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When the story is not yours, but belongs to the guest star
GENA ROWLANDS AND EDUARD FRANZ IN ABC'S BREAKING POINTThe pivotal moment comes almost halfway through "Heart of Marble, Body of Stone," a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric series Breaking Point. Dr....
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Once "Around the Dial," Maestro
The title for this week's entry comes from our first story, a very interesting link from Terry Teachout on Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples Concerts on CBS, and why they had such prominence when they...
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This week in TV Guide: January 27, 1962
On of the all-time favorite TV tropes is the wedding. It can be used to write someone out of a series, to introduce someone into a series, or to bolster fading ratings. It's almost always an event, and...
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What's on TV? Saturday, January 27, 1962
Saturdays almost always have interesting listings. It's the first listing you see in each week's issue, you're greeted mostly by cartoons and Westerns, and the programming is different from every other...
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The fugitive kind
DAVID JANSSEN AS DR. RICHARD KIMBLE (LEFT), DR. SAM SHEPPARD: STRANGE CONNECTIONS INDEEDRoy Huggins always denied it, but the myth persists to this day: the hit show he created, The Fugitive, was...
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This week in TV Guide: February 4, 1956
This week's starlet also happens to be this week's cover girl: Judy Tyler, formerly Princess Summerfall Winterspring on Howdy Doody, will be one of Ed Sullivan's guests on this Sunday's show.In 1956,...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, February 7, 1956
We're back in Dallas-Fort Worth this week, which I find extremely helpful since it serves to educate me in the television history of my adopted home. I don't know nearly as much about DFW's TV history...
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Don't mess with the Men from U.N.C.L.E., and other Friday night fun
As some of you might recall, last summer I started what I thought would be a nice little project to fill some time - sharing with you the classic TV lineups we watch in the evening. Unlike many, we...
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Around the dial
First, a note of apology for not having been active answering emails or joining in on the comments section this week. I usually try to get involved with the comments in the comments on various pieces,...
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This week in TV Guide: February 12, 1977
There are a couple of items in this week's Washington Report; little things, really, but combined they'll help produce one of the most controversial stories of the decade. The first note isn't that...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, February 16, 1977
This week we're in St. Louis, a city I've never visited except for stopovers in the airport. I have seen the Arch and the new Cardinals stadium from the air, though; very impressive.There's a real...
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From page to TV tube
Today we're going to take a look at books. Not the books that fill the shelves in the television section of my library, although I can't rule out the possibility that some of these books have a home...
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Around the dial
Lileks has an interesting column up today; not about classic television per se, since he's writing about American Crime, but it has a lot to do with how to watch TV, or at least how I watch it -...
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This week in TV Guide: February 23, 1957
I mentioned the Van Doren family briefly last week, and here we are with Charles, the poster boy for the rise and fall of the 1950s quiz show. I don't say that disparagingly; I actually have a great...
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What's on TV? Friday, March 1, 1957
We're back in the Twin Cities this week, but it's an area with a station lineup much different than we're used to seeing. Nothing in Duluth, for example, or central Minnesota, but we do pick up a...
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What about the rest of the week?
When last we looked in on the TV Guide from February 23, 1957, we were looking at the Friday night listings. Before that, we returned to the world of quiz shows and their celebrities: the winner who...
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Around the dial
As you know, Mannix has a preferred spot in my Saturday night viewing, and so it was good to read The Flaming Nose's endorsement of Mannix as "excellent entertainment." It is, perhaps, the perfect...
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This week in TV Guide: March 3, 1956
We spent most of last week talking about quiz shows, and so perhaps it's appropriate that our first story this week is about - a quiz show! Actually, it's cover boy Hal March, who hosts The $64,000...
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What's on TV? Sunday, March 4, 1956
We've returned to North Texas for this week's listings. In this current run of mid-'50s Dallas TV Guides, I don't think we've taken a look at Sundays, or if we have it's been quite a while. As might be...
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