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* On "That Girl," Ann Marie once starred in a play called "A Preponderance of Artichokes."

* The Monkees recorded on the Colgems label. It was white with red-orange trim and black lettering. The Beatles were on Capitol, with a yellow and orange pinwheel swirl label.

* The Monkees' TV show was sponsored by Yardley cosmetics, who used Donovan's song "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" in their commercials.

* "The Partridge Family" spawned it's own spinoff series called "Getting Together." It starred Bobby Sherman and, as Lionel Poindexter, Wes Stern.

* Linus' and Lucy's last name is Van Pelt.

* When Twiggy first got famous, her manager was Justin de Villeneuve.

* Even though Eep Opp Ork AhAh means "meet me tonight," when Jet Screamer sings about it he says it means "I love you." (that's always bugged the shit outta me.)

* Max Frost was the main character in the movie "Wild in the Streets." His band was the Troopers, and their hit song was "The Shape of Things to Come."

* One of Mayberry's local TV stars on The Andy Griffith Show was Keevy Hazelton, who was played by Jesse Pearson, who played Conrad Birdie in the movie "Bye Bye Birdie."

* Woody Woodbury was an LA fixture in the 60s who was in a beach movie called "For Those Who Think Young." He played Uncle Woody and whenever he entered a scene the kids around him would sing "It's Woody Weeding Time" to the tune of "It's Howdy Doody Time." The movie also featured a scene where Bob Denver is buried in sand up to his face, eyes and a nose are painted on his chin, and he sings "Woah Daddy, Woah Daddy" while teenagers dance around him in a jungle fashion. No, that wasn't an LSD trip.

* The boy Sandra Dee falls for in "Take Her, She's Mine" was hunky French actor Philippe Forquet. He starred in a TV series about 13 episodes long called "The Young Rebels" where he played General LaFayette. (btw, Jimmy Stewart's character in "Take Her" is always being confused with whom?)

* Candy bars when I was a kid included Zero, Hollywood, Big Time and High Noon. Loose candies were Spree, Kits, and BB Bats. Spree came in bags with actual photographs on them (not cartoons) of healthy, pretty young people doing fun things outside. We always tried to get the bags with the girl riding the horse on them.

* Sally Rogers' cat on The Dick Van Dyke Show is Mr Henderson.

* In our neighborhood in the 60s, the Morris' dog was named Tip. His face looked like Sugar Bear's (Super Sugar Crisp), whose face in turn looked like the grill of a 1967 Ford Galaxie. There were three Morris boys, each meaner than the next. Tip must have gone to the highest realm of Doggie Heaven when he died.