Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Druid Princess

In 1966, perhaps due to the popularity of customized Hollywood cars like 007's Aston-Martin, the Munster Koach and the Batmobile, this sort of thing was all the rage both for real cars and plastic model cars!

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It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

 

The one true classic amongst the post-CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS specials featuring the PEANUTS characters, IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN aired for the very first time 45 years ago last night... in '66.

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Munsters Comic Strips

TV's THE MUNSTERS left the air in '66 only to be followed by a feature film that same year. In England, though, they continued to be popular in magazine strips like these!

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Lenny Bruce

Today, one can hardly flip through cable channels without finding a stand-up comic using every curse word you've ever heard (and a number you haven't!). A few of them are actually funny...sometimes. They can do it because Robin Williams and Richard Pryor and George Carlin did it first. And THEY could do it because Lenny Bruce got in trouble for it. Lenny Bruce died in 1966...and George Carlin started growing his hair long.

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The 2000 Year Old Man

The great Carl Reiner and the insane Mel Brooks have been doing their clever and generally hilarious 2000 Year Old man schtick off and on for 5 decades! Here they are in 1966 from an episode of HOLLYWOOD PALACE. (Thanks to Leslie Marley for the tip!)

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World's Best Science-Fiction: 1966

•  CONTENTS FROM WIKIPEDIA
• "Sunjammer" (Arthur C. Clarke)
• "Calling Dr. Clockwork" (Ron Goulart)
• "Becalmed in Hell" (Larry Niven)
• "Apartness" (Vernor Vinge)
• "Over the River and Through the Woods" (Clifford D. Simak)
• "Planet of Forgetting" (James H. Schmitz)
• "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" (Harlan Ellison)
• "The Decision Makers" (Joseph L. Green)
• "Traveler's Rest" (David I. Masson)
• "Uncollected Works" (Lin Carter)
• "Vanishing Point" (Jonathan Brand)
• "In Our Block" (R. A. Lafferty)
• "Masque of the Red Shift" (Fred Saberhagen)
• "The Captive Djinn" (Christopher Anvil)
• "The Good New Days" (Fritz Leiber)

This volume came out in 1966 and while the rest of the stories are more or less forgotten today except by true SF buffs, the gem is Harlan Ellison's '"Repent, Harlequin,' Said the Tick-Tock Man." Ellison was already well on his way to becoming one of the most lauded and yet controversial science-fiction writers of all-time. 

Also in this collection were Fred Saberhagen and Ron Goulart, both of whom would become favorites of mine in the seventies, and Clifford D. Simak, whose stories I would learn through their fifties old-time radio adaptations. 

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Pogo

By 1966, Walt Kelly's POGO had long-since become one of the great classic comic strips. Here's a Sunday example.

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