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Before we begin, a couple of personal notes: one professional, and one a request I'm relaying from a reader.The professional note is that I'm confirmed on the schedule for this September's Mid Atlantic...
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This week in TV Guide: February 7, 1959
Sometimes you just have to play with the hand you're dealt. It was never my plan to do three consecutive issues from 1959; they just happened to be the ones that best fit the calendar. And you know...
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What's on TV? Sunday, February 8, 1959
After having seen a weekday and a Saturday, it only makes sense that for this third 1959 issue in a row, we turn to Sunday. Then, as now, Sunday night included some quality programming - Benny,...
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Maria Callas does The Sullivan Show, 1956
ED SULLIVAN WITH MARIA CALLAS AND GEORGE LONDON, NOVEMBER 25, 1956Ed Sullivan was a man who liked to think he had his finger on the pulse of the American entertainment scene. “If he understood and...
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Terry Teachout leads off our look at this week with a well-done obituary of John Mahoney, who died earlier this week. As he reminds us, Mahoney as an actor was more than just fine, and much more than...
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This week in TV Guide: February 13, 1960
Iread the other day that NBC was planning on 176 hours of coverage of the Winter Olympics this month. That's just on the over-the-air broadcast; including cable and streaming, NBC/Universal will have...
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What's on TV? Tuesday, February 16, 1960
On of the interesting things about tonight's prime time schedule - perhaps the most interesting thing - is the weakness of CBS's early evening lineup. The network has nothing scheduled for 6:30 p.m.,...
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Voices carry
I'm pleased today to present a guest essay from Jodie Peeler, author of the Garroway at Large website. You probably remember a terrific interview I had with her last year about her Dave Garroway...
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First off, just a reminder that the Classic TV Blog Association's blogathon on TV villains starts Sunday and runs through Monday with, as usual, terrific articles on the characters you love to hate....
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This week in TV Guide: February 19, 1966
Sometimes life throws you a curve, and when that happens the best thing you can do is hang on for the ride. This is the story of one of those curves, and it's called "The Case of the TV Guide with the...
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The cop you loved to hate
For those of you who aspire to such things, there are, as far as I'm concerned, three criteria necessary to make you a good television villain:1.The viewers don't root for you;2.The show's characters...
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What's on TV? Saturday, February 19, 1966
When last we saw this week's TV Guide, the one with the missing pages and the clipped listings, we were left with exactly two days that contained untouched, complete listings: Saturday and Sunday. As...
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Kind of a light week this week, what with the blogathon earlier, but still plenty of things worth your while. Let's take a look.This is certainly worth a listen: Jim Benson's TV Time Machine interviews...
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This week in TV Guide: February 26, 1966
You might be surprised to learn that on occasion I do actually put some thought into the sequence of issues I write about here. Or, you might not; maybe nothing I do here surprises you any more.Anyway,...
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What's on TV? Wednesday, March 2, 1966
Back to the Twin Cities this week, for a perfectly average day in a perfectly average week. Just look at the listings below; I can't remember the last time there wasn't a SPECIAL or DEBUT or RETURN -...
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Billy Graham, R.I.P.
Is it possible to know someone not by who they are, but by who they aren't? Billy Graham wasn't the faith-healing huckster Oral Roberts, who lived lavishly and once told people God was holding him...
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"Don't be a fool"
Back again this week is Jodie Peeler, author of the Garroway at Large website, wrapping up her February guest stint on It's About TV! with this thoughtful look at the Quiz-Show Scandal of the '50s. It...
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We've got a full house of links this week, so let's get right to them.David at Comfort TV has a look at how the sitcom has portrayed psychiatrists and psychologists over the years. I'd forgotten about...
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This week in TV Guide: March 5, 1966
On this week's cover is Agent 99, Barbara Feldon, done in the iconic style of Andy Warhol - which is natural considering Andy Warhol himself is responsible for the artwork. Does TV Guide do anything...
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