In fact, we'll start at Comfort TV today, where David uses Rémi Brague's book Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age (which I think I'll have to get) as the basis for looking back at how the era of classic TV provides us with some essential truths about our culture. Not only thought-provoking, but spot-on.
At bare•bones e-zine, Jack's Hitchcock Project continues with the second of Lewis Davidson's scripts for the show, the tenth-season story "Misadventure," a nasty little domestic drama starring Barry Nelson, Lola Albright and George Kennedy, and filled with more twists and turns than the Nürburgring.
Speaking of Hitchcock (I love these smooth transitions, as you know), Rick at Classic Film & TV Café is on the case with another installment of the Movie Quote Game; the subject, as if you didn't already know, is quotes from Hitchcock films. How well do you know them?
The Hitchcock shows, both 30- and 60-minute versions, exist in their entirety. John's current Cult TV feature focuses on shows that have only a very few surviving episodes, and this week his eyes fall on the Saturday Night Theater episode "A.D.A.M.," and the fear of technology—a prudent fear, I'd say.
In going through old TV Guides, one finds, in the early days of public broadcasting, the children's classics Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. But for a short time, there was also ZOOM, which we read about at the Broadcasting Archives.
Drunk TV takes us back to the 1970s, as Paul looks back at "a true gem," the 1979 TV-movie Breaking Up is Hard to Do, taking us behind the scenes in the world of formerly married men. Ted Bessell, Jeff Conaway, Robert Conrad, Billy Crystal, Tony Musante, and David Ogden Stiers star—you can't do much better than that.
That's it for the week; in the meantime, pray for peace. TV