http://www.americanclassictelevision.com Dedicated to TV's first 50 years, 1925-1975 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:59:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...for Christmas dinner, no less!! This falls under the "stocking stuffer" category... as a bonus extra on the final DVD collection of "Dark Shadows" episodes, MPI Home Video will be giving all of the faithful fans of the series a terrific little treat. As fans of the show no ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/10/31/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/ The latest press release from the office: ************************* "LiveFeed Video Imaging is pleased to announce the restoration of the only known video footage of Maila Nurmi, in her role as the legendary TV horror movie hostess “Vampira.” Originally airing live during 1954-55, exclusively in the Los Angeles area, it was believed ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/10/16/just-in-time-for-halloween-vampira-lives-again/ Ah, for the days of the Public Service Announcement (PSA)... I recall that our local independent station used to run some of them so frequently that must have ingrained themselves on my DNA. Along with "Popeye Meets Sindbad the Sailor", of course. PSAs weren't always the most clever or technically ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/03/18/like-father-like-son-think-about-it/ …and that’s the number of copies that the LiveFeed-restored DVD Project (“Elvis Presley – The Ed Sullivan Shows” has sold in its first 3 months of release.  Hooray for our side!! That little news-nugget is contained in an interesting article from today’s “New York Times”.  You can read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/technology/12video.html?_r=1&oref=slogin As ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/03/12/100000-elvis-fans-cant-be-wrong/ Monty Hall is without a doubt one of the greatest talkers of our time. You don't have to go any farther than to watch a few of the over 4,700 "Let's Make a Deal" shows that he's hosted to know that. While some fans of classic TV rightfully ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/03/08/the-other-monty-hall-probability-conundrum/ In the "good news / bad news" category comes this notable find: we've recently unearthed a complete ILR (in-line recording) of the audio portion of the original 1957 live broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella", starring Julie Andrews and Jon Cypher! As I'm sure no one reading has to be ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/03/01/a-bittersweet-cinderella-story-for-now/ Well, that was a rather long-ish station break, but I think we've finally got everything going properly, and the forums now appear to be up and running [and we hope you'll use them judiciously], so now from all of us: Welcome to American Classic Television! http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2007/02/25/and-were-back/ Welcome to American Classic Television-- better known from this point on as ACTV... if you love classic television as much as we do, we hope you'll stick around and put in your two cents worth from time to time as we get our Forum pages up and running. Here on ... http://www.americanclassictelevision.com/2006/11/24/the-sign-on/