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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday; I'm still cruising on a tryptophan high myself, but not so much that I don't have the energy to come up with some headlines for the week. Think...
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This week in TV Guide: November 27, 1982
This week we have something a little different to offer: the Canadian version of TV Guide. It may look similar to what we're used to seeing here (other than not having Meredith Baxter Birney on the...
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What's on TV, eh? Saturday, November 27, 1982
I don't believe I've ever before had the opportunity to use the phrase "Moose Jaw" on this blog, and that alone makes this issue worth looking at. ("Swift Current" isn't bad either, but it could easily...
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The "It's About TV" Interview: Adam-Michael James, author of I, Samantha,...
It's been over a year since we last talked with our old friend Adam-Michael James, author of The Bewitched Continuum, one of my favorite books of 2015 (and I don’t mean just the books I reviewed,...
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A "Bewitching" finale
I, Samantha, Take This Mortal, Darrinby Adam-Michael JamesBright Horse Publishing, 210 pp, $9.99You remember how on Christmas morning when you were little, when you opened the last present that Santa...
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This week in TV Guide: December 2, 1961
What with sexual harrassment dominating the entertainment headlines these days, it seems appropriate to take a closer look at the headline on this week's cover, "Why Television Is Tough for a Woman,"...
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What's on TV? Friday, December 8, 1961
It's the first week of December; I think I've mentioned this before, but although there were many more seasonal programs on television in the late '50s and '60s, they tended to air later in the month...
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It's been a couple of weeks since we visited the classic TV blogosphere, what with my book review from last week, but we're back to normal today, with some great things for you to gander at.The...
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This week in TV Guide: December 14, 1996
We're back with another of the special, themed issues that TV Guide occasionally dabbled in. Having looked in the past at greatest shows and greatest moments, we're now on to greatest stars. This isn't...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, December 18, 1996
I neglected to mention on Saturday that this issue comes to us courtesy of Steve Harris, who graciously gifted me the three TV Guides that make up the "Greatest" series (greatest shows, greatest stars,...
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Yuletide Greetings, Part 1
For the next couple of Wednesdays, I thought I'd focus on some Christmas-type programming that doesn't often get seen anywhere. I think it's important for television to recognize that this time of the...
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First, this seasonal note: at the other blog, In Other Words, we're doing the "25 Days of Ad-Vent" again this year - a look at some fun (and occasionally strange) Christmas ads from the past. If you're...
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This week in TV Guide: December 18, 1965
Jim Nabors is on the cover this week, and it gives me the opportunity to say a word or two about the star, who died last month. The news of his death prompted an outpouring of affection, which...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, December 21, 1965
A fair amount of Christmas programming today. KTCA has Christmas music and CBS has The Nutcracker and Red Skelton's annual Christmas show (with guest star Greer Garson). There's also a big movie...
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Yuletide Greeting, Part 2
Last week we looked at some Christmastime episodes of daytime dramas (aka soap operas) of the 1960s. This week, we're going back a bit further, to the 1950s.First is a very rare color video of CBS's...
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(That's not me there, by the way. Just wanted to make that clear up front.)It's Christmas week, perhaps the best week of the year (along with Thanksgiving week), and Christmas plays a role in our look...
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This week in TV Guide: December 23, 1967
All the anticipation of the past month is close to evaporating; it's Christmas week, the greatest week of the year for a kid, and while many of the seasonal shows aired last week, there're still some...
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What's on TV? Saturday, December 23, 1967
As is the case this year, December 23, 1967 was the final Saturday before Christmas. Unlike this year, the NFL playoffs were underway on December 23, and the networks had Christmas specials. We'll see...
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