1987 - Yesterday we showed you the Max Headroom Christmas Carol. You thought that was the end of it, heck, WE thought that was the end of it until further research uncovered THIS: The 'Max Headroom Incident', as it is now known, one of the most successful pirate broadcasts of all time. It happened to two Chicago TV stations on November 22nd, 1987. Before it was over, a bewildered Doctor Who audience got a LOT more than they bargained for! Read (and see) the whole story of the broadcasts below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/468926/november-22-needs-to-be-found-footage-day-max-headroom-incident/
Staying warm in the cathode ray glow a little longer, '87 is also the year The Simpsons begins as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, including Bart's version of 'The Night Before Christmas': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvVznAJ4X98
We'll wrap up the day going even FURTHER back, to 1956 to be exact and a look at a version of A Christmas Carol that we've never covered in our 16 years of running this blog. It was in a completely different medium: not films, TV or radio ... behold the ViewMaster version! A crash course for viewers who have no idea what we're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master
Here's a complete look at the slides:
http://lancecardinal.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-christmas-carol-vintage-view-master.html
Last but not least, here's all three reels restored to 3-D! Search your home, if you have any leftover anaglyphic 3D glasses (the cheap cardboard ones such as seen here, either red/green or red/blue), you can get the ViewMaster 3D effect via the YouTube link below. I actually have these reels and it's surprisingly spooky and rather hair-raising (especially the last Ghost): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_CX351krY
More tomorrow!
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