12 Shiny Facts About Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
(via Mental Floss) You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and by now you certainly know Rudolph as
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Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.
(via History) On this day in 1980, 350 million people around the world tune in to television’s popular primetime drama
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An Oral History of ‘David Pumpkins’
(via Vulture) “Haunted Elevator” is a 2016 Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out what this
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Coolest cars in television history
(via Grunge) Sometimes the only difference between a great TV show and a bad TV show is that one of
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16 Facts About The Carol Burnett Show On Its 50th Anniversary
(via mental_floss) When The Carol Burnett Show premiered in 1967, Burnett broke new ground as the first female host of
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10 Fun Facts About The Love Boat
(via mental_floss) For nearly 10 years, TV viewers got to experience a journey aboard a cruise ship nearly every Saturday
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9 times Mister Rogers said exactly the right thing
(via Vox) Fred Rogers, host of the beloved Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, used television for good. But he didn’t just appeal
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10 TV Shows That Recycled Their Sets
(via mental_floss) With a few exceptions, television productions don’t typically enjoy the massive budgets of their big-screen counterparts, so producers
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The Simpson Family Made Its Television Debut 30 Years Ago
(via Smithsonian) On April 19, 1987, the Simpson family made its debut in a 30 second clip on the FOX
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This 1950s game show profited from the poverty of a new woman every day
(via Timeline) Queen for a Day, a 1950s television game show featuring female contestants pleading for badly needed items for
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14 Non-Judgmental Facts About The People’s Court
(via mental_floss) Though it continues to air new episodes five days a week in syndication, most everyone nostalgic for The
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15 Awfully Big Facts About ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’
(via mental_floss) Loyal viewers who grew up watching the independent, intelligent, and perky career woman named Mary Richards always knew
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