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Jul 10, 2019 · Interesting enough, T.K. let the cat out of the bag that Thomas was his son last year. He posted a photo of himself, Thomas and his granddaughter on Instagram saying, “Just Keeping it Real. My ...
Tragically, Bobbie Jean Carter, who is the sister of Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter, passed away at the age of 41 on December 23, 2023. A family insider told People that they believe her...
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- Punky Is A Real person.
- Vicki The Robot Auditioned For The role.
- Herman Munster Was Up For The Henry Part.
- The Show Was Kind of Grim.
- Columbia Pictures Sued Soleil Moon Frye For $80 Million.
- The Infamous Fridge Episode Was Thought Up by A Kid.
- Some Episodes Were only 15 Minutes Long.
- T.K. Carter (a.k.a. “Mike Fulton”) Was Arrested For Stealing A Car.
- Punky Returned as A Web comic.
- It Addressed The Challenger Explosion.
Though she probably didn’t dress like a rainbow vomited on her. In the mid-1980s, the Federal Communications Commission insisted that networks use the 7 and 7:30 p.m. slots on Sunday for news or children’s programming. Instead of competing against CBS’s 60 Minutes with more topical content, NBC President Brandon Tartikoff decided to counter-program...
When NBC’s casting call went out for Punky, more than 3000 adorable, elfin actors campaigned for the role. Among them was Tiffany Brissette, who later appeared as the monotone Vicki in the kid-robot series Small Wonder; Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa Explains It All) was also a contender. But producers knewthe relatives of Soleil Moon Frye, a 7-year-o...
Before actor George Gaynes (Police Academy, Tootsie) was awarded the role of Punky’s adoptive father, Henry, producers were fielding another possibility: Fred Gwynne, best known as Herman Munster on The Munsters. Gwynne was said to be eager to distance himself from Munster and agreed to audition with Frye. But when the actress askedif he was Herman...
When Tartikoff had the idea for a kid show, he passed it along to writer David Duclon, a producer on the network’s hit series Silver Spoons. Duclon told TV Guide in 1986 that he researched topical issues and found an alarming number of girls were victims of abandonment. It was decided Punky’s parents would be deadbeats; future episodes threatened t...
Being precocious apparently isn’t enough to keep a battalion of lawyers from trying to devour you. Accordingto the Associated Press, Columbia Pictures (which took over production of the show when it went into syndication for its third season) sued Soleil Moon Frye for $80 million in 1986. The reason? Frye failed to report to work. Her attorney, Den...
To help stir up publicity for the series, NBC ran a contest in 1985 that solicited story ideas from kids. The winner was Jeremy Reams, who submitted a premise that involved Punky having to perform CPR on her friend, Cherie, who had gotten trapped inside an abandoned refrigerator. While this was an actual danger for older appliances with latches tha...
While Punky usually occupied the normal 30-minute sitcom slot, the fall arrival of football on NBC prompted some format changes. Because games airing in the afternoon often run late, NBC decided to avoid joining a program in progress by scheduling 15-minute mini-Punky episodes to follow NFL broadcasts; it also guaranteed their hit Knight Riderwould...
Fans may remember actor Thomas Kent Carter as Punky's “cool” teacher Mike Fulton. According to the Associated Press, Carter behaved in a very uncool manner when he approached a woman in December of 1991 and demanded her car. She refused; he allegedly punched her in the stomach before speeding away. Carter was arrested after a high-speed chase and h...
Punky Power could not be suffocated for long: In 2014, publisher Lion Forge obtained the license to a number of 1980s series (Miami Vice, Airwolf) and began churning out a line of digital comics. The prequel sees Punky homeless in Chicago after being abandoned by her mother, “sleeping in empty apartments and mattress stores.” Eight issueshave been ...
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986—killing all seven people on board—it left a lot of people shaken. The producers ofPunky Brewster quickly packaged an episode with the help of psychologists that depicted Punky watching the telecast with her classmates and then struggling to cope with her feelings over the tragedy. Buzz Aldrin appea...
Feb 24, 2020 · An episode of Basketball Wives revealed that T. K. Carter is the biological father of Thomas Scott. Image Source: T. K. Carter’s Instagram. As the rumor about Thomas’ adoption aired around, it seems that T. K. Carter got the whiff of it as he posted two pictures on his Instagram stating that Thomas Scott is his son and is happy to have a cute granddaughter as well.
For the first time since his son was killed three years ago, the pain Santonio Carter wakes up with every day came with relief. The man who started the gun fight that killed 6-year-old...
Aug 3, 2020 · Keith David, Richard Masur, and more vets of John Carpenter's The Thing remember Wilford Brimley. Over the weekend, the world lost Wilford Brimley, an actor who (much like the shape-shifting alien in director John Carpenter 's 1982 remake of The Thing) will live on in the various roles he inhabited on the screen — both big and small.
Jul 3, 2020 · Billy Dean Carter, 55, was arrested Wednesday and charged with assaulting his father, 74-year-old Bill Carter, the Des Moines Register reported. Police said the younger Carter knocked his father to the ground and kicked him twice on a road near the elder father’s home following an argument.
