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Giving a series the (re)boot
I've been sitting here the last couple of weeks wondering what I was going to write for today. Well, not literally - it isn't as if I've done nothing for fourteen days but sit here witlessly, waiting...
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Bare-bones e-zine returns with another installment of the Hitchcock project, this time looking at the third season episode "Guest for Breakfast." It's a chilling little story, a great demonstration of...
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This week in TV Guide: May 19, 1962
Today's review comes to you courtesy of a new laptop, and while this shouldn't have anything to do with the content of the following, it's nice to think that a new laptop will lead to a new Golden Age...
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What's on TV? Saturday, May 19, 1962
We're back in Eastern New England this week for an interesting day of programming. I think that by 1962 we're well into the transitional period between the Golden Age of the '50s, when technological...
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Potpourri for $500
ART FLEMMING, PLAYING JEOPARDY! IN THE MOVIE AIRPLANE II THE SEQUELRemember the Jeopardy category "Potpourri"? It always fascinated me when I was a kid, because I didn't really recognize the word or...
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The wonderful character actor William Schallert died last week, and David at Comfort TV has a very nice tribute to him, reminding us of some of his best moments. If you're anywhere near my age, you...
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This week in TV Guide: May 26, 1956
Last week we mentioned in passing Norma Zimmer, for 23 years the Champagne Lady on The Lawrence Welk Show. Zimmer was the longest-running of the Ladies, and the one I remember from my grandparents...
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What's on TV: Friday, June 1, 1956
Friday is my favorite evening of the work week, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that opinion. It's also my favorite night for TV, even more than Saturday night. (Although that's kind of like asking...
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Interview: Movin' On with Executive Producer Barry Weitz and series...
FRANK CONVERSE (LEFT) AND CLAUDE AKINS RIDE THEIR BIG RIG ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN MOVIN' ONAlthough it was only on for two seasons, the NBC drama Movin' On was one of the iconic series of the 1970s,...
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Around the dial
bare-bones e-zine continues "The Hitchcock Project," which is particularly enjoyable for me insofar as it is currently reviewing a series of episodes I've seen in the last few months. This week, it's...
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This week in TV Guide: May 31, 1958
This week's TV Guide comes to us courtesy of my friend and co-worker Rick Stokes, who found this issue from Iowa when clearing out his mother's home, and graciously loaned it to me, correctly thinking...
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What's on TV? Thursday, June 5, 1958
I hope you're all having a pleasant Memorial Day today. As everyone knows, this marks the unofficial start of summer, although down here in Texas it feels as if it's been summer for a few weeks. And if...
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Whispering Smith: Audie Murphy's cold-blooded cop
GUY MITCHELL (LEFT) AND STAR AUDIE MURPHY IN WHISPERING SMITHI fully realize I might be late coming to the party here, but of late I've been working my way through the 1961 single-season Western...
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David Hofstede at Comfort TV gets us off to a terrific start this week with a piece on television reunions, ending up with the question: which reunions have worked, and which haven't?Dirk Gently's...
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This week in TV Guide: June 2, 1956
Surprise! Although I told you a couple of weeks ago I didn't have the first issue of the "new, improved" TV Guide - you know, the one with more color and more features - it turns out that not only do I...
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What's on TV? Saturday, June 2, 1956
When you're doing a string of TV Guides from consecutive weeks in the same year, as we're doing right now, it can get a little redundant. The best antidote for that is to go to a weekend, where all...
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From the mailbag: A TV Guide online website?
JACK ALBERTSON SORTING THE MAIL IN THE PIVOTALSCENE OF MIRACLE ON 34TH STREETThis week an email from reader Mike Dowling, who writes:I've been a fan of your itsabouttv.com for years--you do an amazing...
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The Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland links to this article about the man who saved Monty Python from being erased. Whenever I see stories like this, I'm aware of just how fragile so...
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This week in TV Guide: June 9, 1956
You never know when you're going to run into something interesting in this business, and this week is no exception. For example, we have an intriguing item in the write up for this week's Ed Sullivan...
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What's on TV? Thursday, June 14, 1956
In his heyday, Johnny Carson used to compose ridiculous captions and stories to go along with old black-and-white photographs. This week, I find myself in a similar mood, so I've taken some of the more...
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