TV LAND MYTHS & LEGENDS investigates the scandals, rumors and troubling mysteries of music, television and the movies. Tune in and get the truth behind the crazy stories you’ve heard.
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Original airdate: January 10th, 2007
Is it true that Gong Show host and producer Chuck Barris was also a trained CIA assassin? Did an actress in Goldfinger die of suffocation when her entire body was painted gold for a scene? And when asked on the Newlywed Game, “Where is the strangest place you’ve ever made whoopee?”, did a contestant actually respond, “In the butt, Bob”?
Chuck Barris
Goldfinger
The Newlywed Game
Hidden Disney
Fred Grandy
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Original airdate: January 17th, 2007
What former lover was the inspiration for Carly Simon’s #1 hit, You’re So Vain? Can you really see the ghost of a 9-year-old boy in the movie Three Men & A Baby? Did the cast of Green Acres barbecue and eat the pig that played Arnold Ziffel?
Three Men & A Baby
Green Acres
The Tonight Show
Leave It to Beaver
You're So Vain
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Original airdate: January 24th, 2007
Was Barry Williams high on the set of a 1973 episode of The Brady Brunch? Did famed TV chef Julia Child once drop a chicken, retrieve it and advise her audience, "Remember, you're alone in the kitchen"?
The Wizard of Oz
Joanie Loves Chachi
The Brady Bunch
Walt Disney
The French Chef -- Julia Child
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Original airdate: January 31st, 2007
Was Lucille Ball ever a Communist? Did an unemployed ice cream truck driver win over $100,000 on the popular game show Press Your Luck by memorizing the supposedly random patterns on the game board? Is the Amityville Horror house really haunted?
Brady Bunch -- Big Crush
The Amityville Horror
I Love Lucy
Press Your Luck
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Original airdate: February 7th, 2007
Did Mama Cass of The Mamas and The Papas die when she choked on a ham sandwich? Were Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin’s remains dug up and held for ransom? Did Superman George Reeves really leap from a tall building to his death?
Joan Rivers
Mama Cass
George Reeves
Harry Houdini
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Original airdate: February 14th, 2007
Is there really a Poltergeist curse? Was rock legend Alice Cooper a child actor, starring in Leave It to Beaver as Eddie Haskell? Did a punch in the stomach kill magician Harry Houdini?
Little House on the Prairie
Charlie Chaplin
Gilligan's Island
You Bet Your Life
Poltergeist
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