July 31, 2022

A TRIBUTE TO TONY DOW...


Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                            Usually when one thinks of a person's passing it really affects them weather they are famous or family, when it is family without any doubt it is absolutely a lot more personal and emotionally feeling wise because of how connected you are to your family member that has left for their existence here on planet earth is done or at least complete. Earlier last week Tony Dow had went home to be with his fellow actors Hugh Bueamount who was his father Ward Cleaver and his television mom Barbara Billingsley June Cleaver,  Ken Osmond, Eddie Hasskell his best friend in the series that they all shared with child star Jerry Mathers Theodore Cleaver who goes by the name of "Beaver" in "Leave It to Beaver". Here's a photo of 


       the main family.  The series was created by Bob Mosher and Joe Conelly and was mostly based off their childhood memories. The series started on CBS television for it's first season  which had this 

   as the series opening title page in nineteen fifty seven, when at the end of nineteen fifty eight television renewals the show moved to the ABC network for it next five years of it run. Tony's char
acter was show cased on M.E.T.V. from noon till five pm and the episode that is currently airring is "Wally's new suit". Here are some scenes 




from that very episode.  They had nine other Wally central episodes that celebrated both the character and the Tony himself.   
 I will admit right now that I didn't know that Mr. Dow was officially on his last bit of life anymore than most of the world knew of it. I only remember just a couple of days before he had entered his heavenly existence that the whole world knew it was coming because this past Wednesday the internet explosion of his passing was on every media site without knowing if it was truly confirmed. I really remember watching "Leave It to Beaver" while visiting with my mom's parents and her side of the family over our family vacations to Clomibus, Georgia... it's and really the Twilight Zone were my most likeable series of most of the nineteen fifties era of the boom of the early days of television. Of I will admit that I like the Lone Ranger series that was in Black and White as well, as Blondie. (Yes back in the beginning of Television they tried every form of comic media even in those days). Blondie is of course a newspaper daily comic strip that began in the month of September 

 , in nineteen thirty.  I happen to be getting off track here, but eventually I will post about my understanding of that given newspaper strip and hopefully before the year is out, so I can write it while I'm in my fiftive year of existence.                                                                      Back to the topic at hand of the life and respect of Tony Dow, after Leave It to Beaver had ended nineteen sixty three he started guest staring  roles on television series of "My Three sons",  "Adam-12", "Emergency!", "Knight Rider" of series that I really know of.  In the mid nineteen eighties he reprised his role of Wally Cleaver in "STILL THE BEAVER". Which ran from nineteen eighty five through to nineteen eighty nine. It had a television movie in nineteen eighty three that started the series, and it was dedicated to Hugh Bueamount who played the dad  Ward Cleaver in the original series. Who had passed away on May fourteenth, nineteen eighty two.                                                                                In the end of nineteen eighty nine slash early nineteen nineties Tony had went from being a livelihood of a actor to branching his creative mind to be behind the cameras. He started with an episode of the new Lassie show near it's end of a single season series, and while directing other episodes of various series he was learning on visual effects while working on Babylon five as a director as well. (One other quick note of late I Matt, have been opening up to lately on YouTube of looking into Babylon five at least a little bit of late). He was the visual supervisor on the Doctor Who television movie that was released in nineteen ninety six.   
He was born in nineteen thirty four, on April thirteenth, in a Hollywood on the outskirts of Los Angeles California to Muriel Virginia and John Dow.  Before he was discovered by  a talent scout Tony was training to make it as a swimmer in the Junior Olympics for his upcoming career  in his real life high school.  In May of twenty, twenty one he was diagnosed with liver cancer and as far as I know that is what was his cause of death! His death happen on July twenty seventh,  twenty, twenty two...  he was just a young age of seventy- seven. Finally before I leave you here is Tony and Jerry as their classic brotherly sevles                                                                 
Wally and Theodore Cleaver. Then while watching this very Tribute to Mister Dow on M.E.T.V. I had found out that just today another celebrity passed away into science fiction heaven... who is it? All I can say is that tomorrow I will have at least two posts coming is all that I will say for right now!
  

July 27, 2022

A hopeful Indie comic ends....

 Hello Comic lovers,                                                                                                                                      Well my genuinely all the time readers who love a small entry instead of my super longer ones that go on for ever you are in for a treat! Today for the next sixteen hours according to Eastern Standard Time you have a chance to help a independent comic creator named Shane Davis and his wife Yanzi Lin by getting YOUR CHANCE TO GET THEIR COMIC Project called Inglorious Rex.  Here's where you need to look for it if you're really interested? www.Indidiggo.com  

 Also one other reason that I like Shane Davis is because he lives in the state where I was born in North Carolina.  If you back the project at the $75.00 tier you'll get a second print of their first Indie comic project known as STARLIGHT CATS which is great for young children if they want something when you are thinking about your children too. Have a wonderful day rather if you buy this or not! It will end at 3:00 am/12:00am East Coast/Pacific's time....