The Monkees – Doyle’s Space: SitCom Hall of Fame

Airing on NBC for two seasons (58 episodes), the show chronicled the fictional misadventures of a struggling rock band.

The Monkees was my favorite sitcom as a child. Before video recording, I would use my Radio Shack Cassette Recorder to capture the audio of each episode. I didn’t have an external microphone, so I would stack up books and place the recorder by the TV speaker. I would then re-play the tape over and over and sing along to each episode’s songs.

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The Munsters – Doyle’s Space: SitCom Hall of Fame

Eddie! You better start dawdling, or you’re going to be on time for school! – Lily Munster

The Munsters is a classic American TV sitcom that aired from September 24, 1964, to May 12, 1966, on CBS. It was created by Norman Lear and Al Lewis, alongside Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who were also behind Leave It to Beaver. The show stood out as a family-oriented sitcom but with an intriguing twist—its central characters were all friendly monsters living in a suburban environment.

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Lisa Loring Dies

She originated the onscreen role of Wednesday Addams.

Lisa Loring portrayed Wednesday on the original “The Addams Family”. She played the character for only two years but set the template for the movie portrayals of Wednesday and was recently praised as an inspiration for Jenna Ortega’s interpretation on the hit Netflix series “Wednesday”.

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