Thanks to Larry Potash and the WGN-TV Morning News for their selection of our 1992 RerunIt.com interview with “Dick Van Dyke Show” co-star Morey Amsterdam as their “Surfin’ the Web” pick of the day! The clip is about Morey’s advice to a then-presidential candidate later known as JFK.
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Looking back, 1966 was a very good year for American pop culture. “Star Trek” began boldly going where no other television series had gone before. Adam West was a hit as TV’s “Batman” and one of Billboard’s number one songs of the year* came from a group that until September 12, 1966, no one had [...]

Throughout the 1980’s, I used to see Morey Amsterdam frequently at the Hamburger Hamlet, a local “industry” restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, on the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills line. It is still there today, still serving up the burgers that made the once thriving chain (now whittled down to just a few locations) so popular. My office [...]

The cast of “Everybody Loves Raymond.”

When I interviewed Doris Roberts in May 1992, “Everybody Loves Raymond” wasn’t yet a factor in either her life of her career. It would be four more years before the role of a lifetime that came to define (or refine) both her life and career would find its way to [...]

Just added to the RerunIt.com collection is our 1992 interview with “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman. Tragic life, interesting chat and profound perspective on success in the business of acting.
As I wrote when news of Gary’s death was first announced last May, I was so sad, like many of his fans, to ponder how and [...]

Green Acres was an instant hit when it premiered on CBS-TV in 1965. The comedy about a successful New York City attorney and his glamorous wife who trade all of the trappings of their upscale urban life for open air, wide spaces and the life of a gentleman farmer and his still-glamorous life made for [...]

Barbara Billingsley talks with Brad Lemack (1991) - Courtesy of RerunIt.com

I was so sadden to learn of the death of Barbara Billingsley yesterday.

I had gotten to know Barbara over the years through my management of Isabel Sanford. In the 1990’s when “TV mothers” were all the rage, it seemed like every other week, Isabel and [...]

What a tragic life.

Personally, I liked Gary Coleman. I first knew him back in the days of his hit TV series Diff’rent Strokes. There were issues even then, all well documented publicly … health scares, health challenges, followed later by battles with his parents over control over money he had earned from that very [...]

Sad to hear the news of the death of TV pioneer Art Linkletter yesterday, in Los Angeles, at age 97.
Anyone younger than 45 doesn’t seem to have a clue who Linkletter was. Too bad. For us baby boomers, he helped define our childhoods.
In the bigger picture of his legacy, Art will [...]

It was 35 years ago today that “The Jeffersons” became a part of the American (now global) television landscape. We first met Louise and George Jefferson (Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley) on Norman Lear’s grounding breaking 1970’s television series “All in the Family.” The characters proved to be so popular, that Lear and his team [...]