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d4doome · @d4doome
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Hi-Jack, an episode of the 1950-51 Dick Tracy TV series. I'm a bit of a Dick Tracy fan and the series did star Ralph Byrd, the definitive screen Dick Tracy. Alas the plot is too conventional and it all looks a bit stodgy. A curiosity more than anything else.

My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

#culttv #retrotv #vintagetv #1950stv #50stv #dicktracy

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Steven Capsuto - Alt. Channels · @StevenCapsuto
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Today is the birthday of stage and screen actor Carlton Carpenter, who died in 2022 at age 95.

In 1954, he played one of American TV's first identifiably gay characters when NBC broadcast a production of the 1941 Broadway musical LADY IN THE DARK. The show takes place largely in the offices of a fashion magazine, and Carpenter played the supporting role of Russell, an overwrought, presumably gay fashion photographer (originally played on stage by Danny Kaye). In interviews in the 1980s, Carpenter talked about what it was like to be a gay actor in 1950s Hollywood, and the lengths that the studio went to in order to build up a fake macho and heterosexual image for him.

Here's a short video clip of that 1954 program: youtu.be/Z3vYAqTwKV4

#television #gay #musicals #lgbtq #queer #50stv #1950stv

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Steven Capsuto - Alt. Channels · @StevenCapsuto
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THE ERNIE KOVACS SHOW - 7/2/1956, NBC

One of the few ongoing queer characters on 1950s American television was Percy Dovetonsils: comedian Ernie Kovacs's beloved lisping, purse-lipped poet who recited bad verse on a set representing his Greenwich Village penthouse. Kovacs used this character on various shows for more than ten years.

Given 1950s censorship of LGBTQ content, Percy's sexuality was mostly hinted at, though on rare occasions he would do things like comment on a cameraman's "muscular legs" or pluck petals from a flower reciting "He loves me, he loves me not..."

youtu.be/wzemP2PX3D8

#erniekovacs #50stv #gay #queer #lgbtq #television #sketchcomedy #1950stv

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RikerDonegal · @RikerDonegal
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Each one of them in danger, should they open the device and touch the pellets inside…

#classictv #50stv #tvdetectives

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RikerDonegal · @RikerDonegal
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#classictv #fridaythe13th #barneymiller #highwaypatrol #theoddcouple #cheers #nightcourt #areyoubeingserved #werewolf #talesfromthecrypt #Columbo #fernwoodtonight #FamousFive #isis #30rock #highlander #foreverknight #frasier #batman #falconcrest #rudeawakening #mollydodd #magnumpi #mikehammer #harryo #thestreetsofsanfrancisco #classictelevision #90stv #80stv #70stv #60stv #50stv

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Rod Serling's The Sixteen-Millimetre Shrine, one of my favourite Twilight Zone episodes (1959). A faded movie star (played superbly by Ida Lupino) lives in the past, the past when she was a star.

A wonderful bitter-sweet story. With a terrific twist ending which was copied by a certain well-known film director some years later.

My review: cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/20

#RodSerling #twilightzone #idalupino #retrotv #culttv #vintagetv #SciFiTV #scifi #sciencefiction #50stv #horrortv

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Kari Crock Comics · @KariCrockComics
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Aventura #207 presents MAVERICK - Editorial Novaro (Mexico) 1961

#western #novaro #editoialnovaro #mexicancomics #vintagecomics #50stv #vintagetv #jackkelly #jamesgarner #maverick #comics

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