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This week in TV Guide: February 26, 1977
If you require any evidence that it's never too early to start thinking about the new Fall Season, look no further than this week's co-cover story by Bill Davidson, who explains that what you see in...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, March 1, 1977
We're used to seeing the listings from Northern California, but this week we take a look down south, to the Los Angeles Metropolitan edition. And in the days when Johnny Carson was not only the king of...
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Shows I just don't care about
I was going to call this, "Shows I don't give a s*** about," but decided against it at the last minute—this is a family website, after all. But the sentiment remains the same.The idea came to me a few...
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Last week I was interviewed by Mark Atley, where we talked not only about what I write, but the writing process itself. It was a nice change of pace, to talk not just as a classic TV historian, but as...
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This week in TV Guide: March 3, 1956
On the cover this week is a man who, once upon a time, was one of the most familiar faces on television: Hal March, host of the nation's top-rated program, The $64,000 Question, every Tuesday night at...
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What's on TV? Thursday, March 8, 1956
We're back in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this week, and I'm looking at ABC's Star Tonight, the concept of which is to team "rising young actors and actresses in their first starring roles" with...
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And the loser is. . . the viewers
I hadn't planned on writing about the Academy Awards show I didn't watch on Sunday night; for one thing, I haven't seen an Oscarcast in probably twenty years, I don't like Conan O'Brien, I hadn't heard...
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We start the week at RealWeegieMidget with Gill and hubby's monthly review of movies, including teleflicks with killer bees, Playboy bunnies, 80s aerobics instructors, murder mysteries, and...
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This week in TV Guide: March 8, 1969
There have been, in my humble opinion, very few comedians funnier than Jonathan Winters. He's one of a select group who can make me laugh out loud while I'm watching television, which doesn't happen...
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What's on TV? Saturday, March 8, 1969
We've got a light schedule today, given that the educational stations in the Bay Area don't program on Saturday (which explains why some familiar stations might be missing), but that doesn't mean there...
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The It's About TV Interview: Alan Hayes, co-author of Escapades—An...
It's been awhile since we've done an interview here, and I can't think of anyone better to rectify that than my friend Alan Hayes. I first met Alan through his late, lamented website The Avengers...
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Let's start this week at Comfort TV, where, in the wake of Gene Hackman's death, David wonders what would have happened had Sherwood Schwartz gotten his way and cast Hackman as Mike Brady in The Brady...
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This week in TV Guide: March 17, 1973
You probably don't recognize the name Robert Alan Aurthur; it stands out for me because he wrote two of the episodes that appear in my upcoming book. While he never attained the fame of, say, Rod...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 21, 1973
The last time we saw Arnold Zenker, he was in the process of becoming a cult celebrity thanks to his stint as anchorman of The CBS Evening News during the 1967 AFTRA strike. Following that brush with...
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Critic, explain thyself
I had originally intended to include this in the TV Guide writeup for this coming Saturday, but as I got deeper into it, I realized that it would make an already-long piece even longer; at the same...
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Let's get right to it, starting at bare-bones e-zine, where Jack's Hitchcock Project looks at Robert Gould's ninth-season episode "How to Get Rid of Your Wife," which, despite the title, is a...
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This week in TV Guide: March 19, 1966
WeIn some casting news, the Teletype reports that Stefanie Powers will be replacing Mary Ann Mobley in the upcoming The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.; Mobley played April Dancer in the back-door pilot that...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 23, 1966
Johnny Carson's in Hollywood this week; before he made his permanent relocation to the famous Burbank studio, he used to spend at least a couple of weeks out there every year. After he moved there from...
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Bonus issue: TV Guide of March 29, 1975
A few months ago, I introduced you to Your 45's Are 50, a weekly syndicated Top 40 countdown program featuring the hit songs and news headlines from 50 years ago. each week! I've corresponded with...
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You might recall me writing a couple of years ago about The Man in Room 17, a British show that I quite enjoyed watching, although I was only able to see the first season. You might even be familiar...
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