Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians perform "Auld Lang Syne"

Happy New Year everyone.

Friday Features - New Products from American Retro & Movie Buffs

"Detective Tales" Mousepad by AmericanRetro

"Plenti Grand" Bag by AmericanRetro

"The Atomic Submarine" IPad Case by moviebuffs

"The Phantom of the Opera" Mug by moviebuffs

Freeze Frame - "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" Tee Shirt by moviebuffs

Thrilling Friday Serials: Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 6: "Zorro to the Rescue!"

Zorro and the Fighting Legion battle Don Del Oro's men for the munitions wagons, but Moreno has sent a burning wagon of gunpowder barreling towards them in Zorro's Fighting Legion, Chapter 6: Zorro to the Rescue!

Old Time Radio Thursdays: You Are There - "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"

 CBS Radio's  "You Are There" begins with "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (From July 7, 1949).

Listen to "You Are There" - "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"

Trailer Wednesdays; Battleship (2012)

Yep, it's the movie of the game:

100 Essential E-Books #78 "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin

First published on November 24, 1859 "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" is considered the foundation of evolutionary biology.

Here in multiple formats is "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin from ManyBooks.net.

The 100 Essential E-Books so far:

1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
6. The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
7. Moby Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
11. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
19. Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
23. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
24. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
25. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. Emma by Jane Austen
28. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
29. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
31. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
32. Beowulf by Anonymous
33. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
34. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
35. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
36. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Iliad by Homer
39. The Odyssey by Homer
40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

41. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 

42. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 

43. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 

44. Walden; or, A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 

45. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

46. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 

47. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 

48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

49. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 

50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

51. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

52. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 

54. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 

55. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

56. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 

57. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 

58. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 

60. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo.

62. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

63. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

64. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 

65. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

66. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

67. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

68. The Republic by Plato

69. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

70. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

71. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

72. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

73. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

74. Dubliners by James Joyce

75. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

76. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

77. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

78. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Muppet Mondays: The Muppets sing "Auld Lang Syne"

Christmas Day at the Movies: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"

Merry Christmas everyone from Santa & Droppo.

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Christmas Edition: Peace on Earth (1939)

Thrilling Friday Serials: Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 5: "Decoy!"

Zorro attempts to warn the munition train of Moreno's attack but is attacked by Yacqui Indians (This one's literally a cliffhanger!) in Zorro's Fighting Legion, Chapter 5: Decoy!

Old Time Radio Thursdays: "A Christmas Carol" w/ Sir Ralph Richardson

"A Christmas Carol" Part 1

and

"A Christmas Carol" Part 2

Trailer Wednesdays: Men in Black 3

100 Essential E-Books #77 "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli

First distributed in 1513 but not officially published until 1532 "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli is a political treatise that argues that a ruler may use immoral means to insure his rule's survival.  A classic of political thought.

Here in multiple formats is "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli from ManyBooks.net.

The 100 Essential E-Books so far:

1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
6. The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
7. Moby Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
11. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
19. Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
23. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
24. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
25. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. Emma by Jane Austen
28. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
29. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
31. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
32. Beowulf by Anonymous
33. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
34. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
35. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
36. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Iliad by Homer
39. The Odyssey by Homer
40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

41. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 

42. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 

43. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 

44. Walden; or, A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 

45. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

46. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 

47. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 

48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

49. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 

50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

51. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

52. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 

54. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 

55. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

56. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 

57. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 

58. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 

60. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo.

62. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

63. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

64. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 

65. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

66. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

67. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

68. The Republic by Plato

69. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

70. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

71. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

72. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

73. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

74. Dubliners by James Joyce

75. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

76. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

77. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Muppet Mondays - Christmas Edition: Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem - "Jingle Bell Rock"

Sunday Night at the Movies - Christmas Edition: "Beyond Tomorrow"

The ghost of three old friends  come to the aid of young lovers in this sweet little film.

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Christmas Edition: "Pluto's Christmas Tree"

Friday Features: New Products from Movie Buffs & American Retro

"Phantom From 10,000 Leagues" Tee Shirt by moviebuffs

Freeze Frame - "Metropolis" - Maria Postcard by moviebuffs

1964 New York World's Fair Magnet by AmericanRetro

WPA Poster - "Don't Mix 'Em" Postcard by AmericanRetro

Thrilling Friday Serials: Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 4: Bridge of Peril!

Zorro searches for a secret room in the gold mine unaware that the Lord of Gold wants to bury him alive in Zorro's Fighting Legion, Chapter 4: Bridge of Peril!

Old Time Radio Thursdays - Christmas Edition: Campbell Playhouse - "A Christmas Carol" w/ Orson Welles & Lionel Barrymore

From Christmas Eve, 1939, the Campbell Playhouse production of "A Christmas Carol." Welles narrates and Barrymore plays Scrooge.

