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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 23, 1966
Johnny Carson's in Hollywood this week; before he made his permanent relocation to the famous Burbank studio, he used to spend at least a couple of weeks out there every year. After he moved there from...
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Bonus issue: TV Guide of March 29, 1975
A few months ago, I introduced you to Your 45's Are 50, a weekly syndicated Top 40 countdown program featuring the hit songs and news headlines from 50 years ago. each week! I've corresponded with...
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You might recall me writing a couple of years ago about The Man in Room 17, a British show that I quite enjoyed watching, although I was only able to see the first season. You might even be familiar...
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This week in TV Guide: April 2, 1955
That's singer Tony Martin front and center on the cover of this week's issue. By his own admission, he's never been up there with singers like Sinatra—"I'm no sensation," he says, "never have been,...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, April 6, 1955
We're so used to seeing Andy Williams as host of his own show, we hardly ever think of him as a guest on someone else's show, but of course he wasn't always a big star, and he had to start out...
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TV Jibe: Tech support is on the way
If you're of a certain age, you can remember when technical problems arose often enough that stations had "Please Stand By" slides that they'd put up, usually with some Mantovani-style music playing in...
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As you may have heard, after 20 years, the revival of Doctor Who is in a bit of a bind. It's possible, according to some sources, that Disney+ may not renew its option at the end of the current season,...
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This week in TV Guide: April 7, 1956
With tensions between the United States and Canada running high at the moment, it seems appropriate to lead off this week with an article from Gordon Sinclair, the legendary Canadian journalist who in...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, April 10, 1956
There's a good amount of distance between Dallas and Fort Worth. It's not like the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which share a border; while they're closer now because of the sprawl, they're...
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What South Park tells us about ourselves
Your faithful scribe has had his hands full lately, trying to balance several projects simultaneously, including the penultimate draft of a new book, which, let's face it, is to your benefit, as well...
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David has another terrific piece at Comfort TV on expressions that were once commonplace enough that they could be used as premises in television episodes of teh day. I'm so conscious of this kind of...
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This week in TV Guide: April 10, 1965
Even the word sounds quaint, old fashioned. Smut. Sounds like something your grandmother might have warned you about, and if she'd been around in 1965, reading TV Guide, she might have felt justified...
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What's on TV? Sunday, April 11, 1965
Baseball season starts on Monday, and one of the most interesting programs on this Sunday is Requiem for an Arena on KGO (watch here), a documentary on the legendary Polo Grounds in New York, which was...
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What I've been watching: April, 2025
Shows I’ve Watched:Shows I’ve Added:World War IOwen MarshallSherlock HolmesThe New AvengersIt might seem hard to belive for television viewers today, but back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the...
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We begin the week with Jack's Hitchcock Project at bare-bones e-zine, and John T. Kelly's seventh-season drama "Apex," a nasty piece (but then, is there any other kind?) about adultery, double-dealing,...
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This week in TV Guide: April 20, 1968
Xf all the most obvious ways in which television shows the passage of time and the change of the culture, I think the variety show may be the most overt, although I'm willing to listen to opinions to...
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What's on TV? Friday, April 26, 1968
We're accustomed to shedding a tear when we see a program that's no longer with us, nothing more than a happy memory, but this we experience the same feeling with a sports team. Friday marks the first...
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If I ran the network, part 7
If you've seen the 1982 version of I, the Jury, starring Armand Assante as Mike Hammer, you probably remember the scene in the restaurant where Hammer grabs a man trying to kill him and slams the man's...
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The "Sylvia Coleridge Season" continues at Cult TV Blog, and this week John looks at "The Chicken," a 1965 episode from the police series Cluff, with Coleridge excellent as a bedridden wife in a...
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This week in TV Guide: Apirl 24, 1971
If you're like me, you probably gave up watching the news years ago. I mean, I already take medication to keep from getting depressed; the last thing I need is to go out there and intentionally find...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, April 27, 1971
Tonight, Dick Cavett spends 90 minutes with John G. Neihardt, the poet lauriette of Nebraska, and author of Black Elk Speaks, his 1932 book about the Lakota medicine man of the same name. The book...
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Coming soon: Darkness in Primetime: How Classic-Era TV Foresaw Modern...
Since I've already mentioned this on social media, I figured it was probably about time to talk about it here: my new book, Darkness in Primetime: How Classic-Era TV Foresaw Modern Society's Descent...
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