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What's on TV? Tuesday, March 30, 1954
Even though I’ve done many of these daily listings from the 1950s, I never stop being impressed by how many programs were broadcast back in the day. Of course, many of the daytime serials were 15...
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What I've been watching: February, 2023
Shows I’ve Watched:Shows I've Added:Twin Peaks (season 1)Harry-OThe LineupThere's a blogathon that's run several times in the past: "The Favorite TV Show Episode Blogathon." I've never entered it when...
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It's 1964, the start of the third season of The Saint, and at Silver Scenes, it's a look at that episode, "The Miracle Tea Party," a delightful episode that serves as an entry in that "Favorite TV Show...
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This week in TV Guide: April 3, 1965
XxLet's start this week with Vince Edwards. The star of ABC's medical drama Ben Casey has long had a reputation, and as you know, when we speak of having a "reputation," it's usually a bad one. As...
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What's on TV? Monday, April 5, 1965
Well, here we are at the big night, the Academy Awards. We're looking again at the Northern California edition, so we're seeing the Oscars in a different light than usual: the start time, for instance,...
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The fantasy of television violence
It could be said that inside every fantasy, there's a reality waiting to burst out. No matter what we might be watching, comedy or drama, we can't help but ask ourselves what might happen "if this were...
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Around the dial
Something I miss about today's television is the demise of the made-for-TV movie. Sure, they're all over cable stations, especially at Christmastime (those we could do without), but I mean network...
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This week in TV Guide: April 9, 1955
When I was a kid playing with model trains, there was a line of accessories that you could use to build your own village, complete with stores, factories, and even a depot. It was called Plasticville,...
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What's on TV? Monday, April 11, 1955
As you might have noticed last Saturday, there was no MST3K alert this week, but that's only a guess on my part. There are, by my count, seven "To Be Announced" features today, most of them appearing...
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Incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial
In their highly entertaining book Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows, authors Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik have this to say about Hamilton Burger, the hapless D.A. and nemesis of Perry...
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There's not much activity at the classic television corral this week, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. It couldn't have anything to do with this being Easter week, or spring break...
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This week in TV Guide: April 13, 1968
It's time once again for a visit from our favorite television tech expert, TV Guide's David Lachenbruch. We're used to his articles every fall, when he gives us a preview of the new model televisions...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, April 17, 1968
We've got a lot of programs on tap today, although it's up to you as to whether or not they amount to anything. But one of the things I'm reminded of is how many people have had talk shows over the...
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The Descent into Hell: "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" (1960)
Maple Street, Anytown, U.S.A. A nice place to live, where the neighbors are friendly, where the children play in the street, where (this being the very beginning of the 1960s) you imagine nobody locks...
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First, a bit of self-promotion, as I'm wont to do in this space. Well, after all, it is my space to begin with; if I'm not going to blow my own horn, who is? But I digress: last week I had the pleasure...
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This week in TV Guide: April 22, 1967
In our last episode, TV Guide's David Lachenbruch looked to the future to see what television might have in store for us. This week, he looks back to the past, in an interview with "the father of...
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What's on TV? Monday, April 24, 1967
Xs we mentioned on Saturday, Bob Newhart will not be hosting The Tonight Show this week, since Johnny Carson has settled his dispute with NBC; I'd imagine there was general rejoicing all around....
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What I've been watching: crisis of confidence edition
I was starting to worry.For years, I’d prided myself on our carefully curated collection of classic television shows, which had been assembled thanks to the knowledge which my underpaid career as a...
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Around the dial
Earlier today, I guested on the Dan Schneider Video Interview, talking with Dan about the 1963-65 version of The Outer Limits. The link is here; as promised, I performed a massive upgrade on the video...
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This week in TV Guide: May 1, 1965
If you're my age or a little older, and come next month I'll be a little older than my age now, you probably remember the two words: "Early Bird." Not as in "The early bird gets the worm," which was...
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