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11th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Operation Briefcase - S2-E4

Trivia: General Stauffen was played by Oscar Beregi, who also played Mr. Schmidt, a.k.a. SS Captain Gunther Lutze, of the Dachau Concentration Camp in the Twilight Zone episode "Death's Head Revisited."

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11th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

Request Permission to Escape - S1-E32

Trivia: When Carter first goes into the bar, the Artillery Private he speaks to is played by William Christopher, who, besides a couple of other spots in the series, is better known as Father Mulcahy at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or M*A*S*H.

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11th Oct 2016

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

The Safecracker Suite - S1-E27

Trivia: As Hogan dangles the key in front of Klink to remind him of the promise to look the other way, Klink borrows one of Schultz's gags in his last line of the scene, saying, "For the first time since I have taken command here, I want to know nothing! NO-THING!"

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10th Oct 2016

Inspector Gadget (1999)

Trivia: When Gadget starts to thumb through the Gadget manual, he stops on the Helicopter Hat. If you look closely, the picture is of the original animated Gadget in Helicopter mode.

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29th Sep 2016

Star Trek (1966)

The Cage - S1-E1

Trivia: To preserve the safety of the ship Spock orders preparation for Hyper drive, with a Time Warp factor. After the re-tooling and re-casting, it was called simply Warp factor, or more commonly Warp.

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18th Sep 2016

M*A*S*H (1972)

Trivia: In the area Caesar yells "Lousy human bastards!", the black uniforms of the Ape patrol look a lot like the Nazi SS uniforms.

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8th Sep 2016

Star Trek (1966)

Trivia: Though many years after the apocalypse, the jacket Max wears still has his name on it. The name plate reads "Rockatansky", his name before it all happened.

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30th Aug 2016

Batman (1966)

Trivia: The Batboat was a Glastron V-174, built in Texas. With all the modifications, it took 31 days to build.

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30th Aug 2016

Batman (1966)

Trivia: The Batcopter was a G3B-1 model of the Bell 47 helicopter. It was leased for $750 a day for five days from National Helicopter Service. Though it looks cool, the wings added for the Super Hero effect decreased the available power by 50%.

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23rd Aug 2016

Ironside (1967)

10th Aug 2016

Dragnet (1951)

Trivia: In the pilot episode, "The LSD Story" Friday states that the population of Los Angeles was seven million people. As of 1970, it was only 2,811,801 people, unless he meant the whole county, which was 7,032,075.

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Two - S3-E1

Trivia: The lovely young lady in this episode went on to become America's favorite Bewitching witch, Samantha, and her name was Elizabeth Montgomery.

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16th Jul 2016

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Lonely Among Us - S1-E7

Trivia: As Riker, Crusher, Geordi and Troi talk about Picard, there is a model of the Original series Shuttle craft behind Troi, with the markings 'NCC-1701/7' (otherwise known as the Galileo 7) It was the model most used for TOS shuttle sequences.

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The Big Goodbye - S1-E12

Trivia: While Data researches Dixon Hill, the computer displays the titles and proclaims that the series is written by Tracy Torme. Tracy Torme is the writer of a number of Next Generation Episodes.

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Trivia: The design of the visor that Geordi wears was based on an 89 cent banana hair clip.

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