Mel Simons: 5 books

It seems there is no end to the enormous amount of material in Mel Simons’ nostalgia collection. He has written 14 books on old-time radio, old-time television, music and humor and now, his latest, The Old-Time Television Trivia Book II. Each of Mel’s books elicits the rich history of a golden...

"Hey, did you hear the one about the honest lawyer?…" "So, this priest says to a rabbi…" When it comes to comedy, nobody knows the comics and their jokes as well as Mel Simons. Mel has spent his entire career enjoying, collecting and chronicling the best of the best, whether...

"Hey, did you hear the one about the honest lawyer?…""So, this priest says to a rabbi…"When it comes to comedy, nobody knows the comics and their jokes as well as Mel Simons. Mel has spent his entire career enjoying, collecting and chronicling the best of the best, whether it be the comedy...

By 2020, we were supposed to be flying with jet backpacks and hovercrafts. If you think back to Dick Tracy in the daily newspaper comics, he flew in an Air Car that was a hovering one-man vehicle presented to him by the Moon Governor, the ruler of Moon Valley, so when do we get ours? You remember...

People under the age of thirty may only know Dick Van Dyke from his 2018 appearance in Mary Poppins Returns, but you remember The Dick Van Dyke Show and his many ways of tripping over an ottoman. Can you name the boyfriend of the character Sally Rogers? You remember The Carol Burnett Show, but who...