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The real Bob Crane: An interview with Carol M. Ford, author of Bob Crane: The...
For Carol M. Ford, a youthful interest in Hogan's Heroes and it's star, Bob Crane, developed over time into a desire to know more about him and, after his murder, a determination to set the record...
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So what do you think of the new design? It's been about three years since the last major redo, and while this isn't as substantial as that one was, I'm hopeful you'll like the look of it. Not only do...
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This week in TV Guide: March 9, 1957
Two thoughts about Pat Boone: in 1962 he'll star in the remake of State Fair, which wasn't very good to begin with, and pales in comparison to the original, but it does give one a very good panorama of...
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"Book 'em, Danno!" Why Hawaii Five-O 's Danny Williams is the perfect...
McGARRETT (JACK LORD) AND WILLIAMS (JAMES MacARTHUR): THE LEADERSHIP OF HAWAII FIVE-OFirst things first. We're not talking about the new Hawaii Five-0 here, the one with the younger, hotter, more...
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What's on TV? Saturday, March 9, 1957
Have you heard the one about the man who never missed a day of work until one day when he fell into a routine? I'm here all week, folks!Seriously, I am a creature of habit. Even when it comes to...
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This week in TV Guide: March 11, 1972
Believe it or not, there actually was a time when James Brolin was known as something other than Mr. Barbra Streisand. In the early 1970s, he was Dr. Steven Kiley, the young assistant to Robert Young's...
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What's on TV? Monday, March 13, 1972
One of these days I'm going to enlist some help from you all out there. I know some of you are far more familiar with these markets than I am, so if you'll email or comment here and volunteer for the...
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When Western heroes don't shoot straight
GENE BARRY AS BAT MASTERSONI was watching an episode of Bat Masterson the other night, it being one of the bedtime half-hour dramas we watch during the week. Masterson, played by Gene Barry as a...
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Bare-bones e-zine has another of its Hitchcock writeups, this one on the witty (and not terribly scary) episode "The Diplomatic Corpse," which should be watched if for no other reason than the...
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This week in TV Guide: March 20, 1965
I've written previously about Dorothy Malone (pictured on this week's cover with her two children), and though I liked her before, I'm even more inclined to like her now after reading her interview...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, March 23, 1965
This week's listings come to you live from Boston, and although it's Tuesday, these have something of the feel of a weekend about them. The Gemini coverage wipes out almost all of the morning...
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Additions to the Top Ten: Breaking Point
EDUARD FRANZ (LEFT) AND PAUL RICHARDS: THE DOCTORS OF BREAKING POINTI've written a couple of times these last few months about Breaking Point, the Ben Casey spinoff that ran in the 1963-64 season on...
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"Give Us Barabbas!" on Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1961
FROM THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, PILATE PRESENTS JESUS AND BARABBAS TO THE MASSESFrom Palm Sunday, March 27, 1961, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame presents James Daly and Kim Hunter in "Give Us Barabbas,"...
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This week in TV Guide: March 28, 1959
This week, a different way to decide what shows we look at - by looking at what other people looked at.One of the sidebars in this week's issue includes the top 10 programs in the Fort Worth*...
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What's on TV? Thursday, April 2, 1959
A happy Easter Monday to you all! We're back in DFW this week for an exciting Thursday of television. No station-by-station commentary this time, but I do want to say a word about Continental...
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Mother Mary Angelica, R.I.P.
SOURCE: EWTNFrom David Sarnoff to William S. Paley, network executives have been known as a tough lot. Whether they're present at the founding or are called in to save the network, they have to be...
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This week in TV Guide: April 1, 1972
An interesting article this week on the spade of new series featuring big-name movie stars, and why so many of them have been failures. Today, with the proliferation of high-quality cable dramas,...
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What's on TV? Friday, April 7, 1972
This week we make (I believe) our first visit to the Bay Area in California. With more than a few stations to choose from, I've decided to go with the listings for San Francisco-Oakland, with...
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