental theme song composed by Barry De Vorzon, which became a number-one hit single in 1976 for Rhythm Heritage. The title sequence that used that piece was also familiar with the principal characters responding to a muster signal, grabbing their weapons and running to their specially equipped transport van driven by "Sam", an uncredited, non-speaking role. Richard Kelbaugh, a former member of the LAPD's S.W.A.T. team, was the technical advisor for the series. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
8/29/23 - Today I added fourteem episodes to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
8/28/23 - Today I added the last ten episodes to Season 4 of the The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I have the full series bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are:
8/27/23 - Today I added the last fourteen episodes to the The Californians library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. The series set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, which was broadcast by NBC for 69 episodes. The series was set in San Francisco. Adam Kennedy starred in the first year in early episodes as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee. Season one episodes also featured Sean McClory as store owner Jack McGivern, who headed the vigilante committee and Nan Leslie as his wife, Martha McGivern. Early season one episodes featured Herbert Rudley as newspaper editor Sam Brennan but Jack McGivern later took over the newspaper. Due to sagging ratings, Richard Coogan was brought in in later season one episodes. His introduction boosted ratings, and led to the departure of Kennedy and McCrory in Season two. Coogan stars as Matthew Wayne, a sheriff and then marshal who organizes the city police, courts a young widow, Wilma Fansler, portrayed by Carole Mathews, and clashes with an ambitious attorney, Jeremy Pitt, played by Art Fleming. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. These episodes are hosted by the Shout TV streaming site. Keep in mind that when you go to the player page it takes a few seconds to load and then starts playing automatically. You also need to turn on the sound by clicking on speaker icon that appears near the lower left corner of the screen. These videos also include commercials. The added episodes are: 8/26/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to my Dick Powell Theatre Library. Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. The Dick Powell Theatre was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: 8/25/23 - Today I added the last nine available episodes to the Follow the Sun library. This completes the library until I find the six missing episodes. Follow the Sun (1961-1962) was an American television adventure series that aired on ABC. The episodes follow a pair of freelance magazine writers based in Hawaii who seek out interesting stories while leading an active social life both on the mainland and aboard their boat, The Scuber. The series is characterized by a host of guest appearances by popular film and television actors. The main characters were two freelance journalists based in Honolulu encountering mystery and their fair share of beautiful women in their weekly Hawaiian adventures. I created the original library early in 2010, before I created this Updates page, but the library consisted of YouTube videos, which vanished almost as soon as I posted them. This library is located in the Action and Adventure Catalog. I will keep searching for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: Chicago Style
8/24/23 - Today I created a new Winners of the West (1940) Serial Playlist library with all thirteen episodes of the serial. In this serial, Southwest Central Railroad Company is attempting to build a railroad through "Hell's Gate Pass". However, King Carter, the self-appointed ruler of the land beyond the pass, does not want this to happen. He sends henchmen, including local Indians, to disrupt the construction anyway they can, from sabotage to kidnapping Claire Hartford, the daughter of the company President. The President's assistant, Jeff Ramsay, and his sidekicks, stop King Carter's schemes at every point and eventually defeat him entirely. This opens the area up to new settlers, the first of which is Jeff himself and his new wife Claire. Stars: Dick Foran, Anne Nagel, Tom Fadden. The new playlist is located on the Action/Adventure Playlists Library. 8/23/23 - Today I created a new The Rookies library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. The Rookies (1972-1976) ws an American police procedural series that aired on ABC. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department (SCPD). The pilot for the series began as an ABC Movie of the Week airing on March 7, 1972. The TV movie featured five rookies newly arrived at a police academy in southern California: cadets Jared Whitman (Robert F. Lyons), Kevin Lassiter (Jeff Pomerantz), Mike Danko (Sam Melville), William "Willie" Gillis (Michael Ontkean), and Terry Webster (Georg Stanford Brown), all coming from different backgrounds including the military, college and social work. The cadets' training sergeant was Eddie Ryker, played by Darren McGavin. In the later series, Sgt. Ryker was promoted to lieutenant and was played by Gerald S. O'Loughlin. The character of Jill Danko in the movie pilot was played by Jennifer Billingsley, but was recast for the series with Kate Jackson appearing as a registered nurse. The new library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked - so manymore to come! 8/22/23 - Today I added the last eleven episodes to Season 4 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
8/21/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 4 and 5 of the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). I still have several of the Season 5 episodes bookmarked, so more to come. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
8/20/23 - Today I added the last twelve episodes to Season 7 of the Cagney & Lacey library. This comletes the library with all of the series episodes included. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I still have four TV movies that aired 1990s yet to add, so few more to come.The added episodes are:
8/19/23 - Today I added ten episodes to the Drew Carey Show library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor. I had a large library of this series at one time, but they were all from Dailymotion and most of them disappeared after a few months. I now have episodes from all 9 seasons of the series so I will be rebuilding it going forward. This library is located in the Drew Carey Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. I still have episodes to post, so more to come. The added episodes are:
8/18/23 - Today I created a new Stoney Burke Library with the first sixteen episodes of the series. Stoney Burke (1962-19630 was an American Contemporary Western television series broadcast on ABC. Jack Lord starred in the title role. Burke is a professional rodeo cowboy who specializes in saddle bronc riding and competes for the Golden Buckle, presented annually to the rodeo world champion in each rodeo event. During his quest for the Golden Buckle, Stoney becomes entangled in the lives of numerous people and is accompanied on the rodeo circuit by friends Ves Painter (Warren Oates), Cody Bristol (Robert Dowdell), and E. J. Stocker (Bruce Dern). Lord said that he wanted Stoney Burke to move beyond rodeos "into good thematically solid stories." He added, "What we're trying to do is say something to gently lift the moral tone of society. We have a responsibility to ennoble and enlighten as well as entertain." I have all of the series episodes, so more to come. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. 8/17/23 - Today I added nineteen episodes to Seasons 18 and 19 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are: 8/16/22 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Season 4 of the Barnaby Jones library. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator, who runs a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have a large cache of episodes yet to post, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 8/15/23 - Today I added nine episodes to Season 1 and 4 of The Professionals library. The Professionals (1977–1983) was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network. This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. This library is located in the Action and Adventure and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. At one point, about 7 years ago, I had the full series - but they atsrted vanishing from the DailyMotion streaming aite and I stopped trying to restore it. Instead I just deleted the episodes as they disappeared. I hadn't really checked it out lately. Then I got a message from a viewer telling me that several more episodes were missing. I decided to search the Internet Archive and managed to find all of the episodes from the current version of the library - so I replaced all of them. These episodes are new to the library. I will continue searching for the missing ones. The added episodes are: Old Dog with New Tricks
8/14/23 - Today I created a new Abbott & Costello Show Playlist Library, with all fifty-two episodes of te series. The Abbott and Costello Show was an American television sitcom starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy programs in history. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly praised the series as one of the "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". In 2007, Time magazine selected it for its "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME". Jerry Seinfeld has declared that The Abbott and Costello Show, with its overriding emphasis upon funny situations rather than life lessons, was the inspiration for his own long-running sitcom, Seinfeld. I already have an The Abbott and Costello Show individual episodes library with the full series. This playlist makes it much easier to binge watch the show. The new playlist library is located in the Comedy Shows Playlists Library, which is available via the Playlists Catalog. 8/13/23 - Today I added the last fifteen episodes of Season 2 to the MacGyver Library, Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson. I wanted to mention that Richard Dean Anderson was also the star of one of my favorite series', Stargate SG-1, which I have watched in re-runs many times. MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun. This library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog. I have episodes from all seven Seasons of the MacGyver series bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
8/12/23 - Today I added seventeen episodes to Season 3 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have a large cache of episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 8/11/23 - Today I added the first fifteen episodes to Season 3 of the Hardcastle and McCormick library. Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series starred Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. During an interview in the early 1980s, producer Stephen J. Cannell referred to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants. Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities. Inspired by his childhood hero the Lone Ranger, Hardcastle desires to make the criminals answer for their crimes. This library is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama and the Action & Adventure Catalogs, and also in the Brian Keith Catalog which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come! The added episodes are: 8/10/23 - Today I created a new Mystery Science Theater 3000 library with the first sixteen available episodes of the series. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1989-1999) (abbreviated as MST3K) was an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then moved to nationwide broadcast, first on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for seven seasons. Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three more seasons until August 1999. A 60-episode syndication package titled The Mystery Science Theater Hour was produced in 1993 and broadcast on Comedy Central and syndicated to TV stations in 1995. In 2015, Hodgson led a crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018. A second successful crowdfunding effort in 2021 brought at least 13 additional episodes to be shown through the Gizmoplex, an online platform that Hodgson will develop for future MST3K works that launched in March 2022. As of 2022, 230 episodes and a feature film have been produced as well as three live tours. I have episodes from all eleven seasons, so more to come. 8/9/23 - Today I added the last ten available episodes to the The Californians library. This completes the library with all of the episodes included. The series set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, which was broadcast by NBC for 69 episodes. The series was set in San Francisco. Adam Kennedy starred in the first year in early episodes as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee. Season one episodes also featured Sean McClory as store owner Jack McGivern, who headed the vigilante committee and Nan Leslie as his wife, Martha McGivern. Early season one episodes featured Herbert Rudley as newspaper editor Sam Brennan but Jack McGivern later took over the newspaper. Due to sagging ratings, Richard Coogan was brought in in later season one episodes. His introduction boosted ratings, and led to the departure of Kennedy and McCrory in Season two. Coogan stars as Matthew Wayne, a sheriff and then marshal who organizes the city police, courts a young widow, Wilma Fansler, portrayed by Carole Mathews, and clashes with an ambitious attorney, Jeremy Pitt, played by Art Fleming. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. These episodes are hosted by the Shout TV streaming site. Keep in mind that when you go to the player page it takes a few seconds to load and then starts playing automatically. You also need to turn on the sound by clicking on speaker icon that appears near the lower left corner of the screen. These videos also include commercials.
8/8/23 - Today, for the first time in over 5 years, I added seventeen episodes to the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976-1977)was an American satirical soap opera that aired in daily weeknight syndication. The series follows the titular Mary Hartman, an Ohio housewife attempting to cope with various bizarre and violent incidents occurring around her. The series starred Louise Lasser, Greg Mullavey, Dody Goodman, Norman Alden, Mary Kay Place, Graham Jarvis, Debralee Scott, and Victor Kilian. In December 1974, Norman Lear and his entertainment company, Tandem Productions, created a pilot for his new serial, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a satire of the impact of American consumerism. The show's title, featuring the title character's name stated twice, is a reference to Norman Lear's observation that dialogue within soap operas tended to be repeated. In 2004 and 2007, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was ranked #21 and #26 on "TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever." TV Guide ranked the death of Coach Leroy Fedders, who drowns in a bowl of Mary's chicken soup in the first season, #97 on its list of the 100 Greatest T.V. Moments of All Time. I have many more episodes to go, so more to come. The added episodes are:
8/7/23 - Today I created a new Midnight Caller library with the first fifteen available episodes of the series. Midnight Caller (1988-1993) was an American drama television series created by Richard DiLello. It was one of the first television series to address the dramatic possibilities of the then-growing phenomenon of talk radio. Jack Killian (Gary Cole) is a former San Francisco police detective who quits the force after he accidentally shot his partner dead in a confrontation with armed criminals. After lapsing into alcoholism, Killian receives an offer from Devon King, the beautiful and wealthy owner-operator of KJCM-FM, to become "The Nighthawk", host of an overnight talk show, taking calls from listeners and acting as a detective solving their problems during the day. Killian's adventures took him frequently back into the realm of police work, where several of his former colleagues were less than happy to see him again. He faced myriad problems, both personal and professional, and was at various points required to come to grips with the nature of his relationship with both his absentee father and his troubled siblings. The new library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. I have a large cache of the series episodes and will be expanding the library in the months to come. 8/6/23 - Today I restored my The Charlie's Angels Playlist library with the Pilot Movie and all one hundred and fifteen episodes of the series. The original playlist was posted in 2020, but it disappeared from the site soon after. Charlie's Angels (1976-1981) was an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aaron Spelling. It follows the crime-fighting adventures of three women working at a private detective agency in Los Angeles, California, and originally starred Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett (billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors), and Jaclyn Smith in the leading roles and John Forsythe providing the voice of their boss, the unseen Charlie Townsend, who directed the crime-fighting operations of the "Angels" over a speakerphone. There were a few casting changes: after the departure of Fawcett, Cheryl Ladd joined; after Jackson departed, Shelley Hack joined, who was subsequently replaced by Tanya Roberts. The restored playlist is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama Playlist library, which is available via the Playlist Catalog. 8/5/23 - Today I added eighteen episodes to Season 2 of The Courtship of Eddies Father library. The Courtship of Eddie's Father was an American sitcom based on the 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles. Following the death of his wife Helen, Tom is left to raise his mischievous, freckle-faced son, six-year-old Eddie (Brandon Cruz). Eddie wants a new mother, so to that end, he cleverly manipulates his father's relationships with women, sometimes even trying to set his father up to fall for women Eddie knows and likes first. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. It can also be accessed via the Bill Bixby Catalog which is located in the Catalog of Stars. I have all but one of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. The added episodes are: 8/4/23 - Today I added the first thirteen episodes to Season 2 of the the S.W.A.T. Library. S.W.A.T. (1975-1976) was an American action/crime drama television series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified Californian city, although filming was done in and around Los Angeles. S.W.A.T. starred Steve Forrest as the unit's leader, Lt. "Hondo" Harrelson, Robert Urich as Officer Jim Street, Rod Perry as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay, Mark Shera as Officer Dominic Luca, and James Coleman as Officer T.J. McCabe. The opening theme was composed by Barry De Vorzon. The series was known for its instrumental theme song composed by Barry De Vorzon, which became a number-one hit single in 1976 for Rhythm Heritage. The title sequence that used that piece was also familiar with the principal characters responding to a muster signal, grabbing their weapons and running to their specially equipped transport van driven by "Sam", an uncredited, non-speaking role. Richard Kelbaugh, a former member of the LAPD's S.W.A.T. team, was the technical advisor for the series. I have all the episodes of the full series, and will continue to build the library going forward. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
8/3/23 - Today I added the last twelve available episodes to the Night Court Library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. This library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. The added episodes are all of them on the last page of the library. 8/2/23 - Today I created a new Hornblower Playlist with all eight of the series of TV Movies. Hornblower wss a series of British historical fiction war television films based on three of C. S. Forester's ten novels about the fictional character, Horatio Hornblower. In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who calls himself "El Supremo" ("The Almighty"), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. The series starred Ioan Gruffudd in the title role. It was produced by the British broadcaster ITV Meridian, and was shown on ITV in the UK and A&E in the US. It is often repeated on ITV4. The new playlist is located in the Action/Adventure Playlists Library, which is available via the Playlists Catalog. 8/1/23 - Today I added all twenty-two episodes to Season 3 of the Matt Houston Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes incuded. Matt Houston (1982-1985) was an American crime drama television series starring Lee Horsley as the title character, a wealthy oilman who decides to hold a side job as a private investigator. The show also starred Pamela Hensley as his lawyer sidekick, C.J., and George Wyner as his continuously frustrated business manager, Murray. During the show's final season Buddy Ebsen played Houston's uncle, Roy Houston. Most episodes typically involve one of Houston's close friends being murdered or involved in some criminal enterprise, requiring his assistance. C.J. had access to an Apple III computer named "Baby" containing a database on virtually all living and deceased persons, allowing her to provide all necessary information. Murray frequently complained that Matt's private investigation business failed to make money, while Matt treated it more as an expensive hobby rather than a profit-making venture. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. The added episodes are all of them on Page 3 of the library. 7/31/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
7/30/23 - Today I added the first thirteen episodes to Season 4 of The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. More to come. The added episodes are: 7/29/23 - Today, after more then thirteen years, I restored Follow the Sun library with the first sixteen episodes of the series. Follow the Sun (1961-1962) was an American television adventure series that aired on ABC. The episodes follow a pair of freelance magazine writers based in Hawaii who seek out interesting stories while leading an active social life both on the mainland and aboard their boat, The Scuber. The series is characterized by a host of guest appearances by popular film and television actors. The main characters were two freelance journalists based in Honolulu encountering mystery and their fair share of beautiful women in their weekly Hawaiian adventures. I created the original library early in 2010, before I created this Updates page, but the library consisted of YouTube videos, which vanished almost as soon as I posted them. The restored library is located in the Action and Adventure Catalog. At this point I have all but six episodes of the series. I wil keep searching for the missing epsidoes. 7/28/23 - Today I created a Stingray (1964) Playlist. Stingray was a British children's science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films (APF) for ITC Entertainment. Filmed in 1963 using a combination of electronic marionette puppetry and scale model special effects, it was APF's sixth puppet series and the third to be produced under the banner of "Supermarionation". It premiered in October 1964 and ran for 39 half-hour episodes. Set in the 2060s, the series followed the exploits of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP), an organisation responsible for policing the Earth's oceans. The WASP's flagship is Stingray, a combat submarine crewed by Captain Troy Tempest, navigator Lieutenant "Phones" and Marina, a mute young woman from under the sea. Stingray's adventures bring it into contact with various underwater civilisations, some friendly and others hostile, as well as strange natural phenomena. The new Playlist is located in the SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Playlists and the Kid Shows Playlists Libraries, which are available via the Playlists Catalog. 7/27/23 - Today I added the last fourteen episodes to the Quantum Leap library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. This library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. The added episodes are:
