What's on TV? Friday, July 24, 1953
Tere's not much to report today; I mentioned the addition of the Milwaukee listing for WTMJ on Saturday, and appropriately enough I've listed it after all the Chicago stations, just as it was in the...
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Wt Cult TV Blog John leads off the week with a very interesting comparison between the 1967 Avengers episode "Never, Never Say Die" and the 1967 movie Night of the Big Heat, which was later released...
View ArticleThis week in TV Guide: August 2, 1969
Until its reappearance as a guest-star vehicle for Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, it was mostly only oldtimers like us who remembered Lancer, the western which ran on CBS for two seasons...
View ArticleWhat's on TV? Wednesday, August 6, 1969
Network television had, by 1969, converted almost entirely to color. (And if you don't think it's a pain putting the little "C" after all these shows, you've got another think coming. Someone at TV...
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You know, it's amazing how much less exciting Fridays become after you've retired. It's almost a letdown, thinking that another week has come and gone, another seven days that you won't get a chance to...
View ArticleThis week in TV Guide: August 7, 1965
You all know about my affection for Gene Barry's detective series Burke's Law. (If you don't, you haven't been reading very closely.) It was a stylish mix of humor and police drama, all done with...
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All this week on NBC's You Don't Say!, it's the battle of the doctors, as Dr. Joyce Brothers takes on Dr. Frank Baxter. Who is Dr. Frank Baxter? Well, in 1965 you would have recognized him. According...
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It's been awhile since I've popped up here on a Wednesday, and I'm embarrassed to have slacked off the pace. What else can I say but that sometimes life happens? Between promoting my last novel,...
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Wo, no matter what anyone says; a movie called If You Go Down in the Woods Today is not going to end well, even if you try to style it as a comedy. But don't take my word for it; that's the target of...
View ArticleThis week in TV Guide: August 16, 1969
Anew era in television begins this week, as Merv Griffin enters the late-night talk show fray with his debut on CBS. (Guests for that first show: Joe Namath, Woody Allen, Leslie Uggams.) Merv's hardly...
View ArticleWhat's on TV? Thursday, August 21, 1969
In Saturday's write-up, I spent some time on the late-night talk show wars, now fully joined with the addition of Merv Griffin to the continuing battle between Johnny Carson and Joey Bishop. We've got...
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View ArticleThis week in TV Guide: August 22, 1959
Wo there's a little something for everyone this week, and there's no better place to begin than at the beginning!Saturday night football! The NFL preseason continues with a game between the Pittsburgh...
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Let's start with Cult TV Blog and "The Indian Spirit Guide," an episode of the 1969 American-British series Journey to the Unknown. It's written by Robert Bloch, and stars Julie Harris; let's find out...
View ArticleWhat's on TV? Tuesday, August 25, 1959
Let's see: what do we have this week? Well, you might notice that the anchor of the CBS evening news this week is Ron Cochran, and if you're an eagle-eyed reader, you'll probably recognize him more for...
View ArticleThis week in TV Guide: August 30, 1980
In May of 1980, the city of Miami was rocked by three days of rioting, described by Dan Rather as "the Nation's worst outbreak of urban disorder in a single city" since 1967 in Detroit and Newark. The...
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