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10 unintentionally terrifying vintage Halloween ads you can't unsee They were aiming for cute and fun but ended up with creepy and frightening.
There was nearly a spooky Gilligan's Island reboot — but Sherwood Schwartz stopped it In this proposed version, the castaways become cannibals.
7 actors you didn’t know played werewolves Michael Landon, Chuck Connors and… June Lockhart?
R.I.P. Betty Lynn, who played Barney Fife's love Thelma Lou She toured Asia during USO shows, became fast friends with Bette Davis, and retired to the real-life Mayberry.
Ron Howard wasn't exactly smitten with Opie's girlfriends behind the scenes Child actor Joy Ellison remembers acting with Howard at that age where "boys and girls kind of hated each other."
Linda Purl divorced Desi Arnaz Jr. right before ''Going Steady'' with the Fonz Their marriage only lasted a year. A year later, Fonzie helped the Happy Days beauty move on.
Do you remember Alfred Hitchcock's album of ghost stories? Tales of ghostly pirates, spooky magicians and creepy hitchhikers scared and delighted kids in the Sixties.
M*A*S*H got in on performing exorcisms right before The Exorcist II killed off the film trend M*A*S*H brought in a real shaman for one episode. Soon after, Seventies audiences got over the trend after The Exorcist II debuted as the worst film ever.
Little Ronny Howard was more comfortable on a movie set than Johnny Cash The child star and country music legend began their acting careers around the same time.
New Popeye and Pink Panther T-shirts now in the MeTV Store Think pink or show your spinach power in these new shirts, available now!
Howard Morris played the only Jetson outside the main cast The Mayberry fan favorite most famously voiced Jet Screamer on the futuristic cartoon, but he also voiced Grandpa Jetson three times.
Ron Howard would want this young actor to play Richie Cunningham in a Happy Days reboot "A cooler, hipper Richie Cunningham."
Clint Howard doesn't remember being on The Andy Griffith Show He says he doesn't remember starting as the cowboy Leon.
10 cowboy actors who appeared on Gunsmoke before starring in their own Westerns The road to stardom ran through Dodge City.
Ken Weatherwax got bullied for playing Pugsley The Army helped the child actor move past the tough time with high school bullies and come to embrace his famous character once again.
Can you recognize these Fifties stars decades later on The Love Boat? Do you know these actors, singers and comedians from Hollywood’s Golden Age?
This fan favorite Star Trek episode pays tribute to DeForest Kelley's rise to stardom "Spectre of the Gun" took Star Trek fans to the O.K. Corral, a place Bones had visited twice before.
M*A*S*H writers walked blindfolded in L.A. traffic to get this episode right It was the first script from a green writing duo, and they wanted to impress by turning Hawkeye blind. One writer claims they almost died 15 times.
Elinor Donahue's one shot at the spotlight came on this forgotten Seventies show She hoped starring in Mulligan's Stew would divorce her from her Father Knows Best character forever. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out for Betty.
What decade did these TV elders get their start in Hollywood? Who started as a child actor and who entered show business later in life?
Can you spot which Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff? The iconic monster has been played by dozens of actors over the years.
7 scary movies featuring actors from The Addams Family The classic sitcom was ooky and fun but these horror flicks are downright creepy.
R.I.P. Cynthia Harris, who wooed King Edward in ‘Edward and Mrs. Simpson’ and played Sylvia in ‘Mad About You’ She also appeared on the big screen with Barbra Streisand and had guest roles on Kojak, Three’s Company and The Bob Newhart Show.
Should Monk have kept the original theme song? There's an inside joke hidden in two Monk episodes referring to the absolute fan fury unleashed when Randy Newman's song replaced the original theme.
Do you remember the 1977 Halloween Dr. Seuss' Grinch special? This spooky Seventies special was a follow-up to the popular Christmas classic.
Pick: Which Sixties shows should have been rated #1? Which shows actually deserved the number one spot?
Can you put the many shows of TV icons in chronological order? Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, William Shatner and many more starred in shows across different decades.
Ronny Howard nearly played a popular comic strip character instead of becoming Opie "Barnaby" first appeared in liberal papers… and almost kept Opie from Andy Griffith.
Blythe Danner rejected fame, becoming one of the Seventies' most elusive celebrities She costarred with Alan Alda in a movie before becoming one of Hawkeye’s lovers on M*A*S*H, but it’s possible her shyness stalled her stardom.
Fans of The Waltons have complicated feelings about Maude Gormley Character actor Merie Earle didn't start acting until she was 77. The Waltons became her biggest TV role.
The hotshot helicopter pilot on M*A*S*H was the namesake for another classic TV show He was suggested for the lead too, but he didn't have enough "star power".
Were Gunsmoke actors in these movies before, during or after their time on the show? These cowboy actors were in many Westerns but also war films and horror flicks around the time they appeared in Dodge City.
Are these episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker or Stephen King novels? Can you tell these creepy titles apart?
7 Oscar-nominated actors who guest starred on The Rifleman These talented actors were recognized by the Academy and two even won Hollywood’s most prestigious award.
America might love the Addams Family at Christmas more than Halloween Hundreds of families requested to use this Charles Addams Christmas comic for their holiday cards in the Sixties.
Ted McGinley expected to be fired from Happy Days immediately In the Eighties, Ted McGinley was basically a model who got by on his good looks alone, considered the male version of Farrah Fawcett.