As a long-time fan of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks, I own multiple copies of the physical and digital releases of the series and Lynch’s 1992 feature film. I remember the excitement around the show’s first season being released for the first time ever on DVD in December 2001. Recently, I acquired an advertisement…
While owning a disc jockey business in the early 1990s, I remember acquiring many CDs from Columbia House, the mail-order club offering low-cost music for an introductory price. In 1981, the then CBS-owned company launched the Columbia House Video Library, which eventually followed the same model as their music club only with videocassettes. Recently, I…
The Mark Frost-directed final episode of Twin Peaks aired on Wednesday, May 23, 1990. The “TV Guide” magazine published that week – May 19-25 – offered a brief mention along with an iconic black and white advertisement.
In my quest to document the history of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks, I love finding things I’ve never seen. Recently, I picked up an advertising guide for Lynch’s 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me from Germany where it was known as Twin Peaks – Der Film (or Twin Peaks – The Film). Released on August…
Excitement hung in the air leading up to the debut of Twin Peaks on the ABC Television Network on April 8, 1990. Critics reviews of the show looked promising and the general buzz was the series would be “must see” television. The week before the pilot aired, ABC ran four print ads in the TV…
One of the more unique items I recently added to my Twin Peaks collection is a movie theatre mylar for David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Mylars were used to indicate where a movie was being shown inside a movie house. Thanks to long-time collector of mylars, Original-Movie-Mylars on eBay, I learned more…
My examination of “TV Guide” magazines published during the first season of Twin Peaks continues with the May 12-18, 1990 issue. This issue was a Mother’s Day special and featured a review of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking television series along with one black and white advertisement for episode 1.006.
By April 28, 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks had aired the pilot followed by three episodes. The next one, directed by Tim Hunter and written by Robert “Bob” Engles would debut on May 3. This was right around the time of “Sweeps Week” when television networks aired episodes designed to get viewers to…
After see the story about Twin Peaks Mountain Spring Water created for the 1992 Twin Peaks Fan Festival in Snoqualmie Valley, Washington, fellow Bookhouse Boy and long-time Twin Peaks fan Dugpa found a rare treasure on eBay. He was searching for a bottle of that spring water but found something even better – a four-page…
As an archivist for my favorite television show Twin Peaks, I love finding ephemera created when David Lynch and Mark Frost’s masterpiece first aired in the early 1990s. Many of these paper items were produced for a specific, immediate purpose and not much thought was given to saving them for future records. This colorful brochure was…