7/26/23 - Today I added all eight episodes to Season 2 of the Bob library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Bob (1992-1993) was an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS. The series was the third starring vehicle sitcom for Bob Newhart, following his previous successful CBS sitcoms The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart. Newhart portrayed Bob McKay , the creator of the 1950s comic book superhero "Mad-Dog". Mad-Dog was a casualty of the Comics Code Authority, a real-life self-regulation authority formed to assuage concerns over violence and gore in comics in the 1950s. In the wake of the CCA, Bob became a greeting card artist. In the pilot, Mad-Dog is revived when the American-Canadian Trans-Continental Communications Company buys the rights to the series. Complications ensued when Ace Comics head Harlan Stone insisted Mad-Dog should be a bloodthirsty vigilante rather than the hero Bob originally created. Bob initially turned down Harlan's offer to revive the series with the publisher, but after his wife, Kaye, reminded Bob that Mad-Dog would never give up dreams in the face of defeat, he decided to compromise with Harlan on creative direction, and go back to do the revival. In the final episode of the first season, AmCanTranConComCo was sold to a millionaire who hated comic books, and the entire Mad-Dog staff, including Bob, was fired. The new library is located in the Bob Newhart Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are all of the Season 2 episodes on page 2 of the library. 7/25/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to the Dial 999 Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Dial 999 was a British television series that ran for one series of 38 episodes from 1958 to 1959. The series was a co-production between ITV contractor ABC Weekend TV, and American television producer Ziv Television Programs. It starred Robert Beatty as Canadian Mountie Mike Maguire, and follows his work fighting crime alongside London's police. Named after the emergency telephone number for the United Kingdom, Beatty was essentially reprising his role in the 1946 film Appointment with Crime, in which he played Detective Inspector Rogers, a Canadian police officer attached to Scotland Yard. The show contrasted Beatty's muscular brand of policing with that of his British colleagues, but failed to sell to North American markets. In 2021, Network DVD released the whole series on DVD in a five disc set. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama amd the British TV Catalogs. The added episodes are: 7/24/23 - Today I added seventeen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of The Californians library. The series set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, which was broadcast by NBC for 69 episodes. The series was set in San Francisco. Adam Kennedy starred in the first year in early episodes as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee. Season one episodes also featured Sean McClory as store owner Jack McGivern, who headed the vigilante committee and Nan Leslie as his wife, Martha McGivern. Early season one episodes featured Herbert Rudley as newspaper editor Sam Brennan but Jack McGivern later took over the newspaper. Due to sagging ratings, Richard Coogan was brought in in later season one episodes. His introduction boosted ratings, and led to the departure of Kennedy and McCrory in Season two. Coogan stars as Matthew Wayne, a sheriff and then marshal who organizes the city police, courts a young widow, Wilma Fansler, portrayed by Carole Mathews, and clashes with an ambitious attorney, Jeremy Pitt, played by Art Fleming. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. These episodes are hosted by the Shout TV streaming site. Keep in mind that when you go to the player page it takes a few seconds to load and then starts playing automatically. You also need to turn on the sound by clicking on speaker icon that appears near the lower left corner of the screen. These videos also include commercials. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come. he added episodes are: 7/23/223 - Today, for the first time in six years, I added fifteen episodes to the Dick Powell Theatre Library. Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature. He was the first actor to portray the private detective Philip Marlowe on screen. The Dick Powell Theatre was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: 7/22/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 3 and 4 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 7/21/23 - Today I added eleven episodes of Seasons 3 and 4 to the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). I now have a large cache of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
7/20/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Seasons 6 and 7 of the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are:
7/19/23 - Today I added twenty episodes to the Drew Carey Show library. The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor. I had a large library of this series at one time, but they were all from Dailymotion and most of them disappeared after a few months. I now have episodes from all 9 seasons of the series so I will be rebuilding it going forward. The library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog and the Drew Carey Catalog, which is located in the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: 7/18/23 - Today I added the last seventeen available episodes to Season 3 of the Barnaby Jones library. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator, who runs a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have a large cache of episodes yet to post, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 7/17/24 - Today I added the last twelve episodes plus a Reunion Episode and The 30th Anniversary episode to the Happy Days library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. I had almost the full series on the site back in 2018, but they were mostly Dailymotion and Hulu videos and started vanishing as soon as I finished posting them. Happy Days (1974-1984) was an American sitcom television series that aired first-run on the ABC network. Created by Garry Marshall, the series was one of the most successful of the 1970s, a sweet vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s in Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as young Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, Happy Days became successful and popular over time. The added episodes are: 7/16/23 - Today I created a new Most Wanted library with all twenty-three episodes of the series. Most Wanted (1976-1977) was an American crime drama series shown on ABC. It starred Robert Stack, Jo Ann Harris, Shelly Novack, and Hari Rhodes. This program marks the reunion of series star Stack with producer Quinn Martin, who had worked together previously on the ABC crime series The Untouchables. The series focused on an elite task force of the Los Angeles Police Department named "Most Wanted". The mayor of Los Angeles, Dan Stoddard (Hari Rhodes), created the force to concentrate exclusively on criminals on the mayor's most-wanted list. The library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. 7/15/23 - Today I restored my The Professionals library. The Professionals (1977–1983) was a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network. This series chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. This library is located in the Action and Adventure and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. At one point, about 7 years ago, I had the full series - but they atsrted vanishing from the DailyMotion streaming aite and I stopped trying to restore it. Imstead I just deleted the episodes as they disappeared. I hadn't really checked it out lately. Then I got a message from a viewer telling me that several more episodes were missing. I decided to search the Imternet Archive and managed to find all of the episodes from the current version of the library - so I replaced all of them. Going forward I will start searching for the missing wpisodes and hopefully will be able to restore some more of them. A shout out to Tom Sherman for calling my attention to the problem. 7/14/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to the A Man Called Shanandoah (1955-1956) library. The series starred Robert Horton, who had costarred on Wagon Train from 1957 to 1962. He left that series, vowing never to do another television western, but agreed to star in A Man Called Shanandoah because he felt the show would be a great opportunity for him as an actor. The series is set in 1870 and portrays an amnesiac facing hardship and danger while trying to unravel his identity and his past. In the premiere episode, two buffalo hunters find him out on the prairie and, thinking he might be an outlaw, take him to the nearest town in hopes of receiving reward money. When he regains consciousness, he has no recollection of who he was, or why anyone would want to harm him. The doctor who treats his wounds gives him the name "Shanandoah," stating the word means "land of silence". This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. The added episodes are: 7/13/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 17 and 18 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are:
7/12 23 - Today I added seventeen episodes to Seasons 3, 4,and 5 of the Drew Carey Show library. The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor. I had a large library of this series at one time, but they were all from Dailymotion and most of them disappeared after a few months. I now have episodes from all 9 seasons of the series so I will be rebuilding it going forward. The library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog and the Drew Carey Catalog, which is located in the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: 7/11/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of The Courtship of Eddies Father library. The Courtship of Eddie's Father was an American sitcom based on the 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles. Following the death of his wife Helen, Tom is left to raise his mischievous, freckle-faced son, six-year-old Eddie (Brandon Cruz). Eddie wants a new mother, so to that end, he cleverly manipulates his father's relationships with women, sometimes even trying to set his father up to fall for women Eddie knows and likes first. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. It can also be accessed via the Bill Bixby Catalog which is located in the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. The added episodes are: 7/10/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to the MacGyver Library, Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson. I wanted to mention that Richard Dean Anderson was also the star of one of my favorite series', Stargate SG-1, which I have watched in re-runs may times. MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun. This library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog. I have all seven Seasons of the MacGyver series bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
7/9/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Season 2 of the Hardcastle and McCormick library. This completes Season 1 and adds the first seven episodes to Season 2. Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. During an interview in the early 1980s, producer Stephen J. Cannell referred to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants. Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities. Inspired by his childhood hero the Lone Ranger, Hardcastle desires to make the criminals answer for their crimes. This library is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama and the Action & Adventure Catalogs, and also in the Brian Keith Catalog which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 7/8/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 7 and 8 of Night Court Library. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are: 7/7/23 - Today, for the first time in ten years, I added seventeen episodes to the Fury Library. This completes Season 1 and adds fifteen episodes to Season 2. Fury (1955-1960) was an American Western television series that aired on NBC. It starred Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California, Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's. The story begins with two young boys fighting on the street. As Joey Clark, the winner of the exchange, walks away, the loser attempts to throw something at him, but the object goes through a nearby window. The store owner quickly pins the blame on Joey, who has been labeled a troublemaker from past incidents. Rancher Jim Newton witnesses the incident and follows along as Joey is taken before the judge to clear the boy's name. After learning that Joey is an orphan, Newton takes him home to his Broken Wheel Ranch and begins adoption proceedings. This is one of the oldest libraries on the site, created in 2010. The original library had twenty-two of the Season 1 episodes, but disappeared soon after I posted it because all of the episodes were from YouTube. In 2013 I found the original 22 episodes on the internet Archive and was able to rebuild the library. Over the years I kept searching for more of them with no luck until last week, when I found all but 2 of the Season 2 through 5 episodes on IA. I will be adding too the library over the next few months, so more to come. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I want to mention that for for reasons I have not yet figured out, the new episodes' opening and closing credits have been translated into German. In the opening scene of several of them, Bobby also speaks in German, but after the opening credits finish, the audio is all in English. Go figure. The added episodes are: 7/6/33 - Today I created a new S.W.A.T. Library with all twelve episodes of Season 1. S.W.A.T. (1975-1976) was an American action/crime drama television series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified Californian city, although filming was done in and around Los Angeles. S.W.A.T. starred Steve Forrest as the unit's leader, Lt. "Hondo" Harrelson, Robert Urich as Officer Jim Street, Rod Perry as Sgt. David "Deacon" Kay, Mark Shera as Officer Dominic Luca, and James Coleman as Officer T.J. McCabe. The opening theme was composed by Barry De Vorzon. The series was known for its instrumental theme song composed by Barry De Vorzon, which became a number-one hit single in 1976 for Rhythm Heritage. The title sequence that used that piece was also familiar with the principal characters responding to a muster signal, grabbing their weapons and running to their specially equipped transport van driven by "Sam", an uncredited, non-speaking role. Richard Kelbaugh, a former member of the LAPD's S.W.A.T. team, was the technical advisor for the series. I have all the episodes of the full series, and will continue to build the library going forward. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. 7/5/23 - Today I created a new Buffalo Bill Library. First off, Buffalo Bill (1983–1984) was not a Western, it was an American sitcom television series that featured the misadventures of an egotistical talk show host, played by Dabney Coleman, and his staff (including Geena Davis and Joanna Cassidy) at WBFL-TV, a small TV station in Buffalo, New York. It premiered June 1, 1983, on NBC. It was also shown on the then-new UK fourth TV channel Channel 4. The series received 11 Emmy Award nominations (including two for Outstanding Comedy Series). Joanna Cassidy also won a Golden Globe Award in 1984. In 1999, TV Guide ranked Bill Bittinger number 42 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list. Former NBC President Brandon Tartikoff wrote in his memoirs that his biggest professional regret was canceling the show. The new library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. I have all but two of the series episodes, and will contiue to search for the missing ones. 7/4/23 - Happy 4th of July everyone! Today, in honor of Independence Day, I decided to create a Civil War Playlist with all nine episodes of the documentary series. The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from September 23 to 28, 1990. Over 39 million viewers tuned in to at least one episode, and viewership averaged more than 14 million viewers each evening, making it the most-watched program ever to air on PBS. It was awarded more than 40 major television and film honors. A shout-out to David Gradwell for letting me know about this playlist - thanks David! The new playlist is located in the Documentary/News/Reality Shows Playlists Library, which is available via the Playlists Catalog. 7/3/23 - Today I added a new Hawkey Library to the site with all twenty-two of the series' episodes included. Hawkeye (1994–1995) was a television series, airing in syndication for one season. Based on characters from the Leatherstocking Tales, a set of novels written by James Fenimore Cooper, the series takes place in 1755 Hudson Valley, New York during the French and Indian War. It follows the main character, Natty Bumppo (Lee Horsley), his Native American companion Chingachgook (Rodney A. Grant), English trading post owner Elizabeth Shields (Lynda Carter) and other people stationed at or living in the vicinity of Fort Bennington. In the 18th century during the war between French and British troops, the man of the woods, Hawkeye helps Elizabeth Shields, an Englishwoman, to deliver her husband from the French. The new library is located in the Action and Adventure and the Historical Drama Catalogs. 7/2/23 - Today I added the last sixteen episodes to Season 2 of the Matt Houston Library. Matt Houston (1982-1985) was an American crime drama television series starring Lee Horsley as the title character, a wealthy oilman who decides to hold a side job as a private investigator. The show also starred Pamela Hensley as his lawyer sidekick, C.J., and George Wyner as his continuously frustrated business manager, Murray. During the show's final season Buddy Ebsen played Houston's uncle, Roy Houston. Most episodes typically involve one of Houston's close friends being murdered or involved in some criminal enterprise, requiring his assistance. C.J. had access to an Apple III computer named "Baby" containing a database on virtually all living and deceased persons, allowing her to provide all necessary information. Murray frequently complained that Matt's private investigation business failed to make money, while Matt treated it more as an expensive hobby rather than a profit-making venture. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are: 7/1/23 - Today I added the last seven available episodes to the Hullabaloo library. Hullabaloo (1965–1966) was an American musical variety series that ran on NBC from January 12, 1965, through April 11, 1966 (with repeats to August 1966). and In contrast to American Bandstand, it aired in prime time. Hullabaloo served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another like-minded television showcase, ABC's Shindig! I watched every episode of this show - in 1966 I graduated from Canoga Park High School in the San Fernando Valley (CA) and worked in Rock bands as a rhythem guitarist and vocalist throughout the the late 1960's and early 1970's. I also performed in Folk Music groups the eventually made the switch into Blues and Jazz in the late 1970's after I moved to the San Francisco Bay area. This library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. I will continue to search for more episodes. The added episode are: February 14, 1966
6/30/23 - Today I added the last fourteen episodes of Season 3 to The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. More to come. The added episodes are: 6/29/23 - Today I added the last twelve episodes to Season 1 to Bob library . Bob (1992-1993) was an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS. The series was the third starring vehicle sitcom for Bob Newhart, following his previous successful CBS sitcoms The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart. Newhart portrayed Bob McKay , the creator of the 1950s comic book superhero "Mad-Dog". Mad-Dog was a casualty of the Comics Code Authority, a real-life self-regulation authority formed to assuage concerns over violence and gore in comics in the 1950s. In the wake of the CCA, Bob became a greeting card artist. In the pilot, Mad-Dog is revived when the American-Canadian Trans-Continental Communications Company buys the rights to the series. Complications ensued when Ace Comics head Harlan Stone insisted Mad-Dog should be a bloodthirsty vigilante rather than the hero Bob originally created. Bob initially turned down Harlan's offer to revive the series with the publisher, but after his wife, Kaye, reminded Bob that Mad-Dog would never give up dreams in the face of defeat, he decided to compromise with Harlan on creative direction, and go back to do the revival. In the final episode of the first season, AmCanTranConComCo was sold to a millionaire who hated comic books, and the entire Mad-Dog staff, including Bob, was fired. The new library is located in the Bob Newhart Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come! The added episodes are:
6/28/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Seasons 4 and 5 of the Quantum Leap library. Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. This library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come! The added episodea are: 6/27/23 - Today I created two new Cartoon Playlists. First off The Flintstones Playlist. The Flintstones (1960-1966) was an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. The show follows the lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their pet dinosaur Dino, eventually seeing the addition of baby Pebbles. Barney and Betty Rubble are their neighbors and best friends. They adopt a super-strong baby named Bamm-Bamm and acquire a pet hopparoo called Hoppy. Next up The Dudley Do-Right Show Playlist. In The Dudley Do-Right Show (1969-1970) Dudley Do-Right was a dim-witted, but conscientious and cheerful Canadian Mountie who works for Inspector Fenwick. Do-Right is always trying to catch his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, and rescue Inspector Fenwick's daughter, damsel-in-distress Nell Fenwick, with whom Do-Right is deeply infatuated. He usually succeeds only by pure luck or through the actions of his horse, named "Horse". A running gag throughout the series is Nell Fenwick's disinterest in Do-Right; instead, she appears to be infatuated with his horse. She is shown to kiss the horse rather than Do-Right, and when Do-Right leaves the Mounties, she is only upset about the horse leaving. The new playlists are located in the Cartoon Playlists Library, which is avalable via the Playlists Catalog. 6/26/23 - Today I created a new A Year in the Life Library with the 3 Part Mini Series that started the series, plus all but two episodes of the full later series. The Mini Series follows a family, a year after the death of the matriarch. Her husband tries to cope by cycling. And one of the daughters is going through a rough patch in her second marriage. And the other daughter is about to give birth. And one son is still trying to find himself. And the younger son is engaged but when he meets a girl who makes him feel things he doesn't feel for his fiancée. In the later TV series, Joe Gardner, a child of the Depression, is a successful plastics manufacturer in Seattle, Washington. After his wife dies, his four adult children move back in. Anne, 35 and an ex-hippie, has been divorced twice and returns with her two children, David and Sunny. Lindley, 31, is a sales representative in her father's company and a new mother. Jack, 30, is a drifter "trying to find himself," and Sam, Joe's youngest child, is a preppy who is married to Kay, a free-spirit. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I will keep searching for the two missing episodes. 6/25/23 - Today I added eight episodes to the Dial 999 Library. Dial 999 was a British television series that ran for one series of 38 episodes from 1958 to 1959. The series was a co-production between ITV contractor ABC Weekend TV, and American television producer Ziv Television Programs. It starred Robert Beatty as Canadian Mountie Mike Maguire, and follows his work fighting crime alongside London's police. Named after the emergency telephone number for the United Kingdom, Beatty was essentially reprising his role in the 1946 film Appointment with Crime, in which he played Detective Inspector Rogers, a Canadian police officer attached to Scotland Yard. The show contrasted Beatty's muscular brand of policing with that of his British colleagues, but failed to sell to North American markets. In 2021, Network DVD released the whole series on DVD in a five disc set. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama amd the British TV Catalogs. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so more to come. The added episodes are: Fashion in Crime
6/24/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes, plus three TV Movies to the The New Mike Hammer Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. The New Mike Hammer follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focuses on the murder of someone the protagonist was close to, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge. The star, Stacy Keach, was familiar with the tough and insensitive novelized version of Hammer and worked to make his version more palatable to a television audience. "We've softened him up a little bit," Keach told The New York Times. "To sustain a series on television, I think you need a certain humor, charm and vulnerability. Toughness is probably the least important factor." The tone of the show also incorporated elements of classic film noir detective films, such as The Maltese Falcon. For example, each show featured the protagonist's narrative voice-over and, much like the archetypal hard-boiled detectives of years gone by, Hammer would rarely be seen without his wrinkled suit, fedora and trench coat. This libraries has episodes from the two versions of the series starring Stacy Keach as the title character. The library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
6/23/23 - Today I added ten episodes to my The Californians library with the first nineteen episodes of the series. The Californians (1957-1959) was a half-hour Western television series, set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, which was broadcast by NBC for 69 episodes. The series was set in San Francisco. Adam Kennedy starred in the first year in early episodes as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee. Season one episodes also featured Sean McClory as store owner Jack McGivern, who headed the vigilante committee and Nan Leslie as his wife, Martha McGivern. Early season one episodes featured Herbert Rudley as newspaper editor Sam Brennan but Jack McGivern later took over the newspaper. Due to sagging ratings, Richard Coogan was brought in in later season one episodes. His introduction boosted ratings, and led to the departure of Kennedy and McCrory in Season two. Coogan stars as Matthew Wayne, a sheriff and then marshal who organizes the city police, courts a young widow, Wilma Fansler, portrayed by Carole Mathews, and clashes with an ambitious attorney, Jeremy Pitt, played by Art Fleming. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. These episodes are hosted by the Shout TV streaming site. Keep in mind that when you go to the player page it takes a few seconds to load and then starts playing automatically. You also need to turn on the sound by clicking on speaker icon that appears near the lower left corner of the screen. These videos also include commercials. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come. he added episodes are:
6/22/13 - Today I added fifteen episodees to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
