October 23, 2022 • 42m
After passing on the biggest deal in toy industry history, Mattel President Ray Wagner finds himself a step behind former colleagu...Read more
October 30, 2022 • 42m
Defense contractor Ralph Baer invents the world's first home video game console. But it is soon eclipsed by a new table tennis gam...Read more
November 6, 2022 • 42m
A visionary named Marvin Glass oversees the creation of many of the most iconic toys of the 20th Century. From chattering teeth to...Read more
November 13, 2022 • 42m
At the height of the industrial age, as America's cities go vertical for the first time, a Yale educated medical doctor and Olympi...Read more
November 20, 2022 • 42m
Hungarian professor, Erno Rubik, ignites "Cube Mania" with his 3-D puzzle that takes the world by storm. Hot on his heels, Leslie ...Read more
November 27, 2022 • 42m
In the midst of the 1970s folk art movement, art student Martha Nelson creates a one-of-a-kind doll to sell at local Kentucky craf...Read more
December 4, 2022 • 42m
In the 1980s, groundbreaking technology doesn't just improve adult life, it redefines classic toys. For the first time, childhood ...Read more
December 11, 2022 • 42m
After the U.S. videogame crash of 1983, a Japanese electronics company single-handedly resurrects the industry with a game featuri...Read more
December 18, 2022 • 20m
The Christmas crazes that helped transform holiday shopping into the frantic, no-holds-barred $1.1 trillion frenzy that it is toda...Read more
December 25, 2022 • 20m
Gross-out humor is as old as human society itself, and so are the toys designed to capitalize on it. From a 1st century Roman Empe...Read more