Over the course of an estimated 1,537 episodes (exact records are difficult to compile and almost all of the shows are lost to history as actual recordings, with just twenty-four surviving in the UCLA Film and Television Archive), Captain Video kept Earth safe from such threats as Dr Pauli, the “yellow peril” of Hing Foo Sung, and alien Nargola (played by Ernest Borgnine in his first screen role. As was the fashion of the time, Video had a teen sidekick, confusingly named The Video Ranger, played throughout the series by Don Hastings (who would go on to play Dr Bob Hughes for over fifty years on As the World Turns). Set in Earth’s distant future in the year 2254, the Video Rangers were a courageous band of enlisted men under the direction of Captain Video himself (originally played by Broadway actor Richard Coogan, and subsequently by radio’s Green Hornet, Al Hodge). Producers James Caddigan and Larry Menkin created the show for the DuMont Network, the first challenger to the big three of NBC, ABC, and CBS (although ABC and CBS preceded it by only a year). So sit back, pop on your slippers and light up your pipe, have the little lady bring you a little treat, and see what the pre-1965 era has in store for us…Ĭaptain Video and His Video Rangers (1949, DuMont): Although there had been one-off productions on several US channels and on the BBC in the UK, Captain Video and His Video Rangers was the first science-fiction TV series to continue a story, from its premiere episode on June 27 th 1949 right up to its finale, almost six years later. So, while The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Wagon Train dominated the ratings, less rustic thrills could still be found dotted across the schedules, right up to a 1964 Fall season which saw The Addams Family, Bewitched, Flipper, Gilligan’s Island, Jonny Quest, The Man from UNCLE, The Munsters, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea all make their TV debuts. The years before we were gifted My Mother the Car, Lost in Space, and (eventually) Batman may look thinner in terms of genre programming but there were still those hardy souls doing pioneering work in the field of the strange and the fantastic. There’s no concrete reason why The Telephemera Years begins in 1965, except for arbitrary reasons of available content and the more solid fixed point that is the great colour transference of that year, when it was announced that half of all network programming would be broadcast in colour from the Fall 1965 season. But here at STARBURST we celebrate their existence and mourn their departure, drilling down into the new season’s entertainment with equal opportunities square eyes… these are The Telephemera Years! They hit the schedules alongside established shows, hoping for a long run, but it’s not always to be, and for every Street Hawk there’s two Manimals. It claims to have sold over 1.8 million tracks in WAV, MP3 and FLAC formats to consumers around the world.Ah, telephemera… those shows whose stay with us was tantalisingly brief, snatched away before their time, and sometimes with good cause. In 2004, London-based was one of the early adopters of DRM-free tracks. “Best of Bleep” features artists such as Thom Yorke, industry execs, music journalists and tastemakers listing their top five releases for the site. Several new features have been added to the site, including a new music player that allows users to create their own playlists and has a recommendation tool which pinpoints new music making an impact on the site.Ī monthly magazine feature will be added to, the first of which launches this week. It will be accessible in beta for the next few weeks at alongside the regular site, after which it will switch completely to the new format at. The new site now offers a handpicked selection of single track and album downloads from over 300 independent labels including Beggars, Domino and !K7 as well as CDs, vinyl, DVDs, merchandise, event tickets and books from the Warp stable. The move is part of a fifth anniversary re-launch for. Warp Records has merged its download service with its online store Warpmart.
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