6/21/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to Season 3 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are all of them on page 3 of the library. 6/20/24 - Today I added twelve episodes to Season 2 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have a large cache of episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 6/19/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 6 of the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are: 6/18/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). I now have a large cache of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
6/17/23 - Today, for the first time in over a year, I added the first ten episodes of Season 11 of the Happy Days library. I had almost the full series on the site back in 2018, but they were mostly Dailymotion and Hulu videos and started vanishing as soon as I finished posting them. Happy Days (1974-1984) was an American sitcom television series that aired first-run on the ABC network. Created by Garry Marshall, the series was one of the most successful of the 1970s, a sweet vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States, and starred Ron Howard as young Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, Happy Days became successful and popular over time. I now have all but 3 of the series episodes bookmarked, so I will be completing the library in the next month or so. The added episodes are:
6/16/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the Barnaby Jones library. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator, who runs a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have a large cache of episodes yet to post, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 06/15/23 - Today I added the last seven available episodes to the My World and Welcome To It library. This completes the library with all but one of the series episodes. My World and Welcome to It (1969-1970) was an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. It starred William Windom as John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist who works for a magazine closely resembling The New Yorker called The Manhattanite. Wry, fanciful and curmudgeonly, Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his wife Ellen and daughter Lydia. Monroe's frequent daydreams and fantasies are usually based on Thurber material. Most episodes open with Monroe arriving in front of the house from the Thurber cartoon "Home," which in the original cartoon has a woman's face on one side of it. In the show, the house is initially house-shaped. The woman's face is often animated to appear, as Ellen says something to John. The "Home" house, without the face, is used as an establishing shot throughout the episodes. Other Thurber cartoons are similarly animated over the course of the series—sometimes in the opening sequence, sometimes later in the episode. The episode "Cristabel" begins with Monroe lying on top of a cartoon doghouse, a reference to the non-Thurber cartoon character Snoopy. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I will keep searching for the missing episode. The added episodes are: The Middle Years
06/14/23 - Today I created a new The Magician library with all twenty-two episodes of the series. The Magician (1973–1974) was an American television series that starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony "Tony" Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used his skills to solve difficult crimes as needed. In the series pilot, the character was named Anthony Dorian, but the name was changed due to a conflict with the name of a real-life stage magician. Blake used his skills to solve crimes and help the helpless. Years earlier, Blake had been in prison on a trumped-up espionage charge in an unnamed country in South America. He discovered a way to escape with his cellmate, which began his interest in escapology. The cellmate died and left him a fortune. The escape, apparently followed by exoneration of the false charges that had led to it, led to Blake's pursuit of a career in stage magic, which made him famous. He never forgot his unjust imprisonment, and it motivated him to seek justice for others. I have searched for this series for many years, because I was once a professional magician. I grew up in Los Angeles and got into magic as a child. In my teen years I worked at children's parties and other events. In 1969, I moved to Berkeley, CA where I discovered that there was really no magic scene there, so I concentrated on playing music. I was a member of several bands during those early years and also performed solo in restaurants and coffehouses. In 1974, my girlfriend, who was a computer programmer back when computers were whole rooms full of machines, got a job offer at The Rand Corporation think tank in Santa Monica. She asked me if I wanted to go with her and my response was "Sure - why don't we get married." And we did. We moved to LA in February of 1974 and were married in June. In fact, we will celebrate our 49th wedding anniversary at the end of this month. In Los Angeles it was much harder to get music gigs because there were so many famous musicians in the area, so I decided to get back into magic. I joined the Society of American Magicians and also became a member of the Magic Castle, where I performed reglarly, usually a couple times or more each month until 1986, when we decided to move back to the San Francico Bay area, and I got back into performing music. By the way, there is one episode in this series where Tony Blake actually performs at the Magic Castle. The new library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog and also in the Bill Bixby Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars 06/13/23 - Today I created a new A Man Called Shanandoah (1955-1956) library, with the first sixteen episodes of the series. The series starred Robert Horton, who had costarred on Wagon Train from 1957 to 1962. He left that series, vowing never to do another television western, but agreed to star in A Man Called Shanandoah because he felt the show would be a great opportunity for him as an actor. The series is set in 1870 and portrays an amnesiac facing hardship and danger while trying to unravel his identity and his past. In the premiere episode, two buffalo hunters find him out on the prairie and, thinking he might be an outlaw, take him to the nearest town in hopes of receiving reward money. When he regains consciousness, he has no recollection of who he was, or why anyone would want to harm him. The doctor who treats his wounds gives him the name "Shanandoah," stating the word means "land of silence". The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I have most of the series episodes and will keep searching for the missing ones. 06/12/23 - Today I created a new PBS Nova Documentaries (1974–) Playlist. Nova (stylized as NOV?) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974. It is broadcast on PBS in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries. The program has won many major television awards. Nova often includes interviews with scientists doing research in the subject areas covered and occasionally includes footage of a particular discovery. There are 121 documentaries in this playlist, which is located in the Documentary/News/Reality Shows Playlists Library, which is available via the Playlists Catalog. 06/11/23 - Today for the first time in over 5 years I added sixteen episodes to the Drew Carey Show library. The Drew Carey Show (1995–2004) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004, and was set in Cleveland, Ohio, and revolved around the retail office and home life of "everyman" Drew Carey, a fictionalized version of the actor. I had a large library of this series at one time, but they were all from Dailymotion and most of them disappeared after a few months. I now have episodes from all 9 seasons of the series so I will be rebuilding it going forward. The library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog and the Drew Carey Catalog, which is located in the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: 06/10/23 - Today I added the fifteen available episodes to Season 16 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are:
06/09/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of the Hardcastle and McCormick library. This completes Season 1 and adds the first seven episodes to Season 2. Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. During an interview in the early 1980s, producer Stephen J. Cannell referred to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants. Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities. Inspired by his childhood hero the Lone Ranger, Hardcastle desires to make the criminals answer for their crimes. This library is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama and the Action & Adventure Catalogs, and also in the Brian Keith Catalog which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 06/08/23 - Today I created a new MacGyver Library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series. He is played by Richard Dean Anderson. MacGyver is shown to possess a genius-level intellect, proficiency in multiple languages, superb engineering skills, excellent knowledge of applied physics, military training in bomb disposal techniques, and a preference for non-lethal resolutions to conflicts. MacGyver works for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, which in the original series was an independent think tank, and in the 2016 reboot is a clandestine government organization using the cover of a think tank. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and refuses to carry a gun. The new library is located in the Action & Adventure Catalog. I have all seven Seasons of the series bookmarked, so many more to come! 06/07/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 6 and 7 to the Night Court Library. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are: 06/06/23 - Today I created a new The Courtship of Eddies Father library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. The Courtship of Eddie's Father was an American sitcom based on the 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on Tom Corbett (Bill Bixby), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles. Following the death of his wife Helen, Tom is left to raise his mischievous, freckle-faced son, six-year-old Eddie (Brandon Cruz). Eddie wants a new mother, so to that end, he cleverly manipulates his father's relationships with women, sometimes even trying to set his father up to fall for women Eddie knows and likes first. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. It can also be accessed via the Bill Bixby Catalog which is located in the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. 06/05/23 - Today I added five TV Movies too the Emergency! library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes and TV Movies included. Emergency! (1972–1979) was an American television series that combined the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement in 1972. The series stars Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe as two rescuers, who work as paramedics and firefighters in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The duo formed Squad 51. The series aired at a time when ambulance coverage in the United States was rapidly expanding and changing, and the role of a paramedic was emerging as a profession. The series is credited with popularizing the concepts of EMS and paramedics in American society, and even inspiring other states and municipalities to expand the service. Nearly 30 years after Emergency! debuted, the Smithsonian Institution accepted Emergency! memorabilia into its National Museum of American History's public-service section, including the firefighters' helmets, turnouts, Biophone, and defibrillator. The vehicles of Station 51 are a part of the collection of the Los Angeles County Fire Museum. The added Movies are: Survival on Charter #220
06/04/23 - Today I created a new The Rousters library. The Rousters was an American adventure drama television series about a group of modern-day bounty hunters who are descendants of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. It aired on NBC from October 1, 1983, until July 21, 1984. Despite advertising claims that this series would "sink The Love Boat" in the ratings, it was canceled in mid-season after only six of its thirteen episodes had aired. This library contains all thirteen episodes of the series. Wyatt Earp III (Chad Everett) works as a bouncer for the traveling Sladetown Carnival, run by "Cactus Jack" Slade (Hoyt Axton). Wyatt doesn't care for his embarrassing name or the legacy it represents, but his shotgun-toting mother Amanda (Maxine Stuart) wants to carry on the "family tradition" of keeping law and order through bounty hunting. Wyatt's brother Evan (Jim Varney) has a penchant for con artistry and bungled repair-work; this character is mostly comic relief. Slade's lion-taming daughter Ellen (Mimi Rogers) is dating Wyatt and tutoring his teenage son Michael (Timothy Gibbs). 06/03/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to Seasons 3 and 4 of the Quantum Leap library. Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. This library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come! The added episodea are: 06/02/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of the Matt Houston Library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. Matt Houston (1982-1985) was an American crime drama television series starring Lee Horsley as the title character, a wealthy oilman who decides to hold a side job as a private investigator. The show also starred Pamela Hensley as his lawyer sidekick, C.J., and George Wyner as his continuously frustrated business manager, Murray. During the show's final season Buddy Ebsen played Houston's uncle, Roy Houston. Most episodes typically involve one of Houston's close friends being murdered or involved in some criminal enterprise, requiring his assistance. C.J. had access to an Apple III computer named "Baby" containing a database on virtually all living and deceased persons, allowing her to provide all necessary information. Murray frequently complained that Matt's private investigation business failed to make money, while Matt treated it more as an expensive hobby rather than a profit-making venture. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are: 06/01/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. More to come. The added episodes are: 05/31/23 - Today I added ten episodes to the Hullabaloo library. Hullabaloo (1965–1966) was an American musical variety series that ran on NBC from January 12, 1965, through April 11, 1966 (with repeats to August 1966). and In contrast to American Bandstand, it aired in prime time. Hullabaloo served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another like-minded television showcase, ABC's Shindig! I watched every episode of this show - in 1966 I graduated from Canoga Park High School in the San Fernando Valley (CA) and worked in Rock bands as a rhythem guitarist and vocalist throughout the the late 1960's and early 1970's. I also performed in Folk Music groups the eventually made the switch into Blues and Jazz in the late 1970's after I moved to the San Francisco Bay area. This library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. I have a few more to add and will continue to searc for more episodes. The added episode are: February 2, 1965
I also added the Superman (1978) feature film to the Superman Catalog. Superman (stylized as Superman: The Movie) is a superhero film based on the character by DC Comics. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Panama and the United States. It depicts the origin of Superman (Christopher Reeve), including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton, son of Jor-El (Marlon Brando) and his youthful years in the rural town of Smallville. Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) while battling the villainous Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman). A shout out to David Bradwell (thanks David!), who found this video on the Internet Archive. 5/30/23 - Today I created a new Bob library with the first thirteen episodes of the series. Bob (1992-1993) was an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS. The series was the third starring vehicle sitcom for Bob Newhart, following his previous successful CBS sitcoms The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart. Newhart portrayed Bob McKay , the creator of the 1950s comic book superhero "Mad-Dog". Mad-Dog was a casualty of the Comics Code Authority, a real-life self-regulation authority formed to assuage concerns over violence and gore in comics in the 1950s. In the wake of the CCA, Bob became a greeting card artist. In the pilot, Mad-Dog is revived when the American-Canadian Trans-Continental Communications Company buys the rights to the series. Complications ensued when Ace Comics head Harlan Stone insisted Mad-Dog should be a bloodthirsty vigilante rather than the hero Bob originally created. Bob initially turned down Harlan's offer to revive the series with the publisher, but after his wife, Kaye, reminded Bob that Mad-Dog would never give up dreams in the face of defeat, he decided to compromise with Harlan on creative direction, and go back to do the revival. In the final episode of the first season, AmCanTranConComCo was sold to a millionaire who hated comic books, and the entire Mad-Dog staff, including Bob, was fired. The new library is located in the Bob Newhart Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! 5/29/23 - Today, after experiencing another Internet Archive shutdown that only lasted a few minutes, I added the last eight available episodes to The Detectives library. I had hoped to get close to the full series at this point, but when I went through the library this morning I discovered that all thirteen of the YouTube based videos in the series had vanished. This was one of the earliest libraries on the site (built in 2014), and I had most of the series episodes, but like many of the libraries back then, it consisted entirely of YouTube videos, most of which were taken down a few months after I created the original library. The last time I added episodes, which was almost a month ago, I checked and found that all of the remaining YouTube videos were still up and running. The Detectives was an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture actor Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television in association with Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions. Taylor played Detective Captain Matt Holbrook, the tough, no-nonsense head of an elite police investigative unit in a major U.S. city. Ostensibly, each man in Holbrook's hand-picked squad of detectives came from a different division. Lt. Johnny Russo was from burglary, Lt. Jim Conway came from homicide, and Lt. Otto Lindstrom was from the bunco squad. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I will keep searching for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: Longshot
5/28/23 - Happy Memorial Day Weekend! On Friday I received a suggestion from a regular correspondent (thanks Keith!) about adding more war films to the site in honor of the Memorial Day holiday. Fortunately another regular correspondent recently sent me a list of 12 WWI and WWII films that weren't already on the site (thanks Michael!), so I added them to the World War I and II Library, which is located in the War on Film catalog. which is available in the Feature Films Catalog. The first 3 of the added videos were actually filmed during the Second World War. World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. In a total war directly involving more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. The added films are: 05/27/23 - Today I added the last twelve available episodes of the the E! Mysteries and Scandals library. E! Mysteries and Scandals (also known as Mysteries & Scandals) was an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on the E! Network from March 1998 until February 2001. The series detailed the lives of various celebrities, both well known and somewhat obscure. Most celebrities that were featured endured hardships or died untimely deaths. The series interviewed various celebrities who knew the subject along with still photographs accompanied by narrations, and dramatic reenactments. The show was highly stylized and presented each episode in a noir fashion with backdrops set in various Hollywood locations and narrated in a hard-boiled, often sarcastic fashion by Benza. This Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog. I will keep searching for more of the series episodes. The added episodea are:
05/26/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Season 8 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have a large cache of episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are:
05/25/23 - Today I created a new The Californians library with the first nineteen episodes of the series. The Californians (1957-1959) was a half-hour Western television series, set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, which was broadcast by NBC for 69 episodes. The series was set in San Francisco. Adam Kennedy starred in the first year in early episodes as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee. Season one episodes also featured Sean McClory as store owner Jack McGivern, who headed the vigilante committee and Nan Leslie as his wife, Martha McGivern. Early season one episodes featured Herbert Rudley as newspaper editor Sam Brennan but Jack McGivern later took over the newspaper. Due to sagging ratings, Richard Coogan was brought in in later season one episodes. His introduction boosted ratings, and led to the departure of Kennedy and McCrory in Season two. Coogan stars as Matthew Wayne, a sheriff and then marshal who organizes the city police, courts a young widow, Wilma Fansler, portrayed by Carole Mathews, and clashes with an ambitious attorney, Jeremy Pitt, played by Art Fleming. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. These episodes are hosted by the Shout TV streaming site. Keep in mind that when you go to the player page it takes a few seconds to load and then starts playing automatically. You also need to turn on the sound by clicking on speaker icon that appears near the lower left corner of the screen. These videos also include commercials. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come. 05/24/23 - Today I added the last ten episodes to the Mike Hammer library. This completes the library with all but one episode of the series. The missing episode, Season 1, Episode 35, apparenelty no longer exists. I can't find any enformation on that episode in any of the internet TV databases. This was one of the earlier YouTube sourced libraries on the site and most of it disappeared within weeks of it's creation in November of 2013. I later restored it and it mostly vanished again soon after. Over the years I have rebuilt it little by little. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Darren McGavin in the title role, is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective. The series (produced from 1957 to 1959) had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. Darren McGavin would go on to play another hardboiled private detective in the short-lived 1968 series The Outsider. He is perhaps best known as Carl Kolchak in the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also on the site) and the curmudgeonly father in A Christmas Story. The library is available in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and also the Darren McGavin Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: Slay Upon Delivery
05/23/23 - Today I created a new Benny Hill Show Playlist with twelve episodes of the series. The Benny Hill Show (1955-1989) was a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV. The show consisted mainly of sketches typified by slapstick, mime, parody, and double entendre. At its peak, The Benny Hill Show was among the most-watched programs in the UK with the audience reaching more than 21 million viewers in 1971. In 1972, Hill received a BAFTA Television Award for Best Writer, and he was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance. In the late 1970s, the Thames Television version of the show gained a following in the United States and would run in syndication until 1991. In 1980 and 1981, it received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Variety. In 1984, Hill received a Rose d'Or. The Benny Hill Show features Benny Hill in various short comedy sketches and occasional, extravagant musical performances by artists of the time. Hill appears in many different costumes and portrays a vast array of characters. Slapstick, burlesque, and double entendres are his hallmarks. Critics accused the show of sexism and objectification of women, but Hill argued that the female characters kept their dignity while the men who chase them were portrayed as buffoons due to silly predicaments that the men themselves caused to the women - probably because the male characters find them "attractive" to them. The new Playlist is located in the Comedy Shows Playlists Library. I should mention that after the twelve Benny Hill episodes there re videos from several different series' including: The Wild Wild West, The Rifleman, The Honeymooners, and then a mix of advertising shorts from #48 to #70. After that #71 is an episode of It's a Small World, followed by ten episodes of Leave It to Beaver. 05/22/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). I now have a large cache of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