Listen to the Campbell Playhouse - "A Christmas Carol."

Trailer Wednesdays: "John Carter"

New BBC One Trailer - Doctor Who Xmas Special - "The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe"

100 Essential E-Books #76 The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen's stories are known the world over; "The Little Mermaid," "The Snow Queen," "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "Thumbelina," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Little Mermaid," to name but a few.



Here in multiple formats is "The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen" from ManyBook.net.

The 100 Essential E-Books so far:

1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
6. The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
7. Moby Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
11. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
19. Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
23. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
24. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
25. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. Emma by Jane Austen
28. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
29. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
31. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
32. Beowulf by Anonymous
33. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
34. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
35. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
36. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Iliad by Homer
39. The Odyssey by Homer
40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

41. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 

42. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 

43. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 

44. Walden; or, A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 

45. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

46. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 

47. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 

48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

49. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 

50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

51. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

52. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 

54. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 

55. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

56. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 

57. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 

58. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 

60. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo.

62. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

63. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

64. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 

65. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

66. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

67. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

68. The Republic by Plato

69. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

70. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

71. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

72. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

73. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

74. Dubliners by James Joyce

75. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

76. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

Muppet Mondays - Christmas Edition: "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"

Sunday Night at the Movies - Christmas Edition: "Santa Claus" (Mexico)

Santa Claus battles the devil with the aid of child labor, demonic mechanical raindeer, and Merlin from his cloud fortress in this holiday film from Churubusco-Azteca Studios (Dubbed in English).

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Christmas Edition: "Hector's Hectic Life" (1948)

Thrilling Friday Serials: Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 3: "Descending Doom!"

Zorro discovers that his men are trapped by the Yaquis in a mission that has been mined with explosives as Zorro's Fighting Legion continues with Chapter 3: Descending Doom!.

Old Time Radio Thursdays - Christmas Edition: CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "A Very Private Miracle"

From Christmas, 1978 comes this tale about a Santa suit, a bitter miser, and a special little girl.

Listen to CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "A Very Private Miracle."

Trailer Wednesdays: "Sound of Noise" 2010 (French Subtitles)

Doctor Who Christmas Special - "The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe" Prequel

100 Essential E-Books #75 "Right Ho, Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse

Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, don't see eye to eye in this 1934 novel when both men attempt to aid Gussie Fink-Nottle in wooing Madeline Bassett.  When Bertie forbids Jeeves to interfere and takes matters into his own hands Bertie inadvertently proposes to Miss Bassett and the troubles begin.

Here in multiple formats is "Right Ho, Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse from ManyBooks.net.

The 100 Essential E-Books so far:

1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
6. The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
7. Moby Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
8. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
9. Ulysses - James Joyce
10. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
11. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
16. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
19. Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
21. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
22. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
23. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
24. The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
25. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
26. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
27. Emma by Jane Austen
28. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
29. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
31. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
32. Beowulf by Anonymous
33. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
34. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
35. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
36. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
37. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Iliad by Homer
39. The Odyssey by Homer
40. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 

41. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 

42. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 

43. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 

44. Walden; or, A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 

45. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

46. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 

47. A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 

48. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

49. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 

50. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

51. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

52. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

53. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 

54. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 

55. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

56. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 

57. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 

58. Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm

59. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 

60. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo.

62. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

63. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

64. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 

65. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

66. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

67. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

68. The Republic by Plato

69. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

70. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

71. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

72. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

73. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

74. Dubliners by James Joyce

75. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Muppet Mondays - Christmas Edition: "12 Days of Christmas" w/ John Denver

Sunday Night at the Movies - Christmas Edition: Studio One presents "The Nativity" (1952)

Saturday Morning Cartoons - Christmas Edition: "Santa's Workshop"

Friday Features: New Products from Movie Buffs & American Retro

"The Outlaw" Mousepad by moviebuffs

"The Phantom Planet" IPod Touch Case by moviebuffs

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" Tee Shirt by moviebuffs

"Santa Brand" Bag by AmericanRetro

"Broken Glasses" Coffee Mug by AmericanRetro

Thrilling Friday Serials - Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 2: "The Flaming Z !"

Zorro hurries to save the gold train from Don Del Oro's trap, only to find himself in the path of a landslide in Zorro's Fighting Legion - Chapter 2: The Flaming Z!

Old Time Radio Thursdays - Christmas Edition: CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - "A Holiday Visit"

An accident cuts short a couple's Christmas visit and takes them to a strange town with a single unusual resident in "A Holiday Visit," first broadcast on Christmas, 1980.

Listen to The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre - "A Holiday Visit."