
The BBC Withheld Four Star Trek Episodes for 25 Years, and Big Bird Too
The BBC withheld four Star Trek episodes for years and rejected Sesame Street, even as British children watched the surreal favourite The Magic Roundabout.

The BBC withheld four Star Trek episodes for years and rejected Sesame Street, even as British children watched the surreal favourite The Magic Roundabout.

Why was The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack so unusual? From Stan Bush and Weird Al to Orson Welles, its strange mix still works 40 years later.

Howie Noel, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, Dick Tracy and Charles Schulz reveal how legendary comic strips keep going after their original creators are gone.

You know Nancy. You might know Sluggo. But do you know Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist whose deceptively simple creation became bigger than its creator?

Anna Kodé’s Unseen Places explores observation, curiosity and the hidden stories of everyday life, from Italian construction watchers to bonobo apes.

David Byrne’s Sleeping Beauties explores forgotten ideas, overlooked inventions and artists who waited decades or centuries to be rediscovered.

Martin Mull was more than a television actor. From comedy and music to painting, his unusual career made him impossible to put in one box.

Harvey Ball created the iconic smiley face in 10 minutes for $45. Here is how a simple insurance-company design became a global symbol and an Acid House icon.

Old cookbooks weren’t always harmless. Some mixed food, medicine and household chemistry in ways that can make Grandma’s apple pie look downright safe.

During the Siege of Paris, starving Parisians ate zoo animals. Here’s the bizarre story behind elephant, camel and kangaroo appearing on a Paris menu.

That stupid little pocket in your jeans has a long history, from pocket watches and the real 5th pocket to its cheeky modern reputation as the condom pocket.

Why did missing children’s faces appear on milk cartons? We look at the strange history behind the campaign, the kids who recognized themselves, Milk Carton 2.0 and Canada’s famous milk bags.

Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, but he wasn’t alone. Explore the famous figures who died on October 31 and Houdini’s final escape pact.

When did 81 become young? A funny look at aging, retirement, baby boomers and how our idea of old age keeps changing.

Scratch-and-sniff was once everywhere, from Raspberries albums and MAD Magazine to John Waters’ Odorama. Now the strange little fad is making a comeback.

Matt Kirkland has a strange solution for giant books: chop them into smaller, manageable volumes. Chop the biggest books and why it might make sense.

Here is a game oddity that is long overdue. David Bowie finally has his own Monopoly game based on his various musical personalities. Not only did Ziggy play guitar but he also played Monopoly. According to Amazon sales, the best-selling Monopoly game after the original game is Monopoly Unicorns vs. Llamas. This game decides once-and-for-all who is the cutest and the best: Unicorns or Llamas.

Innovations for Learning (IFL) Canada, a global non-profit that works to level the playing field for emerging readers in high-need communities, and Symcor, a leading Canadian organization that enables secure data exchanges, expand their partnership with the development of a new original storybook series. Ice Fishing with Nimkii tells the true story of Nimkii Lavell, the land-based Learning Lead with the Wiikwemkoong Board of Education, who ties education to traditional Anishinaabek outdoor activities.

The story begins in Berlin, 1944. The Nazis are flanked on all fronts by the combined Allied forces, and defeat seems inevitable. In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, Hitler and his team of evil scientists create a serum that resurrects their dead soldiers, creating an army of the dead even stronger than they were in life.

GCI Film has announced that its animated family feature, Ozi: Voice of the Forest, will be debuting its first scenes at the Annecy Animation Festival on June 15th in France, with a panel conversation featuring Executive Producer Rodrigo Blaas, the film’s Director, Tim Harper, and the award-winning Animation team from Mikros Animation.

Remember when long-haired British rock ’n’ rollers made teenage girls swoon ― and their parents go crazy? Britmania plunges into the period when suddenly, America went wild for All Things British. This profusely illustrated full-color hardback, subtitled “The British Invasion of the Sixties in Pop Culture,” explores the movies (A Hard Day’s Night, Having a Wild Weekend), TV (The Ed Sullivan Show, Magical Mystery Tour), collectibles (toys, games, trading cards, lunch boxes), comics (real-life Brits in the DC and Marvel Universes) and, of course, the music!

Take the thrill of insane stunts and the excitement of rock ’n’ roll, fuse them together and you get Stunt Rock! The madness starts when real-life Australian stuntman Grant Page (Mad Max) goes to L.A. and meets up with a theatrical rock band called Sorcery, and Page impresses the rockers so much with his daredevil antics that they hire him for their act.

Level up your desk organization with this Arcade Cabinet Desk Caddy. Features all your favorite Stranger Things characters and references to video games of the 80s! The Stranger Things arcade desk caddy was designed by Genuine Fred with an official license from Netflix. See the entire Stranger Things collection in Genuine Fred’s brand store.

Debbie Harry was photographed by Lynn Goldsmith in 1978, complete with a sailor hat, Popeye T-shirt, and thigh boots.

The all-new original film, Eraser: Reborn, a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster, follows US Marshal Mason Pollard, a specialist in engineering the fake deaths of witnesses that need to leave no trace of their existence. In this clip from the action-packed film, Mason Pollard (played by Dominic Sherwood) fakes the death of Rina Kimura (played by Jacky Lai), a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn states evidence.

I want to welcome cartoonist Peter Sandmark to Sandbox World. In my twenties, I fell in love with a weekly strip called Slum Dog by Peter Sandmark from the Montreal Mirror a weekly tabloid. The innocence of a local raggy old street dog captured my imagination. Recently, I wondered what happened to Slum Dog. I could not find much on the internet. I got to discover that Peter Sandmark is a multi-talented individual and is still cartooning. He now lives in British Columbia with his wife. He teaches on and off at the University of Victoria about his favorite passions comics and cinema.

The Iron Giant LP package is a marvel, with a pull tab opening the Giant’s die-cut eyes on the front jacket. Depending on which inner sleeve has been slotted in the first position directly behind the cover, the reveal is different. Open the eyes in normal or defense mode!

With Father’s Day just around the corner, why not spoil him with both Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite and Charles Bronson’s The Mechanic. This double barrel of Blu-ray movies includes extended features and goodies.