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What's on TV? Monday, September 1, 1969
Happy Labor Day! It's Labor Day in today's Northern California listings as well, although there's not a lot to show for it. Baseball, maybe; NBC's Monday night special pits the Reds and Cubs, and it's...
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24 for 2024: the best political movies and TV shows
If you've made a habit of reading this website through the years, first of all, you need some better habits. Be that as it may, you've probably become accustomed to my quadrennial presentation of...
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Xt Comfort TV, David addresses a topic near and dear to my heart: the 15 best classic TV shows still not available on DVD. People who depend on streaming for their classic TV may be sorry when those...
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This week in TV Guide: September 10, 1966
For this year's Fall Preview, I thought I'd treat you to what many of you feel is a very special issue: a look at the 1966-67 season.Over the years, I've written about a number of these Fall Previews,...
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What's on TV? Thursday, September 15, 1966
We looked at bit tonight's lineup during Saturday's fall preview, but now we get a chance to see things in action. It's the full-color lineup, even though color won't help some of them a bit. (We're...
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Two for today: Mike Wallace and Rod Serling
My latest appearance on the Dan Schneider Video Interview is now up. Make that plural; we recorded a pair of shows on two legends in the television industry: Mike Wallace and Rod Serling.Ā What with our...
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In our last episode, you may recall, we looked at a new series that John was starting at Cult TV BlogĀ concentrating on actors and their roles rather than simply individual series. This week, we look at...
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This week in TV Guide: September 16, 1972
The start to the new television season, as I've often said, used to be an exciting time, with both new and familiar vieing for attention. This week is a perfect example, as the NFL returns, big movies...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, September 20, 1972
Madigan, premiering tonight on NBC, would, at first glance, appear to be an odd choice for one of the rotating elements of the network'sĀ Wednesday Mystery Movie. In the first place, the title...
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Xt bareā¢bones e-zine, Jack's latest Hitchcock Project subject is Alvin Sargent, who wrote the ninth-season episode "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow," with Patricia Collinge, Jessica Walter, and Don Chastain....
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This week in TV Guide: September 18, 1954
Throughout history, man has strugged with the great intellectual questions of the time: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here, and where are we going? What's for dinner tonight? Among those...
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What's on TV? Thursday, September 23, 1954
There's nothing particularly notable about today's listings other than this: it comes from 70 years ago today. That may not seem like a big deal to those of you who take TV for granted, and perhaps it...
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If I ran the network, part 5
Earlier this year, I introduced a new feature, "If I Ran the Network," a series of TV concepts that would never have made it to the small screen without network executives screwing them up. If you have...
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Now there's a young entrepreneur hard at work honing his craft. "Check out the 16-inch screen on this beauty. Just use that dial to adjust the sound, and you're all set!" But what would they...
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This week in TV Guide: September 23, 1967
That's a great cover, isn't it? So vivid and alive with color. Television loved color in the 1960s, in a way it doesn't today. It's natural, considering how the networks were transitioning to full...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, September 26, 1967
Back on September 10, ABC preempted its entire Sunday prime-time lineup for Africa, a four-hour documentary that combined a look at the many new countries born from the end of colonialism with segments...
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The politics of commercials
If you're like me, you've spent the last couple of months watching television with the remote close by your side, all the better to mute those interminable political commercials polluting the airwaves....
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We'll begin this week's review at bareā¢bones e-zine, where Jack's Hitchcock Project looks at the second season story "Kill by Kindness" by A.J. Russell, based on a teleplay he'd previously written for...
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This week in TV Guide: October 3, 1959
Lee Marvin is one angry man. Not the Last Angry Man; that was Paul Muni, and anyway, this issue is 65 years old and there have been a lot of angry men since then. Angry women, too, for that matter. But...
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