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Sha Na Na is a well-known rock and roll revival act. Announcing themselves as “from the streets of New York”, and outfitted in gold lame, leather jackets and pompadour hairdos, Sha Na Na performed a song and dance repertoire of classic fifties rock’n'roll, simultaneously reviving and sending up the music and 1950s New York street culture.

Sha Na Na hosted the Sha Na Na syndicated variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981. It was among the most watched programs in syndication during its run. The show was produced by Pierre Cossette and originally distributed by LBS Communications.

The show featured the group performing hits from the 1950s and 1960s, along with comedy skits. The “tough guys” road act from their original road shows was adapted for TV and the group moved to a comedy and self deprecating routine. The mainstay continued to be the ’50s song and dance routines. The show opened in a typical “concert scene,” and then moved through various street and ice cream parlor scenes where they and their guests performed several songs. That was followed by a comedy-oriented song (e.g. Alley Oop, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah) and closed with a slow song, again in their “concert format”.

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Before it became a long-running original television show, Fantasy Island was introduced to viewers in 1977 through two highly-rated made-for-television films in which Mr. Roarke and Tattoo played relatively minor roles. Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalban as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fantasies, albeit for a price.

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Donny & Marie was a variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to May 1979.

The show starred brother and sister pop duo Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond. Donny had first become popular singing in a music group with his brothers, The Osmonds, and Marie was one of the youngest singers to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts (with “Paper Roses”, in 1973). The siblings were given the show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed their series of popular remakes of oldies, such as “I’m Leaving It (All) Up To You”, “Morning Side Of The Mountain”, “Deep Purple” and “Make The World Go Away”.

A Donny & Marie wireless toy microphone (which transmitted to AM radio frequencies) was released in 1977.

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In the late 1960s/early 1970s Burger King started using a small, animated version of the King in its children’s advertising. The King was featured in a series of advertisements in which he would visit a Burger King outlet for an interview with a television reporter or see a former court wizard who now worked for the chain. In all ads the King would present children with small gifts or buy them some Burger King food. Many of these commercials featured the king character reciting the restaurant’s slogan, “Burger King, where kids are king.”

The original animated King was soon replaced by the “Marvelous Magical Burger King,” a red-bearded king who ruled the Burger King Kingdom and performed magic tricks that were mostly sleight-of-hand, but sometimes relied on camera tricks. This campaign paralleled McDonald’s McDonaldland children’s commercials, which featured “Ronald McDonald”, “The Hamburglar”, and “Mayor McCheese”, along with other characters and mascots.

The children’s ads featuring the King were phased out by the late 1980s in favor of the BK Kids Club Gang ads.

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Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987. The series was produced by Embassy Television for the first four seasons, until Columbia Pictures Television took production of the series with the move to syndication.

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A velvet painting is a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials. The velvet provides an especially dark background against which colours stand out brightly.

Velvet painting is an ancient technique, and took on a new popularity in the United States in the late 20th Century.

The paintings are widely sold in rural America, and frequently have kitsch themes. They often depict images of Elvis Presley (see Velvet Elvis), Dale Earnhardt, John Wayne, Jesus, Native Americans, and cowboys. They can also include more exotic or avant-garde themes.

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico was a centre of velvet painting in the 1970s. A displaced Georgia farmboy, Doyle Harden, was the pioneer who created an enormous factory, where velvets were turned out by the thousands by artists sitting in studios. One artist would paint one piece of the picture, then slide the velvet along to the next artist, who would add something else. That way velvet paintings were mass produced by hand, fueling the boom in velvet paintings in the 1970s in the United States. Edgar Leeteg has been called “the father of American black velvet kitsch”.

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Æon Flux (pronounced /ˌiːɒn ˈflʌks/) is an avant garde American science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV. It premiered in 1991 on MTV’s Liquid Television experimental animation show as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995 a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series.

Æon Flux was created by Korean American animator Peter Chung (also the man behind Phantom 2040, which used the same animation style as Æon Flux). A live action motion picture loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron was released in late 2005.