05/21/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 5 and 6 of the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are all of them on Page 4 of the library. 05/20/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two of the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 05/19/23 - Today I created a new SCTV Playlist Library with all twenty-six episodes of Season 1 to start. Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran between 1976 and 1984. It was created as an offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe. It is a rare example of a Canadian show that moved successfully to American TV. SCTV Network was available on terrestrial network, cable, and satellite. The show's premise was the broadcast day of a fictitious TV station (later network) in the town of Melonville. Melonville's location is left unspecified; the very earliest episodes imply it is in Canada, but most later episodes place it in the US. A typical episode of SCTV presents a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout its broadcast day. A given episode could contain SCTV news broadcasts, sitcoms, dramas, movies, kid shows, commercial send-ups hawking nonexistent products, and game shows. Several "shows" are seen regularly on SCTV, including SCTV News; soap opera - The Days of the Week; late night movie features Monster Chiller Horror Theater and Dialing For Dollars; and Great White North (a show centered around two Canadian 'hosers'), among others. Many other SCTV shows are seen only once, such as game shows like Shoot at the Stars in which celebrities are literally shot at like shooting gallery targets, or full-blown movie spoofs like Play It Again, Bob in which Woody Allen (Rick Moranis) tries to get Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) to star in his next film. Episodes also feature a range of SCTV-produced promos (for imaginary future shows) and commercials, such as spots for "Al Peck's Used Fruit" or "Shower in a Briefcase", or a PSA that helpfully describes "Seven Signs You May Already Be Dead". The new playlist is located in the Comedy Shows Playlist Library. I now have 6 seasons of the series (in Playlist format) bookmarked so many more to come! 05/18/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes of Seasons 5 and 6 to the Night Court Library. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are: 05/17/23 - Today I added the first sixteen episodes to Season 12 of the the Whose Line Is It Anyway? library This is the 2nd US version (the current version, with Aiesha Tyler as the host). Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy show originating as a popular British radio programme, before moving to British television in 1988. Following the conclusion of the British run in 1999, ABC began airing an American version, which ran until 2007 and was later revived by The CW in 2013. Each version of the show consists of a panel of four performers who create characters, scenes, and songs on the spot, in the style of short-form improvisation games, many taken from theatresports. Topics for the games are based on either audience suggestions or predetermined prompts from the host. Both the British and the American shows ostensibly take the form of a game show with the host arbitrarily assigning points and likewise choosing a winner at the end of each episode. However, the show lacks the true stakes and competition of a game show (by design). The "game show" format is simply part of the comedy. These are courtesy the CW Nework, which makes them available for free. This library is available via the Whose Line Is It, Anyway? Catalog, which is located in the Comedy Shows and the Game Shows Catalogs. I will continue to add to the library going forward. The added episodes are:
05/16/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to the Barnaby Jones library. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law, who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have a large cache of episodes yet to post, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 05/15/23 - Today, for the first time in many many years, I added sixteen episodes to the My World and Welcome To It library. My World and Welcome to It (1969-1970) was an American half-hour television sitcom based on the humor and cartoons of James Thurber. It starred William Windom as John Monroe, a Thurber-like writer and cartoonist who works for a magazine closely resembling The New Yorker called The Manhattanite. Wry, fanciful and curmudgeonly, Monroe observes and comments on life, to the bemusement of his wife Ellen and daughter Lydia. Monroe's frequent daydreams and fantasies are usually based on Thurber material. Most episodes open with Monroe arriving in front of the house from the Thurber cartoon "Home," which in the original cartoon has a woman's face on one side of it. In the show, the house is initially house-shaped. The woman's face is often animated to appear, as Ellen says something to John. The "Home" house, without the face, is used as an establishing shot throughout the episodes. Other Thurber cartoons are similarly animated over the course of the series—sometimes in the opening sequence, sometimes later in the episode. The episode "Cristabel" begins with Monroe lying on top of a cartoon doghouse, a reference to the non-Thurber cartoon character Snoopy. Interesting Fact: I didn't realize until last night that I already had this library - with only 3 episodes in it. I had forgotten completely about it. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I have all but one of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come! 05/14/23 - Today I added the fourteen missing episodes to the Texas John Slaughter library. This completes the library with all seventeen episodes of the series. Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961) was a western television show which aired seventeen episodes between 1958 and 1961 as part of the Disneyland series, starring Tom Tryon in the title role. The character was based upon an actual historical figure, Texas Ranger John Horton Slaughter. Tryon memorably wore an enormous white cowboy hat with the brim pinned up in the front as part of his wardrobe for the series. This library is located in the Walt Disney Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars and the Kid Shows Catalog. It can also be found in the Western Shows Catalog. The added episodes are: 05/13/23 - Today I added the last seven available episodes, plus four TV Movies to the Gunsmoke library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 561 episodes plus four TV Movies in the library. The missing episodes are mostly from Season 8 and 9. I will keep searching for them. The added episodes are:
05/12/23 - Today I created a new James at 15/16 library with all twenty-one of the series episodes. James at 15 (1977-1978), later named James at 16, was an American drama series that aired on NBC. Protagonist James Hunter is the son of a college professor who has moved his family across the country to take a teaching job, transplanting James from Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.[2] James, who had Walter Mitty-like dreams and dabbles in photography, has a hard time fitting into his new surroundings. During the series run, when James turned 16, the title was updated accordingly. The show was highly praised for its realism and sensitivity, with a New York Times reviewer applauding the program's avoidance of stereotyping characters. Critics also approved of its handling of James' first sexual experience, with a Swedish exchange student in the episode which aired February 9, 1978 — at which point the show assumed the name James at 16. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. 05/11/23 - Today I added the first nineteen episodes to Season 3 of the Quantum Leap library. Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. This library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come! The added episodea are: 05/10/23 - Today I created a new Hardcastle and McCormick library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. Hardcastle and McCormick was an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver Mark "Skid" McCormick. During an interview in the early 1980s, producer Stephen J. Cannell referred to the then-upcoming series as Rolling Thunder. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Milton C. "Hardcase" Hardcastle is an eccentric judge notorious for being strict with the law in both his duties and towards defendants. Preparing for his retirement, he notices file drawers filled with 200 people who escaped conviction due to legal technicalities. Inspired by his childhood hero the Lone Ranger, Hardcastle desires to make the criminals answer for their crimes. This library is located in the Mystery and Crime Drama and the Action & Adventure Catalogs, and also in the Brian Keith Catalog which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! 05/09/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
05/08/23 - Today I added the twelve available episodes to Season 15 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are all of them on the last page of the library. 05/07/23 - Today I created a new The Monroes library with ten of the twenty-six full series episodes to start. The Monroes was a Western television series which originally aired on ABC. The series centered on five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area around what is now Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyoming. Their parents died in an accident in the first episode, and they try to carry on without them. The orphans were helped by a Native American friend named Jim. Their neighbor was Major Mapoy, a British cattle baron who wanted the Monroes' land. However he relented and allowed the Monroe to remain, after learning that their father staked a claim before the major’s arrival in the area. Major Mapoy had his men build a house for the orphans, and he became a good neighbor. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog and also in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. These episodes are the only ones I've found so far, but I will keep searching for more of them. 05/06/23 - Today I added nine episodes to the Mike Hammer library. This was one of the earliest YouTube sourced libraries on the site and most of it disappeared within weeks of it's creation in November of 2013. I later restored it and it mostly vanished again soon after. Over the years I have rebuilt it little by little. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Darren McGavin in the title role, is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective. The series (produced from 1957 to 1959) had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. Darren McGavin would go on to play another hardboiled private detective in the short-lived 1968 series The Outsider. He is perhaps best known as Carl Kolchak in the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also on the site) and the curmudgeonly father in A Christmas Story. The library is available in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and also the Darren McGavin Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I recently found a large cache of the series episodss on the Internet Archive, so I will be able to complete the library soon. The added episodes are: Around the Coroner
05/05/23 - After receiving a suggestion from a regular viewer of the site a few days ago, I decided to look into the idea of creating a Ted Knight Catalog. I conducted a site search and discovered that besides being one of the stars of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Knight had also made appearances in 28 individual episodes of series' already on the site, including The Twilight Zone, Bourbon Street Beat, Gunsmoke, Dr. Kildare, Get Smart and many others. Ted Knight (born Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka; December 7, 1923 – August 26, 1986) was an American actor well known for playing the comedic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack. Knight was born in the Terryville section of Plymouth in Litchfield County, Connecticut, to Polish-American parents, Sophia and Charles Walter Konopka, a bartender. Knight dropped out of high school to enlist in the United States Army in World War II. The new Catalog is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. A shout-out to Michael Higgins for the suggestion. 05/04/23 - Today I added the last ten available episodes to the The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. In 1986, the move came that ended Rivers' longtime friendship with Johnny Carson. The soon-to-launch Fox Television Network announced that it was giving her a late night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, making Rivers the first woman to have her own late-night talk show on a major network. The new network planned to broadcast the show 11 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time, making her a Carson competitor. Carson learned of the show from Fox and not from Rivers. In the documentary Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, Rivers said that she only called Carson to discuss the matter after learning that he may have already heard about it and that he immediately hung up on her. "And he never spoke to me again. He took it as a complete betrayal," said Joan. In the same interview, she said that she later came to believe that maybe she should have asked for his blessing before taking the job. Rivers was banned from ever appearing on The Tonight Show for the rest of Carson's tenure and the entire runs of Carson's first two successors Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien out of respect for Carson. Rivers did not appear on The Tonight Show again until February 17, 2014, when she made a brief appearance on new host Jimmy Fallon's first episode. This Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog I will keep searching for more episodes of the show. The added episods are:
05/03/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 2 of The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. More to come. The added episodes are: 05/02/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Season 8 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have a large cache of episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 05/01/23 - Today I added nine episodes to The Detectives library. This was one of the earliest libraries on the site (built in 2014), and I had most of the series episodes, but like many of the libraries back then, it consisted entirely of YouTube videos, which were taken down a few months after I created the original library. The Detectives was an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture actor Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television in association with Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions. Taylor played Detective Captain Matt Holbrook, the tough, no-nonsense head of an elite police investigative unit in a major U.S. city. Ostensibly, each man in Holbrook's hand-picked squad of detectives came from a different division. Lt. Johnny Russo was from burglary, Lt. Jim Conway came from homicide, and Lt. Otto Lindstrom was from the bunco squad. I have more episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The restored library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: Murderous Deadline
04/30/23 - Today I added the last eighteen available episodes to the The Texan library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The Texan (1958-1960) was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network. In The Texan, Calhoun played Bill Longley, a Confederate captain from the American Civil War who on his pinto horse, Domino, roams the American West, but stops to help people in need. A fast gun and the enemy of all lawbreakers, this "Robin Hood of the West" seems to appear nearly everywhere in the postwar years, not just in Texas. Often, the plots center around Longley helping an old friend or a relative of an old friend. Though known as a fearsome gunfighter, the fictional Bill Longley of The Texan is in no way the real Bill Longley. That Longley killed his first man in 1866, when he was 15, and was hanged in 1878 in Giddings in Lee County in Central Texas. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. Please Note: If you live outside the United States you might not be able to watch some of these episodes. The added episodes are: 04/29/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 6 of the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). I now have a large cache of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: 04/28/23 - Today I created a new May West Library with five of her Feature Films, a live Theatrical performance, a biographical film plus an episode of Mr. Ed featuring Mae West. Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned over seven decades. Considered a sex symbol, she was known for her breezy sexual independence and her lighthearted bawdy double entendres, often delivered in a husky contralto voice. She was active in vaudeville and on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the film industry. West was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered problems especially with censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." She bucked the studio system by making comedy out of conventional beliefs, and the Depression-era audience admired her for it. When her film career ended, she wrote books and plays, continued to perform in Las Vegas and London and on radio and television, and recorded rock and roll albums. In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted her the 15th greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema. The new library is available in the Catalog of Stars 04/27/23 - Today I created a new Matt Houston Library with the first fifteen episodes of the series. Matt Houston (1982-1985) was an American crime drama television series starring Lee Horsley as the title character, a wealthy oilman who decides to hold a side job as a private investigator. The show also starred Pamela Hensley as his lawyer sidekick, C.J., and George Wyner as his continuously frustrated business manager, Murray. During the show's final season Buddy Ebsen played Houston's uncle, Roy Houston. Most episodes typically involve one of Houston's close friends being murdered or involved in some criminal enterprise, requiring his assistance. C.J. had access to an Apple III computer named "Baby" containing a database on virtually all living and deceased persons, allowing her to provide all necessary information. Murray frequently complained that Matt's private investigation business failed to make money, while Matt treated it more as an expensive hobby rather than a profit-making venture. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. 04/26/23 - Today I added the eleven available episodes to Season 4 of the Night Court Library. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are:
04/25/23 - Today I added seventeen episodes to Season 20 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 527 episodes and I have a few more episodes, plus four TV Movies bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are: 04/24/23 - Today I added the first fifteen episodes to Season 2 of the Good Times library. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. I now have all but two of the full series episodes bookmaked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: The added episodes are: 04/23/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 5 of the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The added episodes are:
04/22/23 - Today I added the last eleven available episodes to the Wonderful World of Disney Library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney, was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997 and Disney+ since 2020. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1983. After a two-year hiatus it resumed, running regularly until 1991. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of the network in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most recent being a holiday music special in 2019. In 2020, the series returned with movies from the Disney+ library. This library is located in the Walt Disney Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars and the Kid Shows Catalog. The added episodes are all of them on Page 2 of the library. 04/21/23 - Today I created a new Dial 999 Library with the first sixteen episodes of the series. Dial 999 was a British television series that ran for one series of 38 episodes from 1958 to 1959. The series was a co-production between ITV contractor ABC Weekend TV, and American television producer Ziv Television Programs. It starred Robert Beatty as Canadian Mountie Mike Maguire, and follows his work fighting crime alongside London's police. Named after the emergency telephone number for the United Kingdom, Beatty was essentially reprising his role in the 1946 film Appointment with Crime, in which he played Detective Inspector Rogers, a Canadian police officer attached to Scotland Yard. The show contrasted Beatty's muscular brand of policing with that of his British colleagues, but failed to sell to North American markets. In 2021, Network DVD released the whole series on DVD in a five disc set. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama amd the British TV Catalogs. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so more to come. 04/20/23 - Today I created a new UltraSeven Playlist to the SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Playlists with all of the series episodes included. In UltraSeven (1967–1968), in the not-too-distant future, Earth finds itself constantly under attack from extraterrestrial threats. To combat them, the Terrestrial Defense Force establishes the Ultra Garrison, a team of six elite members who utilize high-tech vehicles and weaponry. Joining their fight is the mysterious Dan Moroboshi who is secretly an alien from the Land of Light in Nebula M-78 and transforms into his true alien form, Ultraseven, in times of crisis. I should mention that the person who uploaded this playlist, for some reason loaded the series episodes twice. To watch the series in the correct order my recomendation is that you scroll down to number 45 in the listing and start there. 04/19/23 - Today I added the last sixteen episodes to the Davis Rules library. This completes the library with al of the series episodes included. Davis Rules (1991-1992) was an American sitcom broadcast on ABC. The series was produced by Carsey-Werner Productions. The series stars Randy Quaid as Dwight Davis, a widowed elementary school principal who is raising his three sons (Robbie, Charlie, and Ben) with the help of his wacky father Gunny Davis (Jonathan Winters). Winters won an Emmy for his role as Gunny Davis, while Trevor Bullock and Robin Lynn Heath also won Young Artist Awards for their roles in the series. Davis Rules was canceled by ABC after less than one season despite having premiered after Super Bowl XXV. ABC retained the rights to the series and planned to use it as a midseason replacement. When the series wasn't used in ABC's lineup, CBS bought the series in November 1991. CBS retooled the series, adding Bonnie Hunt and Giovanni Ribisi (credited as Vonni Ribisi), but canceled it after 16 episodes. I am especially pleased to have all of the episodes of this series, because Johnathen Winters is one of my favorite comic actors of all time. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. The added episodes are: 04/18/23 - Today I created a new Shindig! Library with eighteen episodes of the 1960's pop music program. Shindig! (1964–1966) was an American musical variety series which aired on ABC. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles. Shindig! was conceived as a short-notice replacement for Hootenanny, a series that had specialized in folk revival music. The folk revival had fizzled in 1964 as the result of the British Invasion, which damaged the ratings for Hootenanny and prompted that show's cancellation. As a teenager in the 1960's, I watched every episode of this show. A shout-out to Keith Dutter for suggesting this addition after I added the Hullabaloo library a while back. The new library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. I will continue to search for more episodes. 04/17/23 - Today I added the last thirteen episodes to the Peter Gunn Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Peter Gunn (1958-1961) was an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and (later) ABC television networks. The series was created by Blake Edwards (who, on occasion, was also writer and director). The title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes. He operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mother's, a smoky wharfside jazz club that he uses as his "office", often meeting clients there. This library has a very rocky history. The original library was created in 2013, but all of the episodes were from YouTube and most of them vanished within a few months. I later was able to rebuild the library then lost many of them - again YouTube videos. I later restored some of the missing episodes using Dailymotion videos - but again, they started dissappearing again. A couple of years ago I started finding episodes on the Internet Archive, and have been restoring them a little at a time. Hope for the best! This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: 04/16/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to the Roger Ramjet library. Roger Ramjet (1965–1969) was a American animated television series, starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron. The show was known for its simple animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to pop culture which appealed to adults as well as children. Roger Ramjet is a patriotic and highly moral — if not very bright — hero, who is typically out to save the world, with help from his Proton Energy Pills ("PEP"), which give him "the strength of twenty atom bombs for a period of twenty seconds". The world is invariably saved by defeating the various recurring criminals who populated the series. This library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror, the Kids Shows and the Cartoons Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. I have many more episodes to add so stay tuned. The added episodes are:
