The Best Shot in Tv: Science Historian James Burke Had One Likelihood to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It

The 80-sec­ond clip above cap­tures a rock­et launch, some­factor of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or anoth­er. What makes its view­ers name it “the nice­est shot in tele­vi­sion” nonetheless immediately, 45 years after it first aired, could take multiple view­ing to note. In it, sci­ence his­to­ri­an James Burke speaks about how “cer­tain…

Revisit Episodes of Liquid Tv, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Humorous, Irreverent & Weird Animation

MTV stands for Music Tele­vi­sion, and when the online­work launched in 1981, its nearly complete­ly music video-based professional­gram­ming was true to its identify. With­in a decade, how­ev­er, its man­date had widened to the purpose that it had turn out to be the nat­ur­al house for prac­ti­cal­ly any excit­ing devel­op­ment in Amer­i­can youth cul­ture. And for…