Ed Gross

I've been an entertainment journalist for ... well, a long time. Served on the editorial staff of magazines like Starlog, Life Story, Cinescape, Movie Magic and Geek. Most recently I spent a number of years as Film/TV Editor at closerweekly.com and I've authored a number of oral history books on subjects like Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, James Bond and Star Wars. All told, that's a lot of words — and I hope to add a lot more to them at Do You Remember.

‘The Little Rascals’: The ‘Our Gang Curse’ That May Have Haunted the Cast Throughout the Years

Hollywood “curses” are a strange thing as people tend to look at the collective deaths or another form of misfortune…

4 years ago

‘The Little Rascals’: How ‘Our Gang’ Came to Be and Why Those Kids Should Never Be Forgotten

When it comes to The Little Rascals, Leonard Maltin — along with Richard W. Bann — literally wrote the book on…

4 years ago

Classic TV Debut, December 16: ‘One Day at a Time,’ from ‘All in the Family Creator’ Norman Lear

By the time the original One Day at a Time premiered on December 16, 1975, series producer Norman Lear already…

4 years ago

Classic TV Debut, December 16: Jack Webb’s ‘Dragnet,’ One of the First Police Procedurals

If you were try and figure out what the first TV ancestor of Law & Order was, it would likely…

4 years ago

‘All in the Family’: Norman Lear Created Maude to Have Someone Who Could ‘Destroy’ Archie Bunker

Television characters are created for all sorts of reasons, but when Norman Lear came up with the concept for the…

4 years ago

Classic TV Star Birthdays, December 14: Frances Bavier, Morey Amsterdam, and Hal Williams

Today, with our focus as ever on Classic TV series stars, we're looking at three birthday people who were born…

4 years ago

Classic TV Actor Deaths, December 14: Norman Fell, Mike Evans, and Bernard Fox

Dipping into the past of Classic TV history, on this date — December 14 — we find three actors who…

4 years ago

‘Match Game’: Here’s What Happened to TV Game Show Celebrity Panelist Brett Somers

One of the big TV game shows of the 1970s was Match Game, hosted by Gene Rayburn, which featured six…

4 years ago

‘Let’s Make a Deal’ Host Monty Hall’s Life Was Changed by an Act of Charity and He Never Forgot It

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, while Monty Hall hosted the TV game show Let’s Make a Deal, he gave away…

4 years ago

It Took His Father’s Death for Don Knotts to Be Set Free from the Burden of an Abusive Childhood

It’s tough to think about Don Knotts without laughing, whether your familiarity with the actor comes from his performance as…

4 years ago

‘The Odd Couple’: Oscar Madison’s ‘Island of Filth He Called a Bedroom’ Was the Show’s Secret Weapon

The Jack Klugman and Tony Randall version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which ran from 1970 to 1975 and…

4 years ago

122 Classic (and Not-So-Classic) TV Sitcoms from the 1970s

While the 1970s admittedly didn't represent the kind of changes that the '60s had, it nonetheless had a heck of…

4 years ago