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THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave. You folks are the greatest!

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Burt Reynolds and Darren McGavin’s western series RIVERBOAT (1959-1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Five Tomorrows (1970) and Between Time and Timbuktu (1972), Heimskringla! (1969), Peter Pan (1976), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Man Hunter (1973), City Beneath the Sea (1962) and Secret Beneath the Sea (1963), Shirley Temple’s Storybook (1958-1961), Desert Crusader (1968), Frightmare Theater (2015-2022).   

AMERICAN REVOLUTION – Neglected battles of: Late 1781, March 1776, PLUS Thaddeus Kosciuszko.   

FORGOTTEN GUNSLINGERS – Comanche Jack, Jim Leavy, California Jim, Ferd the Dandy, Long Henry, and Temple Houston – Sam Houston’s Son.   

SILENT MOVIES – Since last year I reviewed: Theda Bara’s Movies, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Metropolis (1927), Conrad Veidt: Silent Horror Film Star, Douglas Fairbanks’ 1916 drug comedy about “Coke Ennyday,” The Man from Painted Post (1917), A Modern Musketeer (1917), Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Movies, Harry Houdini’s Silent Movies, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Teddy the Great Dane, and Dick Turpin (1925).   

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Life in a Thousand Worlds (1905), The Monster Maker (1897), Land of the Changing Sun (1894), An Automatic Enigma (1872, 1878), and Another World (1873).

SPAIN’S HOMEMADE SUPERHEROES – A look at the incredible characters and storylines from Iberia, Inc. in the 1990s. Click HERE.

QUALITY MOVIES – The 14 Amazons (1972), The Elusive Avengers (1967), The White Reindeer (1952), The Fourth Reich (1990).      

THE BLACK WESTERN THOMASINE & BUSHROD (1974) – Click HERE.

FOOL KILLER: THE KLARENC WADE MAK VERSION (1917-1918) – Click HERE.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST EVER NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FROM JUNE OF 2023 – Click HERE. Continue reading →