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80s FLASHBACK by Sarah Bates ISSUE 2009.26
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Were you sporting teased bangs or leg warmers? Did you secretly wish you were Indiana Jones? Join Tidbits as we take a blast to the past for this 80s flashback! • A L F was ranked #8 on TV Guide’s 25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends. Alf was created and voiced by Paul Fusco. • The transporter effect in Star Trek: The Next Generation was created by filming stirred glitter in water. • The Smurfs first appeared in a 1958 French comic strip as creatures called schtroumpfs. • Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indiana Jones. He was unable to take the role due to his commitment to Magnum P.I. • Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Cliff Huxtable’s eldest daughter Sondra on The Cosby Show. Sabrina Le Beouf landed the role and was only ten years younger than Phylicia Rashad, who played her mother. • Mr. T was born Laurence Tureaud. The gold chains he wore on The A-Team weighed about 40 lbs (18 kg). • The exterior of Cheers was really The Bull and Finch Pub in Boston, Massachusetts. • Then unknown actor Leonardo DiCaprio played Luke Bower in the final season of Growing Pains. turn the page for more!
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• The Care Bears were originally created for use in American Greetings’ cards back in 1981. Care Bears plush toys followed the characters and eventually the characters got their own cartoon series that ran from 19851988 and three Care Bears movies in 1985, 1986 and 1987. The Care Bears movie was one of the first to be based directly off a toy line. The first Care Bears movie was a success with Hollywood backing. Mickey Rooney was the voice of the narrator. • Stacy Ferguson got her start long before she was Fergie in The Black Eyed Peas. As a • The 80s wouldn’t have been the same without child actress, she played Stacy on Disney’s Warwick Davis. Davis played Wicket the KIDS Incorporated from 1984-1989. Ewok in 1983’s Return of the Jedi, a member Another actress to get her start on the show of the Goblin Corps in 1986’s Labyrinth and was Jennifer Love Hewitt. 80sUfgood FLASHBACK Willow in 1988’s(continued): Willow. • Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were the • More on Cheers – Norman was Norm’s only actors to appear on every episode of middle name. His first name was Hillary. Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stephen Hawking is the only person to appear as • Cliff was not originally a character on the himself on the show. He appeared in a scene show. Actor John Ratzenberg auditioned for where he played cards against Data, Sir Isaac the role of Norm but he was though Newton and Albert Einstein. the part. Head asked Please support our valued advertisers & tellunsuitable them “Ifor saw your in the writers if there was a bar know it all and improvised • Mr. T’s phrase “I pity the fool” first appeared a character on spot. He so impressed the in 1982’s Rocky III. It was an episode of producers that they had the character written Silver Spoons that provided him with another for him. of his famous catchphrases – “First name
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• Alan Thicke is probably best known for his role of Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. Here are a few things you might now know about him. He wrote and sang both theme songs for Diff’rent Strokes. • Indiana Jones’s bullwhip was sold at auction at Christie’s in London for $43,000.
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– Norman was Norm’s middle name. His first name was Hillary. Ask for Bob 320-492-3017. • Cliff was not originally a character on the show. Actor John Ratzenberg auditioned for the role of Norm but he was though unsuitable for the part. He asked the writers if there was a bar know it all and improvised a character on spot. He so impressed the producers that they had the character written for him. • Alan Thicke is probably best known for his role of Jason Seaver on Growing Pains. Here are a few things you might now know about him. He wrote and sang both theme songs for Diff’rent Strokes. • Indiana Jones’s bullwhip was sold at auction at Christie’s in London for $43,000. • Estelle Getty, who played Sophia on the Golden Girls, was actually fifteen months younger than Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy. It took Estelle forty-five minutes to get into makeup every day. •
Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing on Friends, guest starred in several episodes of Growing Pains as Carol’s boyfriend.
• Steven Spielberg personally screened E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for Ronald and Nancy Reagan at the White House since they were both fans of the film.
• Estelle Getty, who played Sophia on the Golden Girls, was actually fifteen months younger than Bea Arthur, who played her daughter Dorothy. It took Estelle forty-five minutes to get into makeup every day.
Children in Mexico do not receive presents on Christmas Day. Rather, they receive gifts on January 6th when Mexicans celebrate the coming of the wise men.
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