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Thanksgiving wishes
SOURCE: HADLEY TV GUIDE COLLECTIONIsn't this a great picture? A modern representation of the famous Rockwell painting I've posted on the blogs over the years. Not an exact recreation, but it certainly...
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This week in TV Guide: November 29, 1975
The objective of the ‘scandalous revelations’ filling the airwaves and news columns ought to be reform, but ‘thus far have brought little but cynicism and disillusion.’ "Talking about O’Reilly,...
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Recasting "It's a Wonderful Life"
For many people, Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without watching It's a Wonderful Life on TV. I'm not one of those people - there's something about the dimwittedness of George Bailey that irritates...
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Golden Oldie: The looking glass looks back
It seems inconceivable that a blog dedicated in large part to culture can let the end of The Sopranos go by without comment. Indeed, though I’ve never seen an episode of the series, I’m certainly well...
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Christmas invades Around the Dial - and more!
All right, all right, I know I'm a day late with this (and perhaps a dollar short as well, but that's for another day); better late than never though, right? Besides, it just means we have even more...
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This week in TV Guide: December 4, 1965
It is the first full week in December 1965, which means Christmas programming (and advertising) should be starting, right? We only have three seasonal specials, but two of them are part of television...
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Celebrating A Charlie Brown Christmas, 49 years ago tonight
It was 49 years ago tonight that A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted on CBS. As I suggested in Saturday's TV Guide review, there was a sense that this was a big deal, although almost everyone involved...
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What's on TV? Friday, December 10, 1965
Yes, it's time for another edition of everyone's favorite - What's On TV? This week we're taking a look at the listings for Friday, December 10, 1965. You can read all about that issue of TV Guide...
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This week in TV Guide: December 12, 1959
It's less than two weeks to Christmas, 1959, and there are several Christmas shows on tap. So let's get right to it, shall we?The Hallmark Hall of Fame makes a rare matinee appearance on NBC Sunday...
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What are we to make of Rudolph? (and other foibles of adults watching cartoons)
CELESTE HOLM AND GREGORY PECK IN A SCENE FROM GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENTWe've been having a lot of fun at the expense of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer lately. Now, we all love Rudolph, but let's face it -...
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Around the dial
Some good things in the blogosphere, so let's get right to it.As you may remember from this piece (near the end), I've got a deep-seated antipathy toward Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory. Joanna at...
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This week in TV Guide: December 20, 1958
The big day is finally here, and it's not about to escape the notice of TV Guide. In fact, it would almost be easier to talk about the shows that don't have special Christmas themes than it is to...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, December 24, 1958
Well, Christmas Eve is finally here - at least in this issue of TV Guide - and let's see what people are watching when they're not getting together with family, opening presents, or going to...
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This week in TV Guide: December 27, 1969
The images on the cover only begin to tell the story of the end to one of the most tumultuous decades in American history, and the finale to one of the most remarkable years of that decade. A man...
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What's on TV? January 1, 1970
It's the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '70s, and in commemoration I thought we'd take a look at the broadcast schedule for that first day of 1970. For many people New Year's Day means...
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Ringing in the New Year - it's Around the Dial!
Happy New Year, everyone! It's the first day of 2015, the fifth year of this blog, and while it's a day when everything is new, there's nothing new about the high quality of the classic TV blogosphere....
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This week in TV Guide: January 1, 1972
If you want a quick but trenchant history of politics in the later half of the twentieth century, you could do worse than to look at two pictures in TV Guide's review of the year 1971. The first...
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What's on TV? January 5, 1972
I thought I would try a little experiment this week. I'm not saying it's going to last all year, but the TV listings I've included off-and-on the last few weeks have proved to be a popular feature,...
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Bess Myerson, R.I.P.
How do the lyrics to the song go? "Lovely to look at,/Delightful to know"? That, even more than "Here She Is," is what comes to mind for me, because Bess Myerson was indeed lovely to look at - even...
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