Wednesday, December 22, 2010
All I Want for Retro-Christmas Countdown (3 Days Left...): Merlin!
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Hah! Had one of those :D
ReplyDeleteCharacter actor Parley Baer plays the grandpa in this commercial.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the one scene where the girl sets down Merlin to answer the phone, I wonder how many people mistook Merlin for a phone!
At the time (around my area), more kids had the Mattel hand-held electronic football game and Simon!
Friggin' loved my Merlin. Taught me how to play blackjack...LOL
ReplyDeleteI still remember the jingle from the other TV spot: "Where's Merlin, where did it go? / Janie's got it, playing tic-tac-toe..." Weird what you store away in the ol' memory banks...
Oh man, I wanted one of those soooo bad. Mostly because it looked like something right out of "Buck Rogers".
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