Things You Didn’t Know
The TV Show ‘Flipper’ Flipped Into Our Hearts 60 Years Ago!
Did you know Flipper was often called the “aquatic Lassie?”
5 Divinely Fun Facts About ‘Highway to Heaven’ to Celebrate 40th Anniversary
The show featured a surprising homage to one of Michael Landon’s early roles.
There Was a ‘Planet of the Apes’ TV Show?! 5 Things You Never Knew
In this version, humans could talk (though it didn’t seem to help them much).
6 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Lassie’
A ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ star got her start looking after Timmy. and more fun facts in honor of the TV show’s 60th anniversary.
6 Things You Never Knew About the First MTV VMAs — 40 Years Later
One major band had to be blackmailed into performing.
Michael Landon Feuded With Karen Grassle & Other Behind the Scenes Stories From ‘Little House on the Prairie’
One cast member passed out in the prairie heat.
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Richard Kiel, Jaws From James Bond
He didn’t just play a steel-toothed henchman … he also played a famous evil alien.
6 Obscure Facts About the Original ‘Star Trek’ Series
In honor of Star Trek Day on September 8, 2024.
7 Things You Never Knew About ‘Land of the Lost’
Sci-fi great Harlan Ellison almost worked on the show … sort of.
6 Frighteningly Fun Facts About ‘Killer Klowns From Outer Space’
Soupy Sales almost died by pie in the film.
Enormous Facts About ‘War of the Colossal Beast’
The movie’s director was a “B-Movie” king!
6 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘The Longest Yard’
The actors played for real … and got injured for real.
‘Mary Poppins’ 60th Anniversary! 5 Things You Didn’t Know (And Some Aren’t Very Nice)
A “spoonful of sugar” was inspired by a vaccine?
5 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’
Plus the 1979 Roger Corman-produced cult classic almost featured disco instead of rock and roll!
5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About ‘Hart to Hart’
You won’t believe the producers’ first choice to play the crime-solving couple and who was on Hollywood’s Blacklist!
Fun Facts About Lugosi & Karloff’s 1940 Fright Flick ‘Black Friday’
The movie’s director went on to work with Abbott and Costello, Clint Eastwood and multiple wisecracking animals.
8 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’
The 1974 film starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford as Sundance Kid but it could have been someone completely different.
Take a Deeper Dive on ‘It Came From Beneath the Sea’
Learn more about a nuclear submarine that provokes the ire of one very angry giant radioactive octopus before Svengoolie airs it on MeTV this Saturday August 17.
Olivia Newton-John Still Captures Many Hearts After Her Death; PLUS, Fun Xanadu Facts
Remembering Olivia Newton-John and her mega cult movie ‘Xanadu’ that both have August 8 as a significant date.
10 Things You Might Not Have Known About ‘Charlie’s Angels’
Who was the only Angel NOT to work in an Aaron Spelling/Leonard Goldberg production prior to becoming a ‘Charlie’s Angel?’ Find out that and more!
How Bette Davis Reacted to Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes”
The star “almost flipped” when she heard the tribute.
6 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Night of the Iguana’
Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, the untamed jungle, and tiny golden guns … what could go wrong?
‘The Sixth Sense’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know For The Film’s 25th Anniversary
It was inspired by a real-life wake, it used to be about a serial killer, and it had its own plot twist spoiled by a song.
What’s the TRUE Story Behind Elvis’ Biggest Hits?
A French ballad, a female blues singer and a crime spree all inspired hits by the King.
8 Things to Know About Barry Manilow (At Least 1 Will Make You Cry)
“I invited everybody I ever met in my life to that concert, and Grandpa was there.”
Why ‘Jaws’ Almost Didn’t Get Made (It Wasn’t Just the Worst Place in the World to Shoot)
While few of us can imagine a world without ‘Jaws,’ it’s actually something of a miracle that the film was ever completed.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Green Acres’ & No They Didn’t Eat Arnold
The poor pig was rumored to be eaten and other fun facts.
6 Things You Never Knew About Western Icon John Wayne
One of his strangest films had some very bad consequences.
‘Land of the Lost’ creator Sid Krofft Says That Bette Davis Once Dropped an F-Bomb & Hung Up on Him
Krofft also shares a fiery exchange he had with an actress from ‘Poltergeist’
8 Things You Never Knew About ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ Star Barbara Eden
She met a very famous President and got his phone number!