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What's on TV? Friday, September 23, 1955
We looked at that big Park Forest event on Saturday, and I'm not sure anything else is going to compare to that today. You may have noticed, however, if you're an observant viewer of these Chicagoland...
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Leftovers from the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
When I made my original on-site report from the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention a couple of weeks ago, it was Friday morning, meaning there were still two more days to come. As I mentioned, we had an...
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Let's start this week at bare-bones e-zine, where Jack welcomes a new writer to the Hitchcock Project. It's Dick Carr, author of the first season episode "The Big Switch," a story of gunfighters and...
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This week in TV Guide: September 26, 1970
Occasionally I'll run across people talking about how, back in the "good old days" (i.e. unlike today), the news on TV was just that—news, without any bias, given by real newscasters without a partisan...
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What's on TV? Sunday, September 27. 1970
Good memories of Sundays back in the day: remember Bullwinkle and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop? Or Notre Dame football replays with Lindsey Nelson and Paul Hornung, and Bill Fleming narrating...
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Guest Essay: Growing up with KTVU
Today I'm pleased to present a guest column by Bill Griffiths, a loyal reader of It's About TV. Sparked by our recent Northern California TV Guides, Bill and I struck up an email conversation, and Bill...
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The great David McCallum died this week, aged 90. Although he had a long and successful run on the show NCIS, for many, he'll always be remembered as Illya Kuryakin on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the man...
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This week in TV Guide: September 30, 1972
We—and by that I mean you and me and everyone else who watches television—complain a lot about what's on, but rarely do we discuss the shows that almost made it to our home screens. Sure, we may seem...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, October 3, 1972
We're back in Atlanta this week as part of the Georgia Edition, back in the pre-Superstation days when WTCG stood for "Turner Communications Group." In 1972, Channel 17 has only been on the air for...
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The Descent into Hell: "A Sound of Different Drummers" (1957)
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations." ―Henry David Thoreau, WaldenIIn the future, people live in a high-tech world of domed cities, governed...
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At Comfort TV, David honors the late David McCallum with a look at some of the actor's finest classic television roles, from a 1953 performance on British TV to his 1986 reunion with Robert Vaughn on...
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This week in TV Guide: October 8, 1955
This week's TV Guide Preview asks the quite sensible question, "Who's doing what on your TV screen during the next seven days?" (That's why it's called a preview, I guess.) It's a week where some old...
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What's on TV? Monday, October 10, 1955
I always enjoy these 1950s Philadelphia editions; it's not that I have any connection to the city (I've never been there), but I get a charge out of seeing the names of some of my old sports heroes,...
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Peace: Revisiting Dave Garroway and his times, with Jodie Peeler
It was a little over six years ago—can it really be that long ago?—that I first talked with Jodie Peeler about a project she had in the works, a biography of Dave Garroway, the original host of the...
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Ah, Halloween is just around the corner, so I expect we'll see some seasonal fare over the next couple of weeks, starting at Comfort TV, where David looks at the haunted houses of classic TV. When you...
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This week in TV Guide: October 15, 1966
One of the facts of life, a fact we all have to contend with, is that people die. It's just natural. Judy Carne and Peter Deuel, neither of them yet 30 when they appeared on the cover of this week's...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, October 18, 1966
There's a documentary on KSBW at 7:30 p.m. called The Epic of Flight, part of the Time-Life series of TV specials. (Not to be confused with The Epic of Flight series of books, published by Time-Life.)...
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Television in the Third Reich
Do I use the word "interesting" too often? I like to think I'm interested in a lot of different things, so it's certainly possible. Regardless, I recently ran across a documentary on YouTube that I...
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At bare•bones e-zine, Jack's Hitchcock Project gets the week off to a good start with the first of two Lukas Heller teleplays, "The Tender Poisoner," an eighth-season episode with Dan Dailey, Howard...
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This week in TV Guide: October 18, 1969
It could be said that the history of Mission: Impossible falls into three distinct eras: the first, which covers only the inaugural season and features Steven Hill as M;I leader Dan Briggs; the second,...
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