Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 December 2022

Spider-Man film poster

Outside of North America a live-action webslinger first appeared in cinemas in 1977, as the CBS TV movie was - like many lavish network pilots of the time - released theatrically in the rest of the world. The movie pitted Nicholas Hammond's far-too-old Peter Parker against arguably Spidey's greatest foe, the iconic Guru. Unsurprisingly Hammond was well up for appearing in No Way Home. Unsurprisingly Marvel Studios weren't. 

The Music from Peter Gunn album cover

The theme tune for Peter Gunn might be better remembered for its' use in The Blues Brothers and Monty Python's Flying Circus rather than the moderately successful private eye series that spawned it. However, Henry Mancini's first soundtrack work for Blake Edwards did boast this cracker of an LP cover.

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

The Angels #6 magazine cover

Charlie's Angels was massive before Farrah Fawcett's departure, though the name of Ideal Publishing's magazine suggests they maybe didn't bother paying for a licence. What's really curious though is the juxtaposition of promises of "naughty" Farrah centrefold action with beauty tips, suggesting the magazine was pushing for two very different target markets.

Man from UNCLE Spy Pen advert

 

Based on all those times Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin used the device to spy on women undressing. Sadly for  voyeuristic secret agents any actual seeing through walls was entirely coincidental.

Tuesday, 13 December 2022