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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is an American science fiction family film released in 1982. The film was co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison and starred Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote. The film tells the story of a boy named Elliot Thomas who befriends an extraterrestrial who is stranded on Earth. He and his siblings help to return E.T. to his home while trying to avoid their mother and the government.

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E.T. and Me is an adaptation of the motion picture screenplay for the movie E.T. It is a retelling of the story from the point of view of Elliott the boy who finds E.T. 

The film E.T. was directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and tells the story of a young boy who befriends an alien stranded on earth and helps him return home. E.T. was the highest-grossing film of 1982, and remains among the highest-grossing films of all time.

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The image on this button is the character Erik from the 1925 horror silent movie The Phantom of the Opera, an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Lon Chaney played Erik, the phantom, a mad disfigured composer who sought love with opera singer Christine by causing a series of mayhem and murder. The make-up of the phantom was designed by Lon Chaney himself. The sound version of the movie from 1930 is lost. 

This button is a Topps "Batty Button" from 1970. The series included images of Erik from the Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Creature from the black lagoon, and Wolf Man all with funny texts.

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The 1984 film Dune was based off of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel by the same title. The film was directed by David Lynch and starred Kyle MacLachlan. Despite the long, 13 year process of adapting the novel into a film, the movie was not well received by audiences; so poorly received that David Lynch replaced his name with a pseudonym in most copies of the film. 

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Dudley Do-Right is a character that appears in the Rocky and Bullwinkle comic books, movie, and the TV show, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, from the 1960s. He is a dim-witted, but cheerful Canadian Mountie who is constantly trying to catch his nemesis, and rescue the damsel in distress. Throughout the show, he is successful but by pure luck or through the help of his horse, Horse. Dudley Do-Right also had his own show from 1969 to 1970. It is very common to see Dudley Do-Right atop his horse, as the pair work together in the TV show. 

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George Richard Fischbeck (1922-2015) was a popular TV weatherman on Los Angeles, CA's KABC-TV "Eyewitness News" program. He retired in 1990 but returned to television for a stint on KCBS-TV from 1994 to 1997. Fischbeck held a Masters in Education and had taught science for many years before becoming a TV meteorologist; he was also awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Albuquerque. 

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This button promotes the TV program The Apprentice. From 2004 to 2015 Donald Trump hosted the show, wherein he served as a mentor to aspiring businesspeople and entrepreneurs. He commonly used the catchphrase, "You're fired!" to dismiss contestants who do not meet his expectations. Previous to the program, Donald Trump had already been well established as a real estate mogul for several decades. In 2015, he declared his candidacy for President of the United States on the Republican ticket, and won the election the following year. His controversial comments regarding various issues led NBC, the network home of The Apprentice, to sever ties with Trump and continue the program without him.

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Doctor Who, a television show produced by the BBC, premiered in 1963 and is the longest running science-fiction show on television. The show revolves around a character called the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, who travels through time and space—often with one or multiple companions. The Doctor has the power to regenerate, a characteristic first introduced when William Hartnell, the actor who played the first Doctor, became too ill to continue on the show. As of 2015, the Doctor has been played by twelve different actors. The logo on this button, known commonly as the “Diamond Logo”, was featured in the credits of the show from 1973 to 1980 and is associated with the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker. The "Diamond Logo" experienced a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was used on the covers of the VHS releases of the show, as well as on books and other merchandise. 

A black and white photograph of a man's head appears before a red background. The man has an unlit cigar in his mouth. Ringing the background is a blue rim with white text. Before the text are 2 red, five-pointed stars; after the text there are 3 stars.

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Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), an intelligent and industrious police detective, was a character in the comic strip created by Chester Gould in the 1930s. In the storyline, Detective Tracy often uses forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and wits to solve mysteries and sometimes ends up in intense gun-fighting scenes in his relentless pursuits of criminals. The comic strip was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.