classic tv

There’s no question that actor Paul Lynde was a fixture of Classic TV, and while he never managed his own hit show, he made memorable appearances on dozens of the biggest sitcoms of...

One of the most refreshing things about Erin Murphy, a former Classic TV child actor, is the fact that she’s not screwed up, and that she hasn’t had to fight her way back from a...

The big news for Classic TV lovers is not only the recent announcement that HGTV had purchased the home used as the exterior for The Brady Bunch house, or the fact that series star...

We’ll give you that every year represents an anniversary of something, but one of the standout aspects of 2019 is that it’s an opportunity to celebrate the fact that 1969 was 50 years...

Rod Serling‘s classic television series The Twilight Zone is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and there’s probably no better way to herald this fact than with the all-new anthology series coming from CBS All...

It’s almost unimaginable that nearly 10 years has passed since Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer, and nearly as impossible to fathom that this would have been her 72nd birthday. The reason for...

There’s always something reassuring in discovering that a Classic TV family that we watched week after week — through all their highs and lows — truly bonded behind the scenes as well. That’s...

The fact that they costarred in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is not the only thing that connects actors Tom Hanks and Alan Alda. Tom, 62, also presented Alan, 83, with this year’s SAG Life Achievement Award during...

Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story is a new biography about sitcom icon Mary Tyler Moore, who soared to fame as the star of both The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Written by...

Brandon Cruz is not a fan of Hollywood, and it’s not because after spending three years costarring on The Courtship of Eddie’s Father he felt abandoned by the system, tossed aside and lost himself...

Climb back aboard our time machine as we take another trip into the past of television history. We’ve gone as far back as 60 years with television series debuting in 1959 (Bonanza, Dennis...

Most people remember late actor Michael Landon for portraying Charles Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie or Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven. But to his daughter Jennifer Landon, his best role was being a dad...

It seems The Sopranos is kind of like the mob itself: once you’re in, it’s tough to get out. Well, the HBO series has been all over the news as of late, first for...

If you thought Hee Haw was a hoot to watch, pfft! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet! To celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary, Closer Weekly exclusively caught up with original cast members Jana Jae,...

In all truthfulness, The Golden Girls probably shouldn’t have worked as a TV series. Seriously, why should it have? The idea of focusing on four aging women living together and helping each other...

It’s bad enough for anyone who grew up with them to think about the fact that there are so many Classic TV shows celebrating their 50th Anniversaries this year, but we’re just twisted...

Now that we’ve reached 2019, we realize that there’s a lot of pop culture celebrating to be had. We kicked things off with a 50th Anniversary look back at the films of 1969...

It’s not exaggerating to say that HBO’s The Sopranos is one of the most influential television series of this generation. Focusing on the family and la familia of Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano (the late James Gandolfini), it’s...

According to recent comments, it seems that the critically acclaimed show The West Wing, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, could be just the latest in a series of television reboots. One would imagine,...

If anyone is deserving of honor and recognition for her accomplishments in television, it’s absolutely Carol Burnett, who just received the Golden Globes’ first special award in the category of TV Lifetime Achievement. Even...