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What's on TV? Thursday, February 21, 1980
Reviewing this week's Kentucky edition of TV Guide put me in a nostalgic kind of mood. Not for these particular shows, necessarily, but for what it was like to come home from school every afternoon and...
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What I've been watching: January, 2023
Shows I’ve Watched:Shows I've Added:Combat!Twin Peaks (Original)Captains and the KingsSam BenedictOmnibus (Interviews)As I've mentioned before, I enjoy watching programs that are just plain fun, but I...
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I wonder what the Nelson family is watching tonight, don't you?In the early 1970s, we saw a number of new shows being fronted by movie stars, such as Glenn Ford, Yul Brynner, and Anthony Quinn. At...
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This week in TV Guide: February 27, 1965
Imagine, if you will, a popular television show with a mystery at the core of its plot. This mystery has become central to its core of loyal fans, who can't keep from speculating on the show's outcome....
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What's on TV? Thursday, March 4, 1965
Tonight Perry Como takes his Kraft Music Hall Americana road show to Boston for a live telecast from the new Boston War Memorial Auditorium, now known as the Hynes Convention Center. Once Perry stepped...
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The Apollo 13 astronauts on The Tonight Show, 1970
Beginning with Apollo 11 in 1969, the U.S. manned space program scheduled seven missions to land men on the moon, ending in 1972. Six of them succeeded; the seventh was Apollo 13. It's ironic, I...
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Fridays have been my favorite night of the week since I was in grade school, so it makes sense that I'd identify with David's latest entry at Comfort TV, where his journey through 1970s TV lands on...
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This week in TV Guide: March 4, 1967
Let's address first things first, with Leslie Raddatz's cover story profile of Leonard Nimoy. or "Where else but in America could a son of Russian immigrants become a television star with pointed...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 8, 1967
Interesting thing about the All-Night Movie on KGO; theoretically it's a triple feature, but each night's third feature is an episode of a TV show. Tonight, it's Hawaiian Eye; Tuesday nights are Naked...
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Tales of the unexpected
For the television historian, one of the great pleasures in reading back issuse of TV Guide is coming across the unexpected. And in this case, I'm not referring to something that I didn't expect; no,...
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At Comfort TV, David leads off the week with an intriguing question: whatever happened to "America's Sweetheart"? It's a title that's been dispensed on many luminaries over the years: Annette...
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This week in TV Guide: March 12, 1966
My goodness, but we see a lot of articles about The Beverly Hillbillies in this job. There was a cover story on the female stars just a couple of weeks ago, and now the gang is back again. The British...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, March 15, 1966
As we saw on Saturday, the Gemini VIII launch was pushed back from Tuesday to Wednesday, so so we don’t have to worry about any pre-emptions to today’s schedule. So what do we have? Johnny Carson and...
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The Descent into Hell: "The General" (1967)
indoctrinate (in·doc·tri·nate) verb. 1: to teach or inculcate a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a partisan or sectarian opinion or specific point of view. In man's eternal...
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This week begins with the return of Love That Bob to The Horn Section, and this time Bob's not the wolf preying on a lovely—he's actually trying to protect the lovely from another wolf: his friend Paul...
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This week in TV Guide: March 15, 1969
It's only fair, after all: A few weeks ago, we saw a stirring defense of the soap opera from none other than James Lipton, who hypothesized that it might be the most realistic form of drama on...
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What's on TV? Saturday, March 15, 1969
It’s a smaller lineup than usual this week, thanks to the educational channels not broadcasting on the weekend. That doesn’t mean we have less to check out, though. For instance, there’s NBC’s Saturday...
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Television in its natural state
Although classic television is my primary beat, that doesn’t mean I don’t pay attention to what’s going on in more contemporary TV news. And, as is usually the case, once I start digging around on a...
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Let's start things off this week at bare-bones e-zine, where Jack's Hitchcock Project moves to the first of two scripts by Lou Rambeau: "Hangover," from December, 1962, starring Tony Randall and Jayne...
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This week in TV Guide: March 26, 1954
It really is difficult sometimes to explain the effect certain people have had on television history. Not because they weren't talented, or because their accomplishments transcended the medium, but...
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