04/15/23 - Today I added the last thirteen available episodes to the Walker Texas Ranger library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, an American Indian named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Firewalker. Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines' elite Recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. CBS broadcast the television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire on October 16, 2005. Chuck Norris, Sheree J. Wilson and Judson Mills reprised their roles, and Clarence Gilyard shot a cameo for the film but was not featured due to the filming's conflict with a long-planned family vacation. To fill the void, Judson Mills, who was not in the original script, returned to reprise the role of Francis Gage. Nia Peeples, who played the role of Sydney Cooke for seasons 7 and 8, was also not featured in Walker's return to prime-time television. The explanation given was that producers decided not to follow much of the original Walker Texas Ranger series, as to give the film a fresh look. Even the show's original opening credits with the theme "Eyes of a Ranger" performed by Chuck Norris, was absent from the TV movie. I guess you could call this a modern western series. This library is located in the Western Shows and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I will continue to search for the missing episodes. The added episodes are:
04/14/23 - Today I added fifteen episodes to Season 2 of the Quantum Leap library. Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. This library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come! The added episodea are:
04/13/23 - Today I created a new Hullabaloo library with eight episodes of the series to start. Hullabaloo (1965–1966) was an American musical variety series that ran on NBC from January 12, 1965, through April 11, 1966 (with repeats to August 1966). and In contrast to American Bandstand, it aired in prime time. Hullabaloo served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another like-minded television showcase, ABC's Shindig! I watched every episode of this show - in 1966 I graduated from Canoga Park High School in the San Fernando Valley (CA) and worked in Rock bands as a rhythem guitarist and vocalist throughout the the late 1960's and early 1970's. I also performed in Folk Music groups the eventually made the switch into Blues and Jazz in the late 1970's after I moved to the San Francisco Bay area. This library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. I will continue to search for more episodes. 04/12/23 - Today I added the last thirteen available episodes to Season 19 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 560 episodes and I have many more episodes bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are: 04/11/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of The Brady Bunch library. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I have the full series bookmarked. so many more to come. The added episodes are:
04/10/23 - Today, for the first time in 2 years, I added twelve episodes to Season 1 of the St. Elsewhere library. St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) was set at the fictional St. Eligius Hospital, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood.The hospital's nickname, "St. Elsewhere", is a slang term used in the medical field to refer to lesser-equipped hospitals that serve patients turned away by more prestigious institutions; it is also used in medical academia to refer to teaching hospitals in general. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at an aging, rundown Boston hospital who give interns a promising future in making critical medical and life decisions. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises, which had success with a similar NBC series, the police drama Hill Street Blues, during that same time. The series were often compared to each other for their use of ensemble casts and overlapping serialized storylines (an original ad for St. Elsewhere quoted a critic that called the series "Hill Street Blues in a hospital"). This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
04/09/23 - Today I started restoring my The Detectives library. This was one of the earliest libraries on the site (built in 2014), and I had most of the series episodes, but like many of the libraries back then, it consisted entirely of YouTube videos, which were taken down a few months after I created the original library. The Detectives was an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture actor Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television in association with Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions. Taylor played Detective Captain Matt Holbrook, the tough, no-nonsense head of an elite police investigative unit in a major U.S. city. Ostensibly, each man in Holbrook's hand-picked squad of detectives came from a different division. Lt. Johnny Russo was from burglary, Lt. Jim Conway came from homicide, and Lt. Otto Lindstrom was from the bunco squad. I have more episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The restored library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. 04/08/23 - Today I added eight episodes to the Space Patrol library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. At one point I had almost the entire series but the videos were from YouTube and most of them vanished within a year. In fact, several of the episodes I worked on today were from the original YouTube library. If you are old enough to remember this program, which was the first TV show I remember seeing way back in the early 1950's, then, like myself, you are older than dirt :-). Space Patrol was a 1950-1955 science fiction adventure series set in the 30th century that was originally aimed at juvenile audiences via television, radio, and comic books. It soon developed a sizable adult audience, and by 1954 the program consistently ranked in the top 10 shows broadcast on a Saturday. As was common at the time, some of these villains had Russian or German-sounding accents. Cmdr. Corry and his allies were aided by such sci-fi gadgets as ray guns, "miniature space-o-phones" and "atomolights". Most episodes carried such pulp-magazine titles as "Revolt of the Space Rats" and "The Menace of Planet X". Originally, the Space Patrol's purpose was that of "clearing the space lanes" but it evolved into an intergalactic space police and military force charged with keeping the peace. The show was originally pitched as a cop show in outer space. Latter day comparisons between Space Patrol and the later Star Trek film and television series were inevitable. This library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror and the Kid Shows Catalogs. I will continue to search for the missing episodes. A shout out to Clyde Lyman for all the help he has given me by finding videos and especially helping ne with episode descriptions and such. The added episodes are: The Stolen Prisoner
04/07/23 - Sorry this is so late. I was involved in work on my property all day because of the massive rainstorms we been having over the past few months. So anyway. this evenoing I added nine episodes to Season 8 of the Walker Texas Ranger library. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, an American Indian named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Firewalker. Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines' elite Recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. CBS broadcast the television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire on October 16, 2005. Chuck Norris, Sheree J. Wilson and Judson Mills reprised their roles, and Clarence Gilyard shot a cameo for the film but was not featured due to the filming's conflict with a long-planned family vacation. To fill the void, Judson Mills, who was not in the original script, returned to reprise the role of Francis Gage. Nia Peeples, who played the role of Sydney Cooke for seasons 7 and 8, was also not featured in Walker's return to prime-time television. The explanation given was that producers decided not to follow much of the original Walker Texas Ranger series, as to give the film a fresh look. Even the show's original opening credits with the theme "Eyes of a Ranger" performed by Chuck Norris, was absent from the TV movie. I guess you could call this a modern western series. This library is located in the Western Shows and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have most of the Season 9 episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: Countdown
04/06/23 - Today I added the last 14 available episodes to the Night Gallery Library. Night Gallery (1970-1973) was an American anthology television series that aired on NBC, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling viewed Night Gallery as a logical extension of The Twilight Zone, but while both series shared an interest in thought-provoking dark fantasy, more of Twilight Zone's offerings were science fiction while Night Gallery focused on horrors of the supernatural. Serling appeared in an art gallery setting as the curator and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings that depicted the stories. Yhis library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog, and also in the Rod Serling Catalog, which is also available via the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog and Catalog of Stars. At this point I have most of the series episodes. I will continue to search for more of them. The added episodes are: 04/05/23 - This afternoon I have a musical engagement so I am a little pressed for time, so I added a few episodes to 2 different libraries. First off, I added the last five missing episodes to the Public Defender library. This completes the library with all of the episodes included. Public Defender (1954-1955) was a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley (1911-1974) as stoic but driven public defender Bart Matthews, whose clients cannot otherwise afford expensive legal representation. The concept of the public defender was little known in the United States except in capital cases. A 1932 United States Supreme Court decision Powell v. Alabama clarified the need for public defenders for suspects accused of crimes which if convicted might lead to execution. The use of public defenders was broadened in 1962 in another high court case, Gideon v. Wainwright to include public defenders for all suspects charged with any level of felony, a broadening of the Powell ruling. The Public Defender purportedly based each episode on true cases, and each segment closes with a tribute to a public defender. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: Auto Accident
I also added the last four available episodes to the 3rd Rock from the Sun Library. This completes the library until I find the last three missing episodes. 3rd Rock from the Sun (sometimes referred to as simply 3rd Rock) was an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The premise of the show revolves around an extraterrestrial research expedition attempting to live as a normal human family in the fictional city of Rutherford , Ohio, said to be 52 miles outside of Cleveland, where they live in an attic apartment. Humor was principally derived from the aliens' attempts to study human society and, because of their living as humans themselves while on Earth, to understand the human condition. I was able to restore this library fairly quickly because the previous version contained most of the series episodes, so all of those pages were already built. I should also mention that if you are offended by "dick jokes" you may want to avoid reading the titles of these episodes, which almost always refer in one way or another to the main character, Dr. Dick Soloman. There is even one title that is called "Dick Jokes"! I am not sure how they got away with this on a major television network, but it was probably because they didn't put the titles on the episodes when you watched them on TV. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, the Whacky Dames and the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalogs. The added episodes are: A Deadly Dick
04/04/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to Season 2 of The Texan library. The Texan (1958-1960) was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network. In The Texan, Calhoun played Bill Longley, a Confederate captain from the American Civil War who on his pinto horse, Domino, roams the American West, but stops to help people in need. A fast gun and the enemy of all lawbreakers, this "Robin Hood of the West" seems to appear nearly everywhere in the postwar years, not just in Texas. Often, the plots center around Longley helping an old friend or a relative of an old friend. Though known as a fearsome gunfighter, the fictional Bill Longley of The Texan is in no way the real Bill Longley. That Longley killed his first man in 1866, when he was 15, and was hanged in 1878 in Giddings in Lee County in Central Texas. This library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. Please Note: If you live outside the United States you might not be able to watch some of these episodes. I still have more Season 2 episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are:
04/03/23 - Today I added seventeen episodes to Seasons 13 and 14 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are: 04/02/23 - Addendum: After getting a suggestion from a regular viewer (Shoutout to David Gradwell!) pointing out how many shows and movies I had featuring Darren McGavin (including one that he sent me to post), I decided to take his advice and created a Darren McGavin Catalog with Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Mike Hammer (1956) and Riverboat plus other TV Appearances and Feature Films. The new Catalog can be found in the Catalog of Stars. 04/02/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to Season 2 of Mike Hammer library. This was one of the earliest YouTube sourced libraries on the site and most of it disappeared within weeks of it's creation in November of 2013. I later restored it and it mostly vanished again soon after. Over the years I have rebuilt it little by little. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Darren McGavin in the title role, is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective. The series (produced from 1957 to 1959) had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. Darren McGavin would go on to play another hardboiled private detective in the short-lived 1968 series The Outsider. He is perhaps best known as Carl Kolchak in the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also on the site) and the curmudgeonly father in A Christmas Story. The library is available in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I recently found a large cache of the series episodss on the Internet Archive, so I will continue to restore it over the next few months. All but one of these episodes were in the original library, so all I had to do was change the embed codes. The added episodes are all of them on Page 3 of the library. 04/01/23 - I am pressed for time today becauase I have a musical engagement in a few hours, so I added the last available six episodes to Season 7 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have Season 8 episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: The Write Stuff
03/31/2023 - Tody I added the last twelve episodes to the Hunter library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Hunter (1984-1991) was an American crime drama television series created by Frank Lupo, which ran on NBC. It starred Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall. The title character Sgt. Rick Hunter is a wily, physically imposing, often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by lethal force, but no more so than many other related television dramas. I normally wouldn't even consider posting a series from the 1980s-90s, especially from YouTube - but this one is hosted by the official FilmRise Productions YouTube channel, so I expect it will last for a while - we'll see what happens. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
03/30/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to Season 3 of the Night Court Library. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. The added episodes are:
03/29/23 - Addendum: If you are still having trouble getting to the site, try using this URL: https://www.solie.org/ClassicTV/index.htm 03/29/23 - Today I added twenty-three episodes to Seasons 18 and 19 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 560 episodes and I have many more episodes bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are: 03/28/23 - 7:47 PDT: Well, it took a little more than an hour, but I now have a temporary Main Library page in place. Thanks for your patience. 6:25 PDT: I am aware of the problem with trying to get into the Main Library page and am working on it now. I should have it back up within an hour. 03/28/23 - Today I was a very pressed for time, so for the first time since 2016 I added three episodes to the Dinah Shore Show Library. Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore (February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She reached the height of her popularity as a recording artist during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s, but achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet. "See the USA in your Chevrolet" was her theme song. Note: Many of these episodes aired in color. but only black and white versions still exist. The episodes in the library are arranged by their air dates. This library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. I will continue to search for more of the many missing episodes. The added episodes are: Addedum: You might have noticed that I have been going way back in time to my own childhood days - I was born in 1948, and I started watching TV when I was a young child in the early 50's. So I made a decision to start posting more of the earlier TV programs then I have been of late. When I started this site in 2010. It came about because I had gotten a job at the local Public Broadcasting TV Station (MCTV in Fort Bragg, CA - Cable Channel 3) in 2009 as the Production Manager for the station. My job was to schedule the programming and to find TV Shows to air on the station. I discovered the Internet Archive in those years and we were able to air many old movies and TV shows, plus our own local programming - coverage of local events, city government meetings, etc. We also aired shows produced by local clubs and other groups, and PBS content from their video libraries. I learned how to embed videos in web pages so that we could broadcast our content on the internet. I worked at the station from 2009 until 2013, when the station was closed for lack of funding. If you would like to see our video library you can visit the station web site here. This is a mirror site - when the station closed I copied all of the station's website pages to my own web server in order to keep the content on-line. The point is that working at the station was my inspiration for creating the Uncle Earl site. The one show that I produced at the station was "Uncle Earl's Frighty Night", which featured SciFi, Fantasy and Horror movies and TV shows in a 2 hour format. That got me into collecting browser bookmarks from the Internet Archive. Within a year I started using this experience to create the Uncle Earl's Classic TV web site. 03/27/23 - Today I created a new United States Steel Hour Catalog with thirteen episodes of the series to start. The United States Steel Hour was an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel). The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theatre Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions in Theatre Guild Dramas, a CBS series which ran from December 6, 1943 to February 29, 1944. The television version aired from October 27, 1953 to 1955 on ABC, and from 1955 to 1963 on CBS. Like its radio predecessor, it was a live dramatic anthology series. During its first season on television, the program alternated bi-weekly with The Motorola Television Hour. The television version aired from October 27, 1953 to 1955 on ABC, and from 1955 to 1963 on CBS. Like its radio predecessor, it was a live dramatic anthology series. During its first season on television, the program alternated bi-weekly with The Motorola Television Hour. The new library is located in the Television Drama Catalog. I will continue to search the missing episodes of the series. 03/26/23 - Today I created a new Danger UXB library with all thirteen episodes of the series. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company, which has been made a bomb disposal unit, and specifically 347 Section of the company, to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Blitz. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fuzing. The series primarily features military storylines, though among them is a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The new library is located in the Action and Adventure, Historical Drama and the British TV Catalogs. 03/25/23 - Today I created a new Good Times library with all thirteen episodes of Season 1. Good Times (1974-1979) was an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS. Developed by executive producer Norman Lear, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which itself was a spin-off of All in the Family, making Good Times the first television spin-off from another spin-off. The first two episodes are notable for their strong, liberal, sociopolitical stance, representing an attitude of 1970's progressivism. Florida and James Evans and their three children live in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. Cabrini–Green Homes was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Florida and James Evans and their three children live at 921 North Gilbert Avenue, apartment 17C, in a public housing project in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago. The project is unnamed on the show but is implicitly the infamous Cabrini–Green Homes. Florida and James have three children: James Jr., also known as "J.J."; Thelma; and Michael, whose passionate activism causes his father to call him "the militant midget." Right now I only have the first 2 Seasons episodes, but I am confident that I can find more of them. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the and the Norman Lear Catalogs. 03/24/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes of Seasons 4 and 5 to the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have all but 3 episodes of the series bookmarked, and will continue to search for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: 03/23/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
03/22/23 - Today I created a new Wonderful World of Disney Library with eighteen episodes of the series to start. The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats. The program's current title, The Wonderful World of Disney, was used from 1969 to 1979 and again from 1991 to the present. The program moved among the Big Three television networks in its first four decades, but has aired on ABC since 1997 and Disney+ since 2020. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1983. After a two-year hiatus it resumed, running regularly until 1991. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's purchase of the network in 1996. From 1997 to 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Since then, ABC has continued the series as an occasional special presentation from 2008 onward, the most recent being a holiday music special in 2019. In 2020, the series returned with movies from the Disney+ library. The new library is located in the Walt Disney Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. 03/21/23 - Addendum - If you tried to go to the site this afternoon you will have had the experience of dealing with dead episode pages. This was because the Internet Archive, where I find the majority of videos I post, was shut down for a few hours late this afternoon for maintenance - this happens about every 6 weeks or so - but the disconnect only lasts a few hours. Generally speaking around 2 1/2 hours. So when it happens just back off for a couple of hours then try it again. Thanks for watching! 03/21/23 - Today I created a Felix the Cat Cartoons Library with eighteen of the silent cartoons from the early 20th century. Felix the Cat was a cartoon character created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer during the silent film era. A young black cat with white eyes, a black body, and a giant grin, he is often considered one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history. Felix was the first fully realized animal character in the history of American film animation. Felix originated from the studio of Australian cartoonist-film entrepreneur Pat Sullivan. Either Sullivan himself or his lead animator, American Otto Messmer, created the character. What is certain is that Felix emerged from Sullivan's studio, and cartoons featuring the character became well known in popular culture. Aside from the animated shorts, Felix starred in a comic strip (drawn by Sullivan, Messmer and later Joe Oriolo) beginning in 1923, and his image soon adorned merchandise such as ceramics, toys and postcards. Several manufacturers made stuffed Felix toys. Jazz bands such as Paul Whiteman's played songs about him (1923's "Felix Kept on Walking" and others). In 1926, Felix became the first high school mascot for the Logansport, Indiana, Berries. The new library s located in the Kids Shows and the Cartoons Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. I have several more of the silent cartoons and a large cache of the later version with sound and in color, so more to come! 03/20/2023 - Today I created a new Archie Bunkers Place Playlist library with with full series shown in Playlist format. You can scroll through the list and watch individual episodes - or just start the playlist at the beginning and binge-watch the full series :-). Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983) was an American television sitcom produced as a continuation of the All in the Family series starring Carroll O'Connor. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons. Although the Bunker home continued to be featured, the scenes were primarily set in the title's neighborhood tavern in Astoria, Queens, which Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) purchased in the series' eighth-season premiere of All in the Family. During the first season Bunker takes on a Jewish partner, Murray Klein (Martin Balsam), when co-owner Harry Snowden decides to sell his share of the business. Early in the first season, to increase business, Archie and Murray build a restaurant onto the bar. This playlist contains all 97 of the series episodes and is located in the Comedy Shows Playlists Library which is available via the Playlists Catalog which, if you haven't done so, you should check out. 03/19//23 - Today, for the first time in twelve years, I added eight episodes to the Martin Kane Private Eye library. Martin Kane, Private Eye was an American crime drama radio and television series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company. It aired via radio from 1949 to 1952 and was simultaneously a television series on NBC from 1949 to 1954. It was the earliest successful cops-and-robbers series on television. William Gargan, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Tracy, and Mark Stevens played the title role in Martin Kane, Private Eye on live television, airing on NBC from September 1, 1949, until June 17, 1954. The television version, also sponsored by United States Tobacco Company, integrated commercials into the detective drama by having Martin Kane enter his favorite tobacco shop, where he discussed pipe tobaccos and cigarettes with the tobacconist Happy McMann, before leaving to continue the mystery narrative. This is quite possibly the oldest library on the site, created before, at the request of numerous viewers, I created the updates page. There are many missing episodes, but because the series was aired live at the time, I cannot promise that I will ever find all of them - but I will keep searching. You may notice that several of the series Season and Episode titles don't match the episode descriptions. That is because the people who uploaded the videos failed to do their homework in correctly identifyimg the episodes. I was able to sort that all out. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: Witness to Murder
