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The New Adam-12: Watch the Last Episode of the 1989 Remake Series

19 August 2009 4:06 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've no doubt noticed that Hollywood seems obsessed with remaking old TV shows into new movies and series. While the trend seems to have gotten out of control lately, it's certainly nothing new. Tinseltown has been rehashing old shows for quite some time.

If you grew up in the 1960s or 1970s, you certainly remember the old Adam-12 series. The show ran for seven successful seasons and was created by Dragnet's Jack Webb. By the time the show had come to an end, it seemed like Lapd Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) had responded to every disturbance imaginable.

In 1989, seven years after the death of Webb, some producers decided to revive the concept as The New Adam-12.

The cast and characters had all changed but the name of the black and white squad car -- Adam-12 -- was still the same. »

- TVSeriesFinale.com

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Dragnet rates a U.S. postal stamp

11 August 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

How many people remember Dragnet? Or maybe I should say how many people remember actually watching Dragnet, the "just the facts" police show starring the iconic Jack Webb? The reason I ask is because the U.S. Postal Service is immortalizing Dragnet with a postage stamp tomorrow.

In light of the fact that letter writing and postal service are dramatically in decline, my guess is that there will be an older crowd nodding appreciatively when Dragnet is honored. You see, the younger generation (did I really say that?) doesn't have much use for stamps and won't be buying the Dragnet first class stamp.Continue reading Dragnet rates a U.S. postal stamp

 

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- Allison Waldman

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'Twilight Zone' Featured in Classic TV Stamp Set

29 June 2009 11:04 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I was in the post office the other day and saw one of the "coming soon" ads for stamp collections that were on the way. It was too distant for me to make out exactly what it was, but one of the upcoming collections was dedicated to the golden age of TV. And now Sci Fi Wire has better quality images and more information about those stamps.

The set includes Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, the Lone Ranger, Burns and Allen, Ozzie and Harriet, original Tonight Show host Steve Allen, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, Jack Webb from Dragnet, Lassie, Red Skelton, Uncle Miltie, Dinah Shore, Groucho Marx, Phil Silvers, from the world of puppets, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie as well as Howdy Doody, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, and Rod Serling. »

- Colin Boyd

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Exclusive Portrait: Blues Brother, ‘Ghostbuster’ Dan Aykroyd in Chicago

30 March 2009 1:28 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Blues Brother and “Ghostbusters” star Dan Aykroyd recently took time to pose for the the HollywoodChicago.com lens on March 28, 2009 before meeting fans and fine wine connoisseurs alike. Aykroyd was in Chicago to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.

Dan Aykroyd has starred in “The Blues Brothers,” “Trading Places,” “The Coneheads,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Ghostbusters,” “Caddyshack II,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “My Girl,” “My Girl 2,” “Dragnet,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “Blues Brothers 2000,” “Pearl Harbor,” “50 First Dates,” “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry” and many more films. Our exclusive portrait of Dan Aykroyd in Chicago can be found below.

Dan Aykroyd in Chicago on March 28, 2009 to promote his new Cabernet Sauvignon

and Chardonnay wines at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago’s South Loop.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Giant piano from Big donated to children's museum

21 January 2009 4:04 AM, PST | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Before his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, before his Oscars and before That awful hair in The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks was Hollywood’s go-to-guy when it came to playing lovable goofballs. It was a charming schtick that he worked to perfection in 80s comedies such as The ‘Burbs, Dragnet and The Money Pit, and never to better effect than in 1988’s Big. The classic tale of a 13-year-old boy that wishes to be big only to wake the next morning as a fully grown 35-year-old is total wish fulfillment stuff. As an overgrown kid Hanks gets to breeze about and most enviously of all gets to play a giant foot-operated piano at famed New York toy store Fao Schwarz. And now we’ll all get to have a look (if not a go) on the colossal musical instrument as it has been donated to a children’s museum in Philadelphia, »

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