My Favorite Postcards

Happy Smurf

This cartoon postcard was postmarked in 2018 from Belgium.   It has two Belgium 60th Anniversary Smurf stamps and a special Smurf postmark too!

Iloista Juhlapaivaa
(Happy Celebration)

Smurfit  (Finnish for Surfs)

This postcard features (probably) Clumsy Smurf, Smurfette, and Papa Smurf.

Smurfit  (Finnish for Surfs)

This postcard features Gargamel and his cat Azrael.

Both of these unused postcards were bought in Finland in 2017.

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The Smurfs first full appearance was published on October 23, 1958. 

Happy Halloween
Sesame WorkShop

The featured Sesame Street muppets are:
Zoe, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, and Ernie.

This postcard was postmarked from Japan in 2017.

Star Wars
The Clone Wars

All four of these unused postcards were printed in Sweden in 2008-2009.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by George Lucas and produced by Lucasfilm Animation.  The series debuted on Cartoon Network on October 3, 2008. It is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy during the three years between the prequel films Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

Doctor Who
BBC America

Comic-Con 2008
Thursday July 24

Doctor Who Panel, Ballroom 20
Executive Producer and lead writer Steven Moffat and Executive Producer Julie Gardner discuss their creative process and experience on working on the BBC's Doctor Who - Britain's most successful sci-fi franchise - with exclusive clips and Q & A session.

Shown on the card is the 10th Doctor played by David Tennant and Donna Noble played by Catherine Tate.

This advertising postcard is unused.  Below is a scan of the back of the card.

It's Liz Taylor.

You should really consider first class postage.

Biography Special
Elizabeth Taylor
Premieres Sunday, March 16, 8PM / 7C

A & E
Watch it on Comcast.

The is a free advertising 'Supercards', postcard.  It was printed in 2003.

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I love Liz's (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) violet colored eyes on this card. 

What's Christmas  ... Without a few Flakes?
I Love Lucy

This postcard features Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz and William Frawley dressed as santa claus .

This postcard is unused. 

Both of these postcards are postmarked in 2014 with two Batman stamps each.

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Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. It originally aired on Fox Kids from September 5, 1992, to September 15, 1995, with a total of 86 episodes. During its second season, the series was given the on-screen title The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

Mayberry Memories ...
Mt. Airy, North Carolina

Mount Airy, NC is the home of actor Andy Griffith, and was the inspiration for the town of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show.  Visitors to Mt. Airy can visit Floyd's City Barber Shop, the Old City Jail, Snappy Lunch, the Andy Griffith Playhouse and even Andy's childhood home.

Photos by Joe Joseph

This is postmarked in 2013 with a USA 'Building a Nation' stamp.

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The Andy Griffith Show is an American television sitcom that first aired on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), and a precocious young son, Opie (Ron Howard).

Also shown in the mural is Thelma Lou.  She is Barney Fife's girlfriend and is portrayed by Betty Lynn.

 

Columbia Pictures Corporation
presents
The Three Stooges

Moe  Larry  Curly

This unused postcard was printed in 2010.  The image is the scene from the opening credits of their television show (1960–1972).

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The Three Stooges act began as part of a mid-1920s vaudeville comedy act, billed as Ted Healy and his Stooges, consisting of Healy, Moe Howard, his brother Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine. The four made one feature film, Soup to Nuts, before Shemp left to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by his younger brother, Jerome (Curly Howard), in 1932. Two years later, the trio left Healy and signed on to appear in their own short subjects for Columbia, now billed as "The Three Stooges".

The Impossible Astronaut
BBC Doctor Who

This postcard is postmarked in 2015.

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"The Impossible Astronaut" is the first episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.  It was first broadcast on 23 April 2011 in the United Kingdom, as well as the United States and Canada.

In the episode, Amy Pond, Rory and River Song are summoned to Utah, USA, by the Eleventh Doctor, who is killed by a mysterious figure in a space suit. The dead Doctor is revealed to be an older self, after his younger version returns. They try to understand what the future Doctor said and are sent to Washington D.C. The team deals with the Silence, a race of aliens with the ability to make people forget their encounter with them when they look away.

"Homo Reptilia, warrior class ... A new type of Silurian, different tribe.
BBC - Doctor Who

This postcard is postmarked in 2015 with two space (:) stamps from 1981, but I think these Silurians are from the 2010 two-part episodes: "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood".

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The first Silurians introduced are depicted as prehistoric and scientifically advanced sentient humanoids who predate the dawn of man; in their backstory, the Silurians went into self-induced hibernation to survive what they predicted to be a large geological upheaval caused by the Earth capturing the Moon.
 

I ate lunch alone.  Girls avoided me. I was teased by bullies. And that was just this afternoon.  What else hasn't changed since grade school?  I still drink milk.  Big guys need the calcium as much as kids do.  Plus bones grow until age 35.  About the same time I'm likely to start dating.

Milk
Where's your mustache?

Conan O'Brien 1997 National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board

This is an unused Go Card.

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Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known for hosting several late-night talk shows. He served as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News.

After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live. O'Brien was a writer and producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he was commissioned by NBC to take over David Letterman's position as host of Late Night in 1993.

The Office

Shown are:
B. J. Novak
Jenna Fischer
Ed Helms
John Krasinski
Craig Robinson
Rainn Wilson

This unused postcard was printed in 2012.

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The Office is an American television comedy series that originally aired on NBC from March 24, 2005 to May 16, 2013. It is an adaptation of the BBC series of the same name.

The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. The show ran for nine seasons, and 201 episodes. 

Children of Dune

Born to rule and empire, destined to tear it apart.

Staring Susan Sarandon, Alec Newman and Daniela Amavia.

Sci Fi Channel presents the continuing sage of Frank Herbert’s Dune in its new miniseries, Frank Herbert’s children of Dune, based on the second and third books in his popular series.  After gaining control of the desert planet Dune and bending an empire to his will, Paul Maud’dib now faces a conspiracy that aims to take his life and reclaim control of the Spice.  Paul’s fate, and that of all of humanity, rests in the hands of his son, Leto.  Restless and idealistic, Leto can’t resist his destiny and he must risk himself to save those he loves and those who would destroy him.

This postcard is unused.

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Children of Dune is a three-part miniseries written by John Harrison and directed by Greg Yaitanes. It was first broadcast in the United States on March 16, 2003.
In 2003, the critically acclaimed miniseries won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

Samurai Futaba
Saturday Night

This unused postcard was printed in 2013.

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In the early years of Saturday Night Live, John Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) portrayed an archetypal samurai—he had a dedicated concept of honor, spoke only (mock) Japanese, and wielded a Japanese sword. Each sketch had him located in a different place and time that was typically inappropriate for a samurai, yet he performed his tasks perfectly, despite scaring his clients quite a few times.

The Eleventh Doctor

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The Eleventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. He is played by Matt Smith, in three series as well as seven specials, over an almost four-year-long period.

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Executive producer Steven Moffat on Smith's casting.....


The Doctor is a very special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You need to be old and young at the same time, a boffin and an action hero, a cheeky schoolboy and the wise old man of the universe. As soon as Matt walked through the door, and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man.