03/18/23 - Today I created a new Davis Rules library with all thirteen episodes of Season 1. Davis Rules (1991-1992) was an American sitcom broadcast on ABC. The series was produced by Carsey-Werner Productions. The series stars Randy Quaid as Dwight Davis, a widowed elementary school principal who is raising his three sons (Robbie, Charlie, and Ben) with the help of his wacky father Gunny Davis (Jonathan Winters). Winters won an Emmy for his role as Gunny Davis, while Trevor Bullock and Robin Lynn Heath also won Young Artist Awards for their roles in the series. Davis Rules was canceled by ABC after less than one season despite having premiered after Super Bowl XXV. ABC retained the rights to the series and planned to use it as a midseason replacement. When the series wasn't used in ABC's lineup, CBS bought the series in November 1991. CBS retooled the series, adding Bonnie Hunt and Giovanni Ribisi (credited as Vonni Ribisi), but canceled it after 16 episodes. I am especially pleased to have all of the episodes of this series bookmarked, because Johnathen Winters is one of my favorite comic actors of all time. The new library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. 03/17//23 - Today I created a new Tales of the Gold Monkey Library with twenty of the series episodes. Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982-1983) is set in 1938 in the South Pacific, the series is about an ex-Flying Tigers fighter pilot named Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins). Now the operator of an air cargo delivery service based on the fictional South Seas island Bora Gora, he flies a red and white Grumman Goose called Cutter's Goose. Jake's best friend is his mechanic Corky (Jeff MacKay), a good-hearted alcoholic with a hazy memory from heavy drinking. However, a one-eyed Jack Russell terrier named Jack, which barks once for "no" and twice for "yes" (or the opposite if it suits him) would dispute just who Jake's best friend really is. Jack wears an eye patch, but used to have a false eye made of opal with a star sapphire centre that Jake lost in a poker game—and refuses to let Jake forget it. The new library is located in both the Action and Adventure and the Historical Drama Catalogs. I am only missing two episodes, which I hope to find soon. 03/16/23 - Today, for the first time in almost 2 years, I added twelve episodes to Season 3 of the Peter Gunn Library. Peter Gunn (1958-1961) was an American private eye television series which aired on the NBC and (later) ABC television networks. The series was created by Blake Edwards (who, on occasion, was also writer and director). The title character, played by Craig Stevens, is a well-dressed private investigator whose hair is always in place and who loves cool jazz. Where other gumshoes might be coarse, Peter Gunn is a sophisticate with expensive tastes. He operates in a nameless, fictional riverfront city and can usually be found at Mother's, a smoky wharfside jazz club that he uses as his "office", often meeting clients there. I now have all of the missing episodes bookmarked, so more to come! This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
03/15/23 - Today I created a new Quantum Leap library with the first fifteen episodes of Seasons 1 and 2.Quantum Leap (1985-1993) was an American science fiction television series that premiered on NBC and aired for five seasons. The series stars Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, by temporarily taking the place of other people to correct what he consistently discovers were historical mistakes. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Admiral Al Calavicci, Sam's womanizing, cigar-smoking companion and best friend, who appears to him as a hologram and researches and shapes his opinions of the past. The series features a mix of humor, drama, romance, social commentary, and science fiction. It was ranked number 19 on TV Guide's "Top Cult Shows Ever" in 2007. The new library is located in the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalog. I have all of the series episodes bookmarked so many more to come! 03/14/23 - Today I created a new Batman & Robin Serial library with all fifteen episodes of the 1949 serial. New Adventures of Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder (1949), also known as simply Batman and Robin, is a 15-chapter serial released in 1949 by Columbia Pictures. It is a sequel to the 1943 serial Batman. The dynamic duo face off against the Wizard, a hooded villain with an electrical device which controls cars to augment his compulsion to set challenges for Batman and Robin. The Wizard's identity remains a mystery to the caped crusaders throughout until the end. The serials were re-released as Video On Demand titles by Rifftrax, the alumni project of former Mystery Science Theater 3000 members Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett. As of September 2014, they have released the entire serial. Turner Classic Movies has broadcast the film serial from June to November 2015 and from October 2021 to January 2022 in a weekly half-hour slot on Saturday mornings. The new library is located in the Theatrical Serials Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. 03/13/23 - Today I created a new Barnaby Jones library with all thirteen episodes of Season 1 to start. Barnaby Jones (1973-1980) was an American detective television series starring Buddy Ebsen as a formerly retired investigator and Lee Meriwether as his widowed daughter-in-law, who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. After Jones had worked as a private eye for many years, he decided to retire and left the business to his son Hal. When Hal was murdered while working on a case, Barnaby came out of retirement to find the killer. After this case, his widowed daughter-in-law, Betty Jones (Lee Meriwether), went to work for him at the detective agency. Jones was unusual, ordering milk in restaurants and bars, counter to the stereotypical hard-drinking detective. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog and the Buddy Ebsen Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. I have a large cache of episodes yet to post, so many more to come! 03/12/23 - Sorry for the delay. I had to deal with some problems with my web server this morning. I spent 3 hours on the phone getting it straightened out. Today I created a new The Brady Bunch library with the first twenty episodes of Season 1 to start. The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. The show aired for five seasons and, after its cancellation in 1974, went into syndication in September 1975. Though it was never a ratings hit or a critical success during its original run, the program has since become a popular syndicated staple, especially among children and teenage viewers. Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons—Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland)—marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who herself has three daughters: Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carol and her daughters take the Brady surname. Included in the blended family are Mike's live-in housekeeper, Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), and the boys' dog, Tiger. (In the pilot episode, the girls also have a pet: a cat named Fluffy. Fluffy never appears in any other episodes.) The setting is a large two-story house designed by Mike, located in a Los Angeles suburb. The show never addressed what happened to Carol's first husband. This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog. I have the full series bookmarked. so many more to come. 03/11/23 - Todasy I added fourteen episodes to the Walker Texas Ranger library. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, an American Indian named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Firewalker. Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines' elite Recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. CBS broadcast the television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire on October 16, 2005. Chuck Norris, Sheree J. Wilson and Judson Mills reprised their roles, and Clarence Gilyard shot a cameo for the film but was not featured due to the filming's conflict with a long-planned family vacation. To fill the void, Judson Mills, who was not in the original script, returned to reprise the role of Francis Gage. Nia Peeples, who played the role of Sydney Cooke for seasons 7 and 8, was also not featured in Walker's return to prime-time television. The explanation given was that producers decided not to follow much of the original Walker Texas Ranger series, as to give the film a fresh look. Even the show's original opening credits with the theme "Eyes of a Ranger" performed by Chuck Norris, was absent from the TV movie. I guess you could call this a modern western series. This library is located in the Western Shows and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have a large cache the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are:
I also created a Kung Fu (1972–1975) Season 1 Playlist after receiving a suggestion from one of my regular contacts (thanks Keith!). The new is available via the Action-Adventure/Western Shows/Historical Drama Playlists library, which is available via the Playlists Catalog. 03/10/23 - Today I added the last eleven episodes to the Hawaiian Eye library. This completes the library with all of the series episods included. Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963) was an American detective television series that aired on the ABC television network. Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the hotel grounds. The partners investigate mysteries and protect clients with the sometime help of photographer Cricket Blake (Connie Stevens), who also sings at the hotel's Shell Bar, and a ukulele-playing cab driver Kim Quisado (Poncie Ponce), who has connections throughout the islands. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie (Grant Williams), joins the agency later on as a full partner, while hotel social director Philip Barton (Troy Donahue) lends a hand after Tracy Steele departs. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so the next time I add to this library it will be complete. The added episodes are:
03/09/23 - Today I restored my 3rd Rock from the Sun Library. 3rd Rock from the Sun (sometimes referred to as simply 3rd Rock) was an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The premise of the show revolves around an extraterrestrial research expedition attempting to live as a normal human family in the fictional city of Rutherford, Ohio, said to be 52 miles outside of Cleveland, where they live in an attic apartment. Humor was principally derived from the aliens' attempts to study human society and, because of their living as humans themselves while on Earth, to understand the human condition. I was able to restore this library fairly quickly because the previous version contained most of the series episodes, so all of those pages were already built. I should also mention that if you are offended by "dick jokes" you may want to avoid reading the titles of these episodes, which almost always refer in one way or another to the main character, Dr. Dick Soloman. There is even one title that is called "Dick Jokes"! I am not sure how they got away with this on a major television network, but it was probably because they didn't put the titles on the episodes when you watched them on TV. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, the Whacky Dames and the SciFi Fantasy and Horror Catalogs. I am still missing a few episodes, but I now have all but 3 of them bookmarked so I will complete the library in the near future. 03/08/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 of The Texan library. The Texan (1958-1960) was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network. In The Texan, Calhoun played Bill Longley, a Confederate captain from the American Civil War who on his pinto horse, Domino, roams the American West, but stops to help people in need. A fast gun and the enemy of all lawbreakers, this "Robin Hood of the West" seems to appear nearly everywhere in the postwar years, not just in Texas. Often, the plots center around Longley helping an old friend or a relative of an old friend. Though known as a fearsome gunfighter, the fictional Bill Longley of The Texan is in no way the real Bill Longley. That Longley killed his first man in 1866, when he was 15, and was hanged in 1878 in Giddings in Lee County in Central Texas. The new library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I will continue my search to find the missing episodes. The added episodes are:
03/07/23 - Today I added ten episodes to Season 12 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are: Robin Williams
03/06/23 - Today I added all twenty-one episodes to Season 4 of the Soap library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included, Soap (1977-1981) was an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime warfare, a communist revolution and teacher-student relationships. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME", and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families". This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalogs. 03/05/23 - Today I added the last eight available episodes to the The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Library. This completes the library with 134 of the 164 episodes of the entire series, until I find more of them. Rin Tin Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd rescued from a World War I battlefield by an American soldier, Lee Duncan, who nicknamed him "Rinty". Duncan trained Rin Tin Tin (often hyphenated as Rin-Tin-Tin) and obtained silent film work for the dog. Rin Tin Tin was an immediate box office success and went on to appear in 27 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame. Duncan groomed Rin Tin Tin IV for the 1950s television series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, but the dog performed poorly in a screen test and was replaced in the TV show by trainer Frank Barnes's dogs, primarily one named Flame, Jr., called JR, with the public led to believe otherwise. Instead of shooting episodes, Rin Tin Tin IV stayed at home in Riverside. The TV show Rin Tin Tin was nominated for a PATSY Award in 1958 and in 1959 but did not win. I will continue to search for the missing episodes. The Rin Tin Tin Catalog, which contains this library along with Feature Films and a Theatrical Serial, can be found in the Western Shows, the Action and Adventure, the Feature Films Catalogs, and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: The Christmas Story
03/04/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 1 and 2 to the Mike Hammer library. This was one of the earliest YouTube sourced libraries on the site and most of it disappeared within weeks of it's creation in November of 2013. I later restored it and it mostly vanished again soon after. Over the years I have rebuilt it little by little. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Darren McGavin in the title role, is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective. The series (produced from 1957 to 1959) had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. Darren McGavin would go on to play another hardboiled private detective in the short-lived 1968 series The Outsider. He is perhaps best known as Carl Kolchak in the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also on the site) and the curmudgeonly father in A Christmas Story. The library is available in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I recently found a large cache of the series episodss on the Internet Archive, so I will continue to restore it over the next few months. All but one of these episodes were in the original library, so all I had to do was change the embed codes. The added episodes are: 03/03/23 - Today I added the first thirteen available epsodes t Seasom 18 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 538 episodes and I have many more episodes bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are:
03/02/23 - Today I added eighteen episodes to Season 7 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have Seasons 7 and 8 episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 03/01/23 - Today I created a new Night Court Library with the first sixteen available episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 of the series. Night Court was an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from January 4, 1984, to May 31, 1992. The series is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson) and John Larroquette as prosecutor, Daniel Fielding. The series was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on Barney Miller in the 1970s and early 1980s. This library came about because my wife and I have been watching the new version of the series, which also features John Larroquette in the same role as the original series. I was drawn to the original series because Harry Anderson was an aquaintence of mine - we were both professional magicians in the 1980s, and were also fellow members of the Magic Castle and the Society of American Magicians. The new library is located in the Funny Guys Catalog. I have a large cache of these episodes bookmarked, so I will be expnding the library in the months to come. 02/28/23 - Today I added eight episodes to the Your Hit Parade Library. Your Hit Parade was an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups. Each Saturday evening, the program offered the most popular and bestselling songs of the week. The format involved a presentation of the top 15 songs. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. They have started appearing on the Internet Archive in the past few days, so I hope to find more as time goes by. This library is located in the Musical Programs Catalog. A shout out to Steve Bezirganian for his help on building this library and for his corrections to my previous mistakes regarding episode dates. The added episodes are dated: 1954
02/27/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
02/26/23 - Today I added the first twelve episodes to Season 4 of the Cagney & Lacey library. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have all of the first 4 Season episodes bookmarked, and will continue to search for the three missing seasons. The added episodes are:
02/25/23 - Today I added the last nine available episodes to the Three's Company library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Three's Company (1976–1984) was an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC. It was based on the British sitcom Man About the House. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers) and Jack Tripper (John Ritter), who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California, apartment complex owned by Stanley Roper (Norman Fell) and Helen Roper (Audra Lindley). Don Knotts later joined the cast as the roommates' new building manager, Ralph Furley. Following Somers's departure in late 1980, Jenilee Harrison joined the cast as Chrissy's first cousin Cindy Snow, who was soon replaced by Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden. This library is available via the Funny Guys and the Whacky Dames Catalogs. The added episodes are: Now You See It
02/24/23 - Today I created a new The Magic of Oil Painting with Bill Alexander William Alexander (born Wilhelm Alexander; 2 April 1915 – 24 January 1997), known as Bill Alexander on his TV show, was a German painter, art instructor, and television host. The series was an American half-hour instructional television show hosted by Alexander which ran from February 18, 1974 to May 10, 1982 on PBS, produced by member station KOCE in Huntington Beach, California. In each episode, Alexander taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session, painting in a 16th-century style called alla-prima, now known as wet-on-wet. He was invited to record a pilot in late 1973 for KOCE. Alexander earned an Emmy for the show in 1979, making him the first painter to earn the award. The show is known for inspiring The Joy of Painting hosted by Bob Ross. This library is located in the Instructional Films sub-catalog of the News/Documentary/Reality Programs Catalog which is located in the third row of the Main Library Page. I still have severasl episodes to post, so more to come. 02/23/23 - Today I added eleven episodes to Season 7 of the Hunter library. Hunter (1984-1991) was an American crime drama television series created by Frank Lupo, which ran on NBC. It starred Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall. The title character Sgt. Rick Hunter is a wily, physically imposing, often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by lethal force, but no more so than many other related television dramas. I normally wouldn't even consider posting a series from the 1980s-90s, especially from YouTube - but this one is hosted by the official FilmRise Productions YouTube channel, so I expect it will last for a while - we'll see what happens. I have all 7 Seasons of the series, so lots more to come. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are all of them on the 7th page of the library. 02/22/23 - Today I added the ten available episodes to Season 2 of the Roger Ramjet library. Roger Ramjet (1965–1969) was a American animated television series, starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron. The show was known for its simple animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to pop culture which appealed to adults as well as children. Roger Ramjet is a patriotic and highly moral — if not very bright — hero, who is typically out to save the world, with help from his Proton Energy Pills ("PEP"), which give him "the strength of twenty atom bombs for a period of twenty seconds". The world is invariably saved by defeating the various recurring criminals who populated the series. This library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror, the Kids Shows and the Cartoons Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. I have many more episodes to add so stay tuned. The added episodes are: Flying Saucer
02/21/23 - Today I decided to work on some music based libraries so I added five episodes to the Johnny Cash Show library. This completes the library until Ifind more of the missing episodes. The Johnny Cash Show (1969–1971) was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Cash opened each show, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. I was a big Johnny Cash fan back in my high school days and I watched this show every week. I created the original version of this library in 2014, but it was all YouTube videos and they all vanished within a month or so. The new version of the library is from the Internet Archive, so I have hopes that it will last a while. The restored library is located in the Johnny Cash Catalog, which is available via the Musical Programs Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: January 13, 1971
I also created a new Elvis Presley library. Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often referred to as Elvis, was an American singer, actor and Sergeant in the United States Army. Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. The new library is located in the Feature Films Catalog. I hope to add more videos to this libary. The ones I have found so far are: Elvis Presley Films
Documentary Films
