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Now this is a TV Guide review!
I'm running a bit short on time today, but you'll want to have plenty of time to read through this terrific piece from the great James Lileks. I like to think that I do a pretty good job with my...
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Patrick Macnee, R.I.P.
Mrs. Peel may have gotten all the attention (and for good reason), but for my money John Steed was the irreplaceable member of The Avengers. He was suave, sophisticated, stylish - oh, how he had...
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This week in TV Guide: July 2, 1960
One could draw a good many existential conclusions about the significance of Independence Day as acknowledged on television. Even in TV's early years there were concerns about viewers becoming...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, July 6, 1960
This week we revisit New England, and a typical night's viewing. Nothing special here, nothing destined for immortality. It's an entertaining night nonetheless, so let's take a closer look at what...
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The Senator, and the problem with politics as part of series TV
HAL HOLBROOK, BLEEDING HIS HEART UNTIL THERE'S NO BLOOD LEFT, IN THE SENATORThe arrival on DVD of the 1970-71 series The Senator, one of the multiple parts of the wheel series The Bold Ones, has caused...
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Around the dial
It's been a couple of weeks since we've taken a spin around the dial, so let's see what the latest is as we begin this holiday weekend.A nice little piece on Charles Osgood over at the University of...
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This week in TV Guide: July 4, 1964
Hello there everyone, and Happy Fourth of July. It being the holiday weekend and all, I'm going to do something a little different for today - I don't have a new issue for us to look at, so we're...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, July 7, 1964
As I mentioned on Saturday, this is the second look at this TV Guide, but the first time we've done an in-depth on the listings. The date is Tuesday, July 7, the place is the Twin Cities, and here's...
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Around the dial: Sinatra, Steed, Benny, Hitch & more!
I was going to lead off things today with Television's New Frontier: the 1960s'very good article on 87th Precinct, a show I think perhaps I liked a little more than he did, but then along came today's...
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This week in TV Guide: July 13, 1963
I'll be honest with you, as you know I always have been. It's beyond me to find anything of real interest in this week's issue. We're full bore in the rerun season; the articles have been less than...
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What's on TV? Saturday, July 13, 1963
As you know from Saturday's entry, we're in the Wash-Balt market this week, And since I gave the area such a thorough once-over on Saturday we'll just skip right to the programming, if that's all right...
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Summer rerun: How The Beverly Hillbillies explains your salvation
A while back I’d made an offhand comment that 1965 might well be the year that defined the decade of the 60s; prior to that, much of the 60s still depended on the 50s for its definition; after that,...
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Around the dial
A few minutes to offer some links for the week, along with apologies that it's not longer (and earlier in the day).At Comfort TV, David Hofstede has one of his typically insightful pieces, in which he...
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This week in TV Guide: July 19, 1959
Nothing that stands out this issue, so we'll start in with a look at the shows of the week, and go from there.***Saturday night at 9:00pm ET CBS has an episode of the police drama Brenner, starring...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, July 21, 1959
This week signals a return to New England, and a return to the late '50s, so familiar and yet so different from the early '60s. Or maybe that's just me; looking at all these listings, 1958 always...
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The brilliantly clever, ethically dubious world of Mission: Impossible
A couple of years ago I took on the task of listing my ten favorite shows of all time. It proved a popular feature, so I've decided that this summer's project should be a look at the shows that make...
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This week in TV Guide: July 28, 1962
I't an interesting issue this week, as good as any at showing how some things have changed over time, and how hard it might be for us to appreciate what those things were like, back then. And, as is...
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What's on TV? Sunday, July 29, 1962
Back home again in Indiana this week, with stops in Champaign, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Muncie and Lafayette augmenting the main listings from Indianapolis. One thing I noticed is that many of the...
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