Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was an animated television series featuring characters and storylines from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts. It aired Saturday mornings on the CBS network from 1983 to 1985.

Merry Christmas Mr. Snowman Book

A favorite Christmas story from my childhood... Merry Christmas Mr. Snowman is a Wonder Book that was published in 1980 and written by Irma Wilde.

80's Child Abuse Prevention PSA

Here's a memorable (and powerful) public service announcement from the 80's about child abuse prevention.

80's Juicy Fruit Gum Commercial

Here's another classic! An 80's Juicy Fruit Gum Commercial!

The taste is gonna move you!

Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy aired from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a large egg-shaped space ship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate.

After discovering Mork is an alien, Mindy promises to keep his true identity a secret and allows him to move into her attic. However, Mindy's father, Fred, expresses outrage that his daughter is living with a man (particularly one as bizarre as Mork). Fred's mother-in-law, Cora, presents a much less conservative view, and approves of Mork and the living arrangement. Mindy and Cora also work at Fred's music store where Cora gives music lessons to a young black child named Eugene, who becomes Mork's friend.

Mork's greeting was "Na-Nu Na-Nu" (pronounced "nah-noo nah-noo") along with a hand gesture similar to Mr. Spock's Vulcan salute from Star Trek combined with a handshake. It became a popular catchphrase at the time, as did "Shazbot" (SHOZZ-bot), an Orkan curse word that Mork used. Mork also said "kay-o" in place of okay.

Raggedy Ann Board Game

Here is a game I had when I was a kid... Raggedy Ann Board Game. It was made by Milton Bradley in 1974. The object of the game was to be the first to complete the Raggedy Ann puzzle.

Schoolhouse Rock! Conjunction Junction

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is Conjunction Junction from 1973!

80's Hershey's Syrup Commercial

Here's a classic 80's commercial for Hershey's Syrup, featuring Messy Marvin!

Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great by Judy Blume

Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great is written by Judy Blume and was published in 1972.

Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs.

When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come with the rented house, but her parents expect Sheila to take swimming lessons! Sheila does her best to pretend she's an expert at everything, but she knows she isn't fooling her new best friend, Mouse Ellis, who happens to be a crackerjack swimmer and a dog lover.

What will it take for Sheila to admit to the Tarrytown kids -- and to herself -- that she's only human?

Sesame Street: My Martian Cutie (Number 9)

Here is a classic tune, My Martian Cutie (Number 9), from the good old days on Sesame Street.

80's Froot Loops Commercial

Here's a great 80's commercial for Froot Loops cereal.

(An added bonus... a ABC bumper before the commercial starts!)

Enjoy!

Three's Company

Three's Company was a sitcom that aired from 1977 to 1984 on ABC.

The story revolves around three roommates, Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow (later Cindy Snow and Terri Alden), and Jack Tripper who share Apartment 201 in a Santa Monica, California apartment building owned by Mr. and Mrs. Roper (later owned by Bart Furley but managed by his brother, Ralph Furley). The show, a comedy of errors, chronicles the escapades of the trio's constant misunderstandings, social lives, and struggle to keep up with rent.

See 'n Say Toy

Here is another childhood favorite from 1966! It's a Mattel The Farmer Says See 'N Say toy.

Instead of the common standard pull string action to start the "Arf Arf" or "Moo Moo", these earlier toys required you to turn the farmer in the middle of the toy until his pointed finger aimed at the sound you wanted to hear.

Clue Club

Clue Club was a Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1976-1977 on CBS.

Similar in format to Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-Doo, the show centered around a group of four teenage detectives, the Clue Club — Larry, Pepper, D.D. and Dotty — who solved mysteries with the help of two talking bloodhounds named Woofer and Wimper.

Clue Club mysteries usually involved investigating bizarre crimes such as a movie director vanishing or a two-ton statue disappearing into thin air.

Woofer would constantly accuse suspects without good reason, then later back-track while proclaiming his genius; and Wimper, a more down-to-earth, easy-going, yet intelligent dog, would at times go along with his comrade’s schemes, and other times turn the tables on his pal. This, and Wimper's ability to find pertinent clues elevated his character to equal status. Unlike Scooby-Doo, the dogs are only able to talk to each other and not to humans.