Rewind to 1962: Joan Ganz Cooney, who was working in television production for New York’s WNDT, was appalled at the didactic programming being dished out to children, and believed there must be a way ...

Most presidents are easy to pin down on our cultural maps. Ronald Reagan was raised in Dixon, Ill., but we placed him in Hollywood, telling America’s story on the big screen. Bill Clinton may have ...

The toy that had shoppers searching everywhere in the '90s is getting a nostalgic new chapter.

One promo on the Rosie O’Donnell show was all it took to spark Tickle Me Elmo mania. Tickle Me Elmo’s sweet voice and vibrating laugh had parents fighting in the aisles. The hottest toy of 1996 was, ...

As Black Friday approaches, we dug through the ABC7 archive to see what got shoppers in a frenzy during the holiday season. This week, we take a look at Tickle Me Elmo, the hottest holiday toy in 1996 ...

The latest Tickle Me Elmo doll looks and sounds like the original, but a few of them have a suprise in store for their owners. Squeeze his furry red tummy and the new Tickle Me Elmo doll bursts into a ...

It was two decades ago this holiday season that parents across America were fighting each other over a little red creature with a tickling fetish. During the months leading up to Christmas 1996, the ...