Rick Derringer and the Edgar Winter Group rocked the Midnight Special with 1973's "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo". Winter had been on earlier to perform "Free Ride", and we'll have that up another time.
Saturday Morning Archives
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo (1973)
Retro Toy Chest: Skittle Bowl (1970's)
Aurora's Skittle Bowl was the longest lasting of the Skittle line of games in the late 60's & early to mid 70's.
Here, Gene Wood (Beat The Clock, ex-The Adventures of Lariat Sam) is doing what amounts to an auditon for the Pro Bowlers Tour as he calls the end of this match. But check out the name given to the younger contestant......
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Saturday School: Mr. Peabody & Sherman meet Jim Bowie (1962)
Mr. Peabody (Bill Scott) & Sherman (Walter Tetley) meet Jim Bowie in this episode of Peabody's Improbable History. You'll note that the open is different from what you're accustomed to. This aired during either season 3 or 4 of Rocky & His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show:
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Sunday Funnies: Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947)
The Three Stooges are tailors, although their spelling leaves a bit to be desired, in 1947's "Sing a Song of Six Pants" (a play on "Sing a Song of Sixpence"), which was remade six years later as "Rip, Sew, & Stitch".
Rating: A.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Daytime Heroes: Disappearing Act (M. A. S. K, 1985)
From season 1 of M. A. S. K.:
Agents of V. E. N. O. M. use a shrinking ray to steal some valuable cars. To think that this episode premiered on Christmas Eve.
This "Disappearing Act", of course, won't be confused with a He-Man episode of the same name 2 years earlier.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits (Revisited): Daydream Believer (1966)
From season 1 of The Monkees comes one of their most recognizable hits.
Davy Jones sings lead on "Daydream Believer", and things get out of hand when the boys start mugging for the camera toward the end of the clip.
Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Underdog vs. The Witch of Pickyoon (1965)
This 1st season episode of Underdog first aired around January 1965. This video collects all four chapters, which became the format when NBC repackaged the series in an all-rerun, done-in-one package until the series was cancelled in 1973.
Sweet Polly (Norma McMillan) is in the titular village when she falls under the spell of "The Witch of Pickyoon", and it's up to Underdog (Wally Cox) to find & rescue her. "Witch" borrows some of its plot from the classic "Sleeping Beauty":
Rating: B.