This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. As we're once again at the last Thursday of the month, it's time for another TV-themed edition. This time, it's an odd little bird, as it's not a theme about TV shows that are or were on the air. Instead, it's "Books you want to see adapted into TV series". With that in mind, I decided to take the category somewhat unseriously, at least in the sense that I don't necessarily want to see my selections made into TV series. But it gave me the chance to look for some fun clips:
The NYNEX Yellow Pages. When AT&T was split up into the "Baby Bells" in the early 1980s, New York Telephone (my dad's longtime employer) and New England Telephone were merged into one of the spinoff companies, NYNEX, meaning "New York, New England, and the X stands for the possibilities". (Yes, it really was the inane a name.) They still printed phone books, and in the late 80s and early 90s came this campaign. If it's out there, it's in here. Two other good ones are here and here, although the titles give them away. NYNEX was eventually bought out by Bell Atlantic, another of the Baby Bells; Bell Atlantic eventually became Verizon.
Mother Goose's (or Grimms') Fairy Tales. In the mid-1970s, the producers of The Hollywood Squares tried a bizarre experiment that had the stars dress up as various fictional characters, with a slant towards things children would be familiar with, in a more family-themed version of the show. I have no idea what they were thinking.
To Serve Man. Need I say more?
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Oh nooo - the last video isn't available in my country 😠and I so wanted to see it!
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