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What's on TV? Saturday, July 30, 1966
It's nice to look back at Saturday mornings when cartoons ruled the day. That classic era is actually a fairly small window, you know; up until the early 1960s, Saturday mornings consisted mostly of...
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Bringing discussion groups to television
More and more frequently, books are coming with guides for reading groups included as an appendix. Could the same be done with television programs?As we've seen in the first two parts of this series,...
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Cult TV Lounge takes a relatively short trip back to the 1990s (I still have a hard time realizing that the '90s are 30 years ago) with the Japanese anime OVA Cyber City Oedo 808, directed by the great...
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This week in TV Guide: August 5, 1972
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy's epic 1869 novel,Ā is a big bookāa very big book. It makes for a big movieāa very big movie. So big, in fact, that when Soviet directorĀ Sergei Bondarchuk decided to adapt it,...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, August 8, 1972
It isn't unprecedented for a network to air reruns of a series while that series is still producing original episodes; the half-hour version of Gunsmoke was shown under the title Marshal Dillon on CBS...
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The rural purge and its aftermath
My latest appearance on the Dan Schneider Video Interview is a discussion of the infamous "Rural Purge" of the early 1970s, a purge that saw several series (particularly on CBS), including The Beverly...
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Wally Cox once described himself as "a harmless preoccupied guy in a constant state of reduced effect," but at Comfort TV, David remembers him as one of the memorable figures of classic TV, and with a...
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This week in TV Guide: August 9, 1980
There have been, by my count, ten issues of TV Guide that I've written about that feature major articles on children's programmingāits quality, its effects on children, its tie-ins to advertising. It's...
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What's on TV? Friday, August 15, 1980
I chose Friday for this week's listing because it's the only weekday not broken up by convention coverage, so it's the only day that really gives us a look at what's on. And the Illinois-Wisconsin...
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At Cult TV Blog, John concludes a week's worth of posts on The Guardians with part 9, "I Want You To Understand Me." Isn't that the way we all feel? But if you're ready for political intrigue that has...
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This week in TV Guide: August 21, 1965
How many times has this happened: you've just finished watching a half-hour comedy that didn't make you laugh once, or you've laughed your way through what was supposed to be a searing drama, and after...
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What's on TV? Thursday, August 26, 1965
Thursday's late movie on KOVR, The Last Angry Man, features a brilliant performance by Paul Muni, for which he received his last Academy Award nomination (his first came in 1929 for The Valiant; he won...
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Burke's Law: the detective show that became Aaron Spelling's first TV hit
Aaron Spelling and Gene Barry: the duo reponsible for the success of Burke's Law.The following is part of the Aaron (Spellingverse) Blogathon, sponsored by Realweegiemidget Reviews. Be sure to check...
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On Wednesday, you saw my contribution to the Aaron Spellingverse Blogathon hosted by Gill at Realweegiemidget; well, now that it's all done, head over there to see all of the entries, including those...
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This week in TV Guide: August 24, 1968
This week we've got a miniseries filled with just about everything television has to offer, a star-studded event featuring high drama and low comedy, tragedy and pathos, suspense, violence, and even...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, August 28, 1968
The one thing of which you can be absolutely certain regarding today's listings is that even after looking at it, you'll still have no idea what was actually on TV that day. Not all of that is this...
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Labor Day and the Jerry Lewis Telethon
Labor Day is coming up this weekend, in case you hadn't noticed, and for me the unofficial end to summer always meant two things: it was time to go back to school (something I found profoundly...
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You're probably all familiar by now with the Hitchcock Project that Jack posts every other week at bareā¢bones e-zine; it's a don't-miss feature for me. Jack's not quite done covering every episode of...
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This week in TV Guide: August 30, 1969
His name, he reminds you at the start of every show, is Johnny Cash. He's been around since 1955, and he's recognized as one of the biggest names in American country music, the successor to JImmie...
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