The Edison Twins

phrenicgermal · 16th February 2008, 09:20 PM

I don't know if this belongs under The Arts or some other catagory but does anybody remember The Edison Twins? They were a major influence on me as a young child. A lot of the fiction that I wrote in grade school and middle school was basically a plot structured around demonstrating some scientific principle (like when I got trapped on an alien space ship with Elvis and was in a cage with laser bars, and used a mirror to my advantage, or the kiddie cyberpunk when I got sucked into my apple 2e after installing a powerful new card, and found myself to be a string of 8 ones and zeros sitting in a room with a banner saying 'welcome to RAM', and went to speak with lord microprocesser (who looked suspiciously like King Edward) who said that I might be able to get out of the computer via another computer if I can travel there via the modem).

Anyway, I just got a couple of videos in of The Edison Twins. In one, Paul thinks that he sees a flying saucer and tells the press and stats embellishing his story and he learns a lesson about, uhm, being sceptical? In another episode, a spiritualist is using seances (sp?) to rip off a recent widow next door, and Tom and Annie use their detective work to expose the trickery.

fuelair · 16th February 2008, 09:31 PM

I'm pretty good on TV shows back to the late 40s. When - and more likely where - was this show broadcast.

phrenicgermal · 16th February 2008, 09:46 PM

The 1980s.
I did however, also watch the 80s version of Mr. Wizard's World. I was quite suprised when one say I saw a clip of him being much younger and in black and white, doing a science show. I hadn't never suspected that he existed outside of the context of the television show that I liked to watch.

fuelair · 16th February 2008, 10:16 PM

Disney Channel! That explains why I did not know it. Not a regular network channel so not widely available or functionaly Nielsoned so not a major TV factor. Being afternoon run on weekends took it even further off the radar. Anyway, for nostalgia's sake:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083410/

phrenicgermal · 16th February 2008, 10:39 PM

Indeed. It also got started on CBC.
If I get around to copying these VHS movies to DVD, and then later ripping the DVD into my computer I might try to put the spiritualist episode onto youtube or something.

16th February 2008, 09:20 PM	#1
phrenicgermal Scholar Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 97	The Edison Twins I don't know if this belongs under The Arts or some other catagory but does anybody remember The Edison Twins? They were a major influence on me as a young child. A lot of the fiction that I wrote in grade school and middle school was basically a plot structured around demonstrating some scientific principle (like when I got trapped on an alien space ship with Elvis and was in a cage with laser bars, and used a mirror to my advantage, or the kiddie cyberpunk when I got sucked into my apple 2e after installing a powerful new card, and found myself to be a string of 8 ones and zeros sitting in a room with a banner saying 'welcome to RAM', and went to speak with lord microprocesser (who looked suspiciously like King Edward) who said that I might be able to get out of the computer via another computer if I can travel there via the modem). Anyway, I just got a couple of videos in of The Edison Twins. In one, Paul thinks that he sees a flying saucer and tells the press and stats embellishing his story and he learns a lesson about, uhm, being sceptical? In another episode, a spiritualist is using seances (sp?) to rip off a recent widow next door, and Tom and Annie use their detective work to expose the trickery.
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16th February 2008, 09:31 PM	#2
fuelair Cythraul Enfys Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 29,289	I'm pretty good on TV shows back to the late 40s. When - and more likely where - was this show broadcast.
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16th February 2008, 09:46 PM	#3
phrenicgermal Scholar Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 97	The 1980s. I did however, also watch the 80s version of Mr. Wizard's World. I was quite suprised when one say I saw a clip of him being much younger and in black and white, doing a science show. I hadn't never suspected that he existed outside of the context of the television show that I liked to watch.
phrenicgermal Scholar Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 97

16th February 2008, 10:16 PM	#4
fuelair Cythraul Enfys Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 29,289	Disney Channel! That explains why I did not know it. Not a regular network channel so not widely available or functionaly Nielsoned so not a major TV factor. Being afternoon run on weekends took it even further off the radar. Anyway, for nostalgia's sake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083410/
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16th February 2008, 10:39 PM	#5
phrenicgermal Scholar Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 97	Indeed. It also got started on CBC. If I get around to copying these VHS movies to DVD, and then later ripping the DVD into my computer I might try to put the spiritualist episode onto youtube or something.
phrenicgermal Scholar Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 97