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What television is all about
The turning point in Preston Sturgesā wonderful 1941 satire Sullivanās Travels comes as our hero, a director of light comedies who wants to make a searing, socially relevant drama about the human...
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Since we didn't do this last week, there should be twice as much to look at this week, right? Well, if that's the case, what are we waiting for?Hal is back at The Horn Section with another in his...
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This week in TV Guide: June 3, 1961
This is one of those issues that I find interesting on a number of levels, particularly since one of the main items this week is not only a reflection of the past, but a foretaste of the future.It's...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, June 6, 1961
Ah, it's almost summer, and while there aren't a lot of blockbusters on television this week, there are still a few things to draw the eye. As we get deeper into the season, shows split into two...
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Captain Kangaroo and the Love Generation
Rush Limbaugh had a line he used to trot out whenever people used a statisticĀ in support of a particular cause-and-effect argument. He would cite the undeniableĀ fact that 100% of people whoĀ eat carrots...
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We've come to the end of another week, which means we've come to the beginning of another look at the classic TV blogosphere. Let's get started.Cult TV Blog turns an eye across the pond this week, to...
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This week in TV Guide: June 8, 1968
Salvador Dali's view of television is decidedly surrealistic, and yet after the events of the past week, it must have seemed normal by comparison.The week before, Robert F. Kennedy had been...
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What's (not) on TV? Saturday, June 8, 1968
It's a very odd day today; virtually all network programming is preempted for coverage of Robert F. Kennedy's funeral. It wasn't supposed to be that way; as I mentioned on Saturday, programming was...
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Adam West, R.I.P.
It isn't in our nature to think of superheroes dying. It's true that when we're small, we often watch with our eyes covered, peeking between the fingers, and we've been known to shout to our heroes on...
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I like Robert Taylor, and I've enjoyed the few episodes I've seen of his police series The Detectives, so I got a kick out of Secret Sanctum of Captain Video's look at the comic book version of the...
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This week in TV Guide: June 13, 1959
Do you remember what you were doing when you were 25? Besides watching TV, that is? I was three years out of college, working a job that didn't provide me with anything more than an income, making...
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What's on TV? Thursday, June 18, 1959
After a nice stretch of issues from Minneapolis-St. Paul, we take a break this week in Philadelphia, a city with, as I've noted before, a rich television history. With plenty of familiar names to...
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No time to waste; it's a big week, so let's get right to it!At British TV Detectives, it's a review of the 2017 mystery Loch Ness. If you liked Broadchurch, says RickĀ (and I did, at least the first...
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This week in TV Guide: June 24, 1961
It's time once again for a look at pay-TV. It seems as if every few months we read another article about how pay-TV - or, as we'd call it today, pay-per-view - is an inevitability, and for years we'll...
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What's on TV? Monday, June 26, 1961
It's throwback Monday here at the blog! The font's similar to what you'd read in this issue, the program titles are exactly the way TV Guide lists them (I usually try to include the show's complete...
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The ads in TV Guide
Once again it's time to take a look at the wonderful local ads that populate the pages of TV Guide. These come from last Saturday's issue, but they could have come from any time in the early to mid...
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We start this week at Vote for Bob Crane, aka The Bob Crane Show Reloaded, where Carol's podcast commemorates the 39th anniversary of Bob Crane's murder by putting his life (and death) in proper...
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This week in TV Guide: June 29, 1996
We now come to another in our series of special TV Guide issues, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Steve Harris, whom you may recall was also responsible for the 40th Anniversary andĀ 45th Anniversary...
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What's on TV? Thursday, July 4, 1996
And a Happy 4th of July to you too, albeit a day early. I believe I neglected to mention on Saturday that this week's edition is from the Los Angeles area; no wonder, since I never got around to even...
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