02/20/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Season 1 of the Mike Hammer library. This was one of the earliest YouTube sourced libraries on the site and most of it disappeared within weeks of it's creation in November of 2013. I later restored it and it mostly vanished again soon after. Over the years I have rebuilt it little by little. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Darren McGavin in the title role, is the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's hard-boiled private detective. The series (produced from 1957 to 1959) had a run of 78 episodes over two seasons. Episodes were filmed in black and white and filled a half-hour time slot. Darren McGavin would go on to play another hardboiled private detective in the short-lived 1968 series The Outsider. He is perhaps best known as Carl Kolchak in the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also on the site) and the curmudgeonly father in A Christmas Story. The library is available in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I recently found a large cache of the series episodss on the Internet Archive, so I will continue to restore it over the next few months. The added episodes are: 02/19/23 - Today I created a new The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, with the seven episodes I have found thus far of the series. In 1986, the move came that ended Rivers' longtime friendship with Johnny Carson. The soon-to-launch Fox Television Network announced that it was giving her a late night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, making Rivers the first woman to have her own late-night talk show on a major network. The new network planned to broadcast the show 11 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time, making her a Carson competitor. Carson learned of the show from Fox and not from Rivers. In the documentary Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, Rivers said that she only called Carson to discuss the matter after learning that he may have already heard about it and that he immediately hung up on her. "And he never spoke to me again. He took it as a complete betrayal," said Joan. In the same interview, she said that she later came to believe that maybe she should have asked for his blessing before taking the job. Rivers was banned from ever appearing on The Tonight Show for the rest of Carson's tenure and the entire runs of Carson's first two successors Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien out of respect for Carson. Rivers did not appear on The Tonight Show again until February 17, 2014, when she made a brief appearance on new host Jimmy Fallon's first episode. The new Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog I will keep searching for more episodes of the show. The added episods are: 10/09/1986 Part 1
02/18/23 - Today I decided to add the few available episodes to two libraries in the Family Shows catalog. In both cases the original libraries were built using YouTube vidoes, which vanished soon after I posted them. Over the years since then I have managed to restore most of the missing episodes, then seemed to hit a wall. I continued searching for more with no luck. So today I decided to go ahead and post the ones I had yet to add. The first one is the My Three Sons Library. My Three Sons (1960-1972) was an American sitcom. The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until the end of its run on April 13, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of widower and aeronautical engineer Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray) as he raises his three sons. The series originally featured William Frawley as the boys' live-in maternal grandfather and maid, William Michael Francis "Bub" O'Casey. William Demarest, playing Bub's brother, "Charley", replaced Frawley in 1965 due to Frawley's illness. In September 1965, eldest son Mike (Tim Considine) married, and his character was written out of the show. To keep the emphasis on "three sons", original youngest son Chip's friend Ernie was adopted. In the program's later years, Steven Douglas remarried and adopted his new wife's young daughter Dorothy ("Dodie") (Dawn Lyn). This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalogs. The added episodes are: Fly Away Home
The second library is The Real McCoys library. The Real McCoys revolves around the lives of a family from the Appalachian Mountains who originally hailed from fictional Smokey Corners, West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California and became dirt farmers. The family consisted of Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan); his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna), Luke's new bride Kate (Kathy Nolan), Luke's teenage sister Tallahassie "Hassie" (Lydia Reed), and his 11-year-old brother Little Luke (Michael Winkelman). The double-naming of the brothers was explained in the first episode by the elder Luke: Because their parents were so excited over the birth of the younger boy, "they forgot all about me!" Only Crenna was in every episode. This library is located in the Family Comedy & Drama Shows Catalog. The added episodes are: Traveling Saleswoman
I will continue searching for more of the missing episodes from both libraries - but don't hold your breath :-) 02/17/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 4 and 5 of the Walker Texas Ranger library. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, an American Indian named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Firewalker. Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines' elite Recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. CBS broadcast the television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire on October 16, 2005. Chuck Norris, Sheree J. Wilson and Judson Mills reprised their roles, and Clarence Gilyard shot a cameo for the film but was not featured due to the filming's conflict with a long-planned family vacation. To fill the void, Judson Mills, who was not in the original script, returned to reprise the role of Francis Gage. Nia Peeples, who played the role of Sydney Cooke for seasons 7 and 8, was also not featured in Walker's return to prime-time television. The explanation given was that producers decided not to follow much of the original Walker Texas Ranger series, as to give the film a fresh look. Even the show's original opening credits with the theme "Eyes of a Ranger" performed by Chuck Norris, was absent from the TV movie. I guess you could call this a modern western series. This library is located in the Western Shows and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have a large cache the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are all of the Season 4 and 5 episodes on the 2nd page of the library. 02/16/23 - Today I added ten episodes to Season 4 of the Hawaiin Eye library. Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963) was an American detective television series that aired on the ABC television network. Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the hotel grounds. The partners investigate mysteries and protect clients with the sometime help of photographer Cricket Blake (Connie Stevens), who also sings at the hotel's Shell Bar, and a ukulele-playing cab driver Kim Quisado (Poncie Ponce), who has connections throughout the islands. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie (Grant Williams), joins the agency later on as a full partner, while hotel social director Philip Barton (Troy Donahue) lends a hand after Tracy Steele departs. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so the next time I add to this library it will be complete. The added episodes are:
02/15/23 - Today I added the last fourteen episodes to Season 17 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 525 episodes and I have many more episodes bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are:
02/14/23 - Today, for the first time since 2010, I added sixteen episodes to my Mack & Mire for Hire library. This is one of the oldest libraries on the site, the original library was posted before I created this Updates page and only had six episodes listed. Mack and Myer for Hire (1963-1964) was an American sitcom that aired in syndication. The show starred Mickey Deems and Joey Faye, and was produced in New York. In the series, Mack and Myer are two handymen, doing jobs for hire. In the tradition of the Three Stooges, handymen Mack and Myer fouled up every job in slapstick style. They were usually both unskilled and inexperienced in the work they were engaging in, which provided many physical comedy opportunities. Sometimes the situations revolved around a common everyday problem (i.e., getting a good night's sleep). Their attempts at getting rich quick usually backfired, resulting in comedy. Over 100 episodes were produced during its one year in production, and these were re-runs well into the 1970s. I have searched relentlessly through all of the TV and Movie databases for episode and plotline information with no trustworthy results. I an not sure of the dates and episode numbers. The available data is very strange - different sources have contradictory information. Some of them show episode titles that are different according to which database you use. But now the good (great) news is that each episode has it's title shown in the opening credits. So I guess I will go with that :-). The added episodes are: 02/13/23 - Today I added the last eight available episodes of Season 1 to the Roger Ramjet library. Roger Ramjet (1965–1969) was a American animated television series, starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron. The show was known for its simple animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to pop culture which appealed to adults as well as children. Roger Ramjet is a patriotic and highly moral — if not very bright — hero, who is typically out to save the world, with help from his Proton Energy Pills ("PEP"), which give him "the strength of twenty atom bombs for a period of twenty seconds". The world is invariably saved by defeating the various recurring criminals who populated the series. This library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror, the Kids Shows and the Cartoons Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. I have many more episodes to add so stay tuned. The added episodes are: Batosphere
02/12/23 - Today I added the fourteen missing episodes to the Wendy and Me Library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Wendy and Me (1964-1965) was an American sitcom that aired on ABC, primarily sponsored by Consolidated Cigar's "El Producto". Starring George Burns (the "Me" in Wendy and Me) and Connie Stevens, the series was Burns' first major work following the death of his wife and professional partner, Gracie Allen, who had died of a heart attack about a month prior to the debut of Wendy and Me. In the series (a slight variation of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show), Burns, playing a somewhat fictionalized version of himself, is the owner of an apartment building, while Stevens plays his tenant, Wendy Conway. Episodes typically revolved around Wendy pulling Burns into comedic situations mostly involving her husband, played by Ron Harper, and other people in the building. As a regular part of its format, Burns would often break the fourth wall to comment directly to the audience about the episode's events, as he did in the Burn's & Allen series. The library can be found in both the Funny Guys and the Whacky Dames Catalogs. The added episodes are: 02/11/23 - Today, for the first time since 2017, I added seven episodes, plus a TV movie to the San Francisco Beat (aka The Lineup) Library. The Lineup (1954-1960) was an American police drama which aired CBS television for 6 Seasons. Syndicated reruns of the series were broadcast under the title San Francisco Beat. The series depicted the investigations of Lieutenant Ben Guthrie, played by Warner Anderson, and Sergeant Matt Greb played by Tom Tully. Based on actual cases from the San Francisco Police files, Lt. Guthrie and Inspector Grebb work as a team to track down criminals. In the last season Inspectors Delaney and Summers are partners in the pursuit of justice. Frequently a police lineup is featured. I have had these episodes for about a year, but held off on posting them in the hopes of finding more of the 6 Season series. I will keep searching for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: Cop Killer
TV Movie
02/10/23 - Last night I added the last five available episodes to the Range Rider Library. This completes the library until I find the last two missing episodes. The Range Rider is an American Western television series that aired in syndication. A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast in 1959. The Range Rider was also broadcast on British television during the 1960s, and in Melbourne, Australia during the 1950s. Jock Mahoney, later star of CBS's Yancy Derringer, played the title character in seventy-nine black-and-white half-hour episodes, along with partner Dick West, played by Dick Jones, later star of the syndicated series Buffalo Bill Jr. The character had no name other than Range Rider. His reputation for fairness, fighting ability, and accuracy with his guns was known far and wide, even by Indians. Mahoney towered over Jones, conveying the idea that Dick West was a youth rather than a full-grown adult. This library is located in the Action and Adventure and the Western Shows Catalogs. I will keep searching fo the missing episodes. The added episodes are: Western Fugitive
02/09/23 - Today I added twelve available episodes to the Night Gallery Library. Night Gallery (1970-1973) was an American anthology television series that aired on NBC, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling viewed Night Gallery as a logical extension of The Twilight Zone, but while both series shared an interest in thought-provoking dark fantasy, more of Twilight Zone's offerings were science fiction while Night Gallery focused on horrors of the supernatural. Serling appeared in an art gallery setting as the curator and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings that depicted the stories. Yhis library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog, and also in the Rod Serling Catalog, which is also available via the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog and Catalog of Stars. At this point I have a little over half of the series episodes. I will continue to search for more of them. The added episodes are:
02/08/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Seasons 11 and 12 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are: 02/07/23 - Today I added the last eighteen episodes to Season 3 of the Soap library. Soap (1977-1981) was an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime warfare, a communist revolution and teacher-student relationships. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME", and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families". This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalogs. I have all of the series episodes, so many more to come! The added episodes are: 02/06/23 - Today I added the last eight available episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the Baretta library to the Library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. In Baretta (1975–1978), Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta is an unorthodox plainclothes police detective with the 53rd Precinct in an unnamed, fictional city. He resides in Apartment 2C of the run-down King Edward Hotel with Fred, his Triton cockatoo. A master of disguise, Baretta wears many while performing his duties. When not working he usually wears a short-sleeve sweatshirt, casual slacks, a brown suede jacket and a newsboy cap. Baretta is often seen with an unlit cigarette in his lips or behind his ear. His catchphrases include "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time", "You can take dat to da bank" and "And dat's the name of dat tune." When exasperated he, occasionally speaks in asides to his late father, Louie Baretta. He drives a rusted-out Mist Blue 1966 Chevrolet Impala four-door sport sedan nicknamed "The Blue Ghost". He frequents Ross's Billiard Academy and refers to his numerous girlfriends as his "cousins". This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: Big Hand's on Trouble
02/05/23 - I haven't added any Western Shows episodes (besides Gunsmoke) lately so I decided to add the last seven available episodes to the Roy Rogers Show library. The Roy Rogers Show was an American Western television series that broadcast 100 episodes on NBC. The show starred Roy Rogers as a ranch owner, Dale Evans as the proprietress of the Eureka Cafe in fictional Mineral City, and Pat Brady as Roy's sidekick and Dale's cook. Animal stars were Roy's Palomino horse, Trigger, and his German Shepherd wonder dog, Bullet. This library is located in the Roy Rogers Catalog, which is located in the Western Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are: Haunted Mine
I also added the last four available episodes to the Brave Eagle Library. Brave Eagle (1955-1956) is a 26-episode half-hour western television series which aired on CBS. Keith Larsen, who was of Norwegian descent, starred as Brave Eagle, a peaceful young Cheyenne chief. The program was unconventional in that it reflects the Native American viewpoint in the settlement of the American West and was the first series to feature an American Indian as a lead character. A personal note: I remember watching this series when I was 7 years old and I was fascinated by the fact that it was a western that didn't depict a bunch of cowboys. I don't remember much about it but that aspect still stands out in my mind - I never missed an episode! This library is located in the Western Shows catalog. The added episodes are: Treachery of At-Ta-Tu
02/04/23 - Today I added the nineteen available episodes to Season 6 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. This library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple month or so ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have Seasons 7 and 8 episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are all of them on the Page 4 of the library. 02/03/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Season 3 of the The New Mike Hammer Library. The New Mike Hammer follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focuses on the murder of someone the protagonist was close to, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge. The star, Stacy Keach, was familiar with the tough and insensitive novelized version of Hammer and worked to make his version more palatable to a television audience. "We've softened him up a little bit," Keach told The New York Times. "To sustain a series on television, I think you need a certain humor, charm and vulnerability. Toughness is probably the least important factor." The tone of the show also incorporated elements of classic film noir detective films, such as The Maltese Falcon. For example, each show featured the protagonist's narrative voice-over and, much like the archetypal hard-boiled detectives of years gone by, Hammer would rarely be seen without his wrinkled suit, fedora and trench coat. I now have most of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This libraries has episodes from two versions of the series starring Stacy Keach as the title character. The library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
02/02/23 - Today I am a little pressed for time so, for the first time since 2014, I just added six feature films to the Alfred Hitchcock Film Library. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Best Director despite five nominations. This library is located in the Alfred Hitchcock Catalog, which is a available via the Catalog of Stars. The added films are Young and Innocent (1937)
02/01/23 - Today I added the last nine available episodes of Seasons 17 and 18 to the Lassie Library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. This is the fith version of the series with Lassie residing at a ranch for orphaned children. Between 1954 and 1973, the television series, Lassie was broadcast, with Lassie initially residing on a farm with a young male master. In the middle of the 5th Season, Lassie's original master, Jeff Miller (Tommy Rettig), left the series and was replaced by young Timmy, who had joined the series at the beginning of the season as an orphan boy who came to live with the Millers. Season 6 was the first to star Timmy Martin (Jon Provost), who continued in the role through Season 10. In the eleventh season, it changed to U.S. Forest Service rangers as her companions, then the collie was on her own for a season before ending the series with Lassie residing at a ranch for orphaned children. The long-running series was the recipient of two Emmy Awards before it was canceled in 1973. I have episodes from all 18 Seasons of the series, so many more to come. This library is located in the Lassie Catalog, which can be accessed via the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog, the Feature Films Catalog, the Animal Stars Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes, several of which are 2 part episodes presented as a single video, are:
01/31/23 - Today, for the first time since 2015, I added sixteen episodes to the E! Mysteries and Scandals library. E! Mysteries and Scandals (also known as Mysteries & Scandals) was an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on the E! network from March 1998 until February 2001. The series detailed the lives of various celebrities, both well known and somewhat obscure. Most celebrities that were featured endured hardships or died untimely deaths. The series interviewed various celebrities who knew the subject along with still photographs accompanied by narrations, and dramatic reenactments. The show was highly stylized and presented each episode in a noir fashion with backdrops set in various Hollywood locations and narrated in a hard-boiled, often sarcastic fashion by Benza. This Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog. I will keep searching for more of the series episodes. The added episodea are: 01/30/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to the The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson library. In The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2015), making a satire out of the entire Late Night Show concept, Scotsman Craig Ferguson hosted his show with a robot skeleton and a "horse" as his sidekicks. The show features the stereotypical parts of a Late Show, but all in their own, raw way. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Shadoe Stevens, Josh Robert Thompson. Videos courtesy of the Official YouTube Late Late Show collection. On a personal note, this was always my favorite late night show. In fact. I often go to the library and watch episodes before I go to bed. There are many more to come! The Library is located in the News/Documentary/Reality/Talk Show Programs Catalog and also in the Craig Ferguson Catalog, which is available via the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are:
01/29/23 - Today I added twelve episodes to Seasons 3 and 4 of the Hawaiin Eye library. This completes Season 3 and adds the first three episodes to Season 4. Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963) was an American detective television series that aired on the ABC television network. Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the hotel grounds. The partners investigate mysteries and protect clients with the sometime help of photographer Cricket Blake (Connie Stevens), who also sings at the hotel's Shell Bar, and a ukulele-playing cab driver Kim Quisado (Poncie Ponce), who has connections throughout the islands. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie (Grant Williams), joins the agency later on as a full partner, while hotel social director Philip Barton (Troy Donahue) lends a hand after Tracy Steele departs. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so I will continue to expand the library over the next couple of months. The added episodes are all of them on the last page of the library. 01/28/23 - Today I added nine episodes to Season 8 of the Three's Company library. Three's Company (1977-1994) was an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC. It was based on the British sitcom Man About the House. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood (Joyce DeWitt), Chrissy Snow (Suzanne Somers) and Jack Tripper (John Ritter), who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California, apartment complex owned by Stanley Roper (Norman Fell) and Helen Roper (Audra Lindley). Don Knotts later joined the cast as the roommates' new building manager, Ralph Furley. Following Somers's departure in late 1980, Jenilee Harrison joined the cast as Chrissy's first cousin Cindy Snow, who was soon replaced by Priscilla Barnes as Terri Alden. This library is available via the Funny Guys and the Whacky Dames Catalogs. I still have more of the Season 8 episodes yet to add, so more to come. The added episodes are all of the Season 8 episodes on the last page of the library. 01/27/23 - Today I added sixteen episodes to Seasons 2 and 3 of the Cagney & Lacey library this completes the first 3 Seasons. Cagney & Lacey (1982-1988) was an American police procedural drama television series that aired on the CBS television network. The show was about two New York City police detectives who lead very different lives: Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless) is a career-minded single woman, while Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) is a married working mother. The series is set in a fictionalized version of Manhattan's 14th Precinct (known as "Midtown South"). The pilot movie had Loretta Swit in the role of Cagney, while the first six episodes had Meg Foster in the role. When the show was revived for a full-season run, Gless portrayed the role for six consecutive years. Each year during that time, one of the two lead actresses won the Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama (four wins for Daly, two for Gless), a winning streak matched only once since in any major category by a show. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I have all of the first 4 Season episodes bookmarked, and will continue to search for the three missing seasons. The added episodes are: 01/26/23 - Today, for the first time in over 3 years, I added the last ten available episodes to the Loretta Young Show library. The Loretta Young Show (1953-1961) (originally known as Letter to Loretta) was an American anthology drama television series broadcast on Sunday nights on NBC. The series was hosted by actress Loretta Young, who also played the lead in various episodes. The program began with the premise that each drama was an answer to a question asked in her fan mail. The title was changed to The Loretta Young Show during the first season, and the "letter" concept was dropped altogether at the end of the second season. This library is located in the Television Drama Catalog and Loretta Young Catalog, which is accessed via the Catalog of Stars. I will continue searching for more of the missing episodes. The added episodes are:
