Nostalgic Rambler: My Little Margie, another lost TV show rediscovered

Welcome to the Nostalgic Ramber

Hans Jeff Borger is heard on WRGE 97.9 FM in Ocala, FL featuring Christian programming.

"The Nostalgic Rambler" radio show can be heard on Youtube. Just search for Hans Jeff Borger Nostalgic Rambler.

Why a blog? I wrote a book "The Little Grownup: a nostalgic Michigan boyhood" which should appeal to most baby boomers. A mass market book? Well, not yet...but the potential is there! (Be sure to buy it at "finer on line bookstores" everywhere!)

The comments presented in "The Nostalgic Rambler" probably won't be of interest to the masses...anymore. If grandma and grandpa and their friends were still alive, then it would be a different story.

I live in the past. My time warp is a comfortable cocoon even if it sometimes drives my wife crazy. The music of the 1940s and 50s, the stars of those days were big stuff in their day, but are now almost forgotten. Oddly enough, I was born in '64 so those iconic years were for the most part over by that time.

Through "The Nostalgic Rambler" I maybe can help share my love and knowledge for those times and things...all at one time important pieces of Americana but now a bit faded in memory.

The woman who did the blog about cooking all of Julia Childs' French Cuisine Cookbook in a year got a sweet movie deal out of her blog experience. I wouldn't mind that but would be happy to know that you are reading this....and maybe enjoying my time warp, too.

Hans Jeff Borger

Sunday, March 16, 2014

My Little Margie, another lost TV show rediscovered

Many of the TV shows and stars of the 1950s seem to have faded away. Time to turn the light back on and showcase one of them called "My Little Margie" starring Gale Storm. It started off as a summer replacement show for "I Love Lucy." It ran for two years on CBS, then moved to NBC. Just like Lucy, Margie was rather scatterbrained and conniving but instead of Ricky, her foil was her father, played by former silent movie star Charles Farrell.

I saw this show in reruns back in the 1980s on CBN Cable, so the films do exist. Too bad some station doesn't pick them up and show them. Maybe Margie hasn't been forgotten. That is probably the wrong word to use. The tv programmers of today probably don't even know about the show!

If you are ready to re-discover or discover "My Little Margie" click here.