After that appalling Little Marcy clip, I feel I should make amends with this utterly charming and extremely ear-wormy clip of the theme song from Here Come the Double-Deckers!, a children's show from the early 70s, featuring a Little Rascals-ish gang of British kids whose clubhouse was located in an old double-decker London bus. As the show was a co-production between the BBC and 20th Century Fox, it aired in the US, but I have only the vaguest memories of watching it. Being 12 at the time, I probably considered it far too childish for my advanced tastes.

I've also tossed in another clip from the Double Deckers called, The Robby Dance, which takes you back to that mysterious time when the sound of a Hammond organ and a snappy brass section could made everyone stop what they were doing and frug wildly with a guy in a bad robot costume.

Thanks to World of Kane for this shot of pure bubblegum bliss.

[Link: Here Come the Double Deckers]
[Link: The Robby Dance]
[Link: Tribute Site]

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Tired of sleazy reality shows, predictable cop dramas, and insomnia-curing celebrity poker tournaments? Then change the channel to Deviant-TV, where you'll find nothing but the finest in low-brow entertainment. Every day features a fabulously full schedule of cheesy horror and science-fiction films, kinky soap operas, Kaiju kiddie shows, topped off with a nightcap of the finest in gentlemen's entertainment magazines. If this station actually existed, I'd be calling my local cable company every 5 minutes to demand that they carry it.

Here's half of last night's Deviant Double Feature: House on Haunted Hill

[Link: Deviant-TV]

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Do you remember the Bone Fone, Super Buster Radar Detector, and the Sexum Adult Digital Watch (pictured above)? Here's a site that'll help jog your memory.

[Link: Magical Gadgets]

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I used to collect these bubblegum cards back in the early Seventies. The quality of the "humor" was definitely Kindergarten-through-3rd grade, but the monsters were first-rate.

[Link: You'll Die Laughing][via PCL]

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Gravity Lens gives us a bittersweet taste of the Thunderbirds film that might've been; a CGI "sweetened" version of Supermarionation that hews far closer to the look and feel of the original series than the appallingly awful live-action kiddie movie we actually got stuck with at the box office.

[Link: CGI Thunderbirds Trailer]

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I went digging through the magazine racks at our local antique mall yesterday, and emerged with a 1935 issue of Ballyhoo, a humor magazine published by Dell between the years of 1931 and 1939. This particular issue features a South Seas theme, which should be abundantly obvious from the glorious hula girl on the cover (is that Bob Hope strumming the uke and leering from underneath his straw boater?). The contents are a mixture of Playboy-style vintage adult cartoons and Mad Magazine-ish lampoons. I'm sure this was pretty sophisticated and edgy stuff back in the Thirties, but today it seems hopelessly quaint, not to mention un-PC in the extreme. I've scanned 20 of the magazine's 34 pages and created a new gallery for them. Enjoy, and Happy Easter!

[Link: 1935 Ballyhoo Magazine]

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