01/25/23 - Today I added the thirteen episodes of Season 8 to the The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross library. Robert Norman Ross (October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995) was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, and also aired in Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Ross went from being a public television personality in the 1980s and 1990s to posthumously being an Internet celebrity in the 21st century, with his talent and kindness leading to major popularity with fans on YouTube, Twitch, and many other websites many years after his death. As I mentioned in a previous post, all 31 Seasons of the series are available on the Official Bob Ross channel on YouTube, so many more to come! This library is located in the Instructional Films sub-catalog of the News/Documentary/Reality Programs Catalog which is located in the third row of the Main Library Page. 01/24/23 - Today I added the last eight available episodes to the The Jack Benny Program library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. The Jack Benny Program (1950-1965), starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. Jack Benny made his TV debut in 1949 with a local appearance on Los Angeles station KTTV, then a CBS affiliate. In October 1950, he made his full network debut over CBS Television. Benny's television shows were occasional broadcasts in his early seasons on TV, as he was still firmly dedicated to radio. The regular and continuing Jack Benny Program was telecast on CBS from October 28, 1950 to September 15, 1964 (finally becoming a weekly show in the 1960-1961 season), and on NBC from September 25, 1964 to September 10, 1965. This library is located in the Jack Benny Catalog, which is available via the Comedy Shows Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. This addition includes two regular series episodes and eight TV Specials. I will keep searching for the missing episodes. The added episodes are: Natalie Wood
TV Specials
01/23/23 - Todsay I added the first twenty episodes of Season 6 to the Hunter library. Hunter (1984-1991) was an American crime drama television series created by Frank Lupo, which ran on NBC. It starred Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall. The title character Sgt. Rick Hunter is a wily, physically imposing, often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by lethal force, but no more so than many other related television dramas. I normally wouldn't even consider posting a series from the 1980s-90s, especially from YouTube - but this one is hosted by the official FilmRise Productions YouTube channel, so I expect it will last for a while - we'll see what happens. I have all 7 Seasons of the series, so lots more to come. This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are all of them on the 6th page of the library. 01/22/23 - Last night I receved an email from a viewer telling me that my Abbott & Costello Show episodes were not working. I went there and sure enough, the YouTube account that the episodes were hosted by had been taken down. I was a bit confused because I remembered that at some point several years ago I had replaced all of the YouTube videos with videos from the Internet Archive. I then brought the library up on my computer and discovered that all the episodes were working there. Apparently, when I updated the episode files I forgot to upload them to the Uncle Earl site! Don't get old if you can help it :-). In any case, I now have the complete library back up on the site with all of the series episodes included. The Abbott and Costello Show was an American television sitcom starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The program premiered in syndication in the fall of 1952 and ran two seasons to the spring of 1954. Each season ran 26 episodes. The series is considered to be among the most influential comedy programs in history. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly praised the series as one of the "100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". In 2007, Time magazine selected it for its "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." Jerry Seinfeld has declared that The Abbott and Costello Show, with its overriding emphasis upon funny situations rather than life lessons, was the inspiration for his own long-running sitcom. A shout out to the viewer who contacted me, unfortunately his or her email address was encrypted, so I can't give him or her a name. 01/21/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to the Johnny Cash Show library. The Johnny Cash Show (1969–1971) was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Cash opened each show, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. I was a big Johnny Cash fan back in my high school days and I watched this show every week. I created the original version of this library in 2014, but it was all YouTube videos and they all vanished within a month or so. The new version of the library is from the Internet Archive, so I have hopes that it will last a while. The restored library is located in the Johnny Cash Catalog, which is available via the Musical Programs Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. I have a few more episodes to add, so more to come! The added episodes are: 01/20/23 - Today I created a new Roger Ramjet library with the first twenty available episodes of the series. Roger Ramjet (1965–1969) was a American animated television series, starring Roger Ramjet and the American Eagle Squadron. The show was known for its simple animation, frenetic pace, and frequent references to pop culture which appealed to adults as well as children. Roger Ramjet is a patriotic and highly moral — if not very bright — hero, who is typically out to save the world, with help from his Proton Energy Pills ("PEP"), which give him "the strength of twenty atom bombs for a period of twenty seconds". The world is invariably saved by defeating the various recurring criminals who populated the series. The new library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror, the Kids Shows and the Cartoons Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. I have many more episodes to add so stay tuned. 01/19/22 - Today I added the last ten episodes of Season 3 to the Walker Texas Ranger library. The show is centered on Sergeant Cordell Walker, a Dallas–Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers, a state-level bureau of investigation. Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, an American Indian named Ray Firewalker. The surname being, possibly, a nod to the 1986 Norris film, Firewalker. Cordell, prior to joining the Rangers, served in the Marines' elite Recon unit during the Vietnam War. Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs. CBS broadcast the television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire on October 16, 2005. Chuck Norris, Sheree J. Wilson and Judson Mills reprised their roles, and Clarence Gilyard shot a cameo for the film but was not featured due to the filming's conflict with a long-planned family vacation. To fill the void, Judson Mills, who was not in the original script, returned to reprise the role of Francis Gage. Nia Peeples, who played the role of Sydney Cooke for seasons 7 and 8, was also not featured in Walker's return to prime-time television. The explanation given was that producers decided not to follow much of the original Walker Texas Ranger series, as to give the film a fresh look. Even the show's original opening credits with the theme "Eyes of a Ranger" performed by Chuck Norris, was absent from the TV movie. I guess you could call this a modern western series. This library is located in the Western Shows and the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalogs. I now have a large cache the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come! The added episodes are: Rainbow Warrior
01/18/23 - Today I added the last thirteen episodes to Season 3 of the Sgt. Preston of the Yukon library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955-1958) was a half-hour long American action adventure northwestern television series, broadcast in color on CBS. It was based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. Richard Simmons starred as Sergeant Preston, who patrolled the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. In every episode Preston was assisted by his Alaskan Malamute Yukon King, who had been raised by a female wolf. In episodes taking place during the summer he rode his horse Rex. The show’s theme music was the overture to Emil von Reznicek's opera Donna Diana. As the theme played the announcer stated: "Sergeant Preston of the North-West Mounted Police, with Yukon King, swiftest and strongest lead dog, breaking the trail in the relentless pursuit of lawbreakers in the wild days of the Yukon." The dog received star billing right after Preston, and alongside his horse, Rex. Yukon King had a keen instinct for sensing criminals, and was equally valuable dealing with wild animals, once saving a small child from a wolverine. At the end of each episode Preston would turn to his dog and say "Well, King, this case is closed." This library is located in the Action and Adventure Catalog. The added episodes are: 01/17/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to Season 3 of the Hawaiian Eye library. Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963) was an American detective television series that aired on the ABC television network. Private investigator Tracy Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the hotel grounds. The partners investigate mysteries and protect clients with the sometime help of photographer Cricket Blake (Connie Stevens), who also sings at the hotel's Shell Bar, and a ukulele-playing cab driver Kim Quisado (Poncie Ponce), who has connections throughout the islands. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie (Grant Williams), joins the agency later on as a full partner, while hotel social director Philip Barton (Troy Donahue) lends a hand after Tracy Steele departs. The new library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. I now have all of the series episodes bookmarked, so I will continue to expand the library over the next few months. The added episodes are; 01/16/23 - Today, for the first time in 8 years, I added the last five episodes to the The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1956) introduces us to Dr. Fu Manchu, evil genius and possessor of seemingly unlimited financial resources, who has pledged to bring about the downfall of western civilization to avenge unknown wrongs of the past. Only Sir Dennis Nayland-Smith of Scotland Yard is able to thwart his evil plans, ranging from assassination to germ attacks to sparking an all-out war. Stars: Glen Gordon, Lester Matthews, Clark Howat. Ths library is located in the Action and Adventure Catalog. the added episodes are: Secret of Dr. Fu Manchu
Since that didn't take very long I also decided to create a new Drums of Fu Manchu Serial library with all fifteen episodes of the 1940 theatrical serial. Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) was a 15-chapter Republic serial film based on the character created by Sax Rohmer. Though using the title of the ninth novel in the series, it actually is based on numerous elements from throughout the series to that point, cherry-picked by the writers. It starred Henry Brandon, William Royle and Robert Kellard. It was directed by the legendary serial team of William Witney and John English and is often considered one of the best serial films ever made. The new library is located in the Theatrical Serials Catalog, which is available via the Short Format Films: Cartoons, Commercials, Theatrical Serials & Unsold Pilots Catalog. 01/15/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 12 and 13 of the Gunsmoke library. Gunsmoke was an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke, with 635 total episodes, was the longest running drama series in television history. At one point I had about 500 of the series episodes from YouTube - and then they all vanished in an instant. I tried rebuilding the library several times but in the end they would all vanish on me. After this happened 4 or 5 times I gave up on trying to rebuild the library. Then a few years ago I started finding individual episodes on the Internet Archive, and slowly I started to restore the library. The restored library is located in the Western Shows Catalog. I am now up to 510 episodes and I have many more episodes bookmarked. so more to come. The added episodes are:
01/14/23 - Today I created a new Night Gallery Library with the first fifteen available episodes of the series. Night Gallery (1970-1973) was an American anthology television series that aired on NBC, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although he did not have the same control of content and tone as he had on The Twilight Zone. Serling viewed Night Gallery as a logical extension of The Twilight Zone, but while both series shared an interest in thought-provoking dark fantasy, more of Twilight Zone's offerings were science fiction while Night Gallery focused on horrors of the supernatural. Serling appeared in an art gallery setting as the curator and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings that depicted the stories. At this point I have only posted about half of the available episodes, so more to come. The new library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog, and also in the Rod Serling Catalog, which is also available via the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog and Catalog of Stars. 01/13/23 - Today I added fourteen episodes to the Your Hit Parade Library. Your Hit Parade was an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or groups. Each Saturday evening, the program offered the most popular and bestselling songs of the week. The format involved a presentation of the top 15 songs. Later, a countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalists, with the number one song for the finale. This is the first time I have added episodes to this library since 2015. They have started appearing on the Internet Archive in the past few days, so I hope to find more as time goes by. Located in the Musical Programs Catalog. The added episodes are dated:
01/12/22 - Today I created a new Jennifer Slept Here Library with all thirteen of the series episodes. Jennifer Slept Here (1983-1984)is an American fantasy sitcom television series that ran for one season on NBC. In the series, Ann Jillian plays Jennifer Farrell, a once-popular movie actress who in 1978 made the unfortunate mistake of chasing an ice cream truck near her Los Angeles, California home. When the ice cream truck accidentally backed up, it ran her over, killing her. Six years later, the Elliot family moved from New York City into Jennifer's home. Father George was a lawyer who had handled Jennifer's posthumous affairs, including the house. George's wife, Susan, was a concerned and understanding figure. Daughter Marilyn was a typical 8-year-old. The driving story behind the series was that Jennifer haunted the Elliot house—ostensibly to mentor and befriend the family's teenage son, Joey, who was the only person to whom she made herself visible. During the series, however, she does make herself visible in at least one episode. Naturally, Joey had a hard time convincing his family and friends of Jennifer's ghostly existence. The new library is located in the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalog. 01/11/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Seasons 10 and 11 of the Saturday Night Live Library. Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiere was hosted by George Carlin on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which often parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, with featured performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. This library is located in the Comedy Shows Catalog. A few months ago I found what appears to be an official Saturday Night Live account on the Internet Archive that contains episodes all the way up to Season 45 of the series, so I have many episodes to add and will continue to expand it in the months to come. Stay tuned. The added episodes are:
01/10/23 - Today I created a new Amanda's library with all thirteen of the series episodes. Amanda's (1983) (also known as Amanda's by the Sea) was an American sitcom television series (based on the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers) that aired on ABC. The series starred Bea Arthur as Amanda Cartwright, who owns a seaside hotel called "Amanda's by the Sea". The comedy revolved around burnt steaks, fussy guests, travel-guide writers who had to be impressed, the banker Mr. Mundy who always threatened to foreclose and brother-in-law Zack, who was out to woo Amanda. Amanda's is the second attempted American adaptation of Fawlty Towers. The first, Snavely (also known as Chateau Snavely) starring Harvey Korman and Betty White, was produced by ABC for a pilot in 1978, but the transfer from coastal hotel to highway motel proved too much and additional episodes were never filmed after the completion and review of that pilot. John Cleese, co-creator of the original British sitcom, was critical of this first adaptation, in particular Korman and White, saying they "played it too slow and were embarrassed by the edgy dialogue. The new library is available in the Whacky Dames Catalog and also the Bea Arthur Catalog which is also avialable via the Whacky Dames Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. 01/09/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes too Seasons 2 amd 3 of the Soap library. Soap (1977-1981) was an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime warfare, a communist revolution and teacher-student relationships. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME", and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families". This library is located in the Family Comedies and Dramas and the SciFi, Fantasy and Horror Catalogs. The added episodes are all of them on Page 3 of the library. I have all of the series episodes, so many more to come! 01/08/23 - Today I added the last nine available episodes to the American Bandstand Library. American Bandstand (1952-1989) was an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run–D.M.C., would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy Cannon holds the record for most appearances, at 110. This catalog is located in the Bandstand Catalog, which is available via the Musical and Variety Catalog. The added episodes are: November 9, 1963
01/07/23 - Today I added twenty-two episodes to Seasons 2 and 8 of the Rawhide library. This completes the library with all of the series episodes included. Rawhide (1959-1966) was an American Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS network. With a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. Spanning 7-1/2 years, Rawhide was the sixth-longest running American television Western, exceeded only by 8 years of Wagon Train, 9 years of The Virginian, 14 years of Bonanza, 18 years of Death Valley Days, and 20 years of Gunsmoke. Set in the 1860s, Rawhide portrays the challenges faced by the drovers of a cattle drive. Most episodes are introduced with a monologue by Gil Favor (Eric Fleming), trail boss. In a typical Rawhide story, the drovers come upon people on the trail and involve themselves in other people's affairs, usually encountering various and sundry corrupt individuals. Many times, one or more of the crew venture into a nearby town and encounter some trouble from crooked townspeople or lawless politicians from which they need to be rescued. Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) was young and at times impetuous in the earliest episodes, and Favor had to keep a tight rein on him. This series was Eastwood's stepping stone to fame and fortune as he became one of the few TV stars to successfully make the move into starring roles in feature films. The original version of this library was created from from YouTube videos in 2012, and lasted just a few weeks before it vanished. I started restoring it and it vanished again a few weeks later. Eventually I started to find episodes on the Internet Archive and restored the library bit by bit. This library is located in the Action and Adventure and the Western Shows Catalog. The added episodes are: 01/05/23 - Today, for the first time in three years, I added seventeen episodes to Seasons 4 and 5 of the Home Improvement Library. Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons. I have many more episodes bookmarked, so more to come. The new library is located in the Comedy Shows, and the Family Drama and Comedies Catalogs. I started building this library in 2018, but the videos were all hosted by DailyMotion and they started vanishing almost immediately. I removed the dead pages and then just forgot about the library all together. Then a couple of days ago it occured too me to check in on the library and I was surprised to find that it was still intact, so I went back to my bookmark collection and eliminated the few episodes that didn't work. and have started rebuilding the library. I still have Seasons 6, 7 and 8 episodes to add, so more to come. The added episodes are: 01/04/23 - Today I added thirteen episodes to Season 2 of the The New Mike Hammer Library. The New Mike Hammer follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he works to solve cases, often involving murder. A recurring plot line throughout the show focuses on the murder of someone the protagonist was close to, resulting in Hammer seeking out revenge. The star, Stacy Keach, was familiar with the tough and insensitive novelized version of Hammer and worked to make his version more palatable to a television audience. "We've softened him up a little bit," Keach told The New York Times. "To sustain a series on television, I think you need a certain humor, charm and vulnerability. Toughness is probably the least important factor." The tone of the show also incorporated elements of classic film noir detective films, such as The Maltese Falcon. For example, each show featured the protagonist's narrative voice-over and, much like the archetypal hard-boiled detectives of years gone by, Hammer would rarely be seen without his wrinkled suit, fedora and trench coat. I now have most of the series episodes bookmarked, so many more to come. This libraries has episodes from two versions of the series starring Stacy Keach as the title character. The library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are:
01/03/23 - Today I added nine episodes to Season 3 of the 77 Sunset Strip Library. This completes the library with all but four of the series episodes. 77 Sunset Strip was an American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith and Edd Byrnes. The series revolves around two Los Angeles private detectives, both former government secret agents: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. played Stuart ("Stu") Bailey, a character Huggins had originated in his 1946 novel The Double Take (which he later adapted into the 1948 movie I Love Trouble, starring Franchot Tone in the role). Roger Smith played Jeff Spencer, also a former government agent, and a nonpracticing attorney. The duo worked out of a stylish office at 77 Sunset Boulevard (colloquially known as "Sunset Strip"), between La Cienega Boulevard and Alta Loma Road on the south side of the Strip next door to Dean Martin's real-life lounge, Dino's Lodge. I will continue to search for the four missing episodes, so more to come (I hope). This library is located in the Mystery & Crime Drama Catalog. The added episodes are: In the Middle East
01/02/23 - Today I added all seventeen available episodes to Season 16 of the Lassie Library. This is the fith version of the series with Lassie residing at a ranch for orphaned children. Between 1954 and 1973, the television series, Lassie was broadcast, with Lassie initially residing on a farm with a young male master. In the middle of the 5th Season, Lassie's original master, Jeff Miller (Tommy Rettig), left the series and was replaced by young Timmy, who had joined the series at the beginning of the season as an orphan boy who came to live with the Millers. Season 6 was the first to star Timmy Martin (Jon Provost), who continued in the role through Season 10. In the eleventh season, it changed to U.S. Forest Service rangers as her companions, then the collie was on her own for a season before ending the series with Lassie residing at a ranch for orphaned children. The long-running series was the recipient of two Emmy Awards before it was canceled in 1973. I have episodes from all 18 Seasons of the series, so many more to come. This library is located in the Lassie Catalog, which can be accessed via the Family Comedies and Dramas Catalog, the Feature Films Catalog, the Animal Stars Catalog and the Catalog of Stars. The added episodes are all of them on the last page of the library. 01/01/23 - Happy New Year everyone! Today I added eleven episodes to the Tim Conway Comedy Hour library. This completes the library until I find more of the missing episodes. Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 20 TV shows, TV series and films, portraying different characters in each. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II TV situation comedy McHale's Navy, was a regular cast member (1975–78) on the TV comedy The Carol Burnett Show where he portrayed his recurrent iconic characters Mister Tudball, Oldest Man and Dumb Private, co-starred with Don Knotts in several films (1979–80), was the title character in the Dorf series of eight sports comedy direct-to-video films (1987–96), and provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–2012). Twice, in 1970 and in 1980–81, he had his own TV series. This library is located in the Tim Conway Catalog which is available in the Comedy Shows Catalog. The added episodes are:
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