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The Making of Babylon 5
Sure, you’ve watched J. Michael Straczynski’s groundbreaking TV series Babylon 5, and odds are you’ve loved it because groundbreaking, you know? But do you know what it took to get this sucker on the air?
Sit back, click below, and – to quote from another popular s-f TV series – “all will be revealed.” Well, almost all. Enjoy, fans and future TV series creators, enjoy!
This is just one of the well-made and often fascinating videos available on Al Schlicher’s Vimeo channel.
Herbie J Pilato’s Exclusive Interview with ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Icon Max Baer, Jr.
by Herbie J Pilato
“Yee-hah!”
— Jethro Bodine, as played by Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies
There must be something to being super-dim and mega-handsome. Just ask Jethro Bodine, The Beverly Hillbillies TV character portrayed with earnest by Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Jethro may have been born as “mountain folk,” but because his Uncle Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) struck gold (“Texas tea”), he was fortunate enough to have “loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly . . . Hills, that is” — with the entire Clampett family, including Elly May (Donna Douglas) and Granny (Irene Ryan).
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